Cliched ideas about food

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British food isn't horrible at all, as long as it's curry :-)

To be honest, one of the best home cooked dinners I've had, was made by a friend in England. And it was all traditional English food.

I concur Field, English home-cooking is delicious have you seen this cooking website ?

I fail to see how anyone can call Briddish food anything but a horror-Look what they eat for breakfast!!!!

Egads! My arteries cinched up just looking at that picture!!!
(Actually, I've eaten some very good food during my travels there, but it certainly wasn't stuff like that!)

You can also have other food for breakfast in England, just as you don't have to eat bacon, eggs, and greasy fried potatoes for breakfast in the great white north or home of the devalued dollar. Home cooking is much better in England than what you might find in a café.

I get really sick of people thinking that "American food" (in this made-up category I place anything that is commonly eaten in the USA, even if it had its origins somewhere else) is burgers, fries, hot dogs, fried chicken and pizza and as an American, that's what I like.

Now, there are days when that sort of crap food tastes good (first day of Aunt Flo's visit). But...just no. If you go to a typical American house (if there is such a thing) for dinner, they are not going to say "We're having burgers, fries and fried chicken". At least probably not.

Americans who think that Indian food is all 'really spicy'. It all generally has a lot of spices, which is not the same as spicy. Something can be flavored spices and herbs without being hot. A few dishes are hot, but plenty aren't really.

Americans who think that Chinese food really tastes like what they get at China King or Peking Garden or Szechuan Palace in Bumhole, Minnesota. Now I like that food sometimes (see above: first day of the Ol' Bleedy) but it does not taste like food you actually get in China or Taiwan. On that note, people who think that real food in China tastes like China King Buffet, but is made with cats, dogs, raccoons, pandas, snakes, mice, rats, whatever. There is a tiny kernel of truth to this idiotic cultural stereotype - one can eat a lot of meat varieties in China that are considered off limits in the USA - but come on. Nobody is going to serve you Fluffy the Cat in Orange Sauce. And while dog is available, it's actually pretty expensive so no, you won't be served it accidentally.

Yeah, I know a lot of people who think Chinese food consits of one of these three;

A) Shark's fin soup, abalone and bird's nest soup

B) Peking duck

or

C) Bear paws and monkey brains.

Germans eat sausage and sauerkraut all the time .
Can't recall the last time I had sauerkraut . And as a vegetarien don't do sausages .Yes i know there are vegiones but they taste ... yuk

Thanks, Pumuckel. I was just about to say that. :-)

Last time I had sauerkraut was at a pro baseball game here in California. hehehehe

English breakfast is always very late, never before lunch.