The national taste for bad food seems all the more remarkable when one recalls that the United States, more than any other country of the modern world, has been enriched by immigrant cuisines. – H. L. Mencken in the Chicago Tribune (1926)
They used to have fish on the menu…that was smoked, grilled and peppered…They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermuda shorts. – William E. Geist