Re:My Hunt for the Original McDonald’s French-Fry Recipe
by phonypc on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:04PM
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Prosciutto e melone, brie en croute, fruit and cheese/cured meat in general, duck a l'orange, pad thai. Sweet + salty/savoury foods are definitely not uncommon throughout the world.
Re:My Hunt for the Original McDonald’s French-Fry Recipe
by buckminster on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:09PM
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Sure, you can find this flavour combination anywhere, but I don't know of another country that uses sugar to the extent America does. I ordered a fried breakfast in an American hotel and they put icing sugar on the sausages! It's bizarre.
Re:My Hunt for the Original McDonald’s French-Fry Recipe
by phonypc on Monday November 30, 2020 @02:52PM
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Did the breakfast come with pancakes or waffles? Maybe the sugar was intended for those but some missed. I don't doubt there are people who enjoy sugared sausages, but for a restaurant to sugar their sausages unasked is something I'd expect most Americans to find odd as well.
Re:My Hunt for the Original McDonald’s French-Fry Recipe
by buckminster on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @11:34AM
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Overspray from something else on the plate would have been obvious. Maybe it was overspray from someone else's plate.
But after a few days in America I wasn't that surprised. It was just another thing with added sugar for no reason.
Re:My Hunt for the Original McDonald’s French-Fry Recipe
by vonmoltke on Monday November 30, 2020 @05:45PM
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> I ordered a fried breakfast in an American hotel and they put icing sugar on the sausages!
That is not normal, and it isn't fair to extrapolate your single experience to be so.
Re:My Hunt for the Original McDonald’s French-Fry Recipe
by reaperducer on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:00PM
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I ordered a fried breakfast in an American hotel and they put icing sugar on the sausages!
I've had hotel breakfasts in 48 states. Nobody puts sugar on the sausages.
You probably had pancakes on the plate and some of the sugar got on the sausages during sprinkling.
> That's super reductionist... [list of American foods (or foods that aren't american but are extremely popular there, as in ketchup) with sugar added to it]
You didn't do much to dispell the idea that this is an American thing.
Maybe salted caramel pralines. But sour and sweet is a common flavour trope in much of the world. e.g. lemon + sugar e.g. in cannoli; tamarind and cane sugar in SE Asia and Mexican recipes; Chinotto.