What country’s cuisine is so repellent to you that if you were dropped into the middle of the country and couldn’t eat fast food, you’d likely starve, or at least drop 50 pounds in a year?
For me it would be Japan. There isn’t a single thing I’ve ever found Japanese that I would eat unless there was a gun to my head. I loathe sushi and I think Kobe beef is vastly over-rated. If I ever need to crash-diet, a trip to Tokyo would be in order.
Japanese food is more than sushi bar fare. You really couldn’t get by on udon or donburi or something? Or McDonald’s, I hear Japan has modern things now.
For me, probably certain parts of Mexico or Central America would be the worst although I probably wouldn’t starve. I would just have to deal with frequent bouts of diarrhea and hopefully my stomach will get used to it. Maybe parts of Greenland or Nunavut where seal blubber predominates as well.
I’d come the closest to starving in Italy, but not because the food isn’t tasty. The bulk of the foods that contain my worse allergen come from there, and after one instance of itchy mouth and throat as well as getting hives externally as usual, I’m wary of eating anything pasta or sauce-based that I haven’t personally seen the list of ingredients for…which would be hard to cope with since I can only read a little Italian.
There might be some countries where I’d have to start eating meat if I were there long-term.
But even being coeliac, somewhat lactose intolerant and vegetarian I’ve managed to find food in lots of different cuisines. Italy was, surprisingly, really easy for me, even when it came to street vendors.
It’d be a bit odd to exclude noodles from Japanese cuisine.
In the spirit of the other thread, while I’m sure I would eventually find something that I’ll eat, I would metaphorically starve in India. I’ve yet to meet an Indian dish that I enjoyed the smell of, much less the taste.