# Surprised by American food

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668>\
**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:** 3\
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**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/321 "2007-03-28T11:35:11Z")

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My first PeeWee baseball team was sponsored by Piggly Wiggly. Our uniforms said Piggly Wiggly on them and everything. And yeah, we got made fun of.

The next year, my team’s sponsor was Tastee Freez, which was much cooler, especially since they treated the team to free ice cream for our after-season party.

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**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/322 "2007-03-28T14:48:24Z")

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When two Dutch friends of mine visited Atlanta, they went gaga over pecan pie (even took some home with them), steaks in general (which I gather are of superior quality in the US) and battered-and-fried Vidalia onion “straws.” (In particular they liked the “bloomin’ onion” at Outback).

But when I took them for barbecue at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, they found even the mildest sauce almost unbearably spicy. 😕

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**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-by-american-food/396668/323 "2007-03-28T15:43:43Z")

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[QUOTE=Dung Beetle]  
Hmmm. I have all the ingredients for this at home. Hmmm.  
[/QUOTE]

Just because you can, darling, doesn’t mean you should…

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