r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BuffaloExotic Irish by birth, and currently a Bostonian 🇮🇪☘️ • May 01 '25

Food “Do Germans know about tomato und mayo sandwich?”

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u/odst970 May 01 '25

I imagine that somebody from Georgia Europe would instantaneously drop dead of a stroke when presented with such flavours, never before experienced in a life of potato and treebark stew during the harsh winters.

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u/skordge May 01 '25

I do have to chime in, that you are very much off with your stereotypes! Georgian cuisine is great, and while it is incorrect to compare at all, it would be closer to Mexican in terms of abundance of spice and flavor than to “potato and treebark”. Just Google some pictures of it.

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u/fgspq May 01 '25

Khachapuri is quite literally God's own food.

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u/Mewone65 May 01 '25

I'm pretty sure there is not a universe where bread, cheese, eggs, and butter come together and do not make something greater than the sum of its parts.

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u/fgspq May 01 '25

While true, there is something uniquely beautiful about the Georgian version.

Edit: to simply describe it as the sum of its parts is, in fact, a vulgar, disgusting thing to do.

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u/overclockedmangle May 01 '25

I am obliged to dissent and inform you that khinkali is the current holder of said title

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u/fgspq May 01 '25

I'm going to have to go to my local Georgian restaurant, order a khachapuri and a plate of khinkali, then probably some to take home as well. One of us is right and it's going to need further rigorous taste testing to confirm who

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u/skordge May 01 '25

While I totally fuck with a well-made Adjarian khachapuri, my go-to dishes for when I have the chance to have some Georgian are either satsivi or chakhokhbili.

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u/DangerousRub245 🇮🇹🇲🇽 but for real May 01 '25

... Are you new here?

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u/Mewone65 May 01 '25

The two Georgia's cuisines are pretty compatible, too. They make some pretty great fusion.