On 2016-04-14 5:40 AM, Robert wrote:
> "Dave Smith" wrote in message ...
>
> On 2016-04-13 2:15 PM, Robert wrote:
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>> Where what? The question was what is the traditional American food.
>> Every Sunday my mom served meatloaf mashed potatoes and a vegetable
>> (either peas and carrots, green beans, spinach, or corn). So I said it
>> was meatloaf.
>
> That would make it a typical family meal for you and your kin. I have
> often advised people that if a restaurant has meatloaf or meatloaf
> sandwiches on their menu you should order it because it is likely to be
> good. Other than higher end places, there aren't many restaurants that
> don't have burgers on the menu. There are a number of fast food
> franchises that specialize in burgers. Most have diversified a little,
> but the vast majority of their meals involved hamburgers.
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> Hamburgers might be a popular menu item. But that does not make them a
> traditions.
>
They are a popular menu item because people like them and order them.
Just everyone in the US and Canada eats hamburgers, and they have been
for a long time, and that makes them a traditional food.

I can't believe this group has once again taken on the idea that there is really
a traditional or usual "American" food.

How often has this tired old insolvable question been dragged out into the daylight,
anyway? Can't we just stop once and for all? There will never be agreement
Because the US is so big and is made up of so many ancestral entities.

N.