The American Food Thread

[KingNothing]

Cheddar bay biscuits, man. I dont need any seafood just give me a pile.

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[DankSmoker]

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Sounds like a sexy woman or a gay man but either way I am upset.

 

[Soycast Guy]

Sausage and bacon biscuits are one of the most delicious things that have ever graced gods green earth. But while they taste so good, they are so bad.

 

[KingNothing]

this dude:

 

[Chongqing]

Chicken/country-fried steak, obviously with a good white pepper gravy, and a side of cornbread, your green of choice, and either home fries or good creamy buttery mashed potatoes.

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This is so American, I love it.

My votes include:

The burrito, invented in San Francisco
Nachos, invented in El Paso, along with the tortilla chip during the same incident
Hamburgers, invented in Connecticut
Pizza, invented in New York City (fight me, Europeans, it's true).

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

Chili.

 

[Wuhan Wet Market]

As a non American I like:
Fried catfish
Burger
Crawfish
Brisket
Biscuits
Pickles
Dr pepper zero
peanut butter
Hoagie

I have a question for Americans. Why is your beef so little marbling and so thick? Also what are some healthy American foods to try?

 

[p1138]

I have a question for Americans. Why is your beef so little marbling and so thick?

The marbling answer is easy, shit costs too much. Going from USDA "choice" to USDA "prime" can be a 50% or more markup. This site actually explains it pretty well https://themeatstick.com/blogs/tips-recipes/beef-grading-systems
Basically the US beef grading scale tops out where other countries it'd only be halfway up the scale, and like I said the price jump between choice to the bottom end of prime is massive.

Since most people are also retards and just crave quantity over quality anyway, they'll be satisfied with a thicker lower quality cut and that's before you get to the not insignificant percentage of insane people who order their shit well done and may as well be chewing on shoe leather. Basically a 12 ounce prime ribeye still costs more than the 16 ounce choice ribeye, and that price difference can be even more drastic if you're shopping at the lower end of the choice category as well.

 

[JambledUpWords]

Americanized tacos are great. These are authentically American

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

Twinkies are an airy, briefly sugary, spongy disappointment, however, McEnnedy's version of them, they call them something else, are delicious. The texture and mass of the sponge, is better, as in, there's more cake-iness to them.

 

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[Walmart Wagie]

I'm going to shill for Chicago's delicious food. You wonder why people stay in this expensive Liberal hellscape? The food.

Italian Beef is delicious. Some people like to soak the bread in the juices but I prefer mine a little more dry. Delicious nonetheless and if you try to get one anywhere but Chicago they are bound to fuck it up. You can also get a combination Italian beef and Italian sausage sandwich.



Deep dish pizza gets way too much hate. People in Chicago (that aren't hamplanets... which is a minority actually) don't eat it all the time. It's very much a special occasional thing and it's delicious. I eat it with a knife and fork. People who get too caught up in the semantics of "it's not actually pizza!!" are whiny faggots. Not all deep dish is good though. Lou Malnati's is good, Giordano's is shit.



Now for the Chicago style hot-dog. This is what you need to look for if you want an authentic one:

Mustard, diced white onions, neon green relish, sport peppers, a pickle spear, tomato slices and celery salt. Some places won't do celery salt and they can go fuck themselves, you need the celery salt. I personally take the tomatoes off of my dog but a perfect hot dog stand has all of these at the ready. One of the best hot dogs in Chicagoland is unironically found in the foyer of some Home Depot stores. There is another variation called the "depression dog" with only mustard, onions and sport peppers which are also delicious.



They NEED to have S. Rosens Mary Ann hot dog buns and Vienna Beef franks. If they don't have these that's usually a bad sign.



I hope you have enjoyed my autistic ramblings.

 

[Epikusername4]

the reuben is like the fucking perfect sandwich it makes sauerkraut edible

 

[LonesomeDud]

I love making the food I grew up eating for my family.

- potato salad
- egg salad
- chicken salad
- ice box cake

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

From an outsider's perspective, when visiting the good ole US of A:

- iced tea is actually tea that is sweetened. And tastes awful to my foreign tastebuds. I'm not sure what our iced tea is made from instead of tea, but my tongue cries out for artificial flavour and more sugar.

- the sour cream is thick. Like stand-a-spoon-straight-up -in-it thick. The stuff back home feels like watery slop afterwards no matter the fat content.

 

[mindlessobserver]

I have a question for Americans. Why is your beef so little marbling and so thick? Also what are some healthy American foods to try?

For the beef, its corn feed lots. Most cows are not pasture raised, so they live a sedentary lifestyle. The fat isn't allowed to distribute into the muscle tissue so it just accumulates in places in thick globs. Honestly not ideal, but that is the price of keeping Beef affordable. To get honest to god American Beef, you really do have to go to the local farmers market or more autistic local grocery stores where you can find the pasture beef cattle.

If you are abroad, look for the "Certified Angus" label. Angus Cattle are raised by autistic east coast yuppies larping as midwestern cowboys, or 5th generation land owners with huge pastures and a niche to fill that doesn't involve the risk growing corn or soybeans entails. But they are all pasture raised in order to get that particular trademark, which is a requirement. Certified Angus beef in the USA is pricy compared to USDA choice cuts which come from midwestern longhorns raised in feed lots, and overseas it is positively extortionate as all countries lump it into the "American Slop" category and tariff the shit out of it. If you do get your hands on a Prime Cut of American Angus though, you won't regret it.

As for healthy American Food options, we honestly have quite a few.

From the south, is Shrimp and Grits.


Its basically Shrimp in a spiced rice porridge. Lots of places will try and "jazz it up" with cheese, cream and wat not, but that's not necessary. If you stick to the basic shit of onions, garlic, cayenne, shrimp and rice porridge, you will end up with a very vibrant, low calorie and very good for you dish.

From the Mid Atlantic we get the Blue Crab Boil

This is a mixture of corn, Potatoes, Blue Crabs and Smoked Sausage boiled in water spiked with Old Bay. Which is basically a blend of Cayenne, Paprika, Garlic and wat not. A quintessential one pot meal.

And the Northeast cannot be left out because they love their apples. Pork Chops in Maple Brandy

Nothing say's I live close to the white walkers of Canada quite like Apples, Pork and Maple Syrup combined. But the folks up there have been making dishes like this for years and boozing it up only makes it better. Alcohol lets upstate New York forget that their votes don't matter.

 

[Yak-130 Mitten]

Few things I noticed when visiting cheeseburgerland:
There is nowhere near as much candy in stores as there is in europe. You have your typical snickers, mars, peanut butter stuff but thats it and there really isnt much of it. Also I never saw any store brand candy of popular products but that could be me
People seem to not notice fluoride in water but that shit was undrinkable. Also pretty much everyone says to not drink tap water.
Jarritos is a godsend. I know its mexican but still
Portions are generally much bigger (small pizza easily being medium-large at home)
Hersheys leave foul aftertaste
Small places make best breakfast and burgers
Fastfood sucks but chick fil a was great
Saw barely any bakeries selling fresh baked goods, be it bread, bread rolls or even pastries, and when I did it was very expensive
Mexican and black kids seem to be fatter than white kids, just an observation
food is expensive as fuck, basic groceries for a week can put you back 100$ easily, for a single person without anything fancy
Dairy products are rare. Talking yoghurts and stuff. Plenty of milk and cream but thats pretty much it
Anything with corn syrup in it tastes wrong and leaves an aftertaste
Weird reverence of pickles for some reason
Lots of diners which I appreciate, those are nonexistent at home and its the main thing I am missing, easily accessible filling breakfast
Idk what null is about but cheese selection was fairly big at the stores I visited.

Foodwise it was pretty good, had much worse in the past.

E: I wish I could get Dots pretzels in europe.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Weird reverence of pickles for some reason

Same reason as

Hersheys leave foul aftertaste

Food preservation. Pickling was a good way to preserve food, and Hershey's uses Buteric Acid (What gives vomit its "Flavor") to stabilize the chocolate so it can survive a journey by train from Pennsylvania to Texas.

America was a continent spanning country before refrigeration, and so there was a huge effort put on figuring out ways to preserve. Pickling was the usual go too, which led to an explosion in things like Pickled Cucumbers and Peppers being used in a lot of things, along with more esoteric things like Pickled Eggs, Pickled pigs feet, pickled this, pickled that. The only other way to preserve was with copious amounts of salting and smoking. Which is also why American's love their Jerky along with using way to much salt in general. What is considered "enough" salt in America pales in comparison to other places. At the same time though it leads to amazing things like the "Country Ham", which if you are in the USA you absolutely have to try. Especially ones from Virginia which are hands down the best of the bunch. Its got a salty, meaty texture to it that is just impossible to describe but once you've tasted it your mouth will water just from the memory.

Yes, the Hams are aged like cheese lol.

Fastfood sucks but chick fil a was great

Isn't it? And do you know the secret? The chicken is brined overnight in a salt and sugar solution!

 

[Le'garde]

Mexican and black kids seem to be fatter than white kids, just an observation

It's because of poverty, mostly. Since black people are very susceptible to homelessness and/or poverty, they have to rely on cheap fast food. Then too much fast food + lack of exercise = fat, obviously. It's similar for Mexicans as well, but there is little to no diet culture for them and their food is just as bad as American food. Lots of sugary drinks, big proportions, and greasy foods.

Dairy products are rare. Talking yoghurts and stuff. Plenty of milk and cream but thats pretty much it

Damn, I don't know where you went, but for me there is an excess amount of dairy products where I live.

Anything with corn syrup in it tastes wrong and leaves an aftertaste

High-fructose corn syrup, it tastes wayyy sweeter and much different from glucose. Most foods or drinks with HFCS tends to taste like ass, yeah.

Fastfood sucks but chick fil a was great

Agreed

 

[Disdainer of the Plebs]

I'm going to have to go with spaghetti with meatballs and sausage specifically, and American Italian food in general.



Before you jump down my throat saying "Disdainer, that's Italian food, you retard!", the Italians don't serve meatballs with spaghetti, that's an American thing.