A very, very important question of global scope

[sqbr]

So I was looking up recipes for hokey-pokey icecream today and was overcome by an almost inconceivable suspicion: it's not eaten in America! Or in fact anywhere beyond the Pacific region!

Is this true? Because you guys are missing out. On the plus side afaict it's just made by mixing vanilla icecream with honeycomb (or "sponge toffee", which sounds terrible), though I plan to make it with butterscotch flavoured icecream(*).

What are the foods/recipes from a country you've lived in which you can't believe people overseas don't eat?

Personally I have trouble understanding how people can not like vegemite, but intellectually I can see how it might be something you need to have grown up with :)

(*)When I can find somewhere that sells oat/almond milk and honeycomb, Coles having neither this evening. Bah!

Comments

[alias_sqbr]

Heh. While even going to NZ (which for me means passing over the entire length of australia first) wasn't that different :)

[aris-tgd.livejournal.com]

It's weird how the US is so patchwork, culturally and foodwise. Like, there's something called "sweet tea" which is a Southern thing, and I have never had any in my life. The Southerners I know tell me I am missing out on the best stuff ever. Then again, I come from Northern California, and I thought that eating tofu bites and wheatgrass shakes at the mall was totally normal, until I met someone from outside the region who called me a hippy. ;) So I guess you can throw "Smoothies with spirulina mixed in" on the list.

And don't get me started on Mexican, Tex-Mex, and New Mexican food...

It's strange, but most of the food I really like is some kind of cultural import, Americanized. But for example, Portland OR (where I live) Chinese food is different than San Francisco Chinese food. (And there are less restaurants that cater to specific regions up here.) So I assume that going to a different country and eating regional or ethnic cuisine would result in menu shock, but I wouldn't know what ahead of time.

[alias_sqbr]

A chinese-malaysian friend of mine went on a tour of europe with her parents and a chinese-malaysian tour group, apparently they sampled chinese malaysian food in all the capitals of europe and there are noticeable differences :) I find "italian" and "chinese" etc recipes on american sites are always "wrong".

Have you seen White American culture is General Tso's Chicken and Chop Suey?