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Country with the world’s best cuisine named — and the US doesn’t even come close
New York Post ^

Posted on 01/01/2025 3:34:56 PM PST by nickcarraway

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However, travel guide TasteAtlas has taken a shot by analyzing ratings from users, who deemed Greek food the overall best of the top 100 cuisines on the globe.

The United States, meanwhile, placed outside the top ten in this culinary decathlon, but still fared better than our neighbors across the pond in the UK.

To determine who deserved a place on this Olympic podium of eats, TasteAtlas analyzed 477,287 ratings for 15,478 foods in their database. Listed underneath each entry were their highest rated foods. Perhaps it’s fitting that the country that invented democracy was picked via crowdsourcing on this highly-subjective countdown. That’s right, Greece stood atop this culinary Mount Olympus, boasting a score of 4.6 out of 5 five stars.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: cookery; ieatfoodnotcuisine; noozfromnewyorklol
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1.Greek

2.Italian

3.Mexican

4.Spanish

5.Portuguese

6.Turkish

7.Indonesian

8.French

9.Japanese

10. Chinese


No Thai? No Indian?

Two major problems with food in the U.S.:

1. We allow ourselves to be give terrible quality ingredients. Maybe the worst in the world.

2. It's very hard to get spicy food.

1 posted on 01/01/2025 3:34:56 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

The cuisines with the most recipes are Chinese and Arabic cuisine, and The Chinese are first only because they eat pork.


2 posted on 01/01/2025 3:38:33 PM PST by Fungi
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To: nickcarraway

IMHO

Italian is better than Greek.
Chinese is better than Japanese.


3 posted on 01/01/2025 3:39:17 PM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: married21
Chinese is better than Japanese.

And Korean cuisine is better than Chinese and Japanese.

4 posted on 01/01/2025 3:41:26 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: nickcarraway

Mexican in America is not high quality food.


5 posted on 01/01/2025 3:42:46 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (muslims ARE INBRED IGNORAMUSES. See my "About" page for proof.)
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To: nickcarraway

I’m the cook in our house. Didn’t know I could be a decent cook until after I retired, but I had a French mother who could make even liver taste good and I remembered more than I thought. If you want good food, grow your own veggies, shop for local meats, and make our own food. Nothing like it. Makes me all warm and fuzzy when someone takes a bite of something I made and just close their eyes in pleasure and dig in. The Greeks have got nothing on me, and I don’t agree with this list at all. America is the only country where you can eat any kind of cuisine you want. Everything is available here.


6 posted on 01/01/2025 3:45:11 PM PST by Omnivore-Dan (Shut)
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To: nickcarraway

Calling some of those “a cuisine” isn’t really accurate. They are a few or even several cuisines encompassed by a country.


7 posted on 01/01/2025 3:46:33 PM PST by FreedomForce
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To: nickcarraway; married21

TBH, IMO food is like movies.....what I like you may not.....what you like I may not.

And food critics are like political pollsters......wrong as much as right.


8 posted on 01/01/2025 3:46:47 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

Portuguese? What.....seafood
? 🤔


9 posted on 01/01/2025 3:48:37 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

I look forward to testing that assertion. There are a number of cuisines I just haven’t sampled enough to form an opinion about. I have enjoyed the food court Korean food I have had, but haven’t begun to look at the bigger picture on that.


10 posted on 01/01/2025 3:49:25 PM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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The problems is that people do not understand the difference between spicy and hot.

They are not the same.

11 posted on 01/01/2025 3:50:36 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Mexican in Mexico is not exactly high quality either.


12 posted on 01/01/2025 3:51:23 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: nickcarraway

What do Ethiopians and Yoko Ono have in common?
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They both live off dead Beatles.

I love good food and will try anything once!


13 posted on 01/01/2025 3:54:12 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Omnivore-Dan

Washington DC has a huge selection of restaurants due to all the embassies there. You can get anything in the US, but not everywhere.


14 posted on 01/01/2025 3:56:27 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: nickcarraway

Unless we understand all the criteria...hard to say. Greek & Italian are healthy, lots of olive oil, veggies...but when you’re there it’s hard to get away from.

We may not have as authentic food here but none of these countries have much diversity, nothing like what we have here. While some of our food isn’t as healthy, I think that is partly the choice of the consumer.


15 posted on 01/01/2025 3:58:18 PM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: nickcarraway

Because everyone has the same tastes and budget. We are all equally inferior and subservient to journalists and the intellectuals they serve.


16 posted on 01/01/2025 3:59:41 PM PST by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
people do not understand the difference between spicy and hot.

... but it's exactly the same as the difference between umami and piquant

(just kidding)

17 posted on 01/01/2025 3:59:53 PM PST by Tellurian (Any cleverness from a democrat is quickly invested in deception)
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To: Uncle Miltie

For the most part, ‘Mexican’ food in the US is TexMex, not Mexican


18 posted on 01/01/2025 4:00:27 PM PST by HollyB
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To: nickcarraway

Give me a hot dog with mustard, ketchup, and relish sold by an NYC guy or gal with a pushcart and I will be very happy!


19 posted on 01/01/2025 4:00:27 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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Whaddaya mean the US doesn't come close? :)


20 posted on 01/01/2025 4:04:13 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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