A Modest Proposal:

[XemaSab]

We should only allow into America immigrants who have good recipes from their homeland.

[ZombieNixon]

1. Yeah, no more British people!

:popcorn:

[XemaSab]

2. My point EXACTLY

[ZombieNixon]

5. I say we up the ante, too:

All immigrants, and US citizens, must undergo dental examinations. Those not up to par get deported. That way we get rid of the British and the hicks, and make our nation all the more herky!

:popcorn: :popcorn:

[XemaSab]

9. .

:patriot:

[question everything]

25. What about Irish (Guiness!)?

Come to think about spouse loves Bangers and Mash and I like a Cornish Pasty - if made well.

[WildEyedLiberal]

3. Also, they must be willing to come to my hometown

And open a delicious restaurant.

What would I do without the Chinese immigrants who came to my little rural town and made it possible for me to eat crab rangoon and Szechuan chicken without having to drive 30 miles??

[XemaSab]

16. It's impossible to repay a debt like that.

:patriot:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Yes, yes!

I want to have immigrants come to the town where I work and open an Indian restaurant and then more to come and open a Middle Eastern restaurant.

[WildEyedLiberal]

6. Amen sister.

I await the day an authentic Mexican restaurant opens in my town. Yummmmmmmy.

[bigscott]

8. the best Indian food is in London

so obviously the Brits have instituted this policy. Personally i wish we would open the floodgates of immigration to more Thais and Middle Easterners - dear god I bet the NSA is after me now!!:hide:

[Hutzpa]

18. How can you expose yourself like that man!!!

now look what you've done, they gonna start wire tapping the internet.


:hide:

[XemaSab]

10. They'd have to be checked out by the CIA before we could let them in

Culinary Institutes of America, natch.

[merh]

7. Kicked & recommended

Excellent idea. :hi:

[XemaSab]

17. Thank you!

:hi:

[merh]

28. you are welcome

:hi:

[jukes]

11. or really good hook-ups

to get the good stuff across.

:smoke:

[ThomCat]

12. No. Because...

If they can't cook they'll eat out at restaurants.

SUPPORT THE LOCAL DIVES WITH GREAT, DIRT-CHEAP FOOD! :7

[XemaSab]

13. I'd rather go out for cheap Thai food than cheap burgers any day

:shrug:

[ThomCat]

14. The good cheap food in areas with lots of imigrants

tends to be really good ethnic food.

Burgers... Ick. :puke:
Good cheap Mexican... and Indian... and Thai... and Korean... :7 Yum

[XemaSab]

15. That's what I'm talkin' about

The Planada taco cart's $3.00 burritos, which are not only HUGE, they're the best burritos you ever had in your life.

I'd drive 50 miles out of my way for the Planada taco cart.

[TahitiNut]

19. Lutefisk anyone?

:eyes: How about some fiskeboller?

[XemaSab]

20. Hey, Scandanavians have good pastries too!

It's not all lye cured cod!

[TahitiNut]

21. My grand-aunt was a cook in the King's kitchens as a girl

... before she married my grand-uncle and emigrated to the US. The. Best. Cook. I've. Ever. Known. Smorgasbords at their house were awesome! I'd stay with them (in the country) for a few weeks every summer and ate like a little prince. She made 'Swedish' pancakes (like crepes) to die for and always had the best preserves and jams for them. My favorite was rullepolse - a pressed meat (lamb and veal) that was terrific - loosely similar to a French terrine but even coarser and made in a linen sack instead of a earthevware dish. The butter cookies were fab great. Various flatbrot, meat balls, vegetable concoctions - all terrific. Her coffeecakes were rich and light and wonderful.

Then there's lutefisk. Uffda!

[XemaSab]

22. I'm half Swedish, and sad to say,

I've never had lutefisk.

I feel culturally empty inside. :(

[TahitiNut]

23. It's like lumpy wallpaper paste with a fishy stench.

:rofl:

[XemaSab]

24. Wow.... that's a really evocative description

Why am I having sudden flashbacks to natto here? :shrug:

[TahitiNut]

26. Yum!

[XemaSab]

27. And for the folks at home

That's what it looks like BEFORE you eat it.













































And after.

:hide:

[Neil Lisst]

29. give me your tired, your poor, your huddled recipes yearning to breath

free