Every culture has something that makes it special. It could be ingredients distinctive to a specific region that create a trademark dish, a unique practice, or a household item you won’t find anywhere else, which is what this list is all about.
In a recent Reddit thread, people from different countries shared the one object they had seen in their homes their entire lives. Responses ranged from pieces of furniture to cooking utensils and bathroom implements that raised questions.
If you feel like this list is missing something from your country, feel free to add it in the comments!
#1 Saunas In Apartments/Flats. Finland
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#2 Tortillero, Which Is Used To Keep Tortillas Warm While You Eat. Mexico
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#3 I Guess It Would Have To Be A Central Vacuum System. It Is Built Into The House. Canada
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#4 Pickeled Flour. Poland
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#5 We Call It A Flessenlikker, Or Freely Translated Bottle Licker. It Is Used To Completely Scrape Bottles And Jars Empty. Netherlands
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#6 Every Household Contains A Spice Box, And Each Family’s Mix Is Unique, Depending On Their Preference. Germany
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#7 Frozen Dill Or Parsley In A Plastic Ice Cream Container. Poland
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#8 I’ve Only Ever Seen Dish Washer Drawers In New Zealand
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#9 For Korea, Probably A Kimchi Fridge
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#10 Chicken Salt For Chips. Australia
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#11 Drying Rack Above The Sink. Apparently Not That Common Outside The Nordics
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#12 Clay Water Filter. Brazil
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#13 Bagged Milk
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#14 A Jar Of Lingonberry Jam (Preferably Rårörda Lingon, A Variant That Hasn’t Been Boiled). The Staple Condiment For, Like, Half Of All Swedish Recipes
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#15 A Coconut Grater! Every Household In Southern India Where Coconut Is A Staple Has One
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#16 In Japan, Most Houses Comes With A Grill Just For Fish
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#17 St Brigid’s Cross. Ireland
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#18 Copper Coffee Pot. Turkey
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#19 Termo Y Mate. Argentina
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#20 Tajeen, Pronounced Ta-J-Een. Popular In Morocco, Algeria, Maybe Tunis And Libya I’m Not Sure. Traditionally, It’s Made Of Clay And Used For Cooking
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#21 A Poffertjespan To Make…..poffertjes. Tiny Dutch Pancakes That Are Consumed With Butter And Powdered Sugar
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#22 Royal Portraits In The Outhouse/Privy, If You Have One. Sweden
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#23 Jamonero, For Cutting Iberic Ham. Most Houses Have One. Spain
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#24 In The Yucatan Peninsula, We Use Something Called Lek’. It’s Made From Carved And Dried Out Fruit, And It Has A Crazyyy Insulating Power And It Dates Back All The Way To The Mayans
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#25 Three Legged, Falkirk Cast Iron Potjie Pot. South Africa
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#26 Shared With The Neighbours: Electric Kettle With Set Temperature For Mate. Argentina
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#27 They’re A Bit Fancy, But An Aga Cooker. It’s Like A Range Cooker But You Don’t Turn It Off. It’s Always On And It Acts As Heating For Your Home. England
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#28 Storm Cellars – Especially In The Midwest/Tornado Alley. USA
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#29 Most Filipino Households Have A Water Bucket And A Dipper In The Bathroom. Even With Hand Bidets, The Timba And Tabo Are Still Commonly Used
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#30 Passapomodoro … For When You Make Passata. Italy
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#31 It’s Called “Molcajete” And It’s Used To Prepare Salsas And, As You Can See, Guacamole. Mexico
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#32 Don’t Have One At Home, But In My Grandmother’s Apartment It Does, These Are Антресоли (Mezzanines), Usually Used For Storing All Kinds Of Jams, Pickled Cucumbers And Tomatoes. Russia
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#33 Moka Pots Maybe. Italy
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#34 This To Cook Cuscuz. Brazil
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#35 Those Tiles. Portugal
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#36 Oh! I Actually Have Something For This! This Is An “Ulu” Or “Uluaq”, Which Is Part Of Our Alaskan Eskimo Cultural Tradition. USA
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#37 A Fondue Caquelon. Switzerland
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#38 I Guess It’s Teak Furniture. I Know It’s Not Really Exclusive, But Here Almost Every House Has It, And Sometimes It Becomes An Heirloom Since It Can Easily Last 100 Years. Indonesia
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#39 Ostehøvel! It’s For Slicing Cheese. Norway
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#40 Separate Hot And Cold Taps In The Bathroom. UK
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#41 We Have These Switches Above All Of Our Outlets To Cut The Power To Anything Plugged In. I Grew Up In The Us And Never Seen Anything Like This Until I Moved To Aus
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#42 Swedish Dish Cloth. It Can Absorb Liquids 15 Times Its Own Weight
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#43 Danbo Cheese Is A Staple Food In All Danish Households
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#44 Bag With Bags. Russia
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#45 Kitchen Bin Has To Be Underneath The Sink, It’s A Law. If Your Bin Isn’t Under The Sink, Consider Yourself A Foreign Spy. Poland
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#46 Cheese Box. France
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#47 Garbage Disposal. USA
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#48 Mango Pickle Jar.. It Is Very Common In India.. Especially In Maharashtra!. India
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#49 Little Squeegees Over Our Sinks So We Can Dry It Off After Doing Dishes. Apparently Not Something That Is Really Common Outside Of Here. Brazil
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#50 A Baguette Box! My Parents Used To Have One Right In Front Of The Main Door; The Baker Was Delivering A Fresh One Every Morning. France
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#51 In Lao Households (Even Outside Of Lao!), You Will Always Find A Thip Khao/Rice Basket. Most Families Have A Massive One To Communal Dig Your Rice Balls Out From. Canada
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#52 Not Sure If It Is Just German, But A Dedicated Egg Boiler Complete With A Little Water Measuring Thing Is Very Common So You Can Make Your Perfect Dippy Breakfast Egg
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#53 A Bidet. But Separated From The Actual Toilet. Argentina
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#54 Was Almost Forgetting: For When You Make Pasta, And This Is Really Common. Italy
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#55 Probably Speaking For The Entire German Speaking Region Here. Austria
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#56 Chushkopek, Literally “Pepper-Roaster”. It’s A Uniquely Bulgarian Kitchen
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#57 Mantovarka (Manti Cooker)- Metal Steamer For Making Manti, Most Often A Beaten One Made Of Aluminium Passed On For Generations From Ussr
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#58 One For Sweeping Outdoor Areas And The Other One For Indoors. Philippines
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#59 Egg Cutters. Not Sure If Theyre Special Anywhere Else, Have Not Seen Them Yet Outside Of My Country. Germany
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#60 This Style Of Can Opener. Denmark
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#61 Kotatsu! I Live Up North And It’s Absolutely A Must For Winter Months. Also We Live In An Older House So We Use Kerosene Heaters To Warm A Room Up. Japan
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#62 Grew Up In East Asia And We Always Had A Rice Dispenser
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#63 Charcoal Grill On A High Rise Apartment Balcony. Brazil
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#64 In The South Of France (Provence More Precisely) We Have Decorative Ceramic Or Cast Iron Cicadas On The Walls
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#65 A Home Deep-Fryer. Belgium
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#66 The Daawe, It’s Used For Making Laxoox. Denmark
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#67 A Spianatoia, Used Either To Make Pasta Or Eat Polenta With The Whole Family. Italy
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#68 I Didn’t Know How Common The Kartoffelharfe Is In Other Countries. You Use It To Cut Cooked Potatoes Into Thin Slices For Potato Salad Oder Roasted Potatoes. Germany
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#69 Rice Washers. Brazil
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#70 “It’s A Clay Pot Used To Hold Water, And It Keeps It Very Cool And Cold. I Think Most Mexicans Have One Of These. It’s Called A Xīcālli Īhuān Ātl
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#71 Tostonera. It’s For Smashing Fried Plantains Before The Second Fry To Make Tostones. USA
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#72 Some Kind Of Biltong Maker (Not Necessarily This One, Some People Have Very Rudimentary Contraptions). South Africa
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#73 Flowery Blankets! Every Household In India (And Probably The Entire Subcontinent) Has One Of These. India
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#74 Raclette Grill. Germany
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#75 Thses Bowls. Yes, I Know, They’re Gorgeous. Portugal
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#76 I Would Be Really Surprised To Find A Finnish Household Without At Least One Of Those Bad Boys. Finland
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#77 I’d Say Probably A Chocolatera, It’s Used For Hot Chocolate And Agua De Panela. Colombia
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#78 The Egg Holder (Eierbecher). Germany
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#79 Going Out On A Limb Here, But Bush Pie Makers In Canada
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#80 A Chocolate Spread Container Filled With Lard. Serbia
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#81 Pebble Dash Everywhere! Ireland
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#82 Marrow Separator, Because Only Heathens Eat Bone With The Marrow. Haven’t Seen Anyone Else Has This Outside Of Canada
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#83 Chilean Toaster!
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#84 Pleated Christmas Hearts. We All Made A Ton Of These As Kids To Decorate The Christmas Tree. Denmark
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#85 This Kind Of Washing Line. Australia
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#86 That Jar Of Morta Sitting Next To The White Cheese. Egypt
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#87 Washandje, A Washing Hand, I Have Only Seen These In The Benelux Countries. It Is A Washcloth You Can Stick Your Hand In Like A Mitten But Without The Thumb. Netherlands
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#88 The Raclette Machine, That Usually Allows To Also Make Crepes On The Up Side Of It (And Plancha). France
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#89 A Budare To Cook Arepas. Venezuela
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#90 More Of A German Thing, But Not Unheard Of In Austria
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#91 Basically Every Household In Taiwan Has One Of These Rice/Multicookers
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#92 Botijo (In The Left), To Get Some Cold Water When The Sun Is Strong And Porrón (In The Right), A Wine Decanter. Spain
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#93 A Coal Scuttle / Decorative Reminder Of Coal – Even In Houses That Haven’t Seen Coal In Decades. Or At Least Something Nodding To The Mining Past. Wales
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#94 In Argentina
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#95 These Specific Corningware Dishes Are In Every House In The Us
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#96 Not Sure How Unique To Turkey This Is, But This Two Part Teapot
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#97 Any Filipino Household Has A Dipper. Maybe Other Countries Like In The Sea Has One Or A Dipper Of A Different Variation
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#98 Coconut Grater. To Scrape The White Flesh Of Coconut
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#99 Ashtray. Australia
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#100 The Icelandic Pancake Pan. It May Look Like Any Other Pan But Its Only Ever Supposed To Be Used For Pancakes And Nothing Else
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