Georgian khachapuri in small town USA...:)

[peacetraveler22]

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[perycalypsis]

Sounds like Pizza Connection movie plot. No matter that Georgian instead of Italian. Original film was good, the starring actor is your type of men for sure.

[peacetraveler22]

I don't know the film. Who is the main actor?

[perycalypsis]

Michele Placido. The wife working on govt. is the red herring?

In Georgia if you show knowledge of wines they will respect you. As well as you show of knowing 5-10 dishes of the local cuisine. Probably Chicken tobacco known in USA as Greek chicken.

[peacetraveler22]

Sure, I drank Georgian wine in Russia and brought some back for my parents. :)

[piterburg]

You mean chicken TABAKA?

I lived all my adult life in the US, but never heard of "Greek chicken". However, in Puerto Rico (and some Latin American mainland countries) they have a dish called "Pollo al Carbon". It is the closet approximation of chicken tabaka that is native to our hemishphere..:-)

[amigofriend]

Oh, come on.

https://www.google.com/#q=chicken+under+a+brick

[peacetraveler22]

Sometimes the chickens have beer cans shoved in them, to add flavor while grilling. :))

[amigofriend]

Oh, this is the whole other world you are entering :)

I am just talking about the basic technique of flattening the chicken and/or putting it under weights while grilling or frying.

Of course there is a long and respected tradition of flattening beer cans, but it's usually done postfucktum, if you get my drift :)

[peacetraveler22]

Yeah, I caught your drift! :) "Postfucktum"...this is a brilliant word. Never heard it before.

[amigofriend]

Google seems to know the word pretty well :)

[piterburg]

Greetings to 239 from 30/38...;-)

All I said is that I never encountered this "Greek chicken".
Also, I never encountered "chicken under brick" on any restaurant menu in the US either.

However, on my trips to PR and certain other areas in Latin America, pollo al carbon was plentiful and delicious.

[amigofriend]

Ну например в широченной сети Macaroni grill:

http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g49007-d460247-i72062942-Romano_s_Macaroni_Grill-Cary_North_Carolina.html

I am like 40/6 or almost :)

[piterburg]

Ahem..forgive my snobbery, but I do not have a habit of eating at chain restaurants (Waffle House being the only exception). Up until this moment I was not even aware of the existence of "Romano's Macaroni Grill". And I do not regret not knowing it, given that our local one is rated 2.5 on Yelp and 2.7 on Google. Which means their food sucks even from the POV of of an average American reviewer.

[amigofriend]

That comment was by no means an invitation for you to partake of Romano's Macaroni Grill's cuisine, or a cuisine of any other chain restaurant for that matter.

[amigofriend]

And I would guess in many other cases it's just marketing - this name might be considered borderline attractive.

For example, nearby Fontana's Italian flatten their chicken offering, but call it simply "½ Roasted Chicken" :)

[perycalypsis]

I heard from a native American about Greek Chicken, GC with lemon rice, GC Pasta etc. The point is we have absolutely different names of the more or less similar things.