In Texas they also eat stuff like chicken fried steak -- a beefsteak that's battered just like chicken and then deep fried. Then they smother it with this goo called sausage cream gravy; I'm not sure how that's made. You can feel your arteries clogging (and your hips expanding) just reading about it. I just can't imagine eating like that!
It's extremely frustrating to shop here for food. Especially spices, etc. People here just don't cook much for themselves, it seems, or they have very limited cookbooks, experience, and/or imaginations. I have to get my mother-in-law to send me dry mustard, for pete's sake! Forget Chervil or anything even slightly exotic!
Oh wait, that should have gone into the complaint thread!
Wow, really, no spices? That does suck.