Typical Dutch

	Typical Dutch If you meet a Dutchman, there are always things you're thinking of. Those should be "Typical Dutch." Some are a bit old, like national costumes, almost nobody is walking in those clothes. But national costumes and wooden shoes are still no the list. So here is a list with 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 anybody can cycle) Canals Cheese Chocolate strands Cows Custard Delftware Dikes Dutch gingerbread with an orange icing, containing slivers of sugar-coated orange-peel Gingerbread nuts Dutch type of farm, where the living quartes are connected to the farmbuilding proper by means of a narrow passage Hard brown spiced biscuit Herring Hotchpotch Licorice National Costumes Orange Old Dutch Games (think of to play hoops and tops) Pancakes Pea soup Piet Mondriaan Play "sjoelbak" Skating (more Frisian) Sinterklaas Skûtsjesîlen (also more Frisian) Treacle biscuits Tulips Windmills Wooden shoes Back to Culture