American Cuisine
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Thread Topic: American Cuisine
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1: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream
When Ruth Graves Wakefield of Whitman, Massachusetts first chopped up a semisweet chocolate bar and added it to her buttery cookie recipe in 1937, she invented a treat that likely would have made this list on its own merits. But it was to be significantly improved. As the decades went on and millions of Americans attempted to recreate Ruth's recipe, they came to a shocking realization: they were way too lazy to actually bake the cookies. On the flip side, they realized that eating the cookie dough stright from the bowl was actually tastier than waiting for the final cookie, despite the salmonella risks. Searching for a way to eat this delicious snack without having Mom yell at you to get your hands out of the mixing bowl, America put our collective heads together for one epic conclusion: chop it up and put it in ice cream. Now that's cooking.
2: Turducken
Take one turkey, shove a duck inside it, and then shove a chicken inside that. From there you're on your own, although it's most preferably enjoyed with sausage stuffing in the very middle, deep-fried, and wrapped in bacon if possible. Bonus points if you can figure out a way to enjoy some form of melted cheese product with this monstrosity. Some people have pushed to have the turducken become the traditional Thanksgiving feast, while others have begun to enjoy it on Christmas. But this invention is so uniquely American that there is no better day to enjoy one than the Fourth of July.
3: Buffalo Wings
So yeah, chicken is fine. What is we fry it at 600 degrees to a burnt little crisp, until it's barely recognizable as meat, then smother it in XXX hot sauce and serve it with a heaping bowl of gooey cheese product? That's more like it, chicken! Bonus points: the use of vegetables- solely as a palette cleanser between bites of meat.
4: Baked Alaska
We Americans are complex people. When we face serious decisions like "What would you like for dessert, dear? Ice cream or pie?" we don't merely sit back and say, "How about you put a scoop of ice cream on top of that pie?" No, no. We take the entire box of ice cream, and figure out a way to bake it inside the pie. All that's left to do is this: you can throw rum on top of it and light it on fire- now that's a meal.
5: Baked Alaska
Americans have been known to say "I think I'll just have a salad today." Of course, when we say salad, we don't mean it in the same greens-and-tomatoes topped with balsamic way the Euros do. No, when we make a salad, we pile it so high with meat, cheese and carbs that it passes the caloric intake of the cheeseburger we were so proud of oruselves for passing up. The ultimate example: the cobb salad. Bacon, chicken, egs, cheese, and really whatever else you can find in your fridge, ideally piled so high that the eater can see no shred of lettuce at all.
6: Rueben Sandwich
This fully loaded sandwich may seem like an international delicacy, but the reuben is as American as it gets. Start with pastrami- a meat so infused with spices that it has more flavor in a single bite than most full meals. Pile this sky-high, preferably using at least a pound of meat per sandwich. Add on some "swiss" cheese- a bland, hole-y cheese that no actual Swiss person would ever touch. Top it off with "Russian dressing," a beautiful orange concoction that- you guessed it- hasn't a thing to do with Russia.
7: S'mores
It's difficult to say exactly how s'mores became so popular throughout America. Graham crackers are not particularly well-liked, and neither are marshmallows. I've yet to meet a person who does not love s'mores. Except for foreigners, who will look at you like you are the craziest person ever if you try to explain what a s'more is.
8: Chinese Food
One of the great things about American cuisine is that when we come up with something so outrageous that even we can't stand behind it, we figure out a way to pin it on someon else. Case in point: "Chinese food." All across America, Chinese buffets offer endless arrays of bautiful, deep-friend, grease-soaked, Americanized Chinese food.
9: Philly Cheesesteak
Only in Philadelphia, the most American of all cities, could invent an iconic sandwich and then vehemently insist that there shall be no attempts to make it healthy.
10: Corn Dog
In 1942, at a beautiful place called the Texas State Rair, an indusrious young man camed Neil Fletcher came up with a way to make his hot dogs sell quicker: dip them in corn meal, deep fry 'em, and pop 'em on a stick. And so an American tradition was born. Every year, as the weather turns warmner and state fair season comes around, Americans say to themselves: what can we deep fry next? We've deep fried Twinkies, Oreos, hamburgers, even Coca-Cola. But all of these wondrous achievments owe a debt to the original food that really didn't need to be battered and fried but just had to be: the corn dog. -
Baked Alaska is so amazing it needs two spaces.
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