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They don't have what I consider "real" sausages here much either - The Aussie kind that are purchased raw and then cooked......I'd kill for a REAL snag. Lately I've started noticing similar but they're always "varieties" like sage & rosemary or whatever - will try some soon.
I'd love to go to a real Chinese restaurant, to see how different it is from what we're used to from Chinese takeout places.
There are loads of them in any large city in California. You can usually tell which ones are authentic because all the signs are in Mandarin, all the customers are Chinese and speaking Chinese, while the waitress has a hard time translating things for us white folks.
Slightly off topic but has anyone noticed that when you order shepherds pie in America they bring you cottage pie? Look, it's not that hard. Shepherd's pie used minced lamb meat while cottage pie uses beef yet when ever you order "shepherd's pie" in the US it always seems to be beef.
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^I think I've only been to a few restaurants in my life that had either..I know that most of our food in America is much more saucy, buttery and less pure.
^I think I've only been to a few restaurants in my life that had either..I know that most of our food in America is much more saucy, buttery and less pure.
J/K.....but seriously, I don't see how you can make such a statement. And what, specifically, is this "more saucy, buttery and less pure" food? I can't think of it. And besides that, buttery sounds good to me. So does saucy. And "less pure"? Sounds like that's just leading to the same old argument, which is a silly one at that since things like preservatives are there for a da*n good reason.
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Slightly off topic but has anyone noticed that when you order shepherds pie in America they bring you cottage pie? Look, it's not that hard. Shepherd's pie used minced lamb meat while cottage pie uses beef yet when ever you order "shepherd's pie" in the US it always seems to be beef.
Something got lost in translation on the trip over the pond.
Speaking of which, if I ever get to Oz, one of the first things I'm going to do is see what passes for Mexican food.
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@Rainroosty, It's more I suppose that I like to get a cultural feel of what I'm eating when I go to a certain place. I do admit I enjoy the saucy, buttery, but yeah..I don't know anymore . lol.
I think the "shepherd's pie" made from beef is a somewhat recent innovation. Growing up, it was always made with leftover diced up lamb. There was a great restaurant in CT that still made it from lamb until a few years ago and it was worth the long drive to go there for it. Last time I went, it was just ground beef--what a letdown, what a lie. Real shepherd's pie is a true comfort food.
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Re Canadian Bacon....in Ontario it is called pea meal bacon (authentically, it s covered with a meal made of crushed yellow peas). Call it what you want, its delicious! But if you ask for Canadian Bacon in Canada, they might give you a puzzled look.
The use of cheddar cheese, black olives and various strata on tacos is not at all common in Mexico.
Mars bars cannot be found on Mars, to my knowledge. Same goes for moon pies on the Moon.
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