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Ddraig posted:I was ahead of the curve and have been making my own pulled pork for years. Most people have been pulling their pork since their early teens.
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My Lovely Horse posted:There's some decent food to be had there at least but I've only ever found two places that really do Mexican, and they're both tiny hole-in-the-wall joints in Berlin.
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Marenghi posted:Lucky you. I don't bother with jalapeños anymore since all the Burrito here in Dublin charge extra for them now. X-post from tattoo thread Drink and Fight posted:Found on the Internet:
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Picnic Princess posted:I'm the ill dip. I'm the standard Tartar sauce cyberia posted:Melbourne's current obsession with burgers and American BBQ is the worst food trend. All these tiny, overcrowded cafes charging $20 for a burger or a serve of fried chicken is so crazy to me. I saw a Domino's ad recently for 'pulled beef' pizza which makes me irrationally annoyed. I stand by my stance that Melbourne has the most pretentious wankers in the whole country living it in. Though in all fairness this is mostly limited to the Universities, suburbs where students live and whatever that suburb whose name I can't remember is with all the vegan street restaurants that have a bake sale every weekend. Although when my ex took me to that suburb whose name I can't remember I did manage to find a really great fromagerie that was loving awesome if a little expensive; but it was like 2 blocks off wanker-street. Gridlocked fucked around with this message at 10:21 on Apr 13, 2016 |
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Apr 13, 2016 10:16
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Palpek posted:Was it Dolores by any chance? If not then I'd appreciate a name because I'll be visiting Berlin soon. They both only do tortilla-based stuff but I'm reliably told Chaparro is very authentic and Neta's food is very similar. Leaps and bounds above the usual fare, anyway.
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Apr 13, 2016 10:21
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cyberia posted:I don't mind that it's garbage food because sometimes you want garbage food but a friend took me to Misty's Diner and it was nearly $100 for the two of us which is fine-dining prices for what is essentially fast food. I don't understand why these places charge (and get away with charging) such high prices. Misty's Diner was one of the places I was dragged to, and yeah, it was way overpriced, but it also wasn't good. Like, I'd have preferred McDonald's. I posted about it in the anti-food porn thread at the time. quote:I had the "trailer park trash", which was fried chicken, mashed potato, garlic bread, salad and gravy. The chicken was big, dry lumps of breast, the gravy was lumpy, pale grey, and nearly flavourless. The salad was basically just iceberg lettuce and was absolutely drowning in olive oil. The mashed potato and garlic bread were all right, but it's hard to mess those up. I also had a "Boston bloody Mary" which, as far as I can tell, is a regular bloody Mary but with too much Tabasco.
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Apr 13, 2016 10:40
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My Lovely Horse posted:Chaparro in Kreuzberg and Neta on Schönhauser Allee. Dolores sounds alright though. Oh yeah, Good luck finding good buritos in Germany.
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Apr 13, 2016 10:46
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Tiggum posted:Misty's Diner was one of the places I was dragged to, and yeah, it was way overpriced, but it also wasn't good. Like, I'd have preferred McDonald's. I posted about it in the anti-food porn thread at the time. Seriously, you had something called "Trailer Park Trash?" This place sounds hideous, but on the other hand, I'm glad Australia finally has its idiotic pseudo-American joint to balance out Outback Steakhouse over here.
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Apr 13, 2016 13:15
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Other countries doing "American" themed restaurants in a very wrong way is always entertaining. I went to a place in Japan that served "authentic American cuisine" and it was bonkers. The menu included: - Pizza with Spaghetti on it - Hamburgers with soy sauce - Pancakes that were only available on the lunch and dinner menu and fried chicken that was only available for breakfast - Soda flavors that don't exist in America at all, such as Blueberry cola. - A meatloaf that was described as "San Francisco Style"
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Apr 13, 2016 14:21
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Icedude posted:They don't understand Mexican food over here in England either. Everything must have japalenos and chilli powder in it. EVERYTHING. Burrito? Gotta be spicy as gently caress. Plain quesadilla? You betcha it's got chunks of jalapeno in it anyway. I'm going to assume you guys are stuck with lovely canned jalapeños as well. I love me some peppers but canned ones suck balls, it's fresh or nothing for me. That's also a whole continent that will never know the taste of a freshly roasted hatch green chili burrito... I also have access in the Arizona desert to far superior cheesesteaks, made at least by a Philly transplant and verified as "alright" by natives of their birthplace.
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Apr 13, 2016 14:48
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I went on an exchange trip to Russia when I was 16 or so, and one night my host mother decided she was going to surprise me with an "American meal". Being 16, I'd said pizza when she'd asked me what my favorite food was, so I got... something resembling pizza? Some kind of cracker crust with ketchup, cabbage, and what I think was Kraft singles. I smiled and finished my plate, because I wasn't raised by wolves, but it took some effort. She was normally a great cook (I still crave the breakfast pitas she made, stuffed with sauteed scallions and a white cheese that I sadly can't seem to find here), but there was just no coming back from those ingredients.
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Apr 13, 2016 14:51
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:- Pizza with Spaghetti on it This is, for some reason, a legit thing in areas of the US. I went to college in Lancaster, PA and we had a pizza joint around the corner that served spaghetti pizza. There were loads of people who were crazy about it, but I thought it was unadulterated slop. Lancaster, despite having loads of great food and produce, was at the time an unfathomable abyss when it came to good pizza.
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LogisticEarth posted:This is, for some reason, a legit thing in areas of the US. I went to college in Lancaster, PA and we had a pizza joint around the corner that served spaghetti pizza. There were loads of people who were crazy about it, but I thought it was unadulterated slop. The same is true for the real Lancaster
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Apr 13, 2016 15:07
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Pick posted:Pork belly is loving garbage. It's like eating lard straight out of the tub. I went to an eight-course meal and two of the items had pork belly, I left that poo poo on the plate so they can throw it in the loving trash where it belongs. What.........what happened to you?
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Apr 13, 2016 15:18
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Other countries doing "American" themed restaurants in a very wrong way is always entertaining. I went to a place in Japan that served "authentic American cuisine" and it was bonkers. Crow Jane posted:I went on an exchange trip to Russia when I was 16 or so, and one night my host mother decided she was going to surprise me with an "American meal". Being 16, I'd said pizza when she'd asked me what my favorite food was, so I got... something resembling pizza? Some kind of cracker crust with ketchup, cabbage, and what I think was Kraft singles. I smiled and finished my plate, because I wasn't raised by wolves, but it took some effort. She was normally a great cook (I still crave the breakfast pitas she made, stuffed with sauteed scallions and a white cheese that I sadly can't seem to find here), but there was just no coming back from those ingredients.  I always find stuff like this super adorable.
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Apr 13, 2016 15:32
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My Lovely Horse posted:Mexican in Germany is loving impossible, 90% of places are cocktail bars that serve nachos and chili, 90% of the rest are more tex-mex or steakhouses. There's some decent food to be had there at least but I've only ever found two places that really do Mexican, and they're both tiny hole-in-the-wall joints in Berlin. When i was in Germany recently everyone was eating hamburgers with a knife and fork and they gave me Mayo with my fries. I don't know what you guys are doing over there.
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Primetime posted:When i was in Germany recently everyone was eating hamburgers with a knife and fork and they gave me Mayo with my fries. I don't know what you guys are doing over there. I first saw spaghetti pizza on a German menu some years ago and thought it sounded super gross. I tried it once, then; it's honestly not terrible but absolutely pointless. I also had roast potato pizza and that's even worse, you already have starch in the crust, why add potatoes? Though I admit I will never get the chip butties posted some time ago (fries/chips in a roll, if you forgot).
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Apr 13, 2016 15:52
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MariusLecter posted:How to properly make Pulled Pork: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXkYYYpqji4&t=355s (Audio) The GWS recipe has never steered me wrong.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I lived in London for a year and I love just about everything about the City and England as a whole. But the entire country has a weird form of culinary Stockholm syndrome where they swear up and down that blood pudding and bland gravy are delicious. Black pudding is delicious. 
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Apr 13, 2016 16:39
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Simply Simon posted:Hamburgers can be big and unwieldy if there's too much stuff on it. Any hamburger you have to cut apart to eat involves a failure. Either a failure in burger construction, or in one's ability to eat a reasonably sized burger. These Tower of Burgel's are an affront to Burg.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Other countries doing "American" themed restaurants in a very wrong way is always entertaining. I went to a place in Japan that served "authentic American cuisine" and it was bonkers. Japan has some of the same franchises you see in the US too, they just don't make the things you're used to. 7-11s are owned by a Japanese company now and in Japan they serve a ton more awesome stuff. They have "Big Boy" restaurants over there but they really don't seem to "get" diner food. It looks similar, but it's never quite right. Here's the menu: http://www.bigboyjapan.co.jp/menu-big-grand/ They also have Denny's in Japan, here's a link to the menu: http://www.dennys.jp/menu/ Most places if you see steak on the menu it's likely closer to Salisbury Steak (think beef patty with gravy). There's a Shakey's pizza in Yokohama that has a pizza lunch buffet that I went to once. I know some people think you should be led to slaughter if you like pineapple on pizza but the Japanese just throw stuff at it. I tried one that took me a few minutes to identify as corn and tuna, not nearly as bad as it sounds Don't get me wrong though the quality of everything you're served there is wonderful and the food looks like the pictures when it comes to you, but if what you want is to scratch that itch for some American diner food... good luck. I guess the thing that I wonder about the most is that these "American themed restaurants" (whatever that means) is that they aren't started by a guy who only knows America through ads and TV shows and guesses what to make. These are established restaurants in America that try to advertise to the Japanese that it's "American" while serving Miso soup. 
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Antivehicular posted:Seriously, you had something called "Trailer Park Trash?" This place sounds hideous, but on the other hand, I'm glad Australia finally has its idiotic pseudo-American joint to balance out Outback Steakhouse over here. Simply Simon posted:Pommes rot-weiß
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Apr 13, 2016 17:31
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Icedude posted:They don't understand Mexican food over here in England either. Everything must have japalenos and chilli powder in it. EVERYTHING. Burrito? Gotta be spicy as gently caress. Plain quesadilla? You betcha it's got chunks of jalapeno in it anyway. On the reverse tack, I had a curry in San Francisco and it was loving awful. You may note that we have basically no Mexicans in the UK, and hella Indian/Pakistani folks.
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Apr 13, 2016 18:03
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Primetime posted:When i was in Germany recently everyone was eating hamburgers with a knife and fork and they gave me Mayo with my fries. I don't know what you guys are doing over there.
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Icedude posted:They don't understand Mexican food over here in England either. Everything must have japalenos and chilli powder in it. EVERYTHING. Burrito? Gotta be spicy as gently caress. Plain quesadilla? You betcha it's got chunks of jalapeno in it anyway. Heaps of jalapenos is my jam. Sounds like the one thing you guys are doing right. 
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Tiggum posted:Oh, it's not pseudo-American. Misty is a real person and a real American immigrant, and she genuinely runs the place. It's just terrible. Also yes I realized that I used three different terms for fries in my previous post  .My Lovely Horse posted:I had a burger the other day that I picked up and took a bite from and knew instantly that there was no way I'd be able to put it back down again without it falling the hell apart. Had a ton of fries with it too and the poor things had to wait until I was finished. I would have felt like an idiot eating it with a knife and fork but in practical terms it would have been the smart thing to do.
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Any pulled pork you can make indoors without an industrial vent fan isn't actually pulled pork. The crockpot stuff is decent for what it is, but it isn't even close to an actual smoked, shredded, pork butt.
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Around the 4th of July, some restaurants and shops here will have "America week" and sell what I think are supposed to be American themed foods. It's pretty bizarre - packets of "American chicken wing sauce" and pickles on everything.
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Based on America week, I would guess 90% of an American's diet is pickles.
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bongwizzard posted:Any pulled pork you can make indoors without an industrial vent fan isn't actually pulled pork. The crockpot stuff is decent for what it is, but it isn't even close to an actual smoked, shredded, pork butt. And before any Euros get further confused it's not the actual butt of the pig, it's the shoulder
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Enfys posted:Based on America week, I would guess 90% of an American's diet is pickles. Ideally, that number would bump up to 96-97%. Globally. Everyone needs to eat more pickles. But in all seriousness, pickles are a big deal. They are pretty regularly bundled with burgers, hot dogs, deli sandwiches, and a few of us buy jars of pickles as snacks. In the south, we have coolickles, pickles marinaded in kook-aid and frozen, for a nice dessert to cool of with. So, really, America just gives the pickle it's due respect.
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Enfys posted:Around the 4th of July, some restaurants and shops here will have "America week" and sell what I think are supposed to be American themed foods. It's pretty bizarre - packets of "American chicken wing sauce" and pickles on everything. Where is this? The US does a kind of similar thing with Oktoberfest.
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I really, really want to go to Americafest in a country that's not America. It sounds entertaining and quite frankly, pretty creative.
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Weird american food in countries that aren't America is the best and I love it all. gently caress yeah I'll try weird spaghetti pizza just so I can say I did. Apparently pulled pork and cheesesteaks are the exception tho
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Artisan sriracha is pretty stupid. $14 for 6.4oz and it's just chilies crushed with garlic in vinegar. I can almost guarantee that original rooster sauce is tastier than this stuff. It's like claiming "artisan soy sauce" or "artisan ketchup."
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Spuckuk posted:On the reverse tack, I had a curry in San Francisco and it was loving awful. I've got a British friend who literally didn't understand when I told him there were no Indian restaurants within 30 miles of me. Not "no good ones," just "none."
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RNG posted:I've got a British friend who literally didn't understand when I told him there were no Indian restaurants within 30 miles of me. Not "no good ones," just "none." what no seriously what
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BuddyChrist posted:
Slightly off-topic, but my parents lived in Japan in the '90s, and they absolutely adored Shakey's pizza and would get it as a treat and thought it was this awesome little Japanese franchise (we're Australian and, as far as I know, they don't exist here). Late last year my mum went with her partner and his father to Japan (who are Iowan), telling them all about this amazing pizza place she'd only ever come across in Japan that she loved and missed so much, and I think they were slightly confused when they rocked up at Shakey's. Content: a lot of places in Fitzroy where I go to university (very hipster suburb) have started doing macadamia lattes. I don't know if they're activated or not.
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RNG posted:I've got a British friend who literally didn't understand when I told him there were no Indian restaurants within 30 miles of me. Not "no good ones," just "none." This is so sad.  I'm very fortunate to have Indian, Chinese, Mexican, Ethiopian, Vietnamese, Filipino, plus like a dozen other specialty restaurants and food markets within 5 minutes of my house. None of them are stupid hipster fusion places either, they're all the real deal. I wish everyone had that.
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