Post Punk Kitchen Forum

Just a little.

my favourite indian food is the glasgow style

And, it seems, Danish pastry is from Vienna.

What about Vienna fingers?

I've seen a bunch of restaurants serving Indian Chinese food -- the stuff that's served at Chinese restaurants in India, which is totally different from the stuff served at Chinese restaurants in the US, neither of which bear much resemblance to the food served in China.

Also, anything "Florentine" means with spinach. Why?

I've got a vegetarian cookbook from 1914 where a whole ton of the recipes are just one basic thing, made in a bunch of different "ethnic" styles. Like, there's Nut Loaf; and then Nut Loaf Spanish Style, which I think meant with tomatoes; then Nut Loaf Mexican Style, which would have tomatoes and onions, and then a few other styles that I don't remember. Practically every recipe had these same variations.

Spanish rice in the US is also called red rice. I assume it is called Spanish rice because of the language of those that make it. It is a common recipe in Mexico and among Mexican-Americans. I'm not sure if other areas make it. The rice is toasted in oil (olive oil or canola), sometimes sautéed with onions then tomato sauce, broth (or water) is added. Diced carrots or peas are sometimes added.

my first exposure to spanish rice was in one of those rice-a-roni-style boxed mixes, so i think it's fairly common in the u.s.

I never heard them called Mexican wedding cookies until a year or two ago. I grew up calling them Russian tea cakes or butterballs.

I'm curious if a Danish actually comes from Denmark? I've never really given that much thought.

Well I meant in other Latin American countries. Usually in other Latin American cuisines, I've had white rice or brothy rice but not red rice.

Before I was aware of hamburgers as a kid, I knew Hamburg of course... confused me. A lot.
And yeah, the old Berliner-not-being-called-Berliner-in-Berlin. But - pancakes. And yes, this is filled doughnuts.

ETA: And French toast is called Armer Ritter in Germany which means Poor Knight.

French toast in Dutch is "wentelteefjes". "Wentel" = turn/flip, "teefjes" = small bisques (as in female dogs, not the invective). I've never thought to consider the literal meaning of the word. Huh...

Thousand island dressing.

That was one of my favorite pregan dressings. Where is the Thousand Island? Do Thousand Islanders dislike this dressing having their name?

And: do Hamburgers call hamburgers hamburgers?

Thousand Islands are in Southern Ontario/Upstate New York. It's lovely there! No idea if the dressing comes from there, though.

ETA: Wikipedia says no.

Oh I didn't know it was called filet américain in dutch as well. That's also how they say in Wallonia (L'américain préparé is a widely spread dish there -commonly eaten on a sandwich or just with salad and no adjective Fries .

(Even though we know that Americans would probably not eat such raw meat) (Wikipedia says the Tartar did, though. Seems the French are right)

In France (maybe just the North?) we have American sandwiches - doner kebab and fries in a baguette.



In French that's a Spanish hashbrown! Where do these things come from??

I assumed they are called just burgers nowadays... Does McD even still sell hamburgers or only fancy ones?

Yeah, in NL they say "Filet Americain". My Flemish partner (Oost Vlaanderen) calls it "préparé", which for some reason to me sounds like something that should be on a petri dish. (And considering the bacterial load of raw meat, probably should.)

It's called "fattiga riddare" in Swedish, which means the same thing only in plural.



We call it wienerbröd in Swedish, which means Viennese bread. It's still thought of as a typically Danish thing though.

hypothesis: Filet américain used to be horse meat; so we have the cliché chain:
Horse> cowboys > USA

:D

major cause of intoxications in Belgium (and major argument in favour a veganized version!)

My sister calls it flipping a bisque when someone turns tightly into a diagonal parking space in a parking lot from the wrong direction. Next time we're out somewhere I'm going to tell her to just french toast herself right into that spot.

Funny, when I went to Greece, almost all the street Gyros I encountered had fries in them. Someone said it was because that was what Americans liked.

(and I've never seen fries on a pizza or in a sandwich in the US. I'm actually very picky about my fries, they have to be separate from the rest of my food, just fries, no sauce and ketchup has to be on the side.)

that's not TOO strange, swedes sure do love their buffets. here, buffets are pretty rare and considered kind of low class, but in sweden (which is 20 mins from here by train) buffets are EVERYWHERE. i have to admit, the swedish restaurant culture is not exactly my cup of tea..

Ha! I hate buffets myself, except in the form of Indian food for some reason. But food sitting out for hours isn't really what I'd consider a good thing.