what the fuck is american food

lived there for a year, still have no fucking clue. american food consisted of crap wrapped in plastic and occasional some homemade shit nuggets vaguely resembling real food.

is that food? shit? you think shit is food? plz

i agree

yes me too, gr8 thread btw, you rule

thanks

thanks for improving my life by posting this thread

lol america sucks




actually they don't...we are the best country in the world and will invade your sorry ass excuse for a country anyday of the week.

I agree, American food is winrar

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Well, it depends on what you are eating. You are probably eating over processed packaged foodstuffs.

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American food is a fusion of a variety of cultural dishes spanning from Europe to the Pacific Islands to the Americas.  If our food is shit, then you're saying your own food is shit as well.

Cajun food is an american creation.

Also, don't forget the wonderful Philly Cheese Steak

>>14
Cajun has french roots.

>>16  eat'm? well hell no boy that be a downright fools idea. A negro is a working animal, u put them out in the fields or doing manual labor on a construction site.  Plus look at their dark skin, it ain't right, they's been tainted hell if you ate them I'm damn sure your skin would shrivel your blood run cold and you will croak the very next night.

See negors are work animals like the mule and as bright as one too!

If you're looking for some fine american cuisine try a maryland crab cake mmhhmmm delicious I say!!

Purely american food? I have no idea, though what >>13 says is true in most States.

pop tarts.
we made pop tarts.
fuck you all.

pop turds

>>13

INCORRECT. Your logic is flawed.

Just because the combined result of various cultural dishes are shit, doesn't mean the orginals are. In fact, it is more likely that your bastard hybrids are actually terrible compared to the orginals.

BLAH! 

American Cuisine is a blending of pan European styles.  Mostly influenced by French/German food. 

The biggest alteration in it, is a concept of less seasonings or spices, and also longer cooking times at a higher heat.  It is a hold over from when there were more problems with food borne illnesses so things had to be over cooked to kill the bacteria or at least an attempt to kill the bacteria.

Current American Cuisine is coming around adopting new influences.   This is because of increasing trade with other countries, better storage, faster transit yeada yeada.

Also, fire, crusts and grilling are very important in American food.  Where as in European foods that's less of a factor,where a softer or kinda poached element is desired. 

Example in one of the key differences is Sous Vide.  You get a tender poached like end result, which is a growing practice across Europe.  Where as in the US it isn't catching on, hold overs to the grill and just the sentiment to not having "high tech" food. 

Americans do have more dependency on pre packaged foods though, which is what a lot of non americans tend to notice.  Not just Americans but Canada, and Mexico also make use of it, which is one of the reasons that fat people tend to come from the three, because we eat way to much, to often, and the wrong foods on top of that. 

So yeah, jazz.  It isn't exactly American food it's the pre-packaged food that's the problem.

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Long story short, it's mostly German and Italian food.

>>25.  It's all because of the Nazi's.  It's all a lie, the Nazi's really won the war.  I mean think about it, German, Italian and Jap food is what's trendy.. 

AMERICANS ARE NAZI'S!!  IT ALL ADDS UP NOW!

is there is no distince American fucking culture.  if you mean like, native american then that's obvious, but all american food comes from other cultures and shit. we're not special. god I hate america. take me to europe!

Americans are dependent on pre-packaged goods, packages they're just going to throw away. Packages that add to all the land fills and litter they complain about.

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Yeah... How about I go to your country, buy some pre-packaged crap from a convenience store, then say your country's food sucks...

Dude, the question you have to ask yourself is where did those convenience foods come from?  Where did those companies start out?    Most of the time it's the good ol' US of A. 

Those Convenience foods chiefly in USA, Canada, Mexico, UK, Germany, Italy,Australia and Japan. 

But it's more of a modern Western aspect then just the States.

A brief (and possible inaccurate) history of American food:

Early American food was frontier food. This makes sense, as early America was the frontier. Frontier food isn't known for its flavor. Time is short, so a lot of food was fried, and people ate quickly. European visitors remarked how Americans would quickly eat their meals and then start drinking. Standard fare would be bread, corn, corn, cornmeal, salt pork, and whisky. One account I read about (In "The Alcoholic Republic") was a Swede visiting frontier Alabama and being served a three course meal consisting of:
1)Pickled pigs feet
2)Bacon with molasses
3)Milk and black bread soaked in whiskey
Needless to say, he was a bit turned off.

There was certainly regional influence on food, as well immigrants brought their own cuisine with them, but that had to be adapted to what was available. Immigrants were also usually poorer peasants from places like England, Ireland, Scotland, Eastern Europe, Germany, and Northern Europe, so what they brought was peasant food, not adaptations of Escoffier.
Expecting absurdly fancy food is stupid, because America never had that kind of aristocracy that could have kitchens of 500 cooking a meal for 20 people. It was mostly poorer people cooking for themselves.

American cuisine also had a huge shift in the post-WWII period. Old cookbooks from the prewar period will still contain recipes for things like spicy foods (curries, etc.). But after booming prosperity, the US was hit with the dirty, wretched conditions of WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII. Afterwards the whole country seemed to lose flavor. You saw a rapid expansion of cookie-cutter suburbs  (e.g. Levittown), Wonderbread, fast food restaurants, malls, and austere modernist architecture. The whole culture seemed to have decided it didn't want anything approaching exotic food. They wanted regularity, safety, cleanliness. Large-scale corporate production thrived, and there went a lot quality and taste, at least in many places.

However, I'd still say the OP has never really explored American food. Go to a good Soul food restaurant (Sylvia's in Harlem, for example), and tell me it's crap. It's fucking gorgeous.

Not only that, but high-end American-Fusion food - usually innovative takes on traditional foreign dishes (and why not, for a land of immigrants), is very good. There's a reason why chefs from France, Italy, and Japan will come to the US to improve their techniques. If the only place you eat in the US is the food court, I can see why you wouldn't be impressed. But if my only experience with Italian food was at the ripoff tourist restaurant at the Vatican, I don't think you would say it's a fair example.

whenever i think of "american food" i can't help but think of Mcdonald's

Whenever I think about American food I think of the stuff that comes out of my ass.

American food: 
Try chicken fried steak with white gravy.  Try baked potatoes with slow-cooked chili.  Try

try obesity

>>10

iz jew?

Ewwwwwwww. That's why Americans are overweight then. I think of American food as fast food. :S

America, like any NEW WORLD COUNTRIES, are infulenced by many other coutries of the OLD WORLD COUNTIRES.

But it depends where you live. There is New england syle, Cali sytle, Mid-west BBQ, Tex-mex, Southern soul food, Chinese-American, etc. America is pretty much bless of its location for supply of food.

but in a general sense of American food. Yeah it pretty much retarded since most parents didn't learn their ancestor food and all. I mean look at white people these days. they don't know what  European countires they came from. Also black people as well. they are pretty much like white people in sense of food. This doesnt count southern people since they are more closer to their culture.but their food is still greasy.

Most Americans are not open to new types of foods. remember sushi had a rep of RAW SEAFOOD. not its the new thing and all.
there is even cooked sushi of the new style.

I mean really what do we see in todays markets.
Frozen foods
Can foods
premade bread
season rice
can vegetables
and selve that has its own JUNK FOODS
SODA

and then there is fresh products. you know them FRESH produce
MEATS,seafood, etc

all these foods we see is premade and preserved. You thoght Chinese food had a rep of MSG. look at canned soup, spagetti sauce, seasoned rice, frozen pizza, etc.

I MEAN READ THE LABELS. American hating on china stero types.

Tell then
Peace