These Are the Most Popular Quarantine Dishes Worldwide
Even the most die-hard takeaway fan will have dusted off their stove during quarantine. If you can no longer pick up croissants at the station, have lunch in the canteen or order delivery every evening, people start looking for alternatives. For example, on Pinterest, which clearly saw from the trends of the past month what people were stockpiling and how they were cooking. Curious?
The Brits are comforting themselves with porridge, judging by the searches on the site. Apparently, eggs have also been stockpiled in supermarkets there, because ‘no egg cake’ is a popular search term. We got you, Britain: try this cake without eggs and without flour (and certainly without oats). In Canada, people are craving pasta with asparagus, while in Spain the most popular search term is: churros. Par aquí!
Cans stockpiled
The searches also offer an impression of the stockpiling behavior in all those countries. Mexicans, for example, are wondering what on earth they should do with all those cans of tuna; they frequently search for recipes with canned tuna. In Brazil, apparently shopping carts full of canned sardines have been tipped into car trunks (search term: canned sardine recipe), while in Canada canned ham was a favorite among the stockpilers. Only in Japan are healthy recipes being searched for; healthy gut recipes ranks highly in the statistics there. Banana bread? Number one in Turkey, but anyone who follows Instagram even a little will also see one banana bread after another appearing in the Netherlands.
Bread without yeast
But recipes for bread without yeast are especially hot, hot, hot. In South Africa, people are urgently searching for recipes for naan without yeast; in America, recipes for Navajo bread, a fried flatbread without yeast, are searched for 350 times more often than usual. Argentina: salty croissants – a savory croissant without yeast; in Australia: damper bread, an incredibly quick bread recipe dating back to the time of the country’s first colonists.
