@ Markonikov:  At least i don't fight like a cow!   

Heheh, but seriously, i don't know if there's any antipathy between Netherland and Belgian Dutch people, i hardly have contact with my Dutch or German family anymore.  (In fact i last spoke to any of them when i was a teenager last, IIRC.)

So blast away, if you call me a milking Dutchman; - i'll call you a Dutchman right back! [  So cool to know, for some reason i always thought you were French ] 

At least my kind of Dutchman gets to wear cool wooden shoes! That's something you're missing out on! 

Bah, but i guess i can't say anyone makes better chocolate than you Belgians do, i do believe your chocolate is even better than the Swiss kind...

Ugh, and i hate Dutch sweets from the Netherlands, food doesn't seem to be their strong point, i'm afraid. 

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You might like the Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine here in America, Trav. 

Yes, they serve raw herring. But they have also adapted many traditional recipes to our culture / agriculture, blended with German dishes and offer amazing smorgasbords in towns such as Lancaster. 

My ex-wife and I had the pleasure of dining there on several occasions. 

They served everything from herring (raw and marinade with fresh dill and sour cream), succulent pork with tangy sauerkraut, deep-dish pot pies, and chicken corn soup with egg noodles and saffron to red-beet eggs, chow chow, corn fritters, Amish potato salad and potato rolls. 

Their dessert table was expansive too with a full array of fruits, cheeses, pastries, pies, cakes and other goodies plus numerous hot and cold soups, garden salads, other appetizers, breads, condiments, sauces, gravies and toppings rounded-out the feast. 

Cheers, Terry 

P.S. 

Here is a link to one website dedicated to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with a page that lists a small selection of their traditional foods. 

http://www.welcome-to-lancaster-county.com/pennsylvania-dutch-food.html 

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I suppose I can be considered as a "DUTCH  UNCLE" – certainly by some folk here !!

But I don't speak "DOUBLE  DUTCH" or write it  !

When we go out with friends to a restaurant we nearly always "GO  DUTC" !
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In real life – I had a genuine "Dutch" uncle  - born in Amsterdam about 100 years ago ----------
---------- and  I still have a genuine "Dutch" sister in law born around 1935 in The Hague!!!

Originally Posted By Terry Penrod (12 AUG 2012 1:54pm)

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You might like the Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine here in America, Trav. 

 

Yes, they serve raw herring. But they have also adapted many traditional recipes to our culture / agriculture, blended with German dishes and offer amazing smorgasbords in towns such as Lancaster. 

 

My ex-wife and I had the pleasure of dining there on several occasions. 

 

They served everything from herring (raw and marinade with fresh dill and sour cream), succulent pork with tangy sauerkraut, deep-dish pot pies, and chicken corn soup with egg noodles and saffron to red-beet eggs, chow chow, corn fritters, Amish potato salad and potato rolls. 

 

Their dessert table was expansive too with a full array of fruits, cheeses, pastries, pies, cakes and other goodies plus numerous hot and cold soups, garden salads, other appetizers, breads, condiments, sauces, gravies and toppings rounded-out the feast. 

 

Cheers, Terry 

 

P.S. 

 

Here is a link to one website dedicated to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with a page that lists a small selection of their tradtiional foods. 

 

http://www.welcome-to-lancaster-county.com/pennsylvania-dutch-food.html 

 

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OMG !

 

Please stop it !!

 

You're making my mouth water and the saliva is dribbling onto my keyboard !!!

 

 

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Awaits alike th' inevitable hour:-
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Terry, you always manage to make any food sound good.  You should consider renting yourself out to parents to get the kids to eat their veggies!

I do like some German foods like Sauerkraut with roast potatoes and roast leg of pork, but just start talking about things like Blutwurst and i want to start running away...

(Though we were served some Scottish Blood sausage the other day, and although i only ventured a small taste, it was actually much better than i'd expected it to be.)

..but i've become cautious, because my attempt at trying to eat raw herring was not a pleasant experience...  Spoiler Alert(It was slimy!)

Originally Posted By Terry Penrod (12 AUG 2012 1:54pm)

They served everything from herring (raw and marinade with fresh dill and sour cream), 

We have that as well, here in Sweden. Well, almost. It is more like pickled herring, but one particular type is basically picked in sour cream, dill & caviar (not fine Russian caviar, but caviar from lumpfish)

And we eat it at any festive occasion, apart from new years eve. Luckily there is a fare amount of variety to it, and it does taste good (unlike the alcohol that you are supposed to drink at all festive occasions).

HERRING  MIT  KARTOFFEL.

A fairly popular Yiddish song when I was quite young – say more than 80 years ago/

Apparently variations of herring were extremely popular amongst the four million or so Jews of Germany & Eastern Europe before WW-II – there are probably only a very few tens of thousands left there now !

My father (RIP)  was born in the poorest area of the East End of London in 1900. (He had to pull himself up by his shoe strings !!)
His parents emigrated to England from the borders of Poland & Russia during the last decade of the 19th century – I think that my grandfather was a wagon-driver there but in London with 2 sons & 8 daughters they were as poor as church mice (maybe not an apt metaphor – hehehe).

So Matias herring & fresh Rollmops are quite popular in Israel  and hence from time to time I go to our local deli and buy some of both !!!

Originally Posted By Traveller (12 AUG 2012 11:09am)

@ Markonikov:  At least i don't fight like a cow!   

 

Heheh, but seriously, i don't know if there's any antipathy between Netherland and Belgian Dutch people, i hardly have contact with my Dutch or German family anymore.  (In fact i last spoke to any of them when i was a teenager last, IIRC.)

 

So blast away, if you call me a milking Dutchman; - i'll call you a Dutchman right back! [  So cool to know, for some reason i always thought you were French ] 

At least my kind of Dutchman gets to wear cool wooden shoes! That's something you're missing out on! 

  Clip clop clip clop.

 

Bah, but i guess i can't say anyone makes better chocolate than you Belgians do, i do believe your chocolate is even better than the Swiss kind...

Ugh, and i hate Dutch sweets from the Netherlands, food doesn't seem to be their strong point, i'm afraid. 

  (Those raw 'harings' that they love so much are also pretty... unappetizing in my opinion. )

We call them cheeseheads, because they eat a lot of cheese. 

There's always some competion in the air between our two countries, like most neighbouring countries.

But culturally and economically we're closely related to eachother. In fact we have more in common with the dutch people then with the french speaking part of the country. Some of us even would love to become part of the Netherlands in the future.

Food is an exception though, the Belgian cuisine is comparable to French cuisine but in larger quantities.

Originally Posted By markornikov (15 AUG 2012 2:13pm)

 

We call them cheeseheads, because they eat a lot of cheese. 

Ja, ik ben me bewust van de kaaskop naam.     Dit omdat Nederlanders zulke heerlijke kaas maken! Niet omdat hun hoofden vol kaas is!   

 

There's always some competion in the air between our two countries, like most neighbouring countries.

But culturally and economically we're closely related to eachother. In fact we have more in common with the dutch people then with the french speaking part of the country. Some of us even would love to become part of the Netherlands in the future.

 

Food is an exception though, the Belgian cuisine is comparable to French cuisine but in larger quantities.

 

Well, I'll go over to the Belgian side any time when it comes to cuisine!  

It's too bad it wouldn't owrk for EA. I have heard a rumor that JA may be getting Hoodwink soon though, keep your ears open...

escuse me,  *work

*excuse. Wow, I'm full of typos today.

Been looking at videos of Hoodwink. I lol every time I want to try that one