American Stadium foods - phwoar or yeuch?
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ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
A lot of those stadium "treats" are served on a cardboard or styrofoam "platter". The kebab shop next door to me when I lived in Streatham did similar. Makes life a LOT easier!
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
its a savoury corn meal porrige isn't it?
not my idea of breakfast.
They do have the right idea about sausages + honey and mustard though. Only they use the wrong mustard
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
The thing with grits is that you should have them with something else, preferably something with a forceful flavour. An expat American mate liked his with chicken gravy with jalapeno peppers chopped into it. Quite tasty!
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
its a savoury corn meal porrige isn't it?
not my idea of breakfast.
They do have the right idea about sausages + honey and mustard though. Only they use the wrong mustard
It's well-bland if you just have grits on their own.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I couldn't stand grits when I tried them. They were slimy and tasteless.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
In an American stadium? What! Are you some sort of commie or something?
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Miss Caphat
I want it that way
its a savoury corn meal porrige isn't it?
not my idea of breakfast.
They do have the right idea about sausages + honey and mustard though. Only they use the wrong mustard
Honey mustard is generally not made with yellow mustard but a better quality or grainy mustard. Just fyi.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
fair nuffs, but is it still the milder american mustard or the very strong english?
I like american mustard as a mild condiment but when I am doing suasage with a honey glaze I want the realy harsh colemans
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Vegetarians are enemies of freedom and thus not allowed in America.
Miss Caphat
I want it that way
It's generally pretty strong. And there are hundreds of types of strong mustard besides colemans, though I do like colemans
Zorra
Suburban lazarus
You can buy those Dount Burgers in Hungry Horse pubs (there's one in Oxford that do them). Only 2000 calories!
kittyP
Pluviophile
Can't help but read the descriptions in Adam Richman's voice
Are you sure you're not thinking of Alan Rickman?
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
Reasonably sure
Although I'd pay to watch an episode of Man vs Food where Alan Rickman has to eat a giant ice-cream sundae.
He'd bury his face into it and munch the lot, but sadly brain freeze would strike and he'd be forced to abandon his quest, but not before offering a final parting snipe to his competitors...
Doing his Hans Gruber voice
kittyP
Pluviophile
Reasonably sure
Although I'd pay to watch an episode of Man vs Food where Alan Rickman has to eat a giant ice-cream sundae.
He'd bury his face into it and munch the lot, but sadly brain freeze would strike and he'd be forced to abandon his quest, but not before offering a final parting snipe to his competitors...
I love the scene with "why a spoon cousin?" "Coz it's blunt, you twit, it'll hurt more"
I love Alan Ricknam
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
There's definitely an Amendment which guarantees "petition for the redress of vegetables."
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Ranch redressing, no doubt.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
I love the scene with "why a spoon cousin?" "Coz it's blunt, you twit, it'll hurt more"
I love Alan Ricknam
Indeed. I always preferred Nickolas Grace as The Sherrif, mind.
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
The "h" in the name is superfluous!
At least I have some idea you've actually tasted Ranch dressing/been in the US. Some of the others......
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Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
I went to an American stadium once. I don't recall if I ate anything but the beer was surprisingly decent.
BassJunkie
Clams on the half shell, and roller skates.
What's all this talk of 'artery hardening'? I thought that 'science' had been discredited, please, please don't tell me I got that wrong?
As for that line up of food, yum. Having eaten in 'ball parks' over there in the past I was surprised to find that the food (and the beer) weren't devoid of flavour, quite the contrary.
As for that line up of food, yum. Having eaten in 'ball parks' over there in the past I was surprised to find that the food (and the beer) weren't devoid of flavour, quite the contrary.
mrsfran
Well-Known Member
I would every single one of those things. Even when I KNEW it would be disappointing, I'd still eat them. I am an absolute sucker for American wrongness foods. In fact, just yesterday a package arrived from an American friend for me that contained Slim Jims, Birthday-Frosting-Filled Cookies, Calorie-Free Milk Flavouring Pods and Hostess Twinkies. Amazing.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I think that the problem is that most "American" food available here is generic and bland. What we see is often franchised Euro-versions of US favourites with the flavour removed, or the worst of your packaged foods, and very little of the good stuff. There's also a suspicion of US-reared meat in most of Europe, due to growth-promoters being banned here, and not in the US. Personally, I'm not convinced about a massive effect on flavour, as claimed by our organic lobby, but I am awake to the increased antibiotic resistance in both US livestock and the US population.
I think people should give "American" food a chance, especially as so much of it is effectively "fusion" food drawn from "old days" recipes mixed with new/modern ingredients. That's another thing to thank American cuisine for too - a sense of culinary adventure that says "I wonder what'll happen if I mix this with that?" that some European kitchens have lost (I'm especially looking at you, Germans!).
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Peanuts, too!
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