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Today in The Netherlands,
Dutch people eat a variety of international style foods and there
are restaurants serving food from many countries around the world.
Traditional Dutch food however, was based on potatoes, usually with meat and boiled vegetables, and lots of gravy. Dutch people eat a lot of dairy foods.
In The Netherlands, people eat 3 meals a day. Nowadays the evening meal is the main meal of the day, but country people and older Dutch people often still traditionally serve the main meal at midday, with a lighter evening meal.
At the start of a meal, a parent or host will often say 'eet smakelijk' (say it like this: ATE smahk-A-lick), which means 'Eat deliciously'.
The Dutch eat with a fork in the left hand and knife in the right.
For
takeaway snacks in The Netherlands, there are snack bars with
rows of little windows in a wall. People put in a coin to unlock
a window and take the snack inside.
Some typical Dutch food which you might have during a visit to
The Netherlands:
Vla: a thick sweet milk pudding similar to custard, made
mainly from milk and flavoured with vanilla, chocolate or strawberry.
Karnemelk: which means 'churned milk' or buttermilk. It
is thin and quite sour.
Poffertjes: very small pancakes served warm with lots of
powdered sugar sprinkled on top.
Hagelslag: chocolate sprinkles which the Dutch put on their
bread.
Drop: a liquorice candy that comes in a variety of different
forms and tastes, from salty and hard to soft and sweet. Stamppot:
a meal of mashed potatoes with varying ingredients like carrot
(wortel stamppot), kale (boerenkool stampot)
or endive (andijvie stamppot), usually served with rookworst,
a delicious, smoked sausage.
Pea Soup: Thick Dutch pea soup is a meal in itself, full
of fresh vegetables and chunks of bacon and sausage.
Haring: a typical Dutch delicacy is eating a raw fish called
herring with raw onions. The fish has been cleaned and the head
removed. You pick the fish up by the tail and let it slide into
your mouth gradually.
Stroopwafel: is a cookie that has been made for centuries.
Each consists of two thin waffles with a special caramel filling.
To find some
recipes for traditional Dutch food, go here (click in the 'Recipes'
list)
http://www.godutch.com/discover_traditional_dutch_food.htm
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updated April 2003