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I thought it was YOUR recipe.....or maybe today's menu

I'm neither an American nor do I like meat

So I'd never eat anything on that site

Peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches.

now I'm not that hard to please with food .. I actually like haggis, I can eat raw fish, survived several "chez-salmonella" restaurants (some barely) .. but I didn't find anything I would like to try on that website.. surely it's not serious? people are trying to send in disgusting photographs, or disgusting recipes, or combinations of that?

Tomatoes, potatoes, sweetcorn and bison meat. There are many more, where they came from. Many of them have spread around the world so much that they aren't thought of as American food any more - but then tacos and so on are available much further afield than Mexico.

Deep fried spam on a stick

The stuff in that link looked truly revolting - and I'm on a diet which automatically means all food looks good!

Deb

Glad to be of service

I think it's the pale runny cheese that does it

Deb

Another American adaptation or variation of a forrin food is Chop Suey. Unheard of in China but a staple in 'Chinese' restaurants for years, consisting in ground beef (hamburger) stir fried with onion, green peppers, bean sprouts, water chestnuts, celery. Throw a few deep fried noodles on top and it becomes chow mein.

The quintessential American food is corn. The economy is based on it. Not just corn-on-the-cob or canned creamed corn or even because it is used in animal feed. Fact is, high fructose corn syrup is a constituent in virtually all American processed food; it replaces sugar in almost everything.

Corn production is highly subsidized and it is what is making America fat and sick. The corn lobby controls the government and is behind the ill-considered and dangerous move toward ethanol fuel alternatives.


~jwf~

Mmmmmm........Corn...........



What exactly is haggis?

Mmmmmm........Corn...........



What exactly is haggis?

haggis is scotish food

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A261136

getting half-drunk on whisky is the usual accompaniment

Sausage gravy and biscuits.

I don't actually recommend it, mind you. The nicest thing about it is they haven't managed to make a global franchise out of it yet.

Try washing some down with root beer. Not.

Root beer is truly awful.

I suppose it's one of those flavours you have to have grown up with to like. The Americans also have wintergreen, same effect.

In Germany, there's Waldmeister (woodruff) which is used for all kinds of sweets and things you can use to disgust foreign visitors. (And me, but a lot of my misspent youth wasn't spent in Germany.)

root beer is fantastic

in germany they have fanta and coke pre imxed in a can as well

Genius!!!!!!

Like some earlier posters, I agree "America" is a pretty big place, with lots of regional variations. Corned beef in New York (Reuben sandwiches!), gumbo in Louisiana, "Cheeseburgers in Paradise" (per Jimmy Buffett). And in Texas, its barbecue, meaning pit smoked for maybe 18 hours, not just grilled. Here are videos:

http://www.goodecompany.com/goodeVideo.aspx

... and here are the lyrics:

http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/keen-robert-earl/barbeque-11762.html

>>I'm also entertained by the tendency to call anything with holes in it "Swiss cheese" - Switzerland has about 450 kinds of cheese, and most of them don't have holes.

Although until recently, more varieties did have holes. For some unknown biological reason, the holes have started disappearing.


Haggis, you say?

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the puddin-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy o' a grace
As lang's my arm.

So there you have it. Boil for a couple of housr and serve with bashed neeps and tatties. Delicious!

Coincidentally, I was in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum at the weekend. They have various stuffed creatures, including the taxidermed haggis pictured here:
http://www.dougie-coull-photos.co.uk/gallery/6018672_HX9yB/1/376495177_3ZpPh/Original
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Haggis_scoticus.jpg

Unfortunately the label doesn't say which sub-species of haggis it belongs to. Because haggises live on the sides of steep, Scottish mountains, they have evolved so that the legs on one side are shorter than the other. One type is able to run round mountains clockwise, the other anti-clockwise. The two types seldom interbreed...

I've an 'Electronic' copy of an American recipie book, put together I think a good hundred years ago ... I think a lot of teh recipies are variations* or twists on recipies of those who'd emigrated out to the states, but with 'twists' on them, I guess mainly due to the differnt ingrediants and such like vvilible.... They were all huge portion sizes, I seem to recall, not many to serve just 12 people or less I think a lot probably to feed the 'workers' at say I guess a farm... I can't find it at the moment though

I have an American recipe book I inhereted from my mother. I shall dig it out and look for typical fare. It's all very Stepford Wives...Angel Food Cake; Jello Salads.

Also...fried squirrel.