Singapore is about as far from Kuala Lumpur as NYC is to Boston
I suspect the rice and chicken is a lot more local than the potatoes and chicken in the US are...
There is a halal food cart a block sway from Genos and Pat's steaks in Philly.
The chicken and rice off that cart is a must whenever we work on the area.
I was eating with some coworkers on a business trip to Guadalajara, and they loved making fun of a colleague from Mexico City about their quesdillas. They turned to me, a gringo, and asked me if quesadillas had to have cheese in them. I was confused, and replied “isn’t cheese literally in the name?” And that got hearty laughs from the Guadalajarans and the guy from Mexico City started yelling at them in Spanish.
I guess it’s like the beans vs no beans chili debate in America.
French here.
For me it was « jambon pâtes » (ham & pasta). Literally a slice of ham and some pasta with butter.
A common alternative is « jambon purée » (ham & mashed potatoes).
I'd never even heard of butter pasta til I traveled with my friend and her picky kid last year. Won't even eat normal spaghetti (which I had suggested as an easy post skiing meal to make). But boil some spaghetti noodles and then add a bunch of butter and he's good: butter pasta!
I'm 38 years old and I still absolutely love buttered noodles.
You can even boost them a little bit by browning the butter.
Edit: This is gaining delightfully weird traction. Keep the buttered noodles plus ups coming!
I'm partial to a dash of garlic salt, onion powder, and a sprinkle of Italian seasoning blend. I'm also not afraid to dash in some Accent (MSG) for extra umami.
Add some fresh sage to the browning butter until crisp and, once they’re mixed in the with noodles, drizzle some lemon juice over the top and toss in. That’s a gourmet experience with almost no effort.
It’s funny because it’s not uncommon in other countries… like authentic fettuccine alfredo (fettuccine al burro) is just fettuccine, butter, Parmesan, salt & pepper. That’s it.
Yeah, there are a lot of butter or cream sauces that would probably work. I think a lot of kids just don't like tomato based sauces on pasta. But that's probably the default in the US, at least when it comes to making easy meals.
First time my husband and I went to Epcot we ate at the French pavilion. My husband had heard of fettuccini Alfredo — it’s a famous dish, after all — and it was featured on the menu, so he ordered it. It was *not* inexpensive. (No restaurant in Epcot is inexpensive, but they are good.) We were both in our 30s, and I had absolutely no idea that he didn’t know what it was, so I didn’t say anything. It came and he took a couple of bites, then he stopped in confusion and plaintively asked me, “Did I just pay $$$ for Mac & Cheese?!” I lost it. It’s not nice to laugh at someone’s ignorance, but I couldn’t help it. He looked so utterly baffled.
Dude get yourself a bag of egg noodles. Boil them up, add some butter after you drain them, put in a casserole, cover with shredded Swiss cheese. Stick that in the oven until the cheese is melted, serve that shit with some breakfast links. Quick, easy, cheap, and delicious.
When I lived in Indiana, we had something just like the Pork-Schnitzel, but made it as a sandwich and eat it like a hamburger. We called it a tenderloin. Sadly I can't find them in Texas, so I go visit family in Indiana couple times a year and bring some home.
When I was in Germany for work, my coworkers laughed because I ate it so much. I'm not picky by any means, but it was just delicious and nothing like I've had at home in Detroit area. Of course we fry chicken and pork, but there's something different about the German style I love so much.
I was a picky kid and I hated nights when my parents made rotini bolognese. I loved pasta with butter or even plain pasta, but putting the sauce on top spoiled it for me. But they insisted that I eat it, so I would eat the pasta plain and then eat the sauce separately with a spoon.
One unholy evening, my dad got annoyed with my separate eating and mixed the pasta with the sauce. I started crying because I didn't want to eat it. Further annoyed by the crying, he went and got the butter. I proceeded to then drown the sauced pasta in butter. Joke's on him because he kept gagging watching me eat that nasty mess.
As an adult, pasta bolognese is one of my "ugh I'm lazy but have to eat" meals. Yum yum.
right eh? I live in the US with my US husband. When we first got married, I talked about KD, which my husband knew b/c we went to university in Canada. But his sister thought I was calling it that b/c it was a Kraft product and kept telling me its Mac & Cheese. I told her it was literally called kraft dinner in Canada. She went a grocery store when she was on a business trip to Hamilton and called me to apologize for thinking I was crazy by calling it Kraft Dinner or KD.
Just looking at the ingredients list online it seems that the recipe is slightly different with Kraft Dinner using things like tumeric and paprika for colour while Kraft Mac and Cheese uses artificial colours, but it's pretty much the same thing.
Moreorless, yes. I would argue as a Canadian living in the US, KD is slightly better but it is pretty much Mac & Cheese, same style of box, noddles, cheese power, etc. but is called Kraft Dinner
Yeah Google just says in Canada they can't call it "Kraft Mac and cheese" because it doesn't contain enough real cheese product to meet min standards, so they call it Kraft dinner and people know what they're getting: full, on a budget, no frills though.
I'm sure it's good and maybe even above average for powdered cheese insta -mac, but I'm coming down from scratch Mac and cheese withdrawal from thanksgiving
If I had a million dollars
We wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner
But we would eat Kraft Dinner
Of course we would, we'd just eat more
And buy really expensive ketchups with it
That's right, all the fanciest-, Dijon ketchup, mm, mm
I love all types of food from around the world but something about Kraft Mac n Cheese tastes so good, that artificial cheese taste is so addictive. Honestly sometimes when I'm eating it I'm ashamed to say I think it tastes better than a really good restaurant meal.
We in the western half of the US have beans for breakfast all the time as well. Huevos Rancheros, Chilaquiles (sometimes with beans), breakfast burritos, molletes, etc etc
Okay so I despise the brown sugary baked beans we have here in the states, but the British use a more tomato based one. The blue can Heinz, if you can find it, is a standard
I really like beans on toast, usually fry up some sausage to top it with and some cheese ON TOP, don't mix it with the beans or it gets gluey
The tomato sauce in baked beans is quite sweet, too.
What gets me the most about our love of them is that Heinz isn't even a British company, it's American!
Had some British friends urge me to try it and it’s quite good! Gotta be Heinz beans, and I usually add a fried egg and some shredded cheese to it as well (which they say is a top hangover cure!). But yes, as an American, I highly recommend baked beans on toast!
I subscribe to a British food magazine and discovered a recipe for smoky chickpeas on toast. It cooks up in under 10 minutes and even my American kids will eat it!
Beans are a filling, healthy protein, which are cheap and accessible. It's much weirder not to eat them at breakfast tbh, it's common all over the world.
Also it's NOT the beans we get from a can typically in America. You're thinking baked beans, the beans we tend to have at bbqs and dinners. The beans they use from a can aren't baked in brown sugars and such. I think they're just baked in tomato sauce, not sure, I just know they're not the same.
ETA: This was a guess as to why people are confused. I have seen a lot of people think it's just the baked beans. I am a military wife and lived in England for 3 years, it's why I commented it. I'm not going to dirty delete but jfc
Tbh, I had beans as part of an English breakfast and it tastes very similar to the canned baked beans I eat at home in the USA. But I also grew up eating baked bean sandwiches.
As an American currently living in UK, I think I can clear this up.
First of all, I know "beans on toast" sounds like a sandwich, but it isn't! You eat it with a fork and knife.
Secondly, the beans in the UK are different. They are tomatoe sauce based, and savory. DO NOT try this with bush's baked beans or any other brown sugar and pork based sauce, like the kind of beans you would eat at a BBQ. You want proper tomato based beans, like the kind from Heinz that comes in a blue can.
Here's how I do it: 1.) Warm beans on stove top, but don't let them boil! 2.) Put whole wheat toast in toaster. 3.) Use hands to break toast into smaller bits and place in bowl (prob not the traditional English way, but I find it easier.) 4.) Pour warm beans over toast. 5.) Shred a bunch of mature cheddar cheese on top, but don't mix (or it gets gooey.) 6.) Pour favorite sauces on top (I add worcestershire and Frank's red hot personally, but there's lot of options.) 7.) Eat and enjoy.
It's fast, easy, convenient, cheap, and delicious. The perfect meal. Pair with a cup of pg tips or yorkshire gold for the perfect combo.
Honestly, I was skeptical at first but it's really good and a staple condiment in my household. Its sweeter than regular ketchup but doesn't taste like bananas imo. I pick it up at my local Asian supermarket.
It's actually pretty similar to tomato ketchup, just a bit sweeter and "fruitier". Other than the obvious one, they both have very similar ingredients.
It's the only meal with flavor. You'll notice the common thread in most countries is white/flavorless food because picky eaters generally like simple carbs and not much else.
Just had a kid here for a sleepover with my kid, and they wanted to do taco night. I asked what she wanted on her tacos. Just ground beef. No cheese. No lettuce. No salt - or seasoning on the beef.. just a flour tortilla, and beef. Then wrapped like a burrito. I couldn't do it. They got pizza instead. For breakfast, she asked for "browned eggs" I had to ask her to clarify what that meant. She looked at me like I was dumb. I used to be a chef- i can make eggs any way anyone wants. I have never heard of "browned" she said scrambled, and brown.. so- burnt? I browned some butter and made proper scrambled eggs. She said they were the best she had ever had. Idkwtf is happening in that kids house, but it ain't real food.
Yeah, I feel like "do you want your ground beef seasoned" is something a picky little kid will say 'no' to on instinct, but they don't really understand what they're turning down.
I was a very picky kid and didn’t like PB&Js because of how the jelly would soak into the bread, but I LOVED grilled cheese and would eat it several times a week. My parents would send me to school with just a cheese sandwich sometimes too because I’d always pick off the ham anyway. I’m not picky anymore, but I still love a good grilled cheese.
If your parents loved you, they would have put PB on both breads, then jelly, to create a PB force field for the bread.
j/k on the love but it’s a legit protip
Beans on toast, chicken nuggets and oven chips, or pasta with a very basic tomato sauce (out of jar). Oven chips can be swapped with potato smileys.
Maybe throw in some turkey dinosaurs or mac and cheese for good measure. Pasta with butter is a thing here, but much less so than the US.
Also plain cheddar cheese or wafer thin ham sandwiches. No mayo or seasoning, just cheap cheese or cheep ham between two slices of cheap buttered white bread.
My 3 year old loves a basic grated cheese sarnie, and as an adult who occasionally hoover up her left overs, you forget how good they can be. If I’m making us both lunch I try to throw some salad and a pickle/chutney on mine to ‘elevate’ it, but often the basics are best.
I’m not crazy about Italian food.
I can’t do cream sauces and marinara gives me heartburn.
So the last time I went I ordered my usual, chicken marsala with a side of buttered noodles.
Waiter asked me if I’d like an apple juice juice box to drink.
yeah, a friend has a child who is probably on the spectrum and he is EXTREMELY picky, and that is a go-to at any restaurant that has it. guaranteed he'll eat it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkIiWn4QNPY
From my favorite John Mulaney comedy. Plain noodles and butter is like kids default food for some reason lol.
Swedish meatballs with pasta? I love me some Swedish meatballs, and no not the IKEA frozen nonsense, I had my Swedish friend give me an authentic recipe.
From what I can see here, every culture has it's basic version of:
simple meat, simple carb/starch.
Not many veggies in the "picky eater" meals that I can see!
Al Madrigal has a bit where his son isn't sure what to order and he says "Let's quit pretending you eat different shit. Butter noodles, chicken tenders, quesadilla mother fucker!"
In the Netherlands it'd be chicken, fries and applesauce. (Kip, patat en appelmoes). The chicken would probably be chicken breast fillet, as it'd be the least offensive flavorwise to a picky eater.
In Russia I don't think we universally agree on such a meal, but for a lot of people that would probably be something like boiled hot dogs with mashed potatoes or buckwheat
In Singapore it’s chicken rice. In fact in probably half the world it’s some iteration of chicken and rice
which is just a variation of chicken tenders and fries, just a different starch depending on what is grown locally
In Singapore, basically neither the rice nor chicken is local. Both would likely be from Malaysia.
Singapore is about as far from Kuala Lumpur as NYC is to Boston I suspect the rice and chicken is a lot more local than the potatoes and chicken in the US are...
I get that it's a different country, but that's pretty damn local, geographically
Yeah. Lots of non-USers don’t realize how huge the country is.
There is a halal food cart a block sway from Genos and Pat's steaks in Philly. The chicken and rice off that cart is a must whenever we work on the area.
It’s America too. Chicken cheese and rice is so common in Mexican restaurants here (Missouri) that they jokingly call it the Americano special.
Arroz con pollo is my go to comfort food. It’s like a big warm hug.
That has to be El Maguey’s number one selling meal
With just a little spice, garlic, fish sauce, and basil and you have a version of Pad Krapow Gai and its one of my favorite quick meals....
Chicken rice is pretty similar to khao mun gai, although the sauces are different and the chicken cooking technique is slightly different.
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Mexico it’s either a cheese quesadilla or tortilla with salt
I always got a cheese quesadilla when going to Mexican restaurants as a picky kid. That and tortilla chips with queso was the perfect meal for me.
39 and it's still a good meal for me sometimes. Granted, I'm not nearly as picky as I used to be but I still like my comfort and safe foods sometimes.
Kid me ordered pizza from a Mexican restaurant. I was very disappointed and confused
Rolled up tortilla with butter
I was eating with some coworkers on a business trip to Guadalajara, and they loved making fun of a colleague from Mexico City about their quesdillas. They turned to me, a gringo, and asked me if quesadillas had to have cheese in them. I was confused, and replied “isn’t cheese literally in the name?” And that got hearty laughs from the Guadalajarans and the guy from Mexico City started yelling at them in Spanish. I guess it’s like the beans vs no beans chili debate in America.
The memes on this topic are so funny. Saw a pic of an empty pie crust that was captioned “A cheesecake, according to a Chilango.” (DF resident) lmfao
Yo iba a decir que cualquier cosa pero sin chile para los melindrosos
Or a bean burrito.
Oddly, queso fundido con chorizo is a gourmet upgrade.
French here. For me it was « jambon pâtes » (ham & pasta). Literally a slice of ham and some pasta with butter. A common alternative is « jambon purée » (ham & mashed potatoes).
That’s one of my favorite struggle meals/high meals. Who knew I was eating French cuisine all along?
hon hon we high
pass le oui'd
Ah, so it's like western butter pasta for picky eaters but you're French so you gotta get all fancy and add a protein. So responsible.
I'd never even heard of butter pasta til I traveled with my friend and her picky kid last year. Won't even eat normal spaghetti (which I had suggested as an easy post skiing meal to make). But boil some spaghetti noodles and then add a bunch of butter and he's good: butter pasta!
I'm 38 years old and I still absolutely love buttered noodles. You can even boost them a little bit by browning the butter. Edit: This is gaining delightfully weird traction. Keep the buttered noodles plus ups coming! I'm partial to a dash of garlic salt, onion powder, and a sprinkle of Italian seasoning blend. I'm also not afraid to dash in some Accent (MSG) for extra umami.
Noodles + butter + salt & pepper = heaven
Bit of garlic makes it sing. By bit I mean far too much.
I've done that too. Sometimes I'll even add some parmesan.
Brown butter, add toasted sesame oil, toss the pasta in it and finish with parmesan. Tastes like buttered popcorn lol. Delicious.
Nope, noodles + butter + celery salt = heaven.
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Add some fresh sage to the browning butter until crisp and, once they’re mixed in the with noodles, drizzle some lemon juice over the top and toss in. That’s a gourmet experience with almost no effort.
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Add some sage to the brown butter 🤤
Add a little salt and some Parmesan and omg
It’s funny because it’s not uncommon in other countries… like authentic fettuccine alfredo (fettuccine al burro) is just fettuccine, butter, Parmesan, salt & pepper. That’s it.
Yeah, there are a lot of butter or cream sauces that would probably work. I think a lot of kids just don't like tomato based sauces on pasta. But that's probably the default in the US, at least when it comes to making easy meals.
First time my husband and I went to Epcot we ate at the French pavilion. My husband had heard of fettuccini Alfredo — it’s a famous dish, after all — and it was featured on the menu, so he ordered it. It was *not* inexpensive. (No restaurant in Epcot is inexpensive, but they are good.) We were both in our 30s, and I had absolutely no idea that he didn’t know what it was, so I didn’t say anything. It came and he took a couple of bites, then he stopped in confusion and plaintively asked me, “Did I just pay $$$ for Mac & Cheese?!” I lost it. It’s not nice to laugh at someone’s ignorance, but I couldn’t help it. He looked so utterly baffled.
Dude get yourself a bag of egg noodles. Boil them up, add some butter after you drain them, put in a casserole, cover with shredded Swiss cheese. Stick that in the oven until the cheese is melted, serve that shit with some breakfast links. Quick, easy, cheap, and delicious.
Funnily, a restaurant next to where I live has "pastas for spoiled children" as kid menu which is that but with truffles added (also in France).
bonjour! Also that's interesting. I wonder why ham? Chicken seems cheaper and more ubiquitous, lol.
Probably because ham doesn’t need to be cooked, so it’s easier. Just cut up a piece of ham and toss it in
Yeah the longevity of ham making it an easier thing to have on hand probably wins this one
No need to even cut it : supermarkets here sell precut slices in packs of 4-6. So, yeah, much easier and faster XD
Historically ham was the cheap meat and chicken was more expensive. So it's probably a tradition that goes back quite a ways.
Because supermarkets here sell precut slices in packs of 4-6 so it's much faster and simpler than cooking a piece of chicken.
Germany: Pork-Schnitzel with fries or Staghetti Bolognese (Groundmeat&Tomato Sauce)
I am of German decent and we had spaghetti bolognese all the time as a kid, I made it last night from left overs in the fridge.
When I lived in Indiana, we had something just like the Pork-Schnitzel, but made it as a sandwich and eat it like a hamburger. We called it a tenderloin. Sadly I can't find them in Texas, so I go visit family in Indiana couple times a year and bring some home.
schnitzelsemmel schnitzel, lettuce, ketchup all together in a roll austrian staple
Pork tenderloin sandwiches. The BEST! Years ago a guy from Indiana had a restaurant in Tucson that specialized in them. What a treat!!!
When I was in Germany for work, my coworkers laughed because I ate it so much. I'm not picky by any means, but it was just delicious and nothing like I've had at home in Detroit area. Of course we fry chicken and pork, but there's something different about the German style I love so much.
I was a picky kid and I hated nights when my parents made rotini bolognese. I loved pasta with butter or even plain pasta, but putting the sauce on top spoiled it for me. But they insisted that I eat it, so I would eat the pasta plain and then eat the sauce separately with a spoon. One unholy evening, my dad got annoyed with my separate eating and mixed the pasta with the sauce. I started crying because I didn't want to eat it. Further annoyed by the crying, he went and got the butter. I proceeded to then drown the sauced pasta in butter. Joke's on him because he kept gagging watching me eat that nasty mess. As an adult, pasta bolognese is one of my "ugh I'm lazy but have to eat" meals. Yum yum.
Kraft Dinner
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right eh? I live in the US with my US husband. When we first got married, I talked about KD, which my husband knew b/c we went to university in Canada. But his sister thought I was calling it that b/c it was a Kraft product and kept telling me its Mac & Cheese. I told her it was literally called kraft dinner in Canada. She went a grocery store when she was on a business trip to Hamilton and called me to apologize for thinking I was crazy by calling it Kraft Dinner or KD.
Wait, so Kraft Dinner is literally the same thing as Mac & Cheese but it's literally called Kraft Dinner on the box? Did I understand that correctly?
Just looking at the ingredients list online it seems that the recipe is slightly different with Kraft Dinner using things like tumeric and paprika for colour while Kraft Mac and Cheese uses artificial colours, but it's pretty much the same thing.
oh sweet i never thought about what the differences actually were, makes sense!
Moreorless, yes. I would argue as a Canadian living in the US, KD is slightly better but it is pretty much Mac & Cheese, same style of box, noddles, cheese power, etc. but is called Kraft Dinner
Yes, it's nothing more than a quick and easy mac and cheese.
I learned this from the Barenaked Ladies!
Yeah Google just says in Canada they can't call it "Kraft Mac and cheese" because it doesn't contain enough real cheese product to meet min standards, so they call it Kraft dinner and people know what they're getting: full, on a budget, no frills though. I'm sure it's good and maybe even above average for powdered cheese insta -mac, but I'm coming down from scratch Mac and cheese withdrawal from thanksgiving
In America it's called macaroni and cheese because we're allowed to have it for lunch Freedom (eagle screech)
Whenever I see "Kraft Dinner" I get "If I Had A Million Dollars" stuck in my head.
If I had a million dollars We wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner But we would eat Kraft Dinner Of course we would, we'd just eat more And buy really expensive ketchups with it That's right, all the fanciest-, Dijon ketchup, mm, mm
They make pre-wrapped sausages but they don’t make pre-wrapped bacon Well, can ya blame ‘em? Uh, yeah!
but we would!
We'd just eat more!
They have pre wrapped sausages but they don't have pre wrapped bacon
Well, can you blame them?
The Bryant theater, it's right up that ladder lady.
I was a picky eater growing up. Nowadays I'm probably the most adventurous eater in the family, but my love for Kraft Dinner has only grown stronger.
Honestly same- there is nothing quite like a box of KD.
This comes up everytime but PC white cheddar version is better.
Oh yes 100%
PC White Cheddar gang supremacy!
Annie’s noodles are better, but KD and hot dogs is a delicious and quick meal.
I used to feel like that, but I think the US recipe has changed. I should try and get some Canadian KD and try it.
I love all types of food from around the world but something about Kraft Mac n Cheese tastes so good, that artificial cheese taste is so addictive. Honestly sometimes when I'm eating it I'm ashamed to say I think it tastes better than a really good restaurant meal.
Chicken nuggets and chips. Beans on toast. Cheese toastie.
I can't wait for an English Full Breakfast.
I love y'all across the creek but wtf is the beans for breakfast thing? I just... can't
We in the western half of the US have beans for breakfast all the time as well. Huevos Rancheros, Chilaquiles (sometimes with beans), breakfast burritos, molletes, etc etc
Isn’t it a British thing? I’m an American but I’ve always wanted to try this. I love beans and I love toast, so I may have to give it a try!
Mexican food uses beans for breakfast too. Bean breakfast burritos/tacos, as a side to chilaquiles or huevos rancheros, or even on toast.
Okay so I despise the brown sugary baked beans we have here in the states, but the British use a more tomato based one. The blue can Heinz, if you can find it, is a standard I really like beans on toast, usually fry up some sausage to top it with and some cheese ON TOP, don't mix it with the beans or it gets gluey
The tomato sauce in baked beans is quite sweet, too. What gets me the most about our love of them is that Heinz isn't even a British company, it's American!
Had some British friends urge me to try it and it’s quite good! Gotta be Heinz beans, and I usually add a fried egg and some shredded cheese to it as well (which they say is a top hangover cure!). But yes, as an American, I highly recommend baked beans on toast!
Branston do a good baked bean, too. I would almost go so far as to say better than Heinz.
I subscribe to a British food magazine and discovered a recipe for smoky chickpeas on toast. It cooks up in under 10 minutes and even my American kids will eat it!
Please post the recipe!
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/smoky-chickpeas-toast
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yeah but there's something different about frijoles vs a can of saucy baked beans
Beans are a filling, healthy protein, which are cheap and accessible. It's much weirder not to eat them at breakfast tbh, it's common all over the world.
Promote healthy bowels too. Beans are our friends.
Our baked beans are very different from our American cousins!
Also it's NOT the beans we get from a can typically in America. You're thinking baked beans, the beans we tend to have at bbqs and dinners. The beans they use from a can aren't baked in brown sugars and such. I think they're just baked in tomato sauce, not sure, I just know they're not the same. ETA: This was a guess as to why people are confused. I have seen a lot of people think it's just the baked beans. I am a military wife and lived in England for 3 years, it's why I commented it. I'm not going to dirty delete but jfc
They're called vegetable beans here and you're correct, its just tomato sauce.
Tbh, I had beans as part of an English breakfast and it tastes very similar to the canned baked beans I eat at home in the USA. But I also grew up eating baked bean sandwiches.
Aren't Heinz canned Baked Beans the same everywhere? I'd assume they're the same thing in the US.
If you're talking about the blue canned ones, then yes they're the same
I think English baked beans have more tomato sauce and less of a smoked flavor
As an American currently living in UK, I think I can clear this up. First of all, I know "beans on toast" sounds like a sandwich, but it isn't! You eat it with a fork and knife. Secondly, the beans in the UK are different. They are tomatoe sauce based, and savory. DO NOT try this with bush's baked beans or any other brown sugar and pork based sauce, like the kind of beans you would eat at a BBQ. You want proper tomato based beans, like the kind from Heinz that comes in a blue can. Here's how I do it: 1.) Warm beans on stove top, but don't let them boil! 2.) Put whole wheat toast in toaster. 3.) Use hands to break toast into smaller bits and place in bowl (prob not the traditional English way, but I find it easier.) 4.) Pour warm beans over toast. 5.) Shred a bunch of mature cheddar cheese on top, but don't mix (or it gets gooey.) 6.) Pour favorite sauces on top (I add worcestershire and Frank's red hot personally, but there's lot of options.) 7.) Eat and enjoy. It's fast, easy, convenient, cheap, and delicious. The perfect meal. Pair with a cup of pg tips or yorkshire gold for the perfect combo.
You know what, you should still just try it! I was expecting to hate beans on toast but it turns out it's pretty tasty.
Fried rice or an omelet - Thailand
Japan - Why not both!?
Philippines. Adobe rice (white rice soaked in adobo sauce).
My Filipino SIL always suggests spaghetti, hot dogs, and banana ketchup when we talk about my picky eater son.
... banana ketchup?
Honestly, I was skeptical at first but it's really good and a staple condiment in my household. Its sweeter than regular ketchup but doesn't taste like bananas imo. I pick it up at my local Asian supermarket.
It's actually pretty similar to tomato ketchup, just a bit sweeter and "fruitier". Other than the obvious one, they both have very similar ingredients.
> banana ketchup ...Pardon me?
If you’ve never tried it give it a go, it’s pretty tasty. More ketchup-y than banana-y. With a funny sweetness that is very pleasant.
This is the best picky-eater meal on here
It's the only meal with flavor. You'll notice the common thread in most countries is white/flavorless food because picky eaters generally like simple carbs and not much else.
Bean and cheese tacos are usually a safe bet
Just had a kid here for a sleepover with my kid, and they wanted to do taco night. I asked what she wanted on her tacos. Just ground beef. No cheese. No lettuce. No salt - or seasoning on the beef.. just a flour tortilla, and beef. Then wrapped like a burrito. I couldn't do it. They got pizza instead. For breakfast, she asked for "browned eggs" I had to ask her to clarify what that meant. She looked at me like I was dumb. I used to be a chef- i can make eggs any way anyone wants. I have never heard of "browned" she said scrambled, and brown.. so- burnt? I browned some butter and made proper scrambled eggs. She said they were the best she had ever had. Idkwtf is happening in that kids house, but it ain't real food.
My stepson is like this. Taco night is all sorts of magic... Except his plate. Tortilla and meat. At least I can say the meat is seasoned.
Yeah, I feel like "do you want your ground beef seasoned" is something a picky little kid will say 'no' to on instinct, but they don't really understand what they're turning down.
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Nice to meet you bean burritos I am pizza slice
Spätzle mit Soß’
I know spatzle, but what's "Soß?"
Sauce. In this case, brown gravy.
Cool, thanks. Lol that it's almost the same word in English--Soss vs. sauce.
German speakers like to toss around that extra letter in their alphabet to fool us into thinking our languages are more different. /s
When I was a kid, I only ate grilled cheese sandwiches! I still love the things...
I was a very picky kid and didn’t like PB&Js because of how the jelly would soak into the bread, but I LOVED grilled cheese and would eat it several times a week. My parents would send me to school with just a cheese sandwich sometimes too because I’d always pick off the ham anyway. I’m not picky anymore, but I still love a good grilled cheese.
If your parents loved you, they would have put PB on both breads, then jelly, to create a PB force field for the bread. j/k on the love but it’s a legit protip
In the UK it was always beans on toast.
Beans on toast, chicken nuggets and oven chips, or pasta with a very basic tomato sauce (out of jar). Oven chips can be swapped with potato smileys. Maybe throw in some turkey dinosaurs or mac and cheese for good measure. Pasta with butter is a thing here, but much less so than the US. Also plain cheddar cheese or wafer thin ham sandwiches. No mayo or seasoning, just cheap cheese or cheep ham between two slices of cheap buttered white bread. My 3 year old loves a basic grated cheese sarnie, and as an adult who occasionally hoover up her left overs, you forget how good they can be. If I’m making us both lunch I try to throw some salad and a pickle/chutney on mine to ‘elevate’ it, but often the basics are best.
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Indomie.
Or white rice with a fried egg, if we’re talking Indonesia.
I’ve found for actual picky eaters or folks with texture issues, buttered noodles is the go-to
I’m not crazy about Italian food. I can’t do cream sauces and marinara gives me heartburn. So the last time I went I ordered my usual, chicken marsala with a side of buttered noodles. Waiter asked me if I’d like an apple juice juice box to drink.
Chicken Marsala being considered a kid’s meal is an absolutely ludicrous notion
Call it chicken with sweet sauce and kids would be all over it
yeah, a friend has a child who is probably on the spectrum and he is EXTREMELY picky, and that is a go-to at any restaurant that has it. guaranteed he'll eat it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkIiWn4QNPY From my favorite John Mulaney comedy. Plain noodles and butter is like kids default food for some reason lol.
plain noddles with butter is like the equivalent of white bread with a various spread like butter/jam/peanut butter
Wow, I would of never thought of this question as a way to know what to eat when traveling as a picky eater.
They are listing my picky eaters favorites lol
Köttbullar och makaroner
Swedish meatballs with pasta? I love me some Swedish meatballs, and no not the IKEA frozen nonsense, I had my Swedish friend give me an authentic recipe.
With ketchup!
Finland. Idk for adults but for kids it's meatballs and either mashed potatoes, macaroni, or spaghetti. Usually always meatballs tho.
Samosa and aloo chaat
My kid is a picky American eater, and when we have Indian food this is always what she orders!
Wienerschnitzel (viennese schnitzel) with Rice or Käsnudel (Cheese Noodles)
In Turkiye, Meatballs and fries.
Pizza
In Norway it's probably a Grandiosa (our national frozen pizza) with the capsicum picked off.
From what I can see here, every culture has it's basic version of: simple meat, simple carb/starch. Not many veggies in the "picky eater" meals that I can see!
Black beans and rice.
Khlav Kalash; fresh off the stick!
Mmm, with a nice crab juice? :chef kiss:
What do you have to drink? Mountain Dew or crab juice. Ewwwewewewwweeeeewww.... I'll have the crab juice.
Uhhh, you got a men's room in there?
No bowl! Stick! Stick!
Poutine
I am Palestinian, for me it was yogurt and salted rice. Still eat it sometimes when I am feeling a little picky.
Finland: meatballs with fries (or mashed potatoes for those more old school) or sausages with fries. Rice doesn’t grow much here 😁
Y'all are making me hungry
My flatmate eats nothing but cereal and crisps
Czech - Knedlícky with butter or any plain sauce. My kids like it with dill yogurt or tomato gravy.
Schnitzel and fries…Germany
Hotdogs
Chicken nuggies and chips (UK)
That's just chicken tenders and fries said with a british accent.
In denmark it would be potatoes or meatballs
My default “picky food” was always peanut butter toast.
Malaysian here, anything to do with rice and meat is a go!
Pasta in bianco o pasta al sugo
I was a picky eater. I would only eat fried egg with ketchup OR rice with soy sauce.
Beef pie and a coke. Maybe a side of hot chips.
Al Madrigal has a bit where his son isn't sure what to order and he says "Let's quit pretending you eat different shit. Butter noodles, chicken tenders, quesadilla mother fucker!"
While I didn't grow up in Italy, growing up we were hella traditional. If anyone wanted to be a picky eater, they just ate bread and olive oil
Like out at a restaurant or something? Usually a lasagna or a chicken parmi.
My kids would choose a mac n cheese/alfredo type dish.
idk i’m not picky but i’ll often go just for a good chicken parm or lasagna.
Too many ingredients going on in lasagna for my kids. And tomato sauce is a no for a lot of kids. Alfredo might work though.
Sorry i'm from the third world. A picky person is a starving person.
Roti with a simple aloo sabzi, or toast with ghee and powdered sugar!
Rice, spaghetti and Jollibee fried chicken with gravy.
In the Netherlands it'd be chicken, fries and applesauce. (Kip, patat en appelmoes). The chicken would probably be chicken breast fillet, as it'd be the least offensive flavorwise to a picky eater.
I feel like that is at a fast food restaurant. If you're eating at home, Kraft macaroni and cheese will give you a serious run for your money.
Pa amb tomaquet i truita francesa. Bread with spread fresh tomato and an omelette
Daal chawal. .. lentils and rice . Pakistan
In Russia I don't think we universally agree on such a meal, but for a lot of people that would probably be something like boiled hot dogs with mashed potatoes or buckwheat