# What's your favorite cuisine? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 8, 2011, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938 "2011-03-08T17:04:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938/21 "2011-03-09T04:10:43Z")
Indian, and not just the curries. Try a potato samosa with tamarind sauce! ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938/22 "2011-03-09T04:27:00Z")
Thai, all the way, by far. Now if I could just master \*cooking \*the darn stuff… ---
**Author:** ![Sehmket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Sehmket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sehmket)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938/23 "2011-03-09T04:36:20Z")
Fake Mexican. There’s a set of Mexican restaurants around here (Central Kentucky) that I swear came from a kit. There’s one here in Lexington, two in Richmond, one in Louisville, one in Dayton, OH near my parents’… they’re all named differently, and have wildly different decor, but they all have almost exactly the same menu. I know it’s not “authentic” by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s what I think of when someone says “Mexican.” I could eat it three meals a day for a week (and while I haven’t actually done that for a week… I’ve done it for every meal Fri-Sun during one weird weekend in grad school). ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938/24 "2011-03-09T04:47:15Z")
My favorite type of food is seafood, in descending order of preference: lobster tail (broiled with butter and lemon), king crab legs, scallops, shrimp, salmon (grilled or pan broiled). My favorite ordinary-type food is chicken with tomato-based BBQ sauce. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938/25 "2011-03-09T05:00:31Z")
> [@Sehmket](#): > > Fake Mexican. > > There’s a set of Mexican restaurants around here (Central Kentucky) that I swear came from a kit. There’s one here in Lexington, two in Richmond, one in Louisville, one in Dayton, OH near my parents’… they’re all named differently, and have wildly different decor, but they all have almost exactly the same menu. I know it’s not “authentic” by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s what I think of when someone says “Mexican.” I could eat it three meals a day for a week (and while I haven’t actually done that for a week… I’ve done it for every meal Fri-Sun during one weird weekend in grad school). Can anyone eat beans three times a day and survive?! (I’m thinking of mob violence, here.) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938/26 "2011-03-09T17:07:14Z")
Chinese. And yes, I know that covers some quite different cuisines. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938/27 "2011-03-09T17:37:03Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Thai, all the way, by far. Now if I could just master \*cooking \*the darn stuff… If you want the English language bible of Thai cooking, check out David Thompson’s [Thai Food.](http://www.amazon.com/Thai-Food-David-Thompson/dp/1580084621/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1299692059&sr=8-3) It’s an exhaustive look into Thai cuisine, clocking in at 688 pages, with the first recipe not starting until about 200 pages into the book. It’s a must-have if you really want to get intimate with that cuisine. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938/28 "2011-03-09T17:41:51Z")
French. They know food. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938/29 "2011-03-09T17:48:19Z")
Tossup. I could live out my life eating nothing but either sushi or pizza. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938/30 "2011-03-09T18:01:11Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > What is American style seafood? Deep-fried? It could be but doesn’t have to be. Steamed, boiled, and baked-stuffed are my preferences. Served with drawn butter and a slice of lemon usually. I don’t know if American-style is the right term for it, but it’s to distinguish it from, say, Italian where it might be scampi with pasta, or Chinese where there might be bits of lobster along with vegetables in a sweet sauce. ---
**Author:** ![CBEscapee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@CBEscapee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBEscapee)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938/31 "2011-03-09T19:35:21Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Can anyone eat beans three times a day and survive?! (I’m thinking of mob violence, here.) Of course! Been doing it all my life. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938/32 "2011-03-09T20:00:45Z")
1. Indian 2. Italian 3. Mexican I could live the rest of my days with just those three and be happy and content, and never get bored with eating the same thing, since there’s so much to choose from. ---
**Author:** ![Sehmket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Sehmket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sehmket)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938/33 "2011-03-10T00:40:32Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Can anyone eat beans three times a day and survive?! (I’m thinking of mob violence, here.) I can! Actually, if you eat beans/ other high-fiber things on a, ahem, regular basis, you don’t have much problem with it. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938/34 "2011-03-10T00:45:08Z")
1. Japanese 2. Northern Italian / Light Mediterranean 3. Vietnamese 4. Korean 5. Indian ---
**Author:** ![expectopatronum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/expectopatronum/32/173_2.png) [@expectopatronum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/expectopatronum)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938/35 "2011-03-10T01:36:11Z")
mexican followed closely by thai ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938/36 "2011-03-10T02:45:44Z")
I can’t really narrow it down, i can say what I don’t like easier than what I do like. What I can eat is entirely different 😃 the downside to type 2 diabetes ☹ I can say, it needs to be properly prepared, with care. Sloppy crap dumped together and nuked isn’t my idea of good. Nothing but plain basmati rice, when prepared properly is excellent, or the most elaborate chinese or thai court cooking … as long as it is made properly. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938/37 "2011-03-10T03:18:41Z")
The only thing stopping me from eating Indian multiple times a week is the fact that there aren’t any Indian restaurants in this town. I really need to get around to learning to do it myself. I could also live happily on Italian food, especially if it includes good calamari. Good calamari is absolutely heavenly (though, of course, you could make truck tires out of _bad_ calamari). ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938/38 "2011-03-10T09:04:54Z")
English. I was about to say Chinese (Szechuan, probably) the realised that the only cusine I’d really want to eat several times a week is traditional English. Shepherd’s pie, Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, mash, parsnips, rhubarb crumble and custard, ploughman’s, fish and chips, fishfingers, chips and peas, parsnips, pasties, full English breakfast, Eton mess, strawberries and cream… Things like spag bol and curry are traditional English too and have been for a couple of hundred years, but I don’t even have to go that far before I think of all the foods I really love. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938/39 "2011-03-10T09:19:34Z")
Italian, hands down. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938/40 "2011-03-10T09:51:33Z")
Italian, then Japanese. Mmmmmm. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-cuisine/573938.md?page=3)