35 People Share What Stereotypical Foods From Their Nation They Don’t Actually Eat

People act like all Irish people eat is potatoes but we have a super diverse food culture. We also eat cabbage.

Fortune cookie. We dont even have this in China.

Its actually American food created in California.

Most "Chinese" food consumed in US is not Chinese food.

Corned beef and cabbage. ~~Literally **nobody** eats that here~~ **Edit:** Seems it's a thing in parts of Munster, based off what people are commenting here. I'm from Mayo, so maybe it's a regional thing or a reimport.

The original meal is bacon and cabbage, which people do eat. When Irish people emigrated to the US they were often in the same neighborhoods as Jewish people, so bacon was replaced with corned beef.

Nobody in Iceland eats the fermented shark. We just foist it on unsuspecting foreigners for a laugh.

Canada’s stereotype buffet: apparently we eat poutine three meals a day, chug maple syrup straight from the tree, and ride our pet moose to Tim Hortons. Reality check: most Canadians barely eat poutine, maple syrup is a once-in-a-while thing, and moose will stomp you if you get too close. Sorry to ruin the fantasy.

I think in Germany lots of people really do eat stuff like pretzels, potato salads and sausages somewhat regularly (not every week but they are a regular occurrence). However, I know many Germans who really dislike beer and never drink it. Speaking of beer, most Germans have never been to Oktoberfest and don't want to go.

With the caveat of prepackaged waffles, most Belgians don't really eat all that many waffles. All the fresh waffle stands are mostly kept afloat by tourists.

Frog legs? I mean. Frog are better eating up mosquitos than being chased for food. But we do eat snails and they are very good.

Jellied eels, 99.9% of British people have never had them. They are only found to my knowledge in one area of London.

Yes, we produce a lot of maple syrup and yes, we love it but really there’s only so much you can do with it. It’s not an every day thing. It’s very tasty but also very sweet.

Chicken Tikka masala. Not the main thing in India.

I would love to say surströmming. But people eat that rancid stuff every summer. I don't know why.

What I've seen in American Chinese restaurants. Well most of them. No one in China ever heard of general tso chicken.

Egg rolls are not actually Chinese food but invented in America.

I personally don’t know anyone who eats spray-on cheese

I’ve had it before, but it’s not something I’d buy. And it doesn’t seem all that popular with people I know. I imagine the only people who eat it don’t care about their health or food quality and have the palates of raccoons.

Edit: Ok so apparently the main (human) consumers of spray cheese are people from Pennsylvania. I’ve never lived there so I didn’t know that was a popular thing.

I realize it's regional but when tourists come and try Cincinnati style chili and leave thinking THAT is chili, I get really upset. Cincinnati chili is an abomination and a war crime. Cincinnati isn't even in Ohio. Don't believe me? Fly to Cincinnati and let me know where you land. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

“Canadian bacon”

If you ask for bacon in Canada, you get regular ol, “streaky bacon” from the pork belly.

What Americans refer to as “Canadian bacon” is called back bacon and is a more standard bacon in the UK (and Ireland) and what you get when you order a “Full English breakfast.”

Canadians do have back bacon, but isn’t nearly as common. And when we do have it, we typically cure and prepare it differently, then roll it in cornmeal and we call it “Peameal bacon”.

And peameal bacon sandwiches are delicious.

I’m Hungarian, and I don’t know anybody who eats goulash regularly. I wouldn’t say that nobody eats it ever, but I really don’t think it’s as common as tourists believe.

Curry
Most of India doesn't eat curry all day the food is so diverse every 2
100 km the food changes even languages to.