OT - Re: food

From: Eric Chomko <vze2wsvr_at_verizon.net>
Date: Thu Nov 8 13:45:30 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"? =)

Ha! We are accused of being "typical" or "ugly". Those comments make us
indigenous.
(And they say that WE have double standards!)

>
> 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.
>

But guess what? I can go to any large city and even smaller ones and get:
Chinese, Korean, Thai, Indian, Mexican, Greek, Italian, Jewish, African (and
others)
food.
In fact, all those and more are all within an hour of my house, with many choices
of
many. What I lack is good German food nearby, but that is another story.

Can you get that variety where you live?

> Two examples: Mustard and mayonnaise mixed into one bottle. Smoke essence,
> added to food in order to get a "grilled" quality.
> And everything is very colourful.
> 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. =)
>

Sounds like Japanese (oops, forgot to add that to my list above) steak house
food.
IOW, authenitic Japanese food is not steak house food, its an American-influenced

version of Japanese food. Authentic Japanese food is sushi, sashimi, sukiaki,
etc.

It sounds like what they are passing off as "American food" is a euphemism for
"weird food".

Eric

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