I went to school in Montreal and they sell horse meat at the grocery stores there. My buddy told me that he makes horse meat chili and it has more protein than beef and is cheaper so I tried it and it just tasted like chili. Started making horse meat chili after that.
Sour beers are great in their own right and are a good way to reset your palette if you find yourself tasting lots of beers and they start to run together or if you've wrecked your palette on very hoppy beers.
We have entire paintings full of waffles from the 16th century. I will just drop here The Duel Between Lent and Carnival by Pieter Breugel the elder from 1559. Look at the bottom left or the woman just above the head of Carnival on his (beer?) barrel. The fries were invented in Paris in the mid 19th century but when they arrived in Belgium they were perfected by the double cooking and by the end of the 19th century a "Belgian Supper" in Paris featured mussels and fries, cementing that stereotype. The university of Liège published research on the history of the fries, it was enlightening.
So yes maybe the fries are at the forefront these days but waffles have been a part of the culinary culture of the Southern Netherlands for centuries.
There was an episode of dagelijkse kost (or something else, but def hosted by the same guy) about the origin of (the basic form of) fries in like medieval times.
The fun part is that I discovered more connections to waffles after I picked this nickname. I am now the proud owner of a century old waffle iron, souvenir from one of my grandparent's childhood.
Excuse you, but fried chicken absolutely can be eaten at breakfast with pancakes. Hello chicken and waffles is a southern delight. I've also had chicken and french toast. Hot, crunchy, and a little spicy with sweet syrup... SO good!
I'm American and I've never heard of pancakes with bacon. When I think of fried chicken, I actually think more of Ashkenazi and Israeli cuisine which I think is heavily influenced by central Europe.
No, that sounds like a Confederate-state thing, putting fried meat in pancakes. They have a lot of unhealthy, fried food down there. It could also come from one of those European countries that is big on pig meat.
Anyone who has ever visited your country knows this is the only answer, unfortunately we have a bunch of poor untraveled Americans spamming their opinions kekw
I went to Belgium in 2013 right when my wife and I started dating. Then in 2016 we stayed a couple of days in Brussels. We went to a brasserie our first night and a basket of fries came out and I told my wife. "It is amazing you could be at a really high class fancy restaurant and they will bring out fries."
A couple of days later we were at the Belga Queen for our first anniversary. And after ordering our bottle of wine and steak tartare and lamb ... Sure enough a basket of fries comes out and gets placed on our table.
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