I will allow this only for today

Today my readers, I will allow us to be pretentious and critical about some of the lows of North American food creations. Don't get me wrong, I am the first to say there is a true food revolution happening in the United States and that it is very possible and quite easy to find good, delicious, and creative food out there- as evidenced by my last few posts.

But sometimes there is this:

Mac-and-Cheese Pizza

I present you one website that had me chuckling today, and that is worth a gander. I give full photo credit for the image above to http://www.disgracesonthemenu.com/

Hope you get a chance to take a peek at this site. I headed straight to the "Top Tens" Section at the top of the page. 

After spending some time in Europe and eating many meals abroad, and I'm sure those of you that have travelled can agree, food labeling blunders and crazy (and sometimes mildly offensive) food combinations that are all too common WILL stand out more to you. Of course I'm not personally offended when I come across imitation French products marketing themselves as "the real thing," but it does make me think about the reasons behind such efforts on the part of food producers. It also certainly makes me reminisce about the different products and dishes I was lucky enough to try and my unyielding desire to recreate them here in the United States, in what I hope will be in a more authentic way than my pre-Europe days ( I've been since privy to regional food preparations by locals in France.) 

I get it though, it's hard! Finding ingredients here that are common elsewhere is a real doozy. And don't even get me started about the prices of certain things... cheese and wine for example. 

On a recent trip to a local liquor store (which shall remain nameless) that also sells "gourmet food" in Newton, my friend Emily and I spent almost seventy dollars on two kinds of imported cheeses (a brie and comté), some bread, apricot jam to accompany cheese, two small packs of beer (including one of my favorite beers of all time, the Tripel Karmeliet from the Brouwerij Bosteels in Belgium) and a bottle of Italian prosecco. Oh yes, and some gummy candies.

Seventy dollars! I miss the days of fresh unpasteurized milk cheeses for a more lowly sum, and of cheap beer. Take Prague for example... their very decent beers, even some of the better pilsners, were cheaper than water.

 

Readers from the U.S. and abroad, what do you think about this topic?