I’ve seen chicken and waffles offered in several diners and restaurants. It’s eaten the way chipped beef on toast is eaten. Creamed chicken is poured over plain waffles (no syrup).
I heard this story from a high-school teacher: the students were all designing a town for a lesson on land use planning. One kid–I’ll call him John–put in his dream business, a place he called “Big John’s Chicken, Waffle, and Strip Joint.”
Bar food–are wings a recent addition to bar food? I don’t remember chicken wings being popular until about 20 years ago, but I wasn’t hanging out in bars during the 70s.
I was served apple pie with a non-melted slab of cheese on top in a Boston restaurant in 1976. I had never heard of this before, and approached it gingerly, thinking t must be some sort of weird vanilla ice cream, and thi as some kind o trendy pie a la mode. It turned out to be a non-cheddar cheese (reminded me of Swiss, without the holes).
My mother has always loved cheddar cheese melted on top of apple pie. She could probably also eat a whole watermelon. Just giver her a salt shaker.
Re: marshmallows on pumpkin pie–that person must have been mixed up with sweet potatoes or yams that are often served with marshmallows on top. My husband must have real whipped cream on his.
My friend KittenBlue keeps telling me about some place on the east side of Cleveland that serves waffles, chicken, and maple syrup. She keeps wanting me to try it. This sounds really terrible to me.
Does anyone else think that cilantro tastes like toothpaste?
I remember reading a study that had been done on which foods compliment each other, and the primary example given was apple pie and cheddar cheese.
I order it even if I don’t see it on the menu, just ask the waitress to add some cheddar to the top of the apple pie and re-heat it.
As far as marshmallows on top of pumpkin pie, are you sure you’re not thinking of marshmallows on top of candied yams? I have seen that many times but never on pumpkin pie. (On review, I see mala mentions sweet potato pie, which is along the same line as candied yams.)
Fizzies are still available (at least they were in the last 6 mos. or so, I got them for someone as a gag gift) and still just as nasty.
(If someone is really interested, I will track down my source.)
And salt on salad is not so weird when you consider that a standard oil-and-vinegar dressing usually calls for salt and pepper. If there was another dressing already on the salad, I wouldn’t salt it, but if they bring cruets of oil and vinegar to the table, I usually add salt and pepper to the salad.
But every single time I have apple pie at my parents house, I get to hear the nifty little rhyme:
“Apple pie without the cheese
Is like a kiss without the squeeze”
followed by chortling from my dad (and no, he didn’t make it up.) Several times. Until there’s no more pie to be eaten. In case I had somehow missed it the first several thousand times he’s repeated it over the past 20-something years.
I really do love my parents. But I’m very glad that I don’t have their sense of humor. Or taste.
But I don’t see people eating liver or tongue anymore. Maybe I’m just shielding myself.
By contrast, I have never seen such a thing. If you go to a chicken and waffle joint, like the famous Roscoe’s in Los Angeles, you’re served fried chicken and waffles with butter and syrup. I’m not sure where that combo comes from, but it’s surprisingly popular.
As for cilantro – when it tastes of soap or something acidic, that’s a sign that you’re actually allergic to it. The allergy manifests itself as a soapy taste and an aversion to the smell.
Chicken and waffles? The Church’s here in ATL are offering a combo thing of waffle strips and chicken strips for $1.99. I daresay it’s more common in urban areas.
My family are big cooks and dressing/stuffing eaters. Whenever we make it, we always have a plain pan and one with oysters in it. They seem to be eaten about proportionally.
Is apple pie with cheese similar to a pear salad(also containing cheese)? If it is, I’m thinking I wouldn’t like it.
-Lil
Food that’s gone?
What happened to soda pop made with actual (cane or beet) sugar? IMHO, high fructose corn syrup is eeeevil, and should be banned like asbestos. <feh!> :dubious:
I agree with tarragon918 about the country ham. Even though I’ve given up pork, I would be sorely tempted by a country ham. I’m safe, though, because I can’t FIND it here in SW Michigan. Everything is sugar-cured.
I grew up eating my apple pie with a big slice of cheddar cheese on the top. I love it that way. Adding ice cream makes it too sweet! Also, at Thanksgiving my mother would make oyster dressings with one corner plain marked with some tooth picks. It lookeed like a little picket fence in the cassarole dish. I hated oyster dressing as a kid but now I can’t get enough. Its a real MD-DEL-VA eastern shore dish AFAIK.
I’ve never heard of that before. I wonder if the tradition lingered on longer in Canada than in the US, or if it just never caught on in the Hunky (as my grandmother-in-law calls us) culture in which I grew up.