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The only major colonial empire which did not, in any way, import food from the colonies?
I'm from Denmark, we traditionally ate porridge and potatoes and pork, and of course rye bread so dense you can club someone to death with it if you want to.
The best Dutch food owes a lot to the occupation of Indonesia.
See, I know almost nothing about the Dutch cuisine. I heard you deep fry almost everything, and I like stroopwafels a lot.
In 10th grade I spent 2 weeks in the Netherlands on a school trip, but I remember absolutely nothing about the food which is actually sort of odd.
If I had to guess, I'd assume you eat classic farmers food, carb heavy with some sort of meat and dairy. But maybe that's just because I assume everyone north of the Rhine to eat that.
Oh no, we imported lots of food. And we kept it nearly separate, never to mix it with our own.
We imported Indonesian food, mixed it with Cantonese food and called it "Chinese food", or the "Chinese Indian Speciality Restaurant" https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinees-Indisch_restaurant