linguoboy wrote:sirdanilot wrote:This, which people in the rest of America eat, looks much less good. Yeah of course it's nice for a snack, but I could not live off that for a main meal.
As I say, I try to read your remarks in good faith, but it really strains my capacities to believe that anyone could know so very little about American culture.
You do know that California is part of the US and not Mexico, right? Do me a favour and Google "California cuisine". The Atlantic Ocean is not some insuperable barrier which prevented the techniques and influence of
nouvelle cuisine from ever reaching these shores.
I have never before heard of Californian cuisine, no.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of_California
It looks like it contains Mexican style dishes, which is nice, I love mexican food and sadly it is hardly available here and if it is available it is of low quality. It also looks like it includes local seafoods which is good. But then I see the pizza with the egg on top and I think 'noo......'
Are there good restaurants in california? Obviously yes, because many rich people live in California, and rich people tend to attract good restaurants. I do not think this is necessarily representative of the entire united states.
As I said before, my main point is that the southern parts of the united states have a richer tradition, and this also includes a culinary tradition which is richer than that found in the north and other parts of the country. Thinks like pretzels are something of which I think 'nooooooooo', for example, which is a commonly eaten food in many parts of the (non-southern) United States, as well as hot dogs, mac and cheese (often out of a box which is a no-no) and other unhealthy dishes. Another bad combination eaten by many Americans is peanutbutter and jelly sandwich (bad combination) and frozen peanutbutter (why would you freze peanut butter ? WHY ON EARTH?) and another bad american habit is serving entire buckets of soft drink with fast food meals (such as one liter of cola being a small portion, while that's an entire BOTTLE of cola here).
Another cuisine which I am not a fan of, is the Czech cuisine. I have family which is of Czech origin, and I always think 'no' when eating Czech food. Every czech food is some shade of brown or yellow in colour, and every food is soft in texture and tastes the same as all other foods. With christmas, we once ate carp. CARP ! Eating carp is a taboo in the netherlands (it is a fish which is simply never eaten), but oh well of course I ate it. It tastes of mud and fat. It was not gross but it is certainly not haut cuisine, the Czech kitchen. The sweets are nice though as they are not too sweet which I prefer.