What would you serve in your AMERICAN Restaurant

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Mexican restaurants serve mexican food, chinese restauants serve chinese food, Thai restaurants serve thai food
What would be on the menu of your American resteraunt. Po folk food is acceptable as its not Po folk food to us. Base ingredients are in many cultures the same mention the essential ingredient(s) or presentation that allow the dish to reprent American food.
Maybe its us ferriners who should tell you what we think best represents America so heres a few examples.
Fried chicken
chitlins
collard greens
Apple pie (moms)
corn bread
buscuits 'n gravy. or buiscuits N just about anything

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@dadpad,

clam chowder.

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@Rockhead,

Corn Bread
Biscuits and Gravy (ms. picky is picky about those)
Bacon lettuce and tomato sandwiches with great ingredients
Tamales - friend's grandmother sold them in downtown LA in the early nineteen hundreds
Boston Baked Beans (don't like them myself, too sweet, and my mother was a boston girl who raved about bean sandwiches
Porterhouse steaks cooked just right

More in a bit.

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Kansas City steaks, since around the Depression or earlier.

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@dadpad,

Comfort food like cheeseburgers, meatloaf and mash potatoes, macaroni and cheese, etc....

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Fried chicken
chitlins
collard greens

That's southern food. Though along with pulled BBQ pork (substituted for the fried chicken), it's a very substantial and tasty American meal.

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Good steaks
Potatoes made in any form or fashion
Breads, heavy ones, and generally overly sweet ones
Beer. Cant forget Beer..

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@Rockhead,

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clam chowder.

Manhattan or New England?

Classic American: Tuna casserole, 8 slice pizza, cheese fries, Buffalo wings.
Edited to add - corn on the cob with butter.

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@Green Witch,

Both... to give the customer a choice but we all know that New England clam chowder rules all chowders -fish, clam, or others.

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@Green Witch,

new england.

(they make some awesome salmon chowder in Seattle)

I'd hafta do some Étouffée and gumbo as well...

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@Rockhead,

Hmm? Someone say ,"Gumbo?"

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@tsarstepan,

Include Southern food please.
Strange as it may seem to you America (The US) is actually seen as ONE nation by most of us outside the US.
Any good names for an American restaurant? (not maccas).

Edit: Thanks for the mention but "pulled pork" aint gonna work here.
LOLOLOLOl

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I agree that Creole cooking is American.
I think we also invented the ice cream cone (not ice cream despite what they say about Dolly Madison), milkshakes, Fluff A'Nutta and fried okra. No wonder we are all too fat.

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Barbecue
Chile

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I think in MY American restaurant I'd serve a variety of ethnic food mixed with some old fashioned all American fare. After all, America is a melting pot. Oh! Fondu!

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@dadpad,

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Strange as it may seem to you America (The US) is actually seen as ONE nation by most of us outside the US.

We see ourselves as THE ONE Nation, but we are definitely a people divided by geographical differences, tastes, ethnic origins, education, politics, religion (or lack of) and physical diversity. We are mutts in the full sense of the word. It's amazing we don't shoot each other on a more regular basis.

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we got cajun everthing over here. Its not so bad now but 5 years ago you couldnt walk into a any restaurant without being offered cajun this or cajun that.

I may need you to help me out some more. I have no idea what most of the things mentioned are so a pic or general list of ingredients recipie might be required. I get chowder is thick soup, yes?

whats Gumbo?

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@dadpad,

Crawfish (aka Mud Bugs) Etoufee. Basically small shrimp in a spicy tomato base.

http://img4.southernliving.com/i/2009/02/mardi-gras/crawfish-etouffee-l.jpg

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From my childhood...
Macaroni and cheese
cheeseburgers
hot dogs
New England baked beans and brown bread (which came in a can as I recall)
New England clam chowder
fried chicken

From more recently
jambalaya
gumbo
chicken and rice with picante sauce and corn

I'll keep thinking.

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@ossobuco,

Dungeness crab
pan fried trout

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@dadpad,

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