Stumpyguy

Nothing like a quart of iced tea and a plate of deep fried cheese after a long day of yard work!

Pulaski

That must be a Pacific-Northwest thing? ..... round here the "big thing" is barbeque.

Pimpbot

How about up in Wisconsin, where they deep fry Snickers bars at the state fair mmm Yum! One bite and your heart is guaranteed to stop beating, or your money back.

NC Penguin

And not any old barbecue, either. It's Carolina barbecue, made of pork and definitely not beef (suits me fine).



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Pulaski

I think that all "barbeque" is generally pork, in The South at least, but it varies from state to state as to how it is cooked and seasoned. Carolina barbeque also seems to vary between the East and the West of the state, with the East favoring a more peppery flavor.

Having said that, in Virginia it was possible to get buffalo barbeque - but the fact that it had to be labelled as buffalo barbeque still makes me think that barbeque is pork if not labelled otherwise.

Pimpbot

If you ever go to a Claim Jumper restuarant, they do a fantastic Carolina BBQ pulled pork sandwich.

Stumpyguy

Lets face it, Yanks will eat anything if it is dipped in batter and deep fried! Carolina BBQ is very good indeed, esp with that vinegar based sauce...

Big PNW things are planked salmon, elk, and the finest coffee known to humanity.

Yorkieabroad

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Stumpyguy
Lets face it, Yanks will eat anything if it is dipped in batter and deep fried


So why no Fish n Chips??? And I don't mean of the Long John Silvers variety

Stumpyguy

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Yorkieabroad
Good question, probably for the same reason it is so difficult to get a decent ruby murray up here.

Pulaski

What??? ..... If it's "the same reason" could it be the wrong type of batter?

Yorkieabroad

Better head south....took a bit of digging around, but actually managed to find a few decent Indians round here. Bit sweeter than at home, but pretty good nonetheless...

Found a bit of Alaskan cod in the supermarket the other day, so gave the "home chippy" a whirl - even used up my last can of batchelors mushy peas for teh occasion. But it just wasn't the same....how do the chippy's get the batter like that - anyone out there ever worked in one and want to divulge the secrets of the trade....?

alabama_bound

Had a curry a couple of years ago when visiting my now wife in Mobile AL. The curry was OK, nothing special but it wasnt too bad....but....then I had an onion Bhaji....It was soo sweet it should have been labled as confectionary.

I know a lot of Americans have a sweet tooth (probably down to having to eat all that sweet stuff from birth) but come on.....any restaurant that can add sugar to an onion bhaji (especially one run by indians) must be doing something wrong.

I would have thought there was a huge market for a proper curry especially in port towns such as Mobile where you geta lot of foreign (British) people.

Stumpyguy

It was more of a general statement to the effect that they don't really "get it".

The longer one stays here the cravings for things from home tend to go away, having said that I still have serious cravings for a proper Brick Lane balti. The curry places here come across as being too effete somehow.

Pulaski

Yes, I knew what you were getting at, but it is the same with Chinese restaurants too - they all seem to serve one-person set meals here (like "ordinary" restaurants), rather than the pot-porri mix-n-match that is Chinese food in the UK.

Yorkieabroad

Err, it is in China too!!

Our area has (apparently) over 45k brits, albeit spread over a largeish area - can't help thinkng that thats not a bad market for some enterprising soul to start up an ethnic (ie British) restaurant catering to all those comfort cravings that just don't seem to disappear after however long overseas. A decent English breakfast, 'proper' curry, fish n' chips, kebAbs (whoever put the 'o' in that?), sunday roast and so on. Maybe even a proper afternoon tea with scones and cream served by waitresses in little black dresses and white pinnies... Mind you, it would take all the fun out of the "how-much - weight-will-I-put-on-on-my-trip-back-to-the-UK"sweepstakes