What Russian Dishes Foreigners Will Never Understand

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

7 dishes that foreigners fear, but Russians can eat at least every day

Jellied meat, cabbage rolls, okroshka - just the names of Russian dishes awaken appetite and a feeling of home comfort. But not all of them. There are at least 7 dishes that foreigners dislike, but Russians can eat at least every day.

Jelly

The Europeans have a clear association in their heads: “jelly is a dessert”. It would never even occur to them that it is possible to boil pork legs, ears, cartilage and even hooves for several hours, and then make a jellied meat out of this and gobble it up with mustard or horseradish on both cheeks.

In addition, sophisticated foreigners find this dish extremely unappetizing. Only a truly Slavic person understands the aesthetics of jellied meat.

Salad "Herring under a fur coat"

If our “fur coat” is considered a festive dish, then foreigners on weekdays would not be tempted by such a salad. First, they are confused by the strange combination of salted fish and sweet beets.

Secondly, they don't understand how you can add so much fatty mayonnaise to your food.

Cabbage rolls

As a rule, meat plays a major role in any hearty Russian dish. Perhaps only the Russians could have thought to hide the main product in a cabbage leaf (although similar dishes are also prepared in the Balkans, the Caucasus and some Asian countries).

And the taste of steamed cabbage is not to the liking of a foreigner.

Okroshka with kvass

Perhaps not every foreigner will like the taste of kvass. But pouring them pieces of sausage, cucumbers, eggs and greens is generally beyond common sense, in their opinion.

For an American, it's like pouring sprite or Coca-Cola over a salad.

Sauerkraut

Europeans love vegetables, but they eat them mostly raw, baked or steamed. Perhaps they are ready to put up with the taste of sauerkraut, but at the same time they are firmly convinced that no useful substances remain in such a product.

Foreigners simply do not suspect that pickles contain a loading dose of ascorbic and lactic acids, it is an elixir of health and youth.

Semolina

It is a rare foreigner who can understand the love of the Russian people for semolina. "Unpleasant consistency, strange taste, and even lumps come across" - they reason.

To be honest, most Slavs also look at this dish without much appetite, but rather eat out of a sense of respect for the product. After all, more than one generation of healthy, well-fed children has grown up on it.

Kissel

Sweet, warm, delicate in consistency and taste - it is difficult to understand why our traditional jelly did not please foreigners.

Only these fussy frivolities frown at the sight of our favorite drink since childhood and compare it with mucus.