63 Shocking Food Myths Tourists Believe That Locals Can’t Stand

Toast sandwich, I tried it because it’s often brought up on the internet as an example of how dumb British food is (and I did actually think it was nicer than I expected) but no one else I’ve spoken to in the UK has even heard of it, let alone tried it.

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Beans on toast, people here do eat beans but beans on toast is 100% not a thing like Americans always claim it is, it’s something the older generations ate during ww2 and for a while afterwards when a lot of people were poor, but it’s died out as a common meal and isn’t really a thing anymore. Some people will eat it as a rare nostalgia thing like, and students still do at times, but it’s not some common daily British meal like the Americans think, it’s something people eat very rarely, tastes nice but isn’t a common meal.

Like we do like the taste of beans on toast, it is nice, it’s just not something we all eat a lot like the Americans seem to think, it’s a rare meal people might have just because they feel like it.

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For Canada I would say beaver tails. I’ve had them once and it’s way too sweet.

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Scorpion I guess, every tourist seems to try it but Thai people will not touch it with a 10 meter pole.

Worms are fine, I also eat them from time to time.

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Casù Marzu. I’m from Sardinia and it’s very uncommon to eat some but tourists love to pay a lot to have a bite of this cheese ( which is illegal to sell at now).

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Kholodets and rassolnik. It’s not that no one eats them (the older generation might), but if they’re offered to a foreigner, it’s likely a test of their strength.

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Honestly, I don’t think any of the mainstream foods in the Levantine cuisine are rarely eaten, all of them are regularly consumed

Though there are foods that are commonly eaten in the levant but are not known outside the levant.

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“shrimp on the barbie” it’s legit just not a thing. not sure where the stereotype came from.

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That deep-fired butter thing kinda looks like smoutebollen (or Oliebollen if you’re Dutch). Probably less butter in the stuff we have at our fairs though.

I don’t think we have a stereotypical food that nobody actually eats, though. Waffles are genuinely popular to the point we have different versions, we love us some chocolate, beer, moules frites or more standard chips/fries.

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Im not Thai but it was quite surprising how Thai dont actually eat pad thai that often or ever at all.

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Anything you see in the US section of a European grocery store. Except peanut butter. Peanut butter rules.

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I am surprised not one Australian has mentioned Fosters yet.

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I’m not sure how stereotyped it is, but not everyone likes guinea pigs here. It’s more of a mountain people food, ans even then, it’s something that’s eaten in special occasions.

I do like them, tho, even if I’m not from the mountains myself.

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