And how chicken Parmesan became a thing here, too. Eating a palm-sized or larger amount of meat was what one did on major feast days if you got that much ever in your life in most parts of the world.
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(It hasn't changed that much, nowadays the low-class American shocking his host with his unrefined palate would be covering his food in Heinz ketchup or Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce or whatever)
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Anyway this is an *acknowledged* thing The author of Salt Fat Acid Heat acknowledged there are more than "four elements" of cuisine and the single biggest "fifth element" she left out is obviously sugar And it's Americans' favorite element
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Calories, calories.
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most memorable scene in the novel, IMO. says a lot about class and race at the time.
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Aha! I never put that scene together besides the basics, that it was how the "lower class" people ate & Scout had no idea. Not really any rural poverty in my family on this side of the Atlantic.
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I’d say there’s definitely an upper limit for sweetness that’s tolerable, but from Europeans specifically, sweetness has had moral implications, so I wonder if that’s playing into the scorn for US food sweetness from them.
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There was a whole thing about how Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's birthday fell during a state visit once and Obama presented him with a birthday cake and people muttered this was a diplomatic faux pas because in Japan an adult man eating sweets is seen as emasculating
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