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The stereotype is pass around among restaurant owners as well. It's not a secret that the American palate is picky and easy to understand. Avoid foods that are
by smhost 9y ago
The stereotype is pass around among restaurant owners as well. It's not a secret that the American palate is picky and easy to understand. Avoid foods that are mushy, gooey, slimy, or "weird" (even though most food is like that), and try to make it crispy, sweet, and/or salty. Sushi is gross, but put the rice on the outside (beacuse eww seaweed) and cover it in sweet sauce, and suddenly it's delicious. Chinese food is gross, so enterprising Chinese-Americans invented some generic salty/sweet deep fried garbage and it sells like crazy. Oh, and here's some deep fried pastry dough with superstitous nonsense thrown in.
Granted, Americans have gotten a lot better at food and culture in general in the past decade ever since the hipster/foodie-ism thing, but it still has a long way to go if it wants to ditch the image of the average American as the child who won't eat their vegetables.
- stupidhn 9y ago>Granted, Americans have gotten a lot better at food and culture in general in the past decade ever since the hipster/foodie-ism thing American culture, in general, has improved thanks to 10 years of hipsters? Where are you from?
- smhost 9y agoThey've gotten better at culture, as in, trying to understand different cultures and branching out their own interests and experiences beyond what is American.
- stupidhn 9y ago>They've gotten better at culture And you quantify this how?
- smhost 9y agoAre you asking me how to quantify culture? You could go buy services like what WGSN offers, or you can just not be a socially inept corporate econometrics data clown and leave your house once in a while, interact with young people, and use your eyes.
- Camillo 9y ago"Culture" in American vernacular essentially means non-anglo food (90%) plus festivals and other folk things (10%). I know, it's weird.
- logfromblammo 9y agoIt doesn't count as American culture until the guy who is pushing it clears a million dollars.
- vram22 9y ago>crispy An abomination of a word :) It should be crisp, AFAIK.
- eropple 9y agoNo, he's not wrong. An apple might be crisp. A French fry might be crispy.
- vram22 9y agoOkay, you're right. I checked in a few online dictionaries. I was earlier under the impression that crispy was wrong usage.
- anigbrowl 9y agoSeconding the proposition that these are two distinctly different words. Then there's crisply which has nothing to do with food but is reserved for describing the manner in which civil servants (British, sizes 4-7) deliver ultimata in trenchcoat spy novels. True fact.
- vram22 9y agoTrue :) Alistair MacLean novels come to mind. Good entertaining writing, at least some parts of his books. Read them a lot as a kid. The only parts that were a bit tedious were the long descriptions of bad weather conditions in some of the novels set at sea, like Ice Station Zebra, H.M.S. Ulysses, etc. He tended to overdo those parts.
- vram22 9y agoSorry for the off-topic, but got any good recommendations for such novels? It's been a while since I read any, and would like to read some good ones again. I've read a few - John Le Carre, and MacLean of course. James Bond, but those tend to be better as movies. Can't think of others off-hand.
- anigbrowl 9y ago