What happened to all the good food America???
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You must have been here in the 19th century. There is lots of international cuisine in the UK.
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International cuisine is available in most civilized nations... I was referring to home grown British Cuisine.
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The deep-dish casserole pizza is the tourist pizza, what the rest of the world knows Chicago for, but people born and raised Chicago normally don't eat it. REAL Chicago pizza is thin crust, cut into squares.
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Dave KreskowiakDave Kreskowiak wrote:
REAL Chicago pizza is thin crust, cut into squares.
Indeed, that is my lunch today...not that I can taste it. :(
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My last visit was about 5 years ago, in Virginia mostly, but everything was super duper delicious (Yes! I gained a lot of weight here :sigh:). 5 years later, I come back here, this time Chicago, and I've tried from takeouts to fancy dine-ins but everything sucks, and all the places stink. What happened to all the good food? :confused:
Chicken fried steak and fried okra are still on the menu, but only if you leave those "weird" cities.
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International cuisine is available in most civilized nations... I was referring to home grown British Cuisine.
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You didn't meet the sausage king of Chicago?
He got me into a fancy restaurant once.
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Of course we are: four-hour boiled cabbage, mushy peas, battered saveloy ... the list is endless.
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My last visit was about 5 years ago, in Virginia mostly, but everything was super duper delicious (Yes! I gained a lot of weight here :sigh:). 5 years later, I come back here, this time Chicago, and I've tried from takeouts to fancy dine-ins but everything sucks, and all the places stink. What happened to all the good food? :confused:
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They founded an empire so their sons could get away from their mothers cooking!
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DRHuff wrote:
They founded an empire so their sons could get away from their mothers cooking!
or to learn how to cook from other cultures...
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My last visit was about 5 years ago, in Virginia mostly, but everything was super duper delicious (Yes! I gained a lot of weight here :sigh:). 5 years later, I come back here, this time Chicago, and I've tried from takeouts to fancy dine-ins but everything sucks, and all the places stink. What happened to all the good food? :confused:
I ate it all. :)
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Remind me not to come to your house for dinner! You should mention Shepherd's Pie, Bangers and Mash, Fish and Chips, any British breakfast, Steak and Kidney Pie, proper English sausages, proper English (Danish smoked) bacon, bacon butties, sausage butties.... I have to stop now as I am getting terminally hungry! Dammit, I miss good ol' British food! This American crap that has to be "spicy" and "crispy" and "breaded" is killing me - I want to come home, mummy!!!!
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I'm sure that even British food is not what it used to be - they no longer fry chips in lard, the sausages are "[emulsified high-fat offal tubes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPwQ0PmK9lw)", and some cooks have even been known to use spices other than salt and pepper in their cooking. :omg: :)
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I ate it all. :)
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So the latest ground tremor in your area wasn't an earthquake, but a burp! :D
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Whew! thank goodness I lost most my sense of taste years ago, I eat crappy Chicago food daily, it all tasted the same to me! Woo Hoo!
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The South = great food (Virginia is just barely in the South) The North = they eat what? Seriously, you never see a restaurant with Northern Style cooking.
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There's the Michigan delicacy, pasties. Pronounced with short a like in the past, not like the dancer adornments. Some of the most bland, boring food you'll ever eat. They'll defend it by saying that you need to put ketchup (catsup?) on it. :doh: On the plus side, our sausage game is excellent and, supposedly, the hamburger was first made in a small city in Wisconsin[^].
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The deep-dish casserole pizza is the tourist pizza, what the rest of the world knows Chicago for, but people born and raised Chicago normally don't eat it. REAL Chicago pizza is thin crust, cut into squares.
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The South = great food (Virginia is just barely in the South) The North = they eat what? Seriously, you never see a restaurant with Northern Style cooking.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I've never seen a recipe book titled 'Northern Cooking'or'English Cooking'. Could there be a reason?
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My last visit was about 5 years ago, in Virginia mostly, but everything was super duper delicious (Yes! I gained a lot of weight here :sigh:). 5 years later, I come back here, this time Chicago, and I've tried from takeouts to fancy dine-ins but everything sucks, and all the places stink. What happened to all the good food? :confused:
We have a number of recent factors. Employee costs and Food Costs have skyrocketed. The $ on the menu is being held down (only a bit). And MANY places admit they are substituting lower quality food to keep the doors open. We've all but stopped eating out. It aint worth it. First, paying $70 for a Below Average Steak is non-sense! Second, we really fell out of the habit of going out to eat, whereas it used to be a staple for us!
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My last visit was about 5 years ago, in Virginia mostly, but everything was super duper delicious (Yes! I gained a lot of weight here :sigh:). 5 years later, I come back here, this time Chicago, and I've tried from takeouts to fancy dine-ins but everything sucks, and all the places stink. What happened to all the good food? :confused:
Can you list the places you visited? Perhaps I know of them. If you want the best Chicago Hot Dog I know where to send you but you would have to go back ~50y in time as well. Did you visit Chicago's Best | WGN-TV[^] prior to visit?
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The South = great food (Virginia is just barely in the South) The North = they eat what? Seriously, you never see a restaurant with Northern Style cooking.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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My last visit was about 5 years ago, in Virginia mostly, but everything was super duper delicious (Yes! I gained a lot of weight here :sigh:). 5 years later, I come back here, this time Chicago, and I've tried from takeouts to fancy dine-ins but everything sucks, and all the places stink. What happened to all the good food? :confused:
Chicago isn't the best. It tries to be itself (Chicago style Pizza ugh just gross). and tries to be mid-west and tries to emulate New York because it is the second city afterall. It just fails at everything. Midwest food can be amazing! Burgers, STEAKS(real steaks) Potatoes etc... New York food can be amazing! It is New York after all. Southern food is amazing (no can be about it) North Eastern Food can be amazing (Lobster, Chooowwwdar, Yankee Pot Roast etc..) You just happen to visit the one city that does not have good food. IMO. IF you happen to visit small town anywhere. Just ask for a local diner. They will have great food anywhere but Chicago. and it will be local. Traveled a bit. This is one truth. Eat local eat well.
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