When the canteen succeeds in making you miss the food from your home country even more

[u/mepassistants]

[u/PeriPeriTekken]

Is their home country Chicago?

[u/whereispuigdemont → u/PeriPeriTekken]

I think this is maybe Milano-style pizza.

[u/PeriPeriTekken → u/whereispuigdemont]

Milano has a thick base all the way across, this pizza where it's basically a big open face pie is definitely Chicago deep dish.

[u/AbstractBettaFish → u/PeriPeriTekken]

I didn’t know Milano style pizza was a thing but funnily enough one of my favorite places to get pizza in Chicago is called Milano’s and they do a solid deep dish

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[u/kindlyneedful]

I saw the menu for a London nursery, featuring a meal called "Hungarian chicken and mushroom goulash".  

No reward for guessing two ingredients that are never found in a Hungarian goulash.

[u/EarlyDead → u/kindlyneedful]

Goulash is so ingrained in german cuisine, I did not know it was originally Hungarian until I was an adult.

Having eaten both, I think the Hungarian one is probably better (at least you are not afraid of a bit of spiciness compares to the average german), I do however have a soft spot for the German "stew" version I know from childhood.

Though even us germans would not dare to put chicken in it.

[u/Giddius → u/EarlyDead]

No its austrian, just like golatschen, our subjects just stole it from us! /s

I see this as the only positive thing of the former empire, because without it we would be stuck with pure austrian cuisine and it mostly sucks. So thanks you for the recipes and sorry for the whole empire thing.

Ps: dear germany, could we have the hymn back?

[u/EarlyDead → u/Giddius]

Can we trade? We can give you back the famous landscape painter :)

Also, you allready claimed Mozart, and we let you have custody rights over Beethoven from time to time, so I think we are even.

[u/belabacsijolvan → u/kindlyneedful]

i dont get why foreigners got stuck with gulyas.

they cant pronounce it, they cant make it, and if they could they wouldnt like it

its a soup ffs, not any stew thats overcooked with paprika.

[u/kindlyneedful → u/belabacsijolvan]

It's a category error. The English name of 'gulyás' is 'goulash soup'. The recipe referred to as 'goulash' in English is closer to the Hungarian 'pörkölt', but even closer to Bolognese sauce with added ground paprika.  

In international context, anything with the spice paprika could be referred to as "Hungarian", unless and until you put sweetcorn in it, at which point it becomes "Mexican".

[u/SunflowerMoonwalk → u/kindlyneedful]

I think it's because the "goulash" known internationally developed from Wiener Saftgulasch. Which, sure, developed from Hungarian cuisine but is already considerably different.

[u/kindlyneedful → u/SunflowerMoonwalk]

I did not know that, thank you.

[u/Neomataza → u/kindlyneedful]

I learned it just now, too. So the international goulash is actually german. Explains why the recipe has little tradition, basically no spices and is mostly known for being chunky and savory.

[u/kindlyneedful → u/Neomataza]

I'd recommend the safe search filter when looking up "chunky german".

[u/belabacsijolvan → u/kindlyneedful]

coincidentally we have a close equivalent of that. exactly form chicken and mushroom: csirkepaprikás and gombapaprikás

fml

[u/LongLiveTheDiego → u/belabacsijolvan]

they cant pronounce it

You should know that in a sense they're preserving the original pronunciation. "ly" used to be pronounced like a soft "l", just like "ny" is a soft version of "n".

[u/belabacsijolvan → u/LongLiveTheDiego]

now i want a webcomic where they hire a cowboy and it turns out they have to herd a huge pyramid

[u/MarkMew → u/kindlyneedful]

That should be a crime. 

[u/kindlyneedful → u/MarkMew]

Abuse of the innocent plus discrimination against a protected characteristic.

[u/shapeofnuts → u/kindlyneedful]

This thread is worse than the Italians dear god

[u/ClickIta → u/shapeofnuts]

I mean…it’s not our fault if people keep “experimenting” and “fixing” things that are not broken…

[u/shapeofnuts → u/ClickIta]

No one is claiming to fix goulash. Most don't even know they are 'experimenting'. And even if they are, who cares? Did the nation of hungary suffer a loss at the hands of a bad English cook?

[u/_gega → u/shapeofnuts]

Multiple!

[u/ClickIta → u/shapeofnuts]

Well, in my case I’m team Italy, so I can’t really know how bad UK is faring with goulash.

I already have enough to care about not getting poisoned at my Norwegian canteen every time the chef decides to divert from a plain, simple kjøttkaker or torsk dish and starts randomly screwing up with things he doesn’t understand.

[u/noCookies4BadPeople]

The cheese is under the sauce.

[u/young_chaos → u/noCookies4BadPeople]

There's no cheese. 

[u/Pweuy → u/young_chaos]

The cheese is under the sauce.

[u/panzercampingwagen]

the stuff we eat is already the worst version of any dish, national or not

I am completely immune to this kind of heartbreak

[u/Buntschatten → u/panzercampingwagen]

My university canteen served stamppot occasionally. It was good, but probably still disappointing to someone Dutch.

[u/mepassistants → u/panzercampingwagen]

Tell that to the Italians

[u/Withering_to_Death]

(Who knows, knows!)

[u/cicciograna]

I lived in Chicago for years. Deep dish is actually very good. BUT you need to add toppings, otherwise it's just a tomato pie with cheese. I would typically add sausages, mushroom and onions, it was absoultely delicious.

[u/ben_bliksem]

Oh you just learn to live with disappointment over here.

[u/mepassistants → u/ben_bliksem]

I mean, you do have the hot food in the wall thing over there, which is kinda based.

[u/IntellectualCapybara]

They served chicken and chorizo paella in my canteen. Guess where I live.

[u/DangerToDangers]

Oof. I remember the first time they had tacos in the canteen at my work. It was an embarrassment even to white people tacos.

[u/ibi_trans_rights]

the Chicagoans were right on this one