Pondering food
Jan. 30th, 2005 01:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenToday's goals include polishing off a NL thing, then taking a break from NL as I catch up on other projects. For instance there's a charity fic all plotted in my head, so I just need to type that out. If I'm feeling ambitious I might also deal with bills. If nothing else there's exercise and sauce making on the horizon.
While watching the Food Network over breakfast, I got to thinking about how interesting it is (to me, at least) that there are various food items which are so commonplace in one country, yet not in another. Now sometimes this is obvious, such as when a loved food item in one country is considered utterly disgusting in another. But for this what I'm talking about is food items that aren't considered culturally gross by any means, they just didn't take off or cross over for whatever reason.
Like American biscuits. They're basically kissing cousins to savory scones, yet mention them to a Brit and they give you an odd look. And in reverse there's British chips (crisps) which come in every flavor of the rainbow, yet over here in the chip-addicted USA you basically get your regular, your cheese-flavored, your BBQ, and your salt and vinegar. Beyond that you get rarer items that are either specific to a certain brand or region of the country. But never anything that comes close to the variety that you can get in the UK.
I have no conclusions to make about this, I just find it interesting.
While watching the Food Network over breakfast, I got to thinking about how interesting it is (to me, at least) that there are various food items which are so commonplace in one country, yet not in another. Now sometimes this is obvious, such as when a loved food item in one country is considered utterly disgusting in another. But for this what I'm talking about is food items that aren't considered culturally gross by any means, they just didn't take off or cross over for whatever reason.
Like American biscuits. They're basically kissing cousins to savory scones, yet mention them to a Brit and they give you an odd look. And in reverse there's British chips (crisps) which come in every flavor of the rainbow, yet over here in the chip-addicted USA you basically get your regular, your cheese-flavored, your BBQ, and your salt and vinegar. Beyond that you get rarer items that are either specific to a certain brand or region of the country. But never anything that comes close to the variety that you can get in the UK.
I have no conclusions to make about this, I just find it interesting.
