THIS IS AMERICA - Hot Dogs and Apple Pie: Just Some of Ameri
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THIS IS AMERICA - Hot Dogs and Apple Pie: Just Some of America's Favorite Foods
By Jerilyn Watson
Broadcast: Monday, October 17, 2005
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Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.
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And I'm Faith Lapidus. Today we tell about some of the foods that Americans like best – America's favorites.
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Hot Dog
You may have heard that Americans like hot dogs and hamburgers best of all foods. Well, farmers and owners of public eating places might happily agree. So might the nation's Meat Institute and the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council 1. But people whose favorites are pizza and apple pie would give the meat-lovers a spirited argument!
Naming the favorite foods of Americans depends a lot on whom you ask. But one thing is sure. The ancestors of most Americans came from other countries. The United States owes many favorite dishes, or the ideas for these foods, to the rest of the world.
For example, that traditional American favorite, the hot dog or wiener, had its modern beginning in Germany. The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council estimates 2 that Americans eat about seven thousand million of these sausages during a summer.
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A hot dog is usually made from pork, the meat of a pig. Or it is made from beef, the meat of a cow. Another version 3 is made from turkey. A vegetarian 4 version of a hot dog has no meat at all. It often contains tofu, made from soy plants.
The hot dog is shaped like a tube. Many people say it looks like a Dachshund dog. It is served between two shaped pieces of bread called a bun. Americans often say they especially like hot dogs cooked over a hot fire in the open air. People at sports events buy plenty of hot dogs.
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For many people, it is not just the meat that tastes so good. These people enjoy colorful and tasty additions. For example, they include a yellow or yellow-brown thickened liquid called mustard 5. They may also put red catsup and pieces of a white or red, strong-smelling vegetable called onion on their hot dogs.
Hot dog eaters often add pickle 6, a salty green vegetable. Some people place barbecue sauce on top of all this. Or they use a spice called horseradish. It gives the hot dog a pleasant bite.
A hot dog is also known as a frankfurter or frank 7. That is because the city of Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany is often said to be the birthplace of this sausage. But the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council says there are other ideas about where the hot dog began.
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One version of hot dog history says a butcher, or meat cutter, from the German city of Coburg was responsible. It says he invented the hot dog in the late sixteen hundreds. Vienna, Austria, also claims that it created the food.
The council says butchers from several countries probably brought common European sausages to America. A street salesman sold hot dogs to people in New York City in the eighteen sixties. And, in eighteen seventy one, a hot dog stand opened at the Coney Island amusement park in New York City.
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Couple enjoying fries, hamburger and milkshake
Americans also eat lots of hamburgers. This ground meat comes from beef. It can be cooked in many ways. Like hot dogs, hamburgers are a favorite picnic food.
Many public eating places in the United States say hamburgers are their most popular foods. People often eat them in places that serve quickly prepared, moderately priced food.
Like hot dog experts, hamburger historians 9 disagree about how their subject got started. The Egyptians and Romans apparently 10 ate ancient versions 11 of hamburgers. In more modern days, people in Hamburg, Germany, made something like a hamburger from pork and beef.
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The small town of Seymour, Wisconsin, is among several American towns that claim to have created the first modern hamburger in the United States.
In Seymour, a man named Charlie Nagreen tried to sell meatballs at a local fair in eighteen eighty-five. But as people walked around, it was hard for them to handle the round pieces of meat. So Nagreen flattened 12 the ball of meat. Then he placed this meat patty between two pieces of bread.
In two thousand one, people in Seymour cooked a hamburger that weighed more than three thousand kilograms. This creation 13 reportedly fed thirteen thousand people.
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Like hot dogs, Americans like their hamburgers with additions. Things like mustard, catsup, horseradish, mayonnaise, barbecue sauce, tomatoes, lettuce 14, onion and perhaps a pickle.
A hamburger with cheese melted on it is called a cheeseburger. Cooks make a "Sloppy 15 Joe" by combining hamburger meat with tomato sauce. Many people eat the Sloppy Joe mixture on a bun. Without a bun, they may get more of the loose meat on them than inside them.
For many people, eating both hot dogs and hamburgers does not seem right without potatoes. They eat French fries and potato chips with these meats. French fries are strips 16, or pieces, of potato cooked in oil. Potato chips are extremely thin, cooled pieces of potato. They usually are also cooked in oil.
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Pizza For Lunch
Americans also buy or make large amounts of pizza. A basic pizza contains tomato sauce or cheese, or both, on a bread-like material.
Food writer Linda Stradley tells about the history of pizza on her computer Web site, "What's Cooking America." Miz Stradley says it could have been the Phoenicians, Greeks or Romans who invented pizza. Or, it could have been anyone who mixed flour with water and cooked it on a hot stone.
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Italians probably brought pizza to the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century. In nineteen-oh-five, Gennaro Lombardi reportedly opened the first pizza store in New York City. In the nineteen thirties, he added tables to his pizza place. Lombardi also began serving spaghetti.
Spaghetti is a traditional Italian favorite that also has become an American favorite. It is made from flour and water and sometimes eggs. This dough 17 is pulled into lengths and boiled.
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Al kinds of foods can be added to both pizza and spaghetti to add to their taste. For example, people like these foods with different meats on top. Or they like toppings of small fish called anchovies 18, or vegetables called mushrooms. Some people like all the additions at once.
Another favorite food, macaroni, is similar to spaghetti. Many Americans remember that their mothers made macaroni cooked with cheese on cold winter days. People sometimes call this dish "comfort food," because it makes them feel better.
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Others praise hot soups prepared in their childhood homes. Some people say chicken soup -- chicken pieces in liquid -- can cure anything. Still others say New England clam 19 chowder helps them think. This soup contains the shellfish clams 20 floating in a milky 21 liquid. Another version of clam chowder has tomato sauce. It looks red.
Chocolate
To end a meal, or between meals, Americans often eat chocolate in some form. They eat millions and millions of kilograms of chocolate a year. Chocolate is produced from cocoa beans. It is used in sweet foods like candy, pies, puddings and cakes. Many people say chocolate makes them feel happier.
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People have praised chocolate for its taste for many years. Some studies have shown that it can help chase 22 away mild feelings of sadness. But chocolate often has a large amount of fat.
However, some experts now say a moderate 8 amount of chocolate can be healthful. For example, the Cleveland Clinic Heart Center in Ohio notes that chocolate contains substances called antioxidants. Antioxidants are thought to help the body fight damage caused by natural processes and harmful substances in the environment.
The Heart Center suggests choosing dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate. And it warns that people should restrict 23 themselves to a moderate amount.
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Apple Pie
Like people in many parts of the world, Americans love pie. These sweet dishes have fruit, nuts or some other filling in a crust 24. Some people say pies are the best comfort food ever. That can be debated.
Pie can be the most inviting 25 food ever. A red strawberry pie or a yellow Key lime 26 pie can defeat the strongest resolution of people trying to lose weight. But apple pie may be a top American favorite. Over time, this dish has come to be strongly linked to the United States.
When someone or something seems especially American, people say it is "as American as apple pie."
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Our program was written by Jerilyn Watson. Caty Weaver 27 was our producer. I'm Faith Lapidus.
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And I'm Steve Ember. Please join us again next week for THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English.
- The town council passed a law forbidding the distribution of handbills.市议会通过法律,禁止散发传单。
- The city council has declared for improving the public bus system.市议会宣布同意改进公共汽车系统。
- Unofficial estimates put the figure at over two million. 非官方的估计数字为200万以上。
- We got estimates from three different contractors before accepting the lowest. 我们得到3个承包商的报价后,接受了最低的报价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- His version of the events is pure supposition.他对这件事的说法纯属猜测。
- What is your version of this matter?你对这件事情的看法 怎么样?
- She got used gradually to the vegetarian diet.她逐渐习惯吃素食。
- I didn't realize you were a vegetarian.我不知道你是个素食者。
- This meat should be seasoned with salt and mustard.这肉里应该加点盐和芥末调味。
- This mustard is hot enough to bite your tongue.这种芥末很辣,你的舌头会吃不消的。
- Mother used to pickle onions.妈妈过去常腌制洋葱。
- Meat can be preserved in pickle.肉可以保存在卤水里。
- A frank discussion can help to clear the air.坦率的谈论有助于消除隔阂。
- She is frank and outgoing.她很爽朗。
- You should moderate your language when children are present.在孩子面前,你说话应该有节制。
- The wind is moderate today.今天的风很柔和。
- Historians seem to have confused the chronology of these events. 历史学家好像把这些事件发生的年代顺序搞混了。
- Historians have concurred with each other in this view. 历史学家在这个观点上已取得一致意见。
- An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
- He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
- There are two versions of the game, a long one and a short one. 这游戏有两个版本,一长一短。
- When both versions of the story were collated,major discrepancies were found. 在将这个故事的两个版本对照后,找出了主要的不符之处。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- She flattened her nose and lips against the window. 她把鼻子和嘴唇紧贴着窗户。
- I flattened myself against the wall to let them pass. 我身体紧靠着墙让他们通过。
- Language is the most important mental creation of man.语言是人类头脑最重要的产物。
- The creation of new playgrounds will benefit the local children.新游戏场的建立将有益于当地的儿童。
- Get some lettuce and tomatoes so I can make a salad.买些莴苣和西红柿,我好做色拉。
- The lettuce is crisp and cold.莴苣松脆爽口。
- If you do such sloppy work again,I promise I'll fail you.要是下次作业你再马马虎虎,我话说在头里,可要给你打不及格了。
- Mother constantly picked at him for being sloppy.母亲不断地批评他懒散。
- She formed the dough into squares.她把生面团捏成四方块。
- The baker is kneading dough.那位面包师在揉面。
- a pizza topped with cheese and anchovies 奶酪鳀鱼比萨饼
- Pesto, mozzarella, parma ham, sun dried tomatoes, egg, anchovies. 核桃香蒜,马苏里拉,巴马火腿,干番茄,鸡蛋,咸鱼。
- Yup!I also like clam soup and sea cucumbers.对呀!我还喜欢蛤仔汤和海参。
- The barnacle and the clam are two examples of filter feeders.藤壶和蛤类是滤过觅食者的两种例子。
- The restaurant's specialities are fried clams. 这个餐厅的特色菜是炸蚌。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- We dug clams in the flats et low tide. 退潮时我们在浅滩挖蛤蜊。 来自辞典例句
- Alexander always has milky coffee at lunchtime.亚历山大总是在午餐时喝掺奶的咖啡。
- I like a hot milky drink at bedtime.我喜欢睡前喝杯热奶饮料。
- The police grabbed the robbers after a long chase.警察经过长距离追赶后逮住了抢劫犯。
- Would you chase me if I did?如果我逃开了,你会来追吗?
- He feels this new law will restrict his freedom. 他觉得这一新法律会限制他的自由。
- Don't restrict her proper activities.不要拘束她的正当活动。
- This article focuses on radiation present in the earth crust.本文重点介绍源自地壳的辐射。
- Earth quakes can result from stresses in the earth's crust.地壳内的应力可能引起地震。
- An inviting smell of coffee wafted into the room.一股诱人的咖啡香味飘进了房间。
- The kitchen smelled warm and inviting and blessedly familiar.这间厨房的味道温暖诱人,使人感到亲切温馨。
- Lime exists in many soils.许多土壤中都含有石灰。
- A broad avenue of lime trees led up to a grand entrance with huge oak doors.一条栽有酸橙树的宽阔林阴道通向巨大的橡木门的雄伟入口。