Reply to S/O: What explains the Midwestern palate?

Forum Index » Food, Cooking, and Restaurants

Reply to "S/O: What explains the Midwestern palate?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t people garden and can there? Isn’t the Midwest more rural in overall. Sure there are cities…but more small towns. [/quote]

My grandmother gardened and canned.  My mother was a professor in basic science with a lab at Ohio State.  She made a lot of hamburger helper and Salisbury steak with iceberg lettuce salads.  
We also had Chinese takeout pretty often and definitely had sushi regularly (There is a Honda plant outside Columbus).  
I didn’t learn to can anything until I was an adult and moved to a more rural part of Ohio.  My friend from the UK taught me.  She was fascinated with rural life and didn’t understand why Americans looked down on it.

I have lived all over the Midwest and really cannot relate to much of this thread.  I have never been to a fish fry outside of Lent.  I don’t know anyone with a college education who refuses to try new foods.  I also know a lot of people who are not white and therefore do not have an Irish or German heritage.  I have to kind of agree that this seems like people who don’t like their in-laws or people who currently have a very different SES than what they grew up with.

I will agree that it was hard to be a vegetarian in the Midwest 20 years ago.  Your options for eating out were limited.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics