Typical Dutch
The Dutch have a distinct culture of their own and there are many symbols associated with them, considered to be "Typical Dutch." Some are old, like national costumes, with no one today regularly wearing those clothes but still included on the listSo here is a list of typical Dutch things:
- Architectual Style (like step-gables)
- Bicycles (not that it's unknown in other countries, but the Netherlands is the country where almost everybody bikes)
- Canals
- Cheese
- Chocolate strands
- Cows
- Custard
- Delftware
- Dikes
- Dutch gingerbread with an orange icing, containing slivers of sugar-coated orange-peel
- Dutch type of farm, where the living quartes are connected to the
farmbuilding proper by means of a narrow passage
- Gingerbread nuts
- Hard brown spiced biscuit
- Herring
- Hotchpotch
- Licorice
- National Costumes
- Orange
- Old Dutch Games (think of hoops and tops)
- Pancakes
- Pea soup
- Piet Mondriaan
- Play "sjoelbak"
- Skating (very Frisian)
- Sinterklaas
- Skûtsjesîlen (also very Frisian)
- Treacle biscuits
- Tulips
- Windmills
- Wooden shoes