European National Dishes

[@Ian666peace]

I love the way he has done no research what so ever and just reads from Wikipedia in real time and then adds some "I think that...." type comment before just reading it out what is written. 11:14. This is not a criticism, it is just another reason to love this fella.

[@skywalktriceiam]

"I absolutely love potatoes, and all of their work." 😅🥔🥔🎬🥔 Same!👌🏼💯✌🏼💜

[@TenaciousSLG]

I still want a Part 2 even if it has been a year!!! I love your longer vids where you really get into it and analyze-your commentary never disappoints 💛

[@mattkinsella9856]

I agree that Wales is a "cheeky little mystery"! Awesome place, incredible scenery, some of the best people you'll find anywhere. If I had to move back to the UK that's where I'd live.

[@sundersquare]

i love that the fanciest meal to garron is a poet cow that was fermented in a spicy barrel.

[@patriciapiper6294]

Dear Delicious, loved the vid. You're so cheeky. Also, I love the lounge music you chose for this dinner review. It really made the vibe.😉

[@tedsgirluk736]

Roast beef n Yorkshire puds

[@DeeLish2000]

Gotta love food geography! Thank you for giving the people what they want!

[@DeeLish2000]

Swiss eat fondue with potatoes too so you’d love it! You absolutely need to drink white wine with the fondue or you will ruin your stomach! Just a FYI for future posts

[@tonyaalabid]

1. Yes - I also love potatoes and all of their work 2. Part 2 is needed.

[@pixiwix]

I think it's "steak freetz", or at least how I've always heard it. Also, I agree that fish and chips should be the British dish, but chicken Tikka masala was made by British-South Asian people so I guess it does meet the requirement of belonging to the UK... And British people are fairly serious about the chicken Tikka masala pride it seems. Another hilarious video - thanks for the break from serious life for a few. Saves me money on therapy.

[@thebagelsproductions]

Invented in Glasgow, no less, when a customer asked for some gravy to go with his chicken tikka 😂. The chef knocked something up with a can of tomato soup and Indian spices originally, but there's no definitive recipe. South Asians in the UK, as you rightly said, and voted as the nations favourite dish a number of times

[@Rana-Kethla]

Swede living in Mayo West here ^^, Yes Meatballs and Mash are very much a Swedish pride dish, mainly since (like with all our grand dishes, we stole the recipe from some other country) and the second to that would be thin pancakes with whipped cream and strawberry jam, usually served with a starter of yellow pea soup and mustard and a shot of Punch!

[@Rana-Kethla]

Btw, for Hákarl, the á is pronounced almost like the á in Áine :) and No, don't buy it, you will have people puke by the smell all the way to Castlebar!

[@bsahn]

From Minneapolis, USA. In Ireland I liked beef stew and full Irish breakfast. In Scotland I liked bangers and mash and haggis. In Austria I liked Weiner schnitzel and sausage with mustard. In France I liked steak frites and duck l’orange. In Norway I liked reindeer meat with potatoes and lingonberry sauce, and some cold fish soup. Everywhere I’ve been in Europe I loved doner kebab sandwiches. We have good Greek gyro places around here, but I wish we had these Turkish-style kebab shops like Europe has.

[@joelspringman523]

Weisswurst and Spaetzle.

[@francesbaldwin2526]

He is brilliant and thinks of the daftest things to dream up to discuss. I loved his horror at the chocolate bar favouritism.😂😂😂

[@grandy_rho]

Here in Portland we have a fondue restaurant! Extremely expensive so I've never gone, but I had homemade fondue in my 70s childhood and it's delicious like you

[@lornahuddleston1453]

Actually, you don't need to worry about "double dipping", Garron. Or cooties. You spear a piece of cubed French bread on the little fork and dip it into the pot. If that still grosses you out, then have individualized fondue pots. It's Gruyere and another cheese with a bit of white wine and a splash of Kirsch. The flavors are lovely.

[@lornahuddleston1453]

You pronounce it steak freet. Nothing fancy. It wouldn't kill you to check out simple country French food. Ignorance is not always bliss.

[@claireputtock]

Fondue - dip your bread or cured meats. It’s gorgeous. Only share with someone whose saliva you don’t mind being in you.

[@debbiestevens6312]

Roast beef & yorkshire pudding for the UK.

[@JFCrow]

Yep do a part 2 till how many you want. I'm interested. Also on another note. I saw some of an interview with one of the Irish ladies from the Try Channel. That was really good and she's definitely delicious! So you should do a guest appearance with them !

[@steph_writes_fiction]

I just love listening to you! Can be about anything… so please post more!

[@allyson1691]

No spaghetti bolognese comes from Italy. Confirmed for me on a food tour in Bologna. Ragu with tagliatelle or a pasta - yes! From what I’ve seen each region in Italy could produce a regional speciality dish that are each amazing and different from each other. As you said the map isn’t all that and a great conversation starter anyway ❤

[@sonyavincent7450]

I heard that spaghetti in America got hugely popular after the Lady And The Tramp thing.

[@motharfirecaller3954]

This is true. Spaghetti bolonaise was invented by Italians who immigrated to America

[@johannasegard737]

So about France and snails. It's famous that it's a meal there because it grosses everyone out but actually 1) it's not something we often eat and 2) even amongst french people, many people find it puke worthy. I have never been able to eat it myself. 🤢

[@maryhinge4815]

Anybody eating snails in this day and age is a wrong un. You might as well eat a dead rat that you found in a bin

[@moxee33]

Tastes like a rubber band swimming in garlic butter.

[@lornahuddleston1453]

I wouldn't recommend cooking up the snails from your yard. That would be a big mistake. It's actually quite nice. The main flavors are butter and garlic.

[@SausageSideways]

Yeah, im in the North and I've never had 'Irish' stew with the mutton and all that craic. I make stew with potatoes, turnip, parsnip, carrot, onions, steak pieces, salt and pepper. Emphasis on the potato and i let that boil away for a good while then i add some gravy to make it delicious. For the North, id say our special dish is probably the chicken and vegetable soup made with leeks, celery, chicken, parsley, carrots, split peas, lentils and barley. Sometimes people add potatoes in while it's cooking but i add a big wallop of buttery mash into a bowl then the soup on top and im telling you lads, it's amazing. Our special takeaway dish wouldn't be the spice bag like the rest of ireland, but rather the taco chip. The best taco chip in the world is from McIlroy's in Crumlin. That's Crumlin in the North (Co. Antrim) not Dublin.

[@cormacdonnelly5015]

Cabbage and ham is the national dish, and Irish stew is very common in Ireland.

[@josephkennedy4450]

Definitely, Italian for the win. Also, not wanting to start anything but I feel like there is great, unacknowledged contribution from the UK, or was it from the Irish, with Welsh Rarebit, Yorkshire pudding and Sheperd's Pie. Frankly, Sheperd's Pie should have been the headliner.

[@maggie9000mc]

Sheperd's pie made it all the way to Portugal too, somehow. Empadão is the exact same thing. Definitely should've been a headliner

[@victoriad8118]

Interesting stuff, part 2 please!

[@TheGuyBen]

I’ve heard it pronounced more like “shtew” by the older generations of my family from southern Appalachia in the U.S. We also have/had (before television started changing our regional accents) a tendency to add an R to words because so many Scots settled up in the mountains.

[@LEONIDAS_300_SPARTAN]

When I think of the UK's national dish it's either bangers and mash or Herefordshire beef and Yorkshire puddings with veg 🤷‍♂️

[@pilgrimonfire]

I've spent quite a bit of time in Denmark and I would say the thing most eaten - at least by the people I know there - is called Smørrebrød, or butter bread. Basically an open faced sandwich on dark bread using anything you want piled on top. I mean, they have particular things like liverpaste (not a fan), pickled herring (I was shocked to find out I really enjoy a lot of things when they're pickled)... I don't know what else. We ate it for the evening meal and just put whatever we had in the fridge on the table and created what we liked. My favorite addition was when we had this caramel colored Norwegian cheese. This is a lot of words. I really liked the food in Denmark, and the country as a whole. I recommend it.

[@joelspringman523]

Smorgasbord?

[@pilgrimonfire]

​@@joelspringman523 That's Swedish.

[@joelspringman523]

@@pilgrimonfire I suspected that, but is it similar?

[@pilgrimonfire]

​@joelspringman523 I've never been to Sweden, but when I googled it, it looks like Smorgasborg might involve hot food dishes, as well? I'm guessing that in day to day in people's homes it looks however they like it best, which may include all of the cold sandwich things they have, plus any leftover food they want to finish up.

[@ozzyangel82]

This is terrific. The algorithm was holding out on me for a couple days.

[@melaniejane233]

Wales: it's got to be Pice ar y maen or Welsh Cakes to most people we can't get enough of em...you've also got Cawl (similar to Irish Stew,) and the God of all cheese on Toasts Welsh Rarebit its deliciousness taken to elite level so now you know you have to come back to give these beauties a try

[@SarahSmith-fj9xt]

Fish and Chips for England. Stovies or Haggis for Scotland. Welsh Rarebit for Wales. Really fancy cheese on toast. 😉 Notions. 😂

[@PaulWalker-f4m]

Not to forget Scotch pies (Mutton Pies). The king of pies (as the English acknowledge) Even celebrated here in New Zealand (Lower South Island) as the world's winning pie. All from lovely Scotland.

[@DrGlynnWix]

Northern Ireland?

[@SarahSmith-fj9xt]

​@@DrGlynnWix Ulster fry.

[@eveny119]

@@PaulWalker-f4m I loved New Zealand. The north is like our HAWAII and the south is sort of like Alaska but with Rainforests w/ parrots and glaciers and Fiords.

[@ferggraham9849]

As a Scot I’d probably say anything deep fried out a chippy is really our national dish Along with a bottle of irn bru and a tunnocks tea cake is your dinner sorted 😂😂😂

[@garnetortega6946]

Part 2 please

[@yermanoffthetelly]

And 3,4,5. Loving the food tour!

[@terrikirschenzaft4353]

Yes, this is a very interesting subject about these countries' main dishes. I love hearing your comments on the country just listening to you is my reason to love Garron, by the by you have a wonderful vocal delivery, these dishes sound very appetizing, so interesting, I live in Quebec, yes fries, we have a dish called poutine, made of cheese kurds and gravy, you would love it your idea of describing these various dishes just made my rainy day and is nourishing my appetite curiosity, I am getting a taste, learning about various dishes listening to this mmmmmm bonne appetit Garron Terri Leckner Montreal

[@katiemurphy21]

Part 2 if you enjoy it of course 😊

[@Justalibrarian]

The Slovenian one is amazing! It is a desert. Usually filled with ground nuts, like walnuts and stuff.

[@MKVRiscy]

Please do a video on American state (or regional) foods next! I want to hear your opinion as someone who doesn't live here. Growing up in the American midwest, Horseshoe sandwiches were my favorite thing ever, but no one else seems to know what they are!

[@pilgrimonfire]

I'm from Washington state, and I've never heard of a horseshoe sandwich! What's in it?

[@aslansown]

Aren't they just in Springfield IL??

[@kathyquinn3224]

I’m in Illinois.. I’ve never heard of horse shoe sandwiches

[@jmbent77]

2:06 Wales is indeed mysterious! I was in Hainan, China on the beech and met a couple from Wales. I basically had no idea what they were saying. No idea! And I can fathom Scottish and Irish!

[@haribo365.]

Damn man ur vids r hella educational some may say even more educational than school

[@ROC14088]

A Greenland shark can live to 500 years. Imagine living that long and ending up on some icelanders plate

[@rosamarinosdottir635]

Most Icelanders stay well away from shark nowadays. Mostly eaten by elderly people once a year (in January)

[@mmcmiddlechild]

The Icelandic fermented shark is more of a national holiday/celebration food. A small dice of it gets washed down with Brennivín (an aniseed-y schnapps sort of drink. It’s often kept in the icebox, it gets via our when it’s cold, so it’s like a sluggish-liquid when you pour it…the drink is nice though, I didn’t try the shark…apparently the shark has a lot of cyanide in the flesh, when freshly caught. Traditionally they would dig a pit, throw the shark in, the menfolk would urinate on it to add ammonia, which helps break down the cyanide. They’d cover the shark back up and leave the wee to work it’s magic for 6 months…then they’d dig it up again, and break out the shot glasses and the Brennivín) What I think is more an Icelandic food (and they sell this in take-aways too…and it was on the canteen menu every Wednesday in the fish factory) is half a boiled sheep’s head (cut right through the snout and third eye, if you understand me…with the visible teeth, and, if you’re very lucky, the tongue) this is served with potatoes, and peas! The skull is blackened looking and the teeth are visible 🤢

[@OttomanWarriorWoman]

We need a part 2. I think fish and chips, but I love chicken tikka masala, and I'm proud it's on there.

[@aprildawn8656]

Out of the ones I haven’t tried, I’d try the Slovenia one first, that looked really good to me

[@theRappinSpree]

I’m assuming there’s some kind of Fondue etiquette, as in double dipping the same piece of bread is not done. If so the communal pot thing isn’t so bad. Also Spaghetti Bolognese is not a thing in Italy. Bolognese Ragu is served with Tagliatelle. Spaghetti Bolognese is a bastardised UK/Ireland version of that.

[@thebagelsproductions]

Chicken tikka masala was invented in Glasgow! A customer at an Indian restaurant in the 70s or whenever asked for gravy to go with the chicken tikka, which is served dry. The chef knocked something up with a can of tomato soup and some spices. There's no definitive recipe

[@deedeesden3745]

Fondue is good Garron, usually the first course is with bread, apples, carrots and broccoli. The second course is usually a cooked meat or shrimp. Desert is in a chocolate sauce with strawberries, brownies, rice krispy treats and pound cake

[@plooploop77]

The spag bol always annoyed me too haha I’m from wales, and the only thing I can think of that they’d go on about is the welsh cakes, of which I was not a fan 😬 😂

[@DaZDo1988]

… a year late, but I’d love to see a Part 2 where you go over the rest of Europe.

[@Sowneybaws]

Fun fact! Chicken Tikka Masala was invented in the 1970's, in Glasgow (Scotland) by a Chef from Bangladesh ...... It's delicious!!!! Great Britain's favourite dish?? Racism!! It's Indian-Scot! Why the Brits claiming it!! 😡🤣💪

[@DavidGillespie-m1w]

Whales is the cheese toasty Garrett. I'm not joking, 😄 the cheese toasty..🍞🧀😳😊😊

[@urielpolak9949]

Belgium clams and fries real good. With loads of belgium beers

[@a_lethe_ion]

Germany.. well sauerkraut yes for middle and southern Germany, north has kale-stew, with smoked sausages, before BSE the sausage contained brain But now? Döner Kebab. Invented in Germany, based on iskender kebab but modified with salad in the bread and the sauce. Iskender kebab is grilled meat (i think lamb, don't nail me on that) with diced roasted bread in a sauce and additional yoghurt sauce on a plate

[@janemcewan2194]

Meat pies from Scotland. We are of Irish and Scottish heritage. Catholic as well.

[@neil4675]

You have to try haggis big man, delicious. You can buy cans of it now.

[@sarahhale-pearson533]

Welsh cuisine….laver bread… with added bacon. Bara Brith, Glamorgan sausages…

[@spellenberg]

Very good Danish production.

[@Ccamero123]

We were all eating fondue in Canada in the eighties. The number one conversation starter was “When we had our fondue fire.” Thankfully the fad died a quiet death.

[@urielpolak9949]

The flamish make the best rabbit stew. Vlaamse reuze with gingerbread, prunes and brown ale

[@One_Flew_West]

Fish and chips for the UK!

[@joelspringman523]

Absolutely!!!

[@lornahuddleston1453]

Garron, try Fondue. It's very tasty indeed.

[@georgewhite5117]

Love it !!

[@davyP12]

Hi G, i can confirm Hakarl is absolutely gopping. If you can even stand to open its packaging its minging bad. The taste is revolting. Good diet food as i puked my ring up for ages after i ate it. 🇮🇸🇮🇸 ,🤮🤮

[@lentilgoddess]

Tafelspitz. Oh my gosh tears.

[@johnnymidnight7599]

I want a part 2

[@suzannerinato8725]

I enjoyed the video please make a part 2! I also deeply hate when people say spag bol. Wtf

[@DJ-rv3ew]

Good God!! Chicken tikka masala for the U.K?!?! WTF thats a sign of the times! I was watching "The Try Channel" and they were having curry and they were all "ohhhh thats my childhood!!" Sounds like here in Canada, there are no more Canadians left here either.

[@intothewild9052]

Yes, part 2 please! Spag Bol sounds a bit disrespectful to the dish.

[@Wizard-c3q]

Fish in chips 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@joelspringman523]

100%!

[@reginaseelaIam]

fish and chips here in uk is national food even in the nobel part, tikka whatever never tasted

[@annemelfo924]

Your disdain for calling it "spag bol" is proof of your Italian ancestry. There's no logical reason for the rage that this evokes, but it's more reliable than 23andme any day of the week.

[@DarraghRedmond]

Given that your delicious , would you not say a coddle was more Irish than your average stew. Did It ever make it to Mayo? My mum always used to say it was in Dublin dockers stew ( I always used to hate it because we would have to eat it for days ….

[@Garron_Music]

It’s definitely more of a Dublin thing, I’ve had it but it’s fairly uncommon outside Dublin

[@Electromash92]

Dunno, i can probably count the number of times ive had bacon and cabbage on one hand. Maybe depends on the part of the country. I have beef stew weekly at least.

[@ViolinAddict]

Couldn’t even go near the fermented shark in Iceland. The smell was so ammonia-y… smelt like a cat liter box.

[@milankovitsmartina5434]

If you go to Switzerland, try Raclette not Fondue. Raclette is AMAZING. Cheese fondue is ok.

[@simonswitzer7278]

You have to try fondue!!!

[@glonky427]

Irish national dish is spice bag no?

[@stephengardiner9867]

Pork belly is basically unsmoked, unsliced, uncured and unsalted bacon. Not too unlike the Italian pancetta. Creating bacon is possibly the first real sign of a civilized country developing. Next step sausages. Third step...BEER (or a reasonable facsimile. thereof!). After that, probably gunpowder...

[@evamichaelis9455]

Sauerkraut really isn't a big thing in Germany. Maybe it was during the war years, but today, many would say that our national dish is Döner Kebap.

[@evamichaelis9455]

...and while "Wurst" admittedly is a thing, most people would eat it with a bread roll, mustard or ketchup and fries or potato salad - that's a German fast food staple. The most German food, the one we all sadly miss when we travel, is bread. Dark, savoury (i.e. not malted!) bread with seeds inside and on top. And Brezel, aka Butterbrezel. That's what our heart really beats for 🥨🍞

[@michaellear6904]

Potatoes are my favorite fruit.

[@brendahautaluoma624]

Part 2!

[@rebeccabroadway9874]

Fermented shark - squares of ammonia flavored cartilage, the smell is death mixed with Ajax

[@offaloffadangoo]

LOVE

[@Selene13zz]

I was reading an article on Thrillist that claims Ireland's national dish is Colcannon (Mashed potatoes and kale). Is this true or something old or something that we Americans just got fekkin wrong? Just curious.

[@maggie9000mc]

The particularity with bacalhau is that the cod is previously salted, not fresh. It gains a different texture and saltiness level. But, as most countries here, some things are very regional. The most typical dish in the Azores (even on the islands typical dishes can vary as well from island to island) I would say the most typical is similar to the French steak frites with a regional sauce instead (made with red wine, garlic and regional red pepper paste). It's called Bife à regional which translates literally to Regional Steak. Italy wins in terms of cuisine though, hands down!

[@jgdooley2003]

Bacalhau is heavily dried and salted cod which was caught in remote areas of the North Atlantic and hung out to dry after being salted on racks facing the wind. Newfoundland was famous as a base for fisheries from all over the mediterranean mostly Spain, southern Italy and Portugal. It is speculated that the Basques used to fish off Newfoundland a hundred years before Columbus "discovered" America but kept the existence of the New world to themselves for that time. In recent times overfishing has killed the cod trade of Newfoundland and other species of fish are now used in fish and chip shops to replace Cod. Same happened to the Herring fisheries of the North Sea. Over fished. I have seen bachalau and it had the appearance and texture of hard board. It needs to be soaked overnight before cooking the next day. Due to being airdried and salted it lasts a long time.

[@racher6172]

Cawl for Wales, lamb stew basically but agreed, us Scotland, and NI want our own identity whoever did this map!

[@benjaminrowley]

U probably heard spag bol from Australia we obviously abbreviate everything here

[@matthewtalbot-paine7977]

It's weird to me that Iceland has a national dish that is so weird as they have the population of a medium city. It'd be like Dublin having a national dish or Bristol.

[@charlesryan2277]

What did it say Ukraine’s dish was? Red borscht and dumplings?

[@paulsmith4467]

Beef Stock ??? in a Lamb stew ??

[@blaggard0077]

Austrian national dish has got to be "schnitzel". Served in many variations from veal, pork or chicken/turkey, and fukkn delicious!!

[@authormichellefranklin]

Steak frit. We in Canada refurbished them into poutine, said pou-tin. Part 2, Garron. Cmere ta Canada❤

[@aprildawn8656]

Love poutine!

[@tonyaalabid]

Poutine is delish! 😍

[@matthewtalbot-paine7977]

As a Brit I vote that the Greggs sausage roll should be the national dish.

[@frankdempsey4902]

Steak n chips name Frank is from french and German meaning but its just weird me dinner 3 to 4 days of the week is steak and chips...and the other days 2 burgers and chips...sorry whole week is steak and chip,burger a d chip.,and good ole tesco sandwich steak and chips

[@Vegan123]

Wales in the Irish Language is called An Bhreatain Bheag and thats 'Little Britain' in the English Language 😅

[@nontrickpony]

I reckon you should cook some and give a proper review

[@seanfaherty]

Part 2

[@kellyburgess671]

😋😋😋

[@RollForever88]

Jaffa cakes for me please

[@patwo9719]

Well. I probably don't want to try any of them.

[@VikingKong.]

The UK's national dish is bangers and mash. Chicken tikka masala isn't even from the UK and has only even been a thing for a comparatively short time. Whoever made this must be high or something.

[@bjorngerlach7829]

Love you mate, but something’s off with your audio. It reminds me of tin can phones

[@Garron_Music]

Yeah I was having an audio glitch with OBS. I fixed it today

[@wreckmore]

Here for the fårikål.

[@blatentlie3349]

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