15 March 2010

Have You Ever Seen This?

Whenever I'm in a foreign country, I find it amusing to peruse the "American" food items found in grocery stores. In Russia, I discovered pizza that claimed to be American. It was topped with tuna fish and corn. Here in Scotland I've run across several disturbing foods that are purported to be eaten in my homeland. The can of hot dogs was the item that caused me to grab Steve by the arm and shake him and proclaim that no self-respecting American would eat a hot dog from a can! There's also a whole line of foods with the tagline "American Way" that involves red, white, and blue packaging and the Statue of Liberty. This weekend we bought some of their hamburger relish (I think it's pickle relish mixed with some sort of tomato sauce) for a BBQ we attended. It's all-American. Apparently. I've never seen such a thing before in my life.

8 comments:

Kirsten said...

As, the American Way. You must be shopping at Lidl, which does have a surprisingly good candy selection.

ldsjaneite said...

I've heard that's how at least China, Italy, and France feel about what we call Chinese, Italian, and French foods.

But really--hot dogs in a can?! Ick.

MBC said...

Kirsten--Yes, Lidl has its good points.

Heidi--Yeah, ask Steve about "Canadian" bacon.

Lunicrax said...

It's like Swedish fish - never saw those before I came to Canada (and I think there are swedish berries as well - outside of Sweden that is. But I guess it's only candy. Could be worse. The candy is pretty gross though.)

eliana23 said...

I'm throwing up a little as I read.

SCS said...

You crazy kid, you can get hamburger relish all over this country (yes, it is pickle relish and ketchup). Of course, you can't get it with a big ol' statue of liberty on the front, and that's a real shame.

pieofthemonth said...

tuna and corn pizza is very popular in germany... maybe there is still some residual tension between russians and germany and so they call it american pizza instead of german pizza?

MBC said...

Theresa--Foods ascribed to other countries are always gross. Unfortunately.

SCS--What?! Who eats it? Visiting Britons?

Germans like the tuna and corn, eh? Bleagh.

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