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American Food
26 Feb 2009 TazzieDevil83 said
My trip is getting closer and closer and I am so stoked to get back to the states... just for a bit of fun I was wondering whats the craziest food you have heard of or eaten when you where in America?
I recently heard of a luther burger which is apprently a double cheese burger with bacon and you use crispy creme original glaze doughnuts as the bun
Cheers
Tazzie
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26 Feb 2009 MJ said
Try a deep fried twinkie or cheese curds. I live here and find this wierd. The new thing at the state fair this year was a deep fried cheese burger. Didn’t try it.
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26 Feb 2009 Pervy said
Hey Tazzie, i’m not sure if you will find this but at the Calgary Stampede i’m going to try some deep fried coke.Plus they have pizza on a stick. Plus up in Quebec and Montreal they have putine which is french fries, gravy and cottage cheese I think. It was quite yummy.
After a friday after works drinks once I was a little bit happy and hadn’t had dinner so went to the fish n chip shop and I got myself a deep fried mars bar. Was very nice but I think I could only eat one a year.- 1 person likes this
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26 Feb 2009 Pervy said
The New York pizza is fantastic, i’ll be getting me some for sure. I think the deep fry the frozen coke like you can deep fry ice cream but I guess i’ll find out when I get there.
You’ll have to try the putine, I wasn’t to keen when I was told about it but it really is quite good, I could be wrong about it being cottage cheese but it was some sort of soft cheese I normally wouldn’t want to eat but you have to try this sort of thing when you get the chance.- 0 people like this
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27 Feb 2009 alyssa! said
poutine has cheese churds, not cottage cheese.
pizza on a stick is delicious.
try a slurpee, buy them at most convenience stores (mostly 7-11), they are delicious.- 0 people like this
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27 Feb 2009 Pervy said
Thanks Alyssa, I knew it was some sort of cheese. It’s worth trying aye.
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Poutine is Amazing! you can get it pretty well anywhere here, only the good places do it right and use Curds though.
For those who don’t know, a Cheese Curd is fresh cheese, they just don’t put it through the press to make it into a block.
Deep Fried Coke is actually a Texas invention, gotta give them props for being one of the craziest places as far as deep frying goes.
What they do is they take Coke flavored batter and deep fry it in little balls, normally they serve it with more Coke syrup poured on-top with whipped cream and cinnamon!
If you are in the Ottawa area you need to try a Beaver Tail, you can find them outside Ottawa in Montreal and Southern Ontario, but they are more well known in the Ottawa area, its a pastry though haha not an actual beavers tail. Topped with everything from Cinnamon to Banana’s and Chocolate.- 0 people like this
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27 Feb 2009 BigMal said
There is so much food in the US its not funny. Every city usually has its own specialties.
Deep Fried Twinkies are at Mermaids in Vegas. You will probably go there because they are known for their huge frozen drinks.
If your heading to New Orleans you have to drink a Hand Grenade. They are awesome! (hell i blacked out after mine!) When in Memphis you have to go to Rendezvous, best ribs ever!!!
and if in New Mexico, anything with Green Chillies when in season is fantastic!- 0 people like this
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27 Feb 2009 alyssa! said
quote:Originally posted by Pervy:
Thanks Alyssa, I knew it was some sort of cheese. It’s worth trying aye.
i personally don’t eat it, i’m not a fan of gravy.- 0 people like this
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28 Feb 2009 MJ said
Also in Arizona there is something called a Navajo (Navaho) taco. Its fried flat bread with meat, beans, luttice, cheese, tomatoes ect. Or you can eat it just the bread butter, honey and powdered sugar. You can get in Flagstaff, Cameron and GC areas. Its a local food and is awesome. Blue corn is also fantastic.
Another Mexico/Az food is a chocolate sauce called Mole (moley) you put on meat or on encheladas. Try it if you like chocoalte. Has a slight peanut flavor but is made with chocolate and chili powder. Roasted corn on the husk is great too.
And yes Tassie the twinkies have cream.
<!--graemlin::)--> And a shelf life longer than uranium. LOL- 0 people like this
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1 Mar 2009 NaHdz said
Hi All,
I came across a pickle vender at Sea World in San Diego and I thought it was the strangest thing! There was this huge jar full of pickles and they just shove it on a stick like a dagwood dog, it didn’t look very appealing to me and it probably doesn’t sound weird to anyone else but we don’t have them like that in Australia! the only place iv seen pickles is cut up on my maccas burger lol- 1 person likes this
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2 Mar 2009 Kylie & Braden said
Awesome Topic Taz, I’m going to USA & Canada and as if I wasn’t excited enough before, food is my favorite topic. Pity you aren’t going to be in Calgary for the Stampede they have all sorts of crazy food there
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3 Mar 2009 Mel said
What about how you get fries with EVERYTHING, ha… well so it seems. I love, love fries and i remember being a bit over them and deciding that toasted sandwich with ham and cheese at JFK would feel like a healthy lunch and guess what ??? they came with fries !! lol
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3 Mar 2009 toddt85 said
quote:Originally posted by alyssa!:quote:Originally posted by toddt85:quote:Originally posted by alyssa!:
try a slurpee, buy them at most convenience stores (mostly 7-11), they are delicious.
LOL! We do have 7-11 down here you know! haha – I agree though, slurpees are awesome!
really! see i didn’t know that- but that will be nice to know when i’m down there! but i live in the slurpee capital so they are a huge deal here no matter the weather!
You should see the Melbourne CBD – 7-11s practically every 100 metres – NOT JOKING! (It’s a tad ridiculous if you ask me!)- 0 people like this
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3 Mar 2009 toddt85 said
quote:Originally posted by Mel:
What about how you get fries with EVERYTHING, ha… well so it seems. I love, love fries and i remember being a bit over them and deciding that toasted sandwich with ham and cheese at JFK would feel like a healthy lunch and guess what ??? they came with fries !! lol
Haha. I can’t wait til I go to the States next year. I’m going to come back looking like a balloon lol!!- 0 people like this
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3 Mar 2009 toddt85 said
quote:Originally posted by alyssa!:
try a slurpee, buy them at most convenience stores (mostly 7-11), they are delicious.
LOL! We do have 7-11 down here you know! haha – I agree though, slurpees are awesome!- 0 people like this
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3 Mar 2009 alyssa! said
quote:Originally posted by toddt85:quote:Originally posted by alyssa!:
try a slurpee, buy them at most convenience stores (mostly 7-11), they are delicious.
LOL! We do have 7-11 down here you know! haha – I agree though, slurpees are awesome!
really! see i didn’t know that- but that will be nice to know when i’m down there! but i live in the slurpee capital so they are a huge deal here no matter the weather!- 0 people like this
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3 Mar 2009 Curtis71 said
The main thing I notice about food in the US is that the portion sizes are massive. Even for fast food, the sandwich sizes are often bigger than what you get here in Canada, and just restaurant drinks and entrees in general look HUGE for me. No wonder there’s an obesity epidemic.
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3 Mar 2009 MJ said
Yes bengi I live in the states. See my location at the bottom of my post. Most of the time the cheese curds I can only get at some of the state/county fairs.
Oh an you have to try a Tamale as well. Its made w/ corn meal, meat (beef or chicken) and can either be red or green chili.
I can go on for days on the subject of food.- 0 people like this
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4 Mar 2009 Brindabella said
I cannot wait to go to America this year – I’m going to eat poptarts every single freaking day for breakfast! I hate that they don’t sell them in Oz anymore!
<!--graemlin::(--> And there are so many awesome flavours they have in America! :P
TazzieDevil – we don’t have 7-11’s in Perth either, and so when I went to Sydney last year I was like bombarded with them and Starbucks, just everywhere!
I can’t wait to try all that stereotypical American stuff too – pretzels from a street vendor, hotdogs, pie, stuff like that. I can’t wait to see how different things taste in America too, things that we have here. I can’t wait to comapre things like McDonalds and Coke and just general foods.- 0 people like this
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4 Mar 2009 alyssa! said
quote:Originally posted by toddt85:quote:Originally posted by alyssa!:quote:Originally posted by toddt85:quote:Originally posted by alyssa!:
try a slurpee, buy them at most convenience stores (mostly 7-11), they are delicious.
LOL! We do have 7-11 down here you know! haha – I agree though, slurpees are awesome!
really! see i didn’t know that- but that will be nice to know when i’m down there! but i live in the slurpee capital so they are a huge deal here no matter the weather!
You should see the Melbourne CBD – 7-11s practically every 100 metres – NOT JOKING! (It’s a tad ridiculous if you ask me!)
im excited to see how different your slurpees are then!
another thing when in canada- go to tims. something about them makes everything there sooo good, and its way cheaper than starbucks, but you don’t get the same variety of speciality drinks- 0 people like this
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