johnbrandt wrote:Oh my god, that fried catfish...! That looks awesome!
Down here a "catfish" is stinking, slimy, loathsome fish that has flesh that tastes like a burning tyre.

And deep fried turkey? Every single year around your Thanksgivings time, we here notice a lot of "warnings" and "cautions" on the internet about safety when "deep frying your turkey", and pictures of massive stainless steel pots on gas burners, full of oil, with helpful suggestions like "do it in your garage and not inside the house" and so-on.
It puzzles the hell out of us...why would you not just throw it in the oven like normal people do around the world...?

However, I will reserve being too harsh in judgement until I have tasted some deep fried turkey.


My late father used to make "lumpy gravy"...I think it started out as a mistake, but it became traditional in our family, especially with sausages.

babel wrote:Or, alternatively, cut the thing into manageable pieces before deepfrying it?

Evolving wrote:I make gravy with the juices from the roast, some of the water from the vegetables, some cornflour and some chicken stock, and it's yum yum yummy.What's a chicken-fried steak?

The_Piper wrote:
Some Americans call spaghetti sauce gravy too.

The_Piper wrote:It's just a word.

NineOneFour wrote:

Horwood Beer-Master wrote:

NineOneFour wrote:A place that almost exclusively sells Cornish pasties just opened across the street.

OH MY GOD THEY ARE AWESOME.

Are they actually Cornish pasties though? Under European law they could only be sold as Cornish pasties if they were actually made in Cornwall (just as champagne can only come from the Champagne region of France).

I suspect such a law does not apply in the US though.

Actually, the law might apply, which is why they refer to them merely as "pasties".

don't get me started wrote:

2. Vending machines. They are everywhere. And I mean everywhere. I often go cycling, but I never take any drinks with me. I put some coins in my pocket and when I feel like a drink I can usually locate a vending machine within a few minutes, even in out of the way places. Most vending machines are for soft drinks, cigarettes or beer. (Yea!! It would never work in Britain.) Not so much for snacks, and the stories you have heard of vending machines selling used schoolgirl panties are almost certainly myths. (Although saying which, love hotels have vending machines in the room where you can buy sex toys.)

Evolving wrote:

The_Piper wrote:
Some Americans call spaghetti sauce gravy too.

Any kind of sauce that is eaten with spaghetti, or a specific one (such as ragù bolognese)?

The_Piper wrote:It's just a word.

True.

Goldenmane wrote:

Alan B wrote:'Biscuits and gravy'?

Goldenmane wrote:The fuck is that muck?

I'm inclined to concur.
Looks more like a bread roll and lumpy soup.

Yep. That ain't biscuits, and that definitely ain't gravy.

Frankly, it looks like an infant threw up on a cushion.

johnbrandt wrote:Yeah....what is a chicken fried steak...?

SafeAsMilk wrote:edit: ...aaaaaand, my 5K post on this forum was about chicken and waffles, go me

Evolving wrote:Well, if it has syrup... And that looks like powder sugar, no?

babel wrote:

Evolving wrote:Well, if it has syrup... And that looks like powder sugar, no?

With what has been described in this thread, NOTHING would surprise me. But the idea of a sweet waffle with deep fried chicken? Who thought of that and how drunk exactly was he or she at the time?