Theme: American foods

Nematjonova Munavarxon

Theme: American foods
Plan:

1. 
   Key lime pie, Tater tots, San Francisco sourdough bread, Cobb sala
   
2. 
   Pot roast, Twinkies, Jerky, Fajitas, Banana split
   
3. 
   Cornbread, GORP, Jambalaya, Biscuits 'n' gravy, Smithfield ham, Chicken fried steak
   
4. 
   Wild Alaska salmon, California roll, Meatloaf, Grits, Macaroni and cheese, Maryland crabcakes
   

1. 
   Key lime pie
   

Key lime pie is a staple on south Florida menus.
Courtesy Joe's Stone Crab Restaurant
If life gives you limes, don't make limeade, make a Key lime pie. The official state pie of Florida, this sassy tart has made herself a worldwide reputation, which started in -- where else? -- the Florida Keys, from whence come the tiny limes that gave the pie its name.
Aunt Sally, a cook for Florida's first self-made millionaire, ship salvager William Curry, gets the credit for making the first Key lime pie in the late 1800s. But you might also thank Florida sponge fisherman for likely originating the concoction of key lime juice, sweetened condensed milk, and egg yolks, which could be "cooked" (by a thickening chemical reaction of the ingredients) at sea.
Tater tots

Tater tots are crunchy fried potatoes.

Courtesy stu_spivack/Creative Commons/Flickr
We love French fries, but for an American food variation on the potato theme, one beloved at Sonic drive-ins and school cafeterias everywhere, consider the Tater Tot.
Notice it often has the registered trademark -- these commercial hash brown cylinders are indeed proprietary to the Ore-Ida company. If you'd been one of the Grigg brothers who founded Ore-Ida, you'd have wanted to come up with something to do with leftover slivers of cut-up potatoes, too. They added some flour and seasoning and shaped the mash into tiny tots and put them on the market in 1956. A little more than 50 years later, America is eating about 32 million kilos of these taters annually.