Food

Food

American cuisine was originally made by natives (Indians), but now includes all cuisine made by immigrants so it's cuisine from all over the world.
Ethnic food is made by different ethnic groups than Indians. It's more popular than American (Mexican, Thai, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indian). Those people lacked native ingredients so it's only slightly similar to the native cuisine.
Americans love eating. That's why they are roly-poly (plump).
They have different eating habits. They eat two big meals during the day - breakfast and dinner. Dinner is eaten in the evening in the supper time. It is the largest meal. Supper is evening meal. Lunch is small cold meal.
Breakfast is different during weekend and workday. On workday the Americans eat cereal with milk. Oatmeal is heated cereal with milk to a form of porridge. They never eat it with cocoa, with pieces of fruit, with honey. Granola is muesli with chunks of chocolate. They prefer cornflakes to cereal made of wheat. They drink orange juice, coffee with cream (healt-conscious Americans drink caffeine-free coffee for health). On weekends they often eat brunch, usually eaten at 10 o'clock. Americans prefer to go to restaurants for their brunch. It has several courses. Meat-bacon (crispy=it crunches), ham, sausage (ground meat, fried). Bacon is crispy and spicy. With hash browns on side order (grated potoatoes, fried so that they are crispy, with a lot of pepper and salt). Toast - bread - wheat or rye, with salted butter.

Pancakes - like Czech omeletts but sweeter. They are round, 1 cm thick and have 10 or 11 cm in diameter. They are stacked on the plate, they toast them with salted butter. They pour maple syrup over them. (from sap of maple trees, heavy and very sweet. Fruit.
Eggs - small plate with eggs. Eggs are scrambled (not with oli but with milk), soft-boiled (not so common) or fried.
Glass of orang juice, coffee. You pay only for the first cup, refills are free, as much cream as you want.
Lunch is eaten at noon and it's light. Usually it's sandwich - many are prepared at home and brought to work, eaten in canteen. They bring them in brown bag (paper bags are only brown) or lunch box.
PBJ = peanut butter and jelly (liquid) or jam (with pieces [chunks] of fruit) sandwich. Peanut butter is spread on one slice, jam on the other and the 1st slice is put over the other with jelly.
Americans never eat sandwiches without chips. Potato chips were created in 1853 in America. In 40's of the 20th century, flavours were added (sour cream with onion, salt and vinegar, barbecue, ketchup, mustard, cheese). Now they prefer corn chips. Most popular are tortilla chips with large pieces of corn or apple chips (good for those who watch their weight).
Tuna fish sandwich - with smoked sausages.
They drink soda = soft drinks = carbonated drinks with sugar and caffeine (or sugar-free, caffeine-free), many brands - Coca Cola, 7up, many sizes - small, medium, large.
Some people go outside for lunch.
Deli - a place specialized in sandwiches of jewish origin. Deli sandwiches are heated - eaten warm, good in taste.
Bagels - like donuts,they are very dense and chewy, toasted, with cream cheese put on them, or with smoked salmon. But they can also be sweet. They are of Jewish origin.
Beef jerky (dried meat, very salty), rattlesnake jerky (dried rattlesnake meat is good for those who watch their weight).
The Americans do not eat after lunch because they wait for dinner.