Today in The Netherlands, Dutch people eat a variety of international style foods and there are restaurants serving food from many countries around the world.
Traditional Dutch food however, was based on potatoes, usually with meat and boiled vegetables, and lots of gravy. Dutch people eat a lot of dairy foods.
In The Netherlands, people eat 3 meals a day. Nowadays the evening meal is the main meal of the day, but country people and older Dutch people often still traditionally serve the main meal at midday, with a lighter evening meal.
At the start of a meal, a parent or host will often say 'eet smakelijk' (say it like this: ATE smahk-A-lick), which means 'Eat deliciously'.
The Dutch eat with a fork in the left hand and knife in the right.
Some typical Dutch food which you might have during a visit to The Netherlands:
Vla: a thick sweet milk pudding similar to custard, made mainly from milk and flavoured with vanilla, chocolate or strawberry.
Karnemelk: which means 'churned milk' or buttermilk. It is thin and quite sour.
Poffertjes: very small pancakes served warm with lots of powdered sugar sprinkled on top.
Hagelslag: chocolate sprinkles which the Dutch put on their bread.
Drop: a liquorice candy that comes in a variety of different forms and tastes, from salty and hard to soft and sweet. Stamppot: a meal of mashed potatoes with varying ingredients like carrot (wortel stamppot), kale (boerenkool stampot) or endive (andijvie stamppot), usually served with rookworst, a delicious, smoked sausage.
Pea Soup: Thick Dutch pea soup is a meal in itself, full of fresh vegetables and chunks of bacon and sausage.
Haring: a typical Dutch delicacy is eating a raw fish called herring with raw onions. The fish has been cleaned and the head removed. You pick the fish up by the tail and let it slide into your mouth gradually.
Stroopwafel: is a cookie that has been made for centuries. Each consists of two thin waffles with a special caramel filling.
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