ALL AMERICAN MEALS

The idea of this thread is to post a meal you have eaten recently that you would consider to be "All Ameican." Alternately, post the first thing that popped into your mind when you saw the thread title.

I am sorry if this thread excludes the British, Australian, New Zealanders and Tuomas.

AustralianSSSSS

Hot dog
Potato salad
Budweiser

sirloin
mashed pertaters
greens
stein o' beer

turkey sandwich with cranberry sauce + stuffing
potato salad
coke (actually mexican coke)

Morbs, your post is quite similar to what my now deceased paternal grandfather ate with startling regularity. Iceberg salad instead of 'greens' though, and replace beer with scotch. Sometimes the tater was baked I think. xp

2 glasses beer
candy

I wd call that 'traveling businessman special,' ian. i think my ex-kitchen-worker roomie said they called em "Happy Meals."

OJ
bacon
fried eggs
flapjacks drowned in syrup
pot of coffee

Leftover Chinese.

double quarter pounder with bacon; no lettuce, no tomato, no onion
fries with ketchup
coca cola

i had a dream about a mcdonalds sandwich called the mcbacon last night. a friend of mine ordered two of them & said they were 'ok'. it had fried chicken, a cheddar cheese spread & bacon (i just had a couple chicken wraps). turns out the mcbacon does exist but is only available in amsterdam or something. i think id read about it before but forgotten it or something.

pizza and beers

Leftover Chinese.

had this for breakfast yesterday!

scrambled eggs
3 strips bacon
leftover baked potatoes browned in the pan
orange juice

roast beef w gravy
mashed or baked pot.
corn or green beans prepared from frozen
apple pie/chocolate layer cake

peanut butter & jelly sandwiches
1 glass, milk
celery sticks
3 chocolate chip cookies

I was parented by Norman Rockwell.

Club sandwich (turkey, bacon, L&T, mayo optional)
Salt & vinegar potato chips
Root beer.

Steak and eggs for breakfast

fried chicken
grits n collards

</nickalicious>

7-grain bagel w/ low-fat scallion cream cheese, sliced nova, tomato
tropicana orange juice w/ extra calcium

celery sticks with salt or peanut butter

xposts

*SIGH*

laurels pb&j is the best so far

xp

http://www.thefinalsprint.com/images/2007/01/ryan-hall.jpeg

this guy is 'all-american'-looking. they said so on tv.

do you want to... eat him?

Grilled Cheese
Tomato Soup
Milk

grilled cheese/tomato soup = coming in from the snow, toes burning they so cold.

FEED ME, MAMA

OMG now I want apple pie so bad.

I HAD APPLE CRISP FOR DESERT LAST NIGHT & ALSO FOR BREAKFAST THIS MORNING

Oysters on the half-shell.
Tomato soup.
Sirloin with peas and baked potato.
Pie and coffee.

peas and coffee

Do they have English Muffins in England?

Lucas, I love you. You'd better be eating that on a moving train, leaving the unsettled West to head back to Boston and see to some business interests.

pie for breakfast

crisp is too gay, must be pie

sexydancer's is also great, i havent had that combo in years

pie cobbler

the combination of milk and a burnt roof of mouth is key

hot dog with chili, onions and hot sauce, $1.50 from street vendor

too ethnic

this morning's all-american wholesome breakfast:

"oaty bites" cereal (nature's path version of chex) with raw milk
a gala apple
a glass of unsweetened/unfiltered apple juice

2 oreo cakesters
1 20oz coke

and a spoonful of raw honey!

very pre-industrial america.

Macaroni and Cheese
also any Ice Cream flavour with more than one word in its name.

can someone explain to me how grilled chesse is made in a frying pan. ive only ever made it under a grill but those things dont seem to exist anymore.

hint: use butter in the pan

I had a grilled cheese, tomato soup, and a Bell's beer the other night.

I never had grilled cheese/tomato soup growing up, but one day I was like "that's American" and had to start.

med temperature, flip when it starts to smell like toastiness. butter both sides of sandwich xppp.

Heat pan
Butter bread
Put bread in hot pan
Flip
Remove

ribeye with salt and pepper.
pilsner made with corn.

this guy is 'all-american'-looking. they said so on tv.
http://www.incorrectmusic.com/gallery/covers/jandek_living.jpg

I'd have the tomato and grilled cheese thing a lot too but sometimes with tuna fish and melted cheese substituting. I used to put my chips into the tuna

Hardtack.

Wonder bread smothered in BBQ sauce.

bbq ribs
fries
white bread
green beans
red soda

clif bar and a banana

WINGS

ZINGS

TANG

I had the tomato soup/grilled cheese combo just the other night!

I had to go to my grandmother's to have Tang as a kid. Mom wouldn't allow "that crap" in the house.

i think of these kinds of fries whenever i think of all american fries. the kind you get at Friendly's or what have you

http://www.bigstockphoto.com/thumbs/4/0/5/medium/504596.jpg

Fluffernutter
chocolate milk
cookie

Etouffee

I'm curious that some of these are considered rlly american considering I also grew up on grilled cheese/tomato soup combos, and stuff like steak and potato salad and mashed potato.

grilled American cheese obv. :)

Ah, there's the grail! :)

meatloaf
baked potato with butter
sweet corn
peas

Hamburger steak with gravy and onions, french fries, iceberg lettuce salad with 1000 Island, iced tea. AKA the Big Bubba.

bell/ian/laurel - where does the cheese part come in? already in the sandwixh before it goes into the pan?

put bread down in pan, put cheese on to bread, let it melt for a bit (but not all the way), but bread on top of bread, flip when bread touching pan looks adequately browned.

Oh yeah, sorry, I make the whole sandwich first and then cook it already assembled. I tend to put like layers of ham and/or tomato in mine, though, so it's more "assembly".

Here's how I do it:

Put skillet on stove, low heat. (you don't want it to get too hot)

Have soft butter, 2 slices of bread, 2 slices Tillamook extra sharp cheddar, 4 dill pickle chips.

Take 2 slices of bread out of the loaf. Butter the outside face of slice 1 and set it butter side up on plate. Butter the outside face of slice 2, and place it butter side down on slice 1 (so the buttered sides are together).

Put 2 slices of cheese on the unbuttered face of slice 2. The 2 cheese slices will overlap in the center section and the sandwich edges will be single cheese layer. Evenly place 4 dill pickle chips on top of the cheese.

Carefully pick up slice 2/cheese/pickle assembly, leaving slice 1 on the plate. Gently place the assembly butter side down in the hot skillet. It should sizzle a tiny bit, but not a lot. Now place slice 1 butter side up on top of the sizzling assembly.

Leave alone in the pan for 4 minutes, then carefully lift up the edge of the complete assembly to see how things are going on the sizzling butter side. The hope is the cheese will get melty enough to hold the pickles and slice 1 in place for the flipping. But if the sizzling side is getting too brown, you will just have to flip it regardless. Flip the assembly with a spatula so the butter side of slice 1 is now down in the pan and if it shifts, gingerly poke the layers back into place. Leave alone for 4 minutes (less if things browned too fast, or turn down the heat). Remove to a plate, slice diagonally, eat.

1/2 chicken with sides of mac 'n' cheese and mashed potatoes. i think i had an iced tea with it. pretty good stuff.

THE GOOD LIFE. Kevin, I am practically radiating happiness for you.

this past week has been pretty good, all things considered. can't deny that.

1/2 chicken with sides of mac 'n' cheese and mashed potatoes. i think i had an iced tea with it. pretty good stuff.

-- chicago kevin, Wednesday, November 7, 2007 9:42 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^this is what i want to eat every day.

Nice lay-out, Jaq! I used to melt butter in the whole pan but it always browned and smoked too much where the bread wasn't resting, so I've started buttering the bread with much better results.

PUSSY

Breakfast: Leftover Halloween candy and coffee.

Lunch: Free samples at new Whole Foods (cheese, bacon, steak). 99-Cent ciabatta brought back to work. (+more leftover H'ween candy.)

Dinner: Salad, with more of the ciabatta, dipped in leftover chicken gorgonzola juice. 2 beers.

1lb of ground beef, browned in pan and drained mixed with 1 packet taco seasoning (my mother used to say "Schilling's is shitty, French's is fine, Durkee is dandy).

Place into warmed hard shell Old El Paso or Ortega taco shells, serve with iceberg lettuce, a jar of taco sauce, canned black olives, sour cream, and pre-shredded cheddar cheese from a bag.

ham & cheese on rye, chips, pickle at the deli counter

1 slice disappointing New York style pepperoni pizza eaten while waiting for Chicago style pizzeria to open.

1 large Chicago style 'classic' pizza, increasingly frigid because of walk home and time between first and last slice.

I am a growing boy.

thanks l and j!

last night i had a chicken leg with http://www.oreida.com/images/products/ccrowns.jpg, is that all American?

awwwwww yes it is

Qhahogs and a 6 pack of Narragansett beer.

... but were they stuffies?

Coffee and donuts.