Lunch in the world, only fast is not broken.

The martial arts in the world are fast and unbreakable. The same is true for lunch, especially for people on the road. The speed and passion of fast food has always been a symbol of industrial civilization represented by the United States. Simple and rude, like McDonald's, it not only makes industrialized and standardized food production to the extreme, but also becomes a symbol of American culture like Hollywood. Therefore, when traveling in North America, it is not only convenient and quick to solve lunch with fast food, but also a life experience.

The menu of fast food restaurants is simple and direct, there are not many varieties to choose from, and there are often illustrated introductions, so it seems very easy to order food in fast food restaurants. But things are often bad in the word "seemingly". For tourists who are not familiar with North American habits, it is even more difficult to order food in fast food restaurants than in restaurants. Because it is entirely oral communication, there is a lack of a paper menu that can be taken at hand as a reference. Many fast food, even a simple sandwich, can have different choices. When you order a set meal, the waiter usually asks you a series of questions immediately. So it is necessary to know some habits of fast food restaurants.

1. Hamburg

A common fast food in North America, the first one is hamburger. This word is usually abbreviated as burger, and few people say the full name of burger in spoken language. Even fast food restaurants and regular restaurants often only write hamburgers on their menus. People who have just gone abroad tell people about hamburgers, and sometimes the accent makes the waiter suddenly unable to understand them. Twenty years ago, when I first went to America, I ordered an order with a colleague in a fast food restaurant. My colleague chatted with the waiter for a long time and made a gesture. People thought he wanted to buy a handbag and enthusiastically told him to go out and turn left. This is the true story of my experience.

Looking closely, hamburger should be considered as a sandwich. Any two pieces of bread with some stuffing can be collectively called sandwiches, either hot or cold. However, the definition of hamburger is much stricter. What can be called a hamburger must be hot food, the meat pie in the middle must be made of minced meat, and the meat pie is usually beef by default. Unless otherwise specified, the hamburgers in fast food restaurants are all beef hamburgers. This is the basic model. Besides beef patties, there are some vegetable sauces to go with, but there is no cheese in them. Cheese is called cheeseburger. If two meat pies are called double cheeseburgers and two meat pies are added with cheese, it is a double cheeseburger. The familiar McDonald's Big Mac belongs to this category. In addition, the common meat stuffing is bacon, which is fried crispy and placed on beef patties.

Although McDonald's is a standard collocation, what vegetables each hamburger contains is fixed and there is no choice, but most hamburgers have vegetables and sauces added by waiters according to customers' requirements. Common tomatoes (tomatoes), lettuce (lettuce), onions (onions), mushrooms (mushrooms) and so on. There are pickles, such as sauerkraut or pickled cucumber, black olives and green sweet and sour seasoning. If you like spicy food, you can eat pepper and jalapenos and so on. Although pepper can refer to both pepper and pepper, when ordering a hamburger, he often talks to the ingredients, so there will be no misunderstanding. This kind of pepper is usually very small, red or orange, mostly pickled, mainly acid, with spicy taste in the acid. Pepper is dark green and very spicy. It should be noted that janapeno is a Spanish word, so the beginning of j in English is not pronounced as d? The Spanish pronunciation is H, so it should be /hah-lah-peh-nyoh/.

In addition to these common accessories, more innovative eating methods will provide the choice of adding avocado (avocado), roasted pineapple (roasted pineapple) or mango. The difference is that the former standard option is free, while the latter needs to pay extra.

There are sauces to choose from, such as ketchup, mayonnaise and mustard. There are also several compound flavors. Barbecue sauce is salty, sweet and a little smoky. Honey garlic (garlic-flavored honey sauce) is slightly salty, mainly sweet, but has a strong garlic flavor. Ranch (farm sauce) is made of cheese, minced cucumber, minced garlic, minced onion and other spices, and is often used in salads and hamburgers.

Different fast food restaurants order food in different ways. Some people will immediately report all the options to the waiter when placing an order. The stuffing other than beef patties is called topping, and the sauce is called sauce. This kind of fast food restaurant usually has a list on the wall, which lists which toppings and sauces are free and which are charged. In other stores, it goes without saying that beef patties are baked in the kitchen and put at the bottom of the bread, and the bread cover is not covered. At this time, another waiter is operating in front of you, and all the fillings and sauces are also placed in front of you. You can put which waiter you refer to on your beef patties. If you want everything, you can say "everything".

combo meal

A package is called a package or a package. If you only order hamburgers, the waiter will often ask, "Would you like a set meal?" Do you want to upgrade to a package? ) the omitted question is "hamburger or set meal?" Only hamburgers or set meals? ) or "only hamburgers?" A: Just hamburgers? )

The set meal is basically fixed, with French fries and soft drinks. The most common French fries are French fries, also called French fries. Hanging a French name has nothing to do with France, just as Yangzhou fried rice has nothing to do with Yangzhou. Some restaurants offer onion rings, which are generally slightly higher than French fries. You can also have half French fries and half onion rings. The name is interesting. Put the chips and rings in the "misspelled words" Frings. French fries and onion rings can be dipped in tomato sauce. There is usually a big bucket of ketchup in the store, and customers take a small paper cup slightly larger than coins and put some out. Takeaway is a small package prepared in advance. The upgraded version is to add another dollar and pour a spoonful of gravy on the French fries.

The healthy version of French fries is sweet potato fries. I tried it myself at home. French fries are easy to fry, but sweet potatoes are basically fried before the water is dry because of their high sugar content, and they have never made the sweet and crisp effect in the store. I asked my local colleagues about this and wanted to know if there are any good recipes to try. People stare at me and say that you want to fry sweet potato chips yourself. ! To sum up, if you meet a store selling sweet potato chips, try to upgrade the potato chips in your set meal.

Of course, even if it is healthier than French fries, it is still fried food. If you want to be completely healthy, change the French fries into salad. Now more and more fast food restaurants offer this choice. The salad that comes with the set meal is not big. It is called side salad. Vegetables are called garden salad or green salad. Vegetables are called Caesar salad, with some cheese crumbs and croutons (fried bread), and Greek salad with cucumber, tomato and onion. It should be noted that the Chinese word "Caesar" is translated according to the pronunciation of ancient Latin, but Caesar's English pronunciation is /si: z? /。

After ordering salad, some restaurant waiters will ask you, "What kind of dressing do you want?" What kind of sauce do you want? If you can't answer, you can ask "What do you have?" What do you have? Seasoning is sauce, and common ones are French (France), Italian (Italy), Caesar (Caesar), ranch (farm), blue cheese and so on. The so-called French and Italian are North American sayings, which are not recognized by the French and Italians. Both of them are mainly water and vinegar, but the colors are different. French adds ketchup, so it is reddish and thicker. Italy has no tomato sauce, lemon juice, celery, thyme, basil and other herbs, and milk is yellow mixed with green particles. The pasture is milky white.

If you want to eat more vegetables, my suggestion is that two people order together. Order a set meal of hamburger+French fries+drinks, a hamburger and a main course salad. A dinner salad costs about twice as much as a side salad, but the amount is three or four times.

As for drinks, mainly pop (carbonated drinks). Pepsi must not be sold in places where there are cokes, but no matter which brand is sold, it is generally available across the board. Besides coke, there are lemonade. Just say sprite or 7-up according to the trademark. Iced tea (short for iced black tea and iced lemon tea) must be available, as well as orange soda. It can be said that orange pop can also be said to be Fanta or Melinda. There is a kind of root beer, which tastes like coke. It is very popular in North America and rare in China. Although there is beer in the name, it does not contain alcohol. Root is real because it is traditionally brewed from tree roots. Another rare soda in China is ginger ale. In fact, the taste of ginger is so weak that it can hardly be eaten.

3. Sandwiches

As mentioned above, hamburgers are just a branch of sandwiches, and a large number of sandwiches are also the main force of fast food. The most popular sandwich in North America is the submarine (Sub for short), which is named because it looks like a submarine.

Subway is a fast food chain, which specializes in submarine sandwiches and is bigger than McDonald's. Now ordering food at his home is more and more graphical and convenient. The first step is to choose bread: white bread, whole wheat bread, multi-grain bread, Italian vanilla bread, cheese bread and so on. When I first came to America to buy sandwiches, someone asked me, "white bread or wheat bread?" White bread or whole wheat bread? ), I didn't understand it at first, but I didn't understand it until I saw the real thing. Now Subway has posted pictures and names of various breads on the counter, so there will be no such embarrassment.

Then choose meat. There are all kinds of cold cuts, also called cooked food, including chicken (cooked chicken cut into pieces like ham), ham (ham), turkey (turkey) and so on. There are also several kinds of hot meat. Meatballs (meatballs) are between the meatballs and the lion's head used by China people to make soup, and they are beef. In China, only meat is usually pork, but in North America, meat without modifiers usually refers to beef. Steak is also available. If it's steak, it should be cut into small pieces of beef, and certainly not sirloin steak. There is also Philadelphia steak. Cut the tenderloin into pork slices with the thickness of rinse meat and cook them.

Finally, choose cheese, vegetables and sauces. There are two or three kinds of cheese. The orange cheddar cheese has a hard taste and a long aftertaste. White mozzarella or Swiss cheese is easy to melt and draw after heating, forming a unique taste. Picky Italian mozzarella cheese must be fresh that day, because it is difficult to preserve because of its high moisture content, and the products sold in supermarkets and used in fast food restaurants are dehydrated. Personally, I like to use Swiss cheese with mushrooms to match Philadelphia steak, which is very rich in flavor. Of course, this combination needs heating, and the waiter will put the sandwich in the rice cooker and bake it quickly.

Italian panini sandwiches should be baked like this before being eaten hot. Bread made in panini is generally square or triangular, which is hard. There are many spices in the bread.

4. Volume

The replica of the sandwich is all kinds of wrapping and stuffing, but it is not bread, but rolled up with a round pie to eat. Pita cake, which is popular in Greece, the Middle East and other Mediterranean regions, is a typical representative of the roll. The common way to eat is to participate in skewering. The Greek kebab is called souvlaki, and the Middle East kebab is called Kebab. The two are similar. The main difference is that Greeks put lemon juice, while Middle Easterners don't add sour seasoning. Souvlaki is usually a whole piece of meat, while Kebab sometimes puts a vegetable between two pieces of meat. These kebabs include chicken, beef and mutton. Besides meat, some salads, sauerkraut, sour cream and sauces will be added. Pita cakes are sometimes used to roll meat, and sometimes they are cut like small packets to put meat and vegetables.

There is a special roll made of pita cake, which is Shawama. In 1980s, many cities in China sold a kind of Turkish barbecue, which was for Shawama. An electric oven has a metal column in the middle, and the meat is hung on it layer by layer to form a huge meat column. The column rotates slowly clockwise and the meat is roasted on it. When eating, the master cut a certain amount of meat with a long knife and wrapped it in pita cake.

Another very popular book is burrito. The dough used to make burritos is called tortillas. Unlike pita cakes, tortillas are not fermented. It's a skin as thin as paper, not a small cake like pita cake. Besides all kinds of meat, it is essential to add some rice and a big red bean. The sauce is different, too Mexican sauce is called salsa, and its spicy degree is different. Mild basically not spicy, moderate spicy, spicy spices.

5. Pizza

Fast-food pizza is fast. You can eat anything ready-made in the shop. This is the quickest way. Pizza shops always prepare some super-large pizzas, all of which are the most popular flavors, and then sell them after cutting them. What flavor do you want? The waiter took a piece and put it in the oven to heat it. It will be delivered to you in three or two minutes.

There are several kinds of pizza baked in advance. Cheese pizza without stuffing accounts for 37% of the total pizza consumption in the United States. Italian sausage is the most popular sausage with meat. For diners who have no meat and don't like meat, meat lovers are the right choice. Sausage (sausage), pepperoni (sausage), ham (ham), ground beef (ground beef) and so on. Salty and sweet vegetarian food is Hawaii, pineapple and ham unique to North America. There are also many people who don't eat meat, so vegetarian pizza must always be in the store.

The stuffing is delicious, but there is always a thick circle of dough around the pizza without stuffing. In fact, this kind of skin is crisp and delicious, and I personally like it. My daughter likes to dip it in milk. More people will want dipping sauce to match. ? This way of eating is standard in American fast food pizza restaurants, and Italians will be surprised to see it. Common dipping sauces include garlic paste (garlic paste with cheese), sour cream (sour cream), blue cheese (blue cheese) and barbecue sauce. In addition, there will be some coarse Chili powder on the table, and those who like spicy food can be sprinkled on the pizza.