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It's pretty much a southern meal. Here up north, it's difficult to even FIND collard greens at times, and many people wouldn't know what to do with them or other greens...this is changing, mostly due to the foodie trend and Food Network shows homogenizing regional cuisine. But people in New England are gonna think of clam chowder and lobster as being as quintessentially American as you think of soul food (My Alabama-bred mom and grandma, BTW, would agree with you). My Midwestern farm kid dad's idea of quintessentially American food is fried potatoes and pork sausage, sweet corn straight from the field, etc.
I voted Hamburgers. I used to watch those crazy shows on the Travel channel about foreign foods or restaurants abroad and none of them ever had a hamburger on their menus. I think this is truly an American food 100%.
In the UK at least BBQ is more famous for being Australian. The "Barbie" seems a very anti-podean mode of cooking to the Brits and I suspect most of the Commonwealth.
In the UK at least BBQ is more famous for being Australian. The "Barbie" seems a very anti-podean mode of cooking to the Brits and I suspect most of the Commonwealth.
Really?? Brits don't like the Barbie?? Well I'm sure if you had some of the various regional US style bbq, yall would be hooked!
Really?? Brits don't like the Barbie?? Well I'm sure if you had some of the various regional US style bbq, yall would be hooked!
Brits do like the Barbie but they are not very good at it shall we say ! It tends to be burgers cremated within an inch of their lives, or nasty cheap sausages.
Australians really are the kings of the Barbie though I do love a good southern BBQ too.
I would agree with Moose on that. Even in Ireland if you think of BBQ you think Austrailia. I even have the word "shrimp on the Barbie" embedded in the back of me mind. I dunno what TV show/Movie I would have seen it on but its in there.
Back home I would have associated America with Hotdogs, or really anything with a slice of palstic cheese on it tbh. Hamburgers are just a thing that everybody ate.
I did a poll in May and the results were "The Hamburger".
HW
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It tends to be burgers cremated within an inch of their lives, or nasty cheap sausages. 
The "Most American" of all foods
