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Post by
Azazel
Just out of curiosity, to all you foreign folk, what do you all consider "American food"?
KFC, McD, Pizza, Apple pie...
Everything that makes you fat, basically.
Post by
MyTie
I don't like scones. They are too dry and flaky, and well.. biscuity. But, even biscuits can be very soft and delicious, and not like hard tac. The scone is probably my second least favorite bread, with the gold medal going to rye bread.
Post by
204878
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Post by
asakawa
skonn
or
sk-own
though? (I have no idea how to actually present phonetic speech so I'm hoping you get what I'm asking there ^_^)
The former.
It varies by region. I've always said it to rhyme with
bone
, though when I meet someone who pronounces it to rhyme with
gone
they invariable think I'm being "posh".
Indeed, I do now think you're a bit posh ^_^
Post by
Rankkor
Just out of curiosity, to all you foreign folk, what do you all consider "American food"?
heh, that reminded me of that episode of Drake&Josh.
Josh invites a girl he knew from Russia to the US, and when she arrives, he wants to invite her to a russian restaurant.
Cue Drake saying that she's lived in russia all her life she probably doesn't wanna eat food she already knows, "lets give her some american food, like burritos, pizza, or sushi"
:P I loled hard at that one. (Then again, that's DRAKE we're talking about, the same guy who wondered if there was an "old york" in contrast to new york.)
And BTW, burgers aren't an american meal. There's a reason they're called BURGERS. They come from the word "Hamburger" and where does "hamburger" comes from? Duh, from
Hamburg
of course.
The only meal I can think of that could come from the US would be that turkey you guys serve on thanks-giving, and corndogs.
I can think of HUNDREDS of venezuelan traditional meals :P There's Hallacas, Arepas (LOVE LOVE LOVE these) Patacon, Empanada, Tequeño, Pasteles, Chicha, pan de jamon, Tizana, Majarete, Pabellon, Quesillo, Manjar, Cachapa, and Guasabe xD
And those are just out of the tip of my head, there's DOZENS more. (I should had been a chef U_U I love cooking, I hate my job)
Post by
gamerunknown
And BTW, burgers aren't an american meal. There's a reason they're called BURGERS.
Yeah but the way they're prepared is specifically American... I think Gladwell did an article about it, perhaps
here
.
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204878
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Post by
Adamsm
Just out of curiosity, to all you foreign folk, what do you all consider "American food"?
KFC, McD, Pizza, Apple pie...
Everything that makes you fat, basically.
I can see everything but Pizza as being American lol....and maybe Apple Pie, even if it's somehow gotten tied into the good ole American Way.
Post by
Rankkor
And BTW, burgers aren't an american meal. There's a reason they're called BURGERS.
Yeah but the way they're prepared is specifically American... I think Gladwell did an article about it, perhaps
here
.
Its irrelevant, the origin of the meal determines where it came from.
Even if the recipe is tweaked a little, it was born in Hamburg. Much like Pizza was born in italy, and no mater how many changes in the preparation are done in other nations, its still considered an italian meal.
The first guy who put a piece of meat between 2 slices of bread was NOT american, so the meal itself isn't american either.
Makes me wonder why people often considered rise to be a chinese meal, when the chinese at first didn't even ate the rise, they used it to preserve fish, but often tossed it away when they wanted to eat the fish. It wans't till centuries later than foreign explorers found the absolutely delicious flavor that rise had, that other began using rise as more than a simple meat preservative.
Post by
MyTie
Thanks for the update Doctor. I'm going to take a look on my wife's laptop when she gets back. She's out of town on business, so I don't have access to it.
Post by
204878
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Post by
Interest
Whoa I go out for a bit and suddenly, 2 pages!Hahaha, it seems someone did
a study on the pronunciation of scone
.
tl;dr About 66% rhyme with gone and about 33% rhyme with bone.
... you guys are so mainstream xD
What? Seriously? A study on freaking scones? Why not have a study on the pronunciation of Scholomance as well?
Post by
Skithus
I believe hotdogs, the idea of essentially a sausage on a baked bun, originated in America, in coney island NY if I recall. American food is tough, since 99% of Americans are immigrants.
Post by
Adamsm
I believe hotdogs, the idea of essentially a sausage on a baked bun, originated in America, in coney island NY if I recall. American food is tough, since 99% of Americans are immigrants.
Technically it's 100%; even the Native Americans came over to North America on the Bering Straight Land Bridge from Asia.
Well, so it's believed heh.
Post by
Interest
Fabricated arguments based on limited intel are fun to shoot down.
Post by
Azazel
I believe hotdogs, the idea of essentially a sausage on a baked bun, originated in America, in coney island NY if I recall. American food is tough, since 99% of Americans are immigrants.
Technically it's 100%; even the Native Americans came over to North America on the Bering Straight Land Bridge from Asia.
Well, so it's believed heh.
Well, all humans have to come from the same place, so we are all "native" to every country :P
Post by
Adamsm
Heh, nah, was actually thinking of an old newspaper editorial comic I saw back in high school English: Had the standard big loud white guy screaming about all immigrants go home and behind him was a Native just giving him a stare that screamed 'that would mean you to idiot'.
Post by
Azazel
There are so many of those heh. <3 them. It's like white separatists/supremasists. If you don't want black people near you, why bring them there in the first place? Redonkoulus.
Post by
127599
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Post by
Patty
skonn
or
sk-own
though? (I have no idea how to actually present phonetic speech so I'm hoping you get what I'm asking there ^_^)
The former.
It varies by region. I've always said it to rhyme with
bone
, though when I meet someone who pronounces it to rhyme with
gone
they invariable think I'm being "posh".
My speech mannerisms are generally regarded as posh, and I'm from like, the furthest point south of the British Isles (except for weird places like the Falklands, but they don't count).
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