Scissor Queen

From what I've heard deep fried twinkies are the bomb!

cjomomma

Here is how my mom makes chocolate gravy. Mix 12 tbls of flour with 11 tbls of chocolate mix( the powdered stuff you put in milk). Boil 3 or more cups of water and pour a little at a time over flour mixture until it is at a desired thickness. Remember to stir while pouring the water.

cjomomma

Don't knock the chocolate gravy til you try it.

sewgull

All this food makes hungry. Just had eggs, bacon, toast, grits and tomatoes for supper. Being down South we drank sweet tea.
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nursie76

We vacationed in Canada several times and the one thing they had that astounded me was poutine. I was told it was French fries topped with fresh cheese curd, covered with brown gravy. I thought it sounded like a heart attack waiting to happen, but since I never was brave enough to try it, don't know if it was good or not. Just sounds like a strange combo.

When you mentioned Chocolate gravy, I remembered that I had chicken with mole (pronounced Mo-lay) sauce. I was told it had chocolate in it. Either way, it was good.

Scissor Queen

I don't know about the cheese curds but fries with brown gravy is really good.

Sadiemae

Oh, I have tried it. NEVER again!

patricej

when i was stationed in germany, i was "horrified" to see mayonnaise used instead of ketchup. but ... wait a minute ... doesn't most american potato salad include mayo? and don't we put gravy on mashed potatotes? and aren't fries ... potatoes?

they thought i was wierd because i wanted milk in my tea, ketchup on my fries and ice in my coke (more than one cube, if you please.)

i guess we're all normal and wierd at the same time. ain't it kewl? :lol:

Butterflyblue

I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador - they eat mayo on fries there, too. I acquired a taste for it.

The thing I missed most when I was there was hamburgers - good, thick hamburgers. The only place to get a REALLY good burger was in Quito, the capital, where they have all kinds of foriegn food restaurants, and there was an American with a burger joint. And seems like one of the Irish pub places served a decent burger, too.

Sweet tea - gotta love sweet tea. That and barbecue are something I didn't really know I had missed until I came back here. I came back in the summer and binged on barbecue at every opportunity.

There are always things you miss when you're away, but you acquire new tastes too - sometimes I really miss some of the Ecuadorian foods (choclo, campo cheese, some menestra they make only at easter), and I definitely eat more rice than I did before I lived there.

Annaquilts

The most interesting thing I ate was probably a large colorful striped aquarium Butterfly type fish on a tiny island in the pacific. The fish was whole and had colorful orange and white stripes. It was pretty good!

We have a lot of Mexican food here as we are not far from the Mexican border.