The Last Thing You Put In Your Mouth....

We're officially "off tap" while we host wedding functions, meaning no beer for a few days.

It's my way of getting my sugar high.

My wife and I had breakfast at Denny's and enjoyed their special $4 grand slam with pancakes, two eggs with bacon. It's the best deal in town.

A cup of chili I made yesterday.

We had some store bought sushi for dinner with some hot green tea.

Mug of skim milk.

My sister, brother and brother-in-law came to share lunch together at Fresh Tomato in Sunnyvale. They came at 11am, and just left for home to Lodi and Elk Grove (1:25pm). My brother who is a doctor said, he's still working to help his grandchild attend dental school ($90k/year). I'm the last one in our family to get a college degree, and the first one to retire (in 1998).

Yikes, $90k a year......where is he going to school?

Chocolate cookie, glutenless

Lowfat chocolate milk

Salami and Swiss cheese with onions

I haven't had a nice salami Sammy in years.

I had a cup of yogurt....tres boring

Swiss cheese is something we never have, it sometimes makes an appearance in American food chains but other than that I wouldn't know. I suppose there's some somewhere on the supermarket shelf but I've not seen it. Then again our cheeses aren't distinguished by country but by type, which normally means cheddar and anything that isn't cheddar. We eat a huge amount of cheddar.

That sounds really good.

Not gonna eat any bread, but I think I'll go do a little roll up with hard salami and havarti. I finished the Swiss (Tillamook) yesterday.

What foods do they serve in the American food restaurants there?

Oh. Emmental is what we call Swiss Cheese. Some tangy, some creamy, and in between.

Burgers hot dogs, that sort of thing. I'm not running through a whole menu.

We do get Emmental cheese but I prefer this, it's Norwegian and has a nuttier taste.

Jesus. I wasn't asking you to.

I was just wondering what people in England thought "American Food" was.
So burgers and hotdogs, kinda what I figured. Although I don't know what "that sort of thing" means. What sort of thing?

That would be like me saying "English food is fish and chips. That sort of thing". You know, fish and chip like. Just like hamburgers, I don't think people in England eat F&C's every day, or several times a week.

Anyway. We also eat eat Jarlsberg cheese, and many others.

Americans generally don't call a cheese by the country is known to be made in. Swiss and American are the only 2 I can think of.

It's not like we call cheddar "English cheese" or gorgonzola "Italian cheese"

Growing up in NJ, I only knew of the existence of Manhatten. Or rather I didn't know about New England until I saw it in a restaurant. I thought that was so exotic.
Wherever else I've been in this country that serves clam chowder, I May have seen Manhatten list once.

Now, I can't imagine really liking it.

It's just the only time I've seen the term "swiss cheese" is in restaurants and Sturgis' posts.

I thought American Diners were fairly well known. They have one in Pulp Fiction.

Re Swiss cheese, yeah we all do call it that. It’s like a generic term for cheese with holes. Like you may say cheddar in conversation, but I guess you might not specify unless needed if it’s sharp, smoked or has some other quality.

When I think of a diner, it’s nothing like the one in Pulp Fiction. Are you talking about the place where Mrs Wallace and Vincent danced, or where Vincent and Jules were at the end of the movie? Hmm, I guess thinking about it, I Might call the 2nd one a diner, under the right circumstances, but it’s not really the first thing that comes to mind. I’d just call it a restaurant. The first place in PF is definitely a theme restaurant.

The foods that come to mind to me when hearing “diner” are number one, a plate of meat loaf, mashed potatoes and brown gravy and some other non fussy vegetable like carrots or green beans. . Next that comes to mind are pies. Diners are the type of place you and your friends go to for a slice of pie and a cup of coffee. I also think of soup and bread, liver and onions, bacon and eggs or ham and eggs with toast, roast beef and chicken salad sandwiches with french fries, chocolate or rice pudding, a chefs or Cobb salad, grilled cheese sandwiches, stuffed cabbage and other foods that make you feel comfort. Only after all those images and more to I think of any kind of hamburger, and I definitely don’t think of hot dogs. A hot dog on a bun at a diner would be something found on the children’s menu as it’s something cheap you might put in front of a fussy eater and it really doesn’t matter if he eats it or not.

Diners in general are smallish, and unless they’re on a highway or some they mostly serve the locals and are low key and someplace you can stop in anytime day or night and get whatever you want. The cook may have a daily special of some “exotic” like “the taco plate” or “buffalo wings” but those are for the more edgy people who just aren’t happy with some fried shrimp with tartar sauce, fries and cole slaw.

Now all That is American food.

most "diners" retain a kind of retro look to a train coach car.Most are stainless clad with a kitchen "shed" on the backs and in New Jersey, ALL have a basement bakry where some of the best goddam pies and other pastry are wooped up "MErkin STyle. (Whih is to say we copy every cuisine in the world and doctor it up to fit our high calorie National Comestibles Requirements.).
Cream Puffs, based on a French product have been changed to create a many flavored vanilla based "Pudding" filling in a ppuff pastry shell, (Brits have their own name for puff pastry).
Diners are known for "mom food", "comfort food", or "Road food".

They tried dinrs in Taiwan but, because its so damn hot inside everybody loved the little street cycle carts and food vans like they have in AUstin and Nawlins.