"Frogleg" > wrote in message
...
> On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 20:33:12 GMT, "Peter Dy" >
> wrote:
>
> >"Frogleg" > wrote
>
> >> >> I resent "dumbed down" and "American tastes." One sauce? I dunno.
> >> >
> >> >Restaurant owners/worker have told me, and I've read it, that they
want
> >to
> >> >serve vegetables Americans are used to. I'm sure if you asked diners
in
> >> >such restaurants, they would say the same: I prefer American
vegetables.
> >> >So, if you don't want to call that "Americanized", what, pray tell, do
> >you
> >> >suggest we call it?
> >>
> >> Is the problem American tastes, restauranteurs' expectations, or
> >> availability of ingredients? You imply the second, and assume the
> >> first.
> >
> >You didn't answer the question. You also seem to have poor reading
skills,
> >as I specifically said that availability wasn't the problem: "there are
> >Chinese vegetables pouring out into the streets in the grocery stores 3
> >blocks away."
>
> OK. I read just fine. What Chinese veg are pouring into the street in
> your neighborhood that "Americans" won't eat?


I already mentioned some such Chinese vegetables. You really want me to
list all the Chinese vegetables one won't find at an Americanized
restaurant?


[If Americans won't eat
> them, maybe that's why grocers stock them just sweep them out the
> door?]


There're not literally pouring into the streets! LOL!

Adiós, troll.

Peter