Do foriegn countries have such thing as "American Food"?

Also Cornish pasties (at the other end of the UK) and our own style of breakfast. (which differ for Scotland and England, but for Scotland essentially add hash-browns and black pudding. Thats blood pudding, to the ignorant) It consists of sausage, tomato, bacon and egg, with toast (French toast if you're lucky) and baked beans. Scots, as mentioned, like to throw in hash browns (has NOTHING to do with drugs) and black pudding.

You'll rarely see these things outside the UK though.

edited 9th Jul '11 4:34:38 AM by GameChainsaw

Full breakfast is not unheard of down Australia way, add some bacon in and the leftovers of whatever you were drinking the night before.

Yes American food exists in Australia but no one callis it that. French Fries, Cheeseburgers, Pizza*

We are the inventors of meat pies, the pom's make theirs out of pork or fruit, not beef/lamb/I don't want to know and gravy.

I just noticed the funny little detail that we call it "Fast Food" in Germany, but we pronounce "Fast" the British English way.

Wait, you mean there are several pronunciations of "'fast"? Does some weird country pronounce it "Fayst" or someting?

Well, there is the more American version [fæst] and the British [fɑːst].

(For those who have knowledge of the IPA.)

Is it even possible to generalize a single American English with hard-and-fast phonetic rules?

What is American food? I mean, there are lots of regional differences, given the fact the United States is a multiethnic, multicultural nation?

A lot of the variations in American English are similar to British. Kennedy's accent, for example, shres some pronounciations with British accents.

I'd say barbeque is primarily an American food. I don't know about others.

The full breakfast isn't unheard of here, either; even Mc Donalds has its own variation on it (the "Big Breakfast"). And yes, they do sell hash browns; I'd say they're the reason most people in the US have heard of them.

As for Buffalo wings, I"d definitely count them as American. Invented in Buffalo, using a spice (Capsicum) native to the Americas...yeah.

edited 11th Jul '11 12:16:32 AM by lee4hmz

Yeah the full breakfast is a thing here, though it's usually marketed as "a complete breakfast." From what I've seen, the basic formula is pretty consistent, but there are regional variations on the specific food offered.

One Grain-based food - Pancakes, waffles, biscuts (scones, I guess, to use Brit terminology), French Toast, Regular Toast, Bagels, Muffins, cold cereals or a porridge (oatmeal, grits, or farina)

Eggs cooked one of several ways, usually scrambled or fried.

Meat - bacon, sausage, or ham are most common...occasionally fried chicken in the South and Spam in Hawaii

Coffee, Milk or both.

Fruit based product - 90% of the time it's Orange Juice and jam for the toast/biscuits. Sometimes, you get a fruit salad or yogurt.

*Edit* Also, you often get a potato dish - Hash browns, potato puffs, tater tots, homefries, etc

edited 11th Jul '11 9:10:31 AM by sketch162000

In Britain we have a restaurant called 'Frank and Benny's' which is a latin-American restaurant, I suppose that makes the answer yes.

I'm Nigerian. Chinese, spanish, mexican, [insert Nigerian ethnic group here] food, yes. American food... yes, but in a general sense i.e. the way Americans make their food.

Only in America, burgers are fast food. In Britain, burgers take hours and hours.

Well, there's toasted ravioli, which is fried ravioli served with marinara sauce, and it's meant to be eaten with your fingers. Apparently there's a similar Italian dish, but it's sweet instead of savory (American version usually has a veal/beef mix, though you can find cheese or chicken if you're lucky.)

Also, if you get into American cheese (product), it's actually very interesting from a technical standpoint, if not exactly tasty.

I've always thought of American cuisine as pretty mild with a lot of dairy, usually, with things like ranch dressing and American cheese, sprinkling parmesan on everything, grits, etc., with the obvious exceptions being Cajun cuisine.

I've never understood how people could stand "American Processed Cheese Food Product".

I make my grilled cheese sandwhichs with Cheddar.

Thread Hop: I noticed recently that people say do you want to go out for "Chinese/Thai/Indian... White". White would be the catch-all for North American chains.

Some people also are able to identify Southern cuisine fairly easily. I do appreciate that America has several fairly distinct style of cuisines.

edited 26th Jul '11 10:41:32 PM by breadloaf

"Do you want to get some burgers?"

Probably.

Here in America, though, it's, "Let's get something to eat."

If no one adds a cuisine, it is presumed that you're getting American. Most likely Waffle House if it's after midnight, but they burgers.

edited 26th Jul '11 10:46:55 PM by Completion

Oh, I can't believe no one's mentioned this yet (or maybe they have and I missed it): turkey. It's only native to the North American continent, and its prominent use at Thanksgiving gives it a great big connection to American culture. I'd say that counts as American cuisine, then.

I've seen a 50's style diner in Singapore that advertised itself as American, but it was mostly your standard burgers and chips type things it sold.

And Tex-Mex, of course. Though to be fair, according to my friend whose parents are from Mexico, the majority of "Mexican" restaurants around her are more American than genuinely Mexican.

Except that Thanksgiving is generally only celebrated on the North American continent.

Back in the early Eighties, I ran across a place in London selling "American milkshakes". It was flavored milk, shaken.

Yes, but my point was that Thanksgiving creates a connection between America and the turkey beyond it being native to here, so if people in other countries eat turkey it could be considered an American dish.

lol wut.

If you want more American foods, you need to add pumpkins and cranberries.

The purpose of American cheese is not how it tastes but how it melts. Also, cheese whiz remains hermetically sealed even after opening, making it wonderful After the End rations. It's really quite a feat of modern engineering.

edited 30th Jul '11 10:05:29 AM by OhSoIntoCats

Discussing American food always seemed a bit strange to me, since the US doesn't really have one culture; they're kinda a mishmash. It seemed about the same to me as having "European food", or "Asian (the continent) food". Sure, you can have stuff that fits in those categories, but they're too broad to have much meaning.

Now that's not to say that certain regions of the States have their own cuisine, just that there's no big one for the whole country.