Check in if you don't give a crap about authenticity, as long as you like how the food tastes.

[bbernardini]

Just checking.

[JVS]

1. Authenticity is over-rated.

In the history of humanity, food has by and large sucked. Give me the innovations made possible by technology and plentiful supplies of food that was once only available to kings.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear bbernardini........

I'm there..........

[mopinko]

3. check

just this week, i made a curry with stuff that i do not think any asian culture has every put in a curry. i insist it was a curry, nonetheless, since it was bright yellow.

[youthere]

4. I'm there...

my mom (a notoriously BAD cook) does make a mouthwatering chimichanga..and she starts with a can of Campbells vegetable beef soup.
so nyah.

[InternalDialogue]

5. Two years ago, for Christmas dinner

I made something called "Indian pudding" from an "authentic" recipe. It sucked.

"Authentic" hasn't meant as much to me since then.

[JVS]

7. This food authentically sucks!

[Bunny]

6. Fellow food Philistine, checking in too!

[rug]

8. Bravo!

[Crabby Appleton]

9. Count me in

[MissMillie]

10. I'm w/ you on this

in a big way. Taste is far more important than authenticity.

[Reverend_Smitty]

11. Life's too short to be a food snob...

if it tastes good, eat it!

[sarge43]

12. Yup

The only authenticity I like is Mid-West Church Supper Covered Dish - whatever gets you through the winter, Stosh.