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What do americans actually eat? Not fast food or food delivery, what would an American family typically have for lunch/dinner if it's cooked at home?

>> No.14353386

typical sunday lunch at home would be a casserole with mashmellows and canned green beans, one with corn chips and hamburger helper and ketchup and mince baked together, maybe some steaks and iceburg lettuce

>> No.14353391

We have much more options than European, so that answer varies widely. Our grocery stores are the size of football stadiums. We have a lot of options.

>> No.14353397

i mostly eat meat, dairy and vegetables
sometimes fruit and grain

>> No.14353403

>>14353391
Yet you can't name one

>> No.14353407

>>14353403
It would be quicker to name what we don't eat. That is how plentiful our food supply is.

>> No.14353409

>>14353403
There is no one meal. There is no prototypical American.

>> No.14353419

>>14353372
My homes menu has gotten wierd since half of us went keto. But generally it'll be something like-
>Monday - Roast seasoned chicken pieces, rice, salad
>Tuesday - Spaghetti with Meat Sauce, salad
>Wednesday - Hamburgers, French Fries, Corn on the cob
>Thursday - Tacos made from a shitty kit
>Friday - Ham, Pasta Salad, Salad
Generally, 1/2 meat to 1/4 starch and 1/4 veg. This is why Americans are fat btw.

>> No.14353448

>>14353386
You're a literal retard nigel

>> No.14353457

>>14353372
I have a pork loin in the oven right now

>> No.14353469

>>14353391
>Our groceries are the size of football stadiums.
lel, too true.

To answer your question, opie, my mother liked to cook from Paul Prudhomme's book; I was raised in the Midwest. Stuff heavy in carbs, protein and fat. When I left home, I moved to a hippie city and became a vegetarian. There's a lot of variety in the States. I cook a lot of ethnic cuisine for my family now, mostly Indian and SE Asian, though I also cook big roasts from time to time.

>> No.14353483

>>14353372
Breakfast was ham and some leftover mushrooms and onions. Lunch is probably going to a leftover lamb chop with chimichurri and a nectarine. I am going to have a tossed salad with chicken tonight.

>> No.14353500

>>14353372
plastic flavoured, cheesy macaroni, chocolate biscuits made with Hershey's vomit cocoa, corn syrup bbq, hamburger helper (hormone beef mince in plastic cheese with macaroni), burgers, chips, etc

>> No.14353506

>>14353372
Americans don't eat. My household is three fat people and all the others are underweight or skinnyfat

>> No.14353513

>>14353372
pb and j cereal carbs p much

>> No.14353526

Steak, potatoes, leafy green salad.

>> No.14353554

Had a lot of cajun or Latin food because my mom was from Louisiana and we lived in Florida so ingredients for Latin food was cheap and easy.

Usual weeknight dinner was jambalaya with spicy sausage and some vegetable side dish. My favorite was pickled green beans stir fried with a little bacon. If my dad was cooking it would be black beans and rice or posole or something. He’s not Hispanic just really liked the food.

We were poor, so not very meat heavy, the spicy sausage usually ended up BOGO at the grocery store so it appeared frequently.

>> No.14353564

>>14353500
Yes, you're definitely American.

>> No.14353576

>>14353500
free rent

>> No.14353577

>>14353372
burnt pork chops and a can of corn

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>>14353500
Good show old bean, jolly good show!

>> No.14353619

We eat whatever the fuck we want honestly. Italian, mexican, thai, everything is on the menu for a typical family if at least one of the parents knows how to cook.

>> No.14353625

>>14353391
>We have a lot of options
yeah. mayonnaise low fat, no fat, extra fat, with ketchup etc

>> No.14353628

>>14353372
Meat, vegetables, and a starch, in some combination or other.

>> No.14353647

interesting thread. I'm a leaf and I always figured that we ate basically the same thing as our southern neighbors, but I've observed a lot of hate for pork on ck that didn't seem to come from allah snackbars. Do you guys seriously not like a thick center cut pork chop with mashed potatoes and some vegetables, like a salad or steamed asparagus? I know you like your baby backs, what's with the chop hate? or is it all in my head

>> No.14353654

>>14353647
pork butt is good

>> No.14353659

>>14353619
Yeah I'm sure most average families cook Thai every other day

>> No.14353661

>>14353647
kek yeah, shoulder, ribs, ham, belly, sure. But what about loin, tenderloin and cheeks

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>> No.14353664
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>>14353647
Most people don't know how to cook, so they follow recipes and instructions. Which is fine, of course. But for the longest time the food safety board recommended safe temperature for fresh pork was 165. You can imagine what this turned a good chop into. So pork chops, on the whole, had a reputation for being fussy to make and overly dry.

>> No.14353667

>>14353661
meant for
>>14353654

>> No.14353682

>>14353667
its okay i guess butt is damn tasty tho

>> No.14353684

>>14353664
that happened here too though. My grandma's pork chops were thin, very dry and served with gravy. I still like them that way, but it's definitely nostalgia

>> No.14353687

>>14353372
I had eggs, toast, oatmeal, and coffee for a late breakfast. I'll be having curry on buttered toast later for dinner.

>> No.14353689

>>14353372
Personally for lunch my family tends to stick to leftover dinners. Food is meant to be eaten, no sense letting it go to waste
Dinner typically consists of a meat, vegetable, and some manner of starch
If you want to get more specific it depends on what we have in the house at the moment

>> No.14353693

>>14353647
>Do you guys seriously not like a thick center cut pork chop with mashed potatoes and some vegetables, like a salad or steamed asparagus?
Americans eat pork all the time, definitely not as often as beef, maybe not as often as chicken, but its very common.
For some reason, especially when ground meat is required Americans almost always turn to beef, though pork is readily available

>> No.14353698

>>14353372
Mostly French, German, or Italian derivatives, French cooking has been dominant since the 70s even if heavily diluted.

>> No.14353706

>>14353662
Xd

>> No.14353710

>>14353698
Most Americans just think of french cooking as "cooking", its so ingrained in modern cooking they don't see it as a separate thing as they do Italian

>> No.14353712

>>14353693
eh fair enough, I figured as much. I see a lot of "pork is trash, put it in the garbage" comments on ck though, and I'm just guessing they're not Germans, you know

>> No.14353724

>>14353372
The same thread every day. Fuck off already.

>> No.14353727

>>14353712
>I see a lot of "pork is trash, put it in the garbage" comments on ck though
Living in America I have never really seen this sentiment. People definitely consider a nice steak to be higher quality than a porkchop, but pork isn't really associated with poor people at all despite being pretty affordable relative to beef

>> No.14353730

>>14353710
very true, main reason why french cooking gets so much shit on here, they don't even know what it is

>> No.14353736

>>14353727
well fuck me maybe it's not Americans talking all that shit about pork on ck then. The search goes on

>> No.14353739

>>14353647
>thick center cut pork chop with mashed potatoes and some vegetables
That's one of staple meals but with gravy for the mashed potatoes as well.

>> No.14353742

>>14353372
Depends on the family. Mine eats more asian food than normal because my family owns a chinese restaurant.
But most days we still eat something like steak or salmon. on lazier days sometimes we just get those premade dishes you throw in the oven, like meatloaf or jack daniel bbq. fajitas is pretty common, just cook a bunch of meat, get some tortilllas from a mexican restaurant or heb and make your own tacos.

honestly there's no real specific typical lunch/dinner. most americans just eat whatever they feel like at the time, and due to most people being exposed to a large variety of different cultural food types it can be quite varied.

>> No.14353749

>>14353693
>For some reason, especially when ground meat is required Americans almost always turn to beef, though pork is readily available
beef is safer to cook. beef is pretty much always safer to eat than otherfoods because its mostly the outer layer that will contain shit like parasites and whatnot. pork meat will have it deeper throughout.

when cooking ground beef its okay if parts of it is still slightly rare and not cooked as well, and since its ground up heat doesn't get distributed nearly as well.
with pork that becomes a bigger health issue because you need it to be thoroughly cooked throughout in order to insure all the parasites are killed.

its not a huge deal these days, but there's still more risk and its just carried over from the past.

>> No.14353751

A typical week at my home.
Sunday: its always something easy because I do my shopping and housework to prepare for the work week so chilli dogs or hamburger helper or any other ready made stuff.
Monday: roast chicken, potatoes, green beans, and cottage cheese.
Tuesday: My picky 16 year old daughter comes over so spaghetti, tacos, hamburgers, chicken tenders or any other boring meal. Wednesday: Steak, salad, and potatoes rice or pasta.
Thursday: Ham, glazed carrots, steamed broccoli, and scalloped potatoes.
Friday: noodles or tv dinners for the kids and left overs for me.
Saturday: either we go out to eat or I'll make something like a roast pot of soup or just grill out.

>> No.14353759

>>14353742
I don't think Euros understand how long Americans have been exposed to diverse cuisines. Americans have been eating Mexican food and Asian foods way longer than Europeans have been at all familiar with them, not to mention just foods from a wide range of Europe. Americans in 1900 were eating things from all sorts of European cuisines while most people in Europe could barely afford bread, let alone have any idea what people were cooking 100km away even

>> No.14353762

>>14353749
>beef is safer to cook. beef is pretty much always safer to eat than otherfoods because its mostly the outer layer that will contain shit like parasites
i do not at all think many people are considering this at the grocery store

>> No.14353767

>>14353762
yeah but when you only ever eat ground up beef, it becomes the norm and you don't think about the reasons for it just the fact that that's what happens. its not like the average person is grinding up different types of meat to experiment with different types of cooking. they just follow recipe and move on.

>> No.14353772

>stuffed peppers
>homemade soups like chicken or jambalaya
>spaghetti with homemade sauce and meatballs
>chicken with salad and pasta for sides
>meatloaf with mashed potatoes and green beans for sides
And other stuff like baked potatoes, corn on the cob. The only thing that sticks out to me is that we only really eat turkey on thanksgiving or we buy the slices at the deli

>> No.14353786

Food in the US is very regional, but also at the same time there is enough diversity that you can find just about anything anywhere. Some places will lean more heavily towards one particular type of cuisine, which is rooted either in a historically ethnic population or historically common ingredient to the region, but cooking shows/books/the internet has brought a very wide selection of recipes to everywhere. Europeans need to stop thinking of the US as a single country and more like 50 kinda similar countries all with different cultures. What we eat, and even what we call various foods can vary greatly from region to region.

>> No.14353812

>>14353469
>became vegetarian
>cook big roast
?

>> No.14353894

>>14353664
Does anyone have a good porkchop recipe?

>> No.14353920

>>14353372
it's pretty regional imo, but my typical childhood meals were cooked by my grandma. she grew up really poor in georgia and usually served oven'd meat (a roast, a chicken) with a carb side like rice or potato and a veggie side. my dad grew up in a poor part of florida and would make a variety of things including tacos, chili, "stroganoff", or casseroles.

>> No.14353956

>>14353664
this, most of my childhood memories of pork was my mom serving leathery-ass well done pork chops. still haven't gotten around to learning to cook it properly

>> No.14353977

I get what you mean. Essentially the standard American dinner is basically Italian food. Spaghetti, lasagna, ziti

>> No.14353982

>>14353526
This too. Beef, potatoes and a salad

>> No.14353984

>>14353372
Varies widely, you just don't even know what we have access to in super markets over here. I'm in a diverse area in NYC, I can get just about anything, even super AIDS. Today I'm grilling hot dogs of all things and basmati rice with saffron, canned green peas and corn.

>> No.14353992

>>14353956
Scared shitless of under-cooked meats, especially with kids involved, better safe than sorry.

>> No.14354046

>>14353625
Yea and that's just the condiments! Imagine ho much we have ot offer in the other categories of food...

>> No.14354058

>>14353647
go further south. you basically border the portion of america that hates flavor

>> No.14354074

Monday hotdog Tuesday taco Wednesday hamburgers and chocolate milk Thursday sloppy joes and burritos in a bag friday is pizza day the best day of the week

>> No.14354092

Americans literally don't cook

>> No.14354114

>>14353372
wtf that kid is based

>> No.14354121

>>14354092
they eat potato chips ramen noodles and soda at home

>> No.14354158

>>14353372
Some meals I've had/made recently:
> tofu & Italian pork sausage w/beets, carrots, and bok choy w/broccoli and avocado
>fish and imitation crabmeat salad w.avocado, spinach, and other veggies
>a spicy sauce with my leftover Jollibee chicken w/broccoli and carrots
>sugar snap peas, fried plantains, sausages, w/canned mackeral & avocado
>yam noodles, pork belly w/onions w.brussel sprouts
>vegetable curry w/pasta and fried shrimp

I usually pair those with greek yogurt and fruit.

>> No.14354176

>>14354092
This is true. Americans reheat frozen pizza and other frozen food that's it. What a pathetic country

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>>14354114
>wtf that kid is based

>> No.14354192

>>14353500
the only people i know who ate hamburger helper were lazy, complacent trailer trash
how tf do eurocucks know about it? is it sold there?

>> No.14354228

>>14353372

When I was younger breakfast would be some kind of boxed cereal on the weekdays. Other people would eat eggs, plantains, toast, bacon/sausage, w/grits & cheese, but I wasn't that much of a fan of some of those items. On weekends I would get pancakes, farina, and oatmeal. My mom started buying more prepackaged food so we started eating pop tarts and whatever else she would buy.

Lunch would be a sandwich, leftovers, or whatever we frozen food my mom bought from Costco.

Dinner would depend where I was. Sometimes it would be rice, canned food or fresh veggies, and a variety of meats. Sometimes it would be beans, veggies, and fish. Other times it was rice and beans, plantains, and pork/chicken/beef/seafood or variety of other latin dishes.

Saturdays or Sunday morning we would go out to eat, depending how my parents felt.

For context I'm in the Northeastern part of the US.

>> No.14354229

porkchops and applesauce

>> No.14354348

>>14354092
>>14354121
>>14354176
Aww, this is so cute.Eurocucks admiring Americans so much, they're expertly emulating the ridiculously exaggerated stereotypes.It's amazing how naturally this all comes to you guys.

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>>14354348
Seethe more mutt

>> No.14354369 [DELETED] 

>>14354353
you'll be 56% soon enough whitoid
and that's a good thing!

>> No.14354370

>>14354348
t. insecure American
Americans cannot stand when you point out truthful things about their country.

>> No.14354412

>>14353386
>>14353403
>>14353500
Foreign retards with literally less knowledge of actual American cooking than we have of yours.

>>14353786
This. I'm from the South, so it's a bit of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foods_of_the_Southern_United_States mixed in with various things I've learned to cook over the years and handed-down family cooking.

>> No.14354415

>>14353372

Where is the /ss/

>> No.14354422

>>14353977
It's not.

>>14354092
>>14354121
>>14354176
You're literally stupid.

>> No.14354444

>>14353372
Anything we want

>> No.14354456

>>14353372
Everyone always thinks their cooking is typical of their countrymen in these threads.
I make something different every week, usually preferring one complete main dish rather than meat + sides. You can get any nearly ingredient and recipe off the internet, so who cares what other people do?

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ITT: Europoors acting smug when their meals consist of baked beans for breakfast, meat pies, and salmon from a tooth paste tube...

>> No.14354468

>>14353812
A lot of vegetarians still occasionally eat meat, they just tend not to most of the time. They're not insane like vegans.

>> No.14354475

>>14353419
What the fuck do the ketofags do on tuesday? top their salad with bolognese?

>> No.14354513

>>14354475
Meat sauce on its own is great, I make it all the time. Many keto meals are just made by taking a "meat and veg on starch"-type meal, and removing the starch.

>> No.14354572

>>14354370
>when you point out truthful things about their country.
Many of our states are as big as your countries,Eurocuck. Americans only get mad when you assume the shit you post is a nationwide trend. California, and the trailer parks of the deep south, do not represent our nation as a whole. It's the same idea if I memed that all Eurotards ate rotten fish, simply because I saw some Swedes doing that.

>> No.14354686

>>14354572
Nah I've been to your country and Americans being unable to cook is a universal trait. Reheating tinned pasta sauce then dumping it onto of some spaghetti makes you a better cook than 95% of the population.

>> No.14354716

>>14353372
The best proof that europoors are retarded is that they think the US has a homogenized culture but will adamantly deny the homogenization of their own

>> No.14354724

>>14354686
>being unable to cook is a universal trait
And let me guess, you visited when you were college-aged and associated with other college-aged retards only? Probably even people as abominable as spring-breakers?

>> No.14354730

>>14354724
Nope I have family there

>> No.14354737

>>14354730
Quite surprising, were they urbanites, suburbanites, rural, or total flyover?

>> No.14354750

>>14354737
They live in the suburbs but work in the city. Americans really cannot cook even the commercials in your country hammer this home. All of the food advertisements that aren't restaurants center around presenting the product to be as easy and mindless to fix as possible

>> No.14354783

this morning had eggo french toast with coffee, wasn't really hungry.

today i ate some leftover chili for lunch. i had some frozen vegetables to balance it out a bit. broccoli cauliflower and carrots tossed with a little oil, garlic powder, ms dash and butter and cooked in over for about 20 minutes. basically just getting rid of leftovers.

tonight might order thai food with uber eats and chill.

kind of a mix of random shit today.

>> No.14354791

>>14354730
>I can extrapolate knowledge of 2-6 people to 300 million
Breaking news: Europoor can't count, surprising no-one.

>> No.14354799

>>14354686
>Nah I've been to your country and Americans being unable to cook is a universal trait.
How the fuck does a tourist even think they know how locals cook in general, what an absurd claim

Never once in my travels have I ended up at random local families houses to get a sense of what they eat on weeknights, this isn't a thing

>> No.14354808

>>14354750
>All of the food advertisements that aren't restaurants center around presenting the product to be as easy and mindless to fix as possible
yeah because fucking onions don't need to advertise. The food companies that need to advertise are ones that claim to be doing something for you, its the nature of advertising

>> No.14354846

>>14354730
>My family cannot cook
>Therefore, Americans cannot cook
The deductive reasoning of a jealous and obsessed mind.

>> No.14354853

>>14354846
No my family can cook. It's the vast, vast majority of Americans that cannot. Also your fruits and vegetables taste like nothing.

>> No.14354856

>>14353372
>What do americans
Depends on region, wage, culture, even family tradition.

I ate a lot of really bastardized European foods with only a few cheap ingredients, but the rest of our money went into nicer things and investments. Also there's nothing wrong with making stroganoff with ground beef.

>> No.14354870

>>14354853
how many American homes did you sample? Please explain this story where you can to have intimate knowledge of American homes as a tourist

>> No.14354877

>>14354853
>Also your fruits and vegetables taste like nothing
its literally the same stuff

>> No.14354885

>>14354870
He went to visit family in America. They cannot cook so he assumes everyone is like his family.

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>>14354877
He's been getting the stuff that's picked before ripe and preserved and sold at the lowest prices.

Buy cheap get cheap.

>> No.14354900

>>14354853
Your senpai is probably just as retarded as you. Don't blame us for your genetic problems Nigel.

>> No.14354998

Pasta, meat, potatoes.

>> No.14355009

>>14353372
Social media was a mistake.

>> No.14355025

>>14354998
i feel like the biggest question for american meal planning is pasta or potato, a very large portion of family meals has one or the other (or less commonly rice), very rarely served together though

>> No.14355028

>>14353372
there is no "typical" American meal. What a family has for dinner will vary based on ethnic background, region, upbringing, traditions, and many other factors.

asking your stupid question is like someone asking what the average european family eats.

>> No.14355055

>>14355028
to further expand on this I grew up in the southwest US during the 70's. The closest thing we had to a "typical" meal (for us) would be a pan fried chuck steak, potatoes, a vegetable and bread or buns.

But we ate things like Enchiladas, tacos, and burritos (we aren't mexican), fried chicken and biscuits (not southern), different pasta dishes (not italian). all home made.

I currently eat all that stuff, and now I include asian foods, among others.

>> No.14355087

I would say the single most common home cooked meal in the US is probably spaghetti

>> No.14355097

>>14353372
i just eat some form of chicken and rice most days.

>> No.14355107

>>14355009
This. When algorithms are feeding you nothing but scandalous shit, you're going to develop some pretty warped perceptions of the world. And then, there's the outright lies... Most of the crap these Europeans fling at us, I've never seen in my life, outside of them posting it here.

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>>14353372
Texas here, this is stuff I cook on rotations:
>steak, chicken, pork, all of the above seasoned and cooked however you want, maybe grilled, maybe oven roasted
>serve meat with some sort of roasted or steamed veg and maybe bread or mashed potatoes or corn
>smoked pork shoulders, smoked brisket, boudin
>burgers are easy and common
>gumbo or chili in winter months, etouffee
>various curries, soups, stews depending on what ingredients are on sale
>breakfast is eggs and salty meat, such as cured bacon or breakfast sausage (sage), maybe scramble eggs with chorizo and put it on a tortilla for breakfast tacos
>tacos in general
>various pasta dishes, jarred sauce on a lazy night
>broccoli, asparagus, green beans, corn, chard, squash, potatoes, peppers of all types