What would you serve in your AMERICAN Restaurant

@tsarstepan,

tsarstepan wrote:

msolga wrote:

What about desserts?

I mean, I know there's apple pie, obviously ..... but what other dishes would be considered typical American desserts?

Blueberry or pumpkin pies

My friends who spent a year in Gatorsburg recall with horror such dishes as sweet potato tart, with ADDED SUGAR, and with marshmallows on top.....served during the main course...

1 Reply

@dlowan,

I sure embrace it, but I'm finding out store hybrids near icky sweet. Maybe it's just me, but for me the sugar is outdoing the corn flavor. Will have to look at some catalogs, mebbe I can run up some corn and check it out..

1 Reply

Jersey tomatoes

http://www.pineypower.com/waretown/herberts3.jpg

California roast

http://hostedmedia.reimanpub.com/TOH/Images/Photos/37/exps3173_C0706C197A.jpg

Georgia peaches

http://nickwardscenarios.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/a-georgia-peach.jpg

Alabama Slammer

Idaho Potato

Carolina rice

Key lime pie

Kentucky Bourbon

http://tweetyfinejewelry.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54efc48008833010534b33b64970b-500wi

Maryland crab cakes

http://www.mackys.com/images/menu_crab_cakes_09.jpg

Boston cream pie

Texas red grapefruit

http://www.texascitrusexchange.com/images/TS-017a.jpg

Vermont maple syrup

http://vtstuff.com/images/BFF%20VT%20Gold%20Spec%20Ed-sm.jpg

4 Replies

@dlowan,

dlowan wrote:

My friends who spent a year in Gatorsburg recall with horror such dishes as sweet potato tart, with ADDED SUGAR, and with marshmallows on top.....served during the main course...

Can truly say I have never heard of such course. Sounds like a solely southern thing to me. The dish probably never traveled north of Maryland perhaps.

0 Replies

@ossobuco,

ossobuco wrote:

I sure embrace it, but I'm finding out store hybrids near icky sweet. Maybe it's just me, but for me the sugar is outdoing the corn flavor. Will have to look at some catalogs, mebbe I can run up some corn and check it out..

Yes...they are making it sweeter and sweeter here too.

It's a real pity, because the stuff I recall is better tasting and likely better for you.

0 Replies

@chai2,

LOVE dem pink grapefruit!

0 Replies

@chai2,

Almost begged you to marry me chai2 with your inclusion of artichokes in the main course then the key lime pie and the Boston Creme Pie.

0 Replies

@chai2,

excellent list, chai!

0 Replies

@OmSigDAVID,

This is all silly in the context that people are starving (in my day, I think it was china that was mentioned and of course that was true). Still, it's no way to turn someone on to food, especially given the cooking techniques of my childhood.

I would surmise JPB's and other's children didn't have quite these kind of multiple hour long episodes. And I'd suppose other kinds of episodes supplanted all that. Still, that's an iconic memory for me, and not just once.

2 Replies

@ossobuco,

I was only reminded of the starving children of India once. We were having chicken and rice. At the time, rice was not on my list of eatable foods. My mother suggested (not so nicely) that I consider the plight of the starving children of India. I suggested she box it up and ship it to them. I think I spent quite a bit of time at the table that night...

1 Reply

90% of the above posts/lists are an embarrassment if they are meant to be representative of "american" food. Eva's post was the most accurate.
I read the posts and felt like having a meal at "olive garden" resturant would be eating "italian."

5 Replies

@dyslexia,

and...

0 Replies

@JPB,

(snort)

Who would want cold boiled carrots?
Many, I suppose now, but I was one unhappy person.
It's a wonder we got into liking food later - or maybe this sort of routine had something to do with it.
One of my first memories of actually liking food was (oh, gad) at Piece O'Pizza, where they had a salad and some pizza, first I'd ever heard of pizza and I'd never had a salad before.. Might have been seventeen (I worked after school in high school and once in a while some of us at work went out).
That salad tasted good. Total news.

1 Reply

@dyslexia,

excuse me?

0 Replies

@dyslexia,

Tell me what I said that embarrassed you? I may agree or not.

0 Replies

@dadpad,

dadpad wrote:

Afro american (Sole food?)

That would be Soul Food.

0 Replies

@dyslexia,

dyslexia wrote:

90% of the above posts/lists are an embarrassment if they are meant to be representative of "american" food. Eva's post was the most accurate.
I read the posts and felt like having a meal at "olive garden" resturant would be eating "italian."

Well, perhaps you'd better put up your list then.

Can't people have different ideas about food without it being "an embarrassment"?

Perhaps individual experienced vary a lot.

2 Replies

@dyslexia,

dyslexia wrote:

90% of the above posts/lists are an embarrassment if they are meant to be representative of "american" food. Eva's post was the most accurate.
I read the posts and felt like having a meal at "olive garden" resturant would be eating "italian."

You have dishonored me dys!

1 Reply

@tsarstepan,

tzar, I'm a gun owner, you really want a duel?

2 Replies

@dlowan,

No, Dys insists any visitor here in new mexico order green chile and corn tortillas. This is a good idea, once. Me, I like red chile easily as well, and this is also a possible choice with new mexican chiles, and the corn tortillas here suck almost as much as the flour ones, being texan flour tortillas and not the sonora type (thinner and more flavorful by far). I've bought corn tortillas here and thrown them out - whereas that is not my lifelong mode.

I await his list.

Hisses.

1 Reply

What would you serve in your AMERICAN Restaurant

Related Topics

Quick Links

My Account

able2know