I'm a Tennessean and those big heavy meals aren't meant for every day unless you're a hard working farmer. (Which I'm definitely not. 😂) But they're definitely great occasionally.
yep, same up a little further north. In southcentral Indiana My greatgrandma (dads gmom) would kill a couple chickens before sunup..and have porkchops and gravy etc for her farmhands breakfast back in the 50s
It does confuse them because the biscuits for them are cookies to us. And biscuits for us are more like scones to then (although taste and texture are wildly different). They don’t really have anything exactly like our biscuits.
@@timothywest1183 LOL I know it is very irritating to have every Brit make the same "scone" comment when they see biscuits...but I know I have to cut them some slack since they don't have a comparable food item.
I like your honesty about taking a break from big breakfasts. Here in the USA, meals that big are usually enjoyed only ONCE a week. If you continually indulge, you will bulge, and we rarely have the time to cook like that except on the weekends. 🥞
Glad to see that someone from the UK finally can distinguish between biscuits and scones. The buttermilk is what makes them light and fluffy and not dry and hard Like a Stone
The texture of scones feels overworked. Like they were kneaded until they seized up. Conversely, I rarely even roll or cut biscuit dough -- I just make one giant drop biscuit in a skillet, and break it up into servings. P.S. Have you ever tried using half-and-half or cream in place of buttermilk? Quite lovely, like a step into shortcake territory without adding a bit of sugar.
@merriemisfit8406 I agree with you on that, and I have never tried that. To be honest, I live by myself and if I make biscuits, I will eat all of them. So I try not to make them lol. When I was a kid, one of my brothers used to tease me for being fat, and then would turn around and challenge me at dinner time to see who could eat more of my grandmother's biscuits 😄
@@LindaC616 You can "cheat" by just stirring up some biscuit mix in a teacup with enough of your chosen liquid to moisten it all, and then microwaving. I forget if it takes one minute or two -- I usually just watch it "bake" so I'll know when it's done. They turn out fine that way, high and fluffy and hot, and portion control is automatic! This is the method I use when I want a biscuit with my lunch at work.
That southern food kept our ancestors fortified for a hard day of work. I remember my mom getting up early to fry bacon and make biscuits. When the bacon was done she'd use the grease to make gravy. Nothing beats homemade biscuits and gravy for breakfast. Nothing, except maybe biscuits topped with Grandma's BlackBerry jam a pat of butter. It's cheap, filling, and delicious. These foods built this country and kept people alive during the depression. Most southern cooks have learned how to lighten up most of the recipes. Every now and then you need a plate of Grandma's cooking.
*_TERMS FOR VARIOUS FRIED EGGS :_* Sunny-side up = cooked only on one side, top side barely congealed, yolk uncooked but warm Over Easy = cooked on both sides with a runny yolk Over Medium = cooked on both sides with a soft, creamy (aka "dippy") yolk. sometimes just referred to as "Dippy Eggs" in parts of the Eastern USA Over Hard = cooked on both sides with a (you guessed it) a fully cooked yolk
@@Tabfort of course i know what proper Southern Biscuits are. i was born and raised in Texas and i've been in kitchens either helping my granny or mother, or running it myself for about 70 years. 😃
I can never remember them all so I usually just say "over easy - hard cooked" and they know I want it cooked on both sides with a hard yoke. And I just say "over easy" for a soft yoke.
You know you're eating southern food when you walk away from the table exhausted. I was waiting for, and wasn't disappointed, to see that look on your face you left. Safe journeys to the both of you!
Nothing like a soft moist Southern biscuit with butter and jam, yum! Food looked great and you are right, Southern food is very filling. Thanks for taking us along, see you at the next destination.
Years ago I heard a saying about differences in the UK and America. In America we think 200 years is a long time and in the UK they think 200 miles is a long way. So funny to me you think 3.5 hours from Nashville to Atlanta is quite a drive. I drive 1.5 hours each way back and forth to work! Love your UA-cam channel and watch all the time!
My wife and I live about 10 minutes from the Loveless cafe so we get to eat there often. I always have a hard time choosing between the country fried steak and the pulled pork omelet. Their biscuits and jam are as good as you said. They make a pretty good bloody mary as well.
Oh my god.... A pulled pork omelet. I never imagined such a thing could exist, but now I must have one. Unfortunately I live in Ohio and such a thing is in the next cooking tech-tree up and hidden quite well.
@@scucci Yeah we almost never go downtown anymore...traffic is horrible and not a fan of the crowds. The Loveless is still really good and they will bring as many biscuits as you want but I never eat them all because I don't want to fill up on them.
Hey Lad! You know, Ive been eating Southern cooking all my damn life and I have never, NEVER, heard it described as pornographic! That might be the best, most accurate use of our common, native language that I've ever heard! Good video!
A little side note on those biscuits. The lady who made them for well over 35 years there, beat out a top chef Bob Flay in a contest to see whose biscuits were the best. Needless to say, she won. And for those who would like to try their biscuits or other products but can't make it to TN, they sell their biscuit mix online.
I'm waiting for the episode: Scottish guys tries American Cardiologist. Do this while you're young and and get away with all of these delicious eats!!! Thank you for providing us all of these great places and eats that are clearly must visits!!!
Scottish Guy Tries American Cardiologist = Scottish Guy has heart attack, goes to American Cardiologist for treatment, is cured, owes doctor $25,473,998 US
Tennessee/ Georgia BBQ is different from Texas BBQ. It will be interesting to see which you prefer. East of the Mississippi River they use pork where we use beef here in Texas. 😊 P.S. We call them biscuits, you call them scones. You call them biscuits, we call them cookies. Next time you get 'Merican biscuits, get gravy with them. 🥰😛😋
Scones have eggs while biscuits have more butter/dairy and salt. American scones tend to be sweeter and often triangular. Chicken/country fried steaks are one of my weaknesses. :-)
My Dad's mother cooked a big meal like that for lunch every day, and leftovers plus any other needed veggies were served at supper. My Grandfather walked to and from his job, so he walked about 5 miles + each day... he was not fat! E. Tennessee.
A friend and I went to Nashville for the weekend, several years ago. She introduced me to the fantastic Loveless Cafe. They have, hands down, THE BEST homemade biscuits I’ve ever tried. We even bought extra to bring home. I loved them that much! 😋
I do a bit of egg yolk, some hashbrowns with a good amount of ketchup and a bit of tobacco, (obviously with the country fried stek) all mixed together in one heavenly bite. God bless america🫡
You will almost always find that the best places to go to are the local ones that almost look like a dump, but the parking lot is always full of the locals enjoying a great meal.
Oh Shaun, you've got to do the Bourbon Trail in Kentucky! Bourbon is your cousins attempts at whiskey making when you don't have the usual grains. Turns out since they were descended from some fine whiskey makers they did a tasty job!
Shaun, try biscuits and gravy layered with a sausage patty and eggs over easy! It's high in cholesterol, but it's worth having to eat light for a couple of days afterward.
Breakfast like that, our family usually eat 1 day of the week. Sunday at our house. Saturday, we got doughnuts. The rest of the week - cereal or oatmeal &/or toast.
Hi Shaun. These videos are a lot of fun. It's great to see someone from another country and his take on America---seeing thongs we take for granted through their eyes. PS---the "coolest" accent to me is the Scottish accent.
@@nativetexan9776I'm half Texan on my Mama's side, and chicken fried steak is something we always get when we go back to Big D. That and bbq beef of course!
Lol, you can tell you’re in the South right from the start bc you are sweating ur butt off and beet red-and then it rains, lol! That’s the American South for ya! Hot and humid 🥵 Great show and looks like you found a REALLY great example of southern food! My kinda place! ❤️
Great video. With the eggs, "sunny side up" means the yolks are uncooked and raw and kind of gummy. When you order the eggs "over easy" the yolk is cooked for a short period by flipping over the egg and it sears the yolk so it isn't as runny.
When my husband and I were first married, we would go to breakfast every Sunday. He always ordered Chicken fried steak and eggs over easy or sunny side up. He's added to his dishes, but that's still one of his favorites.
@8:37 you're like "Southern cookin' is something else" and you're not wrong, friend. We call it cookin' but yeah, it's Southern if it's good. Biscuits are like scones, but again, you're 100% correct. We use more butter in ours and it just makes it softer.
Shaun, very enjoyable, as always. FYI, Southern Fried Steak -- also known as Chicken Fried Steak -- is the American (esp. Southern) version or adaptation of Germany's traditional dish Wiener Schnitzel. Concerning this practice of massively Huge breakfasts, except for some special occasion, I think they are less of a Southern thing and more a feature of rural farm culture. I remember as a kid (I'm 70 now) during the Summer visiting my maternal grandparents in Alabama, who had a big farm. My grandfather and a couple of "hired hands" would gather in the kitchen at about 5:30 AM for a cup of coffee, then go straight into the early morning chores. But then they'd return at around 7:30 for a big breakfast prepared by my grandmother. There would be biscuits (of course) and gravy, ham, bacon, fried eggs, fried chicken, corn in the cob, sliced tomatoes, and a variety of jams. This was the biggest meal of the day. Lunch might be bologna sandwiches or breakfast leftovers. At the end of their work day the hired men went back to their own homes for supper, and I don't know what they ate, but my grandparents are a very light meal, like corn flakes & milk, or that big Southern country favorite, Crumbled Cornbread in Buttermilk! Personally, I can't think of a better way to ruin good cornbread, but generations of Southern country folks have loved it. I thoght you might finf that interesting. Best wishes.
Back in the day when the southerns worked in the fields everyday a big breakfast held them thru with not much for lunch, till supper. Now it’s a weekend thing. With after church big family meals Sunday afternoon.
Glad you enjoyed the Loveless. I live just a mile away from there. My son is a server at the Loveless he's worked there about 6 years. I often pop over there on the weekend for at least one meal, but that storm kept me at home.. I wish we had met so I could tell you in person how much I enjoy your channel. I found you because of Outlander so I go way back with you. The big barn is used for special events. It can be reserved for weddings, parties, small musical shows even theater. Then you can have the food catered fresh from the Loveless. If you ever make it back to Nashville I would love to show you the rest of the city that we called the real Nashville which is everything that's not down on lower Broadway LOL There's so much more to see and do here. My brother would be glad to take us out on his boat. We could do a river cruise or go out to one of the beautiful lakes around Nashville. There are also many beautiful city parks, festivals, museums, great universities, and of course lots more great food and people. In the fall we have a fun Highland Games & Celtic Festival. It's all very official. The last games O tended in 2022 were opened by some Earl of something or another I wish I remembered his name but he was part of the official governing party of the Highland Games, all the way in Nashville to kick things off. Like much of the southeast, we have a very large population of descendants of Scottish and Irish immigrants. Most of them settled in North Carolina and Tennessee in the early 1800s I look forward to seeing your adventures in Southern Florida. Blessings to both of you and stay safe!
My Brit wife and her family wont try biscuits and gravy. They say, gravy is not a breakfast item, gravy is not white, and they say sometimes the sausage gravy looks gray.
Always remember that there is a little difference between southern fried steak and chicken fried steak. Just started watching some of your videos and if you make it to Texas order a chicken fried steak. Southern-fried is just dipped in a batter. Chicken-fried is dredged in flour and dipped in egg and milk mixture then dredged in flour again, then fried.
Hi there. Welcome to America, friend. My name is Shaun, too. I love your channel. I hope one day to go to Scotland. According to my DNA results I'm 45 percent Scottish. My family is Clan Wallace. I've traced them back to the 1500's near Fife, Scotland. Anyway, your channel is fun and I love that we spell our names the same way ( nobody spells it that way, it seems).
I went to Loveless Cafe years ago and had country ham with redeye gravy. I have fond memories of it. And you're right, the biscuits are jam are delicious!
Thank You for pausing on the Loveless sign and allowing me to stop and read it... being vision impaired it was a nice treat.... Thank You O Muck.....I love the history
Since you were able to post this video, I'm glad to see that you survived the incipient food coma that you were obviously struggling with at the end of the video! Carry on and I'll be watching for your next one.🙂
I love Loveless Cafe! Well worth the wait to get in. The country fried steak is absolutely fantastic! And the biscuits are so good! They don't even need jam.
I think I've seen almost every one of your videos and it's clear that you really love a few big swathes of American Culture. I'm guessing that your 3 favorite things are:: SOUTHERN COOKING (the first time that you tried "Chicken Fried Steak up at that classic diner in Oregon is still one of my favorite of your videos), - and you seem to really like everything TEXAS, especially San Antonio - - and you appeared to have great experiences at every AMERICAN SPORTING EVENT that you have been to (like the GAMES that you went to in Philadelphia, and the TAILGATE Parties you saw in the parking lots at some sport's stadium, and your favorite one I think was The RODEO. Am I right that those three things are your favorites?
Down the street from me is a little old 24 hour diner, it’s near an area that has a bunch of businesses off the Interstate where trucks are always coming and going. It’s been there since the 50’s, and is still owned by one of the grandkids, she’s also the hostess, cook, wait staff and chief joke teller. Some of the best country fried steak I’ve had in years, that’s definitely one of my guilty pleasures. But others are right, this isn’t an everyday thing, that is unless you’re up at 4AM and out the door at 5 to start farm work for 12+ hours. I grew up that way helping on the grandparents farm, we ate BIG meals first thing, a lighter dinner (lunch) then a larger supper (dinner). Sunday dinner & supper we’re always the large ones, either at church as a buffet or at home with large groups from church & family over. Oddly, one of the things I really enjoy is a European light style breakfast, it’s what I eat generally every day. Those big hearty meals just aren’t cool unless you’re burning all of it off out in a field.
My sweet, but bizarre husband, has a phobia of jam. Yes that wasn’t a misspelling. Jam. So when you bit into that biscuit he shivered and I giggled. Lol. That was fun.
I don't have a problem with jam, but marshmallows make me shiver--hahaha. It is often the gelatinous texture (jam has the pectin to set it which is a gelatinous substance). I understand your husband's misgivings--hahaha.
The biscuits are made with White Lily brand flour. That's a flour made from soft wheat, grown in the warm humid climate of the South. That's why they are so fluffy and soft. It's a very regional flour. You can't get soft wheat flour West of Oklahoma, only hard red wheat or winter wheat flour, which grows in a harsher colder climate.
I checked online and here in Southern California, you can get White Lily self-rising flour at Walmart. Maybe that’s because Walmart is originally an Arkansas company. Thinking of going to buy some of that flour-always wanted to learn how to make good biscuits.
Country fried steak and chicken fried steak are exchangeable, both mean the same thing. Sunny side up is simply a way Americans cook eggs; it means the egg was not flipped or turned over during cooking, just cooked then removed from the pan. It usually leaves the yolk cooked but nice and runny.
Good to see you enjoying our southern cooking Shawn . I’ve been to Loveless Cafe I went to Edinburgh 2 years ago because of Outlander and Sam Heughan. Sorry I was not a fan of your cuisine. Lucky found a chicken franchise that saved my life. Safe travels 👍🏴
I know your leaving TN. But Memphis TN is known for the best BBQ in TN. Plus Elvis Graceland is here. Plus Beale St. Sun Studio. Bass Pro shop inside the Pyramid and the Peabody Hotel. Corkys BBQ. Central BBQ and Rendezvous BBQ. Y’all should come this way.
Now, I'm craving chicken fried steak with white gravy and biscuits. YUM. I love southern food! My fav restaurant was Black Eyed Pea. The had the best rolls and CFS. Bad mgt screwed it up, financially, and they all closed. Ugh.
Shaun when is the last time you had a scone and had to stop to tell yourself, mmmm wow!? thats the difference between a scone and a southern buttermilk biscuit 😏
Scones are dense, slightly sweet, and creamy. Biscuit are much lighter & slightly tart. I think both are equally good. Try & eat on the run with a scone & you might make it there in good shape. Try that with a biscuit, and you will have some crumbs down your front. I think I prefer scones because I don't get them often.
I like them both, but I'm just so happy that someone finally recognizes that they're not the same thing. Josh and Ollie from Jolly had seen the difference they claimed, but in their last video they were right back to saying that they're the same thing
Shaun, you probably won't see this, but the Loveless Cafe is just a few hundred meters away from the entrance to the Natchez Track Parkway. It is a 700+ KM stretch of quiet, scenic and breathtaking road that stretches from Nashville to Natchez, Mississippi with a speed limit of 80 kmph. No stop signs, no stoplights the entire length. You won't see a single business other than a few farms. No gas stations, no McDonalds - nothing. No commercial vehicles allowed, no signs other than notices of historical sights. The best way to describe it is a road that doubles as a park. The Trace started thousands of years ago as a trail for wild animals, then became a trade route for Native American Indians and settlers. If you ever make it back to the area, this is a real taste of Americana. I just rode it beginning to end - and back - on a motorcycle this week. About 1600 KM including getting off the Parkway to get food, gas and hotels.
Southern life in the early years were mainly rural. Living and working on the farm. You worked very hard and you needed big meals. For most people now we don’t eat those huge meals everyday and definitely not every meal. But I enjoy them when they come around.
Here in the South we don’t eat breakfast until we get full. We eat until we get tired 😅. Real southern Biscuits will (as the old folks say) make you stuffed as a tick 😂😂😂. A good basket of biscuits with any fresh breakfast meat is a match made in heaven
I'm a Tennessean and those big heavy meals aren't meant for every day unless you're a hard working farmer. (Which I'm definitely not. 😂) But they're definitely great occasionally.
I'm from East TN. I totally agree.
You ever been to Walmart and seen dozens of 300+ lb people on scooters? They would disagree with you that you can't eat biscuits and gravy every day.
Yep, totally agree. It's a special treat.
yep, same up a little further north. In southcentral Indiana My greatgrandma (dads gmom) would kill a couple chickens before sunup..and have porkchops and gravy etc for her farmhands breakfast back in the 50s
I had a full Scottish breakfast in Scotland. As my father used to say, "It'll stick to your ribs!".
We’ve tried and tried to tell the Brits that biscuits aren’t scones…😂
I’m glad you could see the difference…😁
It does confuse them because the biscuits for them are cookies to us. And biscuits for us are more like scones to then (although taste and texture are wildly different). They don’t really have anything exactly like our biscuits.
The never ending argument...
@@timothywest1183 LOL I know it is very irritating to have every Brit make the same "scone" comment when they see biscuits...but I know I have to cut them some slack since they don't have a comparable food item.
I like your honesty about taking a break from big breakfasts. Here in the USA, meals that big are usually enjoyed only ONCE a week. If you continually indulge, you will bulge, and we rarely have the time to cook like that except on the weekends. 🥞
Yeah, I love it but after a few days I was thinking, I need a salad 😂
OP : you spoke nothing but truth. well said.
Many people skip breakfast all together. Just a black coffee or tea, then out the door
Maybe once a month for me.
Yea, it's wild when people see YT vids of big breakfasts and think thats daily. We'd be a waaaay fatter nation lmao
The problem with rain in the south is it cools it down for a second but as soon as it stops the humidity skyrockets and it makes it seem even hotter.
So true. It happened here in NC. Last night it rained and today it feels like a Turkish steam bath. Yuck🥵😣
You think you’re getting some relief because of the cold front moving through, but in less than an hour you are in a literal sauna!
Biscuits are a very simple recipe BUT it takes real talent to make em like THAT. An excellent biscuit is PURE PERFECTION.
I had to make biscuits for FALS class this year. My mom makes great ones. I thought….no problem. Nope….you could have used mine as a shot put. So bad!
Dude's biscuit drunk. Buttermilk biscuits are an art and one of the finest foods contrived by humans.
He is! 😂😂😂
AMEN
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Glad to see that someone from the UK finally can distinguish between biscuits and scones. The buttermilk is what makes them light and fluffy and not dry and hard Like a Stone
Stone, scone, not much difference in my mind except for the T (tea?).
The texture of scones feels overworked. Like they were kneaded until they seized up. Conversely, I rarely even roll or cut biscuit dough -- I just make one giant drop biscuit in a skillet, and break it up into servings. P.S. Have you ever tried using half-and-half or cream in place of buttermilk? Quite lovely, like a step into shortcake territory without adding a bit of sugar.
@merriemisfit8406 I agree with you on that, and I have never tried that. To be honest, I live by myself and if I make biscuits, I will eat all of them. So I try not to make them lol. When I was a kid, one of my brothers used to tease me for being fat, and then would turn around and challenge me at dinner time to see who could eat more of my grandmother's biscuits 😄
@@LindaC616 You can "cheat" by just stirring up some biscuit mix in a teacup with enough of your chosen liquid to moisten it all, and then microwaving. I forget if it takes one minute or two -- I usually just watch it "bake" so I'll know when it's done. They turn out fine that way, high and fluffy and hot, and portion control is automatic! This is the method I use when I want a biscuit with my lunch at work.
@@merriemisfit8406 nice!
That southern food kept our ancestors fortified for a hard day of work. I remember my mom getting up early to fry bacon and make biscuits. When the bacon was done she'd use the grease to make gravy.
Nothing beats homemade biscuits and gravy for breakfast. Nothing, except maybe biscuits topped with Grandma's BlackBerry jam a pat of butter.
It's cheap, filling, and delicious. These foods built this country and kept people alive during the depression.
Most southern cooks have learned how to lighten up most of the recipes. Every now and then you need a plate of Grandma's cooking.
*_TERMS FOR VARIOUS FRIED EGGS :_*
Sunny-side up = cooked only on one side, top side barely congealed, yolk uncooked but warm
Over Easy = cooked on both sides with a runny yolk
Over Medium = cooked on both sides with a soft, creamy (aka "dippy") yolk. sometimes just referred to as "Dippy Eggs" in parts of the Eastern USA
Over Hard = cooked on both sides with a (you guessed it) a fully cooked yolk
@@Tabfort of course i know what proper Southern Biscuits are. i was born and raised in Texas and i've been in kitchens either helping my granny or mother, or running it myself for about 70 years. 😃
I can never remember them all so I usually just say "over easy - hard cooked" and they know I want it cooked on both sides with a hard yoke. And I just say "over easy" for a soft yoke.
Over-medium, please! With lots of buttered toast for dippin & scoopin & soppin. 👍
I've never heard of dippy eggs. I've lived in the south all my life except for a couple of years out of the country.
As a Southerner, it does my heart good to see you enjoying our food so much. ❤❤❤
Me too. We get criticized for so much, it's nice to get a thumbs up once in a while!
@@Mick_Ts_Chick I agree!
I agree! I LOVE how much Shaun & Teka love our good ol southern cookin!🥰
You know you're eating southern food when you walk away from the table exhausted. I was waiting for, and wasn't disappointed, to see that look on your face you left. Safe journeys to the both of you!
Yeah, it looked like he just survived a fist fight. 😂😂😂
Lololol Exactly! I get like that in Savannah 🤣🥴
Nothing like a soft moist Southern biscuit with butter and jam, yum! Food looked great and you are right, Southern food is very filling. Thanks for taking us along, see you at the next destination.
Years ago I heard a saying about differences in the UK and America. In America we think 200 years is a long time and in the UK they think 200 miles is a long way. So funny to me you think 3.5 hours from Nashville to Atlanta is quite a drive. I drive 1.5 hours each way back and forth to work! Love your UA-cam channel and watch all the time!
My wife and I live about 10 minutes from the Loveless cafe so we get to eat there often. I always have a hard time choosing between the country fried steak and the pulled pork omelet. Their biscuits and jam are as good as you said. They make a pretty good bloody mary as well.
This place looks to be a hidden gem. You Nashvillians are really spoiled with good food lol
Ohhh the pork omelette sounds amazing too. What a great place
Oh my god.... A pulled pork omelet. I never imagined such a thing could exist, but now I must have one. Unfortunately I live in Ohio and such a thing is in the next cooking tech-tree up and hidden quite well.
@@chrismaverick9828 I agree that sounds incredible
@@scucci Yeah we almost never go downtown anymore...traffic is horrible and not a fan of the crowds. The Loveless is still really good and they will bring as many biscuits as you want but I never eat them all because I don't want to fill up on them.
In Florida the northern Floridians are more Southern ( Appalachian) and the southern Floridians are usually more northern.
Ay Laddy, you and the Mrs's, are loving the South just like a good Scotsman....
Thanks for showing us another great place in the USA. Another brilliant video, looking forward to more adventures. Mrs H 💕
Thank you - great to see you guys in the comments 😊
I watch you guys also.
Hey Lad! You know, Ive been eating Southern cooking all my damn life and I have never, NEVER, heard it described as pornographic! That might be the best, most accurate use of our common, native language that I've ever heard! Good video!
A little side note on those biscuits. The lady who made them for well over 35 years there, beat out a top chef Bob Flay in a contest to see whose biscuits were the best. Needless to say, she won. And for those who would like to try their biscuits or other products but can't make it to TN, they sell their biscuit mix online.
We don’t eat big breakfasts like that often, and if you do, it counts for lunch also. Toast and coffee is my normal breakfast.
I'm waiting for the episode: Scottish guys tries American Cardiologist.
Do this while you're young and and get away with all of these delicious eats!!! Thank you for providing us all of these great places and eats that are clearly must visits!!!
Scottish Guy Tries American Cardiologist = Scottish Guy has heart attack, goes to American Cardiologist for treatment, is cured, owes doctor $25,473,998 US
Tennessee/ Georgia BBQ is different from Texas BBQ. It will be interesting to see which you prefer. East of the Mississippi River they use pork where we use beef here in Texas. 😊
P.S. We call them biscuits, you call them scones. You call them biscuits, we call them cookies. Next time you get 'Merican biscuits, get gravy with them. 🥰😛😋
Scones have eggs while biscuits have more butter/dairy and salt. American scones tend to be sweeter and often triangular. Chicken/country fried steaks are one of my weaknesses. :-)
of course a Scott would love southern US cooking... it's probably the only cooking that fries as much stuff as the Scottish.
West TN, middle TN and east TN are almost like 3 whole different countries!
I live near the Loveless Cafe and I knew right wear you were when I saw the opening shot of the biscuits and preserves. Good video. Thanks Shaun.
Even though I just had Catfish for lunch an hour or so ago, those biscuits were making me hungry.
The biscuits were truly sublime!!
My Dad's mother cooked a big meal like that for lunch every day, and leftovers plus any other needed veggies were served at supper. My Grandfather walked to and from his job, so he walked about 5 miles + each day... he was not fat! E. Tennessee.
A friend and I went to Nashville for the weekend, several years ago. She introduced me to the fantastic Loveless Cafe. They have, hands down, THE BEST homemade biscuits I’ve ever tried. We even bought extra to bring home. I loved them that much! 😋
GREAT time of year to be driving to Florida - Heaven help you all; you think it's been hot in Nashville? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Those biscuits looked amazing!
Whenever I go to Scotland, I eat a lot of fish and chips. You guys make it so much better than we do.
I do a bit of egg yolk, some hashbrowns with a good amount of ketchup and a bit of tobacco, (obviously with the country fried stek) all mixed together in one heavenly bite. God bless america🫡
You will almost always find that the best places to go to are the local ones that almost look like a dump, but the parking lot is always full of the locals enjoying a great meal.
Oh Shaun, you've got to do the Bourbon Trail in Kentucky! Bourbon is your cousins attempts at whiskey making when you don't have the usual grains. Turns out since they were descended from some fine whiskey makers they did a tasty job!
Shaun,
the best way to deal with a big breakfast like you ate is a big nap, moderation is the key. love your videos.
Those large breakfasts are usually a weekend thing, once a week. I eat fruit or a couple of eggs or a smoothie the rest of the week.
Shaun, try biscuits and gravy layered with a sausage patty and eggs over easy! It's high in cholesterol, but it's worth having to eat light for a couple of days afterward.
Refreshing to see your perspective on the culture and the eats. Enjoy!
Breakfast like that, our family usually eat 1 day of the week. Sunday at our house. Saturday, we got doughnuts. The rest of the week - cereal or oatmeal &/or toast.
Hi Shaun. These videos are a lot of fun. It's great to see someone from another country and his take on America---seeing thongs we take for granted through their eyes. PS---the "coolest" accent to me is the Scottish accent.
I make scones and southern biscuits. Scones have eggs and more sugar. Biscuits don’t use eggs and most use buttermilk instead of regular milk.
It's the flour that make the biscuits so light and fluffy. It is soft winter wheat flour.
Ahh that makes sense - they were great
@@shaunvlogand buttermilk that interacts with the soda to make them fluffy
Country fried steak and chicken fried steak are pretty much interchangeable. It's a regional name.
The further north you travel, the more you will see "Country Fried Steak".
@nativetexan9776 it's also in the US military as country fried.
@@nativetexan9776I'm half Texan on my Mama's side, and chicken fried steak is something we always get when we go back to Big D. That and bbq beef of course!
Lol, you can tell you’re in the South right from the start bc you are sweating ur butt off and beet red-and then it rains, lol! That’s the American South for ya! Hot and humid 🥵 Great show and looks like you found a REALLY great example of southern food! My kinda place! ❤️
Great video. With the eggs, "sunny side up" means the yolks are uncooked and raw and kind of gummy. When you order the eggs "over easy" the yolk is cooked for a short period by flipping over the egg and it sears the yolk so it isn't as runny.
When my husband and I were first married, we would go to breakfast every Sunday. He always ordered Chicken fried steak and eggs over easy or sunny side up. He's added to his dishes, but that's still one of his favorites.
In all my years of living and traveling in the south I have never heard it called "southern fried steak" only "chicken fried steak".
Ohh I never knew - I saw it was chicken fried steak in the north west too
@@shaunvlog Yeah, mostly the same in the North East as well.
@@shaunvlog chicken fried chicken is also like southern fried steak but instead of a beef steak it is a chicken breast
You're driving to Atlanta?!? Oh, I'm so sorry o_O Driving there is a nightmare. I wish you the best!
@8:37 you're like "Southern cookin' is something else" and you're not wrong, friend. We call it cookin' but yeah, it's Southern if it's good. Biscuits are like scones, but again, you're 100% correct. We use more butter in ours and it just makes it softer.
My reaction to your reaction would be the same as the cartoon character "Homer Simpson". Mmm, biscuits!
Shaun, very enjoyable, as always. FYI, Southern Fried Steak -- also known as Chicken Fried Steak -- is the American (esp. Southern) version or adaptation of Germany's traditional dish Wiener Schnitzel. Concerning this practice of massively Huge breakfasts, except for some special occasion, I think they are less of a Southern thing and more a feature of rural farm culture. I remember as a kid (I'm 70 now) during the Summer visiting my maternal grandparents in Alabama, who had a big farm. My grandfather and a couple of "hired hands" would gather in the kitchen at about 5:30 AM for a cup of coffee, then go straight into the early morning chores. But then they'd return at around 7:30 for a big breakfast prepared by my grandmother. There would be biscuits (of course) and gravy, ham, bacon, fried eggs, fried chicken, corn in the cob, sliced tomatoes, and a variety of jams. This was the biggest meal of the day. Lunch might be bologna sandwiches or breakfast leftovers. At the end of their work day the hired men went back to their own homes for supper, and I don't know what they ate, but my grandparents are a very light meal, like corn flakes & milk, or that big Southern country favorite, Crumbled Cornbread in Buttermilk! Personally, I can't think of a better way to ruin good cornbread, but generations of Southern country folks have loved it. I thoght you might finf that interesting. Best wishes.
I found it easy to drive on the other side of the road/car but the narrow roads in Scotland were challenging.
You guy really are takin in the US. I am lovin all of it. 😁
Back in the day when the southerns worked in the fields everyday a big breakfast held them thru with not much for lunch, till supper. Now it’s a weekend thing. With after church big family meals Sunday afternoon.
You should’ve came to North Carolina and visited then hit I-85 all the way to Atlanta
Glad you enjoyed the Loveless. I live just a mile away from there. My son is a server at the Loveless he's worked there about 6 years. I often pop over there on the weekend for at least one meal, but that storm kept me at home.. I wish we had met so I could tell you in person how much I enjoy your channel. I found you because of Outlander so I go way back with you.
The big barn is used for special events. It can be reserved for weddings, parties, small musical shows even theater. Then you can have the food catered fresh from the Loveless.
If you ever make it back to Nashville I would love to show you the rest of the city that we called the real Nashville which is everything that's not down on lower Broadway LOL There's so much more to see and do here. My brother would be glad to take us out on his boat. We could do a river cruise or go out to one of the beautiful lakes around Nashville. There are also many beautiful city parks, festivals, museums, great universities, and of course lots more great food and people.
In the fall we have a fun Highland Games & Celtic Festival. It's all very official. The last games O tended in 2022 were opened by some Earl of something or another I wish I remembered his name but he was part of the official governing party of the Highland Games, all the way in Nashville to kick things off.
Like much of the southeast, we have a very large population of descendants of Scottish and Irish immigrants. Most of them settled in North Carolina and Tennessee in the early 1800s
I look forward to seeing your adventures in Southern Florida. Blessings to both of you and stay safe!
Do you ever go to the Renaissance Festival at some guy’s private castle? I think it’s near Franklin, but I could be wrong. I’d like to do that!
My Brit wife and her family wont try biscuits and gravy. They say, gravy is not a breakfast item, gravy is not white, and they say sometimes the sausage gravy looks gray.
They must not be from Yorkshire. I've heard they are in love with gravy, lol.
You can order their biscuit mix and jams on line and have them delivered to your home
They also have really good BBQ sauces
One difference is that biscuits have buttermilk as an ingredient, I have heard of milk used instead but not as good.
Chicken/Country Fried Steak, Sausage Gravy, and a couple of eggs over easy with biscuits.
Now we're talking!! That's a breakfast there!
Yes sir! It was awesome
Always remember that there is a little difference between southern fried steak and chicken fried steak. Just started watching some of your videos and if you make it to Texas order a chicken fried steak. Southern-fried is just dipped in a batter. Chicken-fried is dredged in flour and dipped in egg and milk mixture then dredged in flour again, then fried.
Southern food is incredible
Hi there. Welcome to America, friend. My name is Shaun, too. I love your channel. I hope one day to go to Scotland. According to my DNA results I'm 45 percent Scottish. My family is Clan Wallace. I've traced them back to the 1500's near Fife, Scotland. Anyway, your channel is fun and I love that we spell our names the same way ( nobody spells it that way, it seems).
Hey Shaun, thanks so much for the message - great to see you here! Hope you get to come over one day 😊
Fife! That’s where Johnny Cash’s people are from!
I went to Loveless Cafe years ago and had country ham with redeye gravy. I have fond memories of it. And you're right, the biscuits are jam are delicious!
Growing up in the south (and I still live in the south) you can see/taste why southern food is so ingrained with our southern culture.
Thank You for pausing on the Loveless sign and allowing me to stop and read it... being vision impaired it was a nice treat.... Thank You O Muck.....I love the history
Since you were able to post this video, I'm glad to see that you survived the incipient food coma that you were obviously struggling with at the end of the video! Carry on and I'll be watching for your next one.🙂
I saw that! I thought he might have a nap right there by the barn. 😂😂😂
I love Loveless Cafe! Well worth the wait to get in. The country fried steak is absolutely fantastic! And the biscuits are so good! They don't even need jam.
I think I've seen almost every one of your videos and it's clear that you really love a few big swathes of American Culture. I'm guessing that your 3 favorite things are:: SOUTHERN COOKING (the first time that you tried "Chicken Fried Steak up at that classic diner in Oregon is still one of my favorite of your videos), - and you seem to really like everything TEXAS, especially San Antonio - - and you appeared to have great experiences at every AMERICAN SPORTING EVENT that you have been to (like the GAMES that you went to in Philadelphia, and the TAILGATE Parties you saw in the parking lots at some sport's stadium, and your favorite one I think was The RODEO. Am I right that those three things are your favorites?
One of my favorite stops when I drive down south. Best biscuits and jams. And I love scones too.
Thanks for visiting us Shaun. I hope you got to see other things around here besides the "tourist" things. Come back and visit again sometime...
Thank you very much 😊
Down the street from me is a little old 24 hour diner, it’s near an area that has a bunch of businesses off the Interstate where trucks are always coming and going. It’s been there since the 50’s, and is still owned by one of the grandkids, she’s also the hostess, cook, wait staff and chief joke teller. Some of the best country fried steak I’ve had in years, that’s definitely one of my guilty pleasures.
But others are right, this isn’t an everyday thing, that is unless you’re up at 4AM and out the door at 5 to start farm work for 12+ hours. I grew up that way helping on the grandparents farm, we ate BIG meals first thing, a lighter dinner (lunch) then a larger supper (dinner). Sunday dinner & supper we’re always the large ones, either at church as a buffet or at home with large groups from church & family over.
Oddly, one of the things I really enjoy is a European light style breakfast, it’s what I eat generally every day. Those big hearty meals just aren’t cool unless you’re burning all of it off out in a field.
Looking forward to watch this ! ♥️ 🤤
It’s going to make me want to learn how to make it at home 😅
@@shaunvlog we have a good recipe! More than happy to share !!!
Bloody love fried chicken / Gravy and biscuits !!
@@shaunvlogwe can make it when we meet up
Going to Atlanta or in the summer time Hotlanta! 🌞 Enjoy
I’m glad you got to experience the Loveless Cafe.
It was awesome!
My sweet, but bizarre husband, has a phobia of jam. Yes that wasn’t a misspelling. Jam. So when you bit into that biscuit he shivered and I giggled. Lol. That was fun.
I don't have a problem with jam, but marshmallows make me shiver--hahaha. It is often the gelatinous texture (jam has the pectin to set it which is a gelatinous substance). I understand your husband's misgivings--hahaha.
@@JasonMistretta-wf5ip how are you with jello then?
It's not as bizarre as the people who have a phobia of cotton balls! Now THAT'S funny.
@@Mick_Ts_Chick lol
The biscuits are made with White Lily brand flour. That's a flour made from soft wheat, grown in the warm humid climate of the South. That's why they are so fluffy and soft. It's a very regional flour. You can't get soft wheat flour West of Oklahoma, only hard red wheat or winter wheat flour, which grows in a harsher colder climate.
I’m pretty sure White Lily is the official sponsor of the National Cornbread Festival in South Pittsburg, Tennessee!
I checked online and here in Southern California, you can get White Lily self-rising flour at Walmart. Maybe that’s because Walmart is originally an Arkansas company.
Thinking of going to buy some of that flour-always wanted to learn how to make good biscuits.
@@sewingintrifocals-alisonde7778 PERFECT! So glad that you can get some. Enjoy the fluffy biscuits!
Country fried steak and chicken fried steak are exchangeable, both mean the same thing. Sunny side up is simply a way Americans cook eggs; it means the egg was not flipped or turned over during cooking, just cooked then removed from the pan. It usually leaves the yolk cooked but nice and runny.
Good to see you enjoying our southern cooking Shawn . I’ve been to Loveless Cafe I went to Edinburgh 2 years ago because of Outlander and Sam Heughan. Sorry I was not a fan of your cuisine. Lucky found a chicken franchise that saved my life. Safe travels 👍🏴
Best way to Remer what side of the road just Remember, driver is always in the middle even in the uk
Atlanta interstates are notorious for heavy traffic, wrecks, and all-around crazy driving. Stay calm and you'll get through it, just a heads up.
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American diner Egg Speak for travelers: "Sunny side up" = regular fried egg, mostly runny yellow yolk; "over easy" = fried egg flipped once, runny yolk; "over medium" = flipped once, partly set, partly runny yolk. Scrambled and poached are presumably obvious enough.
You've sampled a nice cross section of some of the best the south has to offer! i can taste those biscuits.
My man said, “It can use some hot sauce…” My dog!
Can’t leave hole without it 😅
Great review. A good order of grits is a lot like a cheesy polenta. It's warm and fills the soul, except ours usually come with more butter.
American biscuits are made with butter and love.
... lard most likely
I don't think many Americans eat big breakfasts like this very often. Definitely not every day. At least for me, it's a rare treat.
I know your leaving TN. But Memphis TN is known for the best BBQ in TN. Plus Elvis Graceland is here. Plus Beale St. Sun Studio. Bass Pro shop inside the Pyramid and the Peabody Hotel. Corkys BBQ. Central BBQ and Rendezvous BBQ. Y’all should come this way.
Ohh I will 100% be doing a pilgrimage to Memphis one day to retrace my grandfathers footsteps, who was a huge Elvis fan
As an Oklahoma born consumer and honestly creator 😂 of the finest chicken fried steak consumable. I have to say. That's a "proper" experience you had.
I like biscuits with butter and honey
Now, I'm craving chicken fried steak with white gravy and biscuits. YUM. I love southern food! My fav restaurant was Black Eyed Pea. The had the best rolls and CFS. Bad mgt screwed it up, financially, and they all closed. Ugh.
Southern food is sooo good
OMG!! I used to hostess there way back when as my 2nd part time job when in school. ✌🏻
I miss the Black Eyed Pea, too. Wish someone would bring it back!
Shaun when is the last time you had a scone and had to stop to tell yourself, mmmm wow!?
thats the difference between a scone and a southern buttermilk biscuit 😏
Yeah pretty much true!
Scones are dense, slightly sweet, and creamy. Biscuit are much lighter & slightly tart. I think both are equally good. Try & eat on the run with a scone & you might make it there in good shape. Try that with a biscuit, and you will have some crumbs down your front. I think I prefer scones because I don't get them often.
I like them both, but I'm just so happy that someone finally recognizes that they're not the same thing. Josh and Ollie from Jolly had seen the difference they claimed, but in their last video they were right back to saying that they're the same thing
In America scones are crispy crunchy and a biscuit is light and fluffy with a nice crust on the outside
Shaun, you probably won't see this, but the Loveless Cafe is just a few hundred meters away from the entrance to the Natchez Track Parkway. It is a 700+ KM stretch of quiet, scenic and breathtaking road that stretches from Nashville to Natchez, Mississippi with a speed limit of 80 kmph. No stop signs, no stoplights the entire length. You won't see a single business other than a few farms. No gas stations, no McDonalds - nothing. No commercial vehicles allowed, no signs other than notices of historical sights. The best way to describe it is a road that doubles as a park. The Trace started thousands of years ago as a trail for wild animals, then became a trade route for Native American Indians and settlers. If you ever make it back to the area, this is a real taste of Americana. I just rode it beginning to end - and back - on a motorcycle this week. About 1600 KM including getting off the Parkway to get food, gas and hotels.
Southern life in the early years were mainly rural. Living and working on the farm. You worked very hard and you needed big meals. For most people now we don’t eat those huge meals everyday and definitely not every meal. But I enjoy them when they come around.
To me, breakfast food for dinner is awesome. It’s a full, delicious meal anytime.
Now I want biscuits 😂
Biscuits in the South are made from a soft Southern wheat that is low in the proteins that make gluten, so the biscuits are naturally softer.
Here in the South we don’t eat breakfast until we get full. We eat until we get tired 😅. Real southern Biscuits will (as the old folks say) make you stuffed as a tick 😂😂😂. A good basket of biscuits with any fresh breakfast meat is a match made in heaven