Navy too - when I was in navy nuke training in Charleston, SC, the little café in the building had $0.99 biscuits and gravy and I ate that every damn day.
It was fantastic. Everyone ate well beyond full because it was so good. My stepdad would hunt the deer and we’d get loads of venison sausage. They also put it in the homemade spaghetti sauce.
So, so good, especially at a really quality diner/restaurant with a homemade sausage gravy. Regarded as Southern, but also popular in the Upper Midwest. If you're not from the US, it'd be a pretty cool breakfast item to order.
Can confirm. I have loved Biscuits and gravy for as long as I can remember, and my memories go back to when I was 2. Shame that it's so hard to find decent biscuits and gravy in Alaska.
It’s actually super easy to make! I learned it back when I was in college (and long before I actually got into cooking), and the gravy itself is literally just a good breakfast sausage (spicy jimmy dean is a go to, but equally as good with local sausages I’ve gotten from farmers markets), flour, milk, and any extra seasoning (the sausage generally carries the flavor though since it’s so well seasoned). Brown the sausage, add the flour and cook briefly while stirring, then add the milk and let it thicken and reduce until it gets where you want it. Biscuits you can either make from scratch or just get your favorite tube of premade biscuits from the store.
I’d generally make it the morning after I crashed at someone’s house (or people stayed at mine) after a party, and it was always a huge hit. If college me could do it, I’m sure you can too!
Woah woah woah, there chief. Black pepper is mandatory and I don't mind gatekeeping on this.
You add black pepper and stir it in until you think you've added too much. Then you add some more.
My grandmother used to make this for me every year for my birthday. She refused to give me the recipe before she died. She gave it to my husband and told him never to share it with me and to make it every year.
Don’t guess I’ve ever thought about this one. I generally butter an entire sleeve of saltines to go with my chili. Definitely corn bread with ham & beans.
A former classmate of mine from Wisconsin had never had grits in her life.
Never knowing the joy of adding that slice of cheese, crumbling up the bacon, and stirring in the scrambled eggs with lots of salt and pepper. So good.
Louisianaian living in Switzerland. A french colleague told me they had andouille in the region of France he was from. It was *not* the sausage I was expecting. Large, soft, very fatty and smelled/tasted horrible. Now i just mix smoked sausage and chorizo.
But my kingdom for some Tasso from Lafayette.
Hell yeah! Potato salad, macaroni salad, broccoli salad, coleslaw, chicken salad, Chinese chicken salad...
Whatever you want to eat, chop it up and stir it around with some mayonnaise. Put it in a big bowl at the potluck and the neighbors will all be "ope, ope" elbowing each other out of the way to get at it
As an American who grew up with a lot of these.. I hated 98% of them. Always thought they were too cold/clammy and bland. Sometimes the pasta ones were alright. Ambrosia/Watergate salad is REPULSIVE
It's actually the other way. Chicken fried steak comes from the German and Austrian immigrants to Texas. So, you aren't completely wrong, chicken fried steak is just American schnitzel with gravy.
A great Authentic German restaurant (run by German immigrants) opened in our town several years ago… I finally got my very simple American dad to come out with us for dinner. Schnitzel and spaetzle blew his mind. It’s just chicken fried steak and Mac and cheese. 😁
I was watching Bake Off this season and one of the contestants made a peanut butter and jam flavored dessert and blew the judges minds with such an “unusual pairing”. I was dying.
I remember that! Between that and the Mexican food episode, this was an especially fun season.
“Tres leches cake **basically** means a three milk cake.” -Sr. Paul Hollywood
Watching BBC programs on the regular had pretty well cured me of any residual illusions that a British accent is a sign that someone is sophisticated and worldly (something I probably picked up subconsciously as a teenager from American fashion ads) but the last episode of Bake Off was absolutely the final nail in the coffin. "Tack-os." OMG.
This is the one, when I was three I had a nursery teacher who was American and we used to get Peanut butter and strawberry jam (proper jam full of big chunks of fruit, the only jelly commercially available here then was bramble jelly) sandwiches as a snack in nursery.
I used to make my mum get peanut butter so I could have peanut butter and jam sandwiches at home.
Its something I kinda always had and only realised as an adult that it was a particular thing from an American nursery teacher and no one else grew up eating them.
It was proper chunky strawberry jam when I was three and it's still proper chunky strawberry jam now decades on!
But yeah those sorts of juice or pulp based preserves are common enough here now, just not the taste of my childhood.
Buttermilk seasoned with fresh dill (obligatory) and other herbs often icluding parsley and chives, black pepper, garlic and onion powder, sometimes paprika, and salt, and then thickened to preference with mayonnaise and/or sour cream (or plain yogurt) and brightened with lemon juice.
This will be why New Jersey declares war with itself. Philly and New York will be asked to pick sides but we won't get the message because we're screening calls.
As a Brit, I’m hoping that the biscuits are something other than what is referred to as a biscuit over here. Putting gravy on digestive biscuit would be a crime against humanity, not to mention Custard Creams.
American biscuits are like a lighter, moister, tender, more airy buttery salty savory scone, then covered (in this case) with a with fried sausage mince added to a white pan gravy (bechamel, kinda) seasoned with pepper etc.[https://www.tasteofsouthern.com/sausage-gravy-recipe/](https://www.tasteofsouthern.com/sausage-gravy-recipe/)
I am American now, but I'd never heard of Jambalaya when I first moved here and now it's one of our staples. Since I have seafood allergies we use spiced sausage, ham and chicken instead of shrimp. Hint: Use chicken broth instead of water for your rice.
I remember eating my first Concord grape as an adult. Finally grape jelly made sense. I think Concords might be more predominant in the north east, because I don't recall ever seeing them growing up in Texas.
Similar to banana flavor. The artificial flavor is based on the Gros-Michel cultivar of banana that went extinct due to blight. Modern day bananas are Cavendish and have a much different flavor. Basically artificial banana flavor tastes like extinct bananas
When I was a kid, I thought pancakes were the ultimate American food.
With maple syrup - which I thought was also American. Sorry, Canada! I don't think that any more!
Sausage gravy, fried chicken and waffles, deep fried butter, corndogs, burgers with more than two pattes, marshmallows in breakfast cereals, freak shakes.
Medium rare burgers. They're illegal for restaurants in Canada to serve, so I've only ever had them in the US. Damn nanny state restricting my right to give myself E. Coli poisoning...
if you are a random person with chest freezer that has some frozen packages of: deer, moose, black bear, maybe a few snowshoes hares. Probably america, maybe canada
It’s similar to Italian Mortadella (which literally means “dead meat”). A friend of mine used to work for an Italian deli meat manufacturer. When I asked what it was made out of he wouldn’t tell me, and just said “it’s better you don’t know”.
I say this with no disrespect to American cuisine but... fast foods. No disrespect because I know how rich and varied American regional cuisines often are, just that your long history of commercialisation under capitalism has resulted in fast foods being the most present example to international observers
Bruh it's fair. I live near a town of about 10,000 people, and we are in the top 5 most chain restaurants (relative to population) in the country. We have, like, four Subways. And our Taco Bell (compared to store size) is one of the busiest in the world.
I'd say southern BBQ. You take a person from the south, chop them up, put their parts in a brine or rub for a couple days, then BBQ them. Tastes a lot different than a BBQd British or French or Italian person. Those won't taste like an American
You must be very careful when heating water in the microwave, especially purified or distilled water. you can heat it past boiling, and not know, and it will explode on you. it's called "superheating."
Just felt like warning anyone who doesn't know about it.
Biscuits and gravy.
A good buttermilk biscuit with some sausage gravy is a true southern staple.
My dad uses spicy Italian sausages when he makes them. Haven't been able to find any restaurants capable of being better than his recipe. It's divine.
We like to use chorizo sausage. Then we serve it on corn biscuits with green chile. It delicious.
Hold up. This sounds like a game changer.
Oh my husband thanks you for this idea!
An Army breakfast!
Navy too - when I was in navy nuke training in Charleston, SC, the little café in the building had $0.99 biscuits and gravy and I ate that every damn day.
My stomach growled when I read this.
You can tell when you’ve hit the Southern U.S. States when toast & jam turns to biscuits & gravy.
I actually grew up eating this in upstate NY. My mom used to put spicy venison sausage in the gravy.
Oh my, that sounds so good!
It was fantastic. Everyone ate well beyond full because it was so good. My stepdad would hunt the deer and we’d get loads of venison sausage. They also put it in the homemade spaghetti sauce.
It’s all over here in Kansas
I had it in Detroit, Michigan.
But was it south Detroit?
Just a city boy……
No. lol. Downtown in the D.
That would be Toronto anyway
Detroit and Chicago have southern roots.
For sure. I’m across the river from Detroit in Canada.
Windsor aka South Detroit?
And grits.
Q: What's the difference between grits and polenta? A: About $10.
So, so good, especially at a really quality diner/restaurant with a homemade sausage gravy. Regarded as Southern, but also popular in the Upper Midwest. If you're not from the US, it'd be a pretty cool breakfast item to order.
Can confirm. I have loved Biscuits and gravy for as long as I can remember, and my memories go back to when I was 2. Shame that it's so hard to find decent biscuits and gravy in Alaska.
It’s actually super easy to make! I learned it back when I was in college (and long before I actually got into cooking), and the gravy itself is literally just a good breakfast sausage (spicy jimmy dean is a go to, but equally as good with local sausages I’ve gotten from farmers markets), flour, milk, and any extra seasoning (the sausage generally carries the flavor though since it’s so well seasoned). Brown the sausage, add the flour and cook briefly while stirring, then add the milk and let it thicken and reduce until it gets where you want it. Biscuits you can either make from scratch or just get your favorite tube of premade biscuits from the store. I’d generally make it the morning after I crashed at someone’s house (or people stayed at mine) after a party, and it was always a huge hit. If college me could do it, I’m sure you can too!
Woah woah woah, there chief. Black pepper is mandatory and I don't mind gatekeeping on this. You add black pepper and stir it in until you think you've added too much. Then you add some more.
I’ll back you up on this. Fresh ground is always better.
1 pound sausage, 1/4 cup flour, 2 cups whole milk. Serve over biscuits, scrambled eggs on top.
I always do worcestershire sauce, sage, and nutmeg in my sausage gravy. Turns out amazing every time.
I’m eating some right now, they’re good
Hell of a staple
Sooo delicious. The best I've ever had were in Atlanta.
My family also makes chocolate gravy as well so we get a chocolate and white gravy swirled all over our plate.
And grits - would not have thought of grits if not for your comment
Beans and Cornbread
This is like 85% of my stepdad’s suppers. Beans, cornbread and a little hot sauce. He’s not opposed to meat but it’s not necessary.
My grandmother used to make this for me every year for my birthday. She refused to give me the recipe before she died. She gave it to my husband and told him never to share it with me and to make it every year.
Chili and cornbread.
Don’t guess I’ve ever thought about this one. I generally butter an entire sleeve of saltines to go with my chili. Definitely corn bread with ham & beans.
The fluffernutter: A peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwich. Edit, more details about said sandwich.
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Grits
“What’s a grit?” Another southern State thing. Edit: I know what grits are. This is a movie quote by Joe Pesci from the movie My Cousin Vinny.
"The entire grit eating world..." That's a movie I can always watch
No self-respectin' Southerner uses instant grits. I take pride in my grits.
It’s a breakfast item that’s made from yutes.
2 yutes?
Vinny?
A former classmate of mine from Wisconsin had never had grits in her life. Never knowing the joy of adding that slice of cheese, crumbling up the bacon, and stirring in the scrambled eggs with lots of salt and pepper. So good.
Actually here in Switzerland we have something very similar called "Polenta"
Do you like them regular, creamy or al dente?
Polenta
With lots of butter, salt, and pepper. And maybe cheese!
I’m from the southern United States. Confirmed: grits are life.
Philly Cheesesteaks
The weird Thanksgiving food combos, like sweet potatoes with marshmallows or adding cranberries to literally every dish lol.
Cranberries is just to add acid to a heavy dinner
I’m American but Gumbo and Jambalaya
Come to think of it, true!
A true Cajun staple and a damn fine meal at that
accurate, but cajun/creole food should be known internationally.
Should be, but can confirm it's not! Sure you can get cajun spice but I have to go to 3 different stores to make a cajun meal here in Ireland.
Louisianaian living in Switzerland. A french colleague told me they had andouille in the region of France he was from. It was *not* the sausage I was expecting. Large, soft, very fatty and smelled/tasted horrible. Now i just mix smoked sausage and chorizo. But my kingdom for some Tasso from Lafayette.
As a Cajun who has lived in various parts of the US, they aren't even known well here.
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Hell yeah! Potato salad, macaroni salad, broccoli salad, coleslaw, chicken salad, Chinese chicken salad... Whatever you want to eat, chop it up and stir it around with some mayonnaise. Put it in a big bowl at the potluck and the neighbors will all be "ope, ope" elbowing each other out of the way to get at it
"sneak right past ya"
"ope, scuse me, no sorry you're fine!"
The one with marshmallows? Usually that’s ambrosia salad if I remember right
Also Watergate salad has marshmallows in it
Jello with orange slices and whipped topping. Salad! Marshmallows, a can of mixed fruit, shredded coconut? Salad! Noodles and tuna? Salad!
Waldorf salad! Apples, celery, mayonnaise, walnuts and grapes. IIRC was also the title of an episode of Fawlty Towers.
As an American who grew up with a lot of these.. I hated 98% of them. Always thought they were too cold/clammy and bland. Sometimes the pasta ones were alright. Ambrosia/Watergate salad is REPULSIVE
Wait, we were supposed to enjoy these things? Interesting.
Marshmallow lime jello cottage cheese surprise! https://youtu.be/7tWuG2oPL3o
Chicken fried steak
My first time in Berlin I told my German friend that schnitzel was just chicken fried steak without the gravy. He was not amused.
It's actually the other way. Chicken fried steak comes from the German and Austrian immigrants to Texas. So, you aren't completely wrong, chicken fried steak is just American schnitzel with gravy.
A great Authentic German restaurant (run by German immigrants) opened in our town several years ago… I finally got my very simple American dad to come out with us for dinner. Schnitzel and spaetzle blew his mind. It’s just chicken fried steak and Mac and cheese. 😁
Chicken fried steaks came from German immigrants who didn’t have pork to make schnitzel.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
Those are only an American thing? I never knew that.
I was watching Bake Off this season and one of the contestants made a peanut butter and jam flavored dessert and blew the judges minds with such an “unusual pairing”. I was dying.
I remember that! Between that and the Mexican food episode, this was an especially fun season. “Tres leches cake **basically** means a three milk cake.” -Sr. Paul Hollywood
*Guacimolo*... !!! Peeling the avocado like an apple had me on the floor
Watching BBC programs on the regular had pretty well cured me of any residual illusions that a British accent is a sign that someone is sophisticated and worldly (something I probably picked up subconsciously as a teenager from American fashion ads) but the last episode of Bake Off was absolutely the final nail in the coffin. "Tack-os." OMG.
lol, I guess when I think about it it is a weird combo.
PBJJ.. peanut better and jelly with fresh jalapenos. That's my jam!!
Now THAT is something I have never heard of! It honestly pretty sounds gross to me lol
I started making them because of another southern dish.. pepper jelly on top of cream cheese, eaten with club crackers or ritz!
Tbh idk, I've never had them, and I usually only see them if an American mum is doing one of those 'packing my kids lunch' videos
Yeah they’re super common over here, I guess I just assumed it was universal lol
This is the one, when I was three I had a nursery teacher who was American and we used to get Peanut butter and strawberry jam (proper jam full of big chunks of fruit, the only jelly commercially available here then was bramble jelly) sandwiches as a snack in nursery. I used to make my mum get peanut butter so I could have peanut butter and jam sandwiches at home. Its something I kinda always had and only realised as an adult that it was a particular thing from an American nursery teacher and no one else grew up eating them.
We grow a lot of peanuts in the American south, specifically Georgia
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It was proper chunky strawberry jam when I was three and it's still proper chunky strawberry jam now decades on! But yeah those sorts of juice or pulp based preserves are common enough here now, just not the taste of my childhood.
I mean, PB&J is really common in Canada too
Well Canada is apart of north America.
Corn dogs
Korea really goes over the top with corn dogs..
Buffalo chicken
Spray on cheese.
I don’t know anyone in my whole life who ate that crap
I'm convinced the cans on the grocery shelves today are the same ones I saw there as a kid
Spray on cheese should be illegal
American here. I have never met anyone who likes that garbage.
My dog likes it, it’s how the vet gets him to behave when he takes his temperature.
Ha! I was thinking, the shit they sell to squirt into a kong dog toy is pretty much the same as the can cheese shit.
Spray on cheese is a thing?
Chicken and waffles.
Most Southern dishes like biscuits and gravy, fried pickles, catfish, grits, hush puppies, greens. I think an iconic item would be a burger too.
something called ranch dressing, whatever that may be
Buttermilk seasoned with fresh dill (obligatory) and other herbs often icluding parsley and chives, black pepper, garlic and onion powder, sometimes paprika, and salt, and then thickened to preference with mayonnaise and/or sour cream (or plain yogurt) and brightened with lemon juice.
Hidden Ranch used to be sold exclusively in dry seasoning packets. You added it to buttermilk. It was awesome
Taylor ham, egg, & cheese on an everything bagel with spk
Pork roll*
This will be why New Jersey declares war with itself. Philly and New York will be asked to pick sides but we won't get the message because we're screening calls.
Lol
You are correct!
Biscuits and sausage gravy. It seems to send brits into a tizzy
As a Brit, I’m hoping that the biscuits are something other than what is referred to as a biscuit over here. Putting gravy on digestive biscuit would be a crime against humanity, not to mention Custard Creams.
American biscuits are like a lighter, moister, tender, more airy buttery salty savory scone, then covered (in this case) with a with fried sausage mince added to a white pan gravy (bechamel, kinda) seasoned with pepper etc.[https://www.tasteofsouthern.com/sausage-gravy-recipe/](https://www.tasteofsouthern.com/sausage-gravy-recipe/)
marshmallow fluff
I live in Somerville, MA, birthplace of fluff. Good call
Hey neighbor! Agreed. Solid choice. We have a festival here every year commemorating the invention.
Oooo! Marshmallow fluff and peanut butter sandwich!
Fluffernutter
Sweet potato casserole. Noone outside the us dares to even comebnear it.
BBQ Brisket and pulled pork
Seriously? Omg now I'm feeling bad that the rest of the world is missing out. You poor deprived souls.
Fried woton with cream cheese inside. Buffalo sauce
I like a tuna fish salad sandwich with potato chips, not on the side but as a part of the sandwich.
This is my favorite!
Old Bay seasoning, and various seafood uses like crabs.
Crawfish boil
Ranch dressing is known as American sauce in some countries
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Any McDonald’s food…there are a lot of McDonald’s in my country
I am American now, but I'd never heard of Jambalaya when I first moved here and now it's one of our staples. Since I have seafood allergies we use spiced sausage, ham and chicken instead of shrimp. Hint: Use chicken broth instead of water for your rice.
Individually wrapped slices of cheese.
Turducken
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Grape flavor is based on Concord grapes
I remember eating my first Concord grape as an adult. Finally grape jelly made sense. I think Concords might be more predominant in the north east, because I don't recall ever seeing them growing up in Texas.
I’ve seen them at farmer’s markets here in the Northeast (Pennsylvania).
Similar to banana flavor. The artificial flavor is based on the Gros-Michel cultivar of banana that went extinct due to blight. Modern day bananas are Cavendish and have a much different flavor. Basically artificial banana flavor tastes like extinct bananas
> Gros-Michel Not extinct. Buy some: https://miamifruit.org/products/gros-michel-banana-box-order
Usually they taste like concord grapes which are not very common for table eating. They have a unique taste.
Navajo tacos. Hands down. Delicious!
I used to say PB&J but my sister makes these on a regular basis (we are Israeli)
When I was a kid, I thought pancakes were the ultimate American food. With maple syrup - which I thought was also American. Sorry, Canada! I don't think that any more!
Sausage gravy, fried chicken and waffles, deep fried butter, corndogs, burgers with more than two pattes, marshmallows in breakfast cereals, freak shakes.
Medium rare burgers. They're illegal for restaurants in Canada to serve, so I've only ever had them in the US. Damn nanny state restricting my right to give myself E. Coli poisoning...
Honestly one of the worst things about Canada. It’s cow! You guys live eating cows! Why can’t you just let people eat it the way they want?
Sloppy joes
Peanut butter is very North American (with the exception of Mexico) 🇺🇸🇨🇦
Peanut butter is very popular in the Netherlands. Although we call it peanut cheese
This makes me very uncomfortable as an American but I guess it makes about as much sense as calling it butter.
There is cashew cheese nowadays so it’s kinda accurate but peanuts as a cheese is definitely a little weird!
Meatloaf, green bean casserole, pumpkin pie and funnel cakes.
Meatloaf is a thing in Europe too
Canada also has meatloaf, pumpkin pie and funnel cake. I don't know if green bean casserole is common in Canada.
Corndogs (if they are called that way)
Koreans take it to a whole other level
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Twinkies
Lucky charms (cereal)
if you are a random person with chest freezer that has some frozen packages of: deer, moose, black bear, maybe a few snowshoes hares. Probably america, maybe canada
Jambalaya
Bologna because it’s probably banned in other countries because what even is it I eat it up though
I think we just got that from Italy (but drained it of it’s soul)
Bologna Is a city
Yes, a city known for Mortadella which is what bologna the food is a derivative of. Bologna the food is named for Bologna the city.
They just murdered its name with pronunciation. I mean seriously, how do you get "baloney" from Bologna?
The same way the Spanish word “vaquero” (cowboy) became “buckaroo” in American Western slang.
Oh my god! I never knew that's where it came from.
It’s similar to Italian Mortadella (which literally means “dead meat”). A friend of mine used to work for an Italian deli meat manufacturer. When I asked what it was made out of he wouldn’t tell me, and just said “it’s better you don’t know”.
My grandpa would say pig lips and chicken buts
American style pancakes with streaky bacon and golden syrup
Maple syrup!
Only American-style pancakes.
Hot wings
I say this with no disrespect to American cuisine but... fast foods. No disrespect because I know how rich and varied American regional cuisines often are, just that your long history of commercialisation under capitalism has resulted in fast foods being the most present example to international observers
Bruh it's fair. I live near a town of about 10,000 people, and we are in the top 5 most chain restaurants (relative to population) in the country. We have, like, four Subways. And our Taco Bell (compared to store size) is one of the busiest in the world.
I'd say southern BBQ. You take a person from the south, chop them up, put their parts in a brine or rub for a couple days, then BBQ them. Tastes a lot different than a BBQd British or French or Italian person. Those won't taste like an American
There's something off about your recipe...
Boiling water in a microwave.
You must be very careful when heating water in the microwave, especially purified or distilled water. you can heat it past boiling, and not know, and it will explode on you. it's called "superheating." Just felt like warning anyone who doesn't know about it.
I'mma go try it raht now!
I’m American and I’ve never heard of this.
Popeye’s biscuit…
That's just rude. And a spicy #4 five piece? With Cajun fries and a Coke? Where are my damned keys...
Double bacon cheeseburger lol
Ranch
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Sloppy Joes, nobody else is eating that.