"Julie Bove" > wrote:
> "Pete C." > wrote in message
> om...
>>
>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:56:18 -0500, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
>>>
>>>> Grabbed this quote from Gawker, where a commenter was talking about
>>>> American food:
>>>>
>>>> "She says that compared to food in Ireland (where she lives) US bread
>>>> is sweet, nothing is perishable, fresh fruit and vegetables are really
>>>> expensive, and the meat is full of water and has a weird texture."
>>>>
>>>> All true.
>>>
>>> It's NOT true. She just doesn't know where to shop. You don't have
>>> to shop at upscale grocers to get untreated meat or get bread without
>>> sugar (I don't even know where to get regular bread WITH sugar). And
>>> I don't know what she means by "nothing is perishable".
>>>
>>> She must be shopping at Walmart. What do you expect from a nation who
>>> eats haggis 3 times and are always liquored up on whiskey (since we're
>>> carelessly stereotyping).
>>>
>>> -sw
>>
>> Bingo!
>>
>> It's very easy to find non "enhanced" meats, reasonably priced fresh
>> vegetables and high quality breads. Certainly we have access to a lot of
>> non-perishable foodstuffs, but all the normal fresh stuff is quite
>> perishable.
>>
>> Mostly folks in Europe and elsewhere have a difficult time grasping just
>> how large and diverse the US is. If they think about applying a
>> generalization to the whole of Europe they might start to understand how
>> silly it is to generalize about the US. Each US state is more comparable
>> to an entire European country and there are 50 US states and a handfull
>> of territories that are all notably different from each other.
>
> Yep. And each part of the country has foods that are common there but
> less common elsewhere. Like that soup that I ate in South Dakota...or
> was it North Dakota? I had never heard of it and when I asked what was
> in it, the waitress looked at me like I had two heads. It was a potato
> dumpling soup that is dead common there but AFAIK never served in
> restaurants anywhere else. Might be made at home if the person was
> familiar with it though.
>
> Or the guy in TX who was talking about Cicis. I didn't know what Cicis
> was and he replied that he thought they were everywhere. Nope. Pizza
> place. I have since seen ads on TV for them but we still don't have them.
>
> If you were to order nachos on Cape Cod, you'd get them all covered with
> lettuce. So if this was your first time eating them, you might think
> this is typical Nope. Never seen the lettuce anywhere else but Cape Cod.

Restaurant nachos in the Midwest are also commonly served with shredded
lettuce on top. It's not unique to Cape Cod.
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