8 Nov
2001
8 Nov
'01
5:45 a.m.
Iggy Drougge wrote:
Chad Fernandez skrev:
Ha! We are accused of being "typical" or "ugly". Those comments make
us
indigenous.
(And they say that WE have double standards!)
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"? =)
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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