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Originally Posted by farmerjumperdon
My travels there have been rather limited, but I concur. What is it with the incredibly bland nature of most north-of-the-Alps Eurpoean cooking. There must be historical reasons for it.
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Which meaning of "bland" do you refer to? Bland as the opposite to spicy (which nowadays by many people is confused with lots of pepper)? Or more the meaning of "not very interesting".
If it is the latter, I object violently.
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It's the lack of access to the various spices or spicy food and shorter growing season.
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That is for sure part of it. Also poverty of the common man which was for centuries a fact of life for the majority of the people.
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Lot's of meat, particularly smaller animals. Lots of poppyseed though.
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Lot's of meat? That is something that heppend in the last 50 years. My mother who will become 75 in this octobre told me, that when she was a kid they had meet maybe once in 2 weeks. Only in the winter season when usually a pig was slaughtered it was a little more, especially towards christmas.