It just so happens that at work (during lunch) we were talking about pizzas, I think someone even mentioned the "Chicago style pizza" as he had just been in US on vacation. And some talked what pizzas are like in Italy etc.

I couldn't really offer much to that discussion though, but I just wondered aloud if any restaurant is offering Finnish-style pizzas. I mean like these:

https://www.saarioinen.fi/tuote/jauhelihapizza-200-g/

The main characteristics of Finnish style pizzas are that they are small in size, very cheap and easy to digest. The kind of food you eat if you are unemployed or a student with little or no money, and you have to eat something. You just throw that pizza into microwave and eat it. It is guaranteed you are not hungry after that. Not necessarily because you are full, but nauseous.

In spoken language, those pizzas are also referred to as "mudflaps", mostly because you probably could use them as one.

Which was invented by a Texan.

http://www.texascooking.com/features/march2010-deep-dish-pizza-texas.htm

Oh, and people often mistake bavarian dishes with german ones.

Well, we Bavarians tend to think that it is the other way round: Germany is a part of Bavaria. :-)
Recently our Minister President announced that Bavaria will conquer space. No joke, he really did it! :-D

Now I'm trying to imagine a David Lynch version of Baywatch.

Hmm, ok. Interesting dynamic there. I did not know that. Thanks.

Better Quentin Tarantino.

Yup, it's just a part of it, not representative for the whole country, but many things people abroad associate with Germany are actually Bavarian. It's like people thinking the whole US is like Texas.

Are they frozen? They kinda sound like the cheap frozen pizza you can buy in supermarkets over here (and other countries). Although they're often more around 300 g here, I think.

Edit: I see "Jauheliha" means ground meat, so I guess it's a very specific type of pizza, while frozen pizza can contain all kinds of ingredients (meat, fish, vegetarian).

Depends on how you define Germany.
Kan Fukumoto?

It should be one of your own, we have so many world class directors that would be a perfect fit for such an epic historical drama featuring the Hoff, like Wolfgang Petersen, Roland Emmerich, or Uwe Boll! ;P

Ulli Lommel

PS: We should stop here, lest this thread be renamed "German Horrors".

I can confirm that the Chinese definitely do this, drives me nuts sometimes. I mean I have been asked what's the difference between Chinese and European food. I honestly had no idea how to approach that question.

I always thought that when people ask about some country's food, they mean some signature cuisine that the country is well known for. Like hamburgers and hot dogs for US, borsch for Russia or noodles for China. That doesn't necessarily implies, that this country invented that cuisine or that there are no other local dishes. Like French pasta is very similar to China noodles, but both are known have their own cultural significance.

Possibly so, but my point was that talking about a "signature cuisine" of US may be just as hard as describing a "signature cuisine" of Europe, as US if quite big country with different cultures. I don't think e.g. French or Spanish recognize mämmi or Karelian pies (from Finland), let alone consider them as European "signature cuisines".

Sometimes it may be hard within one (European) country as well. Like an ex-colleague of mine (who was in fact from Denmark) once asked somewhere in France, possibly in Paris, one hotel butler whether he knows where there is a good fish restaurant, he said:

"Sure! In Marseille. Hue hue hue hue hue!" (that's how French people laugh)

Damn Frenchies with their sarcastic sense of humor! No wonder they almost lost WWII! Almost!

No they are not frozen, you just cut one end open from the plastic and put it into microwave for a couple of minutes, and eat. It is very basic, like minced meat (both pork and beef, like we Finns tend to like our minced meat), ketchup and cheese. Maybe it has some other ingredients too, but not much.

Every Finn have eaten one (or many) of those at one point of their lives, especially when they were students. It is almost impossible to avoid them.

Yeah we have those frozen pizzas too (from Dr Ötker, Grandiosa etc.), but they are like deluxe pizzas compared to those mudflaps. They are like what you eat on Sundays or other special occasions.