@crusaderiv:
Cuisine doesn’t necessarily mean white table cloths and fancy servers, it’s what is enjoyed. If you enjoy fast food, that’s your cuisine.
No, cuisine means prepare good food. Fast food is not good food.
If you can’t make the difference, I’m not surprise that you like fast food. :mrgreen:
Sorry, that is simply not so. This will also alter my definition of “cuisine” (although it was closer to the original definition). According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, cuisine is defined as, “manner of preparing food : style of cooking; also : the food prepared” (Online version). This, of course, is American English, which I will not debate as to it’s validity, or if you are a purist, evolutionary digression. If the definition was the one you mentioned, most of the ethnic food that people eat in restaurants would not be “cuisine” because much of what is “presented” as cuisine in America, IS the fast food of that country, what is prepared on the street and enjoyed by the local populace (I am an American, I am referring to your average local restaurant that serves “cuisine”). What you are referring to is “fine dining,” which in some countries, the lower populations never taste because of poverty. Americans eat these foods AS cuisine, not just as fast food. Go to any Good 'ole America cookout and what do you find? Hot Dogs. Hamburgers. Your so called “Fast food.” Does that mean that these people are eating fast food? Well most of that food takes time to prepare if you do it right (Making chili, warming buns, grilling meat, gathering other ingredients).
I am not going to qualify “worth” of cuisine based off of time needed to prepare but since you did make the logical inferrence “fast food is not good food” one has to assume that the antithesis “slow food (in the lingual differentiation, food that is prepared as “find cuisine”) is good food.” Yet, define “good” in this sense? What is aesthetically pleasing as food? Good for you? Well fine, but I eat mostly vegetarian (still eat fish, eggs, and milk) and I can assure you that what is “good” for you is hardly something I would call cuisine. I’m not just talking about your “daily” requirements, I am talking organic grasses frolicking in soupy glasses of protein shakes that are comprised of nuts and seeds that you cracked in water, and pureed without the sugary “benefits” of a mass fruits, which, if you ate in mass, would give you candida. Good food, as in Dandelion salads topped with arugula and raw asparagus, Sprouts, broccoli, grated carrots, and topped with celery seeds. The dressing is an omega-3 fish oil with vinaigrette and garlic to diversify it. I might gag, but I eat it gladly. Would I rather eat “American” cuisine? Oh of course! But I eat, “Healthy cuisine” because I know it’s good for me. Not necessarily because I enjoy it. Most don’t, but they eat it anyway. If you enjoy it, please select other and tell us why you enjoy it! I would love to know.
I won’t qualify the bait/ad hominem. That’s terrible debate style. Plus, have you met me? Have I met you? How could I judge your culinary tastes? How could you judge mine? Is enjoyment a classification of actually taste? Have you been to every restaurant with me? Are you actually interested in me as a test subject in order to prove the statement "If you can’t make the difference (of a false claim) then you must like “X.”
I submit to you sir that you could care less, thereby I would ask why you would attempt to use it in an argument?
GG
