A ranking of the world’s most delicious foods published by CNN has been attracting attention in Japan, as much for including such gourmet delights as pizza, popcorn and hamburgers as for placing sushi 4th…
1. Massaman curry, Thailand
2. Neapolitan pizza, Italy
3. Chocolate, Mexico
4. Sushi, Japan
“If this was a “most beautiful” foods list, this would be no. 1.”
5. Peking duck, China
6. Hamburger, Germany
7. Penang assam laksa, Malaysia
8. Tom yum goong, Thailand
9. Ice cream, United States
10. Chicken muamba, Gabon
11. Rendang, Indonesia
12. Shepherd’s pie, Britain
13. Corn on the cob, global
14. Donuts, United States
15. Kalua pig, United States
16. Egg tart, Hong Kong
17. Lobster, global
18. Kebab, Iran
19. Nam tok moo, Thailand
20. Arepas, Venezuela
21. Croissant, France
22. Brownie and vanilla ice cream, global
23. Lasagna, Italy
24. Champ, Ireland
25. Butter garlic crab, India
26. Fajitas, Mexico
27. Montreal-style smoked meat, Canada
28. Pho, Vietnam
29. Ohmi-gyu beef steak, Japan
30. Goi cuon (summer roll), Vietnam
31. Parma ham, Italy
32. Ankimo, Japan
33. Fish ‘n’ chips, Britain
34. Maple syrup, Canada
35. Chili crab, Singapore
36. Texas barbecue pork, United States
37. Chicken parm, Australia
38. French toast, Hong Kong
39. Ketchup, United States
40. Marzipan, Germany
41. Stinky tofu, Southeast Asia
43. Tacos, Mexico
44. Poutine, Canada
45. Chicken rice, Singapore
46. Som tam, Thailand
47. Seafood paella, Spain
48. Potato chips, United States
49. Masala dosa, India
50. Buttered popcorn, United States
Naturally, a food ranking including burgers and popcorn and having more British foods than French is bound to prove controversial anywhere, and even more so where it includes Japanese foods in competition with Chinese foods and being eaten by hairy barbarians…
“Hamburger…”
“To be blunt, what the world calls sushi and what Japan calls sushi are two different things.”
“It would be best if sushi is for the Japanese only.”
“Only Japanese can understand the taste of sushi.”
“I’ve never even heard of most of these.”
“Aren’t the Koreans pissed that kimchee is not number one?”
“There’s 3 Japanese foods, 2 Chinese ones and 0 Korean, of course.”
“The food is the only good thing about China…”
“Ankimo. What the hell…”
“Japanese sushi and foreign sushi are two different things.”
“Shouldn’t ‘curry’ be number one? Who the hell’s even heard of ‘massaman curry’?”
“If you let Americans decide this sort of thing they’ll just pick pizza and hamburgers. Leave it to the Europeans.”
“Sushi isn’t even that nice. It’s just pretentious food critics praising it to give themselves airs.”
“It was just Japanese fast food to start with. Nothing to get stuck up about.”
“Quit praising sushi, you’ll push the price of tuna even higher…”
“Honestly, you can say sushi is a beautiful food but with chocolate, ice cream and burgers this ranking is rather suspect.”
“Of all the Chinese food they could pick, why Peking duck?”
“Sushi isn’t that good. There are a lot of other Japanese foods which seem more worthy to me.”
“American sushi is amazing – they are really perfecting something as simple as fish and rice with all kinds of seasoning, presentation and preparation.”
“Eat sushi every day and you’ll soon be sick of it. You can eat curry every day and never get tired of it – that’s an amazing food!”
“Sushi was never a gourmet food, it was peasant food.”
“Is sushi even cooking? It’s just cut fish on rice.”
“The ranking has burgers in it. It’s nothing. Who cares if sushi is number 4 in such a list.”
“Thai curry outranking Indian curry is a bit strange…”
“The Japanese press had organised this, Korean food would be number one for sure.”
“A laughable ranking made by Americans. How can you take a gourmet ranking which includes hamburgers seriously?”
First people get angry at Americans thinking they are unaware of other types of foods, then when Americans show you they are aware of other foods, you get upset.
Food is no joke man, unfortunately. Somehow people get weirdly aggravated over food discussion.
HELL YEA!!! THE MOST DELICIUS FOOD!!! THE AREPAS!!!! mixing on all ingredients!! CHESSE!!! MEATH ; EGGS!! ETC ETC ETC!!! VENEZUELA!!!
Ice cream isn’t one bit american…
“7. Penang assam laksa, Malaysia”
Yeesssssss.
I’ll agree with the top 12 being extremely delicious (Yes, hamburger too; having had hamburgers in Germany I’m hard-pressed to think of tastier foods. They’re in a different league than American ones, as the patties are more than just a slab of meat over there.), but after that it sort of falls apart. Honestly, corn?
I also think china gets the “best variety of ridiculously good dishes” award, which isn’t very well expressed on this list.
also best variety of worst or disgusting dishes. There’s everything there.