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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: mosca on December 18, 2004, 04:00:14 PM
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We don't have a national cuisine.
So, instead of always having to eat Italian food, or French or Chinese, we can say, "Hey, honey! Whaddya feel like eating tonight? Mexican? Japanese? Lutefisk?"
I know, I know, it's jingoistic of me to assume that there's no Chinese food in France, but that's the second greatest thing about the USA; you're allowed to be jingoistic and it gets accepted as part of your national identity!
Just kidding, folks. We don't know each other well enough yet, I only mean to laugh a little at myself and other USAers.
:D
Tom
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PLEASE....
leave lutefisk out of every thread.. It was just somethinhg we ate cause it was easy to store during our rape'n-rob tours back in the pre-jesus times.
now we eat pizza and aquavit like everyone else
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you do have a national cuisine, its called fast food hamburgers...
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Originally posted by vorticon
you do have a national cuisine, its called fast food hamburgers...
but how fast are they..
how fast are they really....
how about that beef jerk..jerky..jerkey or whatever its called?
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most of them go from food to poop in less than an hour. Thats why they call them fast food
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While I agree that it's kind of smooth not having a national food, I think that we should have an asterisk saying "we don't have a national food but if we did it would be beef jerky."
Beef jerky is yummy.
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Originally posted by WhiteHawk
most of them go from food to poop in less than an hour. Thats why they call them fast food
no no... thats good mexican or bad indian food
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Originally posted by vorticon
you do have a national cuisine, its called fast food hamburgers...
Actually, it's the preformed 4oz patties that you get 5lbs for $8 in the frozen food section... it's not really a "national cuisine" unless you can duplicate it at home.
Tom
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to be serious, our national food is not lutefisk but something we call "lapsgaus" or "ribbe"
lapsgause is kind of a stew that alot of "us" also brought over to the US in the early 1800's where it has stayed the same and/or has been changed slightly.
coocked meat + boiled potatoes thrown in a big pot with carrots and other vedgetables and then coocked some more ountil its a brownish sauce thingy with chunks of potatoes meat and whatever you have put in..
pic to follow
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I know of no food on this planet that goes to poop faster than White Castle... you might want to sit on your throne while eating it, its that fast! :D
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Originally posted by Nilsen
to be serious, our national food is not lutefisk but something we call "lapsgaus" or "ribbe"
lapsgause is kind of a stew that alot of "us" also brought over to the US in the early 1800's where it has stayed the same and/or has been changed slightly.
coocked meat + boiled potatoes thrown in a big pot with carrots and other vedgetables and then coocked some more ountil its a brownish sauce thingy with chunks of potatoes meat and whatever you have put in..
pic to follow
That actually sounds pretty good. I post a lot on two forums, Chowhound and Roadfood. The thing with a stew like that is, how it will taste depends a lot on 1) what meat you use, and 2) what vegetables you use... duh. That sounds pretty stupid, doesn't it. Kind like saying "What you see depends on what you're looking at."
Remember the rhyme, "pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, pease porridge in the pot 9 days old"? Porridge used to be left over the fire continually, with the family tossing in whatever that particular day's meal was going to be, mixing it all together. I imagine by the 9th day, it became pretty gray and perhaps unappealing.
I got that from a book called "Food in History" by ReahTannehill. Great book.
She also wrote one called "Sex in History". Interestingly enough, it wasn't interesting enough. The food book is better. The sex one is way too clinical for something so fun.
Tom
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what you put in those varies from family to family. ours is kinda booring..
meat from lamb
potatoes
carrots
and a few more that i cant remember the norwegian OR english word for atm.
8excuse my drunkedness) but ill give you 2-3 recipies tomorrow that are quite ordinary but very tasteful. its just to bad that they take so much effort to make cause there is so much to prepare/pre-cook) before you make the final pot. the good thing is that you can get the ingredients pretty much everywere.. nothing excotic or hard to get within the civilized MEAT eating world. there are even some very good veggie recipieces that veggies or muslims can enjoy :)
to champagne7fuzzy wine drunk to get into detail tonight
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hehe, you should taste Icelandic food...
Lutfisk?
Just wait untill you've tasted rotten shark, :D
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Originally posted by Angus
hehe, you should taste Icelandic food...
Lutfisk?
Just wait untill you've tasted rotten shark, :D
actually i have... dont ask more, but i have tasted mako with rice (not rotted tho)
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Screw the burgers! BBQ is down right American!!
Uuuuuummmmmmm ribs! D'OH!
-SLICER
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the greatest thing about America is the porn industry. :D
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Though we may not have an actual national food
We have several foods that are uniquely american.
Or at least got their start here
The aforementioned hamburgers,
Hot Dogs
Corn
Turkey
Jerky
Potato Chips
French fries
Buffalo wings
BBQ'ed anything
Many of the Chineese foods we get in Chineese resturants like Chop Suey got their start when the railroad was first being built
Lets not forget Spam
I bet the GI's from WWII wont :)
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Any Italians in here?.....Dudes I love your Ragu.
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the greatest thing about America is the porn industry.
I don't know... the one thing positive I'll say about the french is there porn! :aok
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Originally posted by mosca
We don't have a national cuisine.
So, instead of always having to eat Italian food, or French or Chinese, we can say, "Hey, honey! Whaddya feel like eating tonight? Mexican? Japanese? Lutefisk?"
What makes you think that the availability of international cuisine is solely an American privilege? I live in a tiny little town on a tiny little island, and within 5 miles of here we have a most marvellous Spanish restaurant, various Indian restaurants, also Chinese, Thai, Greek, an Italian Trattoria... Best of all is an Italian "ristorante" about 12 miles from here - one of the only places where I will order a dessert because they are so good. It really is Italian too - run by Italians who were born in Italy. These are just examples. There are others. No Olive Garden crap here, and none of this "Hi I'm Jade, and I'll be your server tonight". (In the US, I normally pre-empt that with "Hi, I'm Alan and I'll be your customer tonight")
I don't know what it is about some Americans who have something good, and then assume that they're the only country to have it. Oh wait - I do. They've never been out of the US. :lol (http://www.zen33071.zen.co.uk/xmas.gif)
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Originally posted by VWE
I know of no food on this planet that goes to poop faster than White Castle... you might want to sit on your throne while eating it, its that fast! :D
Thats from the "steamed" onions that sit there for a week at a time in the grill. What, you think they throw the old ones away?
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Lets not forget Spam
I bet the GI's from WWII wont :)
You'd be surprised. I wont touch it with a 10 foot pole, but here its considered a staple. People eat it with everything. I've even seen "gourmet" restaraunts that use SPAM in funky meals and charge you 20 bucks for it, just like it was some delicacy. YUCK!!
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Originally posted by beet1e
What makes you think that the availability of international cuisine is solely an American privilege?
I don't know what it is about some Americans who have something good, and then assume that they're the only country to have it. Oh wait - I do. They've never been out of the US. :lol (http://www.zen33071.zen.co.uk/xmas.gif)
Don't be a jerk your entire life Beetle, try reading his entire post.
He said just kidding for a reason..
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French fries are american? What else are you going to try and steal from us? Dirk Frimout?
French fries are belgian:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_fries
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Freedom Fries! Theres no such thing as French Fries!
NevAr forgit!
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Its right next door to Canada and Mexico :p
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Imagine that.
An Italian resturant actually run by Italians.
What WILL they think of next LMAO
You can judge resturants by who eats there.
Example,
We had for a while a great little mexican food joint by us (No not Taco Bell)
I knew it was going to be good as soon as I walked in there.
Fully half of the customers eating there were Mexican.
I was not dissapointed.
Originally posted by beet1e
What makes you think that the availability of international cuisine is solely an American privilege? I live in a tiny little town on a tiny little island, and within 5 miles of here we have a most marvellous Spanish restaurant, various Indian restaurants, also Chinese, Thai, Greek, an Italian Trattoria... Best of all is an Italian "ristorante" about 12 miles from here - one of the only places where I will order a dessert because they are so good. It really is Italian too - run by Italians who were born in Italy. These are just examples. There are others. No Olive Garden crap here, and none of this "Hi I'm Jade, and I'll be your server tonight". (In the US, I normally pre-empt that with "Hi, I'm Alan and I'll be your customer tonight")
I don't know what it is about some Americans who have something good, and then assume that they're the only country to have it. Oh wait - I do. They've never been out of the US. :lol (http://www.zen33071.zen.co.uk/xmas.gif)
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Fully half of the customers eating there were Mexican.
That could also be a bad sign.
-SW
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
You can judge resturants by who eats there.
Example,
We had for a while a great little mexican food joint by us (No not Taco Bell)
I knew it was going to be good as soon as I walked in there.
Fully half of the customers eating there were Mexican.
I was not dissapointed.
Moral of the story. Never eat anywhere were Americans eats.
;)
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oh...
I was gonna say loose women :p
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best jery on the planet can be found here: Jerky USA (http://www.jerkyusa.com)
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best jery on the planet can be found here: Jerky USA (http://www.jerkyusa.com)
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best jery on the planet can be found here: Jerky USA (http://www.jerkyusa.com)
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America has a cuisine. Well, at least we do in the South. We have "soul food".
The rest of you guys with all of your perfect little restaraunts can suck eggs. It's so hard to find an Italian restaraunt with real Italians in it, it's ridiculous.
That's okay though, we're slowly poisoning you all with McDonalds anyways.
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Originally posted by beet1e
I don't know what it is about some Americans who have something good, and then assume that they're the only country to have it. Oh wait - I do. They've never been out of the US. :lol (http://www.zen33071.zen.co.uk/xmas.gif)
Are you so terribly excited to post in your MO that you can't even finish reading a post before your brain goes stupid forces you to make an bellybutton of yourself?
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Originally posted by SOB
Are you so terribly excited to post in your MO that you can't even finish reading a post before your brain goes stupid forces you to make an bellybutton of yourself?
Are you so blind that you can't even finish reading all the posts in this thread to notice that Krusher beat you to it?
:rolleyes:
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I saw his post alright...just thought it was worth repeating.
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Any Italians in here?.....Dudes I love your Ragu.
You mean something like this weaselsan??
(http://www.gennarino.org/tagliatelleragu.gif)
Ever tried ragu with mushrooms and salsiccia??:D
salsiccia ( seasoned minced pork meat which is stuffed into a tubular casing and formed into links)