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[Slavik81]

Because vinegar is the food equivalent of ammonia?

Mix them and see what happens!

 

[Branduil]

Also! Holy shit I am jealous of you guys and your cheap beer.

12 Budweiser for $10? My god, that's got to cost at least double here. Also, got to try some Four Loko, it's illegal here in Canada. And I'm not surprised that it's illegal lol.

Why would someone not from America want to drink Bud? The only reason people here drink it is because they don't know better.

 

[Recarpo]

Fried food is merely a vessel for whatever sauce/condiment you want to consume. Does anyone here eat plain chicken fingers? Plain fries (no salt)? Plain wings? Plain nuggets? Plain potato skins? Plain fried shrimp? Plain potato wedges? Plain anything fried? Everything fried typically has some condiment attached to it. It's so.....gross :\

Most of the time I'll eat chicken strips without any sauce. Same thing goes with a lot of fried things.

 

[Chuck Norris]

Chicken salt is the best thing to put on chips

I don't think anywhere does it outside Australia

Everywhere else loses

 

[itxaka]

Most americans use prebuilt salad dressing. Italian salad dressing etc. Only real foodies in america will make their own using olive oil+vinegar.

Spoiler

which I have done!

What does that dressing have? becasue in italy they also use vinegar and one of the best ones. Balsamic vinegar + salad + italian cheese = Orgasm

 

[Vagabundo]

I love my malt vinegar, wow. I had a battered sausage and chip smothered in salt and vinegar last night.

Chicken salt is the best thing to put on chips

I don't think anywhere does it outside Australia

Everywhere else loses

That stuff is like cocaine. I've often thought I should start a business importing it here. I know it would wreak the gaff...

 

[Dead Man]

Chicken salt is the best thing to put on chips

I don't think anywhere does it outside Australia

Everywhere else loses

God, I have such a weakness for that stuff. I know it's rubbish, but I get it on my fish and chips... every single time.

 

[Foxy Fox 39]

What does that dressing have? becasue in italy they also use vinegar and one of the best ones. Balsamic vinegar + salad + italian cheese = Orgasm

This is it for most/average americans. Though some know better and buy something a little more refined.

Also I have made a balsamic dressing before it's freakin delicious.... I have to admit though I'm a sucker for feta cheese in my salad.

 

[Rikyfree]

Speak for yourself OP. Not all Americans are like that. I'm german in my tastes I've come to conclude: steak fries, mayo (real mayo), and vinegar.

 

[way more]

Sorry, still fake:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003LPSKPS/?tag=neogaf0e-20

First ingredient is soy.

To be fair, I'm not aware of a single real recipe on the market anymore.

Er, mayo is just egg whites and oil. Soybean oil is as good as any.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

After reading the wiki, and looking at the pictures...

British Bacon

American Bacon

You can get both styles (and many more) in the US.

The picture for American Bacon looks like more of the mass market stuff, while the British Bacon picture is what you get when you pay a bit more.

 

[J-Rzez]

I'm American as they get, and I love the shit out of malt vinegar. I put it on so many different foods, and cook with it as much as possible. The aroma is intoxicating. In fact, the only two scents that sexually arouse me more are "New Car Scent" and "A-1 sauce". A-1 is just, fucking... i came.

 

[chicko1983]

Chicken salt is the best thing to put on chips

I don't think anywhere does it outside Australia

Everywhere else loses

oh, yeah. The best of the chicken salts as well.

 

[Death Dealer]

I didn't realise we had that stereotype. Vinegar is quite popular and Salt/Vinegar chips are indeed greatness.

+1

Must have been the places he went to. Most restaurants have it as a condiment although you may have to ask for it.

Balsamic, white, red, apple cider, malt vinegar are all found in any grocery store. As are salt and vinegar flavored chips (crisps). Although it wouldn't surprise me if that flavor wasn't in a gas station. It seems like BBQ is the most popular variety.

 

[IsntChrisL]

Put BBQ sauce on your chicken fingers.

 

[Death Dealer]

Who the hell eats fries with vinegar? O_O

I've tried malt vinegar with fries at a fish and chips place. It's good.

 

[wetwired]

Vinegar on freshly cooked, hot Corned Meat is divine.

 

[Death Dealer]

Its called miracle whip because its a miracle anyone would substitute it for mayo. Its gross.

Mayo has a neutral flavor. I don't see how anyone could like miracle whip but not regular mayo. I do understand how someone could like mayo and not miracle whip. I'll eat both but I prefer regular mayo. Miracle whip is more of an acquired taste.

 

[IamMattFox]

I like to have them throw some vinegar and oil on my sandwiches at Subway.

I like salt and vinegar chips too.

 

[ZealousD]

Put BBQ sauce on your chicken fingers.

Exactly. This is the American way to do it, and it's the best way to do it.

This stuff is the nectar of the gods. I don't know how common it is outside of the US, but if you've never had Kansas City-style BBQ sauce, you're missing the fuck out.

 

[Doncamatic]

Chicken salt is the best thing to put on chips

I don't think anywhere does it outside Australia

Everywhere else loses

Oh man I respectfuly disagree. One of the things I hate about living in Australia, I can't grab some of the chips my friends have bought without having to deal with this shitty substitute for salt smothering them.

Also vinegar is the god tier condiment.

 

[PoopRiot]

Putting vinegar on fries and stuff is pretty popular and common here in Maryland. I thought it was weird when I first got here. Do all Five Guys restaurants had vinegar available or is that just a local thing?

 

[edbrat]

You can get both styles (and many more) in the US.

The picture for American Bacon looks like more of the mass market stuff, while the British Bacon picture is what you get when you pay a bit more.

We get "American" bacon in the UK and most of Northern Europe as well, it's called streaky and its usually at the cheap end behind back bacon and middle bacon, which are meatier and for most purposes way better than streaky. The main American thing about streaky in the US as opposed to over here is usually in the cure which is typically much sweeter than in most EU markets. However sweet cured streaky, back and middle are widely available in the UK usually from artisan pork outlets, farmers markets where you will typically get thick cut bacon of all varieties which the baby jesus would be proud to serve to fucking god himself.

Ponying up a plate of only sweet streaky would get your ass kicked in most civilised househoulds this side of the pond

 

[rpmurphy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz-mJed_bP0
Clearly, vinegar is the loser friend of soy sauce.

 

[edbrat]

Your preprepared mayo wars are misplaced, make your own if you want decent mayo. The taste is way better and a little goes a lot further so you don't have to have a heart attack by 45 if you eat it a lot. Use a neutral oil perhaps spiked with a little olive oil, egg yolks at room temp = mayo from god.

 

[Fonds]

Doesn't vinegar make your fries all soggy?

 

[RiccochetJ]

Been living in the US for 10 years now. The moment when they don't give me vinegar with my fish and chips is the day I go on a rant. Luckily it hasn't happened yet.

 

[LOZLINK]

in terms of the bacon wars, Australian bacon fucking sucks. Having moved here from canada, big downgrade.

 

[J Tourettes]

You're all insane. This is the only true condiment.

Yuck.

Or gtfo.

 

[iamblades]

Malt vinegar is typically reserved for seafood places/fish and chips type places/british pubs.

Salt and vinegar chips are widely available, but are a niche product after plain, barbeque, and sour cream & onion(which beat the hell out of any other potato chip IMO)

the real reason vinegar isn't as popular is hot sauce though. It's got a acidic vinegar bite, but brings so much more to the table that it'd be silly to stick with vinegar.

Even the traditional malt vinegar domain of fried fish is being taken over by hot sauce.

Any vinegar based condiment is better than ketchup, mustard and mayo though. Ketchup is way too sweet, sugar and tomatoes don't work together. I can't even stand the smell of mustard, it makes my nose itch. Mayo is just bland fatty and boring and it just has that icky slimy kind of texture that can ruin anything you put it on.

 

[JGS]

Mayo has a neutral flavor. I don't see how anyone could like miracle whip but not regular mayo. I do understand how someone could like mayo and not miracle whip. I'll eat both but I prefer regular mayo. Miracle whip is more of an acquired taste.

My taste for Miracle Whip has vanished over time. It's too sweet for me now except as the base for salad type sandwiches. Mayo is fairly neutral but helps with dry sandwich syndrome. I get a spicy version and olive oil version to break the monotony.

Vinegar on chicken tenders does not sound good, but love it on fish and some cooked veggies. Like all condiments for me, it is not a one size fits all solution.

You can get both styles (and many more) in the US.

The picture for American Bacon looks like more of the mass market stuff, while the British Bacon picture is what you get when you pay a bit more.

I like the American version better. The other one seems like a very thin pork chop.

Marbled ftw.

 

[Dead Man]

in terms of the bacon wars, Australian bacon fucking sucks. Having moved here from canada, big downgrade.

What crack are you on? Better than anywhere I have been except Europe.

 

[DonMigs85]

Mmm, can't have pork cracklings without vinegar too.

 

[perfectnight]

How am I supposed to eat chicken fingers and fries without vinegar?

jesus christ

 

[Mononofu]

I used to eat Captain D's Fish and fries with the vinegar packets they handed out. This is my vinegar for home though:

I drop a few cap fulls in some water and drink it every day, tasty!

Diluted vinegar has been used as a strengthening and energizing tonic by the military throughout the ages. Roman soldiers called this refreshing drink "posca", and used it regularly as did the Japanese samurai. The addition of vinegar to drinking water had the additional benefit of killing any infectious agents that might have been present.

http://www.apple-cider-vinegar-benefits.com/vinegar-history.html

If vinegar is good enough for Roman soldiers and Samurai it's good enough for me.

 

[Seth C]

It sounds like you were at shitty hamburger restaurants rather than pubs or fish and chip restaurants. If you go to a pub, or a fish and chip place, they will have vinegar on the table. If you go to mcDonalds they will not.

 

[AndyD]

Wish I knew you were coming through Nashville. Would have grabbed a beer.

As to vinegar, you can find it in the south almost everywhere. Both with oil for salads or just as a dipping condiment for fried fish or whatnot. More often in my experience though, people use lemon wedges on fried chicken or fish.

 

[Emerson]

Salt and Vinegar chips are everywhere as far as I know, so I dunno what's up with that. I also know a lot of people who like vinegar with fries, and I know plenty of places where it's available. Definitely never heard of it for chicken though.

 

[FOOTE]

You couldn't find Salt and Vinegar chips? Sounds like you simply walked into the wrong store, maybe go to an actual grocery store next time. Gas stations generally charge you more anyway. You'll also find your vinegar there as well.

 

[teh_pwn]

Er, mayo is just egg whites and oil. Soybean oil is as good as any.

Are you kidding me? Soybean oil is flavorless.

Try stir frying seasoned chicken with soybean oil, and a second time with the liquid fat from bacon after pan frying it. There is such a massive difference in flavor.

I'm not expert in making mayo, but the soy oil rant has to do with other condiments. I can't find buttermilk ranch with cream (uses soy) or olive oil and vinegar (uses soy). And these oils they are replacing have tons of flavor. Same is true with basically any condiment. The good italian sauces are loaded with herbs, spices, heavy extra virgin olive oil, and ripe tomatoes, the typical stuff has become flavorless bland tomatoes, salt, sugar, soybean oil.

Besides flavor soybean oil is very questionable as a food source. No one ate it until 50 years ago. Humans only eat oils that can be extracted without the aid of hexane solvents and a processing process more complicated than a meth lab.

 

[Mr_Appleby]

i had black vinegar on fried pork dumplings tonight. that shit is delicious.

Actually both are. The only real solution to both is ranch dressing. It tastes way better in any situation. And no one thinks you're weird for putting ranch on your fries.

actually yes, the rest of the world does think you're weird for putting that .. stuff .. on your fried potato dish. the standards here are tomato sauce (not quite the same as ketchup), vinegar, and mayonnaise/aioli. alternatively chili sauces, hp/brown sauce, gravy etc.

the closest thing we have to ranch dressing would be some kind of aioli i suppose. frankly there is no one condiment i would favour over all others - the world of condiments is such a varied and splendiforous place, why restrict yourself to only one colour of that rainbow?

also:

Ranch dressing is notable for its high fat content. A typical 2-tablespoon serving contains 145 kcal (608 kJ) and 15 g of fat.

:O

 

[otake]

I know what you mean. They hate vinegar, salt and garlic.

 

[Draft]

If you'd gone to a 5 Guys, the USA's premiere burger establishment, you would have had all the vinegar you could handle.

Peanuts, too.

 

[Concept17]

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.

Quite possibly the most disgusting thing I've ever put into my mouth. Fuck this stuff.

 

[Kentpaul]

With the lack of any long time cultures, america as a nation has no taste in food.

 

[otake]

With the lack of any long time cultures, america as a nation has no taste in food.

This is true. They do like sweet things though. Anything with extra sugar seems to taste good southern americans, in my experience.

 

[Degen]

rest of the world. so cute :3

 

[Kentpaul]

This is true. They do like sweet things though. Anything with extra sugar seems to taste good southern americans, in my experience.

I fully agree, but i must add anything with a shitload of Suger,salt and sat/trans fat seems to tickle an americans pickle.

 

[Mama Robotnik]

British person here:

Vinegar makes me throw up. I can't actually be in a room with an open bottle because I begin to literally gag. I won't even touch a table vinegar bottle with my skin, I always wrap my hand in my sleeve first, just in case any of its residue is on the bottle.

The substance repulses me in a way nothing else does. Its vile. If I eat a chip that accidentally has some on, I'm already on my way to throwing up. None of this is hyperbole, it actually happens.

I don't know why it has such an immediate effect on me. It doesn't seem to bother anyone else.

 

[Flavius]

American here, OP, and I'm with you. For some crazy fucking reason, we just associate it with seafood. If you ask for it anywhere else, you're pretty much SOL.

And while we're on the subject, HP sauce fucking rocks!!!