Eating in America --美国主食吃什么
　　美国人吃午餐和吃晚餐之前通常要喝点鸡尾酒，但在加利福尼亚州，人们大都喝葡萄酒。（无忧教育整理www.51education.net）吃主食之前，一般都要吃一盘色

拉。（无忧教育整理www.51education.net）炸磨茹和炸洋葱圈可作为开胃食品，牛排、猪排和鸡（腿）为主食，龙虾、贝壳类动物以及各种鱼类甚至包括淡水鱼被统

称为海鲜。（无忧教育整理www.51education.net）炸土豆条是深受人们喜爱而且几乎成了必不可少的食物。（无忧教育整理www.51education.net）另外应特别注意的一点，如有吃剩的食物，一定要打包带

回家，以免浪费。（无忧教育整理www.51education.net）

　　Cocktail鸡尾酒
　　It is quite usual to drink cocktails before lunch and dinner in America and somewhat less usual, except in

California, to drink wine with a meal. You can either have a cocktail in the bar, if there is one, while you

wait for a table or for friends, or you can have one served before your dinner comes. At some restaurants the

waiter/waitress will come to your table as soon as you sit down to ask if you want a cocktail, and you can

then drink this while deciding what to order to eat. At others, there may be a separate cocktail waiter or

waitress. In this case, you do not normally order wine from him or her but from the normal waiter- or the wine

waiter is there is one.
　　Do not hesitate to order Californian wines. They can be excellent and in many parts of the country are

cheap.

　　Salad　色拉
　　It is usual to have a salad with your meal, and a separate plate is provided for this purpose. The normal

practice in America is to eat the salad before the main course. A wonderful American invention is the salad

bar. In restaurants that have these salad bars the waiter does not bring your salad. You go to the salad bar

and help yourself, usually to as much as you want. This is normally done after you have ordered your meal; you

eat the salad while the main course is being cooked.

　　Choosing from the Menu　选菜
　　American menus can look rather confusing at first sight, for they may use some terms which are unfamiliar

to most vistors. Here are some points which may be useful.
　　Fried mushrooms, fried onion rings (洋葱圈) and fried zucchini (小胡瓜) are sometimes served as starters (

第一道菜).
　　Potatoes most often come "French-fried" or baked. If you order a baked potato, the waiter will ask you

what you want on it. The choice is butter and/or sour cream and sometimes chives (细香葱).
　　Very often vegetables do not come automatically with the meal, and you have to pay extra for them.
　　"Scrod" (小鳕鱼), "red snapper" (啮龟) and "mahi hahi" are all name of fish. "Seafood"means lobster (龙

虾), shellfish and fish, including,funnily enough, freshwater fish! Prawns (对虾) are known as "shrimp".
　　American beef is usually good and often wonderful.
　　American salt and pepper (糊椒粉) pots are confusing until you realize that the salt pot may look like a

pepper pot except that the salt pot''s holes are bigger. Pepper is normally black rather than white. American

mustard (芥末) is mild and normally eaten with hot dogs or hamburgers rather than meat.
　　And that stuff in a dish that looks ice cream is actually whipped (搅拌过的) butter.

　　Leftovers　吃剩的食物
　　You have probably heard that in American restaurants, if you can''t finish your meal, you can put the

remains in a "doggy bag" and take them home. This is quite true. If you leave some meat, in particular, your