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Hey Americans! Why do you hate vinegar so much?

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So I just got back from a trip. I stopped by Detroit, Birmingham, Nashville and for the bulk of the time, New Orleans. Fucking amazing trip, New Orleans is so cool. Detroit was just as boring as the last time I went, and Birmingham and Nashville were cool, but nothing compared to nawlins.

So anyway, any restaurant I went to, there is NO vinegar to be soon. I was aware of this before, but this just re-enforced how big of a problem this is. I had chicken fingers and fries in detroit, but there was no vinegar? How am I supposed to eat chicken fingers and fries without vinegar? It's an abomination, just terrible. So plain. And Ketchup just doesn't do the job, ugh. I'm gonna have to bring a flask with vinger in it next time I go to the US.

Also when I was at the gas stations for pit stops, I didn't see any Salt and Vinegar flavoured chips? The fuck? That's the best flavour!

What's wrong with you guys!?
 
I like vinegar and in fact sometimes put it in as an ingredient when I make chicken salad.

Edit: Yep salt and vinegar chips are the shit.
 
They don't have real bacon either, guy. That bothers me a lot more than the lack of vinegar.

Akkad said:
I like Vinegar on my salad and I like the vinegar type chips, but not as a dip.
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It's not meant to be used as a dip. You apply it like you would salt and pepper: all over. You then have another condiment as your dip elsewhere, typically ketchup, brown sauce or curry sauce*.

*Unless you're in the North of England, where curry sauce is also applied like salt and pepper. In the South, it may (but not universally) be the case that mushy peas are used in place of curry sauce.
 
tha fuck?! bitches don't know about my balsamic vinegar?


(no seriously it's the shit. also malt vinegar with big thick cut frenchfries, fried slightly oily/damp? godlike.)
 
Vinegar's great for cooking and stuff but I wouldn't eat it raw. Anyway I eat my chicken fingers with bbq sauce and my fries with ranch dressing. B)

Salt and vinegar chips are pretty common though.
 
Find better places to eat? Several pubs I go to in Michigan have vinegar on the table and I just picked up a bag of salt & vinegar potato chips earlier this week.
 
akira28 said:
tha fuck?! bitches don't know about my balsamic vinegar?


(no seriously it's the shit. also malt vinegar with big thick cut frenchfries, fried slightly oily/damp? godlike.)
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For the purposes of this thread, vinegar = malt vinegar. Balsamic vinegar is treated as an entirely different thing by most places.
 
I'm American--grew up here--and only ever got vinegar on my fries/chips when I went to a fish 'n chips place, but I love it, personally.

There's an English style pub nearby that keeps vinegar and brown sauce on the tables. I always make sure to get some fish and chips or chicken and chips whenever I go there.
 
I love salt and vinegar chips, but vinegar on chicken fingers? Sounds nasty to me! Give me BBQ sauce every time!
 
There are salt and vinegar chips around here. And vinegar is great for dressing mixes. I think you're looking for vinegar in places where more "hearty" food is prevalent, not acidic foods.
 
Konka said:
It's called ketchup.
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You'd figure that Americans love it so much these would be easier to find.

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You went to some pretty random places, like you started in Detroit and just decided to head south. Were you visiting family?

Anyway, Americans don't use vinegar as a condiment. We use it as an ingredient in lots of things, like salad dressing or barbecue. In fact if you had any barbecue on your trip I promise you that you got your vinegar requirement. And I'm surprised you couldn't find salt and vinegar chips, since they are fairly common in supermarkets and grocery stores.
 
I hope you're not suggesting eating chicken fingers and fries with vinegar is a Canadian thing because that combination sounds repugnantly disgusting.
 
Vinegar is used in all types of foods in America but I can't say I've ever seen or heard of someone wanting to use them with their chicken fingers or fries.
 
SapientWolf said:
It smells like feet.
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WRONG. The bacteria that like to grow in the crevices on the skin of human feet, the chemical byproducts of their metabolism smell like slightly like vinegar.



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malt vinegar's pretty popular in the south, i reckon. I see it plenty of places around. Although I think my asian friends who eat their fried chicken with ketchup is fairly odd, condiments are definitely a regional thing.
 
You know what's nasty?

Vinegar. That's why the pilgrims moved to America, and that's why we fought the Revolutionary War.

To get rid of vinegar.

I love vinegar please don't kill me oh god
 
I'm american and eat salt and vinegar potato chips all the time.

Tonight I had barbeque with vinegar based sauce. My gf is going to cut up some cucumbers and put them in vinegar this weekend.

Also, just today I got some salt and vinegar flavored peanuts in shell, can't wait to try those!
 
Unfortunately, too many Americans eat everything with ranch dressing. So we have ranch dressing everywhere even though it ruins the flavor of most things.
 
Suairyu said:
For the purposes of this thread, vinegar = malt vinegar. Balsamic vinegar is treated as an entirely different thing by most places.
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I'm talking specifically about white vinegar, but malt is good too.
 
akira28 said:
WRONG. The bacteria that like to grow in the crevices on the skin of human feet, the chemical byproducts of their metabolism smell like slightly like vinegar.
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Well that's a relief. Feet smell like vinegar.
 
Bread said:
wait what?
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Seriously. Go outside of America and request bacon. Your mind (and taste buds) will be blown.

At University I worked in an organic burger shop. Without fail, every American who tried the bacon were blown away and insisted on having it in every burger.

In the spectrum of bacon, we can rank it as such:

Australian > British >>> Canadian >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> American

whitehawk said:
I'm talking specifically about white vinegar, but malt is good too.
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You be right! For some reason I lump them together in my head, due to being applied in (mostly) the same culinary circles.
 
Suairyu said:
Seriously. Go outside of America and request bacon. Your mind (and taste buds) will be blown.

At University I worked in an organic burger shop. Without fail, every American who tried the bacon were blown away and insisted on having it in every burger.

In the spectrum of bacon, we can rank it as such:

Australian > British >>> Canadian >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> American
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Come on man....not Canadian bacon....WTF
 
akira28 said:
WRONG. The bacteria that like to grow in the crevices on the skin of human feet, the chemical byproducts of their metabolism smell like slightly like vinegar.
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Is this some sort of disagree to agree situation?

Suairyu said:
Seriously. Go outside of America and request bacon. Your mind (and taste buds) will be blown.

At University I worked in an organic burger shop. Without fail, every American who tried the bacon were blown away and insisted on having it in every burger.

In the spectrum of bacon, we can rank it as such:

Australian > British >>> Canadian >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> American
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BAHAHAHAHA oh man that's rich
 
Suairyu said:
Seriously. Go outside of America and request bacon. Your mind (and taste buds) will be blown.

At University I worked in an organic burger shop. Without fail, every American who tried the bacon were blown away and insisted on having it in every burger.

In the spectrum of bacon, we can rank it as such:

Australian > British >>> Canadian >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> American
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lol?
 
LaserBuddha said:
Come on man....not Canadian bacon....WTF
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Canadian bacon isn't a great bacon, but it's technically closer to being actual bacon so it wins on technicality. I totes prefer American bacon to it but on the spectrum of "real bacon" American loses on scientific grounds.

elrechazao said:
lol?
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No, not lol. I'm actually being incredibly serious, but the topic is so farcical it sounds hilarious.

Go to Europe or Australia and request bacon.

(if, by contrast, you are from Europe or Australia, get 'streaky bacon'. It's the closest approximate we have to American bacon)
 
Suairyu said:
Seriously. Go outside of America and request bacon. Your mind (and taste buds) will be blown.

At University I worked in an organic burger shop. Without fail, every American who tried the bacon were blown away and insisted on having it in every burger.

In the spectrum of bacon, we can rank it as such:

Australian > British >>> Canadian >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> American

You be right! For some reason I lump them together in my head, due to being applied in (mostly) the same culinary circles.
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Dude, I'm Canadian and normal bacon >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> peamael/canadian bacon.
 
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My grandfather and dad are from England, they introduced me to this growing up. I put it on fries, steak, salad etc. Love this stuff.
 
I use vinegar to clean my dog's puke and piss out of the carpet. I was not aware of its other functions.
 
Dude, I'm American as fuck and my family loves vinegar. My dad and brothers drink the shit.

And hell yes it's great on fries. Go to better restaurants/gas stations next time.
 
Shick Brithouse said:
I didn't realise we had that stereotype. Vinegar is quite popular and Salt/Vinegar chips are indeed greatness.
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Most fast food places in Canada have white vinegar in the condiments section. I've heard that's very uncommon in the states.

Suairyu said:
For the purposes of this thread, vinegar = malt vinegar. Balsamic vinegar is treated as an entirely different thing by most places.
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Really? White vinegar (pure acetic acid and water) is much more commonly available in Canada than malt vinegar. Is this not the case elsewhere?

Also, acetic acid is awesome.
 
whitehawk said:
Dude, I'm Canadian and normal bacon >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> peamael/canadian bacon.
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Taste wise, yes. I prefer American bacon over Canadian bacon. But seriously, Canadian bacon is closer to real bacon if we look at it on technical grounds.
 
Suairyu said:
Canadian bacon isn't a great bacon, but it's technically closer to being actual bacon so it wins on technicality. I totes prefer American bacon to it but on the spectrum of "real bacon" American loses on scientific grounds.
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"real bacon"? is this serious?

Also, did you just say totes?

I'm at a loss for words.
 
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