Edible Nationality!

April 13, 2010 11:13 AM

"Whybin TBWA Australia and The Sydney International Food Festival cooked up a clever way to promote last year’s fest — they used iconic foods from the participating countries to recreate their flags. From the green-white-red of basil-spaghetti-tomatoes to the orange-white-green of tikka masala-rice-saag, the results are both appetizing and a little reminiscent of middle-school geography class. Which brings us to our challenge: Can you correctly identify these 12 culinary flags?"

Quoted directly from Flavorwire, since it's summed up better than I could manage on my own.

Here's another similarly themed guessing game from the same site: Match the Breakfast with the Country.

posted by timory (12 comments total)

Lebanon and Greece are making my mouth water. Damn you, stupid tasty flags!
posted by reenum at 11:17 AM on April 13, 2010

But where's the American flag made entirely of candy?
posted by sallybrown at 11:28 AM on April 13, 2010

So, the Australia flag is some kind of meat pie?
posted by oddman at 11:41 AM on April 13, 2010

yummy...though i couldn't check out the last link, for fear that there might be a breakfast from england to make me throw up. then there would be TWO breakfasts from england.
posted by sexyrobot at 11:42 AM on April 13, 2010 [2 favorites]

there is, in fact, a breakfast from england. but the photography is so good, i don't think it will make you vom.
posted by timory at 11:59 AM on April 13, 2010

I was about to be all, "The Spanish flag has a coat of arms, you jerks!" Turns out...

(Also, what's the deal with the Australian one? Do they not eat anything blue?)
posted by Sys Rq at 11:59 AM on April 13, 2010

That is really awesome.

If there was an American flag version, the key foods would be licorice (red), powdered donuts (white), and blue M&M's.
posted by Taft at 12:14 PM on April 13, 2010

The mouseover didn't work for me...
posted by Mister Moofoo at 12:21 PM on April 13, 2010

It's not a mouseover, Moofoo. It's blacked out text. You have to highlight it.
posted by Sys Rq at 12:37 PM on April 13, 2010

but the photography is so good,...

*peeks* haha, france is funny! mmm, pancakes... whu? OH JESUS! seriously, who cooks up a really nice breakfast, only to open up a nasty can of beans-from-a-can all over it? crazy people, that's who. crazy people.
posted by sexyrobot at 1:09 PM on April 13, 2010

Food.

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Food.
posted by koeselitz at 3:34 PM on April 13, 2010

So, the Australia flag is some kind of meat pie?

Not only that, it seems to be a meat pie garnished with red licorice.
posted by polymath at 8:48 PM on April 16, 2010