What culture has the worst cuisine?

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Inuit/Yupik/whatever other people who live in the Great White North.

Kiviak: Stuff a dead seal with seabirds. Bury it for months. Dig up and dig in.

Stinkheads: Fill a barrel with salmon heads and guts. Bury for a week. Enjoy.

Muktuk: Like pork rinds, except instead of pig skin that's been deep fried, it's whale skin that's not cooked.

Raw Seal Meat and Organs: Exactly what it says on the tin.

Akutaq: AKA Eskimo Ice Cream. A mixture of rendered fat, rendered oil, fish flakes and berries.

I used to post on a forum where one of the members was an Alaskan native (or maybe only his wife was? I don't entirely remember) and he'd post stuff about the food that he made. It was never appetizing but always fascinating.

Never even heard of kiviak.

Stinkheads are pretty nasty. Fun fact: In the old days they were made in a clay pot, so if the clay pot broke, it was from the gasses put out by the botchulism off gassing and people wouldn't eat it. Now people use plastic buckets with lids and there's no way to tell if a batch went bad. Oops, all toxins!

Mutuk is fat, not skin. It's pure calories and keeps you warm at -40.

Literally never heard of anyone eating raw seal. People like to put seal oil on Sailor Boy crackers. It tastes like turbo ocean in a bad way. Seal soup wasn't that great, either.

Agutuk in the old style is nasty. Most people use crisco now, which really isn't much better.

e: Polar bear liver will kill you if you eat too much due to Vitamin A toxicity.
 
There was huge fucking controversy a few years back about limeys finding out about that there was tons of horse meat in things that are not supposed to be horse meat.
That was a europe-wide thing. It turned out a bunch of horses had disappeared into a meat processing plant in Poland and come out the other side marked as minced beef, destined for use in frozen prepared meals. The biggest joke out of the whole affair was Iceland (the shop, not the place) testing some of its frozen meals and finding out that they didn't contain horse meat, but only because they didn't contain any meat.
 
You know, I agree with you but these pictures aren't actually that bad.
I was talking to a pinoy girl for a while and she sent me a picture of some tasty brownies she baked.
Except they weren't brownies... they were Betamax.
My fav is puto here.
 
That was a europe-wide thing. It turned out a bunch of horses had disappeared into a meat processing plant in Poland and come out the other side marked as minced beef, destined for use in frozen prepared meals. The biggest joke out of the whole affair was Iceland (the shop, not the place) testing some of its frozen meals and finding out that they didn't contain horse meat, but only because they didn't contain any meat.
If you're buying meat from Poland, having horse meat is the least of your worries.
 
Nothing beats Nigerian food...
However cuisines that over implement foods that were obviously a result of starvation and garbage eating are a close second... Think casu martzu (rotting maggot riddled cheese) and the like.
I also recently learned about the culinary traditions of certain Norther Vietnamese minorities, like the Hmong who just can't stop eating ze bugs or the Nhum who unironically eat cow and goat dung soups.
Oh yeah, almost forgot about the Filipinos. I don't care how much spice you put into it you're still eating leftover chicken tendies you clawed out of a trash can... okra.webp1744633082161.webp1744633167905.webp1744633187561.webp1744633581327.webp1744633491182.webp
 
In mainland Europe, the Dutch have the worst cuisine and the worst food culture. They're located right next to the sea, they have a long history of seafaring, they had the spice trade by the balls for a long time, and yet they think that this counts as a meal (source: I grew up around Dutch people).
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The best part of their cuisine is rijsttafel, and that's something they imported from Indonesia.

I've come across a Laotian food place only once, in the old town of Bergerac in southwest France. It was ok but it's not the most memorable southeast Asian cuisine I've had.
Never packed a sandwich for lunch or something? I'm confused.
 
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Any cuisine that's just "shitty lowest grade bits of meat for the proles with the entire spice cabinet thrown on it" and whatever local vegetables mixed in. Bonus points if it also gets those specific annoying uppity white westerners to go "wow so much better than boring and bland white people food!!" every time it's brought up.
 
Jewish cuisine is by far the worst. They have some pretty decent foods (bagels, brisket) but their lows are fucking abysmal. I hope no one in this thread ever has to undertake the massive burden of having to choke down a single teaspoon of gefilte fish.
 
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I rescind my prior post now that I think about it. If we count non human humanoids then the Aborigines have the absolute worst cuisine on the planet. Comprised of burnt lizards, burnt kangaroo with no seasoning, and gasoline.
 
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Jewish cuisine is by far the worst. They have some pretty decent foods (bagels, brisket) but their lows are fucking abysmal. I hope no one in this thread ever has to undertake the massive burden of having to choke down a single teaspoon of gefilte fish.
You fell for perhaps the oldest Jew trick in the book. Gefilte fish isn't a real dish anyone actually likes, it's just a gimmick Jews use to punk each other. Think of the Swedes and their surstromming.

On a (slightly) unrelated note, I do think cuisines that are functionally made up of non-foods, random scrap, or bushmeat should be disqualified. Sure, Nigerians manage to stay alive on the stuff they eat, but it isn't exactly keeping with the spirit of the word "cuisine".

For my money British and Korean are the two worst cuisines that actually rise to the level of human grade. I've seen some people say Jamaican, but I don't know. 90% of it is just chicken with some, ahem, enigmatic spices. I could imagine it being made pretty OK if it were properly Americanized.
 
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