The 9 Countries With The Worst Cuisine In The World (PHOTOS)

Hard to imagine why anyone might take issue with reheated kidney pie or black breakfast sausage made from pig's blood and fat, but it seems the Brits have claimed the title of World's Worst National Cuisine. And you beat us by a comfortable 14-point margin! Well done, old chaps. Maybe you can't take us at soccer, but we were apparently out of your league when it came to preparing crap food. Evidently one Gordon Ramsey is not enough. The judging was done online by over 2000 people from over 80 countries who took the Titanic Awards survey. Check out the other countries that made the list. Disagree? Take the new survey at TitanicAwards.com. For more fun survey results and other "Worsts of Travel" nuggets, check out the new book The Titanic Awards.

 

Comments

[J Guevara Novels]

09:37 PM on 07/08/2010

Chinese food in China is pretty disgusting, but NOBODY beats the Philippines when it comes to the worst most disgusting, dog -food looking cuisine in the world. Ever had balut? puke all over myself. Half hatched egg.

[hollace]

02:32 AM on 06/28/2010

EWW all that processed food . who knows what's in all that ground up mess.

[Matt Mihaly]

08:53 PM on 06/23/2010

Wow, clearly these people haven't spent enough time eating in Africa. They would YEARN for those (granted, quite horrid) midwestern casseroles and jello molds after drinking cow's blood or eating goat intestine for a week.

[Morena]

04:19 PM on 06/24/2010

Really? That's what they eat in all 53 countries in Africa?

[Gemma08]

10:20 AM on 06/30/2010

Indeed. As an African, I would also like to know.

[MARYHOBE]

05:20 PM on 06/23/2010

What I do not get is China coming in 3rd in gastronomy. You talk to the most influential cooks on the Planet and there are 3 countries that vie for first place for their influence! Italian, French and Chinese are the three cuisines that have most changed our eating habits since the 50s. and they are the major influence that have fashioned our eating habits. Not saying that it was a faulty poll, rather just amazed so many feel like this.

[Matt Mihaly]

08:57 PM on 06/23/2010

Yeah, but similarly, the US and England have some of the top restaurants in the world and modern French cuisine is much influenced by the Alice Waters set in California. In most of China, the food is pretty darn bad by Western standards, due to substandard ingredients as much as anything else. (I'm not talking about Shanghai/Beijing/Shenzen, etc, but the vast majority of China isn't like them). I'd argue that there are only two great cuisines in the world (French and Chinese, though my personal preference is the humbler Italian), but that still doesn't mean the food in that cuisine is generally fantastic. The Chinese food in the US is nothing like what you get in most of China (including the major cities).

[bob40wil]

02:02 PM on 06/23/2010

Who cares what anyone else thinks, I eat what I enjoy, one persons delicious meal is anorher persons swill.

[NewHavenCountyCT]

04:57 PM on 06/22/2010

This article is stupid. You could go to any country on earth, find somewhere crappy and take a photo of it.
I've had great food in Ireland, England, Wales, Sweden, Germany and every country in Europe I've visited.
And the sea food in the US is great - try cape Cod for example.
Lame article based upon stupid stereotypes - probably by people who have never tried food in any of these countries.

[Bowen Man]

04:50 PM on 06/22/2010

I found restaurants in Saudi Arabia to be consistently bad. The locals raved about them, but even expensive restaurants served horrible stuff. Big portions, over-cooked vegetables, few spices, and bland. Hard to find fresh salads.

[RiyazGuerra]

11:14 AM on 06/22/2010

Indian food = best.

[Gemma08]

10:22 AM on 06/30/2010

yes!

[ProudMilVet]

02:00 AM on 06/22/2010

Instead of a





Instead of gourging yourself on a large steak, try a couple of grilled Portabello Mushrooms. Absolutely Delicious ! Your Body will thank you & so will the Animals !

[ProudMilVet]

01:48 AM on 06/22/2010

Want to stop eating crappy food ? Go Vegetarian or Vegan !

[Morena]

04:23 PM on 06/24/2010

Oh please stop it! One can be a junk food vegetarian/vegan. It's really quite easy.

And I'm a vegetarian.

[guendy]

11:29 PM on 06/21/2010

This reminds me of when I was on Germany and BEGGED the french fry vendor not to put mayonnaise on my fries--he looked at me like I was crazy.

[Morena]

04:32 PM on 06/24/2010

Is that regional? I love dipping fries in mayo, but even fellow Americans look at me like "eeew". I noticed there never from my neck of the woods and figured it was a regional thing.

[guendy]

07:48 PM on 06/24/2010

Maybe, I was in Koln.

[Hayley Langel]

10:05 AM on 06/27/2010

I love Mayo on my fries along with ketchup!

[bweve05]

08:13 PM on 06/21/2010

if youve ever had well prepared macaroni and cheese and some sweet potatoe pie, you would have put US cuisine a bit better in the rankings.

[dogman44]

07:46 PM on 06/21/2010

Sure wish you could have given us an idea of what we were looking at.

[GirlUsingBrain]

04:27 PM on 06/22/2010

Me too. What is that first thing? A cheesy baked potato? I have no idea.

[dogman44]

12:27 AM on 06/23/2010

Cheesy baked potato, exactly the first thing that came to my mind! But I suspect the yellow
stuff isn't really cheese, and it's hiding something much less benign than a potato.

[Peg Taylor Wainscott]

04:27 PM on 06/21/2010

I disagree with the Irish food. When I visited it was amazing.

[NewHavenCountyCT]

03:53 PM on 06/22/2010

Yeah I had great food in Dublin. I also tried a Sunday Roast in England, with Yorkshire pudding. It was great. Bit of a stereotype this list I think.

[wyswoman]

11:29 PM on 06/30/2010

I agree with Peg Taylor. I go to Ireland often and the food there is fabulous. Granted the "full Irish breakfast" is a bit fat laden, but other than that, fresh wild salmon, to die for, as experienced in Baltimore, off the coast of Cork.

[Marie Gage]

04:07 PM on 06/21/2010

pictures with no description of the items being shown is not very enlightening - i rather found traditional chilean food rather blah, but one can usually find something they like no matter where they are in the world - unless you are really remote -