What's the Best American Food?
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Thought you might like this link. The New York Times wrote up America's best baseball food this week, but being the New York Times, it's focused on things like Champagne and sushi. We went through the angry Times website comments to come up with a list of the best ballpark food that the article ignores, focused on the more greasy, cheesy, old school baseball treats. Readers can vote on which is the best of the best:
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Nice list! No one else could have been crazy enough to invent soda...it's such a weird thing when you think about it
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What's the Best American Food?
Grilled Blackened Rib Eye Steak with garlic gorgonzola butter and deep fried onion rings
smoked Beef Brisket
pick n pull pork BBQ
banana splits
boston cream pie
sliders
Pittsburgh or Black n Blue NY Strip Steak
Reeses Peanut Butter Cups
Funny Bones
What's the Best American Food?
Prime Rib - rare.
NY Cheesecake (not the fluffy west coast kind).
MMMMmmm She Crab Soup! On Clearwater Beach there is a place called Frenchy's that does an amazing SCS.
What's the Best American Food?
Oooh! Great topic @spiegelb.
Fried Chicken
Barbequed ribs
Classic American style potato salad (potatoes, HB eggs, mayo, etc.)
Cole Slaw
Red velvet cake
Cherry pie
Biscuits and gravy
What's the Best American Food?
I think what is most American is the concept that we take our own local ingredients, everyone else's ingredients, other people's basic recipes, and then recombine it all in new and different ways.
Other cultures have traditional foods and traditional recipes that you just don't mess with. Our culture doesn't have those deep roots on this continent. So we're not so afraid to mess with the traditional recipes from other countries. Sometimes it works, sometimes it's just canned glop.
What's the Best American Food?
Yeah, peanut butter is definitely an American thing. Other places just don't "get it" when it comes to peanut butter sweets.
For a Northern California perspective I'd have to add sourdough bread, Dungeness crab and cioppino (even though it has Italian roots.) Oh, and sand dabs!
What's the Best American Food?
Jeez, we're like a garbage can. We take everyone's scraps, shake it up, and make it ours! Errr...must think more positively, we're a melting pot. :P
Wish we could take credit for beef jerky. :(
What's the Best American Food?
When I think of American foods I think of foods native to the new world: corn, blackberries, strawberries, tomatoes, turkey, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, peanuts, chocolate +vanilla (south/central america). And foods I missed when I lived abroad--cheetos, peanut butter cups, cheddar cheese, hot dogs (sausage is everywhere but sometimes you want a regular ol hotdog), barbeque... And then all the crazy things we americans have managed to do with the above, once we stopped thinking tomatoes were poisonous and whatnot.
What's the Best American Food?
I agree---this is a mouth-watering thread. My additions include:
frozen drinks and smoothies
BBQ'ed ribs
chocolate chunk cookies
smoked salmon, cream cheese, and red onion on a bagel
berry cobblers
hush puppies and all manner of fritters (my favorite being the conch fritter)
key lime pie
cornbread--especially with jalapenos and real corn kernels
she-crab soup
gumbo
jambalaya
cold pasta salads
coleslaw
Stop me, stop me, before I get upset the supermarkets are closed today!
What's the Best American Food?
@ Traveller: no, Americans don't do better than Belgian fries. I am a fan of McDonald's thin fries, and I like the large-chop fries steakhouses serve in the US, but pommes frites in Europe are simply fantastic (leave off the mayo, though, thanks).
Hot dogs, for sure. Especially in a baseball stadium.
Ice cream: I'm afraid the Italians have a lock on that.
Fried chicken: Americans own it. Unfortunately, Americans also do own the whole "fry anything for a laff" genre.
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