Foods Czechs find odd

[Lorelai]

So, just for fun, tell me what foreign foods you've tried that you find strange. A friend finds potato chips rather peculiar. What else?

[Petronela]

The bread. Most of my Czech friends dislike the prepackaged bread sold in American grocery stores. The almost sweet flavor, weird texture and not crunchy crust are just strange to them.

[mbm]

The bread, definitely. And beer and chocolate, too. The Czechs hold their bread, beer and chocolate in extremely high regard and look at other nations' variants with suspicion.

The Czechs are also deeply suspicious of seafood and some even find it revolting. Not surprising, it being a landlocked country and all...

[Alexx]

Sure, bread. The "best" bread in London is sold by Poles .

I am looking forward to my September stay in the US, as we plan really low budget, especially for food, grocery stores like Walmart will be our "daily bread". After 3 weeks I will tell you more what I dislike about american food.

[bibax]

The vast majority of the Czechs do not eat:

1) worms and insects including larvae (except unconsciously in fruit, mushrooms, etc.),
2) molluscs (gastropods, cephalopods), even the edible Roman snail plentifully living in our gardens (Helix pomatia) is not eaten but exported to France,
3) reptiles (snakes, lizards) and amphibians (frogs),
4) carnivore mammals (dogs, cats, etc.),
5) rodents except rabbits and hares.

From this list I have tried mussels, octopuses, frog legs and coypus (nutria). Only nutria was eatable, not much different from rabbit.

Surprisingly most Czechs eat crustaceans (crabs, lobsters, etc.).

I don't know what our ancestors ate during the times of famine. They certainly were not too fastidious.

[Sova]

root beer and peanut butter.

[kotja]

[GlennInFlorida]

root beer is a non-alcoholic carbonated drink - think kofola about ten times sweeter...
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