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[Eva Elisabeth]

Thank you for so many more wonderful guesses!

Very smart and logical, Scott - and absolutely correct McClellan tried English first. And I assure you the British cuisine isn't as bad as its reputation!

Gene, I'm sorry, he tried neither of these languages!

Laurie, since Polish looks and sounds more difficult than Russian and Italian together (almost zero vowels!) you may get the pierogies and Polish dinner instead of the other two!

Hint #2: One of the respective countries is partly, but not entirely on the European continent, the other isn't at all. One of the respective cuisines wouldn't serve pork, the other wouldn't serve beef.