I mean, I had lotsa pasta and meat dishes while I was in Sicily, Rome and Genoa on vacation. So idk if that was the tourist food, or what. But it tasted pretty authentic to me. :b
In the US hamburgers are served between two horizontally split halves of a roll and are eaten with the hands like a large hot sandwich. It would be considered ... pretentious here to eat a hamburger with a knife and fork.
I think this article has a good premise but needs lots more research. Still, food for thought.
Either pretentious, or meaning that there's too much stuff between the halves of the bun, so many people, including me, can't eat one as a sandwich. Sometimes the options are to cut it up, bun and all, or have some of the toppings fall out and then eat them separately, which also calls for a fork. (Boston Burger Co. is a local example of this.)
This may be an argument that the restaurant is getting the culinary grammar wrong.
Much of Southeast Asia, including Thailand, eats with spoon and fork. Spoon in the right hand fork in the left. The staple is rice, served with multiple shared dishes. For some dishes people use their hands (satay, for instance) There is no "main" in the Western sense. Rice is served near the end of a multi- course Chinese formal dinner but together with shared meat, fish, vegetable etc dishes in day to day eating. For southern Chinese cuisines, anyway . Northern cuisines tend to use wheat noodles or steamed buns.
I was laughed at in New York for esting my pizza with a knife and fork in the European style. Too bad. I don't like getting my hands dirty unnecessarily.
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Date: 2021-02-03 06:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-03 07:50 pm (UTC)I mean, I had lotsa pasta and meat dishes while I was in Sicily, Rome and Genoa on vacation. So idk if that was the tourist food, or what. But it tasted pretty authentic to me. :b
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Date: 2021-02-03 08:55 pm (UTC)Me, a Certified French TM: the fuck is white coffee?!
How else would you serve burgers?!
I feel like I'm having an existential crisis right now, lol. Thank you so much for the link to that article!
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Date: 2021-02-03 08:59 pm (UTC)In the US hamburgers are served between two horizontally split halves of a roll and are eaten with the hands like a large hot sandwich. It would be considered ... pretentious here to eat a hamburger with a knife and fork.
I think this article has a good premise but needs lots more research. Still, food for thought.
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Date: 2021-02-03 10:06 pm (UTC)This may be an argument that the restaurant is getting the culinary grammar wrong.
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Date: 2021-02-04 02:40 am (UTC)There definitely is that. I was more thinking of a single burger on a flattish bun with maybe a slice of cheese or tomato.
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Date: 2021-02-05 04:25 pm (UTC)I was laughed at in New York for esting my pizza with a knife and fork in the European style. Too bad. I don't like getting my hands dirty unnecessarily.
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Date: 2021-02-06 02:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-07 05:46 pm (UTC)I quite enjoyed the article and the replies from other readers.
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