Apropos of jsharr's chicken fried steak

[parodybot]

If you had to pigeon hole your area's signature comfort food, what would it be?

for me, it is ground up toaster with a drizzle of light machine oil.

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[Randomguy]

Those videos made me want some.  Especially Alton Brown, I love Alton Brown.  Some of his recipes are kind of iffy, I have to admit, but I like the CFS.

[pedalphile]

Something I allus struggle to understand with American food shows is the stuff they call gravy but is not brown in colour. All gravy is brown here, if a sauce is another colour, white or yellow or cream, it's called sauce.

[parodybot]

1 minute ago, pedalphile said:

Something I allus struggle to understand with American food shows is the stuff they call gravy but is not brown in colour. All gravy is brown here, if a sauce is another colour, white or yellow or cream, it's called sauce.

That is easy to explain.

We American are right.

You ignorant non Americans are wrong.

You call desert pudding.  This proves my point.  This is wrong.

And by America, I mean United States, not Canada, or South or Central Americans.  They are wrong too.

Now shut up and eat your gravy.

 

[pedalphile]

1 minute ago, parodybot said:

That is easy to explain.

We American are right.

You ignorant non Americans are wrong.

You call desert pudding.  This proves my point.  This is wrong.

And by America, I mean United States, not Canada, or South or Central Americans.  They are wrong too.

Now shut up and eat your gravy.

 

It's even more worse than you suspect, we call 1 pudding Spotted Dick, and this we love to put into our mouths.

[parodybot]

4 minutes ago, pedalphile said:

It's even more worse than you suspect, we call 1 pudding Spotted Dick, and this we love to put into our mouths.

the white stuff that comes with the spotted dick is sauce, not gravy.

[Randomguy]

1 hour ago, pedalphile said:

Something I allus struggle to understand with American food shows is the stuff they call gravy but is not brown in colour. All gravy is brown here, if a sauce is another colour, white or yellow or cream, it's called sauce.

Everything there is called "pudding" don't bother denying it.  Eggs?  "pudding".  Broccoli?  "pudding".   Chicken? "pudding".

Anything not called pudding is Bisto.  I like Bisto, though, it is handy!

[pedalphile]

16 hours ago, parodybot said:

the white stuff that comes with the spotted dick is sauce, not gravy.

True enough, and it is English through & through, it even says so on the tin, it is sauce Anglais. Who ever heard of a pudding with gravy? Unless it was a Yorkshire pudding of course. But that's a dinner thing, not a dessert.

[pedalphile]

16 hours ago, Randomguy said:

Everything there is called "pudding" don't bother denying it.  Eggs?  "pudding".  Broccoli?  "pudding".   Chicken? "pudding".

Anything not called pudding is Bisto.  I like Bisto, though, it is handy!

See above. Toad in the Hole, pudding with snorkers.

[Wilbur ★]

All comfort food, regardless of geographic location or level of national ignorance, has some form of sauce or gravy. That is the comfort part. It make all your cloths fit, well, cozier.  

[Parr8hed]

bourbon

[BuffJim]

Poutine. Invented here, then appropriated by the Canadians during the war of 1812. 

[2Far ★]

18 hours ago, pedalphile said:

Something I allus struggle to understand with American food shows is the stuff they call gravy but is not brown in colour. All gravy is brown here, if a sauce is another colour, white or yellow or cream, it's called sauce.

In heaven, the cops are all British. 

The cooks are all British in hell. 

[Parsnip Totin Jack ★]

Crab cakes.

[pedalphile]

2 hours ago, 2Far said:

In heaven, the cops are all British. 

The cooks are all British in hell. 

I love you dinosaur Americans, do you realise the world's best restaurant is in Yorkshire? of course you don't.

[Chris...]

Steak and Kidney pudding is really good.

[2Far ★]

6 minutes ago, pedalphile said:

I love you dinosaur Americans, do you realise the world's best restaurant is in Yorkshire? of course you don't.

Is that the out-of -the-way pub?

[parodybot]

9 minutes ago, pedalphile said:

I love you dinosaur Americans, do you realise the world's best restaurant is in Yorkshire? of course you don't.

Yeah, about that....

https://www.eater.com/worlds-50-best-restaurants-awards/2017/4/5/15184950/worlds-50-best-restaurants-2017

https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlaalindahao/2017/04/05/worlds-50-best-restaurants-2017-eleven-madison-park-wins-top-spot/#1b1935577eab

 

 

[Road Runner]

23 hours ago, parodybot said:

If you had to pigeon hole your area's signature comfort food, what would it be?

From my home town of Salisbury NC, it is chopped pork barbecue w/slaw on a bun or on a plate with hushpuppies.  Washed down with an ice cold Cheerwine.   

[Randomguy]

14 minutes ago, parodybot said:

Yeah, about that....

https://www.eater.com/worlds-50-best-restaurants-awards/2017/4/5/15184950/worlds-50-best-restaurants-2017

https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlaalindahao/2017/04/05/worlds-50-best-restaurants-2017-eleven-madison-park-wins-top-spot/#1b1935577eab

 

 

I actually ate pretty well when I was in London.  I was with QE and daughter, and her parents were there at the same time, so we went to restaurants that the parents wanted to go to, and they picked well.

Brits do good things with mushrooms, I decided.  Beans are better there, too.

[parodybot]

Just now, Randomguy said:

I actually ate pretty well when I was in London.  I was with QE and daughter, and her parents were there at the same time, so we went to restaurants that the parents wanted to go to, and they picked well.

Brits do good things with mushrooms, I decided.  Beans are better there, too.

The beans are better because there has never been a good pot of chili made in England.

 

[pedalphile]

1 hour ago, 2Far said:

Is that the out-of -the-way pub?

Ja; I have a £200 voucher to spend there

[pedalphile]

19 minutes ago, pedalphile said:

Ja; I have a £200 voucher to spend there

Enough for 2 people to have the tasting menu, sans booze. But I want the booze, so the wallet will have to be brought out.