That sounds delicious. I'm a huge fan of fish tacos.

Jun 8, 2019
5:32:28pm

mik3 All-American

I don't have an issue with folks liking American-style tacos, btw. Just think they're inferior to the real thing. Or with folks americanizing any kind of food: if you like it, go for it. Might even find a great new riff on a traditional dish.

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Foreign foods that Americans have improved?

Supercoug [censored]

6/8/19 4:34pm

Chinese food

darkcoug

6/8/19 4:35pm

Disagree. Real Chinese food, like duck brain, is far superior to the crap we have here. Except for Din Tai Fung.

Supercoug

6/8/19 4:42pm

Mmmm....duck brain.

Holy Driver

6/8/19 4:45pm

It's actually pretty good... when compared to duck crap

ColoSpgs

6/8/19 5:01pm

Maybe my palate isn't as refined. A Chinese colleague back in my consulting days took us

mik3

6/8/19 4:46pm

How are the egg rolls in China? Those are my favorite Chinese food.

endy

6/8/19 5:47pm

French toast

Sea Chicken

6/8/19 4:36pm

*note: Freedom Toast

DazeofBlue

6/8/19 4:39pm

Probably should include freedom fries too.

Eddie

6/8/19 5:00pm

Pizza

HuskerFan2

6/8/19 4:36pm

British

JohnnyComeLately

6/8/19 4:36pm

lol. There’s no such thing as “British food.”

Supercoug

6/8/19 4:39pm

RE: lol. There’s no such thing as “British food.”

JohnnyComeLately

6/8/19 4:42pm

#fakenews AND I’m offended by the sexual reference.

Supercoug

6/8/19 4:44pm

My mistake.

JohnnyComeLately

6/8/19 4:46pm

Hero

Belboz

6/8/19 9:23pm

Get your mind out of the gutter, supercoug. He’s talking about food.

credible HULK

6/8/19 4:49pm

RE: Get your mind out of the gutter, supercoug. He’s talking about food.

Martin Van Nostrand

6/8/19 4:55pm

I forgot, over here you call it a “Sausage in your mouth”.

BoiseBlue

6/8/19 9:08pm

Sandwiches

CBaass

6/8/19 4:58pm

Bangers and mash. Blood sausage.

The Machine

6/8/19 5:46pm

"People eat blood sausage too. People are morons.

Belboz

6/8/19 9:25pm

That depends on whose palate you're talking about. It could be argued that for

MasterLump

6/8/19 4:37pm

Not really. When Italians come here they uniformly acknowledge that our lasagna and pizza are better.

Supercoug

6/8/19 4:40pm

Every single Italian? How interesting. Sounds anecdotal to me.

MasterLump

6/8/19 4:43pm

Every single one of them.

Supercoug

6/8/19 4:54pm

Can confirm this

darkcoug

6/8/19 5:58pm

My wife is an authentic Italian; two of her brothers run authentic Italian

Monomachos

6/8/19 5:09pm

Uh, no

bag

6/8/19 6:50pm

Agree to disagree.

Supercoug

6/8/19 6:51pm

You said uniformly. That’s wrong. I’ve talked to many Italians who have tried American pizza and I’ve never met one

bag

6/8/19 7:44pm

And that’s even more true with lasagne. Italian lasagne is far superior.

bag

6/8/19 7:44pm

RE: And that’s even more true with lasagne. Italian lasagne is far superior.

Supercoug

6/8/19 7:53pm

I served my mission in Italy. Every Italian I talked to that had been in America wanted to tell us about it. I don’t

bag

6/8/19 8:42pm

I think that, despite what they truly felt, they just wanted something to argue about.

Supercoug

6/8/19 8:56pm

In my entire life I've never met an Italian who prefers Italian pizza to the

Martin Van Nostrand

6/8/19 7:52pm

Don’t know if it’s improved, but more like they spun off

grosven

6/8/19 4:38pm

Chinese. Making sushi more accessible. Pizza isn't as much an improvement as it

mik3

6/8/19 4:39pm

Could not agree more on the taco thing.

CDV

6/8/19 4:57pm

I like Americanized tacos. Good stuff. I like authentic Mexican tacos as well.

credible HULK

6/8/19 5:04pm

Tonight I'm making fish tacos. I'm making pico de gallo and guacamole to put in them, and I have queso cotija

jdub

6/8/19 5:28pm

That sounds delicious. I'm a huge fan of fish tacos.

mik3

6/8/19 5:32pm

So...corn tortillas?

The Dude Abides

6/8/19 5:54pm

Wow. We're having frawnch fries, frawnch dressing, and frawnch bread.

The Machine

6/8/19 6:06pm

Don't forget the Peru

jdub

6/8/19 6:09pm

Canadians but same idea: we improved pizza by adding pineapple

Martin Van Nostrand

6/8/19 4:43pm

Pizza

PickleButton

6/8/19 4:54pm

Whatever Cafe Rio is based off.

BYUtka

6/8/19 5:18pm

Cane sugar?

Born2Fish

6/8/19 5:29pm

Maize - corn - corn syrup - Cafe Rio

MasterLump

6/8/19 5:39pm

death?

Lip Gallagher

6/8/19 8:24pm

Every single thing except bread, American bread is the worst

Pretorian

6/8/19 6:26pm

When I returned home after two years in Portugal,

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