In fact, there are generally two ways to say the so-called dark cuisine.

The first is serious dark cuisine, such as canned herring, which is completely unacceptable to ordinary people except for locals, let alone eating, but also uncomfortable when you look at and smell it. The second is more beyond imagination, not to mention how it tastes, at least the finished dishes are not easy to accept in the cognition of normal people, or dishes that cannot be used for a long time, can also be called dark cuisine.

In the case of Europe, there are three countries that can be considered dark cuisine as a whole.

British cuisine is the first to bear the brunt.

British cuisine can be described in one word – "Simple". There are only two ways to make it: bake it in the oven, or put it in a pot to cook, don't put any condiments when cooking, and put some salt, pepper or mustard and spicy soy sauce according to your personal preferences. In the West, there has always been a classic joke: "Heaven is the British police, the German technician and the French chef, and hell is the German policeman, the French technician and the English chef." ”

The selection of British cuisine is relatively simple, although it is an island country and a vast sea area, but it is limited by geographical and natural conditions, and the fishing ground is not very good, so the British do not pay attention to eating seafood, and prefer beef, mutton, poultry, etc.

The simple and effective use of high-quality ingredients, while maintaining their original texture and flavour as much as possible, is an important feature of British cuisine. British cuisine does not have many choices of raw materials, and is generally made with a single ingredient, requiring the chef to maintain the original flavor of the dish without adding ingredients.

British cuisine is known as "family cuisine", and British cooking methods are rooted in home-cooked dishes, so dishes can only achieve satisfactory results when the ingredients are home-grown, home-raised, and home-made.

The most common cooking techniques in British cuisine are boiled and fried. The most commonly used ingredients are beef, mutton and fish, potatoes, bacon, eggs, green beans, tomatoes, and some seasonal vegetables.

Two of the UK's national dishes are known as national dishes: fried cod with fried potatoes and roast beef with Yorkshire pudding. In addition, there are some of the more famous dishes, such as smoked fish, Yorkshire pudding, Devonshire cream, muffins, crunchy pancakes, Christmas pudding, syrup pies, apple pudding, black plum cake, shortbread, saffron buns, baked potatoes under the bone-in leg, delicious hash browns in the north of England, bread sauce, horseradish juice, mint juice, apple juice, redcurrant sauce, sweet pickles, tripe chowl pudding, Dublin prawns, Oxford orange peel jam, Stilton cheese, Winslataile cheese, Cox orange apple, English country bread, mutton fat pudding and more.

In fact, the taste is not really bad, it can only be said that many people are not used to eating it.

Of course, if you want to talk about real dark cuisine, the UK naturally has it.

For example, the famous stargazing sky.

The British "Stargazing School" can surprise you from the first impression, the shape is unique, not pretentious at all, you can see the head and tail of the fish, and the style of painting is not at all different from the common school. I don't know how to eat it, and looking at the fish head here, everyone will ridicule this as a "dead and blind pie". The Stargazing Pie was originally made in honor of the seven different species of fish caught by a captain named Tom Paul Cook after venturing out to sea. Legend has it that the captain braved the sea to catch fish in a stormy weather so as not to starve everyone, and caught a lot of fish in the wind and waves. When the captain returned with a full load, he made the fish into pies and distributed them to the hungry villagers, so that everyone would not starve to death.

There are many kinds of fish used to make this dish, the filling is cut into pieces, marinated in spices, lemon juice, vanilla, cream and plenty of mashed potatoes, then you can cover the pie crust, put the sardines on the pie, expose the head and tail, put it in the oven and bake it and eat. The method seems to everyone to be very simple and crude. In honor of Captain Pauluk, there is also a restaurant that pays tribute to the captain by offering a free stargazing pie on a day in December.

In the eyes of many people, British food is too easy to make, and there is a feeling of casual cooking, which is also the reason why British food does not look exquisite and untasty at all.

Most Chinese people do not have a good reaction to British food.

In addition, since this is the case, I have to say that Russian cuisine, which also belongs to the European scope, is actually quite good.

Russian cuisine is characterized by a wide selection of ingredients, attention to production, fine processing, adaptation of materials, attention to color, variety of flavors, strong adaptability, large oil and heavy taste. Russians love sour, sweet, spicy and salty dishes. Therefore, sour cream, cottage cheese, lemon, chili, pickled cucumber, onion, white tower oil, cumin, bay leaf are used as seasonings in cooking.

Russians are especially fond of salmon, herring, sturgeon, trout, red caviar, black caviar, smoked salted fish, pomfret, etc. But meat, poultry dishes, and all kinds of meatloaf have to be cooked to the fullest. Russians also like to eat steamed buns made with fish, minced meat, eggs, and vegetables.

There are some famous dishes in Russia, especially a few of them, the traditional Russian national cuisine is basically made by every family, and it is not difficult to do it, so it can be said that home-cooked food occupies half of Russian cuisine, and it is the dish closest to the life of Russians.

For example, potato baked mushrooms, freshly picked mushrooms, home-grown potatoes in the countryside, natural and healthy, plus Russian baking, a simple and delicious Russian dish is baked.

Beef stew is the most common main dish on the Russian table, and the rich and delicious braised sauce with the chewy beef cubes is a favorite accompaniment to the snack.

Fried rice with mushrooms is a traditional Russian meal that is relatively simple and simple. Stir-fried rice with sweet mushrooms, and that's how they settled the meal.

The shape of the Russian meatloaf is different from that of the domestic meatloaf, most of them are spherical and oval, with a little bread crumbs sandwiched in it, and egg liquid is added during the production process, which is used for green onions, garlic, and coriander to spread on the bottom of the pot to absorb the flavor.

Kiev chicken rolls are famous, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and cheese-rich chicken rolls, which are unforgettable.

In addition, Russians often make steaks from the tenderloin of fish, pig or chicken, steam it and drizzle it with sauce, or fry it with some seasoning and serve it directly on the plate. Eat in turns from Monday to Friday, delicious and not greasy.

Baked tomatoes with cheese are one of Russia's most ethnic home-cooked dishes, combining sweet, sour and salty flavors.

Russian dumplings are also quite famous, delicate and delicate "small ingots", and the special way to eat them is to dip them in sour cream.

Beetroot soup, needless to say, this is really too famous, and few Chinese people don't know it. This dish is made with beets as the main ingredient and potatoes, cabbage, carrots, beef, tomatoes, and onions. Russians like to add sour cream to the soup, mix it well and drink it, and also eat black bread slices, dip it in the soup to eat, sweet and sour, delicious and appetizing. Beetroot soup can be hot or cold, but it's delicious.

Olivier salad, the most famous native Russian salad, is quick and easy to make, delicious and slimming.

Compared with British food, Russia is really complex and delicious, but Russia also has a problem, that is, it is generally heavy on oil and salt, and the taste is very strong. But this can't be helped, who makes it cold in that part of Russia, living in that environment, without a lot of oil and salt, the body's energy cannot be guaranteed. It's the same thing that Russians are very fond of drinking spirits.

As for the Chinese people's Russian cuisine, most of them are not used to it, and the heavy oil and salt are okay, but the taste is not the variety that the Chinese people like.

Finally, let's talk about the German food that Yu Ban is more distressed about.

German cuisine is more flavorful, with pork, beef, liver, spices, fish, poultry and vegetables in the ingredients, and a lot of mustard, liquor, butter and other condiments, while boiled, stewed or stewed is more often used in cooking. The Germans are the direct descendants of the Germanic people, with a bold and fierce personality, and prefer to eat large pieces of meat and large bowls of wine in terms of food.

Compared to Chinese food, which has a complex diet and a wide variety of food, the German diet can be boring. Some people say that German food is nothing more than boiled, stewed and roasted, which is as unpleasant as the rigid and rigid character of the Germans.

In this regard, there is really not much to say.

There is no need to wash white.

After all, the Germans are indeed somewhat old-fashioned and conservative in this regard.

For example, they love sausages.

There are more than 1,500 varieties of German sausages, of which 780 are boiled sausages alone, and the most popular ones are moist sausages, which include shelf-stable sausages and heavily seasoned lean sausages. In addition, the boiled sausage includes 60 different liver and flavored specialties, such as the famous Palatinate enema.

Sausages must be accompanied by bread, and Germany is also the world champion in quality and quantity in the production of bread. In Germany, bread is made with refined flour, but also with a mixture of rye, oats, flour and grains. There are more than 1,200 types of fragrant breads, horn breads, figure 8 scones and baguettes baked every day in Germany, as well as more than 300 other types of bread. Bread is the most important staple food that Germans eat three times a day. According to statistics, in 1994 Germans ate an average of 81.5 kilograms of bread per person, the highest among the European Union member states.

Some of the breads in Germany are very regional, such as the black bread of Hamburg, the rye bread of Holstein, and the baked bread soaked in oil and sprinkled with salt grains in Bavaria.

In Germany, bread is considered to be the most nutritious and healthy natural food, but Germans never eat bread on its own, but rather a thick layer of cream, served with cheese and jam, and sausages or ham. With more than 600 varieties of cheese, cheese is a must-have on the German breakfast table. Fish, sweets, pastries, etc. are also popular foods for Germans. Whether it is canned fish, frozen fish, fresh fish, smoked fish, or fish salad, shrimp, fresh shellfish, etc., it is very popular with Germans, who eat 15 kilograms of fish per capita per year. Sales of sweets, chocolates, and confectionery are also considerable.

In addition, the Germans have a great habit, and that is wine.

German beer and wine are famous all over the world.

Germany is the world's largest drinker, ranking second in the world in annual alcohol consumption, and beer sales are the first in the world.

Beer and wine are essential beverages in Germany, and friends must have wine to cheer them up.

There are 13 wine-growing regions, 60 large-scale plantations and 2,600 small-scale plantations in the country, mainly concentrated on the banks of the Aer River, the Rhine River and the Moser River in the southwest and north of Germany. The mountains and rivers here are beautiful and the climate is pleasant. The largest wine-growing region, Neustadt, has 2,000 acres of vineyards, where green trellises stretch as far as the eye can see, and the air is filled with the enticing aroma of grapes.

There is an almost endless range of wines in the cellars of Germany's 20,000 winemakers.

The inhabitants of Lake Constance and the River Main in Germany are the only ones to drink wine, consuming 40 litres of wine per person per year. Wine is not only a drink for Germans, but also a medicine for the sick and healthy. In ancient times, people used wine to cure cholera and typhoid, and today drinking wine in moderation can treat hypotension and myocardial infarction.

It is said that the great poet Goethe drank wine every day, and it was wine that kept his creation going until the last days of his death.

There is a very interesting little story about the Germanic people who could not bear to be thirsty, and the more they drank beer, the thirstier they became, which led to the Germans drinking more and more. The biggest beer drinker in Germany is the Bavarian, with an adult drinking up to 235.7 litres of beer per year. Bavarian Asia is home to 1,052 breweries, the most in Germany, and the Oktoberfest in its capital, Munich, is a world-renowned festival. Every year at the end of September and the beginning of October, millions of tourists from all over the world and from Germany gather in Munich to drink a one-litre glass of special ceramic wineglass, and over the course of a dozen days, millions of litres of beer are consumed and hundreds of thousands of sausages are drunk.

German beer is divided into more than 20 varieties and more than 1,500 varieties, and it is not surprising that there are so many varieties of beer due to the variety of brewing recipes. Generally speaking, northerners prefer cooked beers, while southerners prefer wheat, pale ales, dark beers and non-bitter beers, but no matter which brand of beer has its place in bistros, restaurants and beer gardens. This shows the importance of beer in the German diet.

Beer, sausages, bread, these are the three major daily delicacies of the Germans, and with the addition of potatoes, if British food is simple, then German food can be called monotonous.

Although there are many types of subordinates for each item, it is indeed a bit of a headache for foreigners to turn over and over again, in addition to locals. Yu Ban, who is used to eating Chinese food, is not able to stand German food. In fact, Zhou Fangyuan has also eaten German food and felt the feeling, so he deeply sympathizes with the "disgust" of the ban. But it's a pity that Yu Ban found a German girlfriend, as long as they don't break up, he is destined to be unable to avoid the monotonous German "food", in this regard, Zhou Fangyuan can only express sympathy and a smile in his heart.