How to recognize romanians ?

[dviz]

Yeah I see this type often in my gym, Romanians are nice people, I actually like them, there is also other types which I can recognise like dinarid/ norid types as well, I was just being humorous as well lol

Sure, but the gym crowd is different from regular people.

Take a look at the people in the video below and compare them with your mental image of Romanians. These people are not media personalities, just regular folks working in private enterprises. They have common Romanian faces:

[Duarte]

Romanian cuisine is a mixture of East Med (Turkish/Lebanese) with some Slavic and Germanic cuisine.

Traditional Romanian cuisine has very little Italian influence, although in the past 20 years, Italian cuisine is growing in popularity in Romania, mainly because Romanians bring cooking practices from Italy, but also Italian entrepreneurs are moving to Romania in significant numbers in certain Romanian cities.

You tellin me what I think you tellin me? That Romania doesn't have red sauce! that is a crime..ohhhhh Marone!

[Nurzat]

You tellin me what I think you tellin me? That Romania doesn't have red sauce! that is a crime..ohhhhh Marone!

urban Romanians eat a lot of pizza, burgers and kebab that they buy, don't cook at home.

at home pasta is popular enough, because it's so simple to cook.

french fries are also hugely popular because of simplicity and low price of potatoes. this is cooked at home.

scrambled eggs and fried eggs are also a staple.

people cook "traditional" stuff only or mostly at special events, if they do it (we never cook anything traditional in my home, we don't like traditional food at all, it's overly fat and tasteless, we go for the pizza, burger, kebab, hummus etc like so many do in the urban areas; though we are totally peasants as origin and upbringing).

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several foreigners told me that when they feel someone smelling very strong like garlic or onion they know it's a Romanian. we love eating these, I sometimes just take a clove of garlic and eat it as it is. my wife hates it

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Romanians in the West tend to have a bit of a different style that Romania went over for a couple of years now, we call it cocalar, they pluck their eyebrows, they wear skinny jeans, you can see their ankles etc awful style, but it's by no means the mainstream style on here, it's in relation to city vs small town vs rural areas and then by social class etc, people dress in a quite diverse manner, some pass in Tajikistan, some in Milan though my simple style is not the most common either, for example just wearing a pair of simple blue or black jeans and a no-logo simple black or navy t-shirt is seen as too simple by the average Romanian man, so I sometimes stand out because of simplicity, they tend to like to style themselves a bit more and work on their haircuts, they have a bit of Italian legacy after all haha

[Duarte]

urban Romanians eat a lot of pizza, burgers and kebab that they buy, don't cook at home.

at home pasta is popular enough, because it's so simple to cook.

french fries are also hugely popular because of simplicity and low price of potatoes. this is cooked at home.

scrambled eggs and fried eggs are also a staple.

people cook "traditional" stuff only or mostly at special events, if they do it (we never cook anything traditional in my home, we don't like traditional food at all, it's overly fat and tasteless, we go for the pizza, burger, kebab, hummus etc like so many do in the urban areas; though we are totally peasants as origin and upbringing).

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several foreigners told me that when they feel someone smelling very strong like garlic or onion they know it's a Romanian. we love eating these, I sometimes just take a clove of garlic and eat it as it is. my wife hates it

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Romanians in the West tend to have a bit of a different style that Romania went over for a couple of years now, we call it cocalar, they pluck their eyebrows, they wear skinny jeans, you can see their ankles etc awful style, but it's by no means the mainstream style on here, it's in relation to city vs small town vs rural areas and then by social class etc, people dress in a quite diverse manner, some pass in Tajikistan, some in Milan though my simple style is not the most common either, for example just wearing a pair of simple blue or black jeans and a no-logo simple black or navy t-shirt is seen as too simple by the average Romanian man, so I sometimes stand out because of simplicity, they tend to like to style themselves a bit more and work on their haircuts, they have a bit of Italian legacy after all haha

you Romanians have a lot in common with us New Jersey Italians. I grew up in Jersey but live in Florida now. I eat tons of garlic myself and I have a white non-Italian gf originally from Tennessee and she says it makes me stink. I don't care because it is worth it for the taste.

[ioas12]

You mean the theory is that they are mostly descendents of Dacians.. correct me if am wrong but its mostly the location of Romania that theory exist? Its the same with Albanians because there country is in were illyria was they belive all of them are illyrians, when dna says they are more mixed paleobalkan the just illyrians??

Oh boy your going to piss a lot of Albanians with this one

[Rotterdam]

Easy, if you forget your phone on the table at a bar, realise you forgot it, come back and see a guy nervously leaving quickly....that's how you identify a Romanian.

[MandM]

Oh boy your going to piss a lot of Albanians with this one

Well have to do somthing with my free time ;p ahh most of them who
follow genetics know this is true, its just a hard pill to swallow for many of them because all there life they have told them tha ALL of the re illyrians, just go to eupedia there you have Albanians opening threds on witch haplo group is the real illyrian one

[Tommie]

Like Bulgarians but more delicate and Med, occassionaly with Turan touch. Some others just look Slavic so those you won't be able to recognize.

Romanians have more Dinarid tendency, and some have a pan-Euro look rather than Slavic.

If they're like Italians do they eat med food, pasta, seafood, olive oil diet?

These are all very popular in Romania, but not part of our traditional cuisine.

We traditionally eat soups, cheese and meat, with fish also being traditional in certain areas. Our cuisine is mainly pastoral in origin.

Romanian cuisine is a mixture of East Med (Turkish/Lebanese) with some Slavic and Germanic cuisine.

Traditional Romanian cuisine has very little Italian influence, although in the past 20 years, Italian cuisine is growing in popularity in Romania, mainly because Romanians bring cooking practices from Italy, but also Italian entrepreneurs are moving to Romania in significant numbers in certain Romanian cities.

Romania's national dish is Mamaliga, which is about the same as Polenta, a staple food in Italy (especially in Northern Italy). They also eat it with cheese or meat.

[Tommie]

You mean the theory is that they are mostly descendents of Dacians.. correct me if am wrong but its mostly the location of Romania that theory exist? Its the same with Albanians because there country is in were illyria was they belive all of them are illyrians, when dna says they are more mixed paleobalkan the just illyrians??

Of course we're not just Dacians, but DNA studies show Romanians are the closest people to the population that lived some 2,000 years ago on the territory of Romania.

[ecptr]

Compared to other Europeans they are more passable in Turkey and Afghanistan (I hope this statement is not controversial).