/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19046734
>Butter Beans. Sweet potatoes.
>Lettuce. Succotash. String beans.
>Mashed potatoes. Catsup.
>Boiled potatoes, in their skins.
>New potatoes, minus the skins.
>Early rose potatoes, roasted in the ashes, Southern style, served hot.
>Sliced tomatoes, with sugar or vinegar. Stewed tomatoes.
>Green corn, cut from the ear and served with butter and pepper.
>Green corn, on the ear.
>Hot corn-pone, with chitlings, Southern style.
>Hot hoe-cake, Southern style.
>Hot egg-bread, Southern style.
>Hot light-bread, Southern style.
>Buttermilk. Iced sweet milk.
>Apple dumplings, with real cream.
>Apple pie. Apple fritters.
>Apple puffs, Southern style.
>Peach cobbler, Southern style.
>Peach pie. American mince pie.
>Pumpkin pie. Squash pie.
>All sorts of American pastry.
>Fresh American fruits of all sorts, including strawberries

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>>16104809
>Butter Beans. Sweet potatoes.
>Lettuce. Succotash. String beans.
>Mashed potatoes. Catsup.
>Boiled potatoes, in their skins.
>New potatoes, minus the skins.
>Early rose potatoes, roasted in the ashes, Southern style, served hot.
>Sliced tomatoes, with sugar or vinegar. Stewed tomatoes.
>Green corn, cut from the ear and served with butter and pepper.
>Green corn, on the ear.
>Hot corn-pone, with chitlings, Southern style.
>Hot hoe-cake, Southern style.
>Hot egg-bread, Southern style.
>Hot light-bread, Southern style.
>Buttermilk. Iced sweet milk.
>Apple dumplings, with real cream.
>Apple pie. Apple fritters.
>Apple puffs, Southern style.
>Peach cobbler, Southern style.
>Peach pie. American mince pie.
>Pumpkin pie. Squash pie.
>All sorts of American pastry.
>Fresh American fruits of all sorts, including strawberries

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That's a very diverse diet with ingredients that most people don't eat or have easy access for eating today.

What does /ck/ think of Mark Twain's list of his favorite American foods, from 1880's "A Tramp Abroad"?

>Radishes. Baked apples, with cream.
>Fried oysters; stewed oysters. Frogs.
>American coffee, with real cream.
>American butter.
>Fried chicken, Southern style.
>Porter-house steak.
>Saratoga potatoes.
>Broiled chicken, American style.
>Hot biscuits, Southern style.
>Hot wheat-bread, Southern style.
>Hot buckwheat cakes.
>American toast. Clear maple syrup.
>Virginia bacon, broiled.
>Blue points, on the half shell. [Note - A type of oyster]
>Cherry-stone clams.
>San Francisco mussels, steamed.
>Oyster soup. Clam Soup.
>Philadelphia Terrapin soup. [Turtle soup]
>Oysters roasted in shell - Northern style.
>Soft-shell crabs. Connecticut shad.
>Baltimore perch.
>Brook trout, from Sierra Nevadas.
>Lake trout, from Tahoe.
>Sheephead and croakers, from New Orleans. [types of fish]
>Black bass from the Mississippi.
>American roast beef.
>Roast turkey, Thanksgiving style.
>Cranberry sauce. Celery.
>Roast wild turkey. Woodcock.
>Canvasback-duck, from Baltimore.
>Prairie hens, from Illinois.
>Missouri partridges, broiled.
>‘Possum. Coon.
>Boston bacon and beans.
>Bacon and greens, Southern style.
>Hominy. Boiled onions. Turnips.
>Pumpkin. Squash. Asparagus.

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