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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2015 23:08:00 GMT
I will admit , I love chicken gravy and waffles. It is fancier than biscuits.
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Post by scrappysurfer on Mar 23, 2015 23:11:50 GMT
The donut burger is DELICIOUS. Yes it's a heart attack on a plate but it is SO GOOD. Sweet and savory and downright sinful.
Chicken and waffles, gumbo, grits, chicken fried steak, red eye gravy, meatloaf, all are staples on southern restaurant menus. All delicious.
Not a fan of scrapple but I do love me some Spam lol. But I did grow up a poor Filipina and it's just what we ate lol.
American cheese is so good on a simple grilled cheese!
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Post by farmdpea on Mar 23, 2015 23:42:22 GMT
I'm from Alabama, but I still haven't eaten many of the "Southern" foods on the list. I'll be glad to let someone have my portion of the pickled pig's feet or mayo.  I'm not an ambrosia fan, but I don't believe my great grandmother's recipe contained Jello. I know it had fresh oranges and grated coconut. Maybe similar to this? I don't consider that weird at all, just not to my personal taste.
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Post by Skellinton on Mar 23, 2015 23:49:52 GMT
A lot f those foods are not that weird, and I am not from the south! The fact that they have mayo and fry sauce on that list shows me that who ever made it is a nitwit! I wouldn't eat many of them, but other than the kool aid pickles, deep fried butter and pickled pigs feet I can understand why people would.
There are plenty of odd foods that should be on that list- tripe, menudo, thousand year eggs, durian fruit, head cheese and pretty much all jello mixed with meat main course dishes from the 50's and 60's.
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Post by NoWomanNoCry on Mar 23, 2015 23:53:51 GMT
Chicken Fried Steak is amazing with white gravy. I don't like marshmallows period so I don't put any on my sweet potato. I don't find it odd though for those that do.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2015 23:57:40 GMT
Trying to understand what is weird about sloppy joes, meatloaf, chicken and waffles or white gravy  How are they any more weird then poutine? I have never eaten chicken and waffles together as a meal, but that doesn't make it weird, it just means it's not regional to me. It seems like many of those dishes are Southern dishes that have been around for a long time. Gumbo is weird  Poutine is WEIRD! I am Canadian and I will admit poutine is a weird thing. It works but it is weird. How does one make white gravy? Butter, flour and milk? Americans, hands down, make the best fried chicken in the universe. I have had good fried chicken in Japan but the stuff in the US that I did have was mighty good!
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Post by gmcwife1 on Mar 23, 2015 23:58:09 GMT
Chicken Fried Steak is amazing with white gravy. I don't like marshmallows period so I don't put any on my sweet potato. I don't find it odd though for those that do. Chicken fried steak is one of my favorite breakfast treats! Especially when you find a home-style diner that does them really well!
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Post by padresfan619 on Mar 24, 2015 0:00:31 GMT
Chicken fried steak was my go-to hangover breakfast when I was in college. And mmmmm, white gravy. I drool just thinking about it.
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Post by huskergal on Mar 24, 2015 0:04:38 GMT
I don't eat meat anymore, but I loved chicken fry steak and like others, white gravy is amazing.
I wouldn't eat olive loaf under any circumstance.
I still eat Kraft Singles. Not my fave, but they are good for melting on things. Love meatloaf and sloppy joes. I now make a vegetarian loaf and am going to try vegetarian sloppy joes.
I like grits and I am not from the South.
I do not like most Jello salad.
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Post by NoWomanNoCry on Mar 24, 2015 0:07:45 GMT
Sausage white gravy with homemade biscuits is great as well!! Now I'm hungry...
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Post by gramasue on Mar 24, 2015 0:07:50 GMT
I have never had chicken fried steak, but have to admit I'm curious. If I were in the South, I would try it. Grits are another thing that you can only get in the South, but I fell in love with them on a trip to S. Carolina years ago. Brought some home and my DD also loves them. We cannot buy them here in Canada, but she talked a Facebook friend who lives down there into sending her some and she was in her glory. I like the plain ones with melted butter and lemon pepper. Now, Sloppy Joes - that's a regular on our menu! We have them about once a month. Love them! Cheese slices - we call it "woggly cheese" - a family joke, as one of the granddaughters named it that years ago and the name has stuck. Good on grilled cheese and also if you're making au gratin potatoes, a few slices torn into pieces and mixed in goes nicely to enhance the cheese flavour. I know it's processed food, but it's good! I had never heard of chicken and waffles, but it's so funny that this should come up on this list right now. I've been watching the Kate Winslet version of "Mildred Pierce" on Crave TV [sort of like Netflix] and just today saw the episode where she opens her Chicken and Waffles Restaurant. Something else I would try!
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Post by conchita on Mar 24, 2015 0:08:57 GMT
Elvis ate his peanut butter sandwiches with bananas. If it's good enough for the King...
Anyway, I can see how this list would be weird for those who are not American. The olive loaf is originally from Germany, so thank the German immigrants for that. It's actually quite good. I'm from the South, so none of these foods are surprising. I will not eat chitterlings, but oddly enough I will eat fried pork rinds. I won't eat pickled pork feet but have enjoyed ham hocks. People even eat chicken feet in the South.
I bet the Refupeas could put together a better list!
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Post by GiantsFan on Mar 24, 2015 0:09:29 GMT
Trying to understand what is weird about sloppy joes, meatloaf, chicken and waffles or white gravy  How are they any more weird then poutine? I have never eaten chicken and waffles together as a meal, but that doesn't make it weird, it just means it's not regional to me. It seems like many of those dishes are Southern dishes that have been around for a long time. Gumbo is weird  Poutine is WEIRD! I am Canadian and I will admit poutine is a weird thing. It works but it is weird. How does one make white gravy? Butter, flour and milk? Americans, hands down, make the best fried chicken in the universe. I have had good fried chicken in Japan but the stuff in the US that I did have was mighty good! Fry your steak, pour off most of the oil (you need to keep just enough, too much will make it greasy) then add your flour and let it cook off, then pour in milk and stir until it bubbles and thickens. Salt and pepper to taste. Spoon over your CFS. It's also wonderful made with sausage drippin's and spooned over biscuits. ETA: Whenever I have CFS I always have it with a cup of coffee, because that's how my Grandad always ate it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2015 0:10:00 GMT
I will admit this that I do like deep fried food. I realize it's bad for my arteries but I do like it. I like butter. I love butter on toast and waffles or pancakes, etc. But deep fried butter I am struggling with. Is it not so rich that it makes you feel kind of sick inside?
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Post by MichyM on Mar 24, 2015 0:10:18 GMT
The only things I've even tried from that list are twinkles, pop tarts, american cheese, and sloppy joes. None of which I eat as an adult. Many of those things I've never heard of and a number of them sound awful. I guess we in the PNW don't eat "weird" food.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2015 0:11:23 GMT
I love peanut butter. I love underripe bananas but cannot eat either of them anymore. I love them in a sandwich together. Love it! But can't deal with the indigestion! I love peanut butter. Has to be Jif.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2015 0:12:44 GMT
I agree with the Twinkies...I like the Hostess Cupcakes way better with that white frosting. I love them and can eat a whole box of them given the choice.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2015 0:13:43 GMT
I love American cheese. As fake as it is I love Kraft singles. DS won't eat them but I love them. Velveeta?  Love it. It tastes like plastic and it is the most delicious plastic I have ever tasted.
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Post by scrapaddie on Mar 24, 2015 0:14:26 GMT
Errr.....those are mostly way outside my realm of knowledge. And marshmallows on top of a vegetable dish???  That's a bit odd isn't it? No, it's actually pretty standard here to serve sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top. I myself don't care for it but love to make my sweet potatoes with a brown sugar and nut crumble topping.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2015 0:16:32 GMT
Fry your steak, pour off most of the oil (you need to keep just enough, too much will make it greasy) then add your flour and let it cook off, then pour in milk and stir until it bubbles and thickens. Salt and pepper to taste. Spoon over your CFS. It's also wonderful made with sausage drippin's and spooned over biscuits. ETA: Whenever I have CFS I always have it with a cup of coffee, because that's how my Grandad always ate it.Love the tradition there! Love it!!!!! So cute! I am sure I would love chicken fried steak.
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Post by gar on Mar 24, 2015 0:22:28 GMT
Errr.....those are mostly way outside my realm of knowledge. And marshmallows on top of a vegetable dish???  That's a bit odd isn't it? No, it's actually pretty standard here to serve sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top. I myself don't care for it but love to make my sweet potatoes with a brown sugar and nut crumble topping. I get the sweetness, I eat sweet potatoes, but to add that much actual candies to a veg dish isn't appealing to me but I appreciate that its a cultural difference 
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Post by rumplesnat on Mar 24, 2015 0:23:35 GMT
Olive loaf on white bread. Nom. 
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Post by Dreamsofnyssa on Mar 24, 2015 0:24:40 GMT
There are plenty of odd foods that should be on that list- tripe, menudo, thousand year eggs, durian fruit, head cheese and pretty much all jello mixed with meat main course dishes from the 50's and 60's. Menudo is not odd.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2015 0:28:43 GMT
The only one of those I eat is mayo - and I make my own. I used to like Peeps, but they are too sickeningly sweet for me now.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 24, 2015 0:29:19 GMT
I have had Jello salad, but it didn't look like that green mess they showed or I wouldn't have ever tried it. I don't know anybody who makes it with cottage cheese. It's not horrible but not something I would line up for seconds on. Same with ambrosia salad, the stuff I've had didn't look like that. Sloppy Joes, chicken fried steak and meatloaf can be very good so I don't understand why those would be on the list. While I haven't ever eaten chicken *with* waffles, I like chicken or waffles. And mayonnaise? Really? It's a condiment, not a "food" if you ask me. I maybe would have agreed with them on the green bean casserole in the past, but since I've made it myself I know that it can be delicious. Other people must think so too, because when we last hosted Thanksgiving I made a HUGE casserole of it and our guests practically licked the bowl clean! I don't mix the fried onions into it though, they are just a garnish that goes around the edge. And don't even get me started on Peeps, Twinkies and Pop Tarts. Maybe they're not culinary delights but they're certainly not weird. A Peep is nothing more than a marshmallow. Twinkies are just boat shaped filled cupcakes. And I must have pinned about 3-4 different recipes on Pinterest for "hand pies" which is basically all that a Pop Tart is. So I think the list is basically flawed. I bet if I tried I could come up with a lot of stuff that's way weirder than any of this stuff! 
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Post by darkangel090260 on Mar 24, 2015 0:33:20 GMT
Meatloaf BBQ or Jerked
Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches add Strawberry Jam
Mayonnaise-Love the stuff but has to be Best Foods
Peeps = Happy Angel
Sweet Potato and Marshmallow not made the way the show in photo but mine rocks
Fry Sauce still make my own
Chicken-Fried Steak if we go to a dinner type places this is my go to dish. The country gravy (white gravy) is killer if the make it right
Ambrosia Salad- Love it make it a lot
Kraft Singles Grilled cheese is the best with tomato soup
Grits- so good like with eggs
Olive Loaf hard to find , But when i do I grab a couple pack love it. Use to take it to school for launch weekly
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2015 0:40:13 GMT
I have had Jello salad, but it didn't look like that green mess they showed or I wouldn't have ever tried it. I don't know anybody who makes it with cottage cheese. It's not horrible but not something I would line up for seconds on. Same with ambrosia salad, the stuff I've had didn't look like that. Sloppy Joes, chicken fried steak and meatloaf can be very good so I don't understand why those would be on the list. While I haven't ever eaten chicken *with* waffles, I like chicken or waffles. And mayonnaise? Really? It's a condiment, not a "food" if you ask me. I maybe would have agreed with them on the green bean casserole in the past, but since I've made it myself I know that it can be delicious. Other people must think so too, because when we last hosted Thanksgiving I made a HUGE casserole of it and our guests practically licked the bowl clean! I don't mix the fried onions into it though, they are just a garnish that goes around the edge. And don't even get me started on Peeps, Twinkies and Pop Tarts. Maybe they're not culinary delights but they're certainly not weird. A Peep is nothing more than a marshmallow. Twinkies are just boat shaped filled cupcakes. And I must have pinned about 3-4 different recipes on Pinterest for "hand pies" which is basically all that a Pop Tart is. So I think the list is basically flawed. I bet if I tried I could come up with a lot of stuff that's way weirder than any of this stuff!  This list wasn't compiled only by Americans. Perhaps those outside of the US do indeed find stuff like green bean casserole, meatloaf, sloppy joes, Peeps, Pop Tarts and so on to be weird. Heck, I am an American and I think most of the stuff on that list is pretty questionable and wonder why anyone decided to make them/eat them in the first place.
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Post by msbee on Mar 24, 2015 0:42:05 GMT
I agree with PPs who said this is mostly regional food.
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Post by Dalai Mama on Mar 24, 2015 0:46:23 GMT
I have to admit that I was very disappointed the only time I ordered biscuits and gravy and it was served with white sausage gravy. I did not like that at all.
Some of those things I've never heard of an really don't sound all that good but gumbo rocks, mayo is not American and really, your complaint about meatloaf is that it's a loaf made of meat? Well, no shit Sherlock, that's why it's called meatloaf.
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Post by pierkiss on Mar 24, 2015 0:51:52 GMT
Gumbo can be fantastic if it's done right!!! 
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