ENG 263 Studies in the US Culture, Spring 2010: food

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Welcome to the ENG 263 Studies in the American Culture, Spring 2010 course blog.

Please feel free to express your impressions, views and opinions based on what has been happening during class.

The Blog is open to all who wish to participate in a respectful exchange of thoughts, ideas, positions, proposals, and anything else that comes up as long as the subject is about the issues that concern the U.S. culture as a whole.

Nevertheless, I must ask the authors to identify themselves at all times.

I hope you enjoy this education experience.

E. Prifti, Course Instructor

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1- What is American food?
American food includes hamburger, hotdog, sandwich.
2-Are these foods really American?
Hamburger is Turkish, hotdog is German and sandwich was brought in America with colonist.
3-Breakfast.
70% of American over55 eat breakfast, 54% over 18-54 eat other food such as eggs, bacon etc.
4-Brunch is a combination meal used for weekends.
5-Lunch. People eat lunch away from home, workers eat out of pack, students eat at school.
6-What is for dinner?Meal of the day and many families cook dinner.
7-Dinner foods are steak, chicken, vegetables etc.
8-Snacks. Americans eat small things much on fruits,chips between meals.
9-What influences Americans eating food habits?
Time, money, family size, age, social activity, religion.