My point is that Rice-A-Roni isn’t the sort of thing you’d expect to see on a restaurant menu. It’s a boxed mix intended for people who don’t have time to cook, or don’t know how to cook. David Letterman found comedy in not being able to find a restaurant in San Francisco that served it, but that has nothing to with whether it was invented in San Francisco.
Say what? :dubious: 
[quote=“terentii, post:182, topic:824000”]
Say what? :dubious: 
Elendil’s Heir was referring to Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, and Hamburger Helper, not Rice-A-Roni.
Oh. Well, that’s very different.
Never mind. 
funny thing is rice a roni is pretty much a boxed flavored Asian fried rice but with their chinatown im not surprised no restaurant makes it
The “Roni” in Rice-A-Roni is macaroni. The product is a mix of rice, pasta, and flavorings. It’s closer to a pilaf than to friend rice—to make it, you brown the rice and pasta in butter, then add water and seasonings and simmer. The original seasoning was basically powdered chicken soup. It really isn’t similar to Asian fried rice.
Oops—I meant “fried rice.” I’m not a cannibal.
Previous thread that started with Boston Coffee. Which, as far I know, did not originate in that city and the phrase is not used in Boston.
In the 1970’s Big Boy Restaurants served Boston Cream Pie everywhere, except Boston.
Well, but that is normal. Take Spanish Rice. It is an unknown thing in Spain. It does come from Mexico, and as you might expect, there they call it “rice” (arroz). I know people who make this stuff that is a thick meaty sauce on a bun that they call Spanish Hamburgers, which I suspect has absolutely nothing to do with the cuisine of Spain, or even Latin America (we always called those things Sloppy Joes).
Probably not.
UPDATE
I was in my local Cracker Barrel for lunch yesterday and went looking for Marathon bars and–lo and behold–a stock clerk was working the candy displays and asked if she could help. I enquired re: Marathon and she informed me they were not sold at that branch but were available at other CBs. When I asked how they were still around after being discontinued in the '80s, she (without missing a beat) explained CB buys the recipe and has the candy bars specially made for them. I believe her and will continue my search at other CBs–which would be two exits further down the Interstate. Stay tuned.
Are hamburgers from Hamburg? Or frankfurters from Frankfurt? Are wienerschnitzels from Vienna? I do recall seeing “Wienerbrot” on the menu of the student canteen in Aarhus University in Denmark and they sure looked like Danish pastry.
Off topic: geoducks (pronounced gooey ducks) are neither gooey nor ducks. They are a kind of giant clam.
Yes; see Post #137.
Maybe not originally, but they were certainly popularized there.
Do foreign words count? Because that’s just the Anglicization of the NA name.
The Southern blot is a technique used in biological research that is unrelated to the south of anything. The scientist who invented it is named Edwin Southern.
Australian Shepherd doggies were bred and developed as a breed in the US.
The Polaroid Land camera wasn’t called that because it could only take pictures on land. It was named after it’s creator, Edwin Land.
I think it was named after the bilge water in an old freighter bound for India. Horrible vile liquid - shouldn’t be allowed to be called “ale”.