What would you put in an American "Ethnic" Food Section in a supermarket?

[baldguy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywCX6znxUWQ

Tabasco sauce
Macaroni & cheese
Bud Lite
Doritos

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. High Fructose Corn Syrup. Anything packaged in institutional size, but we label it "Single serving"

and so on.

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. Mudbugs. n/t

[peacefreak]

3. velvetta

ring dings
Chef Boyardee
tatertot casserole
marshmallow fluff

[Archae]

4. Deep-fried (fill in the blank)

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[Skittles]

5. corn dogs

[City of Mills]

6. Baloney sandwich on Wonder bread

And anything you can make out of a box by adding water.

[KamaAina]

7. Zatarain's red beans 'n' rice, California sourdough,

Portuguese bread from Bridgeport, CT (think French, but chewier), Mid-Atlantic scrapple (with the VT maple syrup kept at the opposite end of the store :P ), Chicago Vienna Beef hot dogs, and so on.

This concept actually has potential!

[redwitch]

8. Twinkies.

:-(

[Curmudgeoness]

9. Spam. You already had my first choice--mac & cheese. nt

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[Odin2005]

10. Chicken-fried Steak!

[sarge43]

12. Clam chowder, potato salad and rhubarb pie n/t

[one_voice]

13. Oreos...

Mac & Cheese

Fried Chicken

Potato Salad

Cereal

Great, now I'm hungry.

[grilled onions]

14. A Typical Menu

A double burger with everything,extra large fry,a deep fried turnover and a mega size diet cola(ya gotta cut back somewhere!)

[Kali]

15. hamburgers

or the appropriate unrefrigerated shelf ingredients
root beer, and other sodas
as mentioned, watery cheap beer
all the usual snacky junk
canned creamed corn


if it was upscale we could get into some regional good eating but I'm picturing the dusty two shelves of Ethnic stuff (read Mexican and generic Asian) at my small-town stores.

[JCMach1]

16. Peanut butter

[XemaSab]

17. Bacon-flavored stuff

:P

[Mojambo]

18. Hot Pockets. n/t

[krispos42]

19. Pork rinds

Chicago-style pizza
Tater-tot hotdish
Bacon-cheeseburger on a Krispy Kreme

[denbot]

20. Buffalo

Steaks and ground burgers.

[HopeHoops]

21. McFood.

[maddezmom]

22. here in the UK, they always have Pam cooking spray, Bisquick, Vlasic Pickles

Fruit Loops, Fluff, Aunt Jemima Syrup, Progresso bread crumbs etc. :D

[eShirl]

23. Boston Baked Beans

Both the real kind, and the candy fake version (peanuts in a thick candy shell).

[Tuesday Afternoon]

24. hot dogs and apple pie.

[mzteris]

25. mustard and ketchup.

Oh - and "apple pie", of course!

[GoCubsGo]

26. Popcorn and corn flakes

And, Spam, M&Ms and bottled salsas/picante sauces.

[BarenakedLady]

27. Cheetos and Mountain Dew.

[alphafemale]

28. Chow Mein Tacoes Pizza

:evilgrin:

[spinbaby]

29. Heinz Ketchup

Basic necessity.

[MiddleFingerMom]

30. I'm glad to see that this thread seemed to take a turn away from...

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...what started out as a kind of self-loathing "Ugly American Diet" listing
into mostly interesting references to tasty "ethnic" offerings that we do
have as a nation that might justifiably be categorized as "American".
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Not a nationalist in the least -- but that also means I'm not a nation cynic,
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Has anyone mentioned the Midwestern specialty of jello molds or ambrosia?
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[RandomThoughts]

31. Do you use the dots in your post to make them more visible

And more likely to be read? Since they take up more screen space.

And where did you learn that technique?

[MiddleFingerMom]

32. Several reasons, mostly.

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And in some cases, it annoys people and they'll be less likely to read them.
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That's OK.
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Sometimes, I do it for comedic timing.
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Sometimes, for invisible punctuation (emphasis).
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Personally, I've found little snippets easier to consume and digest
than a solid block of words or wall-o'- words in a post.
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And I'm a HUGE fan/advocate/believer in the use of negative space
in art, communication, and design.
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WHERE I learned it? Here, there, everywhere -- kinda osmosis over
time and experience.
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And I INVENTED the period. I get a royalty every time one is used.
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Ka-CHING!!!!
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Just teasing about that last part.
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I, like Kali, also like your posts (for the most part) and think they
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EXCELLENT choice of avatar in Burgess -- helps reinforce that kind image.
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[Redstone]

33. Hershey's Syrup is NOT maple syrup, as the narrator claims;

it's sugar syrup, same as Aunt Jemima's and many others.

Redstone

[old mark]

34. Habbib's Instant Felafel, and a lot of Mexican shit...

Plus bagels, sauerkraut and pizza...we gotta lotta "ethnic" Americans around here.

mark

[Spider Jerusalem]

35. They actually have those here in the UK in some places.

It seems to be: maple syrup, Aunt Jemima pancake mix, Hershey's chocolate, Jif and Peter Pan peanut butter, Kraft macaroni and cheese, and disgusting breakfast cereals like Lucky Charms and Fruity Pebbles.