The Ranger wrote:
> Michael Kuettner > wrote in message
> ...
> [snip]
>> Nope. Most USAns might be. The rest of the world isn't.
>> What you sell as "Italian herb-mix" an Italian wouldn't
>> recognize, eg.
>
> I'll have to let the Fins, Scots, Irish, English, Swedes, Italians,
> French, and Germans know their culinary educations are lacking with
> regard to American spices and the mixes produced thus. They need to get
> with the program.
>
American spices and mixes?
<snort>
USAn garbage, you mean.

> Oh. Wait. They already understood spice blends because they _are_
> available internationally -- specifically in the EU... Maybe not from
> McCormicks or Spice Islands but there are blends available from local
> sources that don't require seperate ingredients from the end user.
>

You still don't get the point ?
Let me be a little blunter then.
The dreck USAns sell as spice-mixes wouldn't be sold as pig-slop over here.
McComics tries their debut in Switzerland; 3rd grade spices and the
mixes don't sell. People able to get real spices wouldn't look at McComics
twice.
Oh, wait, you think "gawd's own country" is leading in international
cuisine ?
Well, only as a negative example.

Now bugger off and put your "spice mixes" in your "food".

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner