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Post by gar on May 8, 2015 16:31:52 GMT
You see, if you said biscuits and gravy to a Brit they would not be picturing what you do. They would see cookies and meat sauce and probably make a funny face at you at the same time. And what the heck is chicken fried steak?? I've never seen a corn dog but we certainly eat our share of white bread and hot dogs
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Post by gar on May 8, 2015 16:32:47 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! Not, not for breakfast, I'm not surprised at that.
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Post by conchita on May 8, 2015 16:33:36 GMT
Oh, and Nutella is Germany's peanut butter. Get yourself a Nutella crepe from one of their imbiss stands if you're ever in country!
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Post by denda on May 8, 2015 16:36:31 GMT
I just couldn't live anywhere that doesn't have peanut butter or biscuits and gravy!
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Post by kristi521 on May 8, 2015 16:36:55 GMT
Based on lists like this, I am thinking more and more that I really was meant to live somewhere other than the US. I am not a huge fan of Jello, never had Frito pie and only recently heard of it, grits and biscuits and gravy are not on even on my radar - although to be fair, they are more of a southern dish, pumpkin pie is disgusting to me, never cared for hot dogs or sloppy joes, and can't stand root beer. However, I love PB. I love PB with Bananas or chocolate, or alone. So yummy!
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2015 16:37:03 GMT
We have a Norwegian friend and when he came to Christmas dinner he was not impressed with Christmas pudding and brandy sauce. He asked for a rice pudding I can't remember the name of now, it looked and smelt delicious.
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Post by scrappington on May 8, 2015 16:38:25 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. The 3 people from Scotland here did not grow up with peanut butter. And apparently the peanut butter their family gets back home now is not the same as here. Just from what I have observed here. I don't know how people live without peanut butter. But out of 12 in office only 2 of us eat it. We are also the only 2 that were born in Canada
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Post by BarbaraUK on May 8, 2015 16:40:15 GMT
Can't click through the whole list but there is only one supermarket selling root beer in my region of the UK......and that is our Asda - which your Walmart! Even McD's don't sell root beer in the UK now and haven't for a long time. So no, root beer floats aren't common here!
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Post by Darcy Collins on May 8, 2015 16:54:31 GMT
I never understand why they throw the southern regional food on these lists. I never had grits, chicken fried steak, biscuits and gravy, rhubard of any type pie, or red velvet cake (although I do think red velvet has become more common with shows like cupcake wars) growing up in California. I don't know where frito pies are common - I never heard of them until I started reading 2peas. They just seem silly. It's almost as if they talked about how all Europeans love Lefse - using miominmio post as an example. I will give them hot dogs and peanut butter as pretty ubiquitous food in the US. ETA and yes pumpkin pie would certainly be considered a holiday staple. Although I always pass it up for the pecan.
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Post by ntsf on May 8, 2015 16:54:50 GMT
my dd just moved to new zealand and the pumpkin there is not like the pumpkin in the US. even though she doesn't really like to cook, she has documented my homemade thanksgiving dinner. she found canned us pumpkin at a store (something I would never use...only fresh for me) and made pumpkin pie for a thanksgiving meal. no one local had ever had anything like it. pumpkin there is a savory food..not for sweets
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Post by TheOtherMeg on May 8, 2015 17:17:06 GMT
Some of the dishes on that list are VERY regional. I'm over 50 years old and have lived in four states from California to Pennsylvania. I've never heard of some of those dishes (Frito pie???) and didn't grow up knowing about grits, biscuits & gravy (gravy poured over biscuits), red velvet cake and some of the others. I've tasted them since and don't care for them. Ditto soft white sandwich bread and Velveeta cheese. (I use real bread and real cheese for toasted cheese sandwiches.)
The US is a very large country and, while we are diverse, food can be quite regional. I'm surprised by how many dishes on that list are what I'd consider primarily Southern.
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Post by KiwiJo on May 8, 2015 17:18:15 GMT
I am in New Zealand and grew up with peanut butter, so it was certainly been a staple for more than 60 years. My experience from living in Western Australia for a while is that it is a staple there too. Crunchy, smooth, organic, salted, unsalted..... Pumpkin, after reading ntsf's post above mine - yes, pumpkin is a routine, everyday vegetable here. We don't tend to be keen on eating vegetables for dessert so pumpkin pie is not likely to become terribly popular. Love roast pumpkin!!!!!! But pumpkin salad is fabulous too; I make a terrific salad with pumpkin, green grapes, red onion, pesto and pinenuts - yum! Food we have here that may not be eaten much in USA - do you guys have Pavlova much? and I don't think many other places have what we call kumara - that is the Maori word for a particular type of sweet potato - purple skin, yellow inside, delicious.
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Post by ntsf on May 8, 2015 17:21:10 GMT
since my dd has a partner who is kiwi..we had palova for our last fancy meal together before they moved to wellington. had only had it in new zealand and australia before
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2015 17:26:07 GMT
Food we have here that may not be eaten much in USA - do you guys have Pavlova much? I live in Canada, and we have pavlova. It's my favourite dessert. Although I do prefer to make meringues instead; little flat meringue cookie sandwiches with whipped cream inside.
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Post by BarbaraUK on May 8, 2015 17:30:36 GMT
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. The 3 people from Scotland here did not grow up with peanut butter. And apparently the peanut butter their family gets back home now is not the same as here. Just from what I have observed here.I don't know how people live without peanut butter. But out of 12 in office only 2 of us eat it. We are also the only 2 that were born in Canada I'm a bit surprised at this but perhaps it's just that their families didn't buy Peanut Butter. My adult kids have had this product since they were little so it has been sold in the UK for a long time now and it must have been around for a good while before for me to be able to pick it up off the shelves then....it's not just a recent addition to the shelves! We get Peanut Butter made in the USA, brands like Skippy - so it surely some of it must be the same. We also have Almond Butter etc., selling alongside the peanut butter!
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Post by melanell on May 8, 2015 17:30:51 GMT
My aunt had a teenage family member visiting from Italy once (and this was probably 20-25 years ago, at least) and she absolutely LOVED peanut butter. She used to eat it out of the jar with a spoon and my aunt kept buying more and more while she was here that summer. I currently eat exactly 3.5 things from that list. I eat peanut butter, both pies, and I eat vegetarian sloppy joes, which is the half, since I don't technically eat what they were describing, but something based on the concept. I have never even tried biscuits & gravy, grits, chicken-fried steak, or that Frito thing. I left velveeta, cheez-wiz, jello, & root beer floats back in my childhood/teen years. I liked them then, but don't like them now. And I forget the other items on the list already. How pathetic is that? Oh, okay, from another post I saw the bread & cake. I really dislike red velvet cake. And I don't eat white bread, either. I am apparently a lousy American. (Mind you, I'm not in the south, and as others have pointed out, when people tend to come up with stereotypical American things, they tend to use a lot of items popular in the south. I don't even know where to find someone serving grits around here. I would guess that some servers might now even know what grits are. )
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Post by Darcy Collins on May 8, 2015 17:56:52 GMT
I also think that the biggest miss on these type of lists is the significant ethnic diversity in the US - particularly some areas. I would have had a much, much easier time find curry, pad thai, sushi, tamales, etc in California growing up than grits!
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Post by mikklynn on May 8, 2015 18:01:22 GMT
And unique to my country? Lefse (can be disgusting or delicious, depending on who makes it), smalahove (revolting) and lutefisk (disgusting). Minnesota is the land of lefse and lutefisk! My in-laws are of Norwegian descent and we have both every Christmas. I once carried four packages of lefse in my carry on luggage to Texas for my SIL
I agree - lutefisk is not good, but then I am of Polish descent. Bring on the sausage and sauerkraut.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2015 18:06:07 GMT
One thing I had never seen til I shopped in Ireland is White Pudding, it's served a lot as part of a traditional Irish breakfast.
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Post by nylene on May 8, 2015 18:11:08 GMT
I send peanut butter to my granddaughter in Spain. She can get it, but has to travel to an "American" store.
Our Japanese exchange students all hated root beer. It tastes like some nasty medicine they take when they are sick.
Interesting list. I don't like, so never serve, biscuits and gravy or grits! Yuck.
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Post by The Great Carpezio on May 8, 2015 18:11:25 GMT
I've tried everything on that list (if Frito Pie is taco-in-a-bag/walking taco), but I agree, many of those items are regional. You might find grits around here at a gastropub/hip food truck (in the last 5-10 years), but it isn't a staple on the average menu.
i've had lefsa many times, but I am sure a lot of the U.S is not familiar with it. We just have a large portion of Minnesotans with Norwegian/Scandinavian decent.
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Post by nylene on May 8, 2015 18:11:35 GMT
sorry, it posted twice.
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Post by tania7424 on May 8, 2015 18:13:47 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. It's ridiculously expensive. Around $12 for a large loaf. Manwich (aka sloppy joes) you can find on the bottom shelf at No Frills by the pasta sauce for $1, Ashley. We like them with a Kraft slice on cheap white hamburger buns every six months or so. LOL. Otherwise, everything you said. Some of the stuff on that list, I just don't like, even though it is available. Like red velvet cake.
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Post by Dori~Mama~Bear on May 8, 2015 18:24:22 GMT
That is a funny list.
The only things on that list that I like are the biscuits and gravy, chicken fried steak, frito pies (I don't eat mine in a bag though), hot dogs, sloppy Joes, I love them.. we actually like to bake tator tots crispy and then use them instead of bread and the root beer floats I don't really like them as much as drinking root beer and eating vanilla ice cream. I really don't like either of them all that much.
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Post by greenlegume on May 8, 2015 18:26:58 GMT
You see, if you said biscuits and gravy to a Brit they would not be picturing what you do. They would see cookies and meat sauce and probably make a funny face at you at the same time. And what the heck is chicken fried steak??I've never seen a corn dog but we certainly eat our share of white bread and hot dogs It's a piece of beef that is breaded* and fried until crispy. It's a very Southern dish-usually served with mashed potatoes and creamy, black-peppery gravy. If done right, it is amazingly wonderful. Bad ones will make you wonder WTH? *Actually coated with the same type of breading as southern fried chicken, which is where it gets its name
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Post by georgiapea on May 8, 2015 18:32:23 GMT
I've been wondering about this, so now's a good time to ask.... If cookies are called biscuits in the UK, what are biscuits called?
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Post by scrapaddie on May 8, 2015 18:35:40 GMT
I did eat peanut butter and Kenya and Tanzania.
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Post by Darcy Collins on May 8, 2015 18:36:23 GMT
I've been wondering about this, so now's a good time to ask.... If cookies are called biscuits in the UK, what are biscuits called? sconces? I thought that was the closest the Brits had to our biscuit. Although they're sweeter than biscuits. I'm curious too..... BTW I googled white pudding - yeah we definitely don't have the same definition of pudding here in the US!
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Post by Nanner on May 8, 2015 18:45:04 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 Yes, I've seen Velveeta around in Western Canada since I was a kid (and I'm 55 now). I trued a bite of biscuits and gravy a couple of weeks ago, for the first time. It was horrible. DH and BIL however, both of whom were born and raised in the U.S., loved them. I don't care for chicken fried steak either.
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