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To ask where you're from and what you eat?

74 replies

Floralora1 · 16/03/2025 20:59

Just curious about how different cultures buy/prepare/eat food. I'd love to know where you're from and what you would typically eat for breakfast/lunch/dinner.

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CarpetKnees · 16/03/2025 23:22

LegArmpits · 16/03/2025 23:20

Wales.

Only leek and Welsh cakes.

No Bara brith ? Shock

FurFangsPawsAndClaws · 16/03/2025 23:33

DP is Persian and partial to a nice bit of sheep’s head.

He was very disappointed it’s not widely available here.

He also likes tripe and heart but unfortunately doesn’t get to eat them unless he visits family. My boundaries are set in stone!

Devianinc · 17/03/2025 02:07

FurFangsPawsAndClaws · 16/03/2025 23:33

DP is Persian and partial to a nice bit of sheep’s head.

He was very disappointed it’s not widely available here.

He also likes tripe and heart but unfortunately doesn’t get to eat them unless he visits family. My boundaries are set in stone!

Thanks, urgh.

Devianinc · 17/03/2025 02:08

Doro371 · 16/03/2025 21:26

Germany.
Breakfast is muesli with Greek yoghurt and fruit. Rolls and eggs at the weekend.
Lunch often is risotto/pasta bake/pie, that sort of thing or pasta pesto etc
For dinner, we usually eat bread with cold cuts/cheese/tomatoes/cucumbers etc.
DS has lunch at school and often eats our leftovers for dinner.

Lucky him

Samora · 17/03/2025 02:12

WhatGoesHere · 16/03/2025 21:28

England - East

Breakfast
Could be anything really
Normally eggs though..

  • eggs (Benedict, poached/scrambled/fried on toast, omelette, in a wrap, hard boiled, soft boiled with soldiers)
  • porridge (plain, with salt, a sprinkle of sugar, peanut butter & honey, fruit, chocolate, cacao, blueberries, banana, chia seeds, glad seeds) - made with milk
  • bacon/sausage/egg bap
  • cheese toastie
  • quesadillas (cheese, chicken, beef, tuna)
  • baked oats (as porridge)
  • plain yoghurt with nuts, seeds, honey, berries etc
  • kippers or mackerel pate in toast
  • pancakes or waffles with sweet toppings
  • shaskshuka
  • avocado toast
  • smoothie

Lunch

  • sandwich/wrap/rolls of some sort. hot or cold.
  • pasta or noodles of some sort, again hit or cold
  • soup
  • salad (chicken, cheese, tuna, turkey, salmon...)
  • curry and rice
  • left over dinner options
  • pizza
With a piece of fruit, some veggie sticks and maybe like babybel or something?

Dinner

  • roasts
  • pasta dish, with salad usually
  • curries, with sides of veggies
  • fish with rice/new potatoes and veggies
  • sausage, mash and cabbage/kale
  • pizza
  • casseroles/stews with mash/dumplings/soda bread
  • soups (including ramen style)
  • fish fingers, sweetcorn and chips
  • shepherds pie
  • fish pie oftentimes with cheesy sauce
  • meat and veg pie (with pastry)
  • pasties
  • fried chicken, rice and peas
  • halloumi salad and wraps
  • fajitas/burrito/taco/enchiladas
  • ham, mash and cabbage
  • Sushi
  • gammon, egg and chips
  • hot dogs
  • burgers

We have LOADS of different things.

My daughter quite happily have just sushi, macaroni cheese and tomato soup 😂😂😂

I got obesity from reading that

Devianinc · 17/03/2025 02:15

Devianinc · 16/03/2025 22:45

Deep fried candy bars for dinner, though I like the idea for dessert I’d never be able to eat that more than every 6 months. That’s really rich.

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So a mars bar is a deep fried pizza,I’m liking that more than anything. Here in an America a mars bar is a huge candy bar. But Americans fry everything so it would be a deep fried mars bar.

Joystir59 · 17/03/2025 02:18

Coventry. Porridge or overnight oats, a sandwich, fish with lots of veg.

NormasArse · 17/03/2025 02:28

Lancashire.

Black pudding on a barm for breakfast.

Butter pie for dinner.

Hotpot for tea.

NormasArse · 17/03/2025 02:30

Devianinc · 17/03/2025 02:15

So a mars bar is a deep fried pizza,I’m liking that more than anything. Here in an America a mars bar is a huge candy bar. But Americans fry everything so it would be a deep fried mars bar.

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A Mars bar is a chocolate bar.

A pizza is a pizza!

Mercedes45 · 17/03/2025 02:33

Ireland - potatoes

Devianinc · 17/03/2025 02:35

Mercedes45 · 17/03/2025 02:33

Ireland - potatoes

I. Love potatoes. Long Island New York had huge potato farms

Devianinc · 17/03/2025 02:35

NormasArse · 17/03/2025 02:30

A Mars bar is a chocolate bar.

A pizza is a pizza!

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Texts were saying different

BereftBeyondBelief · 17/03/2025 02:36

The North: Shit with sugar on it.

Devianinc · 17/03/2025 02:41

BereftBeyondBelief · 17/03/2025 02:36

The North: Shit with sugar on it.

Well, I guess when you have nothing else to eat you have to do what you have to do. Thankfully I’ve never been there

Devianinc · 17/03/2025 02:43

NormasArse · 17/03/2025 02:30

A Mars bar is a chocolate bar.

A pizza is a pizza!

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That’s what I thought but why are people calling it a deep fried pizza

LordBuckley · 17/03/2025 02:55

They’re joking.

Moopsie · 17/03/2025 02:56

A southern US state.

I don’t eat breakfast.

Either soup, a couple of tacos, salad or leftovers for lunch.

Dinner could be anything. Pasta, steak and baked potatoes, curry, stir fry…something like that.

NormasArse · 17/03/2025 03:29

Devianinc · 17/03/2025 02:43

That’s what I thought but why are people calling it a deep fried pizza

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You can get both deep fried.

Gingerkittykat · 17/03/2025 06:09

BansheeOfTheSouth · 16/03/2025 23:17

I was one of seven hunner hungry wains testifying to that!

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The odds againt it reachin' earth are ninety nine tae wan

Gingerkittykat · 17/03/2025 06:11

Devianinc · 17/03/2025 02:43

That’s what I thought but why are people calling it a deep fried pizza

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In a chip shop you can get a deep fried pizza, it's one of the cheap ones with a thin layer of cheese and sometimes onion on top.

The pizza crunch is the same pizza slice dipped in batter and deep fried.

I've got a craving for a deep fried pizza now, the bread soaks up all of the oil and gets amazingly crispy!

ConsuelaHammock · 17/03/2025 06:14

Mercedes45 · 17/03/2025 02:33

Ireland - potatoes

Northern Ireland . Came to say the same thing. Spuds !

WhatGoesHere · 17/03/2025 07:04

Samora · 17/03/2025 02:12

I got obesity from reading that

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Ha ha

gladwhiskers · 17/03/2025 11:35

Cockney.

Bubble 'n' squeak
Pie 'n' mash wiv liquor
Bread 'n' pull-it

MrsSkylerWhite · 17/03/2025 11:37

PeatandDieselfan · Yesterday 22:18
I grew up in Scotland. Every day without fail, we had porridge with salt for breakfast, deep fried mars bars for dinner and mince&tatties for tea (unless it was a special occasion, and then it was haggis, neeps and tatties.) Every meal accompanied by Irn Bru

No macaroni 😱

MrsSkylerWhite · 17/03/2025 11:40

BereftBeyondBelief · Today 02:36

The North: Shit with sugar on it

Oh, you’re one of those nouveau riche. Just plain shit in our hole in the road.

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