Ah yes. Smørrebrød. Apparently the most famous part of the Danish kitchen.
For those who don’t know what that is, American’s usually translate it to “open sandwich” even though the direct translation would be “buttered bread”. Basically you take a thin slice of bread (can be white or dark, though smørrebrød with white bread is seen as children’s food) and put thin slices of...whatever you want really on top of it. It is then eaten with knife and fork, because the whole thing can get so tall that it would fall apart if you tried to lift it off the plate. Often the topping completely hides the bread underneath.
This is what it looks like http://www.sst.dk/publ/publ1999/spisbedre/SUSBOP/Dokument/smorrebr.gif
We eat it all the freaking time. At home, work and even parties.
A popular version in my family is dark bread with curry-herring (which as the name suggest, is herring dipped in curry) with shrimps on top, and on top of that slices of egg, finally sprinkled with raw onion, chive, salt and pepper. It may sound awful, but don’t diss it till you’ve tried it.
But the American would no doubt win the eating contest anyway. I once went to a restaurant that served noting but American food, and my friend and I quickly agreed that we would have to share a meal that was supposed to be for one person. My god you people can eat a lot of food.
If you did see one of Humon's latest comics(as of today), you would know America incarcerates more people than anyone else in the whole world. That includes so-called second world states. (*cough cough* China *cough cough*) But, the U.S.A. is a large country, with another largely populated country below us(Mexico). Not to mention Mexico is the country with the highest crime rate in North America(Not counting the Carribean). So us Americans go," Oh no, don't let the Mexicans in! They are dirty and barbaric and uneducated!" when most of them are actually nice people. Because of 9/11, we're scared of Muslims. So more TSA screening. They even put a travel ban(as of right now)on Muslims. We just associate with those of the same skin color(*ahem* French, British, Irish, German, Sandinavian{Nordic for that matter} etc.). That concludes why no "land of the free."
The election last year was one of firsts, where for the first time, the bad sides of a president were emphasized more than ever.
I mean, come on. All we had was a Cheeto with Easy Cheez for hair, and Grandma I.D.M.E.(I Deleted My Emails) who thought getting Selena Gomez would make her hip. If you know the Murican' news, you'd know Easy Cheez Cheeto won. There was never so much protesting as in anyone other president's inauguration as Trumps. I mean, the man's a billionaire with no experience in politics.The ban shows how much of a crappy president he will be.
We like our servings big but don't expect you to finish the plate off the idea at restaurant is you should never leave hungry, but no one is offended if you do finish it off. When I go to a non buffet place i expect to have some to take home and have for lunch. At one place they do a have one take one where you order food for there and one to be delivered at the end of the meal to take for later and it comes with unlimited soups and you can switch your soups around when I go there I get that and fill up on soup and free bread sticks and about a quarter of the meal then ask for another bowl eat about a 1/4 of that and ask for a carry out for my soup and plate so i leave with 2 meals and a soup making it a total of 3 meals. (the take home meal is about half the size of the in restaurant meal). BTW how do you cook the fish i am always up to trying new things.
@Mericagirl it's funny here in South Africa we eat very similarly to the US you know in terms of like burgers,chips,sandwiches and its about the same 3 meals a day and a snack or two.
As an American I think they serve too much food just because they want people to end up with weight problems. Hence why the cost of healthy foods are more expensive than processed foods. It’s all to make sure we either end up with T2 diabetes or Gastro issues. And I say this as someone who hates having to pay more for milk alternatives (lactose intolerant) and meat (meat is crazy expensive right now especially, especially if your aren’t Vegan/Vegetarian where meat alternatives were already expensive).
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