True; it's sort of like ceviche, but still, there's the implication that SOMETHING has been done to it. :)
I do apologize, though, I didn't mean to play to English stereotypes. Mostly, I was going for "Foreign food is gross and nasty, and nothing at all like the sheep's eyeballs/cow's brain/jellyfish salad that Mom used to make." Which is equal-opportunity, as stereotypes go, and one that Americans are known for. :) Seriously, my friend loves chitlins, but when we go out for Japanese, always gets teriyaki...
Scrapple. Yeah. Everything that's left over after butchering a pig or a cow, ground up into a greyish paste, and usually fried. :P Big in PA Dutch country, which is where I spent a good chunk of time, growing up.. and OMG, I though I'd blocked this out, but faschnats, which are REALLY GROSS doughnuts made on the Tuesday before Lent, fried in so much lard you can squeeze it out like a sponge...
And it's funny, I had to think for a minute before I could think of a gross American food that hasn't been ripped off wholesale from another culture. My first thought was menudo, but that's Spanish, and then there's lutefisk, but that's Scandinavian, poutine, but that's Canadian...
Actually, grits and polenta are pretty much the same thing. Vehicles for butter and syrup. :)
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True; it's sort of like ceviche, but still, there's the implication that SOMETHING has been done to it. :)
I do apologize, though, I didn't mean to play to English stereotypes. Mostly, I was going for "Foreign food is gross and nasty, and nothing at all like the sheep's eyeballs/cow's brain/jellyfish salad that Mom used to make." Which is equal-opportunity, as stereotypes go, and one that Americans are known for. :) Seriously, my friend loves chitlins, but when we go out for Japanese, always gets teriyaki...
Scrapple. Yeah. Everything that's left over after butchering a pig or a cow, ground up into a greyish paste, and usually fried. :P Big in PA Dutch country, which is where I spent a good chunk of time, growing up.. and OMG, I though I'd blocked this out, but faschnats, which are REALLY GROSS doughnuts made on the Tuesday before Lent, fried in so much lard you can squeeze it out like a sponge...
And it's funny, I had to think for a minute before I could think of a gross American food that hasn't been ripped off wholesale from another culture. My first thought was menudo, but that's Spanish, and then there's lutefisk, but that's Scandinavian, poutine, but that's Canadian...
Actually, grits and polenta are pretty much the same thing. Vehicles for butter and syrup. :)