Which would you consider your favorite cuisine out of the ones here? (i only get so many choices so i'm having to combine some, I know there are big differences between regional variants of all of these but i only get ten options to put here!) (I'm trying not to be unfair to any particular cuisine)
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i'll be a little surprised if eastern european gets any votes just because it's not very popular but bratwurst is delicious and we had a *fantastic* potato soup at a... German? Polish? restaurant ages ago (the potato soup and the fact that it was eastern european is the only thing we remember from that. Oh and that it was served in a ceramic pot shaped almost like a teapot minus the spout, for some reason? I think we had sausages too but don't remember them)
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@Felthry ... I forget that sausages are an eastern European thing. I freaking love a large variety of sausages. ...likely many dishes that have Eastern European origins, but I'm just so used to them being so freely available in nondescript American markets that I just kind of blindly assume they are more or less regional American style foods
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@Kilroy I mean, hot dogs are definitely an american thing, and salami is italian, and chorizo is spanish--i don't think sausages in *general* are an eastern european thing but eastern european cuisine has a fantastic array of sausages
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@Felthry True! Sausage is definitely a universal food thing with an incredibly diverse selection from all over the world
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@Kilroy i do wonder if it's eastern european in origin though, on a similar basis to the dialectal diversity principle that says that a language's origin is likely close to where it has the most diversity in dialects (see for instance the very diverse british english dialects compared to the (relatively!!) uniform american english ones)
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