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What exactly is American food?

 
 
Linkat
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jan, 2012 01:37 pm
@Joe Nation,
I think American food is so varied you cannot pick - maybe more likely regional. New England for instance - lobster, steamers, chicken pot pie are things that jump into my head. Whereas if you were to go south - there is some great barbacue....etc.
DrewDad
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jan, 2012 01:38 pm
@DrewDad,
http://www.yelp.com/biz/hill-country-barbecue-market-new-york

Rockhead
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jan, 2012 01:39 pm
deep fried twinkies....
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Linkat
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jan, 2012 01:39 pm
@Butrflynet,
That reminds me - on the "Chinese food"...my college roommate was from Japan, when they (in Japan) went out for American food - it was like those Japanese Steak Houses - where they cook in front of you sort of place...
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Linkat
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jan, 2012 01:42 pm
@Ceili,
I have heard that as well - saw it on some news program type of thing - they showed a menu in Hawaii and everything had spam in it.
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Butrflynet
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jan, 2012 01:52 pm
@Ceili,
According to the NY Times, it is.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/us/the-spam-that-isn-t-via-e-mail.html

Quote:
The Spam That Isn't Via E-Mail
Published: April 07, 2003

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If your money was on the guy with the big belly, you lost.

Jack LaForge, a 17-year-old Honolulu resident of unimpressive size, ate an entire can of Spam -- cold -- in roughly two minutes on Saturday, beating 11 other Spam eaters during a celebration to honor the meat sometimes called ''Hawaiian steak.''

''I had a little bit of water left so I just stuck a whole piece in and swallowed it whole, right down with the water,'' Mr. LaForge said, adding that he really felt he needed a smoke.

The Spam eating contest was one event in the first Waikiki Spam Jam, a three-day festival designed to draw local residents and their wallets into Waikiki by honoring the state's favorite comfort food. Hawaii consumes 6.7 million cans of Spam each year -- more than any other state -- and this fixation drew thousands of people this weekend, helping along a tourism economy recently slowed by war fears.

Music blared from two stages as people downed creative Spam dishes and posed for pictures with a giant can of Spam in blue hightops. The festival started with the creation of the ''world's longest'' Spam musubi, usually a four-inch rice block topped with Spam and wrapped with seaweed, a standard local snack. (Think Spam sushi.)
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saab
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jan, 2012 01:56 pm
@Butrflynet,
That list made me really hungry - and no place to go. It´s unfair
Joe Nation
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jan, 2012 02:05 pm
@DrewDad,
THHHATT'S what I'm talking about Drewdad.

~~Course, now I has to get myself down to Slick's outside of Muskogee, no sausage there unless you count the poor folks eating that bbq baloney.

Joe(No kidding and it's good)Nation
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jan, 2012 02:09 pm
@joefromchicago,
Big HVAC show on Michigan Ave. (That's my career now~~ centrifugal and axial fans, blowers and duct fans. SUper exciting Cool )

Arrive Monday AM......fly out Tuesday at five PM

Joe(Where yat? Drunk )Nation
Joe Nation
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jan, 2012 02:14 pm
@Linkat,
Quote:
I think American food is so varied you cannot pick - maybe more likely regional. New England for instance - lobster, steamers, chicken pot pie are things that jump into my head. Whereas if you were to go south - there is some great barbacue....etc.


yes. my yes yes. Linkat, no truer words.
That is one of the things I like about America.

In Lake Woebegon, you'd have yourself a nice hot dish of something.

Joe(oooo.. chicken pot pie..)Nation

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ehBeth
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jan, 2012 02:16 pm
@Joe Nation,
Joe Nation wrote:
We are going to Chicago next week. Deep dish Pizza.....

Joe(i'm ready)Nation


peeza schmeeza

Chicago means popcorn to me.

That awesome mix of cheddar and caramel corn.

mmmmmmmm Chicago popcorn
Joe Nation
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jan, 2012 02:17 pm
@DrewDad,
Not far from Blue Smoke.....

Joe(They spell BBQ with two $$s)Nation
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jan, 2012 02:18 pm
@DrewDad,


that's too funny - the first review is by a Canadian

apparently we like to review bbq joints in NYC
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jan, 2012 02:21 pm
@ehBeth,
Beth:
Here's a recipe for you to try the next time you go to the movies.
Get popcorn and a box of Junior Mints.
Pour Junior Mints over top of pop corn.
Find seat.
Try some.
See if there's any left by the time the movie starts.

Joe(don't forget napkins)Nation
Setanta
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jan, 2012 02:24 pm
@Joe Nation,
Meatloaf sammich ? ! ? ! ? That is the very pinacle of American gustitation . . . er somethin' like that . . .
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jan, 2012 02:25 pm
@Joe Nation,
Joe Nation wrote:
Junior Mints.

They're very refreshing!
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jan, 2012 02:26 pm
@Joe Nation,
<do we have Junior Mints in Canada?>
Rockhead
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jan, 2012 02:27 pm
@ehBeth,
good god I hope so...

how unamerican would that be?
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Setanta
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jan, 2012 02:31 pm
@Joe Nation,
Joe Nation wrote:
I don't think he's ready for a Moon Pie and R.C. Cola yet.


This joke is about the legendary stupidity of people from Alabama, as alleged by people from Georgia:

So this fella goes into a store in North Georgia and says:

I'll have a RC and a Moonpie.

Ha . . . you must be from Alabama.

Now wait a darned minnit . . . spose i ast you for some spaghetti and meatballs, would you ast me was i a Eye-talian?

Don't know, it ain't never come up.

Well spose i ast you for some Polish sausage and some sauerkraut, would you ast me was i a Dutchman?

Don't know, it ain't never come up.

Then how come, when i ast you fer a RC and a Moonpie, you ast me was i from Alabama ? ! ? ! ?

Well, to start with, this is a hardware store.


My friend and i heard that joke at lunch one day, and when we got off work and went back to the house, we sat down and turned on the news. It was a slow news day and they had a piece about a Walmart opening in Alabama. They had folding tables in front of the store with free "food" . . . two liters of RC and Moonpies . . . we fell out laughin' . . .
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farmerman
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jan, 2012 02:36 pm
Brunswick stew
hoppin john
greens in pot likker
cole slaw with yer pulled pork
bisquites and redeye or dried beef gravy
grilled steak
lobster rolls
corn bread stuffing in wild turkey
side meat
chicken pot pie
shoo-fly pie
whoopie pies
pecan pie
seared scallops with a cider sauce
Schnitz und Knepp
deep fried gator tail/catfish/panfish
fried trout wrapped in bacon
punkin corn and bean porridge
Chitterlings
jerked chicken
chop suey

moose jerky (maybe thats Canajun I dont know for sure)

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