What not to eat where

[aichambaye at yahoo.com]

Food in America is not all bad!! You can't disparage everything we 
eat. Feel free to post that we don't have any good cheese (we do, 
it's made here, but we didn't originate the recipes - except maybe 
for EzCheese.)

Here are a few tips, culled from personal experience: 
1. Don't eat anything in any restaurant in a tourist area and expect 
it to be good - or even passible. This applies most particularly to 
places where families vacation, b/c kiddie food in the USA is 
tasteless, formless, and shameless pandering to spoiled kids. Orlando 
has terrible food.

2. Whatever you do, avoid seafood more than 200 or 300 miles from the 
coast. Even IF it is fresh (which isn't likely), it's probable that 
the locals can't cook it. To wit: Seafood in Southern Arizona. Yuck, 
yuck, yuck. Do, however, try the mexican restaurants in Tucson, Mmmm 
Mmm.

3. Don't eat Mexican food anywhere in North Carolina. It's awful, 
it's corrupted, and, most of all - it might put you in the hospital. 
Do go for seafood - it's fresh and usually very good. 

4. Eat asian food where the asians eat. Same for other ethnic 
restaurants.

5. Make an exception to my rules. ;-)

Heather M., who is a big food fan, and is loving this discussion.