What's on the menu this evening?

[4bronxbombers]

Mars bar.... http://www.ilike.org.uk/images/deep-fried-mars-bar.jpg

WTF is that?

[Jersey Yankee]

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More gravy,please...

You call that food? Sounds like some cheesy restaurant that doesn't know what comfort food is all about. Small bits of chicken, green peas, gobs of processed mash with some lime green gravy all over the place. I thought that gravy was supposed to be brown, not greenish.

Anywayz, can people use food terms that most folks here can understand? I've never heard of "brauchette" or whatever before. Do they have a new term for refrigerator? For steak? For calimari (oh yeah, that's squid)? This is ridiculous, even if it's another rant of mine.

[Jersey Yankee]

WTF is that?

I thought you made it. Heck, even I wouldn't make mash that bad. The size of those chicken pieces is way too tiny. You may as well be working in a Chinese restaurant or making chicken soup if you're going to chop 'em up into pieces that small.

Green gravy?

[Jersey Yankee]

American food is more than that.

Since when did I say I was going to list everything that was considered American food? Dude, this is a discussion, not a PS debate. We're just talking about food and having fun.

[Trish]

I was just thinking that this was quite a bit of trouble, even if for Mother's Day. Yes, I know that mothers are very special people, and many thanks for women such as yourself, Karen, Vicki (even though she's very confused) and others here!!!

I'm also wondering why the heck food has to be given such crazy names. I had to look up "bruchetta", I had to google this and I'd found out it's something that's breaded with cheese. I mean that's like when I've heard of stuffed duck livers being called foie gras.

Snails are called escargot, you cook bunny rabbit a fancy way, it's called Hossenpheffer, and I couldn't give a rat's freakin' arse how it's spelled, dammit!!!


Now then, if I wish to skewer my filet mignon, I'll call it "skewered filet mignon". If I wish to cook it in the oven or below the oven, I'll call it "baked or grilled filet mignon". Why the heck can't people just use simple words for food? Does anyone know what a T-bone steak is? Doesn't the bone structure resemble the letter "T"? Simple, right? It's called AMERICAN FOOD. Sheesh.

Besides, hamburger isn't the beginning nor the end of American food. You can have shrimp scampi, meatloaf, grilled chicken and tons of other things. Go to any diner and order the so-called "comfort food" or visit a TGIF, etc, you'll always find tons of restaurants that serve good ol' American food. Mebbe--and this is a big mebbe--people can actually pronounce the name of the food they're eating.

If I wish to eat something that was given a fancy name that I can't pronounce, nor figure out what it is, I'll just go to Chinatown and order. In that case, I also won't even be able to read the damned-assed menu either!!!

Now then, if someone has some fancy schmansy food that requires me to google what the heck they're talking about, why the heck don't they just link the name of the food? Otherwise, you may just be eating a nouveau version of Peter Brady's po'k chops & apple sauce on Wednesdays, but with some special sauce on everything that you'd need to be a chef to understand!!!

This post was too long to read, but I'm thinking you missed the point.

Jacques is French Canadian, so why would he have to cook "American" food in any case?

[montrealer]

You guys wouldn`t know a good "Chien chau" if I shoved it up you arse...

[Trish]

You call that food? Sounds like some cheesy restaurant that doesn't know what comfort food is all about. Small bits of chicken, green peas, gobs of processed mash with some lime green gravy all over the place. I thought that gravy was supposed to be brown, not greenish.

Anywayz, can people use food terms that most folks here can understand? I've never heard of "brauchette" or whatever before. Do they have a new term for refrigerator? For steak? For calimari (oh yeah, that's squid)? This is ridiculous, even if it's another rant of mine.

There's no American word for bruschetta, because it's an Italian food. If you go to a restaurant, that's what it will say, whether it's an Italian restaurant or any restaurant that serves it.

[Jersey Yankee]

This post was too long to read, but I'm thinking you missed the point.

Jacques is French Canadian, so why would he have to cook "American" food in any case?

So everyone cooks a consomme in French Canada?

They don't have meatloaf with mashed taters up there? No half chicken or anything like this? I should google some menus up in Quebec or wherever.

Anywayz, I didn't click one of those switches on my PC, so I wasn't able to get on all day. Something about enabling my network connection, I had to disable then enable, but forgot to do that. All that was pent up, so thus, the long post.

BronxBaumer doesn't seem to get this, but wot-evah, I can't appeal to everybody.

[Jersey Yankee]

You guys wouldn`t know a good "Chien chau" if I shoved it up you arse...

Hot dog, like from Nathan's? From my HS French, I do remember that "chien" was a doggy.

OMG, so you DO eat American food. Sacre bleu!!!

[Trish]

So everyone cooks a consomme in French Canada?

They don't have meatloaf with mashed taters up there? No half chicken or anything like this? I should google some menus up in Quebec or wherever.

Anywayz, I didn't click one of those switches on my PC, so I wasn't able to get on all day. Something about enabling my network connection, I had to disable then enable, but forgot to do that. All that was pent up, so thus, the long post.

BronxBaumer doesn't seem to get this, but wot-evah, I can't appeal to everybody.

Jakey's first language is French, Brad. What's so hard to understand?

[Jersey Yankee]

There's no American word for bruschetta, because it's an Italian food. If you go to a restaurant, that's what it will say, whether it's an Italian restaurant or any restaurant that serves it.

I had to google it, and they did mention saying it was Italian. Then again, so's the braciole, and had I not seen this in Bensonhurst or Little Italy, I would never have figured this out either.

Why not something simple like meatball and spaghetti? Easy to eat, easy to read, easy to spell, easy to understand. Howzaboutit?

[Trish]

I had to google it, and they did mention saying it was Italian. Then again, so's the braciole, and had I not seen this in Bensonhurst or Little Italy, I would never have figured this out either.

Why not something simple like meatball and spaghetti? Easy to eat, easy to read, easy to spell, easy to understand. Howzaboutit?

Sometimes you're really obtuse.

[BronxBaumer]

I eat a lot of "American" food, but haven't had a potato or Meatloaf in three years...I'm just saying there is a lot more to American food than taters and meat.

Beyond this, lots of foods which have been Americanized retain their initial names. Otherwise, we'd all be calling Quesadillas "Melted cheese flower tortilla" and Bruschetta "Italian Bread with cheese and Sauce".

Btw, you list Shrimp Scampi as American Food, but scampi is an Italian word.

[Jersey Yankee]

Jakey's first language is French, Brad. What's so hard to understand?

You don't happen to work as a schoolteacher, do you? I can tell your hands are on your hips.

Wot-evah, so they serve italian food in French Canada? Yet no American food? Hmmmmmmmm. Isn't America closer to Canada than is Italy?

[4bronxbombers]

I thought pretty much everyone knew what brushetta was.

[BronxBaumer]

Nope, they don't serve it in Little Italy, so apparently is an exotic luxury...

[Jersey Yankee]

I eat a lot of "American" food, but haven't had a potato or Meatloaf in three years...I'm just saying there is a lot more to American food than taters and meat.

Beyond this, lots of foods which have been Americanized retain their initial names. Otherwise, we'd all be calling Quesadillas "Melted cheese flower tortilla" and Bruschetta "Italian Bread with cheese and Sauce".

Btw, you list Shrimp Scampi as American Food, but scampi is an Italian word.

Well, even if you gave a long list of American food, I think that someone could always say that there's more to it than this. However, steak (or chicken) and potatoes are definitely American food, last I've heard.

About all Mexican food is well-known, so if it's a quesadilla, burrito, taco or whatever, people know what that is. It's the bruschetta that I haven't seen, but I've been to quite a few Italian restaurants, tho nothing fancy.

Scampi's an Italian word? OK, then shrimp with rice, OK?

[Trish]

You don't happen to work as a schoolteacher, do you? I can tell your hands are on your hips.

Wot-evah, so they serve italian food in French Canada? Yet no American food? Hmmmmmmmm. Isn't America closer to Canada than is Italy?

No, but I'm loading my shotgun.

I'm going to shoot you in the head, and then turn the gun on myself.

[Jersey Yankee]

Sometimes you're really obtuse.

Obtuse? Nope, just that not every food do I recognize. Pehaps I've seen it mentioned before, but I've never had it.

[BronxBaumer]

No, but I'm loading my shotgun.

I'm going to shoot you in the head, and then turn the gun on myself.

[Jersey Yankee]

No, but I'm loading my shotgun.

I'm going to shoot you in the head, and then turn the gun on myself.

That's it, I'm heading for the hills.

Oh yeah, do they serve American food in the Kentucky mountains?

[fredgmuggs]

I needed a laugh today. Thanks for the entertainment, Trish.

[Jersey Yankee]

Nope, they don't serve it in Little Italy, so apparently is an exotic luxury...

I'm sure they do serve it in Little Italy, but I've mostly been to the street fares down there, not the fancy restaurants.

[Jersey Yankee]

WTF is that?

A fried mars bar, as the pic's link states.

[Trish]

I needed a laugh today. Thanks for the entertainment, Trish.

I need to step away

[Jersey Yankee]

OMG, BB smiles. Next thing you know, Vicki won't be confusing ... and Trish will finally be nice to me!!!

Nahhhhhh, lemme not press my luck.

[Jersey Yankee]

I need to step away

Well, kindly leave the double-barrelled buckshot at home then.

[montrealer]

Well, even if you gave a long list of American food, I think that someone could always say that there's more to it than this. However, steak (or chicken) and potatoes are definitely American food, last I've heard.

About all Mexican food is well-known, so if it's a quesadilla, burrito, taco or whatever, people know what that is. It's the bruschetta that I haven't seen, but I've been to quite a few Italian restaurants, tho nothing fancy.

Scampi's an Italian word? OK, then shrimp with rice, OK?

Well considering that America is sooo young I think mais eclate is you`re only fame to claim.

[4bronxbombers]

No, but I'm loading my shotgun.

I'm going to shoot you in the head, and then turn the gun on myself.

Can you do me a favor and shoot me too?

[montrealer]

No, but I'm loading my shotgun.

I'm going to shoot you in the head, and then turn the gun on myself.

.....do me 1st.....

[4bronxbombers]

.....do me 1st.....

No me!! Please??

[BronxBaumer]

I dunno Brad, Trish has been nothing but nice to me...maybe it's something you said?

[Jersey Yankee]

Well considering that America is sooo young I think mais eclate is you`re only fame to claim.

What the heck is mais eclate? Do you folks eat anything there that's pronounced in English?

So eating chicken and ribs was invented by someone outside of America? What kind of food originated in French Canada?

[BronxBaumer]

No me!! Please??

Count me in, will ya? Be humane!

[Jersey Yankee]

I dunno Brad, Trish has been nothing but nice to me...maybe it's something you said?

Tirsh and I joke around quite a lot. Do you really take this seriously? If you do, then mebbe you're off on the wrong track.

[4bronxbombers]

Count me in, will ya? Be humane!

[montrealer]

What the heck is mais eclate? Do you folks eat anything there that's pronounced in English?

So eating chicken and ribs was invented by someone outside of America? What kind of food originated in French Canada?

"Pate Chinoise"

[BronxBaumer]

So eating chicken and ribs was invented by someone outside of America?

Of course Brad. You think we were the first people ever to say, man cow good. Chicken good. Cow + chicken = DOUBLE GOOD!

[Jersey Yankee]

.....do me 1st.....

No me!! Please??

Take 'em out, Trish!!!

[4bronxbombers]

Take 'em out, Trish!!!

See what you've done to eveyone Brad?

[montrealer]

What the heck is mais eclate? Do you folks eat anything there that's pronounced in English?

So eating chicken and ribs was invented by someone outside of America? What kind of food originated in French Canada?

escargot.....

[Jersey Yankee]

Of course Brad. You think we were the first people ever to say, man cow good. Chicken good. Cow + chicken = DOUBLE GOOD!

No, but if I said "chicken and ribs", which nationality would you think this was? I'd say American. What would you say. Doesn't sound Middle Eastern. Doesn't sound Japanese. Doesn't sound Russian. Sounds like American.

[Jersey Yankee]

See what you've done to eveyone Brad?

That's alrighty, there'll be a mass exodus. From now on, only American food will be mentioned in here once Trish takes all of you'ze peeps outta here!!!

[BronxBaumer]

Sounds like American.

If I said I was eating a roast beef wrap, it would sound American, if I said I was having a shredded beef burrito, it would sound Mexican...it doesn't change the fact that it is essentially the same thing.

[Jersey Yankee]

"Pate Chinoise"

Chinese food, huh? What kind of Chinese food do they serve in French Canada? If you could actually write this in ENGLISH, since you would normally write in English here, I'd appreciate it.

[4bronxbombers]

Chinese food, huh? What kind of Chinese food do they serve in French Canada?

I'm thinking your kidding here.......

[BronxBaumer]

What kind of Chinese food do they serve in French Canada? If you could actually write this in ENGLISH, since you would normally write in English here, I'd appreciate it.

But what happens if there is no english translation!?

[Jersey Yankee]

If I said I was eating a roast beef wrap, it would sound American, if I said I was having a shredded beef burrito, it would sound Mexican...it doesn't change the fact that it is essentially the same thing.

I'm not a food historian, but I didn't see the wrapped sandwiches popping up in American restaurants until the last few years. For a burrito, that's always been wrapped, then the fast food chains made burrito sammiches.

I haven't had a burrito in awhile, so I'm unsure what goes inside of it. I'm sure that it's something different.

If you went into a deli and ordered a BLT, isn't that an American sammich? Which other nationality has this? To me, that's as American as ham & cheese, regardless of who started serving this. That's what I mean by American food.

[Jersey Yankee]

But what happens if there is no english translation!?

Rhetorically, that would be interesting if it were FRENCH food. However, since there are more Chinese restaurants here than about anything else I can think of, why would anything that's Chinese translate to French but not to English? All of the Chinese restaurants outside of Chinatown have an all-English menu, so I don't see how that would be likely.

[Jersey Yankee]

I'm thinking your kidding here.......

I don't know what they serve in Canada. Could likely be the same thing we eat here. How could I know what they eat in Canada?