Food is a reason i love to travel in Europe and though i rarely go to restaurants i love street food - and there is no end of tasty treat to wet your appetite when walking around. One reason i always gain some weight on my trips is the easy availability of street food - pastries beckoning my taste buds as they sit so appetizingly behind store windows - or the frites stands with not only french fried potatoes with a myriad of sauces to top them, a plethora of types of pizzas in Italy - to Germany wurst wagons, etc.

What are some of your favorite 'street foods'

Like i said Frites stands and shops are at the top of my list - and those in Belgium and Holland have to take the cake. Places like FEBO are all over - hawking fresh cooked frites in paper cups - your choice of topping from mayo, ketchup, curry, onions, etc. I especially like the frites speciaal - relish, onions and mayo all in one. FEBO also has automats where you put the coin in and retrieve a Bami, Nasi (meet snacks from Holland's Indonesia colonial days) and other hot ready to munch snacks.

And in Germany the Wurst stands - first think i always do when i get off the train at the first German station - hit the ubiquitous Wurst stand for a hot wurst, slathered with mustard, and served with an open piece of bread.

Your favorite street snacks?

In Nice, the SOCCA!!!!

The wurst in Germany and Austria and ice cream or gelato anywhere.

Crepes (avec sucre y beurre) in Paris. Perhaps not technically street food, but I have a freakish addiction to Pret bars (apricot/dried fruit/nut)in the UK.

crepes or more precisely gouffres are a street food in Belgium and Holland - well crepes i guess in Holland - Belgian waffles and pannekaken (sp?) and those sweet little balls, often sold in town squares and from street wagons - um with butter and sugar.

Can I throw in some Mexico street stands? If so, the pico de gallo fruit cups, cut fruit with lime, salt and chili powder and the roasted corn on the cob, also salted and with a sprinkiling of chili powder. Eat these as you walk around the plaza in the evening. Mmmm-mmm.....

Sallet (cheese tartletts) in Switzerland
Any version of local hotdog/sausage on a bun
Crepes in Paris

Bitterballen in Holland (get them from FEBO if you like) or Belgium

Doner in Germany or Switzerland

The completely unnatural red hot dogs in Denmark

Danish ice cream (the best in the world?)

A proper fish and chips, though good ones are sadly few and far between

The raw herring sandwiches in Holland

Crepes

Snails from the random old lady in the antiques market in Brussels

A hot baguette

We would need more bandwidth to discuss Asia...

Palenque
In The Netherlands it is spelt Pannekoek. But I did not know they were available to eat on a street.
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannenkoek
The items you describe with butter are called Poffertjes.
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poffertjes
Personally love anything than can be bought from a Dutch automatiek.
http://tinypic.com/m3rqc
or even Oliebol
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliebol

heerlijk
Here in Spain there is nothing you can call street food.

tgourmet - i've always marveled at yes those abnormally red "Polskers" as i believe the hot-dog vendors in Copenhagen call them. Why red? and your list could be mine -love all those things.

The Naschmarkt in Vienna....so many varieties in the street stalls! The sausages on hot onion buns, #1.

AND the best in fish sandwiches, sold by vendors on little boats, at the edge of the Galata Bridge, in Istanbul.

Roasted Chestnuts in so many towns and villages in Central and Eastern Europe...notably Romania and the former Yugoslavia *(Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia).

and a big second for TG's rec, doner in Berlin.

Yeah, Palenque, the green wagons and their frites at the foot of the Bell Tower in GrossMarkt, Brugge. The waffle kiosks all over town.

Crusty-bread ham and cheese paninis in the little "Il Caselo" just before you head up the CT trail in Monterosso..with a cold beer. It would qualify as street food, because it offers take-out too...

The bags-ful of shrimp at Oslo's Akker Bryyge dockside.The ONLY bargain in town.

stu
(well. with all this talk...think I'll go to COSTCO and partake of their "samples" for "lunch")

For street snacks you can't beat Socca with a nice cold glass of Rose.

I like to get some caviar and Champagne from Hediard in Paris and walk around Place Madeleine with it.

This is Thin's idea of street food.

Thin

Palenque - I have no idea why they are red. Perhaps it is because of massive quantities of chemicals and artificial flavorings. Supposedly, they are illegal in Sweden (I believe this is myth) for precisely this reason. Personally, I find that smug, considering Sweden has blessed us with the Tunnbrodsrulle.

FWIW - it is Polse or, rather Poelse, with oe being the o with the slash through it (don't have my Danish keyboard anymore). OE is pronounced sort of like uh, but I also routinely butcher Danish pronunciation, so don't take my word for it. And there are many other great Danish variations on the hot dog. The polse wrapped in bacon is especially nice. And don't forget the fried onion thingies they put on top. Not crazy about the pickles though, which I find too sweet.

Aaahh, frites merguez in Paris!

<i>The bags-ful of shrimp at Oslo's Akker Bryyge dockside.</i>

Yes... Might be the perfect breakfast.

...poor Thin - has never made it to Russia.

The only way to eat caviar properly is a hot blini, covered thickly with fresh melting butter and a thick layer of ossietra on top.

Ditto the haring stands in Holland. I can't walk past without having one of those beautiful fish with onions.

<i>The bags-ful of shrimp at Oslo's Akker Bryyge dockside.

Yes... Might be the perfect breakfast</i>

TG: Not bkfst..but after a washing , with the proper local shrimp sauce on a baguette, makes for a nice pcnic lunch at the Resistance Museum park, with an "expensive" beer or bottle of wine. (Whatever you eat or drink in Oslo is stratospherically priced)We had our friends along (another couple) and it was a fun, unusual and delicious lunch.

stu(fellow Quincy-ite)

i do not really like herring but i love watching the Dutch eat them fresh from the stand - Nieuwe herring is often advertised - i guess a new season

but anyway they typically it seems take the herring and hold it by its tail and then tip their heads up and then chomp on it after putting the whole fish in their mouths - chopped onions as well.