Best American Food

[Anonymous No.6389569]

I'm going to New York City and Los Angeles this summer (Denmark here), and i was wonder what i should eat. What are some essentials must eat?

My current list: Burger, Poutine, NY style pizza, Chicken waffle, lobster roll, American breakfast, donuts, hotdogs, soul food, BBQ, Cheesecake, Apple pie and Mac n Cheese.

[Anonymous No.6389570]

>>6389569
>NY style pizza
thats just called pizza in america

[Anonymous No.6389573]

>>6389570
Are you saying that the big chains are cranking out NY style pizza? Because they're not.

[Anonymous No.6389595]

roscoe's chicken and waffles
in n out burger
don't get hotdogs, american ones are inferior to danish
proper texan bbq if you can get it where you're going

[Anonymous No.6389599]

>>6389573
yes

[Anonymous No.6389619]

That's a pretty solid list. I'd add Biscuits and Gravy as part of the "american breakfast" thing. And possibly buffalo wings if you're in new york.

[Anonymous No.6389627]

>>6389595
Isn't Pink's in LA And Nathan's famous, greys papaya, papaya king and crifdog supposed to be decent?

I'm definitely going to Rosco's.

Also heard that i should get some pastrami, corned beef, reuben sandwich (deli food). Thinking of Katz, Carnegies and Canter's deli.

>>6389619
Adding that to the list, thank you.

[Anonymous No.6389640]

>>6389569
Poutine and chicken waffle are meme food that nobody ate until 3-4 years ago. The rest of the list is legit. I would add barbecue and Texas-style chili. East Coast Americanized "Chinese" food is also brettygud, though it's hard to pick just one or two dishes to represent it.

[Anonymous No.6389643]

>>6389640
>East Coast Americanized "Chinese" food
how is it any different than the american chinese food in the entire rest of the country?

[Anonymous No.6389649]

>>6389569
>Poutine
That's Canadian bro

[Anonymous No.6389653]

You're going to the shittiest cities in America. Sorry, brah.

[Anonymous No.6389664]

>>6389569
When you go to New York go to the halal cart on 53rd St and 6th Ave. Put a ton of fucking white sauce on it.

Thank me later.

[Anonymous No.6389672]

>>6389595

>don't get hotdogs, american ones are inferior to danish

hasn't had a proper hotdog, clearly.

[Anonymous No.6389676]

>>6389569

When in LA, goto any Mexican street cart, or hole in the wall. Order a California burrito, thank me later bruh.

[Anonymous No.6389682]

>>6389569
Fried clams are a New England thing, but somebody in NYC probably serves them. New England style and Manhattan style clam chowder. Actually wherever you go for your lobster roll will probably have all of these items.

[Anonymous No.6389696]

>>6389672
there is no such thing as a proper hot dog, its a shitty meat for poor parents to give to their young children, in the civilized parts of america people eat legitimate sausages

[Anonymous No.6389726]

>>6389640

>chicken and waffles
>memefood

Doesn't make it less delicious

[Anonymous No.6389730]

>>6389664
>>6389676

>Street food

Scum pls go

[Anonymous No.6389736]

>>6389569
>American breakfast
wut
I mean I know your breakfast is basically jimmies on toast but wut

[Anonymous No.6389744]

>>6389736
must eggs and bacon

[Anonymous No.6389751]

>>6389736
Our breakfast is fantastic

[Anonymous No.6389754]

>>6389730
*Tips fedora* Well met anon I too only eat the finest cuisine this continent has to offer.

[Anonymous No.6389755]

>>6389736
>jimmies on toast
That's Australia m8

[Anonymous No.6389758]

>>6389751
That's a frozen hashcake. With ketchup.

[Anonymous No.6389759]

get you a new york style hot dog

[Anonymous No.6389762]

>>6389755
Nah man I mean this shit

[Anonymous No.6389764]

>>6389754

Working class trash, defending the cuisine of peasants and hipsters alike with a funny hat meme.

[Anonymous No.6389765]

>>6389755
>>6389762
Nah man I actually mean this shit

>>6389759
>boiled hot dogs
Fucking gross

[Anonymous No.6389777]

>>6389758
Here's a more accurate american breakfast, and the proper way to prepare it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7UW5AkWqOY

[Anonymous No.6389780]

>>6389777
There's not nearly enough butter or jimmies on that toast.

Nice trips though I hope I get doubles

[Anonymous No.6389795]

>>6389649
I know but i want to try it so bad.

>>6389664
I was told that the quality of the halal guys has rally plunged the last couple of yers.

>>6389672
Danish sausage is really good but i want to try an american to.

>>6389676
Forgot to mention Mexican food, been looking at Belinda's in LA.

>>6389682
Will check it out, New England clam bake looks good.

>>6389736
Dansk frokost - pic related

I'll also eat fine dining but i want to eat the American classics.

[Anonymous No.6389796]

>>6389569
>Poutine
>American

[Anonymous No.6389800]

>>6389595
>proper Texan bbq
>NY and LA

He isn't getting anything proper Texan from the meme cities.

[Anonymous No.6389802]

>>6389796
>disco fries
>Canadian

[Anonymous No.6389821]

>>6389569
>New York City and Los Angeles
Hvorfor ikke dra til litt mer landlige områder, der du kan få god mat og mote greie folk?
Jeg har aldri forstått folk som drar til store urbaniserte byer når de er i utlandet.

[Anonymous No.6389826]

>>6389777
AHAAHAHAHHA
BAACON
BACON

[Anonymous No.6389834]

>>6389821
Avtalt, jeg bor i et fjell vestlig stat i Amerika, og utsikten og naturen her er fantastisk. Folk egentlig ikke klar over hvor mye åpen plass og skjonnhet Amerika har.

[Anonymous No.6389843]

>>6389821
>>6389834
Ikke jeg som valgte destinasjon, mor og far ringte meg tilfeldig for 1 uke siden og spurte om jeg hadde lyst til å bli med. Var en no-brainer, jeg må alltid krangle med dem om hvem som skal betale/ ta regningen fordi de er pensjonerte med penger som bare ligger der...

[Anonymous No.6389848]

>>6389595
>texan bbq
Dry, tough meat bullshit

[Anonymous No.6389850]

>>6389848
North Carolina and St. Louis have better, but Texas has the best steaks

[Anonymous No.6389852]

>>6389843
>Var en no-brainer
Tydeligvis ikke, jeg ville sagt nei på sekundet.
Ingenting er verre en ferie med familie som dikterer forholdene. Samme det, kos deg, spis god mat og finn noen fine horer.

[Anonymous No.6389855]

>>6389627

you're in for a treat at Roscoe's.

Be sure to also hit up some taco stands too in LA. Leo's Taco Truck is my personal favorite. $1 each for some fucking great tacos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYKGp_TEanY

[Anonymous No.6389856]

>>6389850
>Texas has the best steaks
steak is great regardless of where you are in america

[Anonymous No.6389867]

>>6389664
Just no, stop posting forever.
>>6389569
Add egg creams to your list (I think you can get them at Katz's, if not try Eisenbergs), pecan pie, and key lime pie. Also try Amerifat Eye-talian food, just avoid Little Italy in Manhattan (there are a number of good places in the good Little Italy, aka Belmont, Bronx).

For Amerifat Chinese, Wo-Hop is a standard representation. The food is shit and it's a tourist trap but it's exactly what you came for so don't complain if it wasn't good.

>>6389800

Hill Country is pretty good, who gives a shit if Texans don't approve because it's not physically inside the borders of the shittiest state. Blue Smoke is also really good pan-American BBQ.

[Anonymous No.6389868]

>>6389856
This is mostly true, but Texas has access to more and fresher beef, but you can get fantastic steaks in other places as well like Chicago

[Anonymous No.6389875]

>>6389868
>but Texas has access to more and fresher beef,
The upper midwest and great plains have the freshest beef

[Anonymous No.6389886]

>>6389875
Is Cuba like 90% cows or something?

[Anonymous No.6389893]

>>6389875
>>6389868

Are you guys seriously having this argument? Beef ships extremely well, it doesn't matter where you live, because you can get good beef almost anywhere. It's one thing if you require hand-massaged kobe beef turds from Japan, or auroch tongue or whatever, maybe you need to be in NYC for that, but regular run of the mill grain fed, grass fed, grain fed/grass finished whatever you want prime beef, aged or not, from your run of the mill commercial American breeds, you can get anywhere. Just go to a real restaurant and not outback.

[Anonymous No.6389897]

>>6389886
Never been to Cuba huh gringo?

[Anonymous No.6389900]

>>6389897
Canadian shitbag who ate stolen food detected.

[Anonymous No.6389902]

>>6389569
yeah, bump soul food and bbq to the top, and don't just get a burger, get In-n-out or 5 Guys if you can

[Anonymous No.6389907]

>>6389886

They have a lot because everybody there is basically on GOMAD due to regular food shortages. They're almost all dairy cattle.

[Anonymous No.6389908]

>>6389902
> don't just get a burger, get In-n-out or 5 Guys if you can

There is something to be said for knowing what our most popular brands of shitty fast food are like, but those are horrible representations of burgers. At least say Culver's or Shake Shack which are reasonably non-disgusting.

[Anonymous No.6389929]

>>6389886
Si

[Anonymous No.6389962]

>>6389664
That's overrated shit that only bloggers like.
Fuck that halal crap when there are tons of real restaurants nearby.

[Anonymous No.6389974]

>>6389867
>Hill Country is pretty good

No, just stop.

[Anonymous No.6389982]

>>6389569
It's not NY style if it's in New York. We call it pizza.

[Anonymous No.6389987]

>>6389974

Do you hate it because it's $40 for meat served on a plastic tray with two slices of wonder bread, or do you have real reasons?

[Anonymous No.6389992]

>>6389982
seems like only New Yorkers try to take credit for normal american style pizza

[Anonymous No.6390001]

Best American food?

[Anonymous No.6390005]

>>6389982

Even in NY there are different styles of pizza. In certain contexts it still makes sense to say "NY style" if you're comparing say, the plain slice at Suprema to the bee sting at Roberta's.

[Anonymous No.6390016]

>>6389987
mainly from what I see, other than the bad ratings given by people who don't know barbecue from their assholes, is that they quick smoke their meats and finish them in an oven. That is not even close to good barbecue.

[Anonymous No.6390021]

>>6390005
Those are outliers at best and comprise maybe .01% of the pizza places in NYC. Those are the ones that would be qualified by "xyz" style, a regular slice is just pizza.

[Anonymous No.6390038]

>>6390001
>hashbrowns
>not home fries
Ya blew it

[Anonymous No.6390042]

>>6390021
That may be true, but when discussing say the top 25 or top 50 pizza places in NYC (and let's be honest, there is no reason ever not to go at least to one of the top 50), a disproportionate number of those are not actually NY style, so it makes sense to add that qualifier.

[Anonymous No.6390048]

Amazed that this thread made it this far without some Brazilian douchebag starting the "america is a continent" battle

>But yeah, I'd say find a good, full BBQ meal

[Anonymous No.6390054]

>>6389875
Well in reality new York has the freshest meat 3 of the 4 biggest meat processing plants are in NY and the North NY has alot more farms then people think
you can see the difference in prices I now live in Florida where a bag of beef jerkey is $15 but the same bag in NY is only $10 and I 13 ranches within 5 miles of me

[Anonymous No.6390060]

>>6390016
> they quick smoke their meats and finish them in an oven

Can you provide a little more detail on this?

[Anonymous No.6390061]

You'll never get good American food in New York or LA, just food from other nationalities, made in America.

You'll only find good BBQ in the south, anyway.

[Anonymous No.6390065]

>>6390048
This has never happened on /ck/, spend less time on /int/

[Anonymous No.6390068]

>>6390060
They do not fully cook heir meat in the pit, it is, for use of a better word, par cooked in a pit, and then finished in an oven. This does not give you a full flavor cut of meat, and the bark is not fully developed.

[Anonymous No.6390069]

>>6389569
If you want a good burger when your in NY go to all American burger it's a small place in long island and cheep it's known arround America and pretty cheap I would go there for lunch every day when I lived by it

[Anonymous No.6390081]

>>6390068
Is "quick smoke" the term for that? The information I'm seeing is that they're putting it in a smoker for 14 hours at 200 degrees. Is the issue the temperature or is it supposed to go for longer?

[Anonymous No.6390093]

>>6390054
>Well in reality new York has the freshest meat
lol, sure it does

[Anonymous No.6390095]

>>6390038

differeftiate, plz

[Anonymous No.6390097]

>>6390081
I can guarantee their meat is not smoked for 14 hours. The bark would be more defined and the smoke ring would be thicker. You are talking about the Hill Country in NYC, correct?

[Anonymous No.6390111]

>>6390042

Yeah when I visited NYC almost all the pizza I had was Neapolitan style or close to it. There's a shit load of great pizza places in that city but if you go to one of the famous ones expect to wait a long ass time for a pie.

NYC being as massive as it is you can really good quality food of every variety and type. Their delis are world class, great place for pastrami and a reuban. I'd recommend trying a good cheesesteak somewhere too.

LA has great Mexican and asian influenced food. And I know the draw to goto 1 of the hyped up burger chains like In-N-Out or 5 Guys is there, but really all the best burgers tend to come from a restaurant. Steak restaurants usually do the best burgers in my experience but I've been to some hole in the wall joints that make amazing burgers too.

And for the 'hurr durr TX #1' posts you can really get solid BBQ in just about every major city in the US. You really think 1 of the biggest cities in the world NYC and LA would have 0 good BBQ.

I'd really recommend checking out 1 of those Brazilian steakhouses in LA like Fogo de Chao where they just walk around with various cuts of meat and cut you off a chunk and it's all you can eat.

[Anonymous No.6390124]

>>6390097

The same one.

I'm going by this article. That pink outer part is the smoke ring? How deep should it go?

http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/07/how-to-make-beef-brisket-barbecue-hill-country-fatty-cue-nyc.html

[Anonymous No.6390129]

>>6390111

Fogo de Chao is a nationwide chain, you can get that in any medium sized city. It's fine, but it's not unique to LA.

[Anonymous No.6390136]

>>6390129

Good to know I've wanted to goto one for a long time but I thought they were only in the SoCal area.

[Anonymous No.6390138]

>>6390124
The top piece of meat is almost right, still a little on the slim side, the bottom one, while being lean brisket, doesn't look smoked more than 4-6 hours. Also, the bark is splotchy, it should be more uniform. This pic does look 100X better than what is shown on their Yelp page though.

[Anonymous No.6390159]

>>6390124
>>6390138
Just read the article.

>Hill Country's smokers are gas-powered and smoke-infused.

There's your biggest culprit. Gas fucks with smoke rings, and in my opinion can't replicate the flavors of traditional pit barbecue, but others disagree. I will have to reserve judgement until they open one in a city I'm willing to travel to.

[Anonymous No.6390197]

>>6390069
Jackson Hole is real good too, I think there are three but the one I used to frequent a lot when I lived around there was on 64th between 2nd and 3rd Aves. There's another in Queens which looks good and though I've been past it more times than I can count I've just never been there. I've never seen the NJ one.

jacksonholeburgers.com

[Anonymous No.6390200]

Are bagels common in Denmark? Either way, I recommend getting bagels in NY. Essa Bagel is great but crowded unless you go at off hours on a weekday. Get it with the lox creamed cheese.

I also recommend finding a Taco Bell and enjoying some delicious pseudo-Mexican pseudo-food, like the Doritos Locos taco or a Crunchwrap Supreme.

[Anonymous No.6390206]

>>6389569
In LA? Make sure you try the Korean food.

[Anonymous No.6390219]

>>6390111
I think the main problem with BBQ in NYC are fire codes. It's pretty tough to put a real smoker there and comply with all the fire codes and venting.

[Anonymous No.6390223]

>>6389569
Poutine is Canadian, nigga

[Anonymous No.6390227]

>>6389764

California Burritos are fucking awesome you pretentious little shit.

[Anonymous No.6390229]

>>6389730
Kill yourself nigger

[Anonymous No.6390230]

>>6389758
It's called a hash brown fagtron

[Anonymous No.6390235]

>>6390197
I know you like Jackson Hole, paranoid bitter Philip Morris programmer Starbucks line photographing fedora shop posting guy, but in my opinion, and this is just my opinion, it's really not a particularly good burger. It's a thoughtlessly cooked mess of flavorless ground beef on a bun, is what it is. Totally edible especially if drunk, but not a place I'd send a foreigner looking for a great burger.

[Anonymous No.6390236]

>>6390235
Grinding that axe much?

[Anonymous No.6390264]

>>6390236
No axe here, I just find it weird to specifically call out Jackon as the place to go for a burger in the city, it's so average, maybe even below average.

Also if you like axes I bet you'd like this site:

http://www.bestmadeco.com/collections/axes

[Anonymous No.6390274]

Get a rueben sandwich when you're in NYC or else you let the terrorists win.

[Anonymous No.6390277]

>>6389730

Die in a fire.

[Anonymous No.6390285]

>>6390277

He's right though, at least about the 56th halal.

There's a lot of good street food in the city but that's not it. I think it's just little white girls from Indiana tasted their first food that was slightly spicy and salty and they started tweeting like it was the second coming. I don't know anyone from here who actually eats it for any reason other than to save money.

[Anonymous No.6390311]

>>6389627
don't go to pink's

it's massively overrated

[Anonymous No.6391090]

>>6389570
>>NY style pizza
>thats just called pizza in america

and it's called plastic joke vomit all around the world

[Anonymous No.6391091]

>>6391090

Take a nap Australia you're drunk.

[Anonymous No.6391097]

>>6391091

[Anonymous No.6391099]

>>6391097

[Anonymous No.6391152]

tacos al pastor (LA)
pecan pie
chicken-fried steak