food

From: One Without Reason <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Thu Nov 8 08:13:21 2001

On 8 Nov 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:

> Chad Fernandez skrev:
>
> >Richard Erlacher wrote:
> >> Americans have always been somewhat "strange" about their diet,
>
> >How? I've never seen anything that I thought was strange. We don't eat
> >anything that is still alive, or wiggles, or whatever. Our food is
> >pretty basic, with the exception maybe of some fancy stuff.... but a lot
> >of that is foreign influence.
>
> I find it somewhat interesting how Americans define "foreign". Doesn't that
> require something "indigenous"? =)

Sure. There's food that's indigenous. There's definitely food that
Americans came up with.

> I can't say that I know much about American cousine, save for hamburgers, but
> there is a shop in Stockholm which specialises in American food, and I must
> say that the general impression I've got is that it's absolutely deranged.
> Two examples: Mustard and mayonnaise mixed into one bottle. Smoke essence,
> added to food in order to get a "grilled" quality.

That's weird. I don't see that here in the US.

> And everything is very colourful.

I do see that here.

> Oh, and then there's that marshmallow butter, which I think you're supposed to
> have on your sandwich. Makes Nutella seem like a wholesome product. =)

Fluff? Fluff is awesome. I eat it all the time.

Peace... Sridhar

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