| What is American food anyway? The common | | | | southern food? Sweat Tea of course, country gravy |
| answer is burgers, hot dogs and apple pie but apple | | | | maybe but most southern states have a difficult time |
| pie is actually European, so are burgers and hot dogs | | | | agreeing what good, quality, American southern food is. |
| really all we have to offer? In Texas they will fry | | | | In the northeast you have Maryland crab cakes and |
| anything, pile some batter on it and throw it into a pot | | | | clam chowder, in the mid west you have Chicago hot |
| of grease and any given Texan will tell you it is the | | | | dogs and corn on the cob, in the north west you get |
| best they have ever had. Make it easy to eat while | | | | Washington clams and in the south west it is green chili |
| walking and wrap it in paper and a New Yorker | | | | (chili verde), so what is American food? |
| wouldn't much care if it were just a stick of dough with | | | | American food, like America is as diverse and varied |
| "red sauce" as long as you sell it from a cart on the | | | | as the streets of New York City. We have all kinds of |
| street for less than $5.00 they will claim that no city on | | | | people and all kinds of foods, in a country as large as |
| earth makes it better! Put anything in a tortilla and a | | | | the United States with the freedom of choice from |
| Californian will eat it, call it Cajun and Louisiana will | | | | who your President is to what color of braces you |
| serve it with sweat tea, slap some BBQ sauce on and | | | | want your food to get stuck in it would almost be |
| Tennessee will claim it originated in that state; does the | | | | un-American to narrow it down and make people |
| US even have one universal style of food we can call | | | | agree on one specific type of food. Right there with |
| our own? In short, not really. | | | | free speech we Americans are blessed with a free |
| American food is mostly divided by region, much like | | | | press and the freedom to choose by region, state or |
| voting the north east is different than the mid west is | | | | individual person what kind of food we call our own. |
| different than the south is different than the west | | | | Though many will simply say "fast food" as an |
| coast is still a little different than the south west; from | | | | immediate response to such a question I beg it is not |
| sea to shining sea not one person will give you an | | | | so. We are not just a Fast Food Nation as the movie |
| answer that doesn't very by state or at least by time | | | | suggest, we are not void of culture and we are not all |
| zone. We have southern food, which is most definitely | | | | war mongering, self centered obese people in ball |
| an American original but that isn't even the same in all | | | | caps either. What we are is a wide Varity of things, to |
| southern states. In Texas (which can be debated as | | | | complex and diverse to be narrowed down into one |
| the south or the south west) you have the original | | | | classification. We are the contents of a melting pot, the |
| fajita in Kyle TX and hill country BBQ Brisket, in | | | | image of a collage, we are a sponge; we are America |
| Louisiana you get Cajun food, soul food and | | | | and nearly nothing universally conforms us to our |
| specifically in New Orleans you are blessed with | | | | neighbors other than the freedoms we share, not even |
| Creole. In Tennessee it is BBQ pork, in Virginia it is | | | | the foods we eat. |
| Ham, in Georgia it is grits...is there even one specific | | | | |