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[Sar]

Bacon sarnie with lashings of daddies sauce takes some beating

oooh good point - I think in the US it's usually streaky bacon . Not the lovely back bacon we have. Yum yum!! bacon, grated cheese, tomato ketchup and spring onions on toasted multigrain bread - tis my fave post surf/ any time of day / any excuse that fits to have it munch

[isaluteyou]

This thread made me go and eat two pieces of toast with lashings of butter and marmite dripping off it

Marmite has been a bit of an issue since I got to Oz. First of all I couldnt find marmite, so had to try Vegemite and a variety of other alternatives - all revolting.

Then I found 'marmite'... which wasnt marmite at all
It was black, it said marmite on the pot, it was a yeast-based delicacy... it was


But then, every now and then, in aussie supermarkets you'll see the familiar black and yellow pot, except they call it 'Our Mate'
And it disappears in seconds as all the poms grab a trolley full

I had the same troubles in the US in fact for while i used to import the marmite from an online store until i found a local store that carried the stuff. Now if i could confince them to carry SAMP (south african product) and Safari Guava rolls (another south african product) I could stop importing my favs (mind you neither of those products are available in the UK )

[greg@hoodatsurfco]

as far as cooking something yourself the um british are hardly known for their quisine

Woaw woaw!!!

Hold on a minute there!!! If you were French or Italian or Chinese or something I'd except that statement, but from an American!?!
You crazy!!

Anyway, back to the cornbread, is that whats used in a cornDOG and do they always come on a stick and served it on a polystyrene tray with a couple sqirts of red and yellow sauce or is that just in the films and Venice Beach?

Mmmmmh, American cuisine!

And while I'm on it, this is your fault isaluteyou, whats the deal with beef jerky? Salty, dry beef sounds good but no way is it!

Twinkies!?!

erm....can't think of anything else American.....oh thats right you stole you cuisine from every other culture and maybe added your own twist like deep frying it or adding more fat in other ways!
(licking lips emoticon)

No thats not cornbread!
this is cornbread!


And Americans invented the BBQ, not to mention the creole cuisine of New Orleans where my fathers side of the family is from..

I am half russian and I have to say out of everything I've tried russian food is by far the overall worst.

[greg@hoodatsurfco]

Bacon sarnie with lashings of daddies sauce takes some beating

oooh good point - I think in the US it's usually streaky bacon . Not the lovely back bacon we have. Yum yum!! bacon, grated cheese, tomato ketchup and spring onions on toasted multigrain bread - tis my fave post surf/ any time of day / any excuse that fits to have it munch

I don't want to be rude.. but that sounds truly disgusting.. I can't put ketchup on anything... maybe as we call them "french fries" but thats it.

I will put hot sauce, cayenne pepper, and mustard on almost everything!

[Real Pol]

And Americans invented the BBQ,

The barbecue originates from the West Indies and was made more popular when Europeans and Africans moved into the southern united states during colonial times.

I'm not going to bore you anymore today with crap trivia.


Oh and I agree with you on the sauce thing greg, hot pepper, sweet chilli or piri piri sauce on everything!

[spark6]

erm....can't think of anything else American.....oh thats right you stole you cuisine from every other culture and maybe added your own twist like deep frying it or adding more fat in other ways!
(licking lips emoticon)

We invented peanut butter!

[greg@hoodatsurfco]

America invented EVERYTHING!!

haha... at least... we uh.... invented... uh.... the internal combustion engine!!!!

Real Pol, never heard of Piri Piri, I will have to look into this if its spicy

I still have to say my favorite dish is indian food.

Oh and thank you Britain for inventing the IPA beer :):):):)

[Sar]

Bacon sarnie with lashings of daddies sauce takes some beating

oooh good point - I think in the US it's usually streaky bacon . Not the lovely back bacon we have. Yum yum!! bacon, grated cheese, tomato ketchup and spring onions on toasted multigrain bread - tis my fave post surf/ any time of day / any excuse that fits to have it munch

I don't want to be rude.. but that sounds truly disgusting.. I can't put ketchup on anything... maybe as we call them "french fries" but thats it.

I will put hot sauce, cayenne pepper, and mustard on almost everything!

you're not being rude - just wrong

Quality back bacon with west country cheddar homemade multigrain bread, homemade ketchup and homegrown spring onions picked that morning is where its at

Feel free to cover the taste of your food in hot sauces to get rid of the taste

[greg@hoodatsurfco]

This isn't the bacon you UK folk have?


And I don't cover things in hot sauce so its all you can taste, I like to add the right hotsauce to the right dish to help the flavor with the spicy enhancement. I make my own hotsauce and I have about 12 different bottles for different foods, one for eggs, one for steak, one for poultry/poultry stews etc etc. I love it! Some of it has no real flavor just a spicy burn, and some have a strong strong flavor for things like shrimp po boy sandwiches. I am a hotsauce fanatic

[SDCali]

And Americans invented the BBQ,

The barbecue originates from the West Indies and was made more popular when Europeans and Africans moved into the southern united states during colonial times.

There are of course multiple types of barbeque in the states, what is called barbeque in Memphis, Tennessee is vastly different from the barbeque you'll find in North Carolina, which is still different than what they call barbeque in Texas, and so on and so forth.
There are several foods that originated in the states/americas, had to, as the plants used to produce them were indigenous to the americas, such as the potato.

[Hang11]

Does anybody know how to make black pudding? I so bloody ( ) miss it. The stuff in NZ is like dog food.

[pkbum]

darn you guys are making me hungry.

[flyingvee]

Bacon sarnie with lashings of daddies sauce takes some beating

oooh good point - I think in the US it's usually streaky bacon . Not the lovely back bacon we have. Yum yum!! bacon, grated cheese, tomato ketchup and spring onions on toasted multigrain bread - tis my fave post surf/ any time of day / any excuse that fits to have it munch

I don't want to be rude.. but that sounds truly disgusting.. I can't put ketchup on anything... maybe as we call them "french fries" but thats it.

I will put hot sauce, cayenne pepper, and mustard on almost everything!

you're not being rude - just wrong

Quality back bacon with west country cheddar homemade multigrain bread, homemade ketchup and homegrown spring onions picked that morning is where its at

Feel free to cover the taste of your food in hot sauces to get rid of the taste

Oh yes! Breakfast at your place sounds pretty good!!

[Luke]

This isn't the bacon you UK folk have?

That's streaky bacon...Back bacon has got more meat on it.

like this....mmmn you can almost smell it.

[Real Pol]

There are several foods that originated in the states/americas, had to, as the plants used to produce them were indigenous to the americas, such as the potato.

Yeah america"S".

The potato is original from the Andes and was introduced to the US by Europeans.

Sorry, I feel that I'm being to negative. I had some great food when I was in America. I had some crap stuff too!

[greg@hoodatsurfco]

America has a lot of generic food. But there are some specialty dishes that are absolutely amazing.

But given that we are a young country with people from other countries living here... we have other culture's dishes as our own haha.

[tomcat360]

This is kinda funny discussion to hear. I'm a southern raised, southern fed boy so cornbread is kinda a staple.

Ya'll come over here and I'll cook for you, you'll like it.

[smallwavegrovellerchick]

In Hawaii, most of us eat chili and stew with rice. Then again, we eat also eat bacon and eggs with rice and a local favorite, loco moco, which is a hamurger patty, brown gravy, egg over easy, on a bed of rice.

[greg@hoodatsurfco]

mmm I love loco moco's.

My fiance grew up in hawaii with her parents and almost every Sunday we have some delicious spam eggs n rice then a loco moco for lunch.