my favorite food is meatloaf.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Meatloaf is a dish of ground meat mixed with other ingredients and formed into a loaf shape, then baked or smoked. The shape is created by either cooking it in a loaf pan, or forming it by hand on a flat pan. Meatloaf is usually made from ground beef, although lamb, pork, veal, venison, poultry and seafood are also used. Meatloaf of minced meat was mentioned in the Roman cookery collection \"Apicius\" as early as the 5th century. Meatloaf is a traditional German, Scandinavian and Belgian dish, and it is a cousin to the Dutch meatball. American meatloaf has its origins in scrapple, a mixture of ground pork and cornmeal served by German-Americans in Pennsylvania since Colonial times. Meatloaf in the contemporary American sense did not appear in cookbooks until the late 19th century. In the Turkish cuisine there is a meatloaf with vegetables dish called \"dalyan k\u00f6fte\".\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Meatloaf is one of my favorite dinners. It's a dish of ground meat usually mixed with other ingredients then baked."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm vegetarian, but I make a meatloaf for my husband with ground meat, veggies and put an Italian sausage in the middle. He says it's delicious!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well usually it's made from beef, lamp, pork, or veal... but I bet you could make some kind of a bean or tofu loaf."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've made veggie nut roasts before, which are quite good. They aren't the same for a meat eater tho'. Where did meatloaf originate from, do you know?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It is a traditionally German, Scandinavian, and Belgian dish."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Didn't realize it was European in origin. Has it been adapted since coming over here?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It actually has it's origins in scrapple which is the nastiest thing I've ever tasted that was served by German-Americans in PA since Colonial times."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've heard of scrapple - it sounds revolting, but Philadelphia folks seem to love it. They love cheese steak too, so go figure, lol."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "A cheese steak is good though! All that melted cheese over steak! I guess it's kind of useless for a vegetarian though.. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "It's not even the meat that gets me - it looks so greasy! I did try and recreate a veggie version using portobello mushroom, which was ok I suppose."}]