# Surprised by American food **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 20, 2007, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668 "2007-03-20T03:15:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/281 "2007-03-25T15:38:23Z")
Not beer and pizza? Cheapskates. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/282 "2007-03-25T18:06:01Z")
Yeah - you start moving day with coffee and doughnuts, and end it with pizza and beer. Is nothing sacred any more? šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![2pelo\_honey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/ecb155/32.png) [@2pelo\_honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2pelo_honey)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/283 "2007-03-25T18:11:42Z")
Yeah, something got horribly mixed up thereā€¦doughnuts and beer??? Blech!!! šŸ˜• ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/284 "2007-03-25T18:57:00Z")
I visited a place on Michigan Avenue that sold all kinds of flavoured popcorn. I would kill for another bag of the caramel flavour. We could do with a joint like that in England, more specifically close to me šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/285 "2007-03-25T19:27:14Z")
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster] But this is SDMB! Spelling perversions are not allowed! šŸ˜ƒ [/QUOTE] Yeah, I had a devil of a time just typing Krispy Kreme without correcting the spelling, thatā€™s why I had to switch to KK. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/286 "2007-03-25T19:34:59Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] Yeah, I had a devil of a time just typing Krispy Kreme without correcting the spelling, thatā€™s why I had to switch to KK. [/QUOTE] Damned Gaudereā€™s law! I looked the post over to make sure I didnā€™t misspell anything and I misspelled Quiddity Glomfuster in the edit! :smack: Quiddity Glomfuster! ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/287 "2007-03-25T22:13:54Z")
chowder writes: \> I visited a place on Michigan Avenue . . . The one in Chicago, or the one in various places in Michigan, or some other Michigan Avenue? ---
**Author:** ![Lambo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lambo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lambo)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/288 "2007-03-25T23:20:15Z")
[QUOTE=Walloon] Does ā€œhell of a lunchā€ mean good or bad? Usually ā€œhell of aā€ anything is bad. [/QUOTE] I used 'hell of a" in the good way. I guess I have not become a fully assimilated Minnesotan, because then I would have called it ā€œa heckeva good lunchā€, witch would then have been instantly understood by another upper Midwesterner. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/289 "2007-03-25T23:40:45Z")
[QUOTE=Walloon] Something can be ā€œusuallyā€ one way (say two out of three times), but ā€œoftenā€ (say one out of three) the other. If I had a ā€œhell of a timeā€ trying to get my car started in freezing weather, I wasnā€™t having a good time. If I told my child ā€œthatā€™s a hell of a way to behave to your fatherā€ I wouldnā€™t be complimenting her. ā€œHellā€ is supposed to be a place of eternal damnation and punishment. [/QUOTE] If youā€™re trying to hijack this, youā€™re doing a helluva job, Brownie. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/290 "2007-03-26T09:10:49Z")
Around here, ā€œhell of aā€ can be good or bad, depending on the inflection used. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/291 "2007-03-26T09:22:22Z")
[QUOTE=Wendell Wagner] chowder writes: \> I visited a place on Michigan Avenue . . . The one in Chicago, or the one in various places in Michigan, or some other Michigan Avenue? [/QUOTE] Chicago. If memory serves me right it was more or less opposite the Disney store ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/292 "2007-03-26T11:43:59Z")
AK! KK, the bain of my olfactory nerve! I hate those things. They were everywhere in Mississippi, especially in front of the Piggly Wiggly on Sunday mornings, being sold by wretched-looking Xtians. The words ā€œKrispy Kremesā€ gag me themselves, with the vision of so much sugar it forms a crusty shell. I thought I got away from them when we moved to Seattle, but I happened to be working in a building on a hill overlooking what became the site of the first Krusty Krappe in Washington State. When they finally opened, everyone had been whipped into a frenzy of anticiā€¦PAtion for these gross little hockey pucks. It was fun to look out the window and see the line that was already forming for the drivethru at 4:00AM on opening day, but the fun soon ended when the boss came in with an enormous pallet of fresh steaming sugary crap and decided the table next to my desk was the central site to leave this offering for the group. I lasted about 10 minutes, then had to get up and move the box to another table before I ralphed into my wastebasket, overwhelmed by yeasty, smotheringly sugary fumes. And of course, this scenario was repeated daily for about three weeks, until the novelty wore off. Gah! ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/293 "2007-03-26T12:10:06Z")
Krispy Kremes are neither Krispy nor Kreamy. Discuss. ---
**Author:** ![zeldarae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f14d63/32.png) [@zeldarae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zeldarae)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/294 "2007-03-26T17:30:26Z")
[QUOTE=bordelond] FWIW, Baton Rouge had at least one Krispy Kreme, close to LSUā€™s campus, during the late 80s and early 90s. It was an old, diner looking placeā€¦ very different from what the modern chain locations look like. [/QUOTE] You are probably refering to the one on Plank Road. I wouldnā€™t exactly call it close to campus, but distance is relative. That one is still open and still doing a banging business. They opened one on Siegan Lane that died a quick death. Iā€™m spoiled for donuts. My grandfather owned Evangeline Street Bakery in the 60ā€™s and early 70ā€™s. We had very fresh and very yeasty donuts every Sunday morning. Not too much glaze. YUMMMMY! šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/295 "2007-03-26T19:27:30Z")
Sweet merciful crap, can we get off the KK discussion? Start yet another thread instead of hijacking this one. It was so pleasant until the Doughnut Naziā€™s joined. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/296 "2007-03-26T19:35:16Z")
[QUOTE=zeldarae] You are probably refering to the one on Plank Road. I wouldnā€™t exactly call it close to campus, but distance is relative. That one is still open and still doing a banging business. They opened one on Siegan Lane that died a quick death. [/QUOTE] No, no ā€¦ not Plank Road. The KK Iā€™m referring to was a few blocks up Highland from the north gates of LSU. It was in the same strip where the Save-A-Center (?) grocery store and the infamous Murphyā€™s Bar were located (they had a dollar movie theater there, too). It was right by IHOP and Louieā€™s and Mr. Gattiā€™s ā€¦ and a block north of the Chimes, Godfatherā€™s, China Tiger, and all that. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/297 "2007-03-26T20:04:55Z")
[QUOTE=bordelond] No, no ā€¦ not Plank Road. The KK Iā€™m referring to was a few blocks up Highland from the north gates of LSU. It was in the same strip where the **Save-A-Center (?)** grocery store and the infamous Murphyā€™s Bar were located (they had a dollar movie theater there, too). It was right by IHOP and Louieā€™s and Mr. Gattiā€™s ā€¦ and a block north of the Chimes, Godfatherā€™s, China Tiger, and all that. [/QUOTE] My mistake ā€¦ it was a Super-Fresh grocery store in 1989. On Highland Road and State Street. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/298 "2007-03-26T20:09:54Z")
[QUOTE=sciurophobic] Arenā€™t unlimited refills of giant servings of soda and iced tea also another peculiarly American tradition? Iā€™ve heard that if you order a Coke in some other countries youā€™ll get one small glass and be lucky if you get any ice. And youā€™ll pay twice as much. [/QUOTE] Indeed. Many years ago I took a friend from Texas to my local cafĆ© in Oxfordshire. He ordered a Coke. He got about 6oz of tepid ā€˜Value Colaā€™ that had lost most of its fizz. He sent it back asking for ice in it. It returned with a solitary cube melting fast. And it cost about $2. He wasnā€™t impressed. That said, the American junk invasion has introduced big cups and lots of ice here, but gigantic cups and free refills are still pretty rare. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/299 "2007-03-26T20:10:13Z")
[QUOTE=singular1] They were everywhere in Mississippi, especially in front of the Piggly Wiggly on Sunday mornings, being sold by wretched-looking Xtians. [/QUOTE] Godd I hatte thosse peskky Christtians. ---
**Author:** ![Caridwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/300 "2007-03-26T20:59:53Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Godd I hatte thosse peskky Christtians. [/QUOTE] Yea, but I love the name Piggly Wiggly. I wish we had a store with a name like that around here. It cracks me up every time I hear it. šŸ˜ƒ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668.md?page=16)