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Wanted Adventure Grits are made from white hominy corn and are ground into a course corn meal. They can either be cooked on a skillet or in a microwave with either milk or water. Also, they are not salty. Some people like to add salt, butter, and/or ground black pepper to them to help bring out the flavor. As a Southerner, I would suggest that you two try cheese grits before trying the original recipe. They're great and even better with biscuits!
@Wanted Adventure: Tried the Fluffer-Nutter once and it was fabulous! Never thought it could be, but it was. I ate it the now sadly defunct Peanutbutter & Co Sandwich Shop in New York City. Have you ever been there? Paradise for every pb fan!
I'm from SC, probably the closest thing to grits you'll find in Germany is polenta. It's not exactly the same, but that's probably the closest. My sister eats hers with butter, salt, pepper & a little jelly. As for bananas & mayo sandwiches, it's mayo, peanut butter & bananas. I personally don't like mayo as a condiment so I leave it off, but my mom & sister put it on theirs. Apparently watermelon with salt is a "southern" thing that I never heard of until last week.
On a hot day, a root beer float is one of life's greatest pleasures! Get a decent vanilla ice-cream (not cheap crap) and either A&W or Barq's root beer. Put the ice-cream in a tall glass before adding the root beer so it's less messy, and because it creates more foam on top. A 50/50 ratio of ice-cream to root beer is best. If the root beer is cold it will crystalize a portion of the ice-cream in an awesome way. You start off eating it with a spoon. Then, once you've eaten most of the ice-cream, there's an amount in the bottom of the glass that's just a mixture of root beer and melted ice-cream that you simply drink for a wonderful finish.
There are many recipes for making root beer you can find on-line. Originally root beer was a fermented beverage like ginger beer. Later it was made by soft drink companies and bottle without a fermentation, although there are micro brewers and home brewers that make it the old fashioned way. Here's a random recipe I found that gives you an idea of what's involved: www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/08/diy-root-beer-how-to-brew-your-own-root-beer-recipe.html
I like it with Häagen-Dasz vanilla ice cream (it's the best, imo) and my favorite thing is to make it in a frosted (frozen) glass or mug. That's how the A&W restaurant used to serve them when it was a good restaurant.
Yeah, the HD is good but I rarely buy it. For the average guy like me, I think Blue Bunny, Turkey Hill or Breyer's are good. Not the best but very affordable and good enough and better than many.
I adore root beer floats! I even offered one to visiting German friends who HATE root beer (they say it tastes medicinal), but a root beer float -- especially if they are blended into what I call a root beer freeze) was something they actually liked.
@@TonyCrispruby yeah. For example simply a peeled banana wrapped in a slice of cheese. Or instead of Toast Hawaii a Toast Banana. You know, slice of ham, slice of pineapple, slice of cheese, simply swap the pineapple for half a banana cut in halves. Fresh out of the oven, that is delicious
Marshmallows on sweet potatoes with brown sugar is the best thing ever, sweet potatoes are not sweet brown sugar notes into it while they're cooking in the marshmallows just sit on top
When I was a kid 50 years ago or so banana sandwiches were fairly common. You would open your lunchbox and there would be 2 slices of bread with mayo and a whole banana. We would use our pocket knife to slice the banana and put it between the bread. I hadn't even thought or heard of a banana sandwich in probably 30 years until your video.
Idea for another show: From the comments it is often obvious that some Germans don't really realize just how large the US is and how different its regions are. You touched on the fact that grits are southern, but I think you could do a whole show on the different foods people eat in different parts of the country. Also, how they pronounce pecan (I say puh-cahn but my wife says it like you). Also.....mmmm, grits. Especially cheese grits. Especially shrimp and cheese grits. Now I'm hungry.
That would be really interesting. It's often kind of hard to imagine how huge a country (or continent) is and how diverse. She could do the same thing for Europe for the same reasons. Whenever I hear someone (often from the US) say "in Europe, it's like this and that" I cringe because you really can't compare Germany to Greece, for example. It would also be cool to do it for Germany alone because there's so much that's different from region to region (which is often very obvious when Dana talks about things that are "common in Germany" but often are just common in Bavaria or in some parts of Germany and not so much in others).
That's true, but also I think on the outside it's easier to see similarities, and on the inside it's easier to see differences. Like Gernmans may feel they're very different from each other, and definitely different from Norwegians, Dutch, Swiss, and Swedes. But what I see in videos in all these countries, as well as in the comments all looks very similar: Be on time, don't smile, and don't talk to me. And also care about the environment. So I might think that in the blonde parts of Europe, I should be more reserved and not as casual or friendly.
I have a German friend who has lived in the U.S. for many years and traveled a lot. He agrees that different regions of the U.S. are in many ways like different countries in Europe.
Gen-u-ine son of the South, here, via Texas and Virginia. Grits (proper grits, anyhow) are made of hominy, which is corn that has been stripped of its bran and made into a thick porridge. Salt, pepper, butter, a fried egg and cheese are common toppings. Bacon and Shrimp with a soft boiled egg are popular grit toppings in tonier restaurants. Chicken and waffles is real people food. Grew up on it. Wonder what they'd think of chitlins (pork intestines) or pork rinds (fried pork skins)? Or ham hocks? All these things are pretty common where I grew up, as was scrapple (pressed trimmings from butchering just about anything). I also ate a lot of squirrel growing up, and the occasional possum pie. My grandpa was fond of brain gravy, made from squirrel brain. Ever heard of paw paws? or ramps? Now I'm all hungry. Y'all be good, now.
Ramps yumm, ham hocks, yumm, chitlins, yumm, pork rinds, yumm. Miss em all. you forgot the collards, and of coarse the queen of vegetables Okra. Im guessing you are from Southern Appalachia.
I am in East Texas. Squirrel is tasty. I know in a couple of school districts in Louisiana, the school planned a holiday on the first day of squirrel season. ( It is always on a Friday)
Okra! I live in the north but my Mom is from South Carolina. We called my Grandpa the okra king because he was amazing at growing it. I love it and most where I grew up have no clue what it is. I grew up on a lot of southern staples. Never cared for grits though.
I'm a Texas transplant and I've never heard of mayo and bananas. Chicken and waffles has two versions. Fried chicken on waffles is the soul food version from Harlem. Stewed chicken and gravy on waffles is from the Pennsylvania Dutch.
@@barfuss2007 waffles are generally just a touch sweet because you expect to put maple syrup on them. The syrup will make the waffle mushy, so would gravy and stewed chicken. From the South so I would be used to fried chicken, which would be salty, and waffles. You put it together right before eating if you don't like mushy.
@@barfuss2007 I had to look up Tandoori chicken as I have never eaten it. I don't like curry though or any 'sweet' spices, like cloves or cinnamon, in my savory food. The one time I cooked with curry my husband and I took one bite and pitched it. It took forever to get the smell out of our apartment. I've tried more than one recipe with the sweet spices used in a savory dish and those spices usually overwhelm whatever dish and ruins it for me and my family. It may be one of the more common Indian recipes, but I can say that no one among my family or friends cooks that.
As an American, I've tried most of these things. Also, I can proudly say that I have never tried banana and mayonnaise and never will because that is just disgusting. Whoever came up with that combo needs to re-think their priorities in life
I've lived in Tennessee, Alabama, and currently live in Kentucky. I've heard about it but never tried it. Leave it to us Southerners to come up with some weird combo like that. I guess with all the good food, we had to make something bad too haha
Every now and then my father would make a Sunday breakfast of pork sausage, bacon, eggs over-easy, French toast with corn syrup, and fried bananas. All in the same grease, of course.
Ok pb and banana I get, but carrots?! Although, I can't eat carrot sticks on their own, somehow I get sick to the stomach when I try, so I eat them with cream cheese.
Sarah Likes Tacos I do the same thing! I also used to spread peanut butter (creamy) onto celery sticks and eat it as a snack when I was a kid. Still do randomly sometimes even now!
This vid brought back memories since I'm an old guy--lol. I'd never heard of an ice cream "FLOAT" with any beverage other than root beer when I was a kid. If you wanted to float ice cream in any other soft drink, it was called an ice cream "SODA." In fact, the word "soda" by itself only had two connotations: for adults, it was "club soda" used as a mixer in alcoholic drinks--like "scotch and soda"--but for kids, it always carried the connotation of "ice cream soda" and if mom offered to buy you a soda, you knew you were in for trip to the "soda fountain" (a specialty ice cream shop or counter in a cafe) and a special treat! What's commonly referred to as "soda" (as in soft drink) in my part of the country (Southern California--I know people elsewhere might call it either "pop" or "coke," even if it's not coca-cola) was called "soda pop" when I was a kid. Not "soda"--not "pop"--but "soda pop." Don't know why I posted that here, but you know us old folks love to reminisce! lol Anyway, I have to agree that most items mentioned are weird to me too--the only things I would like would be pancakes or waffles with syrup (meat on the side would be good--I've had pancakes and waffles with sausage and I imagine chicken would be good also)--and I LOVE my pumpkin pie! I never thought of maple syrup on ice cream, but chocolate syrup--especially hot fudge sauce--is wonderful!! OK--gotta go--I'm hungry now! lol Thanks for all your interesting vids!
Europeans don't realize that America has a lot of regional foods. Grits, for example, is a southern thing. It's just corn meal, like what you would use to make polenta. The watery kind you get at cheap places like Waffle House is gross in my opinion, but made with butter and cream and cheese and eaten as a base for shrimp and sausage or something similar, it's delicious. You should take Mr. German Man to Charleston.
@@freerunner0682 not what we mean my dude, your countries are so small your regional dishes would be like a single county or town here in the USA. A regional dish here in the states can cover a single town or an area larger than France and Germany combined.
Mayonnaise on banana sounds really gross. I like mayonnaise on salty or savory snacks, but tbo I never tried it on sweet snacks like fruit and such. I mean basically mayonnaise is oil, egg yolk, salt and if you like even some mustard.
The mustard seed is coated with mucilage which is an emulsifier that backs up the lecithin in the yolk to keep the oil in suspension. It isn't really an option.
Pumpkin is a type of squash, and in fact in many countries all kinds of squash are called 'pumpkin', whereas in North America where it originated, 'pumpkin' refers to a very specific variety of squash. Thus, many foreigners who hear "pumpkin pie" think of what we would say is "squash pie". My guess is that maybe they're thinking of like yellow crookneck squash cooked up into a pie crust. (Um, no, that would not be good.). But what we call 'pumpkin' in North America is a squash that is naturally sweet and blends very well with spices. So, a pumpkin pie is a custard flavored by sweet pumpkin and certain spices, like cinnamon, cloves, and ginger. And it's totally an awesome flavor!
Yeah, even though I'm German living in Germany, I bake a pumpkin pie every year for Thanksgiving (which I don't even celebrate, I just want to eat stuff :D). It's amazing :)
Had a friend who married an Australian guy and immigrated. On her first Christmas there she made pumpkin pies. Her inlaws looked at them like she was nuts (they eat unsweetened pumpkin as a veggie side dish there), but after they tried a piece with whipped cream they went nuts over them. Both pies were gone withing minutes! Now its one of her Aussie family's Christmas traditions.
7:09 orange soda with vanilla icecream, orange soda with pineapple icecream, 7up with vanilla icecream, and icecream with stout beer are all AMAZING combinations! Any sherbet mixed with 7up (lemon-lime soda) is amazing!
Peanut butter and pickle is an American sandwich that lots of Americans think is weird - but it's surprisingly delicious. Also, I think root beer is definitely something worth trying; it's one of those things that either A: you love immediately, B: you hate immediately, or C: you're American, so even if it's not really your thing, it kind of is.
I don't think I've ever heard of or done a peanut butter and pickle sandwich. I prefer pickles on my burgers, or chicken sandwiches. Roasted or fried chicken + mayo + pickle is an excellent, simple sandwich.
Waffles, Fried chicken and Syrup is my absolutely favorite. Love on the first bite!!! I totally recommend to everyone to try it. I even put the syrup on the meat, so so so gooood!!!
Root beer was originally made from the roots of the sassafras plant. And the brand you have makes a huge difference. Stay away from Dad's, Hires, Mom's, Froties, and store brands. A&W, IBC, and Barqs are good.
Yes! Root Beer float- I grew up having this as a dessert when I was a child. You take a glass of root beer (soda) and then you place a scoop of vanilla ice cream in it and eat it with a spoon. It's very yummy! I have heard of people using other types of soda for this... But I can't imagine that I would enjoy it with anything other than root beer. :-)
Grits are white corn (maize) that has been dried, then soaked in lye (nixtamalized), then rinsed in water, then dried and ground into coarse meal, and finally cooked into mush. A variety of polenta.
I was at an old fashioned sweet shop and I came across marshmallow fluff. I had never seen something so bizarre and amazing so I bought it (I also bought my first Reese's Cups). Unfortunately my whole family also loved the marshmallow fluff and ate it all before I found out it goes well with peanut butter. I'll have to wait to try a fluffer-nutter.
I live in the midwest, and Marshmallow Fluff is in just about every supermarket in my area. Try looking around the cooking supplies (chocolate chips, etc.)
You two have to try a root beer float (root beer soda with one or two scoops of vanilla ice cream). And a peanut butter & jelly sandwich, but made with orange marmalade rather than grape jelly.
Tried the PBJ with English marmalade once, it was amazing! But I could never bring myself to try the root beer float. The taste of root beer makes me feel sick :( I'd try a normal float just to see if I like it. But I don't think I will, at least not with vanilla ice creme. Fruit sorbet might be a good alternative.
Miss Sheska ummm, it's not going to have the same taste and texture but I guess ok? I just don't know how fruit would taste with that. If you don't like root beer (like it do) just use coke
@Miss Sheska The rootbeer float is the 'normal' float, but you could try the 'purple cow' that is, grape soda with vanilla ice cream, or a variation, grape soda with sherbet. I wouldn't try sorbet with a cola of any sort, that'd be awful.
I tried pancakes with maple syrup and bacon for the first time two weeks ago, and I am absolutly in love with it. The other things I don't know, but maybe I should give it a chance? I like to dip banana in my (cheese) fondue.
One more thing... Do visit State Fair of Texas in Dallas, Texas during the month of October. There are food stalls that fry everything under the sun. mentalfloss.com/article/31488/25-deep-fried-foods-texas-state-fair
Root beer tastes like those pink candies my mom used to get. I never liked them and don’t much care for root beer. Coke floats was what we had growing up.
I grew up in the US and just loved PB&J sandwiches and was so happy finding peanut butter in Germany. Since then it‘s standard at home and my German boyfriend learned to love it too.
Root beer is made from sassafras roots. Sassafras tea can be made from the roots , too. Dig up the root, wash off the dirt and boil the root , to make tea. Sassafras trees are found in southern forests. Root beer requires more processing and is not generally made in homes.
To me, the proper ice cream float is a root beer float. This is just root beer soda in a glass with a couple of scoops of vanilla ice cream added in to it. This is the most common way that any ice cream float can be found in a restaurant or diner.
Grits is the corn version of cream of wheat. Think of white polenta. Either eat it salty with butter and/or cheese or sweet & creamy (or milky) in the US.
Root beer was originally made from sassafras root, but in the 60s it was discovered that the major flavor component (a chemical called "safrole") is carcinogenic. It was banned, and since then root beer is made with a mixture of flavors to approximate the original taste. Sassafras is still used in American food. File powder, used to thicken and flavor some gumbos, is powdered sassafras leaf.
A famous commercial Southern dish is the Moon Pie, which comes wrapped in a sealed plastic bag. It’s made from two sweet shortbread (or some similar) cookies, with marshmallow fluff between them, coated with an icing (which sticks to the exposed sides and edges of the cookies, but not to the marshmallow filling). The original was about 15 cm in diameter, and there is now a “mini” version about half that size. Both sizes have the same thickness of marshmallow, making the whole pie over a cm thick. At one time it was a favorite “walking” snack or lunch, since it can be eaten on the road with one hand, with a bottle of soda in the other. Royal Crown Cola was popular with it (“RC and Moon Pie”). The original icing was chocolate, but now there’s a banana (artificial) flavored option as well.
agreed. Grew up in southeast Pennsylvania, and we had root beer floats (vanilla ice cream) with my granddad. The brand of Root Beer was Hires (I think near Philly).
it's not a typical dish, it is usually a holiday thing. And yeah, you use bigger pieces of the sweet potato (yams) and miniature marshmallows so it's not TOO sweet, and I usually get at the end of the meal, not in the beginning
MilkyIceTea we cook the yams in orange juice, butter, sugar and Salt, and some people mash them, some leave chunky. Then you put them in a casserole dish and top with marshmallows and bake or broil just enough to get them golden. We never use mini marshmallows. Usually we like the big ones, but cut in half, that way it just covers the top. Some times we add the marshmallows in a crock pot so they get all marbled throughout the dish, makes it easier to transport to where you're going, as the oven is often full and being used, we've started going that route. It's super yummy! But not as an everyday thing to eat.
Most American don't eat soft-boiled eggs, but many do. And you can find egg cups without too much trouble. Even at a dollar store! But it's not a part of the popular culture, no. :-)
IrianGaming I first tried a soft boiled egg a few years ago in my German class. Love it, and have always wanted another! I really do love soft boiled eggs, better than hard boiled. Hard boiled at my house is only used to make deviled eggs, or really good tuna fish.
IrianGaming I just came to the realization the other people ate that as a normal thing. I was watching British tv and saw it being eaten for breakfast. I've never known anyone to eat an egg like that in America.
I'm an American who loves soft boiled eggs with egg cups. But I usually just eat them on a plate. Jen's right that it's an "old person food." What is lutefisk?
grits is dried corn that has been finely ground and boiled to reconstitute. they are usually salty (butter, salt, and pepper) but you can have them sweet. shrimp and grits is easily one of my favorite foods.
Grits are like oatmeal, Cream of Wheat, Malt-O-Meal or other porridges, except they’re made from ground corn, or sometimes hominy. Hominy is corn that has been treated with an alkaline solution (lye in the olden days), which makes the corn grains swell up and changes the taste and smell (Corn Nuts are made from hominy.). Sometimes grits are cooked with less liquid and served in a heap, like rice. Fried pies are basically the same as turnovers, but fried instead of baked.
I don't much care for sweet potatoes or marshmallows so marshmallows on sweet potato casserole - no. I pass that along when it is served at Thanksgiving. I love pumpkin and pecan pie. They are amazing, especially pumpkin pie made with fresh pumpkin instead of canned. Pecan pie is brown sugar custard with toasted pecans on top. Fabulous! Canned cheese is as bad as it sounds - fake tasting and awful. PB& J was invented by American service men in WW2 who had crackers, peanut butter and jelly packet in their rations. They put them all together, loved it and took it home to their families after the war. It is very good with the right jam. Either crunchy or smooth peanut butter is fine but I buy the smooth since my kid prefers it. I think Fuffer-nutter is pretty disgusting. Some people also eat it with bananas but since I don’t like bananas, I think it is also disgusting. I cannot imagine putting grits on a PB& J. It sounds like a family tradition or something a starving teenager would eat. Grits are a corn-meal porridge - corn meal cooked in salted liquid like milk and/or water. They are very nice and comforting - great with butter, cheese or maple syrup plus some fresh, ground pepper. Mayo and banana sound like a personal weird combination, not an American food. Ice cream with soda is called a float - the ice cream floats on top of the soda. The most common form of this is a root beer float with vanilla but peanut butter ice cream or salted caramel ice cream are much better with root beer. Fried chicken and waffles are great. You can get them in diners that server breakfast all day but you have to be really hungry to eat them and I’ve never been hungry enough. Fried butter and fried candy bars stuff that you get at a state or county fair food stand, not stuff that is on the menu of restaurants or that are eaten at home. Deep fried bacon and cream cheese sounds like a specialty item on some particular restaurant menu, not specifically American. Doesn’t everyone eat bacon with pancakes and syrup? No? Just North America? Real maple syrup is a national treasure. Root beer is great and no weirder than the lingonberry, current, birch or whatever odd flavors Europeans have.
Tessa T Also maple syrup and waffles/pancakes is no more strange for breakfast than toast and jam, which I think they do eat over there. What is weird to me is their toast and marmite or vegemite. I was briefly married to an Aussie and was NOT impressed by vegemite, yuk!
So, only half way through but a couple of points: I'm from the south, as in South Carolina where grits are a breakfast staple food. The only way they are salty is if you add salt. Also some pepper and butter. No not margarine, BUTTER! But as for the best food ever, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Some one has some serious issues. As for the banana and mayo thing? Only if you are eating a banana sandwich. If it's just a banana? Split that sucker longways and stuff in some peanut butter. THAT is food. And root beer. It's really a take it or leave it drink. I like it, but only from time to time. However, I have dug up sassafras roots, cleaned them off and dropped them in my canteen. Sassafras tea is also a thing. But again, it's one of those things that is dependent on your personal tastes.
Grits are a staple in the southern states "the South" and are most commonly paired with butter or cheese. They are often used as a side item along with breakfast or dinner entrees that pair well. Many southern style restaurants will pair grits with shrimp and will also often spice the grits with jalapeno. This is a fantastic way to enjoy them if you enjoy slightly spicy taste along with seafood!
Here is an idea for your next show. I live in Las Vegas, NV. My family visits here from Germany. First thing you know it is: let's drive to San Fran. (Phoenix, Salt Lake, L.A. etc etc. ) for the weekend. It takes a map and an hour to explain that most of that is impassible. San. Fran. about 600 miles, all the others at least 300 each. Or it is: let's drive to the Grand Canyon (300 miles), Arches Nat. Park (about 300). And so it goes. They have no idea about the size of this country.
Rudi K What? Couldn‘t you easily drive 300 miles for a weekend? If you leave on Friday and get back on Sunday, that‘s plenty of time? We drove from Vegas to Bryce and Zion for 2 days and it worked out fine...
I make all my pumpkin pie from scratch, and I buy pie pumpkins the one week a year that they're available in the supermarkets (usually late October). I never used canned pumpkin, because that's not actually pumpkin but is a variety of squash closely related to Hubbard squash. And it really does make a difference. Pumpkin pie from scratch made from real pumpkin is lighter in texture, color, and flavor, and so you can make out many of the delicate flavors in the pie. I've found that people prefer pumpkin pie from scratch over all others.
I love root beer floats in the summer. Being a New England native in New Jersey I always buy and use Pure Grade A Maple Syrup. I find it great to naturally sweeten a cappuccino at home, ice cream, maybe certain cakes.
6:18 I can assure you, so far I have not to the best of my memory eaten mayo and banana. I moderately like both, but combined? Not too sure .... since you haven't heard of it, no use asking for region.
My American friend worked for Air Force in Wiesbaden, and his five-year contract was coming to the end. We organised a farewell party for him and raided the commissary nearby for the 100% American food stuff. I knew about the sickeningly sweet root beer float so I made it a contest: whoever could drink the whole root beer float in one go win the prize. Guess what? None of German friends could manage to finish their drinks. So no prize for the winner...
You all might enjoy old fashioned sodas better. It's not something this generation does anymore, but it was quite popular in the 50's. You take carbonated water, ice cream of some sort (vanilla if a fruit one, chocolate for chocolate types) and add in real fruit or (not and) chocolate syrup. Blend all together. The seltzer water cuts the sweetness and the fruit adds a 'realness' to what sweetness there is. It's one of my favorites. You can also try an orange julius, that is, orange juice with vanilla ice cream blended.
Try 7Up and vanilla ice cream. Orange Crush or Fanta and vanilla ice cream is another good combination. For less fat, try fruit sherbets with 7Up or other lemon/lime soda.
Marie Drasnin - what brand did you try? Have you had Dad's rootbeer? It's a little smoother. I can see how one could think it's cough syrup taste though.
+Marie Drasnin I can't imagine what single plant is shared in common with cough syrup. I've made root beer from scratch a few times. Here's a small sampling of the ingredients: sassafras root bark, wintergreen leaf, sarsaparilla root, licorice root, vanilla, cinnamon, star anise, ginger, dandelion root, burdock root, hops, birch bark, cherry tree bark, juniper berries, orange zest, molasses, ginger...
+Marie Drasnin I can't imagine what single plant is shared in common with cough syrup. I've made root beer from scratch a few times. Here's a small sampling of the ingredients: sassafras root bark, wintergreen leaf, sarsaparilla root, licorice root, vanilla, cinnamon, star anise, ginger, ginger bug, dandelion root, burdock root, hops, birch bark, cherry tree bark, juniper berries, orange zest, molasses...
I've had a fried Snickers and was disappointed. It kind of melted into the batter. I've also had chicken and waffles a lot. The rest sound pretty normal. I love root beer and have even had homemade root beer made from the tree bark. There is also birch beer and ginger beer. Beer at one time just meant a carbonated drink since yeast was used to create the carbonation but you don't let it go far enough to ferment.
Yes Root Beer was traditionally made from the bark and roots of the Sassafras tree. Boiled down into a syrup and given time to ferment. However the oil from said ingredients was found to be carcinogenic and was banned so it is now made with artificial flavorings. If you ever saw an old western and heard some one ask a bar tender for a Sarsaparilla (that was the predecessor of modern Root Beer).
I LOVE these videos and have recently become quite addicted to them. Snack foods and unusual household gadgets were my two favorite topics, though I also enjoyed learning about German rest areas and grocery stores. Now I will know what to do if I ever visit Germany. This one took me back to my community college days when every morning started with an "Ultimate PB&J Crunchwich" and a glass of Gatorade. An Ultimate PB&J Crunchwich is a 12-grain English muffin (darkly toasted) with two layers of crunchy peanut butter and one layer of seeded raspberry jam. It's my own invention as far as I know. When we discussed food vocabulary in Spanish class, the teacher (a native of Spain) found the whole equation pretty weird. My classmates either thought it was normal or were too polite to comment. :)
I like unsweetened applesauce and plain wholemilk yogurt on pancakes with just a drizzle of maple syrup over it. Maybe half a teaspoon (5ml). If your applesauce or yogurt is sweetened, leave off the syrup.
I'm from Delaware in the Mid-Atlantic. One of the foods that is popular in this region is scrapple, which is made from pork (or beef) scraps. This food is considered weird by most people outside of this region.
Something that I really enjoy for breakfast is a warm waffle with honey drizzled in all of the little nooks On The waffle and then cover the syrup with peanut butter which becomes soft and really gooey from the warm waffle. I hope you enjoy it
I love a banana sandwich, banana, mayo, on white bread. yum! I also enjoy tomato sandwiches. Grits are corn, and not salty. they are great with eggs or as a side dish. some people like to add cheese. I do not. I like an overeasy egg on top of my grits. love your videos. thanks
Ice cream floats are actually one of my favorite desserts. They are super cheap and easy to make. Just grab a pint or so of vanilla ice cream and a bottle of soda and you have a dessert for at least three or four people depending on glass and scoop size. My personal favorite is vanilla ice cream and orange soda to make kind of an orange cream soda mixture.
The "fluffernutter" or peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwich, is a New England invention. In Boston, they call it a :"fluffahnuttah," because in Boston they don't say their r's.
I can see that - especially if you had what I'd call "bad" root beer. One of the flavors in the root beer blend is actually wintergreen, which most people don't expect. Ideally, the flavors are balanced so that none of the "notes" sticks up over the others. Hires,. IBC or A&W are (IMO, of course) the best varieties - some of the others I've tasted are (to me) out of balance with too much of one flavor or another.
Elise Rambles I like it when it's a really soft sandwich without a lot of substance. like really thin bread or if there's no lettuce or other crunchy veggie. Cheesy chips make a really good replacement, like a Ham sandwich with doritos or cheetos
In Pennsylvania we have sassafras tea, I remember making it as a kid. You dig up the roots and boil them. So root beer is sassafrass boiled into water which has sugar and other ingredients. Technically, I think it is a beer, but not alcoholic. We also have birch beer, which is clear.
Grits are made of corn (hominy). They can be made sweetened with sugar or made savory with black pepper perhaps. Either way it is usually served with butter.
I honestly dont think sirup for breakfast is weird, older folks in germany often eat zuckerrübensirup with their breakfast and my grandmother still loves it. I think it tastes good, but I like the meaty things better :D
I'm from upstate New York, USA. I've never heard of putting potato chips on PB&J, but I've put them on other sandwiches, like turkey or tuna. Some of us here make banana and peanut butter sandwiches. Never heard of banana with mayonnaise, eww. I've heard of the fried butter and fried candy bar (and pretty much just fried everything) being popular at fairs down south but I wouldn't try it. The butter especially sounds unappealing to me. We do eat fried dough at fairs here though and blooming onion (don't know if that's just an American thing or not, but it's a battered and fried onion cut to look a little like a blooming flower). I've had many root beer floats (vanilla ice cream in root beer soda), maple syrup on my breakfast, and cream of wheat. Sweet potatoes with marshmallows and pumpkin pies are pretty much a requirement for thanksgiving dinner. I know that our tomato pie pizza here in upstate NY has seemed strange to some people in other US states. It's made like regular US pizza except the dough is a little different and there's no cheese, just lots of tomato sauce.
Here's one: I'm from Cincinnati, very German. Apparently, our dish GOETTA (pinhead oats, pork, beef, onion, bay leaf, etc) is inspired by Thuringians who moved here. Now, it's common to eat a GOETTA sandwich with grape jelly. Hope you read this one (I love goetta!).
Grits are made from hominy that is dried and ground. Hominy is corn with the skin removed. Grits are then cooked in salted water on the stove top. The grits get thick and creamy and you can put butter on them or some people like them sweet. I like them with butter, but I do not eat a lot of grits since I'm a Northerner. Pumpkin pie is a fall dessert and people love their pumpkin flavored desserts here in the US. There are many pumpkin flavored items that come out in the fall. Starbucks has pumpkin lattes and there are pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting and pumpkin muffins and pumpkin ice cream and many other pumpkin desserts. They are spiced with a lot of the same things you would find in spice cake or ginger cookies, etc. Root beer seems to taste like medicine to people from Europe. I have gotten that response often enough. I like root beer because I am older, but many younger people don't like root beer. It's really good as a root beer float with vanilla ice cream, mmmmmm!!!! :-)
Me too! Frosty was my favorite kind growing up. It's a shame it's so hard to find in stores now, but I can order it online at least: www.walmart.com/ip/Frostie-Root-Beer-12-fl-oz-Pack-of-6/22834260?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222227017536752&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=40889147432&wl4=pla-78818770472&wl5=9026954&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=22834260&wl13=&veh=sem
root beer is usually used in the “ice cream floats” i’ve grown up just having “root beer floats” and i haven’t had any other kind of soda with ice cream in a float
I should mention this:. my Dad (RIP) had some odd but tasty cimbos-- 1 - a slice of Colby cheese between two macaroons cookies (delicious)b 2 - cream cheese & date bread sandwich. I should also mention that homemade root beer, like homemade ginger ale, has a small alcoholic content through fermentation
Rootbeer is a sarsaparilla of wintergreen and a number of other herbs, brewed like a beer without the fermented alcohol. American cough syrup was cut with fruit flavors, like cherry, grape or orange, to mask the medicine taste. While in most of Europe it was only ever cut with wintergreen for the same purpose. That's why it reminds Europeans of cough syrup.
My husband used to add a slice of bologna to his peanut butter and jelly sandwich! And, yes, a mayo with banana sandwich is delicious. Add peanut butter to make it even better.
Frahamen I happen to know what that is and would NEVER even touch it. There are people in my country who prepare and eat those, but they are not my cup of nuts...ahem... tea!
I live in the south and I've never eaten grits! They look nasty! Love mashed sweet potatoes with marshmallows. I have my grandma's recipe. And I love pumpkin pie. Another good pie is shoo fly pie. Very sweet.
Grits are the best. I often make some and put it in the fridge. The corn sucks up the moisture, making them firm. Then I'll fry it in bacon fat and add a pat of butter and garlic and onion powder. Or grits with fried eggs mashed into it so the yolk mixes with it. Sooooo good. I'm not even southern, and I was well in my 20's when I finally tried it and was so upset my family never made grits because it's gold.
taste buds. my older sister and i were like two peas in a pod...except she hated peanut anything. i'm love creamy peanut butter..but in a sandwich, i very much prefer crunchy! :)
I don't care for grape anything, except wine and actual grapes. Grape jelly, grape jam, grape gum, grape juice... all makes me gag. I prefer to make peanut butter and strawberry preserve sandwiches. YUM!
An American ex-pat living in Brisbane, Australia. Miss fluffernutters so much! And velveeta! Down here Schweppes sells a soda/pop called Sarsaparilla which basically is root beer. So yummy! And instead of a root beer float or an ice cream float they are for some reason called spiders here.
"Grits are an American version of Polenta" Actually, Polenta is a European form of Grits. Corn was domesticated from Maize - a Central American wild plant.
I would never eat just mayo mixed with banana served on a plate, but if you make a banana sandwich and use a thin layer of mayo to coat the bread, it's great! You can also make pineapple sandwiches the same way.
The deep fried candy bars and deep fired butter are usualy sold at state fairs. I haven't seen them anywhere else. An interesting fact, apparently in Brasil they have a flavoring that they use for toothpaste that we use in root beer. Imagine my cousin's surprise when I gave him a bottle.
Root Beer Float. Vanilla Ice cream with rootbeer pop (soda) in a frosted mug. Classic fast food purchase at A&W. There is a famous jingle: "A&W Rootbeer's got that frosty mug taste"
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Wanted Adventure I can't imagine eating pumpkin pie, it just sounds so weird to me :D
but I do like peanut butter and jelly!
Wanted Adventure
Grits are made from white hominy corn and are ground into a course corn meal. They can either be cooked on a skillet or in a microwave with either milk or water. Also, they are not salty. Some people like to add salt, butter, and/or ground black pepper to them to help bring out the flavor. As a Southerner, I would suggest that you two try cheese grits before trying the original recipe. They're great and even better with biscuits!
@Wanted Adventure: Tried the Fluffer-Nutter once and it was fabulous! Never thought it could be, but it was. I ate it the now sadly defunct Peanutbutter & Co Sandwich Shop in New York City. Have you ever been there? Paradise for every pb fan!
I'm from SC, probably the closest thing to grits you'll find in Germany is polenta. It's not exactly the same, but that's probably the closest. My sister eats hers with butter, salt, pepper & a little jelly. As for bananas & mayo sandwiches, it's mayo, peanut butter & bananas. I personally don't like mayo as a condiment so I leave it off, but my mom & sister put it on theirs.
Apparently watermelon with salt is a "southern" thing that I never heard of until last week.
Rootbeer is a little bit like Almdudler, cream of wheat is Griesbrei. And you can use a Tarteform to bake a pie....
On a hot day, a root beer float is one of life's greatest pleasures! Get a decent vanilla ice-cream (not cheap crap) and either A&W or Barq's root beer. Put the ice-cream in a tall glass before adding the root beer so it's less messy, and because it creates more foam on top. A 50/50 ratio of ice-cream to root beer is best. If the root beer is cold it will crystalize a portion of the ice-cream in an awesome way. You start off eating it with a spoon. Then, once you've eaten most of the ice-cream, there's an amount in the bottom of the glass that's just a mixture of root beer and melted ice-cream that you simply drink for a wonderful finish.
There are many recipes for making root beer you can find on-line. Originally root beer was a fermented beverage like ginger beer. Later it was made by soft drink companies and bottle without a fermentation, although there are micro brewers and home brewers that make it the old fashioned way. Here's a random recipe I found that gives you an idea of what's involved: www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/08/diy-root-beer-how-to-brew-your-own-root-beer-recipe.html
I like it with Häagen-Dasz vanilla ice cream (it's the best, imo) and my favorite thing is to make it in a frosted (frozen) glass or mug. That's how the A&W restaurant used to serve them when it was a good restaurant.
Yeah, the HD is good but I rarely buy it. For the average guy like me, I think Blue Bunny, Turkey Hill or Breyer's are good. Not the best but very affordable and good enough and better than many.
Love rootbeer floats ipc rootbeer is the best
Yep! A&W Root Beer and Breyer's vanilla ice cream = heaven. Make sure everything is cold, including the nice, big mug!
I adore root beer floats! I even offered one to visiting German friends who HATE root beer (they say it tastes medicinal), but a root beer float -- especially if they are blended into what I call a root beer freeze) was something they actually liked.
I've NEVER seen or heard of anyone eating banana and mayo.
never ate itt a lot.. but is better than it sounds. Elvis favorite sandwich was banana and peanut butter
Sliced bananas and mayo sandwich. Yum😋
Me neither. Banana with cheese only!
@@TonyCrispruby yeah. For example simply a peeled banana wrapped in a slice of cheese. Or instead of Toast Hawaii a Toast Banana. You know, slice of ham, slice of pineapple, slice of cheese, simply swap the pineapple for half a banana cut in halves. Fresh out of the oven, that is delicious
Marshmallows on sweet potatoes with brown sugar is the best thing ever, sweet potatoes are not sweet brown sugar notes into it while they're cooking in the marshmallows just sit on top
When I was a kid 50 years ago or so banana sandwiches were fairly common. You would open your lunchbox and there would be 2 slices of bread with mayo and a whole banana. We would use our pocket knife to slice the banana and put it between the bread. I hadn't even thought or heard of a banana sandwich in probably 30 years until your video.
I LOVE maple syrup with bacon or meat in general. Im russian living in Austria and married to a italiano. He thinks its really weird, but i love it!
Idea for another show: From the comments it is often obvious that some Germans don't really realize just how large the US is and how different its regions are. You touched on the fact that grits are southern, but I think you could do a whole show on the different foods people eat in different parts of the country.
Also, how they pronounce pecan (I say puh-cahn but my wife says it like you).
Also.....mmmm, grits. Especially cheese grits. Especially shrimp and cheese grits. Now I'm hungry.
exactly! One of my favorite foods is scrapple...not common every where in the US.
That would be really interesting. It's often kind of hard to imagine how huge a country (or continent) is and how diverse.
She could do the same thing for Europe for the same reasons. Whenever I hear someone (often from the US) say "in Europe, it's like this and that" I cringe because you really can't compare Germany to Greece, for example.
It would also be cool to do it for Germany alone because there's so much that's different from region to region (which is often very obvious when Dana talks about things that are "common in Germany" but often are just common in Bavaria or in some parts of Germany and not so much in others).
Yeah I didn't realize that things varied that much across Germany so I would be interested in that as well.
That's true, but also I think on the outside it's easier to see similarities, and on the inside it's easier to see differences. Like Gernmans may feel they're very different from each other, and definitely different from Norwegians, Dutch, Swiss, and Swedes. But what I see in videos in all these countries, as well as in the comments all looks very similar: Be on time, don't smile, and don't talk to me. And also care about the environment. So I might think that in the blonde parts of Europe, I should be more reserved and not as casual or friendly.
I have a German friend who has lived in the U.S. for many years and traveled a lot. He agrees that different regions of the U.S. are in many ways like different countries in Europe.
Gen-u-ine son of the South, here, via Texas and Virginia.
Grits (proper grits, anyhow) are made of hominy, which is corn that has been stripped of its bran and made into a thick porridge. Salt, pepper, butter, a fried egg and cheese are common toppings. Bacon and Shrimp with a soft boiled egg are popular grit toppings in tonier restaurants.
Chicken and waffles is real people food. Grew up on it. Wonder what they'd think of chitlins (pork intestines) or pork rinds (fried pork skins)? Or ham hocks? All these things are pretty common where I grew up, as was scrapple (pressed trimmings from butchering just about anything).
I also ate a lot of squirrel growing up, and the occasional possum pie. My grandpa was fond of brain gravy, made from squirrel brain. Ever heard of paw paws? or ramps?
Now I'm all hungry. Y'all be good, now.
Ramps yumm, ham hocks, yumm, chitlins, yumm, pork rinds, yumm. Miss em all. you forgot the collards, and of coarse the queen of vegetables Okra.
Im guessing you are from Southern Appalachia.
I think the german equivalent to Grits is "Grieß(brei)". Isn't it?
Squirrel is among the best meats I've had.
I am in East Texas. Squirrel is tasty. I know in a couple of school districts in Louisiana, the school planned a holiday on the first day of squirrel season. ( It is always on a Friday)
Okra! I live in the north but my Mom is from South Carolina. We called my Grandpa the okra king because he was amazing at growing it. I love it and most where I grew up have no clue what it is. I grew up on a lot of southern staples. Never cared for grits though.
I'm a Texas transplant and I've never heard of mayo and bananas. Chicken and waffles has two versions. Fried chicken on waffles is the soul food version from Harlem. Stewed chicken and gravy on waffles is from the Pennsylvania Dutch.
the waffels (german word by the way) are salty not sweet, right? But with chicken on top won´t the waffel loose its cripyness?
@@barfuss2007 waffles are generally just a touch sweet because you expect to put maple syrup on them. The syrup will make the waffle mushy, so would gravy and stewed chicken. From the South so I would be used to fried chicken, which would be salty, and waffles. You put it together right before eating if you don't like mushy.
Thank you Nikki :-) I love Tandoori Chicken too.
@@barfuss2007 I had to look up Tandoori chicken as I have never eaten it. I don't like curry though or any 'sweet' spices, like cloves or cinnamon, in my savory food. The one time I cooked with curry my husband and I took one bite and pitched it. It took forever to get the smell out of our apartment. I've tried more than one recipe with the sweet spices used in a savory dish and those spices usually overwhelm whatever dish and ruins it for me and my family. It may be one of the more common Indian recipes, but I can say that no one among my family or friends cooks that.
As an American, I've tried most of these things. Also, I can proudly say that I have never tried banana and mayonnaise and never will because that is just disgusting. Whoever came up with that combo needs to re-think their priorities in life
I think somebody was pulling her leg....
Kevin Oliver Mayo and Banana is big in Tennessee and maybe other southern states. I did not believe it until I asked my friends and they all love it!!
I've lived in the Nashville area my entire life and I've never heard of mayo and banana. We have standards. LOL
I've lived in Tennessee, Alabama, and currently live in Kentucky. I've heard about it but never tried it. Leave it to us Southerners to come up with some weird combo like that. I guess with all the good food, we had to make something bad too haha
Every now and then my father would make a Sunday breakfast of pork sausage, bacon, eggs over-easy, French toast with corn syrup, and fried bananas. All in the same grease, of course.
Peanut butter and banana makes a great sandwich. Sometimes I just slice an apple and spread peanut butter on it, too. Or scoop it with carrot sticks.
You lost me at carrots lol
Ok pb and banana I get, but carrots?!
Although, I can't eat carrot sticks on their own, somehow I get sick to the stomach when I try, so I eat them with cream cheese.
Sarah Likes Tacos I do the same thing! I also used to spread peanut butter (creamy) onto celery sticks and eat it as a snack when I was a kid. Still do randomly sometimes even now!
"Muschi-stuff... Great!" - Mr. German Man; 2017
who doesnt like a stuffed muschi? xD
God, now I can't unhear it.
The name is so wrong on all levels :D
If I ever go back to Germany, I will have to unlearn this word. It does become very natural after a while.
Can you imagine dropping that one at the dinner table? :D
This vid brought back memories since I'm an old guy--lol. I'd never heard of an ice cream "FLOAT" with any beverage other than root beer when I was a kid. If you wanted to float ice cream in any other soft drink, it was called an ice cream "SODA." In fact, the word "soda" by itself only had two connotations: for adults, it was "club soda" used as a mixer in alcoholic drinks--like "scotch and soda"--but for kids, it always carried the connotation of "ice cream soda" and if mom offered to buy you a soda, you knew you were in for trip to the "soda fountain" (a specialty ice cream shop or counter in a cafe) and a special treat! What's commonly referred to as "soda" (as in soft drink) in my part of the country (Southern California--I know people elsewhere might call it either "pop" or "coke," even if it's not coca-cola) was called "soda pop" when I was a kid. Not "soda"--not "pop"--but "soda pop."
Don't know why I posted that here, but you know us old folks love to reminisce! lol Anyway, I have to agree that most items mentioned are weird to me too--the only things I would like would be pancakes or waffles with syrup (meat on the side would be good--I've had pancakes and waffles with sausage and I imagine chicken would be good also)--and I LOVE my pumpkin pie!
I never thought of maple syrup on ice cream, but chocolate syrup--especially hot fudge sauce--is wonderful!!
OK--gotta go--I'm hungry now! lol Thanks for all your interesting vids!
77Catguy, you can make a float with Coke, Cherry Coke, Dr. Pepper. Base soda has to mesh well with vanilla ice cream.
Agreed it's "soda pop"
Europeans don't realize that America has a lot of regional foods. Grits, for example, is a southern thing. It's just corn meal, like what you would use to make polenta. The watery kind you get at cheap places like Waffle House is gross in my opinion, but made with butter and cream and cheese and eaten as a base for shrimp and sausage or something similar, it's delicious. You should take Mr. German Man to Charleston.
Amelia 830 soooo many places in Charleston to get amazing shrimp and grits. And She-Crab soup. Delicious
Put cheese in your grits and i'll call you a yankee, that's as bad as putting sugar or syrup in grits.
sure we realize that, every country on earth, except maybe tiny countrieslike monaco, vatican, San marino, has regional foods
@@freerunner0682 not what we mean my dude, your countries are so small your regional dishes would be like a single county or town here in the USA. A regional dish here in the states can cover a single town or an area larger than France and Germany combined.
What about peanut butter, banana and honey sandwich? That's Elvis's favourite sandwich and delicious!!
There's no honey, and it should be grilled!
Peanut butter, banana and bacon and then grilled in butter.
Are we still talking about an Elvis sandwich?
If so , no bacon! If not, sounds delicious.
And also peanut butter, butter and banana
Heard Elvis liked the sandwich done like French toast
Mayonnaise on banana sounds really gross. I like mayonnaise on salty or savory snacks, but tbo I never tried it on sweet snacks like fruit and such. I mean basically mayonnaise is oil, egg yolk, salt and if you like even some mustard.
Oil, yolk, salt and a bit of lemon is great too!
You're right, there was something missing ;)
TotallyASMR I eat it as a sandwich. Just bread, mayonnaise, and banana. Lol
It still shakes me, when i think about it. Maybe I should try it to really dislike it by heart ;P
The mustard seed is coated with mucilage which is an emulsifier that backs up the lecithin in the yolk to keep the oil in suspension. It isn't really an option.
I can't believe that pumpkin pie is on the list. It is my absolutely favorite pie with ice cream on top!
Mike Brown SAME
Pumpkin is a type of squash, and in fact in many countries all kinds of squash are called 'pumpkin', whereas in North America where it originated, 'pumpkin' refers to a very specific variety of squash. Thus, many foreigners who hear "pumpkin pie" think of what we would say is "squash pie". My guess is that maybe they're thinking of like yellow crookneck squash cooked up into a pie crust. (Um, no, that would not be good.). But what we call 'pumpkin' in North America is a squash that is naturally sweet and blends very well with spices. So, a pumpkin pie is a custard flavored by sweet pumpkin and certain spices, like cinnamon, cloves, and ginger. And it's totally an awesome flavor!
Yeah, even though I'm German living in Germany, I bake a pumpkin pie every year for Thanksgiving (which I don't even celebrate, I just want to eat stuff :D). It's amazing :)
Right? And I disagree with Dana....Pumpkin pie beats pecan pie EVERY time, lol
Had a friend who married an Australian guy and immigrated. On her first Christmas there she made pumpkin pies. Her inlaws looked at them like she was nuts (they eat unsweetened pumpkin as a veggie side dish there), but after they tried a piece with whipped cream they went nuts over them. Both pies were gone withing minutes! Now its one of her Aussie family's Christmas traditions.
7:09 orange soda with vanilla icecream, orange soda with pineapple icecream, 7up with vanilla icecream, and icecream with stout beer are all AMAZING combinations! Any sherbet mixed with 7up (lemon-lime soda) is amazing!
Peanut butter and pickle is an American sandwich that lots of Americans think is weird - but it's surprisingly delicious. Also, I think root beer is definitely something worth trying; it's one of those things that either A: you love immediately, B: you hate immediately, or C: you're American, so even if it's not really your thing, it kind of is.
I don't think I've ever heard of or done a peanut butter and pickle sandwich.
I prefer pickles on my burgers, or chicken sandwiches. Roasted or fried chicken + mayo + pickle is an excellent, simple sandwich.
Waffles, Fried chicken and Syrup is my absolutely favorite. Love on the first bite!!! I totally recommend to everyone to try it. I even put the syrup on the meat, so so so gooood!!!
Root beer was originally made from the roots of the sassafras plant. And the brand you have makes a huge difference. Stay away from Dad's, Hires, Mom's, Froties, and store brands. A&W, IBC, and Barqs are good.
It's worth noting that only barq's has caffeine on that list, in case there is a dietary restriction.
Root beer makes the best soda float.
Try Sprite if you haven't already
Absolutely! A&W root beer and Breyer's vanilla ice cream = heaven on a hot summer day.
Have you even heard of a root bear float what
Yes! Root Beer float- I grew up having this as a dessert when I was a child. You take a glass of root beer (soda) and then you place a scoop of vanilla ice cream in it and eat it with a spoon. It's very yummy! I have heard of people using other types of soda for this... But I can't imagine that I would enjoy it with anything other than root beer. :-)
Grits are white corn (maize) that has been dried, then soaked in lye (nixtamalized), then rinsed in water, then dried and ground into coarse meal, and finally cooked into mush. A variety of polenta.
I was at an old fashioned sweet shop and I came across marshmallow fluff. I had never seen something so bizarre and amazing so I bought it (I also bought my first Reese's Cups). Unfortunately my whole family also loved the marshmallow fluff and ate it all before I found out it goes well with peanut butter. I'll have to wait to try a fluffer-nutter.
The best use of marshmallow cream is as an ingredient in super creamy fudge!
I live in the midwest, and Marshmallow Fluff is in just about every supermarket in my area. Try looking around the cooking supplies (chocolate chips, etc.)
Fluff in Hot Chocolate!
grits is sort of like polenta
Sheira Hope I call it Southern Polenta. lol
The difference between grits and polenta? About $10. ;)
Sheira Hope ground dried Hominy. A large variety of corn🌽
sort of like? It is the same stuff IMHO
Exactly
You two have to try a root beer float (root beer soda with one or two scoops of vanilla ice cream). And a peanut butter & jelly sandwich, but made with orange marmalade rather than grape jelly.
Tried the PBJ with English marmalade once, it was amazing! But I could never bring myself to try the root beer float. The taste of root beer makes me feel sick :(
I'd try a normal float just to see if I like it. But I don't think I will, at least not with vanilla ice creme. Fruit sorbet might be a good alternative.
Some people like orange soda with vanilla ice cream. I'd bet a fruit sorbet would be good too, maybe in vanilla soda.
Miss Sheska ummm, it's not going to have the same taste and texture but I guess ok? I just don't know how fruit would taste with that. If you don't like root beer (like it do) just use coke
@Miss Sheska The rootbeer float is the 'normal' float, but you could try the 'purple cow' that is, grape soda with vanilla ice cream, or a variation, grape soda with sherbet. I wouldn't try sorbet with a cola of any sort, that'd be awful.
@Paul Towarnicki @Jen DuBay Thank you both for the info, I'll try it out. I'm always curious about new things, especially foods and drinks
Peanut butter on toast with honey is amazing
You two are so diplomatic! "Interesting" is a 'safe word' so you do not have to say anything negative about something or someone.
I tried pancakes with maple syrup and bacon for the first time two weeks ago, and I am absolutly in love with it. The other things I don't know, but maybe I should give it a chance?
I like to dip banana in my (cheese) fondue.
iLoveSummer186 try: chicken & waffles, coke float, pb &j and grits to start.😉
Best combo....pancake or waffle, topped with peanut butter then real maple syrup. Yummo!
One more thing...
Do visit State Fair of Texas in Dallas, Texas during the month of October. There are food stalls that fry everything under the sun.
mentalfloss.com/article/31488/25-deep-fried-foods-texas-state-fair
InTeCredo yes.. I have been and most of it is overpriced garbage.
rootbeer floats are the best
rootbeer tastes like bathing water with a lot of sugar
Terry Lanwermeyer I
Birchbeer!😅
Root beer tastes like those pink candies my mom used to get. I never liked them and don’t much care for root beer. Coke floats was what we had growing up.
Make an Irishman puke. Give him root beer.
I grew up in the US and just loved PB&J sandwiches and was so happy finding peanut butter in Germany. Since then it‘s standard at home and my German boyfriend learned to love it too.
Root beer is made from sassafras roots.
Sassafras tea can be made from the roots , too.
Dig up the root, wash off the dirt and boil the root , to make tea.
Sassafras trees are found in southern forests.
Root beer requires more processing and is not generally made in homes.
To me, the proper ice cream float is a root beer float. This is just root beer soda in a glass with a couple of scoops of vanilla ice cream added in to it. This is the most common way that any ice cream float can be found in a restaurant or diner.
9:42 I know what it is! You're talking about Bud Light, obviously! :D
Grits is the corn version of cream of wheat. Think of white polenta. Either eat it salty with butter and/or cheese or sweet & creamy (or milky) in the US.
bunny wabbitt sometimes butter and sugar.
Root beer was originally made from sassafras root, but in the 60s it was discovered that the major flavor component (a chemical called "safrole") is carcinogenic. It was banned, and since then root beer is made with a mixture of flavors to approximate the original taste.
Sassafras is still used in American food. File powder, used to thicken and flavor some gumbos, is powdered sassafras leaf.
A famous commercial Southern dish is the Moon Pie, which comes wrapped in a sealed plastic bag. It’s made from two sweet shortbread (or some similar) cookies, with marshmallow fluff between them, coated with an icing (which sticks to the exposed sides and edges of the cookies, but not to the marshmallow filling). The original was about 15 cm in diameter, and there is now a “mini” version about half that size. Both sizes have the same thickness of marshmallow, making the whole pie over a cm thick.
At one time it was a favorite “walking” snack or lunch, since it can be eaten on the road with one hand, with a bottle of soda in the other. Royal Crown Cola was popular with it (“RC and Moon Pie”).
The original icing was chocolate, but now there’s a banana (artificial) flavored option as well.
Root beer by itself is just eh, but as a float, it is soooo good.
agreed. Grew up in southeast Pennsylvania, and we had root beer floats (vanilla ice cream) with my granddad. The brand of Root Beer was Hires (I think near Philly).
Sweet potatoes with Marshmallows? What a weird combination!
MilkyIceTea it's sooo good! it's not thanksgiving without it. you need to have butter and brown sugar too.
it's not a typical dish, it is usually a holiday thing. And yeah, you use bigger pieces of the sweet potato (yams) and miniature marshmallows so it's not TOO sweet, and I usually get at the end of the meal, not in the beginning
MilkyIceTea we cook the yams in orange juice, butter, sugar and Salt, and some people mash them, some leave chunky. Then you put them in a casserole dish and top with marshmallows and bake or broil just enough to get them golden. We never use mini marshmallows. Usually we like the big ones, but cut in half, that way it just covers the top. Some times we add the marshmallows in a crock pot so they get all marbled throughout the dish, makes it easier to transport to where you're going, as the oven is often full and being used, we've started going that route.
It's super yummy! But not as an everyday thing to eat.
We also eat candied yams, which is caramelised corn syrup or cane sugar on yams. Not sure where it comes from but it is common in the Mid-West.
This sounds so odd to me but I think I will give it a try :) sounds very interesting as well!
I just learned Americans don't eat soft boiled eggs! And therefore don't have egg cups! Mind = blown!
Most American don't eat soft-boiled eggs, but many do. And you can find egg cups without too much trouble. Even at a dollar store! But it's not a part of the popular culture, no. :-)
It's really only something the older generation eats. Like lutefisk.
IrianGaming I first tried a soft boiled egg a few years ago in my German class. Love it, and have always wanted another! I really do love soft boiled eggs, better than hard boiled. Hard boiled at my house is only used to make deviled eggs, or really good tuna fish.
IrianGaming I just came to the realization the other people ate that as a normal thing. I was watching British tv and saw it being eaten for breakfast. I've never known anyone to eat an egg like that in America.
I'm an American who loves soft boiled eggs with egg cups. But I usually just eat them on a plate. Jen's right that it's an "old person food." What is lutefisk?
grits is dried corn that has been finely ground and boiled to reconstitute. they are usually salty (butter, salt, and pepper) but you can have them sweet. shrimp and grits is easily one of my favorite foods.
Grits are like oatmeal, Cream of Wheat, Malt-O-Meal or other porridges, except they’re made from ground corn, or sometimes hominy. Hominy is corn that has been treated with an alkaline solution (lye in the olden days), which makes the corn grains swell up and changes the taste and smell (Corn Nuts are made from hominy.). Sometimes grits are cooked with less liquid and served in a heap, like rice.
Fried pies are basically the same as turnovers, but fried instead of baked.
I don't much care for sweet potatoes or marshmallows so marshmallows on sweet potato casserole - no. I pass that along when it is served at Thanksgiving.
I love pumpkin and pecan pie. They are amazing, especially pumpkin pie made with fresh pumpkin instead of canned. Pecan pie is brown sugar custard with toasted pecans on top. Fabulous!
Canned cheese is as bad as it sounds - fake tasting and awful.
PB& J was invented by American service men in WW2 who had crackers, peanut butter and jelly packet in their rations. They put them all together, loved it and took it home to
their families after the war. It is very good with the right jam. Either crunchy or smooth peanut butter is fine but I buy the smooth since my kid prefers it.
I think Fuffer-nutter is pretty disgusting. Some people also eat it with bananas but since I don’t like bananas, I think it is also disgusting.
I cannot imagine putting grits on a PB& J. It sounds like a family tradition or something a starving teenager would eat.
Grits are a corn-meal porridge - corn meal cooked in salted liquid like milk and/or water.
They are very nice and comforting - great with butter, cheese or maple syrup plus some fresh, ground pepper.
Mayo and banana sound like a personal weird combination, not an American food.
Ice cream with soda is called a float - the ice cream floats on top of the soda.
The most common form of this is a root beer float with vanilla but peanut butter ice cream or salted caramel ice cream are much better with root beer.
Fried chicken and waffles are great. You can get them in diners that server breakfast all day but you have to be really hungry to eat them and I’ve never been hungry enough.
Fried butter and fried candy bars stuff that you get at a state or county fair food stand,
not stuff that is on the menu of restaurants or that are eaten at home. Deep fried bacon and cream cheese sounds like a specialty item on some particular restaurant menu, not specifically American.
Doesn’t everyone eat bacon with pancakes and syrup? No? Just North America?
Real maple syrup is a national treasure.
Root beer is great and no weirder than the lingonberry, current, birch or whatever odd flavors Europeans have.
Tessa T Also maple syrup and waffles/pancakes is no more strange for breakfast than toast and jam, which I think they do eat over there. What is weird to me is their toast and marmite or vegemite. I was briefly married to an Aussie and was NOT impressed by vegemite, yuk!
Vegemite is a scourge on the Earth.
It is just a float.... Root Beer Float, Coke Float, etc...
I'm German and I tried a root beer float once...it was...interesting ;)
Most non-Americans strongly dislike root beer. Not a big fan myself, but my wife likes certain brands.
Try a coke float.
Ive heard the European version of a root beer is like ginger beer? I may be wrong but I don’t like rootbeer unless it is put as a float version.
Root Beer is about my favorite pop. Can't stand cola.
Veronica Camacho Noooo !! root beer and ginger beer are not even close..!
So, only half way through but a couple of points: I'm from the south, as in South Carolina where grits are a breakfast staple food. The only way they are salty is if you add salt. Also some pepper and butter. No not margarine, BUTTER! But as for the best food ever, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Some one has some serious issues. As for the banana and mayo thing? Only if you are eating a banana sandwich. If it's just a banana? Split that sucker longways and stuff in some peanut butter. THAT is food.
And root beer. It's really a take it or leave it drink. I like it, but only from time to time. However, I have dug up sassafras roots, cleaned them off and dropped them in my canteen. Sassafras tea is also a thing. But again, it's one of those things that is dependent on your personal tastes.
Grits are a staple in the southern states "the South" and are most commonly paired with butter or cheese. They are often used as a side item along with breakfast or dinner entrees that pair well. Many southern style restaurants will pair grits with shrimp and will also often spice the grits with jalapeno. This is a fantastic way to enjoy them if you enjoy slightly spicy taste along with seafood!
Here is an idea for your next show. I live in Las Vegas, NV. My family visits here from Germany. First thing you know it is: let's drive to San Fran. (Phoenix, Salt Lake, L.A. etc etc. ) for the weekend. It takes a map and an hour to explain that most of that is impassible. San. Fran. about 600 miles, all the others at least 300 each. Or it is: let's drive to the Grand Canyon (300 miles), Arches Nat. Park (about 300). And so it goes. They have no idea about the size of this country.
Rudi K What? Couldn‘t you easily drive
300 miles for a weekend? If you leave on Friday and get back on Sunday, that‘s plenty of time?
We drove from Vegas to Bryce and Zion for 2 days and it worked out fine...
YES Chicken and Waffles
I LOVE pumpkin pie
I make all my pumpkin pie from scratch, and I buy pie pumpkins the one week a year that they're available in the supermarkets (usually late October). I never used canned pumpkin, because that's not actually pumpkin but is a variety of squash closely related to Hubbard squash. And it really does make a difference. Pumpkin pie from scratch made from real pumpkin is lighter in texture, color, and flavor, and so you can make out many of the delicate flavors in the pie. I've found that people prefer pumpkin pie from scratch over all others.
I love root beer floats in the summer. Being a New England native in New Jersey I always buy and use Pure Grade A Maple Syrup. I find it great to naturally sweeten a cappuccino at home, ice cream, maybe certain cakes.
6:18 I can assure you, so far I have not to the best of my memory eaten mayo and banana.
I moderately like both, but combined? Not too sure .... since you haven't heard of it, no use asking for region.
My American friend worked for Air Force in Wiesbaden, and his five-year contract was coming to the end. We organised a farewell party for him and raided the commissary nearby for the 100% American food stuff. I knew about the sickeningly sweet root beer float so I made it a contest: whoever could drink the whole root beer float in one go win the prize. Guess what? None of German friends could manage to finish their drinks. So no prize for the winner...
You all might enjoy old fashioned sodas better. It's not something this generation does anymore, but it was quite popular in the 50's. You take carbonated water, ice cream of some sort (vanilla if a fruit one, chocolate for chocolate types) and add in real fruit or (not and) chocolate syrup. Blend all together. The seltzer water cuts the sweetness and the fruit adds a 'realness' to what sweetness there is. It's one of my favorites. You can also try an orange julius, that is, orange juice with vanilla ice cream blended.
Chocolate sodas rock and they're so easy to make - vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup and seltzer water. I have them all summer.
Try 7Up and vanilla ice cream. Orange Crush or Fanta and vanilla ice cream is another good combination. For less fat, try fruit sherbets with 7Up or other lemon/lime soda.
Me in America trying a rootbeer: oh it tastes like cough syrup. My host family: it's made from the same plant lmao
Marie Drasnin - what brand did you try? Have you had Dad's rootbeer? It's a little smoother. I can see how one could think it's cough syrup taste though.
A&W in a frosty mug is the best.
+Marie Drasnin
I can't imagine what single plant is shared in common with cough syrup. I've made root beer from scratch a few times. Here's a small sampling of the ingredients: sassafras root bark, wintergreen leaf, sarsaparilla root, licorice root, vanilla, cinnamon, star anise, ginger, dandelion root, burdock root, hops, birch bark, cherry tree bark, juniper berries, orange zest, molasses, ginger...
+Marie Drasnin
I can't imagine what single plant is shared in common with cough syrup. I've made root beer from scratch a few times. Here's a small sampling of the ingredients: sassafras root bark, wintergreen leaf, sarsaparilla root, licorice root, vanilla, cinnamon, star anise, ginger, ginger bug, dandelion root, burdock root, hops, birch bark, cherry tree bark, juniper berries, orange zest, molasses...
Hires Root Beer soda has no liquorice taste. Birch Beer soda (also sold bottled in PA) is almost flavorless.
I've had a fried Snickers and was disappointed. It kind of melted into the batter. I've also had chicken and waffles a lot. The rest sound pretty normal.
I love root beer and have even had homemade root beer made from the tree bark. There is also birch beer and ginger beer. Beer at one time just meant a carbonated drink since yeast was used to create the carbonation but you don't let it go far enough to ferment.
Yes Root Beer was traditionally made from the bark and roots of the Sassafras tree. Boiled down into a syrup and given time to ferment. However the oil from said ingredients was found to be carcinogenic and was banned so it is now made with artificial flavorings. If you ever saw an old western and heard some one ask a bar tender for a Sarsaparilla (that was the predecessor of modern Root Beer).
I LOVE these videos and have recently become quite addicted to them. Snack foods and unusual household gadgets were my two favorite topics, though I also enjoyed learning about German rest areas and grocery stores. Now I will know what to do if I ever visit Germany. This one took me back to my community college days when every morning started with an "Ultimate PB&J Crunchwich" and a glass of Gatorade. An Ultimate PB&J Crunchwich is a 12-grain English muffin (darkly toasted) with two layers of crunchy peanut butter and one layer of seeded raspberry jam. It's my own invention as far as I know. When we discussed food vocabulary in Spanish class, the teacher (a native of Spain) found the whole equation pretty weird. My classmates either thought it was normal or were too polite to comment. :)
Root beer floats are delicious. In Minnesota we have them in the summer months.
Amen! The creaminess is a surprising compliment to the pop. Not unlike an Italian cream soda-only better.
It's the vanilla. The vanilla complements the root beer in a sublime, magical way. Gotta have a good vanilla Ice cream.
is ground hominy/corn and is made with butter and cream or water savory or sweet
Put applesauce on your pancakes or waffles and syrup
I like unsweetened applesauce and plain wholemilk yogurt on pancakes with just a drizzle of maple syrup over it. Maybe half a teaspoon (5ml). If your applesauce or yogurt is sweetened, leave off the syrup.
Sam Wetz i do that a lot with my kids.
Try pancakes & waffles not with just syrup but with green pepper sauce also.
apple sauce on potato pancakes real good
I'm from Delaware in the Mid-Atlantic. One of the foods that is popular in this region is scrapple, which is made from pork (or beef) scraps. This food is considered weird by most people outside of this region.
Something that I really enjoy for breakfast is a warm waffle with honey drizzled in all of the little nooks On The waffle and then cover the syrup with peanut butter which becomes soft and really gooey from the warm waffle. I hope you enjoy it
I love a banana sandwich, banana, mayo, on white bread. yum! I also enjoy tomato sandwiches. Grits are corn, and not salty. they are great with eggs or as a side dish. some people like to add cheese. I do not. I like an overeasy egg on top of my grits. love your videos. thanks
You should try peanut butter,jelly and cream cheese,its delicious almost tastes like cheese cake.
Or sub the jelly for sliced bananas.
PBJ is not weird at all. On the other hand PBJ with potato chips is super weird!!!!
I use tortilla chips, but potato chips will do.
Hmmm, Aren't tortilla chips usually hot?
You can get flavored tortilla chips that are hot. But a 'regular' tortilla chip is just plain and salted.
Ardeshir Keshavarzi Arshadi Super tasty, you mean.
PB and banana slices FTW
Ice cream floats are actually one of my favorite desserts. They are super cheap and easy to make. Just grab a pint or so of vanilla ice cream and a bottle of soda and you have a dessert for at least three or four people depending on glass and scoop size. My personal favorite is vanilla ice cream and orange soda to make kind of an orange cream soda mixture.
The "fluffernutter" or peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwich, is a New England invention. In Boston, they call it a :"fluffahnuttah," because in Boston they don't say their r's.
i' m glad that your boy isn' t faking a american accent like many other germans are doing. it' s pissing me off.
Nik Mellin i dont understand why that would make you angry. but ya i do love ther german accent
I think root beer is super weird! :D I had it before and I think it tastes like Listerine xD
I think that Root Beer is one of those foods you have to grow up with in order to like it.
Yeah, probably. :D
TheRaspberryicetea wow tastes nothing like Listerine, but it does have a taste hard to describe. not all root beers are the same though.
oO I've had listerine and I can't say as I would ever associate rootbeer with it.
I can see that - especially if you had what I'd call "bad" root beer. One of the flavors in the root beer blend is actually wintergreen, which most people don't expect. Ideally, the flavors are balanced so that none of the "notes" sticks up over the others. Hires,. IBC or A&W are (IMO, of course) the best varieties - some of the others I've tasted are (to me) out of balance with too much of one flavor or another.
pb&j with potato chips is SUPER WEIRD! potato chips on sandwiches in general tbh
Elise Rambles I like it when it's a really soft sandwich without a lot of substance. like really thin bread or if there's no lettuce or other crunchy veggie. Cheesy chips make a really good replacement, like a Ham sandwich with doritos or cheetos
something something 'murica' something something haha
Agreed, I'm from America and have never heard of this before but it sounds super weird and gross.
I never heard of it but got used to it fast here in America. Now I always look for chips if I want to eat a sandwich. Definitely worth a try!
Yeah, my friend introduced me to it. You would think the texture of the bread and chips are weird but it's REALLY good can't explain why though.
In Pennsylvania we have sassafras tea, I remember making it as a kid. You dig up the roots and boil them. So root beer is sassafrass boiled into water which has sugar and other ingredients. Technically, I think it is a beer, but not alcoholic. We also have birch beer, which is clear.
Grits are made of corn (hominy). They can be made sweetened with sugar or made savory with black pepper perhaps. Either way it is usually served with butter.
I honestly dont think sirup for breakfast is weird, older folks in germany often eat zuckerrübensirup with their breakfast and my grandmother still loves it. I think it tastes good, but I like the meaty things better :D
grafschafter goldsaft
It's nice to know, I am not the only one who likes potato chips on their PB&J.
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I'm from upstate New York, USA. I've never heard of putting potato chips on PB&J, but I've put them on other sandwiches, like turkey or tuna. Some of us here make banana and peanut butter sandwiches. Never heard of banana with mayonnaise, eww. I've heard of the fried butter and fried candy bar (and pretty much just fried everything) being popular at fairs down south but I wouldn't try it. The butter especially sounds unappealing to me. We do eat fried dough at fairs here though and blooming onion (don't know if that's just an American thing or not, but it's a battered and fried onion cut to look a little like a blooming flower). I've had many root beer floats (vanilla ice cream in root beer soda), maple syrup on my breakfast, and cream of wheat. Sweet potatoes with marshmallows and pumpkin pies are pretty much a requirement for thanksgiving dinner. I know that our tomato pie pizza here in upstate NY has seemed strange to some people in other US states. It's made like regular US pizza except the dough is a little different and there's no cheese, just lots of tomato sauce.
I have had fried butter at the Iowa State Fair. It is better than it sounds.
It's not a pizza if it has no cheese.
Pizza = Crust + Sauce + Cheese + ........
Here's one: I'm from Cincinnati, very German. Apparently, our dish GOETTA (pinhead oats, pork, beef, onion, bay leaf, etc) is inspired by Thuringians who moved here. Now, it's common to eat a GOETTA sandwich with grape jelly.
Hope you read this one (I love goetta!).
Grits are made from hominy that is dried and ground. Hominy is corn with the skin removed. Grits are then cooked in salted water on the stove top. The grits get thick and creamy and you can put butter on them or some people like them sweet. I like them with butter, but I do not eat a lot of grits since I'm a Northerner. Pumpkin pie is a fall dessert and people love their pumpkin flavored desserts here in the US. There are many pumpkin flavored items that come out in the fall. Starbucks has pumpkin lattes and there are pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting and pumpkin muffins and pumpkin ice cream and many other pumpkin desserts. They are spiced with a lot of the same things you would find in spice cake or ginger cookies, etc. Root beer seems to taste like medicine to people from Europe. I have gotten that response often enough. I like root beer because I am older, but many younger people don't like root beer. It's really good as a root beer float with vanilla ice cream, mmmmmm!!!! :-)
Bacon with maple syrup! That's very delicious!
+Symantax When I was little and had pancakes at my friends' houses, I put the bacon in the little syrup pool that formed. It tasted great!
American food tastes so much better than german food. My family in germany doesn't know what "good food" is xD
deep fried oreos and deep fried ice cream!!
I love rootbeer!!
Me too! Frosty was my favorite kind growing up. It's a shame it's so hard to find in stores now, but I can order it online at least: www.walmart.com/ip/Frostie-Root-Beer-12-fl-oz-Pack-of-6/22834260?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222227017536752&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=40889147432&wl4=pla-78818770472&wl5=9026954&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=22834260&wl13=&veh=sem
root beer is usually used in the “ice cream floats” i’ve grown up just having “root beer floats” and i haven’t had any other kind of soda with ice cream in a float
I should mention this:. my Dad (RIP) had some odd but tasty cimbos--
1 - a slice of Colby cheese between two macaroons cookies (delicious)b
2 - cream cheese & date bread sandwich.
I should also mention that homemade root beer, like homemade ginger ale, has a small alcoholic content through fermentation
Wait what? You still use Google Plus?
wait, what? people actually ever used google plus?
Peter - many people have it because Google made you sign up for it when you have a UA-cam account.
no noe one ever used it. We all just
signed up and that's pretty much it
My cousin used to eat peanut butter and ketchup sandwiches...but she was clearly insane.
My dad told me my grandfather used to make PB and mustard sandwiches! I asked if it was because it was the Depression lol
Haha. I like tortilla chips with ketchup. 👍
mustard with cheese is also an opinion
Rootbeer is a sarsaparilla of wintergreen and a number of other herbs, brewed like a beer without the fermented alcohol.
American cough syrup was cut with fruit flavors, like cherry, grape or orange, to mask the medicine taste. While in most of Europe it was only ever cut with wintergreen for the same purpose. That's why it reminds Europeans of cough syrup.
My husband used to add a slice of bologna to his peanut butter and jelly sandwich!
And, yes, a mayo with banana sandwich is delicious. Add peanut butter to make it even better.
How about "Rocky Monoutain Oysters" That sounds weird :/
Frahamen , they aren't something most people in the US would ready, but they are rather tastey!
Frahamen I happen to know what that is and would NEVER even touch it. There are people in my country who prepare and eat those, but they are not my cup of nuts...ahem... tea!
I live in the south and I've never eaten grits! They look nasty! Love mashed sweet potatoes with marshmallows. I have my grandma's recipe. And I love pumpkin pie. Another good pie is shoo fly pie. Very sweet.
Donna knight Lol. I live in Atlanta Georgia and I loooovee grits! But I hate sweet potatoes 😝.
Shoo fly pie isn't Southern at all. That's Pennsylvania Dutch food there. Sure, you can buy it other places, but the origen is PA.
Grits are the best. I often make some and put it in the fridge. The corn sucks up the moisture, making them firm. Then I'll fry it in bacon fat and add a pat of butter and garlic and onion powder.
Or grits with fried eggs mashed into it so the yolk mixes with it. Sooooo good. I'm not even southern, and I was well in my 20's when I finally tried it and was so upset my family never made grits because it's gold.
How can someone not like PB&J
taste buds. my older sister and i were like two peas in a pod...except she hated peanut anything. i'm love creamy peanut butter..but in a sandwich, i very much prefer crunchy! :)
I don't care for grape anything, except wine and actual grapes. Grape jelly, grape jam, grape gum, grape juice... all makes me gag.
I prefer to make peanut butter and strawberry preserve sandwiches. YUM!
Grits are coarse-ground corn, boiled. Most people eat them with butter or cheese, and maybe some fresh, unpasteurized orange blossom honey.
An American ex-pat living in Brisbane, Australia. Miss fluffernutters so much! And velveeta! Down here Schweppes sells a soda/pop called Sarsaparilla which basically is root beer. So yummy! And instead of a root beer float or an ice cream float they are for some reason called spiders here.
Grits are an American version of Polenta.
"Grits are an American version of Polenta"
Actually, Polenta is a European form of Grits. Corn was domesticated from Maize - a Central American wild plant.
Barry Reed not hardly im a chef .
The equivalent to polenta is corn meal. Big difference to grits.
Polenta is yellow cornmeal while grits is made with ground white hominy.
Mayo and banana wtf?
I would never eat just mayo mixed with banana served on a plate, but if you make a banana sandwich and use a thin layer of mayo to coat the bread, it's great! You can also make pineapple sandwiches the same way.
fried oreos!!!!
+christina castaldi Ooooh that sounds really good too!! :D
christina castaldi fried oreos from the wildwood boardwalk is the BEST
Jake Gold omg lol i'm from philly and my fave fried oreos are from wildwood boardwalk 🤤🤤🤤🤤😄😄😄
The deep fried candy bars and deep fired butter are usualy sold at state fairs. I haven't seen them anywhere else. An interesting fact, apparently in Brasil they have a flavoring that they use for toothpaste that we use in root beer. Imagine my cousin's surprise when I gave him a bottle.
Root Beer Float. Vanilla Ice cream with rootbeer pop (soda) in a frosted mug.
Classic fast food purchase at A&W. There is a famous jingle: "A&W Rootbeer's got that frosty mug taste"
How about a video in German?
I think she already made one at some point.
+Carlsson Pfeiffer I made a video in German last year, you can check it out here: ua-cam.com/video/DzLvG6XsBIM/v-deo.html But I'm also planning another German video as celebration when we hit 200,000 subscribers!! :D :D :D