Bells: Try any store selling Spanish food- where you find mole, you'll find both the tamarind fruit itself and the confections they make with it. Steer away from the Asian produce by the way- they tend to keep things lying around for years and then tell you its fresh. No fucking joke. How can anyone who's ever tasted a teeny morsel of tamarind peppered with chamoy, salt and chilli ever go back to American 'sweets'? The American tongue likes it ridiculously sweet or ridiculously salty and then have the nerve to call it a taste. Like their movies and art, the food itself has no subtlety and nuance. German bratwurst, a horrible food, is still preferable to Southeast smoked sausage. German chocolates have brandy in it (Trumpf-yum)- American chocolates have sugar, sugar, more sugar or phenalynine. And both the German and Spanish still manage to balance sweetness with something as sweet as marzipan, which the American cannot do. Its as if they cannot understand that anything can come between sugar or salt. And its amusing seeing the cute attempts at salsa. Frito Lay, riiiiiiiiiight. Athlewulf: I propose a toast to you drowning in Sprite.
Hm. This is a thread about one's favourite food, right? You know, you Americans have a thing for having super-fancy names for food. It takes, like, the equivalent of a space-scientist (if one is a non-American) to figure out what on earth it is that you are talking about! Does the American spirit think that if you put fancy names on food, that it then tastes better? And yes, American food is digustingly sweet to my European senses. Blegh. Even a simple porridge or oatmeal, you put so much sugar into it! Eh. * * * My favourite food is wild cherries, eaten high up on the cherry tree.
Indian food.. so many different varieties, from each region of the country. Indian cuisine's got such a wide range of vegetarian food.. the curries, sambars, chutneys, dals, dosas, etc etc etc... not to mention the spices.
Airavata: Curry has been scientifically linked with stupidity, hemorrhoids, and hernia. Water: Wait till you hear Dolly Parton get all cultural by eating burritos- and the way her kind says it as well- "Burritos, enchiladas, Szechuan soup, lo mein, gordiatas, tortillas"- as if burgers are ultimately so inferiour (which I presume they are) when they say it. A prole ordering French food will call it cuisine, not food. Americans tend to hyperbolize the cultural.
Gendy, I assmue you can quote this research linking curry to stupidity. I suspect its done on places in the UK where they serve up "curry", and where many of the customers are boozed out of their tiny little minds. I lived near Rusholme in Manchester for a year, saw plenty of currie houses, but they didnt have much variety.
Oh aye, good shortbread is great. But I entirely agree with gendanken about the overpowering sweetness of American sweets and cakes and suchlike. I got some recipes for varieties of cookies off an american friend, and they tended to involve huge amounts of sugar to both hold the ingerdients together and provide taste? A hit of sugar? who knows. compare it all to simple shortbread, which involves butter, sugar and flour in the correct proportions, and you have a wonderful biscuit.
Bells, I love rasberries too. They grow in a section of the 100 acres my family owns outside of town, so we fill up half of those huge freezers with them each year and are gone within 6 months. My crack is Triple Chocolate Velvet Cherry Cake. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Unfortunately, I have to limit my consumption to one cake a year (Christmas time) I could also go for a Big steak with Zucchini when I'm really hungry. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I was in Cannes and they had planted them all along the water front. I live in Alaska and we have tamarind at our Asian store here, so I don't see why you shouldn't have it there. But then, we do have a very large Asian population.
Yes Gedanken, I love baklava, but peanut butter is my biggest vice. I'm sure I eat far too much of it. I am a western prole though.
Either brownies that you make from a packet (warm), or Haagen Dasz Cookies and cream ice cream. And Crabsticks.
My crack is tabouli with Wheat Thins..............especially after smoking some good old :m: Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Piparkukas. You don't know what it is, because they don't import that from Latvia yet. It's pepper cookies, but only Latvian ones have enough (a lot of) pepper in them. I can have that for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and any time in between, all year long.
The russian guy at my work brought back (from some russian place in boston) this fish, that they didnt cook, they just soaked and seasoned somehow, then let sit in a jar for a few weeks... it was delicious. I would eat that all the time if I could get myhands on it.
