It's disgusting, that's what! They do some weird shit to food over here. :lol:

Jin's comment about pumpkin pie being more savory that SP pie made me wonder if she's interprreting the question the same as I am. When I've commented on sweet/savory here (meaning main course (not sweet)/dessert (sweet) ) several people have taken savory to me tasty/flavorful/not bland rather than not sweet. maybe something to do with maple syrup being considered an natural accompaniment to sausages and bacon, carrots in jello being viewed as a classic dish and potatoes with marshmallows and other stuff a must-have at thanksgiving. (sorry guys, love you and your country and all, but mixing the sweet and savory foods -eeeeewwww. ;) )

I think you've summed up every outsiders view of the stuff Americans eat Monster. lol I know I've thought exactly the same thing.

Of course, this is comming from someone who likes vegemite, so it may not carry too much weight.

I never knew they ate these things when I moved here. At the first pot-luck beest's bosses wife went to (they shipped his whole department over), she took a sherry trifle and watched in horror as people blobbed it on the plate next to the lasagna and ate -and enjoyed- the two together.

Life would be boring if we all liked the same things, though (and maybe they were just better at being polite).

YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK!!!

That is just so wrong on so many different levels. Unless you're trying to save on washing up I suppose.

Noooo, we like our main meals of the non sweet variety.

About as sweet as it would get is Stewed Apple with Pork and Honey added to Carrots with garlic....or honey chicken etc.

Adding sweet stuff to things like potatoes and pumpkin just seems really weird to me.

I made a chicken curry with banana the other week and every one near had a pink fit!!

paper plates. but sometimes you have to snag the good desserts at the beginning or they'll be gone. It's just a matter of keeping the two sides of your plate apart -a berlin wall of veggies from the dip tray works well

banana is good in a curry. so are sultanas sometimes.

but yeah, marshmallows and potatoes? Triffle and lasagne? No way! It's making me want to hurl just thinking about it.

Why don't they put the main course out first, and then serve the desert with tea and coffee? That's what happens here. That way no one can accidentally have triffle with lasagne. ;) And no one will miss out either.

you come in, dump your dish on the table, grab a plate and load up. not everyone arrives at the same time or eats at the same speed....

That all sounds very weird. We have pot luck dinners over here too, but still the deserts get put out after. If you're late, you might miss out on first course. That's an extra incentive not to be tardy. ;)

My family have a lot of those dinners. We're experts. We all take twice as much as anyone could eat and then take half home, or swap stuff and eat someone else's left overs the next night for dinner.

We always roast and eat the seeds. After that we toss them off a ladder or off the roof of the house and smash them in the driveway.

The seeds, the pumpkins or the people who ate the seeds?

roasted pumpkin seeds rock. srsly.

The "name of town" roll at a local fusion restaurant consists of white tuna, avocado and cuke, with banana tempura on top. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm going to now... just cause I'm a crazy american...