What is a food product your country is hopelessly addicted to?
July 23, 2025
As the title says
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Snus doesnt really count but boy be we addicted to it, besides that probably Kaffe. There would be an absolute uproar in Sweden if any of those two vanished☕🇸🇪
I assume you mean in a joking, snack-y kind of way?
Feels like cheating to say something that is actually addictive. So for Sweden would I, based on Fäbojäntan and Kikki Danielsson, probably say falukorv.
Salty licorice, something we share with at least Sweden and Finland.
I would guess cheese. There are so many cheeses. People love slices of whole wheat bread with slices of Dutch cheese.
🇵🇱 Kabanosy- thin smoked sausage sold in various flavours (chili? Cheese? Bacon? Sure!). Adverts everywhere, I see kids snacking on it on the way home from school, I see old ladies snacking on it when they’re on their way to…wherever.
Personally not a fan 🤷♀️
Ādažu čipši, salty chips made in Latvia, my favorite are the dill flavoured ones.
Edit: a word, am on mobile
Looking at Poland as an immigrant my answer isn’t probably what you’d expect.
It’s not beetroot, it’s not cabbage and it’s not even cucumber.
It’s mustard. It feels like you open a cupboard or fridge in someone’s house and they’ll have between six and ten different mustards all with a specific purpose.
Coffee! Really, basically all Nordics are heavily addicted to coffee and can barely function without it, especially in winter. A lot of Nordic people are also very addicted to licorice candy.
Kefir produced by Krasny Staw.
By wikipedia – is a fermented milk drink similar to a thin yogurt or ayran that is made from kefir grains, a specific type of mesophilic symbiotic culture. It is prepared by inoculating the milk of cows, goats, or sheep with kefir grains.
No match anywhere in the world, superior. I drink it almost everyday.
Also – draże korsarze. Just go to Poland, try them and fall in love.
Hm, unique, and easy-to-eat things that we eat (comparatively) a lot… perhaps kabanos? (dried snack stick-sausage)
Also I’ve heard an observation of one naturalized American (who lives here for like 20 years) that his friends keep snacking a lot on sprats (fish) and it annoys him a lot, cuz he dislikes the smell.
…also: vodka-drinkers like pickles as a snack to the drink
Crisps. Sometimes called potato chips! So many different flavours here compared to all of Europe and the US (apart from Ireland of course!) Totally unhealthy and unfilling but a very nice snack
[Covridog](https://lucatraditie.ro/covri-luca) – everyone is eating from this bakery/pastry shop. It’s a hotdog wrapped in pretzel dough and baked. We loved it here in Romania.
Lupine beans, conserved on slighty salted water and served has samll snacks usually with a cold beer.
As funny as it sounds, probably boiled potatoes. As a daily food they’re a side to everything.
not all-year-round but in season: cherries and strawberries in any form (such as pasta with strawberries or rise pudding with strawberries or pierogi with strawberries)
Traditional answer would be salo (salted pork fat), realistic answer would be coffee. In the past decade availability of coffee machines made it far more popular than before.
Coffee, as well as other nordics.
Salmiakki (salty liquorice)
Asparagus in season and bread would be the obvious German choice
Zacuscă
It’s a super popular vegetable spread. It’s made with roasted eggplants and red peppers, tomato paste and onions.
My grandma makes it every year in ginormous quantities. It can be stored in sterilized and airtight jars. Can last up to a year if stored in a cold place.
Olive oil, bread, cured meats, we also eat eggs (fried, potato omelette, scrambled) very often compared to other countries. Depends on the region too. In Mallorca we love salty crackers like from the brand Quelitas.
Aromat. Swiss put it on boiled eggs, fried eggs, scrambled eggs, bread, vegetables, fried and everything else.
Fries!
Most Belgian go to the Frituur/friterie once a week. Often you eat it right before you leave on holiday and/or the first thing when you get back
Does wine count? We drink 61.1 Liters per Capita per year. Highest consumption in the world.
All time high of 111 L per capita in 1971… Other than that I guess bread or olive oil would also be suitable candidates…
We go through like 25L of Olive Oil per year at home (3 person household). Often more, but I do have an olive grove so there’s that ahah.
Black rye bread. Other countries don’t even know what a black bread is. They call black all shades of beige or brown. And they are tasteless. Ours is dark, dense, very tasty. People who live abroad have the right kind delivered by couriers or friends bringing it when visiting.
Mayonaise
Belgians can’t eat without it.
We. Eat. Everything. With mayonaise
Hungary 🇭🇺
Food: “TÚRÓ RUDI”: cold Cottage cheese bar covered in dark chocholate – it is a desert. I read it a few years ago, that Hungary consumes every year billions of this product. And the population is only 9,6 million.
31 comments
Snus doesnt really count but boy be we addicted to it, besides that probably Kaffe. There would be an absolute uproar in Sweden if any of those two vanished☕🇸🇪
I assume you mean in a joking, snack-y kind of way?
[Dragee Keksi](https://pi.nice-cdn.com/upload/image/product/large/default/napoli-dragee-keksi-classic-165-g-666504-de.jpg) advertise themselves with the slogan “if only I could stop”…
Feels like cheating to say something that is actually addictive. So for Sweden would I, based on Fäbojäntan and Kikki Danielsson, probably say falukorv.
Salty licorice, something we share with at least Sweden and Finland.
I would guess cheese. There are so many cheeses. People love slices of whole wheat bread with slices of Dutch cheese.
[Mett](https://cdn.tasteatlas.com/images/dishes/dc3227223835414d93e0e14569fe3d9f.jpg) – raw minced pork (it’s safe because there are lots of systematic health checks all along the production line)
Also Germany has a weird obsession with [(white) asparagus](https://images.lecker.de/spargel-mit-schinken,id=f87f002e,b=lecker,w=850,ca=0,12.58,100,87.42,rm=sk.jpeg). Every spring all restaurants have special offers, and even outside of supermarkets temporary stands pop up everywhere, just to sell fresh asparagus (and strawberries). That just doesn’t happen for any other vegetable.
🇵🇱 Kabanosy- thin smoked sausage sold in various flavours (chili? Cheese? Bacon? Sure!). Adverts everywhere, I see kids snacking on it on the way home from school, I see old ladies snacking on it when they’re on their way to…wherever.
Personally not a fan 🤷♀️
Ādažu čipši, salty chips made in Latvia, my favorite are the dill flavoured ones.
Edit: a word, am on mobile
Looking at Poland as an immigrant my answer isn’t probably what you’d expect.
It’s not beetroot, it’s not cabbage and it’s not even cucumber.
It’s mustard. It feels like you open a cupboard or fridge in someone’s house and they’ll have between six and ten different mustards all with a specific purpose.
Coffee! Really, basically all Nordics are heavily addicted to coffee and can barely function without it, especially in winter. A lot of Nordic people are also very addicted to licorice candy.
Kefir produced by Krasny Staw.
By wikipedia – is a fermented milk drink similar to a thin yogurt or ayran that is made from kefir grains, a specific type of mesophilic symbiotic culture. It is prepared by inoculating the milk of cows, goats, or sheep with kefir grains.
No match anywhere in the world, superior. I drink it almost everyday.
Also – draże korsarze. Just go to Poland, try them and fall in love.
Crisps. Give us the crisps.
Potatoes generally actually, chips (fries), roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, potato waffles, potato scones (tattie scones), cottage pies/shepherds pies, baked potatoes, hash browns… we luv.
Rye bread. I know some people who go away on holiday but carry their own bread with them because they cannot stay even a week without
The humble [Spicebag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_bag)
Hm, unique, and easy-to-eat things that we eat (comparatively) a lot… perhaps kabanos? (dried snack stick-sausage)
Also I’ve heard an observation of one naturalized American (who lives here for like 20 years) that his friends keep snacking a lot on sprats (fish) and it annoys him a lot, cuz he dislikes the smell.
…also: vodka-drinkers like pickles as a snack to the drink
Crisps. Sometimes called potato chips! So many different flavours here compared to all of Europe and the US (apart from Ireland of course!) Totally unhealthy and unfilling but a very nice snack
[Covridog](https://lucatraditie.ro/covri-luca) – everyone is eating from this bakery/pastry shop. It’s a hotdog wrapped in pretzel dough and baked. We loved it here in Romania.
Lupine beans, conserved on slighty salted water and served has samll snacks usually with a cold beer.
As funny as it sounds, probably boiled potatoes. As a daily food they’re a side to everything.
not all-year-round but in season: cherries and strawberries in any form (such as pasta with strawberries or rise pudding with strawberries or pierogi with strawberries)
Traditional answer would be salo (salted pork fat), realistic answer would be coffee. In the past decade availability of coffee machines made it far more popular than before.
Coffee, as well as other nordics.
Salmiakki (salty liquorice)
Asparagus in season and bread would be the obvious German choice
Zacuscă
It’s a super popular vegetable spread. It’s made with roasted eggplants and red peppers, tomato paste and onions.
My grandma makes it every year in ginormous quantities. It can be stored in sterilized and airtight jars. Can last up to a year if stored in a cold place.
Olive oil, bread, cured meats, we also eat eggs (fried, potato omelette, scrambled) very often compared to other countries. Depends on the region too. In Mallorca we love salty crackers like from the brand Quelitas.
Aromat. Swiss put it on boiled eggs, fried eggs, scrambled eggs, bread, vegetables, fried and everything else.
Fries!
Most Belgian go to the Frituur/friterie once a week. Often you eat it right before you leave on holiday and/or the first thing when you get back
Does wine count? We drink 61.1 Liters per Capita per year. Highest consumption in the world.
All time high of 111 L per capita in 1971… Other than that I guess bread or olive oil would also be suitable candidates…
We go through like 25L of Olive Oil per year at home (3 person household). Often more, but I do have an olive grove so there’s that ahah.
Black rye bread. Other countries don’t even know what a black bread is. They call black all shades of beige or brown. And they are tasteless. Ours is dark, dense, very tasty. People who live abroad have the right kind delivered by couriers or friends bringing it when visiting.
Mayonaise
Belgians can’t eat without it.
We. Eat. Everything. With mayonaise
Hungary 🇭🇺
Food: “TÚRÓ RUDI”: cold Cottage cheese bar covered in dark chocholate – it is a desert. I read it a few years ago, that Hungary consumes every year billions of this product. And the population is only 9,6 million.
Bevarage: home made fruit brandy – Pálinka.