amorican? give me a break. look at it again, A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N, :smack: geez i thought people could spell around here. sorry about the cut and paste job, it’s not an article per say, i had it stored on my computer. got it in an e-mail from a friend, sorry. (hint for hog bristles: think toothbrush, shrine=bathroom) yikes.
am i allowed to post addresses for websites? if so i would be glad to resubmit my post in that form.
[Musicat looks around for a mod, doesn’t see one for blocks, so…]
Scarface Z: The “About” Forum “Stickies” are quite useful if you want to learn the ropes and plan to stick around. In general, links to websites are fine – far better than wholesale copying – as long as they[ul][]Aren’t commercial self-advertising, or[]don’t violate the 2-click rule, that is, don’t link directly to something you wouldn’t want to pop up on someone’s screen without warning just as the boss walks by.[/ul]If you want more info, find a related thread in the About Forum or start a new one there. Meanwhile, I’m going for a hamburger. A Big-Ass AMERICAN one. Is there any other kind?
I’m with ya, Musicat. Every time I check back on this thread, I git huuungry.
Nor here. I can’t think of any real restaurant where doing that would seem socially acceptable.
I spent yesterday afternoon at the South Carolina state fair, and I encountered a few food items that almost definitely qualify for this thread. One vendor’s wares stood out even among fair, um, fare in terms of outrageousness by selling Oreos and Snickers bars. What’s weird about that, you ask? Nothing, other than that they were deep-fried. That’s right, deep-fried Snickers bars. Strange as it was, curiosity demanded that I try one. Honestly, I was a bit disappointed; it just tastes like a melted Snickers bar.
That’s not particularly an American food item. Deep-fried candy bars (in particular, Mars bars) originated at fish and chip shops somewhere in Scotland. They’re reasonably common in fish and chip shops in the U.K.
You mean someone else gets to take the blame for those grease-laden heart attacks? Wow. They struck me as such an “only in America” sort of thing.
Ewww, to deep fried chocolate bars. :eek:
kellner and +MDI, No left-over bags here either.
The Gaspode I just had a brilliant thought. 
We know that people from the Netherlands are the tallest in the world. [there are threads about this, I’m not sure where]
We also know that Swedish people come in second place.
Scientist aren’t sure why.
Do you think licorice is the secret formula?
Do you think we ought to write our amazing discovery to ‘The Lancet’ ? 
The Italians have been doing this for years - ever had tiramisu? That’s made with ricotta cheese. Many other Italian desserts are cheese based. I’d imagine that’s where the habit originated.
American cheesecake is sublime. I also like its bizarre cousin, grashopper pie. And the nicest dessert I have ever ever ever tasted was a slice of lemon cheesecake that had been baked. (This was in an English pub, though.)
This thread just made me make a baked lemon cheesecake for my Sunday dinner. I hope you’re happy now.
Uh, really. I remember the pancake I ate in a Rotterdam restaurant was so large that it wasn’t served on a regular dinner plate, but on a huge platter .
I really take issue with this American portion size bullshit. I was raised on traditional Dutch food in my home, and I always left a restaurant here in Canada feeling disappointed because I was still hungry.
The deep fried Mars Bar originated in Glasgow which is the heart attack capital of Europe , if not the world.
Yes. Scotland is also responsible for deep-fried pizzas. The Scots are very fond of exploring the limits of the deep fat fryer as a means of culinary expression. They also have the highest death rate from coronary disease in the EU, although the rate is supposedly coming down.
BTW - sweet potato pie is roughly the same category as pumpkin pie, It’s similar in appearance and texture to pumpkin pie, but has a better flavor, IMO.
Some of the confusion may come about because there is also a “sweet potato pecan pie”. Here is a picture with both a plain sweet potato pie, and a sweet potato pecan pie:
http://www.sweetpotatosweets.com/products.html
What I customarily call a “sweet potato pie” is the thing on the right, that looks like a pumpkin pie. You can make “pumpkin pecan pie”, too, just to complete the idea of pumpkin / sweet potato interchangeability. Somebody who said something about this said they lived in Oakland. You ought to pick up one of the sweet potato pies flogged by Uhuru House during the holiday season.
And there is also a sweet potato cobbler.
I thought the heart attack capital of the world was the Iowa State Fair.
(the only place I’ve seen deep fried candy bars)
jjimm: This thread just made me make a baked lemon cheesecake for my Sunday dinner. I hope you’re happy now.
Well, we might have been happier if you had invited us over for a slice.
Originally posted by grienspace
That is so true.
Big plates and heavy food. A Dutch pancake with bacon and sirop makes your stomach feel like a cement mixer. And grienspace, when raised on traditional Dutch food, you know the effect of a ‘stamppot’ on the innards, don’t you? [are you familiar with ‘drop’ too, btw?]
One word: Turducken.
Meat packed in meat and stuffed with meat.
Nothing say “America” more than this.
Just curious - what kind of trouble?
I have a European friend who has lived in the States for a long, long time. I have traveled to Europe with him twice. Both times, I suffered acutely from the food (except when in Italy…), often because everything was so greasy and fatty and salty and rich, it turned my stomach. Even “shrimp cocktail” was equal parts shrimp and mayonnaise, in Switzerland. At the depths of my despair (and nausea), he invariably begins listing the culinary sins of America to me. His most common points are:
Salt in sweet things–particularly ice cream and candy bars
Sweet and savory being mixed–he admits that some parts of Europe do have this tradition, though
American bread–bodiless, textureless, tasteless
Far too sweet–pastry, mostly
Baked products in general–too fluffy and spongy; resembles the inept efforts of a brand-new housewife
Processed foods–he has a love/hate relationship with them, which I think is peculiar to him
He does adore root beer and root beer floats, though.