As someone who's lived in the Netherlands for quite a long while, this is downri...

		Etheryte on Jan 30, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes As someone who's lived in the Netherlands for quite a long while, this is downright funny to read. No offense to the Dutch, but food is the last thing they're good at and they're pretty infamous for its blandness. Pretty much every good meal you can find in the Netherlands is either French, Indonesian, or etc. That said, the KLM sandwich is a very fine thing.

That's primarily an 19th century event and its results, with the emphasis on economizing.