All countries are different, tell me a fact about your country.

[blackbird9]

My country has some companies that make some nice hifi. To name just three... (there are many others)...

British High-End Audio | Naim Audio

Naim Audio designs & manufactures some of the finest high-end audio systems available in the world. Crafted for pure musical performance.

www.naimaudio.com

Lowther™ | Full Range Horn Speakers

World renowned for high-efficiency, full range speakers that deliver pure, dynamic sound. A blend of timeless design & unparalleled acoustic fidelity.

www.lowtherloudspeakers.com

Music's Finest Conductor | Audio Note (UK) England

Audio Note (UK) is Europe’s largest and most prestigious manufacturer of ultra performance valve based home audio systems. A vast range of different options is available to suit every music lover’s requirements, As the company’s motto says; ‘Music’s Finest Conductor’.

www.audionote.co.uk

 

[blackbird9]

This full english breakfast and homemade cookies review is about as genuinely northern english as it's possible to get. Anyone who knows the north of England will appreciate his dry Yorkshireman's wit. Grandma's homemade food looks really nice too! If he managed to finish that huge breakfast she brought him he will be full for the next two days, never mind even thinking about the cookies!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7YM7iYtFRY

 

[Alain De Vos]

Interesting.

 

[ralphbsz]

Here we eat horse.

After the (in-)famous incident with frozen lasagna in Germany that contained horse meat, there were lots of bad jokes about horse meat. For example: Little girl is crying "mama mama I want a pony", and the answer is: "Just a minute, it's still in the microwave".

 

[vmisev]

My country has some companies that make some nice hifi. To name just three... (there are many others)...

British High-End Audio | Naim Audio

Naim Audio designs & manufactures some of the finest high-end audio systems available in the world. Crafted for pure musical performance.

www.naimaudio.com

Lowther™ | Full Range Horn Speakers

World renowned for high-efficiency, full range speakers that deliver pure, dynamic sound. A blend of timeless design & unparalleled acoustic fidelity.

www.lowtherloudspeakers.com

Music's Finest Conductor | Audio Note (UK) England

Audio Note (UK) is Europe’s largest and most prestigious manufacturer of ultra performance valve based home audio systems. A vast range of different options is available to suit every music lover’s requirements, As the company’s motto says; ‘Music’s Finest Conductor’.

www.audionote.co.uk

I’m not from there (obviously), but I do love British audio companies; to add some that I personally love and think are offering a bang for a buck: Cambridge Audio, Linn, iFi, Musical Fidelity, Bowers & Wilkins, KEF, Tannoy, Wharfedale ….

 

[vmisev]

This is what we eat for breakfast:

Traditional

Light

If one is not so hungry

 

[astyle]

Both Russians and Ukrainians lay claim to buckwheat as very typical, very traditional breakfast, it was popular in Soviet times, too:

Roasting the cereal before cooking it - that really brings out the flavor.

 

[Maturin]

More than one country has those demographics.

Sure. By 'many sheep' maybe like most I think of Australia and NZ, while Australia is also associated with cattle farms, and NZ is associated with sheep, only, which of course ain't true.
Kind of more harmless ones, but prejudices of the ignorant. If one had said 'more cows than people' I'd guessed Argentina, or Brasil.

But I bet I can get you also with a similar 'trick' question:
Which people do you think drink by far most tea?

I am happy seeing you start talking food.
Food is very good to bring people together.
So, "Let's cook!"

[screenshot from Ratatouille, USA 2007]

 

[astyle]

Which people do you think drink by far most tea?

China. With a population that's flirting with the 2 billion mark, that's kind of a LOT of people to be drinking tea. Not to mention the bewildering variety of tea they grow and make, there's something for every taste.

 

[Maturin]

Here we eat horse.

For me, eating horse meat is as horrible as eating dog meat.

It's at least as good as cow, if not even better.
By horse you get very tasty, juicy, low-fat, and high quality steaks, and roast!
Once tried you'll confirm.
But of course while we need to get rid of excessive meat consumption we don't wanna start intensive livestock farming on horses.

I also love snails, ate kangoroo (wallaby? - ignorance again ), Crocodile, and once even frog legs - was by far most delicate meat I ever tasted, but almost completely without any taste, nothing I must have again.
What I have some horror of to eat was insects.

 

[Maturin]

China.

That's wrong.
I was talking the amount per head.

 

[vmisev]

If one had said 'more cows than people' I'd guessed Argentina, or Brasil.

That's also true for Botswana

Which people do you think drink by far most tea?

Turks

 

[vmisev]

It's at least as good as cow, if not even better.
By horse you get very tasty, juicy, low-fat, and high quality steaks, and roast!
Once tried you'll confirm.
But of course while we need to get rid of excessive meat consumption we don't wanna start intensive livestock farming on horses.

I also love snails, ate kangoroo (wallaby? - ignorance again ), Crocodile, and once even frog legs - was by far most delicate meat I ever tasted, but almost completely without any taste, nothing I must have again.
What I have some horror of to eat was insects.

When I was kid, doctors here used to recommend eating horse meat to fix low blood count.
Snails are good, but winkles are great!
Never tried kangaroo, as Crocks go I had only pate made of them, frogs that I tried tasted like chicken (everting strange tastes like chicken, right?), never ate insects but I did roasted snake while in army (long time ago) – it had taste similar to fish.

 

[Maturin]

After the (in-)famous incident with frozen lasagna in Germany that contained horse meat, there were lots of bad jokes about horse meat. For example: Little girl is crying "mama mama I want a pony", and the answer is: "Just a minute, it's still in the microwave".

Yeah.
For some one living in California's Outbackistan (controlling own waterpumps and power generators with FreeBSD systems), you are quite well informed.

That's the price you pay for what I said in my first post:
When food is of low importance, number one criteria is it needs to be as cheap as possible, frequent food scares are the result.
Interesting: This horse meat thing aroused the germans more than having lubricant, salmonellae, streptococci, mad cow disease, radioctove particles... actual dangerous things in their food

Turks

Nope.

 

[vmisev]

Both Russians and Ukrainians lay claim to buckwheat as very typical, very traditional breakfast, it was popular in Soviet times, too:
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Roasting the cereal before cooking it - that really brings out the flavor.

I have a fried that introduced me to the buckwheat; his mother is Russian from Ukraine (moved over here years ago). I loved it, it’s a great food and very healthy, but I completely forgot about it in the last couple of years. Thanks for the reminder, I’ll have to buy some!

 

[vmisev]

Which people do you think drink by far most tea?

Turks

Nope.

If 'most' means Kg per capita, then yes, Turks

 

[lost_in_c]

Curiosity got the better of me once and I bought some eel. So technically I have eaten snake.

Pretty good to be honest. Tastes like fancy chicken. I think when people say that they mean a certain broader category of texture and flavour profile, same way duck kinda tastes like stake.

But then you're like "I just ate snake." It's a strange feeling.

 

[Maturin]

If 'most' means Kg per capita, then yes, Turks

Nope. It's the people in a part of nothern west germany:
East Frisia

Per capita, the East Frisian people drink more tea than any other people group, about 300 litres per person every year.

 

[vmisev]

Nope. It's the people in a part of nothern west germany:
East Frisia

If East Frisians use ~10g of dried tea leaves for a Liter of tea, that will put them in the same ballpark with Turks (~3.16 Kg annually per capita)

 

[lost_in_c]

Maroccans also drink hell of tea. If they ain't drinkin it, they're brewing the next batch.

There may be some cultural similarity there to alcohol in Europe. It's historically been a useful way to sanitize water. Is my guess.

 

[Maturin]

If East Frisians use ~10g of dried tea leaves for a Liter of tea, that will put them in the same ballpark with Turks (~3.16 Kg annually per capita)

Okay, okay, it's not a pound beans, but 498 g.

 

[vmisev]

Curiosity got the better of me once and I bought some eel. So technically I have eaten snake.

Pretty good to be honest. Tastes like fancy chicken. I think when people say that they mean a certain broader category of texture and flavour profile, same way duck kinda tastes like stake.

But then you're like "I just ate snake." It's a strange feeling.

I had eels too (as a kid), but counted them as fish. My late dad loved fishing, so on couple of occasions he caught some eels. TBH, can’t remember the taste.

As for the snakes, that was during summer survival course in the Army, and never again. I don’t like them and don’t want to have anything with them ever again.

 

[vmisev]

Maroccans also drink hell of tea. If they ain't drinkin it, they're brewing the next batch.

There may be some cultural similarity there to alcohol in Europe. It's historically been a useful way to sanitize water. Is my guess.

Far less than Irish folks - 2.36 kg vs Moroccans 1.22 kg

 

[Maturin]

There may be some cultural similarity there to alcohol in Europe. It's historically been a useful way to sanitize water. Is my guess.

Yeah. And by North Africans I learned: (hot!) peppermint tea is very good when it's hot.

And, yes. In old Europe - middle ages until almost app. ~150 years ago alcohol beverages were basic for sanitizing drinking water, like boiling it (for tea for example). Like any kind of fermentation (cheese, yogurt, and many, many other things [in Sweden I heard they like fermented fish ] was originally invented/discovered to preserve food. Beer was for the commoners and lower classes, while wine was expensive was for the nobles and clerics. My wife is a historian, and told about a medieval bible she saw once where the handwriting became unsteady: At some point of the day the monks became drunk
Also the kids got beer for breakfast.
Because of the lack of fresh water supplies especially on sailing ships the situation had to be not seldom precariously. For the british navy it had been a large problem to stop the hundreds of year old custom to distribute their sailors their (large) daily ration of rum. But on a modern guided weapon cruiser stuffed with electronics and computers drunks are of no good use at all.

To my very own personal theory this can be used to tell a lot about european history, if they all were constantly drunk.

 

[lost_in_c]

That's true but tea isn't just about boling water. Something about the plant turns the water into a kind of cleaning agent. You can brush your teeth with it. I suspect that part is important. (at least in the case of green tea)

I had eels too (as a kid), but counted them as fish. My late dad loved fishing, so on couple of occasions he caught some eels. TBH, can’t remember the taste.

As for the snakes, that was during summer survival course in the Army, and never again. I don’t like them and don’t want to have anything with them ever again.

In parts of the Amazon, cockroaches are a dish. I once met an Indian who told me he had eaten it a bunch of times. I asked him how it was. "Disgusting."