Tuesday, 11 September 2012

'American' food in the UK

Steve and I went to an 'American' restaurant the other night, so I could be amused by it.  Batman was by the door, and the menus were huge (American sized?) and had all sorts of funny names for the types of burgers that were supposed to have to do with the US.  Here's an example of the American Mac burger...yes, complete with mac and cheese.  Yum!

Regardless, I didn't stop to think too much about it and ordered nachos.  It didn't take me very long to realize this was a bad idea.  First of all, I don't know how they do nachos in the rest of the US, but in California, we've got a lot of real Mexican restaurants that know how to do proper nachos.  This was a sad little pile compared to those, but as I'm a pretty bland eater, I was good with salsa, sour cream and guacamole.  Except it wasn't salsa.  It was marinara sauce.  And for the kicker -- they weren't tortilla chips.  They were Doritos.

Needless to say, I was quite amused, as Steve predicted.  But I won't be ordering nachos in the UK again anytime soon.  Check out some of the other items on the menu, anyway - the names were pretty funny.

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