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Post by meeko77 on May 8, 2015 15:49:24 GMT
This article showed up on my pinterest this morning. Not much of this comes as much of a surprise to me except one. Peanut butter. Are we really the only ones who eat peanut butter? This just can. not. be..... say it isn't so...  What else can you add if you are from another country and can think of something. Also, what is something unique to your country that I totally need to try? I want to broaden my horizons. 15 foods americans eat that foreigners hate
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Post by blue tulip on May 8, 2015 15:51:53 GMT
no, but it does seem scarce. when I was living in Italy for my internship at a hotel, a Dutch guest left behind a jar of peanut butter for us. Don't know why he chose that as a tip, but DH (boyrfriend at the time who had come with me) ate that thing with our fingers, giggling, in one night because we had been so deprived lol.
but up until then, had never seen it in any of the grocery stores there!
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Post by miominmio on May 8, 2015 15:53:26 GMT
You can get peanut butter in grocery stores in both Norway and Sweden.
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Post by scrappington on May 8, 2015 15:54:18 GMT
I work in a diverse office and Peanut Butter is not common in UK, Russia and Hungary from what I have noticed here anyway.
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Post by LeaP on May 8, 2015 15:54:59 GMT
I was going to give the Italy peanut butter example. It was very rare and came in tins from South Africa (back when you were supposed to boycott apartheid), so we never ate it.
We live in Canada at the moment. Please try poutine it is very yummy. The maple syrup and salmon are also delicious.
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Post by meeko77 on May 8, 2015 15:57:45 GMT
Certainly Canada does peanut butter, right? Right?  |
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Post by gorgeouskid on May 8, 2015 15:58:35 GMT
I had a friend studying for a year in France. I was going to visit her and asked what I could bring. She begged for chocolate chips, Bisquick, and peanut butter. This was back in the 1980s, so things might have changed as we have become more global...
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Post by meeko77 on May 8, 2015 15:59:43 GMT
Just looked up poutine. Reminds me a lot of chili cheese fries. I will have to try that one day.
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Post by juliet on May 8, 2015 16:01:40 GMT
We eat tons of peanut butter in The Netherlands  There are currently 3 different types in my cupboard. |
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Post by miominmio on May 8, 2015 16:01:48 GMT
Powdered gelantine has been common here for at least 50 years, most kids love it.
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Post by meeko77 on May 8, 2015 16:02:56 GMT
Juliet, I often threaten to move to Sweden or the Netherlands. At least I know there will be PB there. Cold weather and PB. All is right with my world. |
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Post by meeko77 on May 8, 2015 16:03:48 GMT
Powdered gelantine has been common here for at least 50 years, most kids love it. Miominmio where are you located? |
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2015 16:04:15 GMT
We have a lot of those foods here in Canada... peanut butter, cheez whiz, Jell-o, hot dogs, rootbeer floats (though I prefer orange floats), white sandwich bread, red velvet cake, corn dogs (ew), pumpkin pie, strawberry rhubarb pie, and I guess we have sloppy Joes although I've never made, seen, or eaten one.
We don't have Velveeta (at least not at the stores I shop at), chicken fried steak, grits, biscuits and gravy, Frito pies .
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2015 16:04:24 GMT
I work in a diverse office and Peanut Butter is not common in UK, Russia and Hungary from what I have noticed here anyway. Sorry but I have to challenge that as nonsense, peanut butter is available in every supermarket in the UK and Ireland and is not an 'unusual' food for people to have at all. |
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Post by miominmio on May 8, 2015 16:04:29 GMT
And unique to my country? Lefse (can be disgusting or delicious, depending on who makes it), smalahove (revolting) and lutefisk (disgusting).
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Post by originalvanillabean on May 8, 2015 16:04:37 GMT
Root beer floats? That one surprised me.
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Post by miominmio on May 8, 2015 16:04:47 GMT
Powdered gelantine has been common here for at least 50 years, most kids love it. Miominmio where are you located? Norway. |
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Post by miominmio on May 8, 2015 16:06:37 GMT
And hot dogs and white sandwich bread? We have those, too.
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Post by leannec on May 8, 2015 16:10:43 GMT
We have a lot of those foods here in Canada... peanut butter, cheez whiz, Jell-o, hot dogs, rootbeer floats (though I prefer orange floats), white sandwich bread, red velvet cake, corn dogs (ew), pumpkin pie, strawberry rhubarb pie, and I guess we have sloppy Joes although I've never made, seen, or eaten one. We don't have Velveeta (at least not at the stores I shop at), chicken fried steak, grits, biscuits and gravy, Frito pies . We have Velveeta here in Alberta but I agree that you won't find those other items on the menu in any restaurant or in most people's homes ... I love things made with cornmeal so I'd probably like grits |
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Post by rainangel on May 8, 2015 16:13:47 GMT
We have had Peanut butter available in stores in Norway for a number of years now, but it's not something that is part of our everyday life yet. This thread came up at an interesting time, because just last week I was craving PB&J, so I went out and I got PB for the first time in years. And I introduced it to my DD's and they loved it! Because of nut allergies, they are not allowed to have PB in their school lunch, so we eat it at home. We've actually already gone through a jar this week. But it's definitely not a household staple around here. For sandwich toppings that are typically Norwegian, I would have to say caviar (not the expensive kind) and tinned mackrel in tomatosauce. Oh, and liverpatè. My Australian ExDH used to call my breakfast foods catfood.... |
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Post by nepean on May 8, 2015 16:14:08 GMT
You can buy peanut butter in Australia. We just don't anywhere near as much as Americans seem to.
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Post by rainangel on May 8, 2015 16:16:16 GMT
And unique to my country? Lefse (can be disgusting or delicious, depending on who makes it), smalahove (revolting) and lutefisk (disgusting). I have never met a lefse I didn't like  And I only tried Lutefisk for the first time last year, and it wasn't as horrible as I thought it would be. But of course the fish was covered in bacon, peas and mustardsauce, so didn't taste the fish much... Smalahove.... never going there, and I'm a westcoastgirl! |
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Post by lesley on May 8, 2015 16:16:42 GMT
We have peanut butter aplenty in the UK, as well as white sandwich bread and hot dogs. And while we do have some processed cheese products, we don't have quite the same love affair with them as you seem to in the US! Gelatin-based desserts and sweets are available and common.
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Post by anxiousmom on May 8, 2015 16:17:20 GMT
I always get a little tickled when I see these kinds of lists...regionally southern dishes are always included. Grits seem to be pretty darn controversial.  As y'all probably know by now, grits are on my list of top 10 favorite foods of all time. Done right, they are damn near perfection in a bowl. |
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Post by valincal on May 8, 2015 16:18:55 GMT
I wouldn't say "hate". You won't find biscuits and gravy or grits on a breakfast menu here in Canada unless it's some new trendy upstart, lol! Frito pie is not a thing here, but my SIL adds those toppings to a bag of Doritos and calls it "tacos in a bag". I can't click through the rest of the list but I'm not sure if root beer is served in other countries. I had an Aussie friend visit once, many years ago, and he had never tried root beer (he found it disgusting, BTW). I love a cold A&W root beer in a frosty mug! Not a fan of floats any more though I loved them as a kid. |
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Post by BarbaraUK on May 8, 2015 16:19:36 GMT
I work in a diverse office and Peanut Butter is not common in UK, Russia and Hungary from what I have noticed here anyway.  Peanut Butter is very common in the UK stores! Quite a few brands on the shelves also offering smooth and crunchy - and ordinary and organic - products!  |
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Post by BarbaraUK on May 8, 2015 16:21:20 GMT
We have peanut butter aplenty in the UK, as well as white sandwich bread and hot dogs. And while we do have some processed cheese products, we don't have quite the same love affair with them as you seem to in the US! Gelatin-based desserts and sweets are available and common. Yes, I agree! |
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Post by valincal on May 8, 2015 16:26:01 GMT
DH is a peanut butter addict and during our travels we have found that it is not routinely served at breakfast in many European restaurants/hotels. I found this older article regarding peanut butter consumption.  Peanut, peanut butter! And jelly! |
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Post by bc2ca on May 8, 2015 16:27:32 GMT
I had a friend studying for a year in France. I was going to visit her and asked what I could bring. She begged for chocolate chips, Bisquick, and peanut butter. This was back in the 1980s, so things might have changed as we have become more global… I studied in France for a year in the 80s and peanut butter was definitely not easily available and was included in many Christmas packages. I don't remember anyone asking for Bisquick, but word spread like wildfire if someone recieved a bag of chocolate chips. France has wonderful desserts, but there is something that is so perfect about just out of the oven chocolate chip cookies that my French roommates quickly learned to appreciate. My British father thinks the only thing that belongs on toast is marmalade and still can't understand our "fascination" with peanut butter . |
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Post by conchita on May 8, 2015 16:30:24 GMT
My German neighbor had never had pumpkin pie. I invited her family for Thanksgiving and ended up baking her her own pie to take home. She also never ate yams/sweet potatoes. She said that's what they feed their pigs. Lol!
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What else can you add if you are from another country and can think of something. Also, what is something unique to your country that I totally need to try? I want to broaden my horizons. 
