More southern vittles
OK, I promise, just a few more posts and we’ll be back to our regularly-scheduled blogging about the fabulous expat life in Zurich. But I still have a little bit of my trip to the southern US to make fun of share with you.
As usual on my trips to the US, Mexican food was high on my list of must-eats (95% of American expats will probably tell you the same thing). Zurich has several Mexican restaurants, each one more disappointing than the last. The Swiss seem to think the addition of tomatoes qualifies a food as ‘spicy’; these are not the kind of people one should buy Mexican food from. Anyway, I digress. The veggie quesadilla in the picture wasn’t the most authentic, but it was pretty damn good. But it did remind me of a trend I noticed in the US this time around: the adding of pure high-calorie no-nutritional-value-whatsoever fat to pretty much every dish (even when the food already contains plenty of fat). Everywhere you look there are giant scoops of sour cream, butter, and creamy dressings waiting to fatten up your meal. Have to get those calories in somehow!
You might not be able to read it, but one of the food offerings on this banner is ‘possum.’ No, I didn’t try it.
Remember how I told you they like to deep fry everything in the south? This is a veggie plate I had at a nice restaurant in Chattanooga. Those brown things are deep-fried mashed potatoes.
Please, enjoy American food responsibly.
