I always liked them as a breakfast dish dosed liberally with butter and a touch of something sweet- typically sugar, but if my grandfather and I were heading out fishing in the bay, I’d use cane syrup from louisiana.
I’m American and DESPISE root beer. I have a special resentment for it since one time when I was in first grade we got taken to a pizza parlor as a treat, and the teachers decided that all of us had to drink the same thing - Coke or root beer (probably to make it easier for the servers). Root beer won the vote from my classmates. Why? I hate, hate, hate root beer! Why would anyone want to ruin their beautiful pizza by allowing such a sharp, bitter so-called “drink” to accompany it?
Mi casa es su casa! 
It’s Southern food and you are about as far south as you can get, so it makes sense that you’d like it.
That’s because, in my experience and hypothesis, lactase production is just cranked down in adult mammals. I found after years of not drinking milk that it didn’t take much to trigger the full panoply of symptoms of lactase deficiency. I started easing back into milk and milk products and found after about six months that it no longer made me sick–I had restarted lactase production. I suspect that is what happened to those Chinese folks. And anybody who says that other adult mammals cannot process lactose is talking through his hat. Dogs and pigs, for instance, happily eat milk and digest it fine.
Huzzah! I’m NORMAL!
Absolutely sickening. Then when it’s made with bourbon you are wasting good sweet potatoes, marshmallows, and bourbon, which is a sin.
Specifically, states where milk is a big part of the economy, like Wisconsin and Vermont. There are state laws that require all dishes contain a minimum amount of dairy products. (only slight hyperbole)
I know. I can’t get it around here either and now I want some.
Hmm… that reminds me. I just bought a four-pack of Virgil’s diet root beer today. I’m going to go crack one open.
I bought some Virgils at Trader Joe’s last night because of this thread.
Another good variation is to add some lobster (although I use imitation lobster).
So, you’re saying they’re both derived from the same root word.
Wasting lobster, even imitation, on macaroni and cheese is sinful even for atheists.
Burn him! Heretic!
Those are definitely Midwestern. I sometimes think the word “salad” has unbounded meaning here.
Consider the following:
Tuna Macaroni, a “macaroni salad”.
Roasted Garlic Pasta, a “pasta salad”.
Cowboy Caviar, a “marinated salad”.
And of course we have traditional potato salad, all those weird jello salads and salads with whipped cream plus orange and / or apple slices, and salad salad (with, like, lettuce and stuff).
Well, a lot of that, plus casseroles, can be traced to our ingrained suspicion of raw food. Causes tuberculosis, y’know. :eek:
I had experiance when I was a kid, except I hated all soda so I was the weird kid that kept asking for water. My tastes have changed, but I still don’t drink alot of soda. I do like root beer though, and I love ginger beer.
What about birch beer? I love it, but I imagine other cultures find it as off-putting as they do root beer which it is similar to.
Regarding ginger beer, I’ve already let my feelings be known regarding that swill. 
Although the deep-fried kind isn’t quite as good as the crackling off a pig that’s been spit-roasted for a whole day and then doused with spadefuls of salt right at the end to crispen the skin. A plateful of crispy, salty crackling and strips of belly right off the spit is good eats.
All the hate for casseroles id obviously from people who never had good ones. I make them now, with fresh ingredients and they’re damn tasty.
My Steak and red wine casserole with mushrooms and some root veg served over buttered spiral pasta is to die for so my kids tell me.
On the other hand, IMO there’s a special place reserved in hell for anyone who considers mac and Cheese to actually be food.
In relation to the topic, can you get a decent salad in America? A staple pub food here is a Steak or Parma with chips (that’s hot ones, like fries but thicker) and salad.
Salad basically some iceberg lettuce, tomato, onion, cucumber, cheese, beetroot with a light oil based dressing.
All that stuff is so nasty.
Even though it isn’t midwestern, Waldroff salad might be the origin of all that gross food.
Most restaurants in America have some version of this, usually called a “garden salad.” Beets are not too common on salads that are prepared in the kitchen.
Yes. There’s often a whole section of the menu devoted to salads, and not of the jello or noodle kind, but of the “salad greens” kind.
Wait. I thought you said “decent” salad. What’s iceberg lettuce doing there? 
<-This indicates that I am kidding, lest anyone get offended, but iceberg lettuce has a bit of a declassé reputation in the US, for the most part, often being associated with typical, bland American meat & potatoes food, and used more as a vehicle for salad dressing.