Differences N,s,e,&w

[Liquid5150]

I've been all over the place and things I've noticed that are different.

I spent a week in Minnesota once and we went to a Chinese restaurant.
If you eat Mongolian Beef here in Arkansas it has Crushed Red Chili Pepper flakes in it generally, it's very spicy but awesome. The mongolian beef there was just beef with some onions and taragon, it was about as spicy as a MacDonalds Cheeseburger, but the people that lived there said it was spicy.

When I went to Maine for a visit of an old friend, I decided to make some chili for the people that he hung out with there. I could find, Hamburger, beans, onions, chili powder, but the most important feature "Rotel" was nowhere. The people at the store had never heard of it. It's like salsa only chunkier if you don't know.

Down here we drink alot of Sweet Ice Tea. Atleast everyone I know always has a pitcher of it in the fridge. That's not the same in most places I've been.

I'm wondering what causes these differences in our tastes in food?

[Liquid5150]

At 2/27/06 11:39 AM, Grandfather-Clock wrote: probably tastebuds

So tastebuds are regional?

[Tinnymin]

At 2/27/06 11:47 AM, Grandfather-Clock wrote:

At 2/27/06 11:40 AM, Liquid5150 wrote:

At 2/27/06 11:39 AM, Grandfather-Clock wrote: probably tastebuds

So tastebuds are regional?

i dont friggin know, do i?

Or do you?

O_o

[Leeloo-Minai]

At 2/27/06 11:40 AM, Liquid5150 wrote:

At 2/27/06 11:39 AM, Grandfather-Clock wrote: probably tastebuds

So tastebuds are regional?

No, stupid generalizations are.

Welcome to the north.

[HandsomePete]

At 2/27/06 11:40 AM, Liquid5150 wrote:

At 2/27/06 11:39 AM, Grandfather-Clock wrote: probably tastebuds

So tastebuds are regional?

Yes. If you're from Texas, you're born with neither tastebuds, nor soul.

[Liquid5150]

At 2/27/06 11:50 AM, Leeloo_Minai wrote: No, stupid generalizations are.

Welcome to the north.

I wasn't trying to generalize. I was just saying all food I've had up north is quite bland. My buddy from work brought me some seafood chowder too, he's from the east coast. That was like milk soup with fish in it. BLAND....Down here Everything has strong flavor and is usually spicey. I was just wondering if someone had a historical reason why this is so?

[Leeloo-Minai]

At 2/27/06 11:54 AM, Liquid5150 wrote: I was just saying all food I've had up north is quite bland.

There are places to get good food everywhere, same with bad food. Yeah they probably have more false advertising up here where the restaurant claims such and such is spicy or such and such is juicy.

The truth is you just gotta know where to go to get good food. What was the name of the place you had the "spicy" mongolian beef? Did you ask for the sauces that make it hot?

My buddy from work brought me some seafood chowder too, he's from the east coast. That was like milk soup with fish in it. BLAND....Down here Everything has strong flavor and is usually spicey. I was just wondering if someone had a historical reason why this is so?

The south has a relatively strong cajun background. That's the closest thing to an answer you'll find.