#6. No Blue Cheese Salad Dressing

  What?! How is it that in the land that gave birth to blue and Roquefort cheeses that blue cheese and Roquefort dressing doesn't exist?

  The french eat cheese with almost every meal. Either as an ingredient in the dish, an accompaniment, or as a finish to the meal. Hundreds upon hundreds of varieties of exquisite cheeses are stocked on grocery store shelves all across the country, to be savored on it's own, or used in countless ways in french cuisine.

   But oddly enough, nowhere will you find the creamy, tart, delicious goodness of a bottle of blue cheese dressing to adorn your salad. A simple vinaigrette seems to be the natives dressing of choice, which you will find served in homes as a matter of course, and in stores as well.

  Resorting to having to make my own, I found out that it's very simple to make, and being very inexpensive there, I used liberal amounts of blue cheese for extra rich dressing, and so, in the end, it's just as well that it wasn't available in a mass produced bottle of chemicals sitting stale on a shelf, since it was so much better made at home!

  Other salad dressings that don't exist there either are ranch, honey mustard, and ironically,  french! But uh, no love lost there I'd say.

  They do have an 'American' sauce, that resembles french dressing, but never having tried it, I have no idea what it's like or what it's used for.  A sauce they don't have that also ended up having to be made at home is barbecue.

  Made only once, while on vacation with some french friends who wanted to do some grilling.  After months of them all introducing me to new foods, I thought I'd introduce them to something uniquely american that they said they had never tried before. Although they ate it, it wasn't exactly a big hit with them. I must have done something wrong, cause who doesn't like barbecue sauce!