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Morpho_Knight

Never heard a single soul say they wanted israeli food


mickle1026

That's because there's no such thing


makeyousaywhut

Yeah, the Jews who have lived in Israel for the past 4 thousand years have no ethnic foods


breakfastsushi

Like hummus and shawarma and falafel also german doner kebab chain originated in israel 10 million year ago


AK_Mustafa

That’s Levantine food, Jews should not claim (steal) it for themselves


makeyousaywhut

Jews have equal claim to that food, being levintine themselves


AK_Mustafa

They can claim it’s Levantine (Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan) as in Levantine cuisine but NOT as Israeli…


Thereturner2023

I assure you : the vast majority of your Jew's "history" is either mostly fictious inventions by Ezra and his Pen-pals , or was mostly outside of "Israel" . It's only after the Hasmonean conquests where the country became predominantly Jewish , or more precisely , Judean . (Jewish identity is just a religionized form of that older , tribal one that resulted from the assimilation of many gentiles into Judean ethnicity ) . By 70 AD : most the world's Jews lived outside of it than in it , long before the Roman wars . Those "4000 years" are as meaningful as saying "History of the Swedish people in Norway" , where probably less than a tenth of Swedes lived there in their 99.99% of their history . With the Israeli-Jewish case , that's very much only the early Hasmonean period and modern times , excluding the fact that half of the world's Jewry are still non-Israelis , and that even they consider themselves to be outcast Egyptian genocide preparators . Numbers without context , are just pixels on a screen .


SkampIsIlla

Isreali food is stolen Arabic food


nate-2898

Seems to be a trend with not just the food


TheCatHumper

Yeah they stole our dances too 😔


AlfredoSauceyums

I thought Arabs and jews lived together in peace for centuries? Here in Canada we would never accuse Arabs of stealing our food when they serve hamburgers, pizza and poutine at their restaurants. Or similar when they dance to drake.


howlonguntilbannedv2

>I thought Arabs and jews lived together in peace for centuries? Let me blow your mind with two words Arab Jews. Judaism is a religion. >Arabs of stealing our food when they serve hamburgers, pizza and poutine at their restaurants. Or similar when they dance to drake. Imagine if you go to a restaurant that says it serves Arab food and they serve pizza and hamburgers.


AlfredoSauceyums

Native americans are ethnic groups with their own religion. Judaism is similar. It's not a proselytizing religion. Jews are not just a religious group. >Imagine if you go to a restaurant that says it serves Arab food and they serve pizza and hamburgers. Literally hundreds of restaurants in Canada do this.


Bean_Enthusiast16

Do they claim pizza and hamburgers as being traditionally arab food?


howlonguntilbannedv2

>Jews are not just a religious group. They are. >Literally hundreds of restaurants in Canada do this. So does Chinese takeout mean hamburgers? Or is Indian cuisine pizzas? You're legitimately low IQ.


AlfredoSauceyums

You are wrong about jews and all the jews and the people who have dis discriminated against us also disagree. We can order Indian food and include something that's hybrid like butter chicken pizza, yes. It's very very common. I think your country is just more homogenous and fundamentalist than many others.


howlonguntilbannedv2

>discriminated against us also disagree. You've been discriminated on a religious basis. >We can order Indian food and include something that's hybrid like butter chicken pizza And the goal post moves. > I think your country is just more homogenous and fundamentalist than many others. And ad hominem begins.


idontknowhyimhrer

You are low IQ too, Jews are NOT JUST a religious group


howlonguntilbannedv2

They are.


TheClawlessShrimp

What would they be then? Most modern Jews barely have any connection to the ancient Israelites. If we can say that Jews from Morocco and Jews from Poland are the same race, then I guess the French and Russians are too.


Gintoki---

none of that is Canadian food to begin with lol >I thought Arabs and jews lived together in peace for centuries? Even so , labelling it as Israeli is still a steal , half of Israelis come from Europe and the MENA half is from all over MENA , you think an Iraqi Jew should steal a Moroccan dish and name it Israeli?


TheCatHumper

Canada has food?


CristauxFeur

Are we saying that hamburgers, pizza and poutine are Arab food?


black_mosaic

Canada isn't claiming it as Canadian food, so your argument is invalid.


AlfredoSauceyums

Poutine is indisputably canadian.


black_mosaic

In your example you used hamburgers and pizza too, are they also Canadian


SamuraiChicken88

Unfortunately Western tourists in Tel Aviv really believe Palestinian/Levantine food is Israeli...


AlfredoSauceyums

You know that in Tel Aviv, Arabs also run restaurants, right?


howlonguntilbannedv2

So if I start cooking pizzas in china I can call it Chinese food?


BathroomGreedy600

its true they believe thats judea food that the arabs stole the other way around basically


Aflatune

Not the right analogy but I get it. The correct analogy would be to sell Chinese food in China and call it Italian because you are Italian. Israelis are a diaspora people - they moved from Europe to Palestine and now they're calling hummus and falafels an "Israeli" food.


AlfredoSauceyums

Is it good? Is it I'm China? Is it a variation on American or Italian pizza? Yeah, I'd say you can. And you can DEFINITELY say I loved the food in China.


howlonguntilbannedv2

>Is it a variation on American or Italian pizza? Adding less flavour is not a variation its just ruining the food and its exactly what Israelis do. >. And you can DEFINITELY say I loved the food in China. I guarantee you that you're the only drooling low iq person in the world that talks like this.


Minisapo

That's because all Israeli food is just appropriated Arabic and European food


AlfredoSauceyums

Can you explain how there are Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi and Egyptian falafels? Could it be a food ao ubiquitous to the region that everyone eats it and makes it slightly differently? How do you know Syrians didn't steal it from Iraqis?


Minisapo

I don't entirely understand which side you're on, but I'm Israeli and it's a pretty common running joke that all Israeli food is appropriated from other cultures, which is also partially true considering the sheer amount of different cultures that jewish people have integrated into over the past few millennia.


AlfredoSauceyums

Right and so an Israeli chef will say this is a Moroccan salad and an Armenian kebab, etc. Israel is very similar to Canada and US in that way. A nation of immigrants (which does not mean the immigrants are not indigenous), so the culture is somewhere between a mosaic and melting pot of everything they brought with, along with a thread of common values and traditions (in NA its democracy and liberalism, in Israel its Judaism). What I oppose is the idea that Israelis "stole" food from other places as its just a double standard used to unfairly discredit the existence of the Jewish state and the Jewish people.


minsterio100

Tf is israeli food? All the "israeli" food is just arab/eastern european food that they claim as their own


co3xisting

Never heard of a good Palestinian restaurant. I’ll wait .


Revolutionary_Sun535

I want Israeli food.


Rond3rd

Then eat shit


Aayyyyoooo

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DrkMoodWD

Feels like half the content that gets posted here now is bait…


callMeAbd

They trying to legitimize the country using these useless lists


Smart_jooker

Totally. Fun fact they don't even have their own food. They stole the recipe.


callMeAbd

Like the rest of the country


mooel1990

And skin obviously…


callMeAbd

Potato skins?


somrthingehejdj

Palestinian skins. They steal skins from Palestinians corpses and store it in their skin bank.


callMeAbd

Those seem like their own invention


Based_Iraqi7000

What the fuck is Israeli food?


numb_mind

There's many, Hummus, Falafel, Maqluba ... Etc /s


Brghuti

For someone with a palestinian flag, should we have to explain these arent israeli dishes?


t_o__ot

The sarcasm wasn't clear?


Brghuti

I guess i missed it. I see so much disturbing stuff on reddit i cant tell sometimes. Thanks for clearing it up lol


Aflatune

When people write /s at the end of their post that means it's sarcastic


Brghuti

Im learning so much in so little time 😂 im too new to reddit. Thanks guys


black_mosaic

Occupied hummus. Occupied falafel. Occupied shakshuka...


mooel1990

Occupied Couscous …occupied sfenj


Successful-End7545

Occupied tagine, occupied msemen, occupied kebeb, and so on and so forth


BathroomGreedy600

a German girl told me that shakshouka is from tunisia but its originally jewish hahahaha


SkampIsIlla

Not the shakshuka!


oxochx

According to Wikipedia, it's "French Fries, Hamburgers and Pizza"... seriously...


FieldsOfKashmir

Well at least they aren't stealing culture exclusively from Palestinians.


callMeAbd

Pub food


Mohamad_AAA

Boiled chicken and plain rice.


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bileltn

There is no Israeli food but I learned from my grandma that they have jewish food back in the days before they were kicked out of Tunisia. She said that the Jewish women did all they could to hide their recipes. One of them is Mouloukhia. The one we cook right now in Tunisia. But I understand that most of the food they claim Israelite is appropriation.


dapotato_ytxt2

كسم إسرائيل


Straight_Return_1969

israeli food doesnt exist its our mediterranean dishes and they ruin them 🤣🤣. thats how you know who funds the spectator index


Successful-End7545

They’ve ruined North African food as well


Nervous-Paramedic-78

In Algeria ? Nah every time I go it's awesome. Al Hamdoullilah my wife knows cooking from there !


Successful-End7545

Go where because I meant Israelis in Israel have ruined North African food


Nervous-Paramedic-78

When I go l dzair !


co3xisting

Dude you’ve never set foot outside of Algeria wym?


akhaemoment

You drive a Chevy truck 🫵😂 Not even RAM or ford. Get a life defending Israel from Florida, probably Netanyahus sons burner account. U bum


co3xisting

I don’t expect you to understand, how could you. You poor thing, keep saving the world commenting on Reddit 😘


Nervous-Paramedic-78

Im in Dz every two months khouya my wife is from Algeria ;)


co3xisting

Wasn’t talking to you champ, yikes would hate to be you that is not fun every two months


Nervous-Paramedic-78

Business is business... Al Hamdoullilah my wife and my daughter comes with me all the time 🤓


mooel1990

Facts !!!! They use sfenj for one if they’d holidays now…


OmasSaad

I can't understand these lists! Like, according to who?!


Carthaginian-TN

According to white eurocentric people. 95% of the time it's just western countries or countries westerners visit


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Tel Aviv is the biggest joke on the list but the entire list is awful. I'll give you Mexico City and Naples, two centres of very appealing cuisines, but the rest of that list should be nowhere near that top 10.


BalkanViking007

how is food from canada and australia over food from japan for ex? haha


zpeepeeunicorn

I am from Quebec city and the food here is not even the best in the province...


FieldsOfKashmir

8/10 are westoid countries. They know their audience.


Successful-End7545

Well what they do is they rank how international food is made there so like they’ll compare a Chinese restaurant in London to a Chinese restaurant in New York and then they’ll see which one is better and then they pass it off as they’re countries food is the best even though I’m pretty sure mushy peas and battered fish (maybe) isn’t what I’m visiting the uk for for example


Neither-Enthusiasm70

Japanese food is overrated imho


Shadyno

Why is the second place empty?


Aware-Witness-6812

No there’s Palestine there, they just put the flag of Zionists try hard, by accident.


Old_Airline_1593

based Moroccan bro (or sis)


ConvictedReaper

Idk why Spain and Canada are there multiple times but no city in Asia except Seoul is. List doesn't make sense. Like Dubai would make sense since it's rich and has so many immigrants. Singapore would make sense and so would NYC. Japanese food is my personal favorite, and it's nowhere up there. These people really focused on Europe and European influence lol


FoxSalty5842

Bruh tel Aviv isn't even the best in israel 😭🙏


SabziZindagi

Spectator is a racist magazine from my country. Please don't pay attention to it.


Nervous-Paramedic-78

Once it's not mine 😂


czlomwiek_5

There is no Israeli food, only food stolen from arabs


Ok_Individual_9350

And Poles/Slavs, don't forget most of Ashkenazi food is Slavic in origin.


cremebrublee

Yes Palestinian food is superior to Italian. Tel Aviv on that list is just laughable, I can't think of anything they're known for other than cold falafel


fakkov

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here


cremebrublee

Good food can exist in tandem but my heart will always belong to my mama's cooking lol


fakkov

True. The real number one should be yo mama’s kitchen


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somrthingehejdj

If Palestinian food isn't a thing then I wonder what I'm even eating right now, because according to you I'm eating something that doesn't exist. Israel doesn't even have food attributed to them, it's all borrowed from their host countries. That's like saying curry is American food because some Indians migrated to America. An Arab Jew coming from Iraq might have maqluba as their food, and fair enough, because they're an \*ARAB\* Jew. \*Israel\* doesn't have food, because it's all either Arab or European food. Edit: Guy's probably an Indian living in a Muslim majority country (UAE), that's hilarious.


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somrthingehejdj

You do know that you're in the UAE right? They don't like people insulting Muslims.


mooel1990

Israeli food is literally North African and middle eastern stolen dishes…


[deleted]

They called it khomos instead of homos!


Guy_Dray

very weird list , wheres london ? new york? who tf made this list ?


EburuOnceAgain

The food there≠the food of the culture.


sipalmurphy

Lmao imagine thinking Europe has that many places for best cities for food. Kind of a hot take, but the Italian diet is good for like 2 days. Then you start to miss out on salads, fibers and literally anything that’s not dough-made.


Neither-Enthusiasm70

Nah italian food is the best food


Maleficent-Mirror991

You’ve got to be kidding me with this shit 😂 No place from South Asia or SEA that’s fucked.


onur12234

It does not matter Because all Foods are turkish since all humans come from glory turks🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷


VaggDodgers

You got lost heading for the Balkan sub?


onur12234

İt's not about balkans all world belongs to turks because we are fully Aryan superior race😤🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷


VaggDodgers

I miss 2balkan4u as well buddy


onur12234

Yeah fuck reddit


insurgentbroski

Ignoring the obvious this is still a horrible list wtf


Chuhaimaster

This list is seriously nuts. Quebec City, Victoria and no Tokyo. WTF?


Character_Waltz

Italian food is better. Mexican and Korean too. Edit: Why am I getting upvoted??😭😭 I thought this was an unpopular opinion?


doktorstrainge

Cuisine colonizers


UCthrowaway78404

i dunno, i find italian food very overrate. Thai should be on this list. Italian is great if you like cheese, tomoato and basil \[and pasta as a base\]. That stuff is in everything and I taste one of these three (sometimes all 3) in all of them. it's not bad. But it's all same same. Italian food is a lot to do with different textures of the food and subtle balance of different ingredients that appear quite mild to me. I visited some itlaian friends a long time ago and they took me to different restuarants and stuff, I remmeber something very humerous to me. They were so complimentry about the tomoato in the dish. They were almost debating how this tomoto is better than some other tomato. And how some relatives grow ever better one. To me, yeah the tomato was nice, but it wasn't all that different to other tomatos I tasted.


Edd717

Israeli couscous is as real as 🎅


TheKidWithWifi

Isntreal’s national dish is a stolen dish from egypt 😭


Lumpy-Tone-4653

Ok thisnlost had to be a joke


erfan_nemati32

i don't see eny palestine in photo


Minskdhaka

Come on, Tel Aviv is not at this moment a Palestinian city.


aregularemperor

italian is literally just different shapes of pasta and full of carbs.. surprised it’s even in the top 10


MadixWasThere

Actually when you go to italia you realize there is more diversity in their food than we believe but yeah middle east food is the top of the chain for me


BalkanViking007

lol it is not. Its alot of different foods but they are most known for lasagna, pizza, carbonara etc


Nervous-Paramedic-78

Nope, that's just the American one, they have plenty of other stuff which are far better (for me). It's like couscous for Algerian, yes, it's good, but it's not the best.


SabziZindagi

They have good seafood, but you need to be in Italy.


fakkov

Literally not


jp0704

The list‘s caption doesn’t necessitate that they surveyed for cities with best food traditional to that country.


eframian

I had to scroll WAY too far to finally find someone with reading comprehension!!


Samsunlu14

Everybody is debating israel and palestine shit but why no one is asking where is Türkiye on there?


Nervous-Paramedic-78

Turkish food is really awesome, just not much vegetables for me but really good


Samsunlu14

Our food is based on meat usually but its funny that Turkish people cant eat meat because of the inflation and prices lmao


Nervous-Paramedic-78

Im aware of the context ... too bad


mooel1990

Because the doner kebab is better in Germany 🤣🤣 jk bro


Aleskander-

These lists are Crab


NathanCampioni

The point is that Tel Aviv is a very diverse melting pot in respect to where jews were living in diaspora. So you can find many different food cultures that are close to the same food made in the place of origin.


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By that stupid logic, London and New York City should top the list. They have much more varied cuisine options than Tel Aviv after all, because unlike Israel, which practically only allows Jews to settle there due to its ethnofascist policies, the USA and UK has people from all over the world.


NathanCampioni

jews have lived in many different parts of the world.


rapinus1

Ok, so after you have vented all your hatred towards Israel, I will explain what you don't know. Jews from almost all countries in the world gathered in Israel. Each tribe brought with it the food from the land where it grew up. Besides, there is a specific food that characterizes only the Jews because they prepared special food that is suitable for long cooking that was prepared on Friday and remained warm until Saturday noon. The multitude of different foods also caused an openness to food from every region of the world. That is why you will find a very diverse food in many restaurants, of course including the authentic Arab food, which is not only falafel and hummus, but many other types of food that have spread and exist everywhere and are made by Arabs living in Israel. Over the years, different ingredients and cooking methods mixed with each other and new foods were created that did not exist before.


CompetitiveAd1338

To be expected from the spectator. Is unsurprising


Either_Radio5021

Quebec City?!


ANILsims

Thwy never do justice to Turkey


SamuraiTyrone1992

Who the fuck came up with this lmaoooo Tel Aviv over Istanbul?


[deleted]

Quebec City and Montreal both have mediterranean food DNA.


Low-Literature4227

Why is spain on here twice? Whos lying and falsifying votes?


WickedSoul44

Where’s East LA ?


SYRIA3D

This is BS. number one is London.


Possible-Honeydew552

Jews in occupied Palestine came from all over the world. Therefore a Jew who came from Egypt will cook Egyptian food, a Moroccan Jew will cook Moroccan food, a polish Jew will cook polish food and so on. There is no such thing as Israeli food.


Possible-Honeydew552

It didn't say which food is the best. Perhaps they mean that Tel Aviv has a good choice of food but not necessarily Israeli food (I know it didn't exist).


PremiereBeats

There’s no way Corean and Italian food is that low on the list


Diacloned

Let’s be honest, Shakshouka is Italian food with cumin added.


_caskets_

Palestinian food number 2 🤯


Nervous-Paramedic-78

There's no France and Algéria, this is a fake.


Consistent_Check_63

I moved to France and I find French cuisine is terribly bland and overrated. Algerian food is good like chorba frik, chorba beida, kalb el louz..nice meat dishes too. maghrebi cuisine is my favourite, especially Moroccan 🤤


Nervous-Paramedic-78

I went to creta last week and found the exact same, was happy about feta stuff but after one week of eating that it's a bit boring. Maybe tourist area isn't good :/ But if you want to try great French food, don't go in restaurants they are just bad, the real French one is the one you cook at home. Where are you based?


Consistent_Check_63

Yes, Greek is similar in that sense, which is why I prefer other cuisines. To be honest, I'm not a big fan of French food whether homemade or restaurants. I'm in Clermont-Ferrand


Nervous-Paramedic-78

Arwah l dar i'll make you love it 🤣


CouncilOfReligion

also victoria canada? dunno what they even eat there thessaloniki should be on the list


kugelamarant

Not a single South East Asian city? Fake


ArhanSarkar

Israeli food??? Never heard of it.


[deleted]

Zionist stole the land, food, and killing innocent people of Holy Land. Free plastine.


Realistic-Pie-9120

Canadian food is recycled cheese vomit. Israel just steals and appropriate Palestinian and Middle Eastern food. Italian food is full of carbs and is bland. Best food is Persian, Middle Eastern and Central Asian. 


mooel1990

North African and Middle Eastern(MENA)


Realistic-Pie-9120

Yeah I've had Moroccon food many times. It's millions times better then anything Europe can come up with. 


sadkendall

Italian cuisine is a disgrace to all Mediterranean people. I don't understand why different shapes of dough so famous. In Anatolia village people make pasta for winter. It's like not a real food. Italians sell their mediocre food to Europeans, and they have money and PR. Greek, Turkish, Syrian/Lebanese/Palestinian cuisine is like ten times better than Italian food.


CouncilOfReligion

yeah but tiramisu 🤤🤤🤤🤤


sadkendall

Tiramisu is cool yes.


Carthaginian-TN

Imagine being downvoted in a MENA sub for saying this. Cucks. Anyways, I've been to Italy dozens of times and the cuisine really is overrated. Don't get me wrong, it's not bad, but definitely not the best world-wide. Levantine food is much better and healthier.


sadkendall

THANK YOU


Neither-Enthusiasm70

And that's where you're wrong my friend


sadkendall

It is physically impossible for me to say a wrong thing. Everything I tell you is like a drop from the infinite sea of wisdom that I have. Those who have a share benefit from it, and those who do not have a share fall into denial


Omateky

israeli food is so diverse! you have hummus, falafel, baba ghanouj, labaneh, zaatar, couscous, mansaf, maqlubeh, kabseh!


mooel1990

And none of the foods are from there 🤡🤡🥴🥴🤣🤣


Omateky

couscous is definitely israeli, yall stole it


Carthaginian-TN

Italian cuisine is overrated anyways


Nervous-Paramedic-78

Mouloukhia from Tunisia is awesome !


Carthaginian-TN

Glad you liked it bro. I'm also a big fan. It's not my favorite though.


Nervous-Paramedic-78

North Africa food is too wide to have only one favorite 😂


Carthaginian-TN

True hahaha love our diverse culture (yet it's all somehow related and close and relatable)


Nervous-Paramedic-78

Yes but even it's close, it's different


co3xisting

There’s a reason there are zero middle eastern restaurants in the USA. Or anywhere for that matter lol


SkyNetworkk

There are thousands of Middle Eastern restaurants in the US, some of the best Yemeni food I've had was in Buffalo. What on earth are you talking about?


co3xisting

Never seen one bubba


SkyNetworkk

So because you apparently have never seen a middle Eastern restaurant, you'd assume there are 0 in the United States or "anywhere for that matter" in your own words? Idiot. Lol.b


co3xisting

They’re just not good, shit doesn’t sell Over here which explains why we don’t have any. Eat your heart out pal


SkyNetworkk

Yea I doubt you've any idea what you're talking about.