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Started by Faeelin, March 22, 2009, 08:59:53 AM

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Savonarola

#90
March 24, 2009, 09:05:14 PM
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

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#91
March 24, 2009, 09:08:15 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 24, 2009, 08:26:21 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 24, 2009, 08:25:10 PM
My Mom made Shepard's pie yesterday. :mmm:

Um... that's very, very English.  Not American.

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Savonarola

#92
March 24, 2009, 09:09:40 PM
Quote from: Fireblade on March 24, 2009, 08:10:41 PM
I don't know anyone who eats grits. It's more a Carolinas thing, I think.

Detroit has the second largest jazz festival after Montreux.  One year one of the saxophonists on the main stage said he loved coming to Detroit because, unlike New York City, you can get grits here.
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#93
March 24, 2009, 10:27:10 PM
Quote from: Fireblade on March 24, 2009, 08:10:41 PM
I don't know anyone who eats grits. It's more a Carolinas thing, I think.
I never met anyone or even knew what the hell grit was until I joined the army. It's like a right of passage to eat the stuff.

Of course I can't stand grits.
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viper37

#94
March 24, 2009, 11:22:12 PM
Quote from: Faeelin on March 22, 2009, 08:59:53 AM
Talking to a German girl the other day who's visiting the States for a year, she started complaining about how American food is so terrible compared to German food, since it's just hamburgers, steak, and seafood. This kind of made me blink, since a) German food is sausage and potatoes, and b) I wasn't sure what I actually considered American cuisine.

So, I'm curious. What qualifies as American? French toast? Pizza? Barbecue ribs?
the stuff we call "canadian cuisine" is often american food, such as boston beans, the big ass pancakes, meatballs, roasted pork, roasted beef, and a couple of others.

Modern stuff, I'd have to say that anything cooked on a bbq with some kind of hyper sweet sauce especially if it contains Jack Daniels wiskhy or if it's cook in a 4x4 pick-up truck is american food ;)
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Savonarola

#95
March 25, 2009, 12:49:51 PM
Quote from: viper37 on March 24, 2009, 11:22:12 PM
Modern stuff, I'd have to say that anything cooked on a bbq with some kind of hyper sweet sauce especially if it contains Jack Daniels wiskhy or if it's cook in a 4x4 pick-up truck is american food ;)

It's twice as American if you cook it on your engine:

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Valmy

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March 25, 2009, 12:57:50 PM Last Edit: March 25, 2009, 01:00:01 PM by Valmy
Quote from: DontSayBanana on March 22, 2009, 09:10:18 AM
That's interesting, as I think a lot of Americans would not consider Jambalaya and Tex-Mex as American cuisine- both are American interpretations of other cuisines, and I think a lot of people get those confused.

Yeah because Pizza and Hot Dogs are totally not Italian and German food given an American interpretation.

Any American who does not recognize Tex-Mex as border food has never been to Mexico and does not come from the Southwest.  To those people I have nothing but gastromic contempt.
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#97
March 25, 2009, 01:02:28 PM
I think of Tex-Mex and Texas style BBQ when I think of Texas food.  If anybody came here that is what I would take them to.

And of course that is what will be served at my wedding and rehearsal dinner.
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#98
March 25, 2009, 01:05:45 PM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on March 22, 2009, 09:18:10 AM
Tex-Mex is American interpretation of Mexican cuisine, so I don't think that counts. Cajun and Creole are both pretty exclusive ethnic subsets, so I don't think those should be considered for the status quo, either.

All of our food is either ethnic, regional, or derived from other cuisines.  That is ridiculous I cannot include the signature food of my region because it includes foreign influences?  I guess we cannot count fried chicken as American food either since we were not the first people to ever fry chicken.
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Oexmelin

#99
March 25, 2009, 02:38:00 PM
Valmy's food rage !
Que le grand cric me croque !
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