Poll of the Day > Who has better pastries?

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Which culture do you prefer for an excellent pastry experience?

French/Dutch/Germans

I don't think I've ever had anything authentic, just cheap grocery store or fast food crap

apparently Strudels come from Hungary, and then Austria and Germany, and Danishes not surprisingly come from Denmark. so I suppose those? I guess croissants come from France, and those can be pretty good.

idk if it's just the few times I had it, but Japanese pastries have WAY too much gelatin in it

Ive been to many fine Italian bakeries, cant say if its the best as I havent tried baked goods from every region, but some of the stuff the we used to get from the little Italian bakeries in NYC were incredible.

Dutch

My grandfather used to make the most amazing cream puffs. He didn't make them very often because it was extremely time consuming, especially the part where he'd fill them with a pastry bag one at a time, but they could be frozen so he'd make a huge batch and we'd have cream puffs for months. He took his recipe to the grave.

Cream puffs start with a pte choux, so I guess that would be French?

Mexicans

The Australian Four'n Twenty and Sausage Roll

*mwah*

After traveling for some time I've got to go with France. Street vendor crepes are divine.

Honestly not a pastry person. I guess greek since I don't mind baklava