American Food

Published on September 15, 2004 By Ravenblack In Misc

Is it just me or do Americans like Grill a lot? There seems to be grill restuarants around every corner in the town centre of Silver Spring and around Washington DC. Of course, there are other stuff like italian and mexican, but there's like grill in every menu or so.

A little too greasy to my liking. I stuck to eating salads and sandwiches most of the time.

May I ask if Americans eat grill regularly or some other stuff? What's the regular staple food that you eat, may I ask the Americans on this site?

I tried the Crab cakes that Maryland is famous for and found them to be quite interesting. Tasty, kinda sweet.

And just for fun, my collegue and I tried the chinese food here and found them to be very salty. Woh, did you soak that mien fen in salt water??, dude! And they call it Singaporean Chow Mien Fen but it's nothing like what we do have around here. Talk about misleading. lol . It was also expensive, I mean it was costing about ten times what it is here - I gather asian food is considered somewhat exotic in the US. But it's not even like that in Europe or Australia.

McDonalds had bigger portions - I mean in the US, it's a ten piece McNuggets meal for adults, over here in Singapore, it's only a six-piece McNuggets meal for adults - we have nine-piece option but that's not part of the value meal.

Food portions are large around here, I usually can't finish the food I ordered.

Comments (Page 2)

Ravenblack

on Sep 16, 2004

Interesting, Texas.

Janders

on Sep 17, 2004

I love grilled food. I think most american have grown up on it and tie good memories with grilled food. (family bbq's and cookouts, ect.)

Ravenblack

on Sep 17, 2004

Thanks for the responses, Janders and Helix.

BBQ's are sort of 'special events' when we do have it, usually when we have a get together at the beach or something, it is rare for someone to own a grill at home.

Gideon MacLeish

on Sep 18, 2004

I grill either a veggie burger or a steak at least once a week. The portion thing explains why we Americans are so fat, huh?

A VEGGIE BURGER? Crime against humanity, that.

I have found grilling out to be a somewhat regional thing. Granted, you can find people all over the country that grill out from time to time, but it's chiefly in the heartland that people are OBSESSED with it.

True story: in June 2001, back in Wisconsin, we were hit by a horrible thunderstorm that swept through town and caused millions of dollars worth of damages. For dayd, power was out over much of the city, and so many of us drove around surveying the damage because, well, sitting in a dark house all day sucks. I was driving by one house, saw that their garage was completely demolished except for the wall nearest the house. The residents were outside celebrating, offering everyone who came by free steaks (had to use up the meat or it'd spoil) because they'd saved the grill.

It was like "who gives a fig about the garage, long as the grill's OK". lol

Ravenblack

on Sep 18, 2004

That's a good story, thanks for sharing, Gideon.

Shows people unfazed by what mother nature dealt on a bad day.

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