Milshakes, burgers and fries

As if thick, creamy vanilla, strawberry, banana, or chocolate milkshakes weren't enough to send your taste buds up to heavenly realms, you must bring them back down to earth with a vigorous bite of mouthwatering, juicy, grilled, sauteed onion-covered, BLT cheeseburger that simply dissolves in your mouth. But wait, it doesn't stop there! You must continue with a couple of thick, crispy, extra long, Idaho potato french fries that make your lips twitch a little with anticipation. You grab a couple in your fingers, dip them ever so gingerly in the little ketchup Jacuzzi on your tray, and up they go into your mouth – golden and crunchy on the outside, but soft and tasty on the inside. Orgasmic, to say the least, prompting many restaurant and diners to name their milkshakes with hot, sexy names.

Nowadays, you can buy Cialis on Ice (frozen banana milkshake), Slippery Slope (cherry milkshakes), Fuzzy Navel (peach milkshake), and Red Headed Sluts (grenadine milkshake)

Milkshakes, burgers and fries are the perfect meal for a culture that focuses on putting in a hard days work from a very early age. There isn't much time for thrills and frills, such as “Canard a l'orange” or “Coq au Vin” as you ponder on the meaning of life. American culture is a culture where time means money, and food must fit that process. And it does.

It doesn't really matter how many New Age cuisine recipes come out of Beverly Hills, Rodeo Drive, and Malibu celebrity-owned restaurants. The real America – Chicago, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, New York, and across most of the country – has been serving that culinary trilogy since the Great Depression, and it still does to millions on a daily basis.

People from China to Argentina, and from Sweden to Cape Town are hooked on that taste enhancing, mouth watering, all American invention. It is, without a doubt, the perfect culinary storm – basic, tasty and affordable. Milkshakes, burgers & fries will be with us for a long time to come.