Widebrim
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Oh geez! We both like the same things.
Scary...
Oh geez! We both like the same things.
Widebrim what would you class as English cuisine?
Yeah, I was thinking that, too.
Can't beat a good hotpot. Given the coldness of the day, I think I'll be off home to prepare a hotpot.
...With the plethora of ethnic restaurants in the USA, the competition is stiff, and the English cuisine I've found here just hasn't done much for me. I suspect that were I to take a gastronomic tour of England, my opinion would change...
Hope you gents don't feel slighted; it's just that some of the English food I've had tended to be bland, while other dishes I've refrained from contained ingredients which didn't seem to go well together. I agree with the Baron that a hotpot can really hit the spot, but black pudding is quite another matter...With the plethora of ethnic restaurants in the USA, the competition is stiff, and the English cuisine I've found here just hasn't done much for me. I suspect that were I to take a gastronomic tour of England, my opinion would change...
Well, it isn't my business venture so I have no ideawhat demographics and other figures he has that say it might work. I have a feeling that there might be a few women comfortable enough to go to a place like that though.
When he gets it up and running, I am sure he would invite you in.
*ALL food is ethnic, but you know what I mean...
I think ethnic food is any food you never ate at home growing up- the type of stuff you go out for or make as a specialty dish.
For instance, I think it's strange that people mentioned "polish food" or "german food" as ethnic because that is what I grew up calling "home cooking." To me, that's just food: what you cook at home and what you eat in my house. (Granted, I realize that even "german" or "polish" food are huge categories that include lots of regional dishes.) One of my friends spent years in the middle east as a young woman. Despite being a white woman with no middle eastern blood she only cooks what I would call middle eastern dishes for her family... it's "ethnic" to me because it's different and strange (just like an Italian family or a French family's food would be) but to them it's home cooking. What I make in my own kitchen is ethnic to them.
Widebrim, I'm assuming you've had black pudding as part of a breakfast ensemble? Fried in lard or dripping, some white pudding (the one made with fat instead of blood), bacon, tomato, spiced sausage, baked beans - all fried - and toast with a cup of tea? If not, I can see why you wouldn't like black pudding much … everything in context! (I'm not a fan of black pudding myself)
I make this point often - there seems to be a belief that if you are in any way Anglo-Saxon/white North American, you have no ethnicity. Everyone is ethnic. All food is ethnic. Embrace it!
...I make this point often - there seems to be a belief that if you are in any way Anglo-Saxon/white North American, you have no ethnicity. Everyone is ethnic. All food is ethnic. Embrace it!
Now, where's my black pudding/haggis pie?????
I see your point, but must vigorously disagree with it! The joke from Friends is an example of your point - to each person, their "own" cuisine is simply food. I get that. My point about everyone being ethnic, or more properly, everyone HAVING an ethnicity, and thus all food being inherently ethnic, is exactly that - I have an ethnicity. The food of my background and the food of my life IS ethnic. From my perspective other types of food seem "ethnic" because they are different, but that does not alter the inherent ethnic nature of the food of my own people. I don't know if this makes any sense, but at least Widebrim gets it!Hi
True, and not. If you're Anglo and eating anglo food, then it's not ethnic. It IS however ethnic to Asians, Germans, Africans, and Italians... Food is your food, ethnic food is everybody else's food.
Now that everyone here in the states eats frozen crap and carry out, do we really HAVE our own food anymore?
Just another $0.02 for the pile.
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True, and not. If you're Anglo and eating anglo food, then it's not ethnic. It IS however ethnic to Asians, Germans, Africans, and Italians... Food is your food, ethnic food is everybody else's food.
Now that everyone here in the states eats frozen crap and carry out, do we really HAVE our own food anymore?
Just another $0.02 for the pile.
American food has always been a product of the melting pot. Pizza as it's served in any American town is American. Chop Suey and Chow Mein have never been anything but American. A bagel spread with cream cheese is American. And there's nothing on earth as American as a frankfurter. Where their root foods originated is completely irrelevant.