We Americans flavor all our cheap food with fat, oil and sugar. What happened to all the other flavoring agents that won't get you fat? Like fresh herbs, wine and spices?

people got lazy and it took too long to get paid.. thats why you just pour in chemicals and bi-products. who wants to wait for a herb to grow?

We Americans flavor all our cheap food with fat, oil and sugar. What happened to all the other flavoring agents that won't get you fat? Like fresh herbs, wine and spices?

Just becuase you think it sucks doesnt mean everyone does, thats called being egocentric..FYI

What happened to all the other flavoring agents that won't get you fat? Like fresh herbs, wine and spices?

They don't come in HAPPY MEALS.... and I like the toys:p lol

We Americans flavor all our cheap food with fat, oil and sugar. What happened to all the other flavoring agents that won't get you fat? Like fresh herbs, wine and spices?

It is up to YOU as what YOU put on your foods. You can choose whatever you want to add everything is available. Where did you get the idea that those things you mentioned were not available?

im sure he means.. that cuisine associated with america/american culture= whatever he said.

:D: crazy:

I'm not sure there is a single American food because we're a nation of immigrants. There are a lot of regional foods and Americanized versions of different ethnic cuisines, some good some not so good.

I don't have any argument as far as British food goes that does generally suck. I actually think it was a major motivation for the expansion of the British Empire--they had to conquer other countries in order to get some decent cuisine.

in a global view though.. america = mcds.

Mcds are worse than stds.

if world view is Mcds = american food then it must rock because there are Mcds everywhere! AMERICA RULES!!!

Mcds are worse than stds.

does that include aids?

yeah, I'm gonna guess that whatever they are eating fresh in the Amazon jungle or the plains of Arfica is gonna taste a whole worse. I am never ever eating roasted spider. EVER! Don't care how fresh it it. EVER!

if world view is Mcds = american food then it must rock because there are Mcds everywhere! AMERICA RULES!!!

:puke:

yeah, I'm gonna guess that whatever they are eating fresh in the Amazon jungle or the plains of Arfica is gonna taste a whole worse. I am never ever eating roasted spider. EVER! Don't care how fresh it it. EVER!

what about other arthropods?

what about other arthropods?

blue/rock/dungeness crab, yes. Snow crab, king crab, no.
Lobster, yes if I liked it, but I don't. Shrimp, YES!

Mcds are everywhere because they make the most money selling low grade food doctored with fatty greasy flavoring agents cheap and poor people find acceptable. Even delicious!

Mcds are everywhere because they make the most money selling low grade food doctored with fatty greasy flavoring agents cheap and poor people find acceptable. Even delicious!

well most of the world is poor so it I would say if they like it then it is good!

blue/rock/dungeness crab, yes. Snow crab, king crab, no.
Lobster, yes if I liked it, but I don't. Shrimp, YES!

Why no snow crab or king crab?

How can you not like lobster?:eek:

Lobster with or without butter?

Why no snow crab or king crab?

How can you not like lobster?:eek:


too spidery looking.
And I don't like the texture of lobster.

We used to be smitten by technology, especially the wonders of industrial food production and the miracles of chemistry. These days, we are waking up to the superiority of unprocessed, organic, real food like the old days (not too old).

Then how come Mcds still in business?

Pink Grapefruit is a bastard of science. That one is alright.

Then how come Mcds still in business?
Lots of idiots on the planet.

I thought they injected pink dye into the grapefruit - no?

I thought they injected pink dye into the grapefruit - no?

I forgot which fruit it is but many of them are hybrids where science made them have sex.

Then how come Mcds still in business?
It's still the legacy of our love affair with industrial food.

Why no snow crab or king crab?

How can you not like lobster?:eek:

I dearly love both snow and king crab. But I also dislike lobster. Tried it several times prepared in different ways, too. It just has a sort of odd off-taste that I'm really not fond of.

This whole thread is bogus anyway because different people like different things. It's a lot like arguing over favorite colors.:shrug:

[QUOTE=Read-Only;1581405]I dearly love both snow and king crab. But I also dislike lobster. Tried it several times prepared in different ways, too. It just has a sort of odd off-taste that I'm really not fond of.

This whole thread is bogus anyway because different people like different things. QUOTE]

I don't think it's bogus, I think really poignant and having a English heritage I can comment on English cooking and it's not very good and from what I've gathered from people I know who've lived in the States their (your) food culture isn't great either.

Malaysia, for example, now there is a food culture, it's had major influences from China, India(two of the world's truly great cuisines) not to mention Indonesia etc and the food on offer in Malaysia from basic food stall hawker type cooking to top level restaurants is outstanding.

The Poms( English) overcook nearly everything,tend to freak out at anything resembling a decent flavour, think garlic, chillie, tamarind etc. They way overdo it with adding cream, lard and milk based sauces( yech!)
I could go on.

And as for Lobster, I suspect if you don't like it you've never had it absolutely fresh and well cooked! it's actually very easy to annihilate lobster with overcooking and if you go putting butter on it (eeek!), you get what you deserve, my god, putting dairy fat on your fresh caught lobster, sacriledge!


Ask any Japanese, Malaysian, Indian, Sri Lankan or Chinese person what they think of English or American cuisine, I know what the answer will be.

We Americans flavor all our cheap food with fat, oil and sugar. What happened to all the other flavoring agents that won't get you fat? Like fresh herbs, wine and spices?

You get what you pay for.

I don't think it's bogus, I think really poignant and having a English heritage I can comment on English cooking and it's not very good and from what I've gathered from people I know who've lived in the States their (your) food culture isn't great either.

Malaysia, for example, now there is a food culture, it's had major influences from China, India(two of the world's truly great cuisines) not to mention Indonesia etc and the food on offer in Malaysia from basic food stall hawker type cooking to top level restaurants is outstanding.

The Poms( English) overcook nearly everything,tend to freak out at anything resembling a decent flavour, think garlic, chillie, tamarind etc. They way overdo it with adding cream, lard and milk based sauces( yech!)
I could go on.

And as for Lobster, I suspect if you don't like it you've never had it absolutely fresh and well cooked! it's actually very easy to annihilate lobster with overcooking and if you go putting butter on it (eeek!), you get what you deserve, my god, putting dairy fat on your fresh caught lobster, sacriledge!


Ask any Japanese, Malaysian, Indian, Sri Lankan or Chinese person what they think of English or American cuisine, I know what the answer will be.

Americanized ethnic food is pretty good. Well, flavorful, and not full of cow knuckles, fish heads, and fermented amphipods.

But nothing quite beats a fish stock made from fish head, or that fermented sort-of-like-oyster-sauce-but-not-really that you get from the rotten water bugs the malays put in their noodles. Interesting texture, too.

or that fermented sort-of-like-oyster-sauce-but-not-really that you get from the rotten water bugs the malays put in their noodles. Interesting texture, too.

I think you might mean belacan ( from fermented prawn heads)
Not to everybody's taste but a good prawn or squid sambal made with it is exquisite.

and yes, fortunately in U.S, Australia, England etc there are enough quality chefs and influences from a huge range of cuisines that top tucker is available.
Left to their own devices, most Aussies I know are perfectly happy with burnt chops with sweet tomato sauce Hmmm!! oh, and white death bread, Macca's (rooka's) etc.

I don't have any argument as far as British food goes that does generally suck. I actually think it was a major motivation for the expansion of the British Empire--they had to conquer other countries in order to get some decent cuisine.Meh - it was because we had simple tastes that we COULD colonise half the world!
All the other European countries were too busy faffing around about whether their soup had too much garlic or oregano, not to notice the British army spreading forth and conquering!

It was only when we really learnt about other tastes and cuisines that our Empire actually began to shrink!! :D

Meh - it was because we had simple tastes that we COULD colonise half the world!
All the other European countries were too busy faffing around about whether their soup had too much garlic or oregano, not to notice the British army spreading forth and conquering!

It was only when we really learnt about other tastes and cuisines that our Empire actually began to shrink!! :D

LOL!

OH, I dont know, the new MREs arent all that bad. They sure as hell beat the old c-rations.

We are a mutt nation, is there really an "American" food?