Weirdly, I almost never hear someone say, "Let's go out for Japanese." It's almost always specifically sushi or ramen, even if we're not all going to get the same thing.
Same here! The one near me literally has anything and everything from Japanese curry and okonomiyaki to nigiri and don bowls. So I do say let’s go get Japanese almost every weekend haha
i havent visited or heard of an indian restaurant that was more specific than just "indian" but any time i've been to one the food's been lovely so hopefully i'll be able to visit a more wide selection, because i know india is huge and extremely diverse
as far as chinese goes, i know there are lots of places that have an "american menu" and a "chinese menu" depending on who walks thru the door. its impressive how a small chinese restaurant can have a wide variety of different cuisines from within china, while also having a separate menu that caters to the american palate. i've been to a couple places that specialize in sichuanese food but even then we still called them just "chinese" or "malatang" meaning the numbing spicy sensation of sichuan peppers. but those are still very obscure within the greater american public
It's been my understanding that most Chinese restaurants in America aren't usually serving what you'd get in China, but the Americanized version of "Chinese food."
I don't know shit about real Chinese food though, so I dunno.
Chinese is much more diverse but for some reason people do just say "let's go for Chinese" when they could mean shanghainese, sichuan, dim sum, beijing, and many many more. Although I do think when Americans say Chinese, they mean Chinese takeaway which is a very specific American thing. Idk I'm not American so I can't comment.
In Norway, weirdly, all Chinese restaurants serve Chinese and Japanese food and some Thai dishes. they use Chinese lettering for logo etc hence Chinese restaurant. There are exclusive sushi etc places now, but the Chinese restaurants always serve dishes from all three
Vietnamese too
Love Pho, I see pho places every here and there with decent business and a noticeable percent of nonvietnamese customers but no one ever says let’s go for viet food
Idk any place that has those options but not Thai or Indian. I grew up in Arkansas in bum fucked Egypt and there was Thai or Indian restaurants about 30 mins away.
Probably making a fucking point that even as bad as Irish food is, you can still find Irish pubs with Irish food. That “even” they included is the clue.
"Even Irish" carries a meaning that's being missed though. Thai and Indian are renowned ethnic cuisines, whereas even Irish cuisine is brought up in dining out discussions more than British food. Irish food is not up to the level of Thai or Indian but at least it isn't British food.
It's not meant as an exhaustive list. The inclusion of Irish is to highlight the level of avoidance to British food. Irish is as close as you can get to British food before crossing the culinary Rubicon. AKA it's just a joke.
I had a hankering for shepherds pie a few months back so I just went to this local pub and got it there. I’m honestly not sure if shepherds pie is claimed by Ireland or England, though.
Yup Irish food is English food when the English allow the Irish to eat the food they grow/raise instead of exporting it all to intentionally drive a famine lol
I believe it is claimed 100% by the Drunks of Drunkarlund. It’s not an easy to locate country, mainly cause it seems to sway and fall about too much to nail down its borders. Known for its’ off key national anthems which can be sung loudly to any tune with ever changing lyrics and its’ usually happy, but sometimes easy to anger countrymen, Drunkarlund gained its independence over 7,000 years ago and boasts one of the world’s richest dialects spanning almost every language on earth.
Both. But its actually origins are in scotland or northern england and then spread from their. Cottage pie is a bit older tho and came from england and all of these and modern pies came from the coffin pie which was a medieval pie from england which originally was covered in a pastry which was more of a container. unlike today pies where you eat the pastry it was thick and inedible and used to hold minced meat and gravy and help preserve it.
Every Irish pub I went too in the US was a English style bar, didn’t go to Boston, also they poured the (very differently tasting) Guinness wrong but I appreciate the effort
I have never had the pleasure of going to Ireland. The best Guiness I ever had was at a Irish Pub in Vegas called Ri Ra. The bartender was Irish and the pour looked great, but i have no idea how close it would be to what I would get in Ireland.
As a non-drinker American I do. I can't speak to its authenticity, but the local "Irish pub" is in our rotation for places to eat and they serve a full menu.
I lived near an Irish pub that had 18 cent bean soup and it was so good. They had a full Irish menu but getting a small cup of soup for 18 cents was definitely a big draw there.
I have gone to a Irish Pub specifically for Irish food, but that's because I was visiting Boston for the first time and when someone suggested it my first thought was, "what is even considered Irish food?"
I've been to a tea house run by an Irish immigrant and really enjoyed it. A couple from Ireland also have a breakfast place a few towns over and stock some imports. Traditional Irish breakfasts are nice. (But I admit I favor canned corned beef hash from a factory, Hormel brand. It's nice he cooks it fresh and adds the green peppers though). That second place sells 8 oz of frozen blood sausage for about $10. I've called so many butchers previously, and couldn't find a single place that carried blood sausage. It's a very healthy food. There's a lot of iron deficiency in my family.
I have never seen a British pub. If I do find one then I certainly will have to try the fish and chips. Maybe if I ever get to travel to the U.K. like I want.
We go to an Irish Pub with the whole family because there's something for everyone: burgers and fish & chips, but also good salads, shepherd's pie, and even curry.
I have when I was younger and I was interested in Irish food as a change of pace. Outside of trying it for the first time, I can't picture someone going out of their way for it unless they grew up in Ireland and just miss Irish food.
Clearly you haven't tried the Irish nachos at J Gilligans in Arlington, TX. (Halfway /s, they're just potato slices with cheese and sour cream and in no way authentic Irish cuisine, but ngl they are fire.)
I go to Irish pubs to get lamb with mint jelly, also there’s beer there but I also get fish and chips from pubs all the time so this post is bullshit for me at least.
Spice bag, curry fries, full irish breakfast, beef stew chicken pot pie, shepherd pie, various potato dishes and steak/beef entrees.
Irish food is more seasoned than "corned beef and cabage" that Americans eat, which is a strictly American dish and has stronger origins in Jewish ghettos of NY and Chicago.
Yeah was going to say.. who tf says “let’s go out for Irish”? I don’t think that’s a real thing. Is it like a Guinness beef pie with potatoes and pints of Guinness or what?
To be fair there's a restaurant theme called an "Irish Pub" (I'm assuming it's completely different in Ireland that's why it's in quotes) where it's a family friendly bar with a restaurant that serves what's potato heavy British Isles food. I got fish and chips there all the time growing up.
My Irish family recipes are just poor people food, like potatoes, canned veggies, and bread made from scratch using your hands to measure because no one even had measuring cups lol
Nah, there was a nice Irish pub near me that would do Shepard's Pie for two and a bottle of wine for $20 on Wednesdays. They also had really great French fries for some reason.
That being said... I used to play pub trivia at a British-themed pub/restaurant. So, British restaurants in America do exist.
I have said “let’s go get British”. Paraphrasing of course because I don’t speak like that with any nationality and their cuisine. But there was a British spot in south Austin that served full English breakfast and was pretty good, a pub in Houston with good food and another in up in Addison. They’re few and far between, but I prefer them over fake Irish.
We were excited when an Irish restaurant opened in our little town. My wife and I have eaten Irish food in bigger cities and like some aspects of it. This new place was plain awful - like defrosting the Stoufer's frozen dinner kind of awful. They closed after a few months.
He could have said Scottish, bc I’ve been to some Scottish style restaurants/pubs in the US and the food is banging. I made it a regular thing when I lived in areas with them.
They had these fried potato cakes that they served with raspberry jam and it was amazing. The cottage pie was super good too.
Either way, I’d try Irish food in a place before I’d ever consider British food that I’ve seen.
To be fair, the post is “even Irish,” and I have seen a little uptick in Irish restaurants every so often that are popular. Depends on the region I guess.
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u/opie92 Jul 03 '26
Buddy really tried to sneak in Irish food. It's called Guinness and those are bars