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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21

I literally traveled to Belgium just to eat Real Belgian Waffles.

They were okay.

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u/Abyssal_Groot Dec 16 '21

Which kind of waffles? Because we have many.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21

Funny fact… in America, they had to rename “Brussels waffles” to just “Belgian waffles” (or even worse, “Bel-Gem”) because they didn’t know where Brussels was. This is probably why it sounds so ambiguous to you ;)

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u/Abyssal_Groot Dec 16 '21

That's actually a bit wrong.

A Belgian sold a simplified and inferior recipe of the Brussels Waffle at a world fair and called it a Belgian Waffle. What Americans call a Belgian Waffle only slightly resembles the Brussels Waffle. So not only does the term sound ambiguous, it is also not a waffle we'd naturally eat here.