Do you use a lot of sauce? I notice a lot of Americans tend to add sauce liberally to pretty much everything - more marinara than the spaghetti so there's a pool left when you're done, enough soy sauce so any rice dish tastes pretty much like salt, or flooding a steak in so much A1 or Heinz 57 that it might as well be a hamburger.

In my travels it seems that a lot of other countries don't tend to do this as much. Dunno if the obsession of flooding dishes with sauce an American thing, or if I just happened to find good restaurants by chance.

Also the more highbrow or "cultured" someone is, they tend to use less sauces and actually pay attention to how the food tastes. (That, or they get all artfaggy and try to use the sauce to draw stuff, instead of actually putting it on the food where it'd be useful.)