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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And not just meat and potatoes and bread, but the lack of spice. Why? Isn’t Penzey’s originally from the Midwest? Yet most people I know from the Midwest have significant food aversions compared to people from the coasts. [/quote]

Spice is traditionally used in hot climates with rotten meat. Good fresh meat like beef and chicken doesn't need spice. [/quote]

As a relatively recent immigrant to US from the lands of "bland" foods, it's very  interesting to me that American definition of flavor only includes the more "Southern" spices.  Our food traditionally doesn't use hot peppers or cumin, but with long winters and relatively short agricultural season, there was lots of brining, pickling, salting and smoking various stuff.  [/quote]

I actually think that stuff like sauerkraut, pickles, sausage, smoked meats, etc are pretty common in the Midwest.  
Eating fish isn’t as common because catfish are gross and anything else has to be flown in.  [/quote]
Please tell me that you are not this clueless! Ever heard of the Midwestern Friday fish fry where people eat walleye, bluegill and lake perch that is from the Great Lakes? If you don’t know that, then you really have no business commenting and you can just sit down. [/quote]

I'm from Michigan. Grew up in a town about an hour from Lake Michigan. My entire family was averse to the idea of eating fish, which I have always thought of as cultural and directly related to being from the Midwest. And never in my life did I ever hear anything about a fish fry, let alone attend one and eat fish. [/quote]

I also have family in Michigan and only one person of an entire clan and extended clan eats fish. And that’s because he will eat anything, even someone else’s messily eaten leftovers with dirty napkins piled on top. I have seen signs for a fish fry, but I mean, it’s fried. Eating fried fish and fried shrimp don’t really mean much to me. You could fry the inside of a shoe and people would it eat. It’s fried. [/quote]
Says the fool who has never had the pleasure of eating fried walleye and potato pancakes with a Brandy Old Fashioned. [/quote]

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