What are some stereotypical old people foods from your country?

Posted by StreetWooden4726@reddit | AskBalkans | View on Reddit | 15 comments

Jam and cheese sandwiches.

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Gragachevatz@reddit

Pihtije - broth jelly
Cvarci - pork scratchings

On general foods of animal innards, old people around here grew up extremely poor so they ate everything and didnt throw away anything, so they will still eat stuff like intestines or stomach.

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vbd71@reddit

Wait until you enter the EU, they will ban this stuff.

In 2000 Bulgaria, shkembe chorba (a soup from cattle stomach) could be found at every corner, but these days... I don't remember having any encounters with it the last couple of years.

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Any proof of that? "We entered the EU, now I don't see the soup anywhere" could be correlation but not causation. People love blaming the EU for all sorts of ridiculous things. I remember when the Brexit crowd lied about the EU banning curved bananas.
Anyway, here's the only legislation I could find, nothing to do with stomachs https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/1_animal-by-products-not-intended-for-human-consumption.html If anything, a lot of places selling the soup might have closed down because they failed health & safety regulations (I'm pretty sure that would be the case in Serbia)

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smellysmellyhairline@reddit

I am not sure what "old people food" is supposed to be but my grandparents used to love İşkembe Çorbası and Bamya.

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Megan3356@reddit

We eat currently bamya in our household

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smellysmellyhairline@reddit

That's cool.D

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Alarmed_Difficulty12@reddit

I think that when you pass 45 you are obliged to eat watermelon with feta as a summer dinner in Greece

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peraboykotsuvigenije@reddit

Parizer!

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shadowdance55@reddit

Podriguša.

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ComplicatedSunshine@reddit

Kačamak (I suspect the word is Turkish, therefore it's probably eaten elsewhere too)
A kind of porridge, normally savoury (at least in my area), eaten with milk, white cheese and/or kajmak (clotted cream)

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Existing-Day-410@reddit

In turkey balkan immigrant cook it with similar ways. Kaçamak turkish. Kajmak in turkish kaymak.

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Ok_Stretch_405@reddit

Paçe këmbësh

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reriser@reddit

Probably žganci