@freemo
But jokes aside - what amuses me is suddenly I've noticed 3-4 different people saying this in different places - some unrelated discord servers, here now.

Also this is partially true. Some of our cuisine is country style (like mashed potatoes, pickled tomato or cucumber, sauerkraut and if you can afford - fried chicken or ground pork patty), other part of Russian food is borrowed - as always, we are really good taking what's not ours - French chefs had huge influence at some point.

But yes, comparing to Indian or Thai it's pretty bland

On side notice - these people don't have much but still very generous hosts, all they might have is said potatoes and sauerkraut for themselves yet they will find some preserves or kielbasa stashed for rainy day just to feed guests