Where are you from/ where do you live?

Buttercheese

As always, feel free to specify in the comments ~

Buttercheese

Bratwurst, Sauerkraut, Bier.

Buttercheese

While we are at it: Discussion kickstarter.

What is your favourite dish from your country?

I really do like German cuisine but not the stereotypical ones (the three I mentioned above).
Pastries and cake are my all time favourites and I have never tasted better baked goods than German ones, though I heard that Swiss pastries are even better (especially cinnamon buns).
My favourite cake is chocolate buttercream cake, like the one my grandma used to bake for me every birthday when I was a child I am also a big fan of Sauerbraten. Of course made with real horsemeat UvU

Silverstar

The Frozen North!

Buttercheese

@Silverstar‌:
Aw yiss, the promised land of metal!

rufus_hobart

i'm in awwstraaalyaa. This, by the way, is the actual phonetics you'll need to pass as a local ;-) Down in melbourne town, to be a little more exact.

SCARY_WIZARD

Northern Illinois, in North America. Got smart and went Northwest, after going South. I still miss the swamps. Mountains are beautiful, but they're just not the same...

Nonnahswriter

I live on the west coast of Washington State!

My favorite dish, you ask...?

Oh no. They asked. THEY ASKED.

SMOKED SALMON, BABYYYY!!!







Put it in a salad, cook it on the grill, have it with some crackers, or just eat it all by itself. It's always delicious!

Wherever the salmon may hide, she stalks it like a bloodhound... There is no escape for the flaky pink fish. Not even the acrid taste of a blackened sear could scare her away... She even eats the skin.

Okay, I don't actually eat the skin...but I do tend to savor all that fatty goodness beneath the scales. My family calls me the "salmon hound" of the house.

No, I don't know who's speaking in the italics. Perhaps another aspect of my consciousness...? o.o

Squire

I live in the land of Saxons, Danes, and Celts (i.e. the UK).

However, I am from the land of chocolate, cuckoo clocks, and mercenary pikemen (i.e. Switzerland), though I've lived in the UK for pretty much all of my life.

eta: oh, and I love German food, and Danish beer, though I'm also partial to Indian and Italian food (i.e. curry and pizza! ;-D )

booinyoureyes

I am from the ancient land of Connecticut, which is often referred to as The Constitution State here in the USA. It is because we are all brave burly warriors with many hit points.

yes... that must be the reasoning

booinyoureyes

SCARY_WIZARD said:

Northern Illinois, in North America. Got smart and went Northwest, after going South. I still miss the swamps. Mountains are beautiful, but they're just not the same...

@SCARY_WIZARD‌ My girlfriend is from Mundelein!

O_Bruce

Poland, an absurd country in Europe.

Kamigoroshi

Germany.

And I love me some crabby Maikäfersuppe in the morning.

Buttercheese

@Nonnahswriter‌:
Oh boy, I LOVE fish! These look delishious!

@O_Bruce‌:
Poland has absurdly delicious Pirogges you mean.

@Kamigoroshi‌:
I never heard of Maikäfersuppe.
*Looks it up*
Ahahahahaha, nope :'D

O_Bruce

@Buttercheese‌
Oh yes, pierogges. These delicious bastards

InvictusCobra

Portugal.
Live in a small town usually, but due to college I now live in Lisbon for most of the year (except on holidays and weekends). Hate it here.

meagloth

St. Louis. And boy do we have a lot of traditional foods. St.... Louisians.... Have a very strong culture. I was born in Seattle, but we moved here when I was four so I pretty much grew up here, though I don't consider myself a native. I don't really like it here. I'll show off the food and customs anyway. One thing that's very strange is that on Halloween instead of saying "trick or treat" kids must tell a joke. I personally enjoy it; it makes Halloween a bit more fun. Usually you hear the same jokes but occasionally you get a good one, and it's fun as a kid to think up your Halloween joke.

Anyway, food. St. Louis style pizza is thin crust and cut in squares. I don't like thin crust, I prefer new your style. The st. Louos style pizza usually comes from a chain called Imo's. One traditional dish is toasted ravioli, though I'm not particularly familiar with it, so I'll link a wikipedia page.
Another thing is frozen custard, which is called concrete here.
Concrete?
Nobody knows. I'm not sure what's special about it, but it usually comes from a place called Ted Drew's, which is usually slurred together so it sound like one word.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Drewes

FinneousPJ

Pizza is supposed to have a thin crust, or so I've always thought. Wouldn't it be a pie otherwise?

meagloth

FinneousPJ said:

Pizza is supposed to have a thin crust, or so I've always thought. Wouldn't it be a pie otherwise?

Pies are sweet desserts, usually with berries. Also bakes in a pan, not a tray, and with fillings, not toppings, and always has a thin crust. Pizza is flat and can have a thick, bread crust or a thin one.

Thick crust pizza:


Thin crust pizza:

Pie:

That's the way it is here, anyway. Occasionally pie is used as a slang term for pizza, But other than that...

FinneousPJ

You don't have meat pie in St. Louis?

Squire

O_Bruce said:

Poland, an absurd country in Europe.

It also has the most beautiful girls in the whole world! ;-)

Silverstar

Squire said:

O_Bruce said:

Poland, an absurd country in Europe.

It also has the most beautiful girls in the whole world! ;-)

*note to self: go to Polen*

Wandering_Minstrel

United States of America. From New York state, currently in North Carolina. I would like to live out west (South Dakota , Montana, Wyoming or Idaho) someday.

Buttercheese

He is speaking in code, someone get one of the translators.

O_Bruce

@Squire‌
Or so they say.

smeagolheart

I'm living in Phoenix, Arizona. It's hot as hell for six months a year and the other 6 months it is temperate.
I'd like to move to somewhere with access to water that I could see outside. I'm looking for a place with lifestyle amenities. It's so hot here for 6 months of the year you can't do anything outside without melting within one minute you walk outside and it's like sticking your face close to a toaster - hot air.

Hey @rufus_hobart I'd love to move to Melboune, Australia. Can you get me a permanent residency visa please!

KidCarnival

Hiro of Eye is from FUTURE Europe though.

rufus_hobart

@smeagolheart‌

Ha, sure, come on down, we've got plenty of places to put you up! Just avoid our immigrant hating Prime Minister and you'll be fine ;-) Weather's just a littttttttle different from Phoenix, but you can actually breathe the air here without your lungs imploding most of the time so you might enjoy the change.

But in all seriousness, if you do have a skillset, it's actually not that difficult at the moment to get work here, our industry in particular is hiring a lot of people from overseas to do stuff that we're too dumb, unmotivated or unskilled to do. If you have any experience in public transport/airlines, particularly in management of staff or projects, I'd say you're a shoo-in!

meagloth

FinneousPJ said:

You don't have meat pie in St. Louis?

Sure we do. I don't think that's nearly as popular in the u.s. as it is in Europe though... Not sure. We've made it a few times but you don't see it much and I don't think most Americans think of meat when you say pie.

CaloNord

Ipswich, Brisbane, QLD, Australia!
A wonderfully hot land of poisonous beasties, sharks, jellyfish and things that hate you.
Originally from Christchurch, New Zealand, moved here in 1998, moving to Austria in the next decade or so.

CrevsDaak

I am from Argentina and I live in my parents' house. Nothing too interesting.