Meanwhile in America

[TheReal_ND]

You probably never ate real (good) pumpkin pie.

That's what I'm saying.
I was curious enough to try making it but I used butternut squash which was too potato-like in texture. That is the only time I've eaten it.
Next time I will use tinned pumpkin puree as recommended by My Dog Jesse and Kath.
The taste was very nice, I love nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and allspice.

Yeah, pumpkin pie does get a lot better using raw pumpkin. The tin works just fine.

And I like my pumpkin pie on the dryer side, or more firm.

Nah. The secret was always in the can.

[Montegriffo]

That's what I'm saying.
I was curious enough to try making it but I used butternut squash which was too potato-like in texture. That is the only time I've eaten it.
Next time I will use tinned pumpkin puree as recommended by My Dog Jesse and Kath.
The taste was very nice, I love nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and allspice.

Yeah, pumpkin pie does get a lot better using raw pumpkin. The tin works just fine.

And I like my pumpkin pie on the dryer side, or more firm.

Nah. The secret was always in the can.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm pie curious.

[Speaker to Animals]

I'm a pecan pie man, myself.

[Montegriffo]

Key lime pie sounds nice.
Similar to our lemon meringue pie I guess.

[C-Mag]

Nothing wrong with being a fussy eater either.
I respect your right to find challenging flavours difficult.
I think you are missing out, but it's no business of mine.

Alrighty, you enjoy your Applebys slop, where they hide inferior ingredients with spices and sauces made from recycled butter off the plates of last weeks customers.

I have no idea what Applebys is.
I rarely eat food made by anyone else.
In fact, the last time was an award-winning, woodfired oven, authentic Naples style pizzeria nearby.
I was very disappointed by its undercooked base and the sparsity of cheese and toppings on it.
That's twice in the last year (family birthdays) that it has been poor IMO and I won't be going again.

Applebys is an American chain restaurant usually in walking distance of big box stores. It sells itself as better food with atmosphere, but is slop at higher prices. I'll take a classic American Diner anyday.

[Montegriffo]

Alrighty, you enjoy your Applebys slop, where they hide inferior ingredients with spices and sauces made from recycled butter off the plates of last weeks customers.

I have no idea what Applebys is.
I rarely eat food made by anyone else.
In fact, the last time was an award-winning, woodfired oven, authentic Naples style pizzeria nearby.
I was very disappointed by its undercooked base and the sparsity of cheese and toppings on it.
That's twice in the last year (family birthdays) that it has been poor IMO and I won't be going again.

Applebys is an American chain restaurant usually in walking distance of big box stores. It sells itself as better food with atmosphere, but is slop at higher prices. I'll take a classic American Diner anyday.

Apparently, there's not a single Applebees in the whole of Europe.

[Hastur]

Pineapple pizza is classic cross cooking. Calling it Hawaiian is wrong though. Probably a marketing ploy. The inspiration came from sweet and sour pork so a proper name for it would be Hong Kong or Cantonese pizza.

The typical pizza Margherita with the Italian flag colors, red (tomato), green (basil), and white (mozzarella) was invented in the late 1800's and can be argued to be cross cooking as well. Pizzas didn't have tomato on them earlier and tomatoes came to Italy from South America.

Italians really embraced tomatoes, didn't they.

[The Conservative]

I have no idea what Applebys is.
I rarely eat food made by anyone else.
In fact, the last time was an award-winning, woodfired oven, authentic Naples style pizzeria nearby.
I was very disappointed by its undercooked base and the sparsity of cheese and toppings on it.
That's twice in the last year (family birthdays) that it has been poor IMO and I won't be going again.

Applebys is an American chain restaurant usually in walking distance of big box stores. It sells itself as better food with atmosphere, but is slop at higher prices. I'll take a classic American Diner anyday.

Apparently, there's not a single Applebees in the whole of Europe.

You're not missing much. Up here in the north we call it Crapplebees.

[clubgop]

Applebys is an American chain restaurant usually in walking distance of big box stores. It sells itself as better food with atmosphere, but is slop at higher prices. I'll take a classic American Diner anyday.

Apparently, there's not a single Applebees in the whole of Europe.

You're not missing much. Up here in the north we call it Crapplebees.

Go there once a year, they give veterans a free meal on veterans day and they were one of the first to do that.

[Speaker to Animals]

In the early 2000s they weren't so bad. I want to say the quality took a dive about ten years or so ago.

They were never great, but they weren't *that* bad like what you get now.


Really, most of those kinds of chain restaurants went that way. I think TGIF is the only one that upped their game.