I'm at your nationality's restaurant. What should I get?

[stpauler]

Swedish meatballs and Polish sausage. Paging Dr Freud.

[Fleetwood]

Clam Chowder
Knockwurst
Brown Bread
Grilled Chicken
Salad or Cole Slaw

Steamers
Lobster
Corn on the Cob

Wild Blueberry Pie

[Rebo]

@Sarabellum1976

Texas - probably a steak, a cowboy-cut ribeye, perhaps? Or some barbecue?

Whatever it is, it probably involves beef.

Or some TexMex, maybe?

I think I had it right at the first with the steak.

Steak, yeah, but -

Chicken Fried Steak!

[Melbourne]

@stui_magpie

Yeah, there isn’t really an Australian “cuisine” as such. We’re developing some excellent chefs and fusions of different kinds of cuisines are developing.

Do you go the traditional which would be Lamb and veges, or go with local produce that’s unique to us or just go with what would be typical aussie tucker? Dunno.

I think that’s the whole point: cheap mutton/lamb/two-tooth was unique to us (and NZ).

Ok, not so much now as then, but the squatters used to GIVE mutton to the iconic indegent and itinerant labourers: cheap meat was, and to a certain extent is (just back from the big trip) an identifiably Australian characteristic.

[TruCelt]

@Melbourne

I think that’s the whole point: cheap mutton/lamb/two-tooth was unique to us (and NZ).

Ok, not so much now as then, but the squatters used to GIVE mutton to the iconic indegent and itinerant labourers: cheap meat was, and to a certain extent is (just back from the big trip) an identifiably Australian characteristic.

What does “two-tooth” mean?

[Kimballkid]

You would get very confused since I come from French and German on mom’s side and Bohemian and Lithuanian on dad’s side.

[DrFidelius]

If you’re at a Maltese restaurant, ask for the falcon. It is to die for.

[Nava]

@Kimballkid

You would get very confused since I come from French and German on mom’s side and Bohemian and Lithuanian on dad’s side.

The first half is easy, go for Alsatian food

[DrFidelius]

@Nava

The first half is easy, go for Alsatian food

In the US, we call them “German Shepherds”

[OneCentStamp]

Vietnamese: pho. Ginger chicken. Banh mi.

[Kimballkid]

@Nava

The first half is easy, go for Alsatian food

That looks ‘interesting’.

[Osiris_the_1st]

Being from the southern US: Barbequed chicken with white sauce, turnip greens (pepper sauce on the side), fried green tomatoes, and cornbread, sweet iced-tea to drink, and for dessert my Aunt Gladys’s sweet potato pie.

[Hari_Seldon]

@MsRobyn

A nice corned-beef sandwich – not too fat, not too lean, sliced thin but not too thin – on rye (with seeds, thankyouverymuch) with a little brown mustard. No cheese, no mayonnaise, no bread but rye (although pumpernickel is good in a pinch). Said sandwich must be served with a half-sour pickle. Fake orgasm optional.

This. Or a tsimmes with a dumpling.

[even_sven]

A nice big burrito, steam softened and wrapped in foil. I miss California.

[Kamino_Neko]

Fish and brewis, cod tongues, cod cheeks, cod in general, seal flipper pie, toutons. I’m wishing I’d had more of that when I was home last week…

[Ranger_Jeff]

Suddenly I’m reminded of that recurring sketch in Hee Haw where that thin blonde woman would ask Grampa Jones “Hey, Grampa! What’s for supper?”

[BaldDudePeekskill]

From my Sicilian side…

Pasta con le Sarde
Eggplant grilled with basil and mint
Cassata Siciliana
Arancine (rice balls with chopped meat and peas)
Anything from the sea…including Sea urchin eggs right from the Mediterranean
From my Neapolitan side

Pizza…just dough, sliced tomato, oregano, maybe a suspicion of cheese.
Gelato

[stui_magpie]

@TruCelt

What does “two-tooth” mean?

I just noticed you hadn’t had an answer. Lamb, Two-tooth and mutton all mean the same animal but are about the age when it was slaughtered.

Lamb is up to 12 months old and not having any permanent incisors
Hogget or Two Tooth (same thing) is between 12 months and 2 years old and not having any more than 2 permanent teeth
Mutton is 2 years old or more.

The younger the animal the pinker and sweeter and more tender the meat.

I think in the USA you only use the term “Lamb” for everything.

[pulykamell]

@stui_magpie

I think in the USA you only use the term “Lamb” for everything.

Well, not quite. We have lamb, yearling mutton, and mutton. It’s just that pretty much all that is sold at retail is lamb, although there are pockets of the US where mutton is common (Western Kentucky, for example, is known for its mutton barbecue.) Also, you can sometimes find mutton in ethnic groceries or butchers, like Middle Eastern or Mexican. Lamb itself is just not a very popular meat in the US (I think it’s less than 1% of sales), and many consumers already find it somewhat gamey, so mutton just doesn’t go over very well here, for the most part.

[bengangmo]

@pulykamell

Well, not quite. We have lamb, yearling mutton, and mutton. It’s just that pretty much all that is sold at retail is lamb, although there are pockets of the US where mutton is common (Western Kentucky, for example, is known for its mutton barbecue.) Also, you can sometimes find mutton in ethnic groceries or butchers, like Middle Eastern or Mexican. Lamb itself is just not a very popular meat in the US (I think it’s less than 1% of sales), and many consumers already find it somewhat gamey, so mutton just doesn’t go over very well here, for the most part.

There was a lot of controversy a few years back though when the US was blocking imports of NZ lamb - was rather a big deal to “us” at the time.