Tastes differ :-) Modern Hungarian food can compete easily with American food in heaviness (though a sandwitch stuffed with potato chips is an abomination even seen from here). Though, I personally have eaten this "Milanese pork rib" only 1-2 times, pasta with breaded meat is a bit too heavy for me. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
And this is true despite significant regional variation: the one unifying trait of the food in the capital and the various rural regions is being high in calories. Now, given that most of even the traditional rural food is relatively recent, I was wondering how the food of the lower classes was before -- I don't think the serfs 200 years ago could afford meat and fat most of the days, so it must have been a lot richer in vegetables and vitamines. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Crisp sandwich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A crisp sandwich (in British English), chip sandwich, or potato chip sandwich (in North American English) is a sandwich which includes crisps (potato chips) as one of the fillings. In addition to the crisps, the other ingredients may be peanut butter, meat, cheese, tuna, ham, bologna, tomato, or any other common sandwich ingredient. While some people consider crisp sandwiches to be a low-end food,[1] there is at least one celebrity who admits to eating them.[2] Some people consider a sandwich without crisps to not be worth the effort.[3] Potato chip sandwiches are sometimes referred to as "white trash cuisine" or "trailer park cuisine".[4]
I can't recall when I first read of it, though I recall the shock; later I got a confirmation from an American relative who regularly ate it himself. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Actually, just after posting I managed to recall it. I didn't read but heard it the first time, too, from someone who went for a summer work as youth camp overseer to Massachusetts. So it is probably spread well beyond trailer park land. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Many years ago, some friends of mine and I decided to have some fun with a newly-arrived (to the U.S.) foreign guest student. Our plan was very simple. We were going to explain that, in America, people generally ate Chee-tohs (tm) [Frito-Lay's brand] cheese crisps with everything ---at breakfast, lunch and dinner---except, of course, in certain snobbish fancy places or where they had some reason to depart from their usual customs, as when, for example, many natives might shy from admitting to a foreign visitor the virtually universal practice of having Chee-tohs with everything. Hence, we were letting the visitor in on the inside dope, which otherwise he might not discover without our help.
And, of course, we made sure to have plenty of Chee-tohs on hand and to eat them with everything, till our scheme was exploded. "In such an environment it is not surprising that the ills of technology should seem curable only through the application of more technology..." John W Aldridge
