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Americans and their foods

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lupin

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No offense, but I'm Asian, and I really think Americans lack variety in their food.

I guess that's why you guys are so excited about Taco Bell. 🙂

Seriously,
Don't you think American food lacks variety??

In Asia, people cook anything from Mushroom, Vegetables, Noodles, Beef, Lamb, Pig, Snake, Birds, Turtles, Fish, you name it, we have it. 🙂
 
Obviously you weren't among the Donner party.

I guess there will be less variety when everything goes extinct.
 
Lupin: Like dad once told me. "What has four legs and isn't eaten by us Asians? The kitchen table of course." 🙂

Windogg
 
I am American. I don't get psyched for Taco Bells' "food", in fact, it appalls me. Since America is a melting pot, we seem to get a wide variety of cuisine: from Italien, Mexican, Asian etc...I happen to enjoy all of them. I think to say that "American" food lacks variety is a bit narrow minded.

If you are talking about original American cuisine that derived from this country. Then I dare you to travel across this GREAT country and sample some of what's to offer and repeat that statement.

-Gizmology
 
Go to Pennsylvania for some scrapple.I hope you eat it and ask questions later.

I had monkey in Arizona.The chef was Thai.
It was good too.
 
Problem is Lupin, is all these Asians, who obviously don't give a fuk for the enviroment, because they continue to eat endangered species. You even mentioned Snakes & Turtle, when just about all snakes & turtles in Asia are endangered. Then we get wealthy Japanese & Taiwanese who go to Burma to eat tiger, just to boast about it back home (do you know how many tigers are left?). Then there's the Asian Sun bear which is just about extinct because its fashionable to eat in South East Asia.

Why can't Asians treat the enviroment with respect & do it some good, by instead eating each other.
 
I don't mind there not being a variety. I don't see the point in even TRYING to eat shrimp heads and weird stuff like that... apparently shrimp heads are quite popular at some chinese restaurants near me.. nasty.
 
hmm... lots of Asian people think "american" food, is like steaks and potatos and steamed broccoli. And ham and stuff. you know with no flavor in it. Whatever... i'm asian, that isn't american food. that is british food. British food is straight nasty.
 
Americans lack variety in their food? Do you even know how many different animal parts we cram into hot dogs?? 🙂
Seriously, though, since America is the "melting pot", we really have no one cultural type of food. I think there is more of a variety of foods in America than anywhere else...we just don't have many uniquely "American" foods.
 
Scrapple is an amalgamation of tendons, cartilage, feet, skin, ears, nose, gums and more. In short, it's all the garbage that should be thrown away. A recipe (that mentions Pittsburgh by name) is here.

You know, the stuff that was too good for hot dogs.

Or you could try another American delicacy, hog maw.
 


<< Once the head is sectioned, some people remove the brains. Some remove the teeth - bashing them off with a cleaver. Yet others remove the eyes. The most nutritious scrapples contain the entire head! That said, however, special care should be taken to remove the ear drums. Left in place, they contribute a distinctively bitter taste to the Scrapple, which while popular in Pittsburgh, is generally disliked elsewhere. >>



I refuse to click on the &quot;next page&quot; link. That is disgusting.
 
lupin,

what part of America are you in boy ?

you just described the food I grew up with in the Ole USofA, cept you left out

goat, squirrel, possum, armadillo, rabbit, deer, snails, cornbread, eels, alligator, mussels, clams, crawfish, etc.

don't you just hate that numb feelin around your mouth after you eat a good piece of grouper
 
What Americans lack in variety they make up for in quantity of consumption, hence the disgustingly high percentage of obese in the general population.
 


<< What Americans lack in variety they make up for in quantity of consumption, hence the disgustingly high percentage of obese in the general population. >>



Now there's a comment destined to go over like the proverbial turd in a punchbowl. No other countries have an abundance of fatties?

 
Because I'm a &quot;bad&quot; vegetarian (i eat fish, but no land animals, or mammal meat), my preferred foods are, in this order:

Indian. can't get enough of it. What they do with vegetables is art.
Sushi. one word &quot;Yumm!&quot;. And a real fast way to drop 50 bucks.
Mexican. Refried beans and rice and cheese enchiladas. Can't go wrong there.

All the above I find in great quantity just about anywhere I go in the US. I think the concept 'American food' is similar to the concept of 'American People'. As in, a mix of everything from around the world.

Oh, and I do believe quite strongly that asians (not indians though) and japanese are environmentally irresponsible, but they are making strides. The japanese strides are backwards, since they are opening up whaling again.
 
Now there's a comment destined to go over like the proverbial turd in a punchbowl. No other countries have an abundance of fatties?

A friend of mine from england told me that he knows when he is in america when he sees the first 'All you can eat [insert poor helpless animal here]'

I guess the &quot;all you can eat&quot; joint is an american thing, or at least not very common else where. (might be difficult to find one in ethiopia, for instance)

I think the world considers us fat because of things like this, and our fast-food joints. Did you ever look at the number of calories in a wendy's triple decker bacon and cheese burger? More that half your daily calories, plus like 3 times the fat. Now that's convenience!
 
Let's see:

New England: Lobster and chowders and shrimp, prepared just about anyway you like.

Mid-Atlantic: Tremendous Italian, Polish and seafood. Everything really.

The South: Unbelievable &quot;down-home&quot; cooking. Don't forget Louisanna. French-creole, Cajun and all-around awesome. Best area for eating.

Midwest: BEEF. Go to Kansas City. Have a big-@ss steak.

Southwest: Southwest

West: A montage of everything. Ton of Asian.


So what is &quot;American Food&quot;

Maybe you are thinking of what kids eat:

Peanut butter and jelly
Chicken Fingers
Hamburger
Hotdog
etc.
 
On a trip to Germany, I saw quite a few &quot;all you can eat&quot; places - were they an American invention? I don't know, but I know I see big butts in a lot of cultures, not necessarily all American. I recall a news story from a year or so ago that said the Japanese in particular had begun to adopt very bad nutritional habits, and were increasingly having problems with obesity. Something else to blame on the Americans? Maybe, but whether we invented it or not, we aren't the only country in the world with an unhealthy addiction to fat. It seems like more of an exercise issue, since Americans (in general, not all by any means) never walk anywhere they can drive.

When I was in France, I ate like they did (which meant I ate far more than I do here) but I also walked everywhere.
 
Dabonhead

Actually the rest of the world considers Americans fat because Americans are fat.

I was in Japan in '99. Know how many obese people I saw? Not a single one. Sure there are some overweight people, but the average person - even middle aged person - is not overweight. They are slim. Other than Sumo wrestlers Japan does not have a weight problem. It seems that the farther west you get the fatter the people are.

In Canada we have our share of fatties, I'm not sure if its higher or lower than the US - but both of our countries seriously are in a state of fat-dom. Quality of living problems and health-care costs related to obesity are obscene. I can't remember the percentage of adults that are obese but its a rather sickening number. Too much food, too little excercise.

BiB
 
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