Van: "Patrice L. Roussel" <proussel@ichips.intel.com> Datum: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:31:44 -0700 Aan: Joseph Zitt <jzitt@metatronpress.com> Cc: "> chromasoom audio visuele communicatie >" <mail@chromasoom.be>, zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com, proussel@ichips.intel.com Onderwerp: Re: re : mcdonalds
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:56:18 -0700 Joseph Zitt wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:48:38 +0200 "> chromasoom audio visuele communicatie >" <mail@chromasoom.be> wrote:
How odd. Americans really seem to have no food culture...
How odd, you really seem to have no clue as to American culture. There are actually a wide variety of American food cultures and regional cooking styles. A moment of actual research and thought might avoid foolish comments such as that.
What I mean is the imago America has. In Europe when people talk about foreign food, they mention for example Italian, French, Asian, African food and dishes. Nobody talks about 'American Food', and if they do so, it's always in the context of 'fast food' or 'easy food', like hamburgers, coke, spare ribs, eating a quick lunch etc. That's the way most people see American food culture. They maybe create that imago through sitcoms, movies, ... So most Europeans don't have any clue about real American food culture. And then it's odd that some Americans say that McD is there last resort in foreign countries when it comes to food, like if that's the only food they can thrust (oops). They just confirm the thoughts Europeans have about them. By the way, never mind the food isn't well known, there are other things from the USA which are far more popular and better (like music, movies, ...). Some Americans are just so proud and idle...sorry to disturb that feeling sometimes. groets, jW