Is there a specific reason that type of food is only available after swimming?
Is there a country that likes soup pool side? It’s like your food is a hot tub!
Is that a Hawaiian coke can?
Man, now I want some Mexican coke. Fuck HFCS.
French fries is the standard German pool food. Like, nowhere else do you see stands selling nothing but fries (with ketchup and/or mayo, of course). And they just don’t taste as good anywhere else, I guess it’s the chlorine in the air making the salt taste extra special without actually tasting more salty.
Curious about different after pool cuisines around the globe. Didn’t really realise every country could have a different take
I don’t think we have such a thing in Finland. I don’t remember food being a thing after swimming hall or beach/lake
Fries & mayonaise slaps (Netherlands)
It hits just as hard today, IMO.
I could go for a turkey sandwich and cool ranch Doritos rn, in fact.
I just ate steak, but now I want a sandwich with Doritos on top.
My wife and I went to town for groceries today. Neither of us ate breakfast or lunch, then we shopped. We only do two trips a month cuz it’s far and expensive. We had grocery store sandwiches and potato chips for lunch at 3:00 this afternoon. Best meal ever.
My POV while reading this post (I have not gone swimming today)
The chips go in the sandwich. Also I don’t know how to swim.
I thought I was the only one! You put them in the middle then press it slightly so they go “crunch” a little. Yum!
Go swim if you have the means to do so!
STILL. FUCKING. DOES.
My dad: “The plain peanut butter sandwiches will continue until morale improves.”
peanut butter sandwiches were one of my favorite things growing up. I’d still be eating them today, even though I have to make my own peanut butter here in Japan, except for my body declaring war on gluten (probably celiac since 1 parent has it, but not confirmed yet).
Peanut butter isn’t sold in Japan?! I’d starve lmao
You can find it, but it’s rarer and typically quite expensive. I don’t know who carries it in my corner of rural Japan. I just make my own in the food processor (peanuts + salt + patience). Peanut Cream (which has a vaguely peanutty flavor but mostly a cream flavor and a ton of sugar) is quite popular, but I don’t care for it.
My dad: “boiled hotdogs in store-brand white bread are what the real athletes eat.”
I nuke mine, but otherwise, ya
I like nuked food
But when you boil them, the bread gets all saturated with hotdog water. You’re missing out.
And it was damn good. What’s that German saying? “Hunger makes the best sauce”? When you’re really hungry this is five Michelin star good.
In Poland we have “Hunger is the best condiment”, I guess it might be something similar
As a German I never heard that sentence before but it’s hilarious lol
In dutch they say: “Hunger makes raw beans taste sweet”!
when packing up after windsurfing, they would advise against taking your trapeze off (a huge belly belt that can connect you to the sail, handsfree!) before you had access too food, because more often then not, it would unleash the hunger beast within. It was fun to have that power over your own hunger! GIMME THOSE SWEET BEANS!
Nachos, super rope, and ice cream at the pool concession stand.
Wet pool hand nachos is bringing back core memory
Dude it still does. Try that shit man a big shitty sandwich and chips fucking goes hard
We had a fish and chip shop opposite the pool. I don’t think I have eaten anything better than those salty vinegary chips, the childish exhaustion and hunger made them absolutely magical.
Past tense? Get back in there!
