Cyno01: Deterministic: Whoa, hold on there subby, I'm an Englishman, and bacon and cheese run through my veins in a literal and metaphorical sense.

So don't you go saying a non-American wouldn't understand them...

/aware I sound fat
//I'm not though
//really!

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fark that noise. As an American I find the "English" breakfast more appetizing... except maybe the black stuff on the right. What is that?

bel4sucks: GAT_00: I will never understand why people enjoy mayo, sour cream or Ranch dressing. I'd say I hate all white toppings, but Caesar dressing is delicious. But only on a salad with Parmesan.

It sounds like you're overcompensating, trying to hide your love for leche de hombre.

All of America's culinary history has been an attempt to make all food look like someone has jizzed on it. Grits, most gravies, most dressings, mashed spuds, etc. Every stage has made them runnier and whiter. I went to a funeral at an evangelical church, the lunch afterwards looked like the aftermath of a San Fran daisy chain.

As an Englishman:-

Biscuits and Gravy: Not weird, just not had it. Looks like dumplings and some sort of stew-like sauce, which isn't weird at all.

Peanut Butter: Not weird, don't like the taste. My roommate consumes the stuff and loves it.

Bacon and Eggs: Part of a proper breakfast.

Pasta and Brocolli: Had that last night when I realised I had very little food in the flat.

Black Pepper: Not weird. Put it on a great deal of dishes.

Three Warm Meals: THIS IS NOT A FOOD. THIS IS A FOOD HABIT. Also, not weird.

Soft Bread: Staple food product. Also the quote they have is from a German and I'm fairly certain Germans have soft bread quite commonly.

Red Velvet Cake: I'll be honest, I've never heard of this before. Or I don't remember hearing about it. Either way, it doesn't seem terribly strange, just haven't had it before.

Mayo: Sandwiches, tuna, occasionally chips (that's British chips, not American chips)...yeah, I eat mayo.

Grits: Some sort of porridge? Never had it, not a huge fan of porridge dishes.

Huge Portion Sizes: THIS IS NOT A FOOD. THIS IS A FOOD HABIT. Also, a little weird to have constantly but whatever floats your boat I guess.

Salad Dressing: Not weird. Eat my salad with dressing.

Frito Pie: Basically crisps+chilli+cheese? Woulda thought that'd get soggy but hey, not that weird I guess.

Cheese: Are you farking serious?

Free Refills: THIS IS NOT A FOOD. THIS IS A SERVING OPTION.

d_the_sandman: AbbeySomeone: These are all over New Mexico as well and they usually always top them with green chile as well. Yum.


FTFY

I thought we loved our green chili in TX, but New Mexico takes it to a whole 'nother level. It took me a while to figure out that even in national chain fast food restaurants, if you don't specifically say "no chili" when ordering, your burger will be covered in the stuff.

/not necessarily a bad thing

Newcomers to NM wonder why restaurants keep asking them about Red, Green, or Christmas. "But, it's June!"

/Loves me some mucho red chile.

pedobearapproved: Frito pie is disgusting! I'd rather eat chicken feet and tendon.

Feng Szhou (sp?) aka Dragon Talons are one of my favourite dim sum items. I loooooove chicken feet.

Never had a Frito pie but it looks like damn fine post-bar food

TheXerox: Born, raised, and still live in Iowa, LOVE grits since being introduced to them as a little kid by my dad who spent some of his childhood in Florida before moving back to the Midwest. I only know one other guy here who eats grits and he's a Southern transplant, everybody else here is revolted by it and wonders how the hell I acquired a taste for them in the first place.

Midwesterners in general are the least willing to try any food they didn't grow up with. Well, and the FOBs. (Fresh off the boat or fresh over the border, they still refuse to eat anything their mama didn't make.) I've known my share of Californians and New Yorkers who blanch at the idea of expanding culinary horizons, but I've yet to meet a midwesterner outside of Chicago's Loop who would ever do so.

freewill: NateAsbestos: except maybe the black stuff on the right. What is that?

Blood pudding.

Want to guess what it's made from?

It's made of 100% concentrated tasty. If you like bacon, you'll love the taste of black pudding.

I dip my biscuits in clarified honey butter. Anyone tried (a light drizzle of) honey and pepper on their fries? D lish.

What really blows my mind is when I meet someone who has never had 'Chinese food'. HOW?!

I_Am_Weasel: Cheese is popular in many places.

Though, as a foreigner, I still don't understand how you can get away with calling "American Cheese" a cheese. "American Cheez" I can understand, but a cheese it isn't.

Oh, and spray cheese.

Really, though, cheese isn't a high priority in Asian cuisine, so I can understand that. I do enjoy a good paneer, however.

There's a difference between American Cheese and American Cheese Food Product. My guess is you are talking about the latter.

Go to the deli and get the real stuff. It's pretty good. The other stuff is weird flavored plastic.

fusillade762: Heh. I used to work with this kid who hated, HATED mayo. So when I got a sandwich for lunch I made sure to get extra mayo packets so I could squirt extra mayo on each bite. I'd be like "Justin, watch" and take a big, swimming-in-mayo bite, rolling my eyes and moaning. He'd nearly gag. It was hysterical.

You probably watch videos of people in elevators pressing the (disconnected) close door button and laugh like a Mad Hatter, don't you?

Marcus Aurelius: No scrapple?

NO SCRAPPLE!

You sound like a Pensylvania Dutch Cuisine critic
/ Scrapple is beyond disgusting

Bathia_Mapes: GGracie: Benevolent Misanthrope: GGracie: TheOmni: I dip my fries in mayonnaise. It's awesome.

I dip my fries in Ranch dressing. It's awesomer :-)

I dip my fries in 1,000 Island dressing. It's beyond farking awesome.

I'll have to try that. Thanks :-)

Try dipping your fries in tartar sauce. Very tasty.

For the win.... dip your hot salty fries into a chocolate shake, or if you have a nearby Wendys, a small frosty. If you aren't in a hurry, you can ask for your fries to be without salt and while that may add a couple minutes, they will be fresh and hot. Then you can cheese them off by adding salt later [Note I fit cheeses into there also].

r1niceboy: Blood pudding.

Want to guess what it's made from?

It's made of 100% concentrated tasty. If you like bacon, you'll love the taste of black pudding.


100 percent true.

/not from Europe. From the state that looks like a mitten surrounded by lakes.

r1niceboy: freewill: NateAsbestos: except maybe the black stuff on the right. What is that?

Blood pudding.

Want to guess what it's made from?

It's made of 100% concentrated tasty. If you like bacon, you'll love the taste of black pudding.

Yeah. That

Of course I eat everything and lots of "gross" things. Tendon. Tripe. Trotters. Tongue. Street food wherever I travel. Durian.

Big list of things I like that make people gag.

Cheese? Really? Sure, it is not all that common in asia, but nearly the rest of the world enjoys cheese!

Cyno01: Deterministic: Whoa, hold on there subby, I'm an Englishman, and bacon and cheese run through my veins in a literal and metaphorical sense.

So don't you go saying a non-American wouldn't understand them...

/aware I sound fat
//I'm not though
//really!

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Damn straight baked beans, but only these:

Bill_Wick's_Friend: r1niceboy: freewill: NateAsbestos: except maybe the black stuff on the right. What is that?

Blood pudding.

Want to guess what it's made from?

It's made of 100% concentrated tasty. If you like bacon, you'll love the taste of black pudding.

Yeah. That

Of course I eat everything and lots of "gross" things. Tendon. Tripe. Trotters. Tongue. Street food wherever I travel. Durian.

Big list of things I like that make people gag.

A great street food from Australia is the pie floater. Essentially a steak pie covered in ketchup floating in a bowl of pea soup. Tastes great, but is physically impossible to eat politely. I usually go into an alleyway and do an impression of the green ghost in Ghostbusters.

Bill_Wick's_Friend:

...Big list of things I like that make people gag.

Hurr hurr.

This is mostly Southern/Redneck food. I'm surprised they didn't mention stuff like spam (although I guess this is popular in other cultures), velveeta cheese, cheese whiz, jello salad, etc. That's the stuff I find particularly nasty in our culture - other than a few things on this list.


Of course I think there's a lot of weird/gross food in other countries like insects, offal, and animal genetalia.

One of the weirder things for me was how they don't use ice in their drinks in certain places. While I think there's too much usage of ice in the US, I remember being in France as a kid during the summer, it was around 100 outside and they served warm soda. I asked for ice and they seemed to think I was weird and put two tiny cubes in. I was told they don't use ice or something.

amidoinitright: / Scrapple is beyond disgusting

No, making scrapple is beyond disgusting. But eating it? Oh, my...

CitizenTed: I love traveling in eastern Europe and the Balkans, but the damn Germans have poisoned hotel cuisine in those regions. Every hotel from Poland to Albania serves bread, cheese, cold cuts, yogurt and muesli for breakfast. You get pretty sick of it after a couple of weeks. I remember being told by a hotelier in Croatia that breakfast was unavailable and if we wanted to eat we could buy provisions and cook in his kitchen. I was so relieved! Eggs over easy, fried ham, toast and coffee! I didn't care that it cost me money or that I had to clean up the dishes. It was worth it!

I would LOVE to do that, but mainly because I party hard when I stay anywhere and get out much too late for any breakfast. Having the run of a commercial kitchen would be AMAZING even if I had to scrub it down after. Sure as hell beats room service prices anyway.

PillsHere: This is mostly Southern/Redneck food. I'm surprised they didn't mention stuff like spam (although I guess this is popular in other cultures), velveeta cheese, cheese whiz, jello salad, etc. That's the stuff I find particularly nasty in our culture - other than a few things on this list.


Of course I think there's a lot of weird/gross food in other countries like insects, offal, and animal genetalia.

One of the weirder things for me was how they don't use ice in their drinks in certain places. While I think there's too much usage of ice in the US, I remember being in France as a kid during the summer, it was around 100 outside and they served warm soda. I asked for ice and they seemed to think I was weird and put two tiny cubes in. I was told they don't use ice or something.

How about good old boiled peanuts?

Being from New England, it was new to me on my trips south. Still haven't tried it, but wet, soggy, warm peanuts isn't something I think I'd care for. Peanuts are crunchy snacks to me, not peas.

prisoner6: Big Bob Gibson's ORIGINAL White BBQ sauce. Put it on EVERYTHING!

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Just sayin'.....

I recently made white BBQ sauce.

If made properly, it tastes wonderful

PillsHere: This is mostly Southern/Redneck food. I'm surprised they didn't mention stuff like spam (although I guess this is popular in other cultures), velveeta cheese, cheese whiz, jello salad, etc. That's the stuff I find particularly nasty in our culture - other than a few things on this list.


Of course I think there's a lot of weird/gross food in other countries like insects, offal, and animal genetalia.

One of the weirder things for me was how they don't use ice in their drinks in certain places. While I think there's too much usage of ice in the US, I remember being in France as a kid during the summer, it was around 100 outside and they served warm soda. I asked for ice and they seemed to think I was weird and put two tiny cubes in. I was told they don't use ice or something.

Never ask for ice cubes in France unless you watch them pour some Evian into an ice tray. I once asked for ice and got these brown ice cubes. The tap water is nothing short of sewage unless you're in the Alps. That's why they drink so much wine. Belgium, however, has great tap water and will happily give you all the ice you could ask for.

Quick note to parents: Kids love Frito Pie.
It was a sleepover staple at our house. Kids love making it as well as eating it.

/I will agree with grits being on the list.

TyrantII:

How about good old boiled peanuts?

Being from New England, it was new to me on my trips south. Still haven't tried it, but wet, soggy, warm peanuts isn't something I think I'd care for. Peanuts are crunchy snacks to me, not peas.

I've lived in the South for 12 years and I still haven't acquired a taste for them. They have the texture of wet newspapers. I ate some a few weeks ago at a brewpub that yuppified them with garlic and whatnot and even though the taste was improved the texture still sucked.

freewill: r1niceboy: It's made of 100% concentrated tasty. If you like bacon, you'll love the taste of black pudding.

It was dutifully served every morning when I was in Scotland. Never, not once, could I bring myself to eat it. The one time I got close, I found myself convinced that I could smell the congealed blood and that was the end of it.

The white pudding and haggis, on the other hand, were consistently delicious, and the bacon was mind-blowing. I agree with the overall sentiment that a good British breakfast is a serious contender for the best breakfast.

Bacon is certainly better in Scotland, but my favourite is the tattie scone and a bran scone on the side. It's possible that the tattie scone is the most glutinous foodstuff on the planet and one will fill you up for the best part of a day. Bran scones are an acquired taste but I miss them desperately.

Cocktail sauce on oysters

I just started getting my morning bacon&egg sammich with mozzarella, having gone without cheese altogether since I can't stand American on it.

Fark you, Dr. Ricky. Fark you.

d_the_sandman: AbbeySomeone: These are all over New Mexico as well and they usually always top them with green chile as well. Yum.


FTFY

I thought we loved our green chili in TX, but New Mexico takes it to a whole 'nother level. It took me a while to figure out that even in national chain fast food restaurants, if you don't specifically say "no chili" when ordering, your burger will be covered in the stuff.

/not necessarily a bad thing

I want to go there. Anaheim chilies are the greatest pickle substitute of all time.

I'm an American always wishing I could buy smaller portions of... Everything. Did Lay's really need to increase the size of their bags? Hell nah. They could have upped the price, stuck a "150 calorie" label on it and I would have been pumped. I love Doritos, for about 6 or 7 chips at a time as a snack, not 400 calories as a GD meal.

/Are some of the foreigners are crazy though? Grits? Were they just buying them at Cracker Barrel or did they try the Flying Biscuit? (OM NOM NOM)

Ed Finnerty: I would love to show her canned cheese and watch her freak the fark out.

Is that some euphemism for one of your perverted little sex acts?