Culture misconceptions

Count Chocula is still around along with Boo Berry and Franken Berry I think. No more Fruity Yummy Mummy however. Makes me sad

skarekrow13 wrote:I tried a habanero raw once. I woulda nailed it but the involuntary hiccups made it impossible to swallow. Peppers can be good in all seriousness.

Habanero=awesome i ate like 3 in row once...first time i had one too. Not that i would reccomend eating them that way...great for cooking though!

Oh yeah. Two cans of peaches, a handful of habaneros and some brown sugar = amazing hot sauce

Rynoa wrote:

sinisterapathy wrote:LOL here in America they are call peppers...green(bell i think) red and banana. The green ones are terrible(pretty much tasteless yet mange to have a bad after taste) the red ones are good...and i dont remember what the yellow ones taste like so i must not like them. I know you guys were joking but...well im bored.

They are a secret delicacy here

If you want them on your pizza here you must call them peppers. lol

Uhm, they all have the same taste here, guess there are different kinds

Take a bite out of each one raw and you should be able to tell a difference.

Nope they're very common here so I'm sure.
But there are different kinds, such as with more or less seeds and something like that

skarekrow13 wrote:Oh yeah. Two cans of peaches, a handful of habaneros and some brown sugar = amazing hot sauce

That sounds amazing...i have to do this.

@Rynoa: Well ive only tried them raw or on pizza a few times as i do not like them on my pizza. So When i have them they are diced and cooked down into jumbleya or something else with various other flavors added.

We usually cook them with meat inside -> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_op3b1RiheUY/SZ5wfOrFZjI/AAAAAAAABeg/0gEC8XXekc8/s400/eeee.jpg
And they're good!

ok im hungry!

That looks pretty good...

Finally! A food we both have. Eating some American pizza with pepperoni and mushrooms now or I'd be starving after this thread

My local food (yes spring rolls is inside):

http://isanjay.in/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/dimsum_content.jpg

The steamed ones are put on a plate and into these bamboo 'steaming cages' and stacked into tall piles and steamed, like in the photo below. Then the whole cage is brought to you.

http://www.google.com.au/imgres?q=dim+sum&start=87&hl=en&biw=1366&bih=673&gbv=2&addh=36&tbm=isch&tbnid=ncIReFWl57w_oM:&imgrefurl=http://acravan.blogspot.com/2010/11/dim-sum.html&docid=chcynXnSv1WHDM&imgurl=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FXmTwKZmSts/TOHTGhwnQsI/AAAAAAAAC2E/rgKOOLUvrmg/s1600/dimsum%252B5.jpg&w=450&h=299&ei=_huZT_eNG8fEmQX53ZH-BQ&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=390&sig=114709540647817677105&page=5&tbnh=144&tbnw=208&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:87,i:5&tx=118&ty=75

MMMmmmMMmmMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmMMMM SO HUNGRY

Adding pastrami sandwich to my to-try list.

JY4answer wrote:My local food (yes spring rolls is inside):

http://isanjay.in/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/dimsum_content.jpg

The steamed ones are put on a plate and into these bamboo 'steaming cages' and stacked into tall piles and steamed, like in the photo below. Then the whole cage is brought to you.

http://www.google.com.au/imgres?q=dim+sum&start=87&hl=en&biw=1366&bih=673&gbv=2&addh=36&tbm=isch&tbnid=ncIReFWl57w_oM:&imgrefurl=http://acravan.blogspot.com/2010/11/dim-sum.html&docid=chcynXnSv1WHDM&imgurl=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FXmTwKZmSts/TOHTGhwnQsI/AAAAAAAAC2E/rgKOOLUvrmg/s1600/dimsum%252B5.jpg&w=450&h=299&ei=_huZT_eNG8fEmQX53ZH-BQ&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=390&sig=114709540647817677105&page=5&tbnh=144&tbnw=208&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:87,i:5&tx=118&ty=75

Five flavors rainbow pudding!
I WANT THAT!

Great......now I'm gonna be hungry again. Hello pop tarts in my desk!

http://www.google.com.au/imgres?q=char+siew&hl=en&gbv=2&biw=1366&bih=673&tbm=isch&tbnid=IAnn03yS3XpnMM:&imgrefurl=http://ieatishootipost.sg/2008/09/hawker-home-recipes-fatty-cheongs-char.html&docid=bYxMNGrMTOgGnM&imgurl=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_II8xB8Ke_u4/SM5U25KBlfI/AAAAAAAAGLo/IUx6L_3TM4M/s400/Char%252BSiew.jpg&w=266&h=400&ei=fE6ZT6DhG4agiQeUvJneBQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=1140&vpy=38&dur=583&hovh=275&hovw=183&tx=156&ty=128&sig=114709540647817677105&page=2&tbnh=161&tbnw=109&start=18&ndsp=24&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:18,i:119

someone wanna tell me what happened to discussing about cultural groupings?

I swear there is another food thread in the offtopic section...

That thread was discussing our love of food. This one turned into what our real food is like by culture.....that we love. Completely different.

Okay then. Here's Britain's genuine culinary articles:

Roast Dinners, Fish and Chips, Sausage and Mash, Pie, Balti (westernised Indian cuisine).

Drinks: Ale, Stout, Cider and Tea (yes that one is nicked from the chinese but whatever).

AHEM!

Cottage Pie, Cumberland Sausages, Full English Breakfast, Ploughmans Lunch, Yorkshire puddings, Steak and Kidney pie, Beef and Ale pie, English mustard, Worcestershire sauce, brown sauce, Cheeses (so many cheeses!), Custard, Bakewell Tarts, Banoffie Pie, Eaton Mess, Bread and Butter Pudding.

Pimms

We also arguably introduced the world to Ketchup, but we didn't invent it, we nicked it from the other side of the world in the 18th century.

Zechk wrote:Pimms

Cant believe I forgot that in our list of iconic drinks!

Also, forgetting to mention our championing of the Breakfast was a flaw, though I'd give cheese to the Swiss, ours is more basic.

I'd also love to claim the sport cheese rolling on that note, it's awesome take a look (it's not boring as the name suggests):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOyQBSMeIhM

Last article I heard about cheese rolling was stating all of the injuries it causes. So that means it's awexome.

Agreed. If I wasn't busy during May this year, I would totally go up there and compete, would be so fun.

For dangerous games here we have
-Broomball,
-riding around fields in old cars (we hit a rock bigger than our LTD once going 60mph......fun!),
-shooting things (I'm better with a .300 rifle than a .22 and more accurate with a .357 than a 9mm somehow),
-Going to Pennsylvania to buy fireworks because they can't be sold legally in New York. However, in Pennsylvania they can't universally legally use them so most places will only sell to someone with out of state identification, even if that state is know to not allow them

For organized events there's a competition near where I live where everyone builds the best sleds they can out of cardboard and then go down a big hill. Some of the more elaborate ones are more like parade floats than sleds.

Oh yeah.....and Polar Bear groups. I've done one in Rochester, NY twice to help raise money for Special Olympics

Best food I ever ate was a kebab with mint jelly, salad, cheese and chili sauce on naan. Got it from a place called paradise kebab in Nottingham, England.



They told me it was Indian food, but I don't believe them. For those of us living in the states it's absolutely not what we call a kebab and for the life of me I can't find one here. Closest thing was a gyro from a lunch cart in NY. Poor imitation if you ask me.

I love the way you put a picture of the Nottingham Forest FC logo there