The Dutch really love bread. Honestly, it's amazing how much bread they can stuff into their faces. I often see people eating sandwiches on the train for breakfast. I don't see the appeal in eating a salad sandwich for breakfast but whatever floats your boat.
Whenever we have our lunch at a Dutch person's house it consists of - surprise surprise - bread and a range of spreads, cheese or meat are sitting out on the table. Some of the oddest sandwich toppings I have seen people eat are butter and strawberries with sugar, just butter and sugar,
hagelslag and
kip-kerrie.
Most people eat their bread with a knife and fork. This is strange behaviour considering that at dinner time, everyone seems to cut their food into bite size pieces and then shovel their food as fast as possible into their gobs. There is no time to bother with knifes when there is food to wolf down.
Anyway, back to the kip-kerrie. I think the proper name for this stuff is kip-kerrie salade (chicken curry salad) but I only hear it being called kip-kerrie. I really didn't like the look of it to begin with and wouldn't give it a try until very recently. I didn't think it could possibly be nice. When I did try it, I fell in love. It is quite delicious with those flavourless rice cakes. You can buy it in baguettes just about everywhere. We ate too much of it. It was addictive so we don't buy it anymore. It was fun while it lasted.
