Elevenpog Rates Cuisines

[Mai72]

1. Thai

Pad Thai is delicious. It can be a bit too spicy though. Made with pad Thai noodles, lime, rice, shrimp, tofu and bean sprouts.

2. Korean Barbeque

Who doesn't like beef? One of my favorites. I ate it at least once a week when I lived in South Korea. Pretty awesome that the barbeque is done in the center of the table. YOu takes the beef, put it in a lettuce leaf, add a piece of garlic and eat it like a taco. We would also barbeque the kimchi which tasted much better fried.

3. Italian

Real Italian food. Not American Italian which is garbage. I'm talking real Italian salami imported from Italy. Real homemade Italian sauce. Nothing from cans. Real, hand pressed pasta. Real Italian bread. And red wine. The good stuff.

4. American

The American diet is fine, if it's done in moderation. The problem is the sugar and carbs. Our diet is carb heavy. One of the reasons why obesity is rampant in America. The other problem is portion size. Our plates are frekin huge.

 

[Mike64]

I've had ethiopian. Is that actually common? I had thought it was fairly unique when I ate it.

I didn't think Elevenpog was ranking "common" foreign cuisines per se, but in any event, I'm not sure I would go so far as to call it "common," but it's not uncommon, in East Coast cities anyway...

you had to eat it with your hands using spongy vinegary bready type really thin pancake. Google says it's called injera.

Yep, though it's not "vinegary" so much as "sourdough-y."

I realized halfway through the meal that the most likely reason they eat this way is because they're so poor in Ethiopia that they don't have forks or spoons or knives, and each person probably takes a tear from an injera bread and a scoop of the meal before passing it on to their family members.

Umm.. no. They're hardly the only culture that doesn't use Western utensils . And different cultures have different views on knives, forks and spoons. Historically, the Chinese considered their use barbaric, for example and among East Asian countries, the only one that typically uses them even today are the Thai. And they don't use table knives, and don't use forks and spoons the way Europeans do. (They basically eat with the spoons, and use the forks to push stuff onto the spoons.) Eating with one's hands per se is not uncommon in the Middle East, by the rich and poor alike, nor in South Asia.

And yes, obviously poor Ethopians don't have much to eat (like the poor everywhere) and again, like the poor everywhere else, they eat much less meat than richer Ethiopans. But there's no indication that injera was invented to spread the wealth, so to speak, it's just another flatbread after all -- rich(er) Ethiopians eat more of it, poor(er) Ethiopians eat less of it.

As for it being "mediocre," I guess it's like any other heavily-spiced cuisine -- not the sort of food European/European-derived cultures go for, generally speaking, though many of us do like that sort of thing...

 

[MongGrel]

I have spent a great majority of my day here at work thinking about food and feel confident that I have accurately and appropriately assigned a numbered rank to each of the (Americanized) versions of ethnic cuisines and foodstuffs. I will also add a small blurb about the best and worst foods from that particular genre of lickies and chewies. This list is official in nature and non-debatable in any way, as I consider myself to be the ultimate authority in this regard.

Thread is officially something.

Accurate sure isn't one of them.

Sitting in the food court at the mall when you made your list up ?

Fail attempt at humor

With all this free time, I must assume you work for the Government?

 

[John Connor]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2383182

 

[MongGrel]

because i am challenged

ftfy.

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[Mike64]

1. Thai

Americanized Thai food sucks, and relatively few Americans actually like real Thai food. For starters, even the "mild" stuff is way too spicy for most people. But when they dumb it down for Americans, it's just insipid, and usually way to sweet, to boot. The Thai are known among their SE Asian neighbors for their sweet tooth, but they generally give it an extra-large dose of sugar for the even more-sugar-loving average American...

2. Korean Barbeque

Who doesn't like beef? One of my favorites.

Abso-freaking-lutely. They can keep their chile-marinated raw crab, seaweed salads, and imnsho, the majority of other panchan, too (no, no, really, I insist:biggrin, but no meat-eating American in their right mind should dislike bulgogi and/or kalbi... The Korean versions of gyoza are mighty tasty, too...

3. Italian

Real Italian food. Not American Italian which is garbage.

Well made Italian-American food is fantastic! If it weren't for Italian-Americans, we'd have no Veal and Chicken Parmigiana. Just that horrifying eggplant version... Eggplant <shudder>

And no, Olive Garden and Domino's obviously do not count.

 

[dr150]

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American Chinese
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Real Chinese

You mean you don't like dog or cat on your dish!?

Go figure? :\

 

[Ns1]

1. Thai

Pad Thai is delicious. It can be a bit too spicy though. Made with pad Thai noodles, lime, rice, shrimp, tofu and bean sprouts.

not sure if srs or troll.

 

[Ns1]

Americanized Thai food sucks, and relatively few Americans actually like real Thai food. For starters, even the "mild" stuff is way too spicy for most people. But when they dumb it down for Americans, it's just insipid, and usually way to sweet, to boot.

100% true. What % of americans are willing to eat this?

pig blood soup w/ MSG.

 

[lxskllr]

100% true. What % of americans are willing to eat this?

pig blood soup w/ MSG.

I wouldn't eat that on a bet. I can't believe they ruined those peppers like that.

 

[Ns1]

I wouldn't eat that on a bet. I can't believe they ruined those peppers like that.

it's a surprisingly well reviewed dish...for those with the balls or stomach for it.

 

[disappoint]

I wouldn't eat that on a bet. I can't believe they ruined those peppers like that.

Those are peppers? I was wondering what those were. They look like they were marinated in effluent.

So OP doesn't like Mancotti nor beans. I guarantee he hasn't tasted them done right.

 

[Nograts]

Those are peppers? I was wondering what those were. They look like they were marinated in effluent.

So OP doesn't like Mancotti nor beans. I guarantee he hasn't tasted them done right.

Vomit by any other name would still be vomit.

-Abraham Shakespear-Kardashian

 

[Dirigible]

Americanized Thai food sucks,

I'ma stop you right there. Americanized anything food is much better than the original version. It's because we take the good parts from whatever country, leaving behind the bad parts.

America #1.

 

[John Connor]

100% true. What % of americans are willing to eat this?

pig blood soup w/ MSG.

I've eaten fish blood with a rolled up rice paper something or other so I could do it, but to tell you the truth there isn't really any food there. What is that? Pork rinds? I wouldn't eat the blood like soup either. I'd use it as a coating. Peppers will probably blow my asshole out. LMAO! I do eat the pepper that comes with Papa John's pizza and other dishes at restaurants.

Edit- Okay it's soup! If it's spicy why not? Although I don't care for pork. I'd do fish blood. Nice and salty. LOL!

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

No Spanish? No French? No Vietnamese? Some of the finest cuisines in existence. And so many more.

Complete OP fail.

 

[Mike64]

100% true. What % of americans are willing to eat this?

pig blood soup w/ MSG.

I have to admit, I'm pretty typically "American" when it comes to "funny" land animals and parts thereof like offal, blood, whether in sausage or soup, etc. -- and frankly, stuff like penis, testicles and uterus just give me the all-out willies - but I'll happily eat much seafood and will try pretty much anything vegetable at least once, even if it's smelly or funny-looking...

Except natto. For some reason I just can't deal with even the thought of natto, though I do like tempeh, which kind of looks like a more solidified version of natto... But I think it's exactly that, the "solidified" part, that makes tempeh OK and natto a no-go for me...

 

[Mike64]

I'ma stop you right there. Americanized anything food is much better than the original version. It's because we take the good parts from whatever country, leaving behind the bad parts.

America #1.

And I'ma quote NS1 right here:

not sure if srs or troll.

 

[Ns1]

Except natto. For some reason I can't deal with even the thought of natto, though I do like tempeh, which kind of looks like a more solidified version of natto...

Natto is on same level as durian and stinky tofu - sure you could but why.

 

[Mike64]

Vomit by any other name would still be vomit.

-Abraham Shakespear-Kardashian

I don't get why you think manicotti (tastes? looks?) like vomit? Were you somehow traumatized by it as a child?:hmm:

 

[Mike64]

Natto is on same level as durian and stinky tofu - sure you could but why.

Yeah, stinky tofu is another one I'll happily leave more of for them who likes it... Regular fermented bean curd, as a seasoning, yes, stinky tofu, no.

 

[MrRamon]

I'll add Vietnamese to the list. Puerto Rican food is good too. Can't really go wrong with good pork, morcilla, or ceviche. Also Jamaican food is yummy. Pigs feet and Oxtail or some jerk chicken.... mmm...

 

[nakedfrog]

I'ma stop you right there. Americanized anything food is much better than the original version. It's because we take the good parts from whatever country, leaving behind the bad parts.

America #1.

Fuck yeah!

 

[Homerboy]

You lost me at no Mexican.

 

[Nograts]

I don't get why you think manicotti (tastes? looks?) like vomit? Were you somehow traumatized by it as a child?:hmm:

I don't like th cheese that's in it (ricotta?). I think there is that kind of cheese in lasagna, which I don't mind, but when it's stuffed with it it's gross.