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I'm really not a big fan of Americaine. My recommendation would be the all-time classic Andalouse, or Samurai if you're the adventurous type (it's spicy). Do not ask for or buy the so-called Pickles sauce unless you thoroughly enjoy the taste of 'crusty pieces of cauliflowers, gherkins and onions'. I bought a jar the other day, and while I don't mind the taste that much, how am I supposed to put that stuff on my fries without half of it falling off? I'm not sure you thought this through, Devos Lemmens.
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In the drink-that-most-people-think-is-gross-but-is-actually-awesome, I give you drinking vinegar:  Tends to be less acidic and more sweet then traditional western vinegars. Said to have medicinal properties, but who really cares, it tastes good.
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Jun 4, 2013 14:25
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I've always seen that in the drinks section and assumed it was a fad diet kind of thing. Apparently my friend says its advertised for skin-whitening and weight loss. I'll probably pick up a bottle next time to try if its any good.
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Jun 4, 2013 22:59
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Cute n Popular posted:I've always seen that in the drinks section and assumed it was a fad diet kind of thing. Apparently my friend says its advertised for skin-whitening and weight loss. I'll probably pick up a bottle next time to try if its any good. Well, I could see the weight loss being true, what with all the vomiting
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Jun 4, 2013 23:26
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Sagebrush posted:Well, I could see the weight loss being true, what with all the vomiting It really doesn't taste much like vinegar.
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Jun 4, 2013 23:40
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pandaK posted:It really doesn't taste much like vinegar. If you ever see one of those fancy olive oil stores, they quite likely have a balsamic vinegar section too and you'd be surprised how good some of those are. They're a little thick for drinking straight, but watered down a little there are a lot of flavors I'd probably enjoy.
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Jun 5, 2013 01:40
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:The Américaine sauce is mayonnaise with tomato, onions, peppers, sugar, and chili/spices.
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Jun 5, 2013 02:07
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People talking about Americaine sauce reminds me that this was basically Bailey's Fried Chickens secret sauce and is now basically Caine's sauce a regional fried chicken place in the south. If you want a "secret" sauce that everyone uses.. 1/2 cup of Mayonaise 1/4 cup of Ketchup Teaspoon of Garlic Salt Teaspoon of Worcester Lot's of Black Pepper That's pretty much the secret sauce at TONS of burger joints etc.. if you get a sauce that kind of tastes like mayo and ketchup. It's also really great tasting. It get's even better tasting if you fresh make the MAYO and the Ketchup. So homemade Mayo and Ketchup will have a drastic effect on how it tastes as store bought ketchup is usually very very sweet at least to me. Hollismason has a new favorite as of 02:20 on Jun 5, 2013 |
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Jun 5, 2013 02:16
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It's hilarious that Sauce Americaine doesn't exist anywhere in America that I know of. There's a lot of Americanized Chinese and Mexican food that would be unrecognizable to people from China or Mexico, but it's interesting to be on the receiving end of this for once. I looked up that mayonnaise-based barbecue sauce I've heard is popular in Alabama to see if it's at all similar (nope), but that qualifies for this thread on its own merits. 
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Jun 5, 2013 04:29
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Rollersnake posted:It's hilarious that Sauce Americaine doesn't exist anywhere in America that I know of. There's a lot of Americanized Chinese and Mexican food that would be unrecognizable to people from China or Mexico, but it's interesting to be on the receiving end of this for once. I'd imagine it's very similar to southwest-style sauces that you can get at a bunch of fast food places. Like Burger King's Zesty sauce, or the stuff they put on Animal Style burgers at In n Out.
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Jun 5, 2013 04:34
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Rollersnake posted:It's hilarious that Sauce Americaine doesn't exist anywhere in America that I know of. There's a lot of Americanized Chinese and Mexican food that would be unrecognizable to people from China or Mexico, but it's interesting to be on the receiving end of this for once. You should see the poo poo that Korean and Japanese (and maybe Chinese? I don't know, never been there) people put on their pizza. They'll add the most outrageous toppings because they reason that whatever heinous excesses they inflict on that circle of dough, it's okay because the Americans have surely been there and done that.  Like the Gorgeous Four, a Pizza Hut Japan pizza which is sort of not really that gorgeous.
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Jun 5, 2013 04:37
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That's probably the closest equivalent, but those tend to not have onions, peppers, or (for the most part) spices, so it's still distinctly different.AnonSpore posted:You should see the poo poo that Korean and Japanese (and maybe Chinese? I don't know, never been there) people put on their pizza. They'll add the most outrageous toppings because they reason that whatever heinous excesses they inflict on that circle of dough, it's okay because the Americans have surely been there and done that. Hahaha, how could I have forgotten Japanese pizza. I even made an "Idaho Special" once for the hell of it.  Probably the unhealthiest thing I've ever cooked, but I'd be lying if I said it was anything less than absolutely delicious. Rollersnake has a new favorite as of 04:44 on Jun 5, 2013 |
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Jun 5, 2013 04:39
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AnonSpore posted:You should see the poo poo that Korean and Japanese (and maybe Chinese? I don't know, never been there) people put on their pizza. They'll add the most outrageous toppings because they reason that whatever heinous excesses they inflict on that circle of dough, it's okay because the Americans have surely been there and done that. What's so heinous about this? Is it the eggplants? Everything on there looks pretty mundane to someone who doesn't consider vegetables poison. You would have thought that the squid ink and canned corn pizza would be a better representative.
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Jun 5, 2013 04:51
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Throatwarbler posted:What's so heinous about this? Is it the eggplants? Everything on there looks pretty mundane to someone who doesn't consider vegetables poison. ...the hot dog-stuffed crust? Honestly I've always thought Japanese pizza is pretty neat, and at least tends to be better-looking than most of the pizza you get across the US. I haven't ever had any aside from my own attempt at it, though. Rollersnake has a new favorite as of 05:01 on Jun 5, 2013 |
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Jun 5, 2013 04:56
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This thread got me to buy a bag of Salmiak off Amazon, which I'm currently eating. It would be delicious if I didn't smell pee every time I exhaled through my nose.
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I ordered a "garden" pizza from a Pizza Hut in China that had corn, pineapple, squash and mashed potato balls as toppings. I'd be lying if I said it wasn't delicious...I'd love to go back and order some of the other varieties. In fact, I would venture that China is the current global center of pizza innovation.
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Jun 5, 2013 09:10
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Rollersnake posted:That's probably the closest equivalent, but those tend to not have onions, peppers, or (for the most part) spices, so it's still distinctly different. I don't know what I'm looking at here. Is that battered chicken on a pizza or something else?
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Jun 5, 2013 09:10
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Looks like tater tots.
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Hollis posted:People talking about Americaine sauce reminds me that this was basically Bailey's Fried Chickens secret sauce and is now basically Caine's sauce a regional fried chicken place in the south. I'm sorry to repeat myself but mayo and ketchup tastes nothing like mayo and tomatoes, onions and peppers. Also mayo and ketchup is pink and is called cocktail sauce here (with alcohol added normally) 
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Jun 5, 2013 09:53
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walrusman posted:Looks like tater tots. As well as corn and what appears to be pulled pork encased in baked barbecue sauce.
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Jun 5, 2013 10:24
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walrusman posted:Looks like tater tots. I had to look tater tots up, I always thought they were like little cakes filled with cream but apparently they are just small hash browns? I don't think a hash brown, pulled pork and sweetcorn pizza sounds like anti-food porn at all. If we want to talk terrible pizzas, I had this recently and it was disgusting.  I didn't think it would be disgusting, but I forgot that I don't really like cheap hot dogs at all and it just tasted worse than a regular pizza, and left me with this horrible sick feeling and hot dog burps for the next day.
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Jun 5, 2013 13:03
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Red Bones posted:I had to look tater tots up, I always thought they were like little cakes filled with cream but apparently they are just small hash browns? We call them potato gems down in 
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Jun 5, 2013 13:18
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Red Bones posted:I had to look tater tots up, I always thought they were like little cakes filled with cream but apparently they are just small hash browns? I don't think a hash brown, pulled pork and sweetcorn pizza sounds like anti-food porn at all. If we want to talk terrible pizzas, I had this recently and it was disgusting. Stuff those hotdogs with cheese, then you have something.
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Jun 5, 2013 14:20
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Down With People posted:We call them potato gems down in Here in my house we just call them 'Little Potato Thingies'  
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Jun 5, 2013 14:25
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The weirdest Korean pizza I ever tried was crab bisque. The toppings were crab, shrimp, "bisque sauce," onions, broccoli, and rotini pasta. It was absolutely delicious but just the concept of pasta being used as a pizza topping still weirds me out to this day. It honestly tasted better than it looked. stereobreadsticks has a new favorite as of 00:40 on Jun 6, 2013 |
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Jun 5, 2013 22:10
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Red Bones posted:I had to look tater tots up, I always thought they were like little cakes filled with cream but apparently they are just small hash browns? I think you might be getting confused with cream puffs. stereobreadsticks posted:The weirdest Korean pizza I ever tried (I know I have a picture of it somewhere, I'll edit it in if I find it) was crab bisque. The toppings were crab, shrimp, "bisque sauce," broccoli, and rotini pasta. It was absolutely delicious but just the concept of pasta being used as a pizza topping still weirds me out to this day.
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Jun 5, 2013 22:54
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BioEnchanted posted:Here in my house we just call them 'Little Potato Thingies' My father has always called them "potato bombs".
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Jun 5, 2013 23:05
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Sagebrush posted:My father has always called them "potato bombs". Now I want to get a bowl of gravy and drop them in pretending they're little delicious depth charges.
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Jun 5, 2013 23:28
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Red Bones posted:I don't know what I'm looking at here. Is that battered chicken on a pizza or something else? Tater tots, mozzarella, green onion, bacon, corn, and Kewpie mayonnaise. It would have been better with some other form of potato (hashbrown potatoes thinly scattered, I think), but whatever pizza I saw that "inspired" me at the time had tater tots, so that's what I went with. Sometimes it's entertaining to cook something that seems too weird to possibly be good, just because the recipe exists. The Idaho Special isn't even the best thing I've stumbled upon through cooking ironically—that honor would go to the tomato soup cupcakes with pistachio icing, which I'm pretty sure came right out of the Gallery of Regrettable Food. The tomato aspic with lemon Jell-O and oven-baked salmon cakes were pretty awful, though. I recently found a recipe for chocolate sauerkraut cake in an old cookbook from military wives stationed in Germany, but I haven't quite worked up the courage to try it.
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Rollersnake posted:I recently found a recipe for chocolate sauerkraut cake in an old cookbook from military wives stationed in Germany, but I haven't quite worked up the courage to try it. I make this cake all the time for my Dad. He was in the Air Force and my Mom made it as a joke once when he was coming back from a long stay in Germany. He liked it so much that it's become his go-to birthday cake. It's actually completely delicious, provided you blend the unholy gently caress out of the sauerkraut. If you miss that step, it'll have a very odd texture, but it's still pretty loving good. My family eats loads of totally anti-food porn food thanks to military wives. The 70s were batshit insane for food, near as I can tell. Weirdest food I've seen and enjoyed was pineapple juice poached haddock with cashew and coconut crumble. It was called Easy Al's Super Fish, as the fashion in military cookbooks was to name your food in "hilarious" ways. I should dig my old books out and post some of the horrifying photos of the military wive's food. Some of it is downright horrifying.
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Duck Tongue! I guess they're a fairly popular hot pot ingredient. They look a bit funny but taste fine, very little meat though.
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Rollersnake posted:It's hilarious that Sauce Americaine doesn't exist anywhere in America that I know of. There's a lot of Americanized Chinese and Mexican food that would be unrecognizable to people from China or Mexico, but it's interesting to be on the receiving end of this for once. This is wrong, you are wrong. For one, white barbecue sauce is north Alabama only. For two, it should be used sparingly, not drowning the meat like most red sauce places do, and it should be tangy, not creamy. Good white sauce is phenomenal. Do yourself a favor and go out of your way for Big Bob Gibson's BBQ in Decatur, or OK Corral BBQ (so teeny tiny, so so so good) in Muscle Shoals, or Saw's Soul Kitchen in Birmingham if for some reason north Alabama is too far away. For one southern food I think is disgusting... Chow chow.  Relish made from green tomato, cabbage, and god knows what else. It's super sweet and super spicy and super gross.
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Jun 6, 2013 19:53
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Ignore everything said about kombucha on the previous page. It's the worst thing I've ever tasted. I thought I would like it, but it tasted like a mix of sour milk and gym socks.
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rodbeard posted:Ignore everything said about kombucha on the previous page. It's the worst thing I've ever tasted. I thought I would like it, but it tasted like a mix of sour milk and gym socks. Did you eat the pseudo-ham though? How did it taste?
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It was prepackaged stuff so I guess they take the ham slab out in advance.
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Re: weird pizza toppings, everything is delicious on pizza. I hosted a party once where I made a pile of pizza crusts from scratch then invited a bunch of friends to bring whatever they wanted as toppings. Honestly nothing was really weird enough for this thread, but it turns out chicken, satay sauce, bean sprouts and peppers make for a delicious pizza (this particular pie didn't have tomato sauce, for the record).
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Big Mad Drongo posted:Re: weird pizza toppings, everything is delicious on pizza. I hosted a party once where I made a pile of pizza crusts from scratch then invited a bunch of friends to bring whatever they wanted as toppings. Never invite Michaelangelo to one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4ybJ4-SAQY
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Tourette Meltdown posted:For one southern food I think is disgusting... Chow chow. I dunno, that sounds like it'd be pretty good on a sandwich or hot dog or something. I'd give it a shot.
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rodbeard posted:Ignore everything said about kombucha on the previous page. It's the worst thing I've ever tasted. I thought I would like it, but it tasted like a mix of sour milk and gym socks. Haha as I said, nobody likes their first one. At least it can get you a little drunk!
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Why you gotta mention chowchow? I had almost forgotten it existed! I've been fed that crap all my life, and have never, never acquired the taste for it. It's just the right mix of spicy and slimy to make me gag every single time. Has anyone else tried ring tum diddy? My BF had to eat it every time he visited his grandmother, and it, quite literally, looks like vomit. It and chowchow should be friends. Gross friends.
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