American, Chinese, French, Ukrainian, Russian - national cuisine of each of us has its own characteristics, pronounced tastes, flavors. What the Asians adore, we consider a curiosity. Someone responds in exactly the same way about our dishes.
By the way, did you ever think about how Americans, for example, relate to dumplings with sour cream, juicy dumplings with cherries or pancakes?
1. Pancakes with red caviar and sour cream
Of course, such stuffing (meaning red caviar) can not eat every day, but for a special occasion it would be desirable to replace the usual cottage cheese with raisins or mushrooms with onions for something royal. It's interesting that Americans are surprised when they find out that we adore eating pancakes with sour cream and jam (in their case, the latter is jam).
2. Herring under the fur coat
For many, this name evokes memories of the New Year. Foreigners can not understand the beauty of such a cake, flooded with an abundant layer of mayonnaise, but they only need to try this tasty ...
3. Cooked sausage
You know, for foreigners this product causes associations with something incomprehensible, spongy, and if you live in the US and bring a sandwich with such sausage to work or school, then they will look at you as if you came with an extraterrestrial.
4. Olivier
True, the French and do not know that there is a salad with a French name. It's like a Swedish buffet, which the Swedes call Russian. And Americans believe that this is a normal potato salad with a small amount of vegetables, eggs and sausages. Ah, yes, for some reason, like most dishes, it is abundantly filled with mayonnaise. In any case, they are crazy about Olivier.
5. All Pickled
Marinated mushrooms, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini - all this is more delicious in this form. However, foreigners believe that we make twists necessary to eat them after a glass of something hot.
6. The Chill
Agree that we somehow got used to the sometimes not very aesthetic appearance of this dish. Meat in gelatin - that's what comes first to the minds of tacos lovers and French fries. You can only imagine that with the help of silicone molds, it is possible to impart any form to the cold.
7. Salo
Pork fat is what foreign visitors see in this product.
8. Kvass
This incredibly delicious drink, which many Americans take as sour juice with notes of fermentation.
9. Sandwich with mayonnaise, onion and herring fillets
You will not believe, but many foreigners believe that we only eat this sandwich when we drink something alcoholic. By the way, a similar sandwich is popular in the Netherlands.
10. Okroshka
Cold yogurt with fresh cucumber, boiled sausage and dill - what can be more delicious than this cooling summer dish? You know, but it seems to foreigners that ingredients come from yesterday's half-eaten soup.
11. Solyanka
Any meat and something sour - that's the whole soup. This is what every inhabitant of the stone American jungle sees in the hodgepodge.
12. Kissel
You will not believe, but those who first try this dish, call it fruit soup.
13. Sausage in the gut
This is a traditional Belarusian dish. Many adore him, first of all, for naturalness. To be honest, Americans are immediately deterred by its appearance, but after trying, they understand how delicious and satisfying it is.
14. Compote
For foreigners this is a delicious analog of fruit punch, from which many of them are crazy.
15. Vinaigrette
Americans are surprised why we have almost the same salad in each salad and yes, they are always interested in whether there is again mayonnaise as a dressing.
16. Vareniki with cherries
Fruit dumplings or dumplings - that's the way they are called by our overseas guests. In any case, sweet delicacy will come to taste to everyone.
17. Sardines
Not every foreigner is ready to taste this product. Probably, just because it looks not very appetizing. Well, and let, we do not say anything, that they sell tinned hamburgers.
And, finally, now you can see for yourself what foreigners think about our food.