American food to feed to a British friend?

[Gnomvid]

Tomato juice is a semi-common mixer for spirits, but putting it in beer is kinda weird. If only because beer isn't usually a mixing alcohol.

I guess you've never heard of shandy then.

[Razade]

Shandy would be in that "usually". Yuki didn't say its never a mixed drink. Just that it isn't typically. Which it isn't. Shandys are also not made with tomato juice normally.

[Starwulf]

A quick search suggest that isn't just a "your grandpa" thing. Called a Red Eye (or with a couple other ingredients, a Michelada).

Seems like an odd thing to me, but then again... My grandpa took his morning orange juice with poison. Literally. He was a chemist, and he measured out the poison very carefully so that it would be neutralized by the acid in the OJ, and vice versa.

Uhh, did he do it just to prove that he could and that he was a capable chemist, or was he trying to dose himself with it in an attempt to make himself immune to it? Seems like a very, very odd thing to do, and extremely dangerous, given that if you put just a tiny bit more in and it wouldn't be neutralized and he'd be dead.

[Knaight]

Uhh, did he do it just to prove that he could and that he was a capable chemist, or was he trying to dose himself with it in an attempt to make himself immune to it? Seems like a very, very odd thing to do, and extremely dangerous, given that if you put just a tiny bit more in and it wouldn't be neutralized and he'd be dead.

It depends on how strong the poison is - there might well be more leeway than that.

[Rynjin]

Any poison weak enough to be completely neutralized by the acidity of orange juice is probably weak enough that having a few drops of it wouldn't do much more than give you a stomach ache, if that. Your stomach is a lot more acidic than OJ to start with.

[Starwulf]

Any poison weak enough to be completely neutralized by the acidity of orange juice is probably weak enough that having a few drops of it wouldn't do much more than give you a stomach ache, if that. Your stomach is a lot more acidic than OJ to start with.

A good point, but it honestly still seems like an odd thing to do, lol. Was more curious as to the reasoning behind it, I can't imagine sticking poison into a glass of OJ is particularly going to enhance it's flavor any, lol.

[golentan]

Uhh, did he do it just to prove that he could and that he was a capable chemist, or was he trying to dose himself with it in an attempt to make himself immune to it? Seems like a very, very odd thing to do, and extremely dangerous, given that if you put just a tiny bit more in and it wouldn't be neutralized and he'd be dead.

Our best guess is he did it to prove he was a capable chemist.

He claimed that the juice tasted smoother with it.

[Honest Tiefling]

Our best guess is he did it to prove he was a capable chemist.

He claimed that the juice tasted smoother with it.

Given what I've heard of chemists, I think he's lucky that his grandpa didn't make explosives.

Maybe a thing to try is a Bloody Cesar. It's not American, but Canadian. But at this point I feel like I can't suggest American food as I have stopped understanding any food mentioned after a certain point. It's a mix of tomato juice, vodka, and clam broth/juice, garnished with celery salt. Not bad, really.

[Rynjin]

A good point, but it honestly still seems like an odd thing to do, lol. Was more curious as to the reasoning behind it, I can't imagine sticking poison into a glass of OJ is particularly going to enhance it's flavor any, lol.

Who knows, it might. Arsenic apparently tastes like almonds so tasty poison isn't unheard of.

[factotum]

Who knows, it might. Arsenic apparently tastes like almonds so tasty poison isn't unheard of.

You're confusing arsenic with cyanide, I think--cyanide supposedly tastes of bitter almonds, while arsenic is either tasteless or maybe slightly sweet, according to lunatics people who've tried them.

[Rynjin]

That's the one.

[Vizzerdrix]

[*]I think Maine and Massachusetts have something to do with some form of chowder. The Chesapeake Bay may also have its own form of chowder.

I am from Maine. Please dont lump us in with them.

If you want Maine food, we have fiddleheads, boiled with saltpork and buttered, or deepfried.

We have the best lobsters hands down.

Every family up here has at least one recipe for wild game of one sort or another (my family loves my teryaki deer skewers, with onion and green pepper).

Our blueberries are some of the best you will ever have.

I think we are credited with the invention of the whoopie pie. Find a recipe and make him some of these.

[Spacewolf]

I am from Maine. Please dont lump us in with them.

If you want Maine food, we have fiddleheads, boiled with saltpork and buttered, or deepfried.

We have the best lobsters hands down.

Every family up here has at least one recipe for wild game of one sort or another (my family loves my teryaki deer skewers, with onion and green pepper).

Our blueberries are some of the best you will ever have.

I think we are credited with the invention of the whoopie pie. Find a recipe and make him some of these.

Yea I was in Bar harbour awhile ago Clam Chowder, Lobster followed by Blueberry pie. Was the best meal I'd had in awhile and cheap as well think it came to $15 all in.

[Bohandas]

How about Shoo-fly Pie (molasses crumb cake in a pie crust)