The American Food Thread

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Biscuits and gravy has been mentioned, but can we take a moment to just appreciate the humble biscuit?

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So simple. So good. Slather it with butter, or honey, or jam... eat it with sausage gravy, or even just regular gravy as a side with a roast dinner... stick some egg and cheese and meat in it... stick chicken in it... Mix raisins or blueberries, cinnamon, icing... put strawberries and whipped cream on it and you've got strawberry shortcake... It's yet another incredibly versatile, simple staple of traditional American cuisine...

And yet it doesn't exist in the rest of the world. Like, at all. Canada has them. Mexico has them, at least at KFC in Mexico. But beyond that? It vanishes, as far as I can tell. It's purely a North American thing. I've tried to evangelize the good word of the Biscuit to friends abroad, and they just... it doesn't work. you can't explain what it is ("So it's like an unflavored scone? A dense bread roll?"), and even when I give them a recipe and walk them through making them step by step, they just... react with a great "meh".

Why? Biscuits are love!
 
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MembersSchoolPizza said:
So simple. So good. Slather it with butter, or honey, or jam... eat it with sausage gravy, or even just regular gravy as a side with a roast dinner... stick some egg and cheese and meat in it... stick chicken in it... Mix raisins or blueberries, cinnamon, icing... put strawberries and whipped cream on it and you've got strawberry shortcake... It's yet another incredibly versatile, simple staple of traditional American cuisine...
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Cheddar bay biscuits, man. I dont need any seafood just give me a pile.
 
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Hot dogs have been mentioned. While I think the 6-pack oscar meyer weenies, which shine like plastic in the fluorescent light of the pork aisle, are fucking trash I will defend good hot dogs all day.

You may protest, "What, good hot dogs? Isn't that an oxymoron?" And I would answer that you can absolutely get good frankfurters from a quality butcher or local meat producer.

There are few things as cozy as a tasty weenie roasted over a campfire with friends.
 
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Rendang said:
Good ol' New England clam chowdah. Whoever thought of mixing clam juice and cream was a mad lad, but he definitely hit gold. It is the best way to eat clams affordably. Every other style (Manhattan [tomato broth] or Rhode island [clear broth]) doesn't hit right with me.
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Dont forget the fahkin' rehtad who decided to put it inside a loaf of bread, that shits so stupid it's brilliant.
 
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SpiderBitch said:
Mass-produced American cheese gets way too much hate from Eurofags for being marginally worse than mass-produced British cheese.
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To elaborate slightly, if you can find a brand that isn't trying to imitate Kraft and it's plastic-y texture, there's actually quite a pleasant cheese to be found when they just add less crap to it. I've really enjoyed the Winco house brand simply because it doesn't have much of anything in it besides the dairy products and salt, and doesn't have that petroleum texture Kraft does.
 
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HarblMcDavid said:
To elaborate slightly, if you can find a brand that isn't trying to imitate Kraft and it's plastic-y texture, there's actually quite a pleasant cheese to be found when they just add less crap to it. I've really enjoyed the Winco house brand simply because it doesn't have much of anything in it besides the dairy products and salt, and doesn't have that petroleum texture Kraft does.
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Winco is great for a lot of American staples, I like their mayo.
 
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Salisbury Steak is American.

I haven't had decent chili cheese fries in years. Everyone pours can cheese on them and that's bullshit. You've got to melt down some mild cheddar.

Yes, I said mild. You're not going for the aged cheddar taste with chili fries, and if you do you're a dumb shit.

I don't know what it is I'm missing. I make perfectly serviceable chili, and I've dropped my own fries, but I can't get the flavor I miss.

I fucking hate Jiffy Cornbread. It's shit.

American Cheese is not the utility knife of cheeses, it has it's purposes, and does the job of being soft and melty fantastically.

Except for Borden's. Holy fuck Borden's production facilities should be orbitally bombarded. Rain of unholy fucking fire.

Other than that? American cheese is garbage. But it's our fucking garbage. Eurofags can go eat snails.

People who complain about American Peanut Butter are precious. Skippy is fantastic.

I feel like a lot of hate for American foods is because people try to force them into a different mold, when they are fairly single purpose. They're like those assholes who make a bunch of substitutions in a recipe and then say the dish tastes like shit. It tastes like shit because they fucked it up!

Yes, our peanut butter is sweet. No it does not taste like peanut sauce. No one ever asked for it to taste like peanut sauce.


Sloppy Joes are uniquely American, and came to prominence through school lunches because children rarely bitch about them, and you can sneak vegetables in without being obvious.

God Bless Sloppy Joes. God Bless America.
 
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ZipDisk said:
I haven't had decent chili cheese fries in years. Everyone pours can cheese on them and that's bullshit. You've got to melt down some mild cheddar.

Yes, I said mild. You're not going for the aged cheddar taste with chili fries, and if you do you're a dumb shit.

I don't know what it is I'm missing. I make perfectly serviceable chili, and I've dropped my own fries, but I can't get the flavor I miss.
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You might need to get some velveeta in there.
 
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and even when I give them a recipe and walk them through making them step by step, they just... react with a great "meh".
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You need lard and a lot of it to make good biscuits. I know it's been basically forbidden to britfags outside of yorkshire puddings and meat pies.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
That's basically just Salisbury steak which is English food?
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Invented in America, never sold in England.
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Out of every country America does fruit pies the best. I've tried apple pies in other countries,
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Apple pie is completely English and has been for minimum a thousand years before America even existed. "As American as Apple pie" means about the same as "As American as the English language". By which I mean a distorted, badly wrought version that is a wan facsimile.
 
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RACISM said:
Invented in America, never sold in England.

Apple pie is completely English and has been for minimum a thousand years before America even existed. "As American as Apple pie" means about the same as "As American as the English language". By which I mean a distorted, badly wrought version that is a wan facsimile.
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British apple pie is a sad joke, though.
 
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Chili is the greatest food on earth. I like all kindsa chili but chili Colorado is the best.

Also Navajo Tacos are really good.

I don't know if this is American but I've literally never seen anyone other than my mom make it and I've never found a recipe or something that sounds like it. You take bannanas, pineapple and pineapple juice, maraschino cherries, and pears. You slice up all the fruit and then put it in a baking dish and mix the pineapple juice with a little maraschino cherry juise and then fill up the baking dish until the fruit is covered. Put it in the freezer until frozen solid. It's super simple but the single most refreshing thing you'll ever have on a hot day.
 
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