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For newcomers to the Netherlands, it's the foodstuff itself that can be baffling. Colleen Geske, who moved to Amsterdam from Canada in 2005, has a clear memory of the first time she encountered hagelslag. Her first employer in the Netherlands shared a cafeteria with various tech, finance and law firms. "Every lunch hour, I would see these tables of men in suits that were eating what I could only describe as the lunch of a four-year-old," recalls the author of Stuff Dutch People Eat and co-host of the Stuff Dutch People Like podcast. "They were all with cartons of milk and having their bread with hagelslag. To me, it was such a bizarre sight."
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"Hagelslag tells us a lot about the Dutch," Geske adds. "When you strip it away, the Dutch are not pretentious at all. They don't care what people think of them often… They're not over-analysing this, thinking: Is this healthy? Is this for children? They're just indulging in a relatively simple pleasure."
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250220-hageslag-dutch-sandwich
For newcomers to the Netherlands, it's the foodstuff itself that can be baffling. Colleen Geske, who moved to Amsterdam from Canada in 2005, has a clear memory of the first time she encountered hagelslag. Her first employer in the Netherlands shared a cafeteria with various tech, finance and law firms. "Every lunch hour, I would see these tables of men in suits that were eating what I could only describe as the lunch of a four-year-old," recalls the author of Stuff Dutch People Eat and co-host of the Stuff Dutch People Like podcast. "They were all with cartons of milk and having their bread with hagelslag. To me, it was such a bizarre sight."
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"Hagelslag tells us a lot about the Dutch," Geske adds. "When you strip it away, the Dutch are not pretentious at all. They don't care what people think of them often… They're not over-analysing this, thinking: Is this healthy? Is this for children? They're just indulging in a relatively simple pleasure."
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250220-hageslag-dutch-sandwich