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Every country has their own dish that they can’t help shouting about, especially whenever there is an opportunity to proudly fly the flag alongside their favourite food.
And it’s official: Canadian food inspires the most national pride, with more tweets pairing the nation's flag emoji with mentions of the country’s national dish than any other country. Through this emoji-sentiment analysis, Chefs Plate can demonstrate that poutine, Canada’s national dish, came out on top.
According to Chef’s Plate’s analysis of countries with at least 5 million Twitter users, Canada’s flag emoji accounts for a third of all of the national flag emojis used in tweets about national dishes by the 18 countries analysed. Spain came in at a close second with 27%.
Top 10 Countries for Including National Flag in Tweets About Its National Dish
| Country | Tweets containing national flag emoji |
|---|---|
| Canada | 74 |
| Spain | 61 |
| Saudi Arabia | 19 |
| Philippines | 19 |
| United States | 14 |
| Turkey | 12 |
| Japan | 9 |
| South Korea | 6 |
| Brazil | 5 |
| Indonesia | 2 |
Meanwhile, Brazil’s national dish of feijoada was shown to be the most tasty and mouthwatering, with the 😋 and 🤤, respectively, being used more often than for other national dishes.
Emoji Data: Chef's Plate emoji-based sentiment analysis of Twitter's API. Each icon represents 10 tweets that included the emoji in a tweet about the country’s national dish. Values are rounded to the nearest 10.
Canadian Poutine Still Features in the Top 10 for Both
7th for mouthwatering and 10th for tasty.
Top 10 by 🤤 usage
| Country | Tweets containing 🤤 emoji |
|---|---|
| Brazil | 451 |
| Indonesia | 191 |
| Japan | 86 |
| Spain | 74 |
| United States | 63 |
| Philippines | 62 |
| Canada | 57 |
| South Korea | 55 |
| Turkey | 27 |
| Saudi Arabia | 15 |
Top 10 by 😋 usage
| Country | Tweets containing 😋 emoji |
|---|---|
| Brazil | 369 |
| Japan | 250 |
| United States | 146 |
| Spain | 144 |
| Indonesia | 114 |
| Saudi Arabia | 111 |
| Philippines | 105 |
| Turkey | 54 |
| South Korea | 53 |
| Canada | 50 |
For a range of equally delicious and tasty-emoji worthy recipes, check out our weekly menu.
Data Methodology
- Analysed national dishes for countries where Twitter is a popular social media platform – those with at least 5 million users.
- National dishes were searched for using local writing systems (ie Latin, Arabic, Cryllic, Hangul and Kanji).
- Used Twitter’s API to search tweets from the past 7 days from when the data was collected.
- Results show the number of tweets containing selected emojis rather than how many times an emoji was used (i.e. multiple uses of the same emoji in one tweet is counted once in the analysis).
- Analysis ran on 13 October 2021 and 19 October 2021. Note: data for Canada was gathered on 19 October to exclude the Thanksgiving period from analysis.