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How Just 8 Flavors Have Defined American Cuisine
NPR ^ | 12/6 | Alan Yu

Posted on 12/06/2016 10:33:08 PM PST by nickcarraway

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To: ETL

The meat department in some of our local grocery stores would give most people nightmares.

(My dogs love a good raw beef heart or stewed tongue)


301 posted on 12/07/2016 6:07:09 AM PST by Salamander (Jump start or tow me away...)
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To: oldvirginian

Try Old Bay on deviled eggs.

Old Bay is essentially a curry powder btw.


302 posted on 12/07/2016 6:13:46 AM PST by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its egg roll.)
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To: oldvirginian

We used jelly or jam. Fake maple syrup is just plain gross.


303 posted on 12/07/2016 6:15:07 AM PST by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its egg roll.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

hmmm I usually eat Sabra hummus which is an American company with an Israeli parent company.
My hummus brand has nothing to do with Muslims. lol


304 posted on 12/07/2016 6:15:20 AM PST by sheana
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To: nickcarraway
"Food is something that is often accepted in this country before we accept the immigrants themselves. ... We happily buy hummus in our grocery store, but in the meantime, they were going to ban Muslims from entering this country."

Maybe the writer would understand the concept a little better if it was explained this way.....

If you take a large cauldron of soup and add a little garlic or a little chili powder it becomes a little spicier or a little more flavorful type of soup but it is still soup.

If you take a large cauldron of soup and add enormous amounts of chili powder and garlic it becomes a paste. It is no longer a soup. You could still eat it but you would need to spread it or dip things into it.

If you take a large cauldron of soup and add some feces it is no longer even edible.

305 posted on 12/07/2016 6:35:43 AM PST by nitzy
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To: Salamander
"...I won’t eat anything that has a name with two consonants at the beginning...."

You're limiting yourself, FRiend.

You will never know the yumminess of llama face stew.

306 posted on 12/07/2016 6:38:57 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (Normal people do not play dominoes on pizza.)
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To: nickcarraway

When I was a kid growing up in small town Midwest it was pretty much meat, mashed potatoes and gravy as the main staples. Seasoning was lots of salt and pepper. The pepper of the day was ground as fine as talc and purchased in metal tins that were large enough to be passed down at least a generation ...so pretty flavorless. My mother used bay leaves for seasoning which was considered quite exotic in those days. I didn’t sample real Tex-Mex or Chinese cuisine until I was a young adult. However, my kids grew up eating a polyglot of cuisines including French, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese and Russian dishes. Only on Thanksgiving does my family demand I cook turkey the same way my mother did.


307 posted on 12/07/2016 6:43:33 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Salamander
Yeah, that pig's head in the meat tray was kind of bizarre. You would never have such s thing back when the area was largely Italian. A horse's head perhaps. But never a pig's head! Lol!
308 posted on 12/07/2016 6:45:23 AM PST by ETL (On the road to America's recovery!)
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To: nickcarraway

***We happily buy hummus in our grocery store, but in the meantime, they were going to ban Muslims from entering this country.”****

If I remember correctly, after the fall of Baghdad, a wave of murders swept the city and it was street vendors selling hummus and ice who were being murdered.
It seems the fundamentalist radical moslems were killing the vendors because (now get this) MOHAMMED did not have ice or hummus so those items were not “islamic”.


309 posted on 12/07/2016 6:59:21 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Conan: To crush your enemies, and to hear the lamentations of their women)
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To: nopardons

Thanks. I will stay far away from this substance. Used to love hot food, still do, but am forbidden to eat it with my recently diagnosed Barrett’s Disease. Dang it.


310 posted on 12/07/2016 7:43:25 AM PST by panaxanax
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To: nickcarraway
"Food is something that is often accepted in this country before we accept the immigrants themselves. ... We happily buy hummus in our grocery store, but in the meantime, they were going to ban Muslims from entering this country."

Triple barf. Lebanese Christians brought hummus, tabooli, yogurt and many other eastern Mediterranean foods with them more than a century ago. There is a big Lebanese community in Philadelphia with its own church, a grocery store a block away from the Italian Market, and restaurants. A Lebanese Christian not only owned one of those big restaurants in the 1970s, but was also a City Councilman in Philly (Jimmy Tayoun). The famous television host from the 50s, Danny Thomas, was a Lebanese Christian born in Michigan in 1912 whose parents had migrated to the U.S. His daughter Marlo Thomas is still involved with the laudable charity St Jude Children's Hospital that her father founded. It wouldn't surprise me if they served hummus there. Why must every leftwinger insult us with lying political propaganda, no matter what their essays are supposedly about?

311 posted on 12/07/2016 7:50:52 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."--Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

A lot of Lebanese and Syrian Christians came to Arizona...and were/are involved in the retail trades..Basha, Kalil, Coury, Saba,Tibshraeny, Itule.


312 posted on 12/07/2016 8:01:35 AM PST by kaktuskid
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To: Salamander

Chili was created to use meats that were turning bad, the spices covered the rancid taste and smell.


313 posted on 12/07/2016 8:03:12 AM PST by kaktuskid
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To: Salamander
SLEDGEHAMMER


314 posted on 12/07/2016 8:29:20 AM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder")
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315 posted on 12/07/2016 8:31:13 AM PST by BlueLancer ("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." Winston Churchill)
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To: BlueLancer

LOL...seconds ahead of you. :)


316 posted on 12/07/2016 8:32:56 AM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder")
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To: Salamander

How many living creatures do you have??? I thought I was a Crazy Cat Lady!!!


317 posted on 12/07/2016 9:29:02 AM PST by Slip18 (Pickles got pickled!)
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To: Clutch Martin

“We used jelly or jam. Fake maple syrup is just plain gross.”

It was either damson preserves or karo for us.

I agree,the fake maple syrup tastes like a Jr high school lab experiment gone terribly wrong.


318 posted on 12/07/2016 9:48:21 AM PST by oldvirginian (If someone tells you biscuits and gravy ain't a meal, just walk away. You don't need the negativity.)
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To: Daffynition
Even more ironic is Connecticut is more commonly known as the *Constitution* State. That’s the joke.

That's the one I've always heard! And it is funny, I didn't make the connection last night :)

319 posted on 12/07/2016 10:49:27 AM PST by Wneighbor (Deplorable. And we win!)
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To: nopardons
"or curry powder, for that matter?" Oriental Curry Powder is called for in many recipes my mom passed down.

invented by the brits.

320 posted on 12/07/2016 10:56:22 AM PST by CJ Wolf (just a conspiracy theory, no facts behind the above post.)
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