What a typical American Eats

The main events of the last ten mintues for me: Walk in the door from work, check my mail, grab a snack to eat, sit on the couch.

Then I thought to myself, "I wonder what a typical meal is for an Italian."

I think the reason I thought that was because I was wanting variety in my meals. Why I thought that, I don't know. But I figured that if I knew a handful of real typical meals from different cultures around the world, I'd always have something different and interesting for each meal.

The problem is finding that information. An American Google search will bring results, but they'll be produced by an American born Italian, and most likely it won't be authentic in some way. I could be wrong.

But take my experience with a gyro for example. In Greece they put french fries inside the sandwich. Here they put the fries on the side.

I'm not a full believer in the thought that only natives can make their own food well. Non-natives can too, it's just that in the process of transferring information, something was lost, misinterpreted or wrongly substituted. Take my gyro example again. In the simplest way, we Americans could put the fries in the sandwhich. Simple as that. (Although I won't get into other ways we probably make it wrong. Well...briefly; they soak the bread in olive oil, and everytime I ordered one they asked me if I wanted pork or chicken, not lamb.)

So anyway. I want to be a source of information. I am going to share my meals in hope that some Euro, Asian or African will search the words, "typical american cuisine," and find my blog. While I'm only a "typical" American in the sense that I'm American, I know that my next door neighbor might have completely different eating habits. But hey, if we all do this, we can help transcend the cutlture of food and bring everyone on this planet to a happy tummy! K, not really.

Anyway, here it goes.

Breakfast: Whisked two eggs. Tore a slice of ham into pieces and mixed it with the eggs. Scrambled the eggs and ham. Toasted an english muffin. Used half a slice of american cheese to put inside the sandwich. Drank a glass of milk.

Lunch: Ate quesadillas. Grilled chicken. Cut the chicken into slices. Placed chicken slices onto a corn tortilla. Sprinkled mozarella cheese on top. Put another tortilla on top. Put on a frying pan until cheese was melted.

Dinner: Ate "Weta's Sphagetti." Boil pasta. Simmer tomatoe sauce. Add pasta to sauce. Add chopped onion. Enjoy. Oh yeah, ate freshed baby leaf spinach with homemade ranch dressing.