Hello everyone!
As I recently wrote about my favourite beer, it made me think which other part of Belgian culture should I write about? This time, I will be writing about food, more in particular:fast food. When I travel in other countries, I am always interested in what kind of fast food people eat over there. Believe it or not but even the kind of a particular fast food is usually different in different countries. For example: Pizza. A pizza in Italy will have a different crust than an American pizza in New York. The toppings utilized are usually different as well. Ofcourse there re toppings which are used globally, but often there will be tweaks as well.
Frituur
It's the name of the 'restaurant'with my favourite fast food. I don't know the English word and am not even sure if there exists aname for it in English. It's a restaurant where they only serve fries combined with fried meat. Don't expect high quality meat, no, it nearly only has junk meat. Like meat balls, chicken nuggets and so on. Although we all know that this food isn't healthy at all, most Belgian people do like it though. We have a big fries culture.
Kebab
Although Kebab definitely isn't Belgian, it's quite popular as fast food as well. Personally I hadn't eaten a kebab until I went to university. There I discovered something that I like really hard. Especially as a midnightsnack when I go out. As I am no longer a student, I don't eat kebab that often anymore. But when I do, I always enjoy them really hard. I prefer to eat the kebab in piece of Turkish bread with vegetables and cocktail sauce. It's often a bit different which vegetables are added but I prefer cucumber, tomatoes, carrots, mais and lettuce.
Pizza
Pizza is another one that I really enjoy. I prefer the ones with a thin crust. Not the American ones with a thick crust. When I can choose among the different toppings, I usually go for a meat pizza. Besides different kinds of meat like salame, ham kebab meat, I enjoy mushrooms, onion and paprika as well. A couple of days ago, I had a conversation with a friend that we have never eaten a really bad pizza. Ofcourse there are differences but usually it's between good and better rather than being really bad. Not sure if anyone of you has ever eaten a bad pizza?
Conclusion
In Belgium we have a lot of different styles of fastfood. Personally I prefer fries, kebab and pizza the most. Although I am definitely a real pig, which eats everything. As I sad earlier, fast food habits are different around the globe, so what is your favourite kind of fast food? Feel free to elaborate!
As always, thanks for stopping by and reading my article of today. I think I will extend this topic later on about other kinds of food which aren't fast food. So much can be said about food... :D
That is cool.
I was not aware that the food served in Frituur exists.
I knew Kebab and some variations of Pizza very well from my country but I am now actually putting the fried meat and fries on my list to try when I get a chance to do so.
Btw I certainly love variations of fries.
In which country do you live if I may ask?
As you mentioned that you ordered the guiness alcohol free from the Netherlands, so my guess would be from somewhere in (western) Europe?
Food from a 'frituur' isn't that high-end kitchen but still a must check out whenever someone visits Belgium imo! :D
Accurate guess! :-D
I had to order it to Austria back then.
Ohhh okay.
Great country!
I hope I get to try it out at some point.
I was not aware of belgian fastfood before reading your post, only knew about belgian chocolate... of course...
:-D
Yes, ofcourse, everyone knows Belgian beer and chocolate :D