Jeremy McCreary
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And apparently that makes you an expert on American food from coast to coast. Quick study!
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Stefan Mikes
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No Jeremy.
I cannot eat American food. What's hard to understand? For instance, I'd like eggs to have some taste.
Why personal?
BlackHand
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You're Polish, so I assume you mean pickled eggs.
Here in America we only eat those in dive bars after you've had enough Coors Light to sufficiently dull the senses.
Chargeride
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Obviously I dont actually believe all French food is awful, but Im coming from personal experience from ten years of riding the area with locals and visiting places they consider high end food.
My friends are not picky at all, in fact they will eat anything, but it got so bad we were only going in courtesy.
The smell..jesus, they flat refuse to cook anything properly and thats why half the country has toxoplasmosis for life.
Theres rarely a menu, you just get what theyve 'cooked', one meal was offal wrapped in lamb intestines, when I say 'cooked'...it was warm.
Have you ever been to a tannery where the boil pig skins, the smell is skunk level of baulk..well thats what it smelled like.
I guess what I mean is French food outside of tourist areas can be of a level beyond what most non French people can tolerate.
My friends are not picky at all, in fact they will eat anything, but it got so bad we were only going in courtesy.
The smell..jesus, they flat refuse to cook anything properly and thats why half the country has toxoplasmosis for life.
Theres rarely a menu, you just get what theyve 'cooked', one meal was offal wrapped in lamb intestines, when I say 'cooked'...it was warm.
Have you ever been to a tannery where the boil pig skins, the smell is skunk level of baulk..well thats what it smelled like.
I guess what I mean is French food outside of tourist areas can be of a level beyond what most non French people can tolerate.
Stefan Mikes
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No, I mean regular boiled or fried eggs. Am I wrong to believe all American eggs have white shells?
The issue is, I and Brix hate visiting too warm countries, so we cannot try the genuine French food to find out. (The holiday in Tuscany 2022 was so terribly hot we broke for a couple of months!)
On the other hand, is the French Brie that awful?
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stompandgo
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Yes. Brown eggs are local eggs. We have plenty of small farms, and local people who have layers and sell them at the farmer's market or in a roadside shed. You can even get local duck and quail eggs. What a country!
Stefan Mikes
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I'm sure these are tasty!
stompandgo
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You can also get organic brown eggs in the supermarket. There's no comparison in taste to the generic white eggs from the monster egg farms. This is what we have for breakfast.
Stefan Mikes
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Now I can understand why I could not try good American eggs on my short visits!
Jeremy McCreary
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What I can't understand is how you could possibly believe that the small sample of American food you've actually eaten is representative of ALL American food everywhere.
As just one example among many, take your assumption, based on who knows what, that all our eggs are white. Utterly false and always has been. Yet you leap from there to state as fact that American eggs are tasteless. Without qualification. Definitely not just banter.
Our fridge just now.
I eat BROWN eggs nearly every morning. And I've eaten eggs all over the US and in well over a dozen other countries — including several in eastern Europe. At 77, I know what good eggs taste like. And that sample just doesn't support a claim that American eggs are somehow inferior across the board.
Why personal? You attack Americans as a group constantly here — and on no firmer grounds than the egg thing. Not just banter. And as an American, I just got tired of hearing it.
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Gionnirocket
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Carry on. . .
DaveMatthews
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RunForTheHills
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This is a bunch of nonsense. I am a very picky eater and there are a lot of things I won't eat. I have travelled the world for work and have always been able to find places with food I could eat. Singapore was difficult, but I didn't starve there. Trying a Mexican restaurant in Australia was a mistake.
Also, it is well documented that brown eggs are identical to white eggs in nutrition and taste. I can't taste the difference. White eggs come from Leghorns and brown eggs come from different breeds of chicken. It is probably true that brown eggs are more likely to come from small local farms though and maybe that makes a difference.
Also, it is well documented that brown eggs are identical to white eggs in nutrition and taste. I can't taste the difference. White eggs come from Leghorns and brown eggs come from different breeds of chicken. It is probably true that brown eggs are more likely to come from small local farms though and maybe that makes a difference.
PedalUma
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The true free range farm eggs have reddish orange yokes because the chickens are scratching, eating bugs and worms. I had a friend in HI who would put an empty can level with the dirt to collect cockroaches overnight. The chickens would go nuts for them in the morning.
Jeremy McCreary
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Made the same mistake in Christchurch, New Zealand. But after 14 days of burrito deprivation on a trip through the Pacific, I was desperate.
Stefan Mikes
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Do I?
You see, Jeremy. It all started with a stay at a resort hotel in Virginia. There was abundance of food in an all-you-can-eat hotel restaurant. I packed my plate full with everything to soon realise I could not eat it because of the lack of flavour. Each U.S. trip was on business. We were invited to a variety of restaurants by our hosts, three serious American companies. We also were driving a rented car to find a breakfast (as a typical American hotel does not offer breakfasts). The places for the dinner included, for instance, a touring boat on the Potomac. I don't want to elaborate how disappointed was with the food there, and that was expected to be a class restaurant.
The first culture shocks:
- We had to pay for alcohol from our pocket. An European never expects that from the host
- Tap water was free
- One of big American attractions was taking us to a bowling alley. A lot of fun, indeed
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stompandgo
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Your opinion of America was clearly shaped by your hosts.Do I?
You see, Jeremy. It all started with a stay at a resort hotel in Virginia. There was abundance of food in an all-you-can-eat hotel restaurant. I packed my plate full with everything to soon realise I could not eat it because of the lack of flavour. Each U.S. trip was on business. We were invited to a variety of restaurants by our hosts, three serious American companies. We also were driving a rented car to find a breakfast (as a typical American hotel does not offer breakfasts). The places for the dinner included, for instance, a touring boat on the Potomac. I don't want to elaborate how disappointed was with the food there, and that was expected to be a class restaurant.
The first culture shocks:
I liked the American people but was not fond of the food in North America (including Canada). So it means I'm attacking Americans. Good to know, your opinion has helped me understand America better now. Oh well. It looks the FIFA president certainly could understand the American mentality in the recent months a way better than I ever could.
- We had to pay for alcohol from our pocket. An European never expects that from the host
- Tap water was free
- One of big American attractions was taking us to a bowling alley. A lot of fun, indeed
a) You ate at an all-you-can-eat buffet. That is the low bar for American restaurant food. It is often populated with Americanized ethnic food like "Italian", "Mexican", and "Chinese". You might as well had gas station sushi.
b) Plenty of "typical American hotels" offer breakfast, everything from help-yourself buffet to full service. You could have had a wonderful American breakfast, two eggs the way you like them, bacon, toast, and home fries.
c) Whatever "touring boat" on the Potomac you were on was obviously not equipped to serve good food. I could take you on a boat cruise of the Cape Cod Bay, where they serve one of the best cold lobster rolls anywhere in America.
Your host screwed you. That's not an exclusively "American" thing.
Chargeride
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I cant cook eggs, as soon as I break them open I'm like...ooh chicken periods.
Im fine if someone else does it out of sight, but they have to be incinerated, any slimy white and its straight in the bin.
Im fine if someone else does it out of sight, but they have to be incinerated, any slimy white and its straight in the bin.
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