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*** Don't forget bars. Of all kinds. Peanut butter, lemon, chocolate chip, anything like that.
*** Super-flat St. Louis-style pizza is some sort of national joke, even though most major pizza chains now carry similar thin-crust pizza.
** New Orleans: [[Did Not Do the Research|New Orleans food will be called "Cajun,"]] and automatically assumed to be [[Fire-Breathing Diner|super-spicy.]] [[You Fail Geography Forever|Actual Cajun cuisine is from Acadiana]], west of New Orleans, and isn't usually very spicy straight out of the pot; you'll need to add the [[Trademark Favourite Food|requisite dose of Tabasco]] for that. New Orleans cuisine is properly called "Creole." And for the record: Blackened ≠ Burnt. Write it down if you need to.
** [[The Other Rainforest|Pacific Northwest]] - Asian fusion, massive amounts of fish, and gallons of coffee. (This applies to the [[Stargate City|Canadan portion]] of the region as well.)
*** [[Truth in Television]]: fits the bigger city areas pretty well; apples, pears, cherries, organic beef and exotic meat animals may be used for Pacific Northwest settings that aren't in the coastal cities.
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* British: Considered [[The Scrappy]] of cuisines by some Western sources, with stuff like blood pudding, mushy peas, warm beer, haggis (if you include [[Bonnie Scotland|the Scots]]), and immature jokes about [[Have a Gay Old Time|spotted dick.]] Oh, and tea. [[Spot of Tea|Lots of tea]]. A more specific breakdown goes;
** English: Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding (the French actually nickname them 'les rosbifs'), scones to go with the [[Spot of Tea]], and fish and chips. The beer should actually be "cellar temperature" - i.e. kept in the cold, but not refrigerated.
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** Scottish: There's the perception that they deep-fry everything. They ''[[Truth in Television|do]]''; don't make the mistake of asking for a pie and chips in a Scottish takeaway. They also have porridge, haggis and shortbread. [[Drink Order|Whisky]] should always be [[Spell My Name
** Welsh: Lamb, and of course Welsh rarebit (more authentically Welsh rabbit, [[Take That|which is a joke]] and makes more sense) A thick sauce of cheese, beer and mustard, spread on toast and browned under the grill. Lesser known are "laver" (a type of seaweed, often used to make "laver bread") and cawl (a type of meat and vegetable stew, also used as the modern Welsh word for "soup").
* Canadian: Back bacon, maple syrup, maple-y back bacon, basically anything else with maple syrup in, beer, and poutine.
** Some [[Truth in Television]], as
** Poutine is depicted as a national cuisine although it's actually a very regional dish specific to Québec. The poutine available elsewhere in the country is a fast-food variant made with processed cheese and instant gravy.
*** That isn't to say that it isn't delicious.
** And according to [["Weird Al" Yankovic|"Weird Al"]], they all live on donuts and moose meat. (In reality: Donuts, yes; the local coffee shop is probably a donut shop that has coffee. Moose, not so much.)
* Chinese: Lots of [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|noodles, rice, vegetables and monosodium glutamate]], with some meat thrown in every now and then. (No, it is not dog.) They eat it with those funny-looking chopsticks that few Westerners can figure out.
** Egg rolls! And "fortune cookies" in restaurants (which aren't Chinese).
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** Of course, to to drink, there is plenty of tea.
* Dutch: Cheese. They might also have "special brownies."
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** Very big on fries, covered in all sorts of stuff, of which [[Pulp Fiction|mayonnaise]] is the ''least'' bizarre.
** Everything else is mashed together and heated in a single pot.
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*** Corned beef and cabbage, contrary to American belief are actually Irish-American staples, due to the poor Irish immigrants flocking to Jewish delis to eat (''bacon'' and cabbage is much more traditional in Ireland itself.)
* Indian: Tends to be so spicy [[Fire-Breathing Diner|it burns a hole in the diner's guts]] (somewhat Truth in Television). Or curry. Lots and lots of curry. British TV tends to take a more charitable view of Indian food since it's now a staple food over there. And even then, it's usually the generic version of North-West Indian food seen in restaurants.
* Italian: Pasta, pasta, and more pasta. Sometimes even pizza, too, if that isn't thrown into American cuisine instead. ''Macaroni''. Standard dishes also include spaghetti with meatballs and its close relative, ''spaghetti alla bolognese'' (crumbled ground beef added to the tomato
* Japanese: Like Chinese, except with raw fish!
** Sushi! [[Did Not Do the Research|Which everyone thinks is nothing but raw fish!]]
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*** [[Arab Oil Sheikh|Saudi/Gulf]]: Meat. Fatty, roasted meat. Especially camel. Especially, especially camel hump (which is mostly fat). Served in large portions with ungodly amounts of rice. Or in other words, [[wikipedia:Kabsa|kabsa]].
*** Jordanian: [[wikipedia:Mansaf|Mansaf]]. That's it.
*** Israeli: [[Berserk Button|Do not discuss Israeli cuisine anywhere in the Middle East that isn't Israel]]. They will characterize Israeli cuisine the same way Mark Twain once characterized a manuscript: [[
*** Yemeni: Usually, gets blank stares, although some might get that it's spicy right. Writers who have done the research comment on its diversity, and often swear that the Yemeni kitchen is better than the Lebanese.
*** Iraqi: Like their neighbors, but not as good.
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*** Afghan: Goat? Maybe? (It's actually rather like Pakistani.)
* Polish: Sausages may appear unless they're already taken by Germans. Possibly vodka ... unless taken by Russians. [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|No, this is not a metaphor for Poland's bloody history.]]
** Outside of Hollywood, bigos may
* Russian: Other than vodka and borscht, Hollywood doesn't know much about Russian food. Caviar ''might'' be mentioned. Whatever the case, it will be of poor quality and probably served in massive canteens, as if it were still Soviet days.
** And then, even the borscht is actually Ukrainian.
*** Not according to half-a-dozen other nations who claim they invented it.
** And vodka was invented by the Poles.
*** ''[[Berserk Button|Never]]'' ever mention this if you want to escape [[Internet Backdraft]]. Or remain in a sound mind, because in [[Real Life]] such discussions inevitably end up in a drinking competition. And both Poles and Russians consider Americans [[Can't Hold His Liquor|incredible lightweights]]
** "Russian dressing" is a French invention that has absolutely nothing to do with Russian cuisine.
** ''Pelmeni'' (dumplings with a variety of fillings, usually meat) may mistakenly be called pierogies. They are not remotely similar.
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** And meatballs (which are exclusively Swedish in Hollywood Cuisine, although Finns make them too in real life).
*** Note that in Babylon 5 G'kar confirmed that every intellegent spicies in the galaxy had their own version (with its own unique name) of Swedish Meatballs similar to Douglas Adams's assertion that every intellegent species in the galaxy had their own version (again with its own unique but somehow phonetically similar name) of gin and tonic. One may be a shout out to the other but YMMV.
** Occasionally lutefisk will garner a mention, of only for its [[Squick
*** Although these days, that's more a Norwegian American (and particularly Norwegian Minnesotan) thing, if Garrison Kiellor is to be believed.
**** At least in Finland, it's more of a seasonal thing associated with Christmas.
** Smörgåsbord/smørrebrød, always rendered as "smorgasbord", will be used without any explanation of what it is. It means "table of (buttered) bread" and refers to a type of open-faced sandwich.
*** The other Wiki does agree with the above poster for the definition of Smorgas being buttered bread/open faced sandwich but the wiki states that a smorgasbord is similar to the [[wikipedia:
* Swiss: Cheese. And fondue. And chocolate. To drink there is hot chocolate.
** [[Gannon Banned|But not chocolate fondue]]. ''Never'' chocolate fondue.
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