What type of food do you eat in your country?

[Margim]

Well, in a multicultural city like Melbourne you can find practically anything on offer. As for stuff that's distinctly Aussie - the meat pie, lamingtons and vegiemite. 'Damper', a bready type substance made from dough baked over colas on an open fire, is also especially yummy with butter and jam.

 

[Marla_Singer]

Originally posted by Margim
Well, in a multicultural city like Melbourne you can find practically anything on offer. As for stuff that's distinctly Aussie - the meat pie, lamingtons and vegiemite. 'Damper', a bready type substance made from dough baked over colas on an open fire, is also especially yummy with butter and jam.

Actually, I didn't find food that various over Melbourne. Well, you have a lot of Asian, Greek/Cypriot, and other restaurants. That's true... but I was talking more generally about mustard, bread, cheese, everything seems standardized about it. It's not an offence, I guess it's this way in countries based mainly on English culture. I know there are other influences but come on, try to get my point. I simply meant anglo-saxon countries in the cultural meaning of it.

 

[Gainy]

Chips, generally with brown sauce. It is unbelievable how many people actually live on a staple diet of that crap, although it tastes really nice

 

[LordKestrel]

I tend to eat a lot of chicken and beef, because that's what is cheap where I live. Overall, I'd say the US has every type of food imaginable, although perhaps some of the more esoteric items are not common. I know people who eat plain, simple meals, never dreaming that there could be more to food than steak and potatoes.

As for what I enjoy, I prefer a well cooked, spicy southwestern/mexican or asian dish. It's very hard to find anything like that in Seattle, as my definition of spicy is very different from the locals here . They do have good fresh fish though, which makes sashimi cheap. Lots of salmon as well, which is a good fish for grilling, on those rare days that the sun is out.

 

[Marla_Singer]

Originally posted by jimmydean
As for what I enjoy, I prefer a well cooked, spicy southwestern/mexican or asian dish. It's very hard to find anything like that in Seattle, as my definition of spicy is very different from the locals here .

You should go in chinese hypermarkets and look for Szechuanese condiments.

 

[Marla_Singer]

Sorry I've made a mistake in the english spelling. It's sichuanese, not szechuanese.

 

[Zardnaar]

Originally posted by MrPresident
As a British student I live on:

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Not exactly limited to english students.

 

[kmad]

as a Canadian college student, I've been living on

and

 

[Zardnaar]

Diffrent brands. Same food I used to eat.

 

[Manverulin]

For poutine, we usually use cheese curds - right? - and Canadian cheese is pretty good. We also eat tourtiere, which is a great meat pie; bannock, a kind of scone; and we have Canadian maple syrup.

 

[SanPellegrino]

only Sauerkraut, Bratwurst and Weissbier

 

[Gladi]

Bright day
Well... chicken, turkey, deer, elk, boar, geese, lamb, pork, beef, ducks, pheasants, partridge, swan and assortment of other birds ( but unlike US no squirrels )
That with served with pile of various dumplings (bread, potato, bacon, apple) or variuosly processed potatoes, sometimes rice or pasta, that all covered in thick creamy sauce is staple food among natives in czech Republic. Of cours not limited to it. We have Icelandic, Thai, Han, Nippon, German, Italian, Lebanese ,<insert desired nationality> restaurants all over Prague.
May your food be always tasty and apettite always welcoming.

 

[Achinz]

Originally posted by Marla_Singer
Actually, I didn't find food that various over Melbourne. Well, you have a lot of Asian, Greek/Cypriot, and other restaurants. That's true... but I was talking more generally about mustard, bread, cheese, everything seems standardized about it. It's not an offence, I guess it's this way in countries based mainly on English culture. I know there are other influences but come on, try to get my point. I simply meant anglo-saxon countries in the cultural meaning of it.

Well, Marla, you haven't really experienced much of Melbourne's offerings then.

For varieties of cheeses, you need to visit the busy Queen Victoria Market in the city. You get brie, camenbert, rochfort among many other exotic cheeses.

French haute cuisine is served in upmarket restaurants. Jacques Raymond, your expatriot, has promoted Aussie-ised French food (taking advantage of our plentiful fresh produces) and Italian, Spanish, German food are also well represented.

That's just for starters.

 

[newfangle]

I eat muffins. God I love the muff.

 

[Achinz]

Seafood especially crayfish fresh from the QV Market.

Fresh vegies like asparagus and snowpeas

Fruit like mangoes, Delicious Apples, musket grapes.

Cooked dishes like pasta marinara, soy-sauced chicken wings, traditional roast lamb, all sorts of curries from Muslim Indian to Thai..

 

[stormbind]

On the continent, they eat gingerbread, jam-filled gingerbread, chocolate covered gingerbread, every other peculiar conconction of gingerbread your feable brain can immagine, and more...

And paprika flavoured crisps. I don't know why, but these are near impossible to buy in the UK!

 

[Marla_Singer]

Originally posted by Achinz
Well, Marla, you haven't really experienced much of Melbourne's offerings then.

For varieties of cheeses, you need to visit the busy Queen Victoria Market in the city. You get brie, camenbert, rochfort among many other exotic cheeses.

Well, it's true I haven't been to Queen Victoria Market, but all the cheese I've found in Australia were pastorized. In the hypermarket, the cheese is summarized to... sheddar. Actually, I like sheddar a lot, it's fantastically good when it's melted on meat. But it remains a lot more standardized. A friend from my brother has bought me a camembert to please me... and well it was still pastorized... which means tasteless. I'm a bit a weirdo about cheese I must say.

 

[Zardnaar]

What food do they sell in the UK??? My brothers over there and I hear stories about mashed peas and potato meals with a pie. Not to mention nice soggy lettuce.

 

[Gainy]

They sell all kinds of food in the UK. Supermarkets really are a great idea

 

[Achinz]

Originally posted by Marla_Singer
Well, it's true I haven't been to Queen Victoria Market, but all the cheese I've found in Australia were pastorized. In the hypermarket, the cheese is summarized to... sheddar. Actually, I like sheddar a lot, it's fantastically good when it's melted on meat. But it remains a lot more standardized. A friend from my brother has bought me a camembert to please me... and well it was still pastorized... which means tasteless. I'm a bit a weirdo about cheese I must say.

It's the law in Oz that bans the import of unpasteurised cheeses here. But I've heard that a local entrepreneur and French cheese connoisseur is petitioning the government to make an exception for the French delicacies.

On sheddar, I must tell you about the one I had in the UK when we were staying with friends in Shropshire near the Wales border. Simply scrumptious unlike anything here that has dragged down the name from cheddar to sheddar. So its the source rather than the type that matters.