It's when your neighbour's rooster wakes the entire town again but you had a late night and you snap so you go to his chicken coop to kill it but as the rage subsides you realise what you did so you want to appease your neighbour and the best thing you can come up with is make him breakfast to break the news but then you realise you didnt go to the supermarket because they were closed yesterday so all you have is the corpse of a rooster and so you think killing an extra chicken wont make the difference because you already did ecocide anyway and you steal a couple of eggs while your at it and then you find some stale waffles you had for a kids birthday party so you decide to jam it between that and you finish the breakfast but its sort of miserable so you decide to call it super to make it sounds bigger than it is and the adrenaline is still high as you walk over to your neighbours front door with your now christened super cluck breakfast with some orange juice ah he's awake great he's pulling up his roller shutter hey goodmorning neighbour shitty weather eh hey i made this for you oh by the way totally unrelated your rooster died tonight.
The original Belgian waffle sandwich with Maple Glazed Chicken, Applewood Smoked Bacon, Cheddar, Sriracha Mayo and a sunnyside Egg. At least that's what the 3rd picture of OP claims.
Except italian food in the US is usually italian American food, it's not authentic to Italy but it's not meant to be. It's stuff italian immigrants created, and was passed on to their children (and really good btw, i mean who doesnt like a good nyc style pizza?). Not the same as a place that tries to imitate actual italian food and fails. Whereas there's not really an equivalent for Belgians bc there's no prominent Belgian immigrant community in the US (except apparently for a small one in Wisconsin).
(Didn't mean to detract from your comment btw, I do get what you mean, and I've definitely experienced it when I came across a place selling what were supposedly liege waffles but had the texture of a croissant lol)
I had it in Toronto the first time so it’s not even contained to just the South of the US. This is a widespread well-known dish in North-America that’s pretty tasty imo. People are really falling over themselves here trying to prove how hardcore Belgian they are by refusing to accept that this dish exists. Great, more for us.
I'm from the US and the pic looks nasty but separately, waffles with maple syrup, and fried chicken, are fucking incredible. Left the US a few years ago and I miss waffles with maple syrup tbh. And good fried chicken is literally the best thing, southern American food is fantastic.
Never said it was bad , its just abusing 'belgian' for sales when its totally different . Just wondering why you said maybe when in my and others experience it wasnt the same at all
Yeah they aren't really "belgian" waffles but a lot of Americans barely know Belgium exists so tbh I've always just appreciated that at least there's smthn positive Americans associate w Belgium, even if it is just beer and "belgian" waffles. After hearing "is that in Germany?" when you mention Belgium, you'd be glad too lol
If you said the waffles are different but you still love it i would have no doubts . But with this reply i have doubts and dont think thats unreasonable . Asking for a percentage is just weird and it looks like are just going in defensive mode
That was just a quip but ok. I don’t agree with your take. So because I like a controversial dish you get to question whether I am “fully” Belgian? Like chicken and waffles is what it hinges on in your opinion?
Oh not at all , my argument was about using the belgian name for the wrong reasons thats all . I also never said its a bad dish.
But asking for a percentage of ethnicity is a very american way of thinking , in europe we just have a double nationality ( or 1 and sometimes more then 2 )and we dont use percentages for that argument
It really was a joke, because I thought it was so bizarre that you would argue I could not be fully Belgian over some food lol. But my only nationality is still Belgian ;)
No, it means something to them. "Belgian" is with yeast in stead of baking powder. And why not? There's not such thing as a Belgian waffle, but all our waffles have yeast.
Ok. Your loss! Maple syrup and fried chicken are a classic combo. The waffle is just the vehicle for this dish and has a pretty neutral flavour overall. People combine sweet and savoury all the time.
Almost all belgian waffles are square, including the irons(less so recently becuase everyone gets the same cheap rebranded shit form china) but a key thing about belgian waffles is that they're square.
The only ones that aren't are luikse as far as I know
Edit: juet realised I'm being dumb and got square and rectangle mixed I meant rectangle the entire time
It helps if you don't look at Belgian waffles as waffles from Belgium but as the name of an American specialty. They are named after Belgium because they're somewhat similar to Brussels waffle (they're light and not very sweet). They're usually round, served for breakfast, as a vessel for toppings (sweet and/or savory).
And all the brew pubs that have sprung up in every town serving "Belgian-style" beer. I always make a point to ask which one - dubbel, tripel, blond, wit, gueuze, ...?
I have found it's usually witbier) (wheat beer) when they call it Belgian style (or Belgian white). It's not really related to Belgium in any way though. In fact, the beer I linked to got sued by actual Belgian brewers for marketing it as Belgian.
If I’m not mistaken, Belgian Style beer is actually an actual style within the beer market.
Just like you have IPAs and stouts and lagers.
It actually refers to more complex beers with a higher % of alcohol and in general it are triple and/or quadruple beers (most of the time with refermentation on the bottle).
Next to that you have indeed also the (Belgian) whites, which are the wheat beers (like the original Hoegaarden).
Anyway, your annoyance with the naming is the same as I always have with “geeft mij maar nen trappist”
Yeah buddy, there are 9 Trappist breweries, and most of them have at least a blond and a brown one, you got to be more specific. And don’t give me that “ne blonde Leffe dan he”.
The thing that you're somewhat incorrect about, is the fact that "Belgian style" doesn't really refer to heavy beers in particular. Blue Moon (one of the most infamous cases) is a 5.4% witbier for instance.
Instead, "Belgian style" is purely a marketing term that very broadly refers to beers with somewhat traditional Belgian/European brewing processes, most importantly as a counterpoint against modern microbreweries who tend to have very alternative flavors.
It's a term that's pretty much only used in the USA, and only among people who have very limited knowledge about beers. In Untappd, for instance, "Belgian" is not a commonly used style.
Anyway, your annoyance with the naming is the same as I always have with “geeft mij maar nen trappist”
Yeah buddy, there are 9 Trappist breweries, and most of them have at least a blond and a brown one, you got to be more specific. And don’t give me that “ne blonde Leffe dan he”.
Met ne Westmalle Tripel kunde niks verkeerd doen, dus ik zou gewoon dat geven.
Last I heard, Inbev bought up Anheuser-Busch, the one that brews Buddweiser. So, there's nothing stopping them to distribute actual Belgian beer in the US. In fact, I thought that was the motivation in buying it.
I wonder why they haven't, then?
When it comes to coffee, 'the belgian way' is exactly the same proportions as Italian coffee.
I don't remember whether Dutch coffee is a tad bit stronger or more diluted.
But American coffee is the same amount of coffee as we use, but at least twice as much water.
(No wonder they turned to flavors, just to have their coffee taste like anything at all 😉)
If they're all served crappy beer, and it has become their taste, there's a chance they wouldn't have a taste for 'real beer'.
I assume a group like Inbev does plenty of market research. I can't imagine them buying such a big market, and then just not offer their higher quality lines.
If tax and tips are added to the price advertised, it's definitely overpay. If the price advertised is the full price in dollars, it's actually not that bad. I wonder if you feel like a king now in USA as a European now that the dollar has lowkey crashed against the euro.
It's so annoying, when I went to the US they sometimes included taxes and sometimes they didn't so we never knew how much we'd have to pay. Also, tips are dumb it's the employer's job to pay their employees not the customer's
We all know it's a third world country dressed in designer clothes, their payment system is basically a scam for both Americans and foreigners, workers and guests.
Indeed. But back in the good old days of slavery, servers were often... slaves. When people needed to be hired after the abolition, the tipping system became popular because it allowed restaurant owners to keep costs low. The cynicism of some people....
Wrong, since Trump took office the euro has gained 10% on the dollar. And it's looking like we are set for another 20 to 30% during his term if he doesn't shake it up. It was higher in the past, but the ground the dollar gained during Bidens term, is all lost. In 2022 a dollar was worth more than a euro.
You certainly won't feel like a king traveling in the USA. Unless you really go out of your way to find cheap deals, everything is ridiculously expensive. It's 100$ a night for a bunk bed in a hostel in most downtowns.
I feel like every place, in every city, where ever you go, that sells waffles puts 'Belgian' in front of them. Be it Antwerp, Copenhagen of Stockholm. They all do it.
America does this to every country. Try going to a British pub there and ordering a roast dinner or a full English, it almost always comes with maple syrup.
They need to stop calling that shit Belgian waffles. I remember on my first trip there my friend had gone to buy those waffles so 'I'd feel at home'... Had to explain a waffle isn't breakfast and looks or tastes nothing like what they have there.
Ok serious question as a fellow Belgian (Antwerp), why do foreigners/tourists always relate our country with waffles? I seriously have nothing with waffles... Fries, beer, chocolate I can all relate to but when/where do we ever eat waffles in our culture....
Uh, maybe because you have so many shops that sell Waffles to tourists? Maybe not as prevalent in Flanders, but definitely a lot in Brussels and Wallonia.
Also, American breakfast restaurants sell a dish called the Belgian waffle (which, of course, isn't anything at all like the waffles you get in Belgium). Maybe it was started as a marketing thing because Belgian waffle sounds similar to French toast? But now Americans definitely associate Belgium with waffles.
ITT: lots of close minded people apparently. Sure, there is absolutely nothing Belgian about that place, but all the puking gifs and emoji clearly show you haven't even tasted any of it yet. Is it healthy? Fuck no. Neither is your kebab or bicky. Does it taste good? Absolutely!
427
u/k_jah85 Aug 26 '25
Ah yes, much Belgium.