I want a huge American breakfast!

[clyrc]

I want bacon, sausage, gravy, biscuits. I want fried eggs, hash browns, maybe even grits. Pancakes, waffles with syrup, and omelets, with a side of really good ham. I do not want to eat left overs from last night, or paratha with yogurt, or an Arabian style breakfast. Or even British, for that matter, though it's closer to an American breakfast than anything else in the UAE.

I want American food! A good chili dog, or a pot roast, or pork chops. Fried oysters, or prime rib, or pork roast. A good piece of pie. An American style salad! An American style salad bar! BBQ. Pork ribs, brisket. Fried okra. Fried mushrooms. Cajun food. Gumbo, jambalaya.

The thing I miss most about living in the States? The food.

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. I wan' a beeg Mexican deener

It takes a big Mexican dinner
For me to have the strength to love my señorita
I always eat a big Mexican dinner

I love a big Mexican dinner
With beans and rice and hot chili-ners
I always eat a big Mexican dinner

I don't want no Russian chicks hangin' 'round to drink my tequila
Those foreign girls think they're hot, but they're not my Tina
There's nothing like the taste of a Mexican dinner

Ah-ha!

If you ate my Mexican dinner
I'd probably go crazy, man, and turn killer
Nobody but me eats my Mexican dinner

I don't want no Russian chicks hangin' 'round to drink my tequila
Ay-yi-yi-yi...
Those foreign girls think they're hot, but they're not my Tina
There's nothing like the taste of a Mexican dinner

Ah-ha!

Hey Tina... you come over here! Ricardo's got some great big lovin' for you!

[clyrc]

10. Ok, Mexican food would be good, too

nt

[yewberry]

2. I'm too broke to shop, but you can share my granola & soymilk

Is that American enough for breakfast?

For lunch, we can have mock tuna sandwiches and triscuits!

[clyrc]

7. Well, thanks,

but that's not exactly what I'm craving.:)

[NMMNG]

3. I've been craving tacos (w/ faux hamburger crumbles) and potato salad

Though not in the same sitting of course. x(

Right now I could go for a grilled cheese, but they don't even have any bread here. :cry:

I'm thinking I'll get the fixings for tacos on the way home from work later this morning. :9

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. why dont you make some yourself?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

5. Mmmmmmm!

:popcorn:

[SoCalDem]

6. Most of those things can be made at home

or you could have your stateside family box some up and send it to you :)

[clyrc]

8. Yeah, the problem is that those things are either hard or impossible

to buy where I live. It's hard to get good pork, and the cuts of beef are different.

When I go home in the summer I do bring back things you can't get here, but they go pretty quickly.

[JI7]

9. other than the pork, shouldn't it be available in the UAE ?

[clyrc]

12. Not most of the things I mentioned

I could have pancakes and hash browns and fried eggs, if I made them myself, but I want the meat as much as anything.

I'm basically just obsessing over American food I don't have to make myself, with adaptations because of the ingredients I can't find here.

[JI7]

14. do they have a McDonalds ?

or do they serve different food for breakfast there ?

[clyrc]

16. we have McDonalds, but it doesn't serve breakfast

[Hissyspit]

15. When I tried to make pancakes and fried chicken for my friends in the UK

I ran into a lot of problems and had to do many substitutions. Different kinds of flour, different names for baking soda, different measures, temperatures, couldn't find corn meal.

It was difficult to reproduce American food.

[clyrc]

17. Yes! I've been here a few years, so I know some things

but when I first got here it was comical. I didn't know that flour and sugar could be so different from place to place. I learned, though.

[Hissyspit]

18. Oh, yeah, no maple syrup, too, but I had brought some with me.

I made southern biscuits for them to go with the chicken and I didn't like how they turned out, but everyone else said they were good, possibly because they had never tasted the real thing.

[clyrc]

19. We have maple syrup, which is good

and honestly it surprises me how much American food you can find here. And there seems to be more all the time. Still, there's a whole lot that just isn't available, and of course I want what I can't have.

[Yollam]

11. Umm, I live here, and almost never eat like that.

I have a small bowl of oatmeal or raisin bran and maybe a banana.

But you've got a point about BBQ & cajun food. I missed them, as well as Mexican food when I lived in Japan. In spite of that, I'm moving back permanently in just over a month.

[clyrc]

13. It isn't common for me to eat like that, either

I'm just missing the ability at the moment.

[clyrc]

20. I have obsessed myself right over breakfast time

and right into lunch time, and I'm going downstairs to make some keema and rice with yogurt. I do love the stuff, but I'll be dreaming about all the aforementioned foods wistfully, and telling myself it's only four more months 'til I'm back in the States.