British Couple Reacts to Regional Thanksgiving Foods in the U.S.
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone from Me & Millie
It’s not thanksgiving here in Canada, but thanks anyways!
Would very much love to see a cooking show from U2 cooking American recipes you two would have so much fun doing it together cooking easy recipes
@@lrees6412 I don't know. Bono has a busy schedule.
Happy Thanksgiving guys.
Thx
If it’s cooked in the bird, it’s stuffing, if it’s cooked separately, it’s dressing.
Agreed.
Just talked about this last night. You stuff your belly and dress your skin
Thank you!!! Not many people realize the wording matters...
Technically you’re right, but many people always refer to it as stuffing despite cooking it separately from the bird
As a Yankee, I never knew this!
Pecans grow throughout the Southeast and into Texas. Pecan is the state tree of Texas. So with them being so abundant, many recipes have been developed. I had a Pecan tree in my backyard as a kid.
Nuts in general are a US staple. My personal favorite are cashews, but pistachios are a close second. This is a very nutty place.
I like toasted candied peacans.
In Kansas we have as many black walnut trees as we do oak, pine, elm, maple. Nasty process to get to the goodie, but worth it.
I have a large Pecan tree in my yard.
I think the reason Americans are more adventurous in food choices is our background as an immigrant nation. We get exposed to more things from an early age, and the meeting of cultures lends itself to various "fusion" recipes.
Well put chap
Baked beans are a common BBQ side in the US. The sauce is just different from the UK version.
Canned baked beans!!! Yuk!!! On toast?? Double YUK. But as you said.. different tastes.
Exactly from what I hear there bake beans are more like our pork and beans from the tin. Which is probably what most people would use a base for making bbq beans.
I make homemade baked beans in a slow cooker. I use Great Northern beans, onion, molasses, ketchup, and brown sugar. They're much better than canned beans. I've made a bean sandwich with them and it wasn't bad, it was a popular and cheap lunch during the depression.
Admittedly we have many versions
Baked beans are traditional in Boston, apparently (not from there). I have read that references to "peas" in the early descriptions of food eaten by the settlers may have actually meant beans as we now call them. Not sure if that's true, but it would explain the food tradition in Boston.
Yes, we over here in the US most definitely have baked beans. They are a very popular side dish.
Baked beans in the US are generally Navy Beans that are slow cooked in a smoky, sweet sauce, often with a bit of streaky smoked bacon. The sauce they're cooked in often includes a bit of molasses, brown sugar, vinegar, yellow mustard, and various spices. They're a staple at summertime BBQs across the US.
Could you stick 'em on toast? Sure... but they're pretty yummy on their own or accompanied by a few BBQ'ed ribs and some home made potato salad.
newgrl:. I like baked beans with coleslaw.
hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving dear
..........and chopped onion. You forgot the browned chopped onion!
@@JGW845 hello
I thought it was funny they singled out Heinz, an American company, as an example of something we don't have here.
You guys have to remember that our country is MASSIVE, and within many states there are culturally diverse regions. There is no such thing as EVERY American or ALL American like or eat this or that. Remember, Texas is bigger than Poland 🇵🇱. There are a great variety of things we eat in various places in our country.
Absolutely! Because some of the dishes that he said are eaten in the south my family eats them and I live in Pennsylvania. Lol
I'm always amazed how the UK is so diverse despite being relatively small. You would think that living on an island for a thousand years would have made the whole region rather homogenous.
@@norwegianblue2017 It used to be, compared to other regions but with the advent of the British Empire and then modern travel methods the diversity is actually understandable.
France is twice the size of Poland, and Texas is bigger than France.
California is twice the size of Great Britian. California has a larger economy than Great Britian too.
We eat what is closely available in the area.
I can't argue with the fact that stuffing/ dressing is the best part of every Thanksgiving (along with the gravy).
Agreed!
Thanksgiving Day has been my favorite holiday since I was a child. It's not about presents and such. It's a day to spend with friends, family and God, thanking Him for all our blessings. I just love it.
It's stuffing if it's cooked in the bird.
It's dressing if it's cooked in a separate pan.
They both have the same ingredients but the difference is how they're cooked.
Happy Turkey Day to y'all!!
I’m originally born in Alabama and we make cornbread dressing. We consider dressing made from cornbread and stuffing is made from other breads.
@@katrinaleebaldwin4660 If it's STUFFED and cooked in the bird.... stuffing. Cooked alongside the bird it's dressing.
I'm in MN & we've always called it stuffing whether it's actually stuffed in the bird or not. When you buy it in a box it's called stuffing. The manufacturer doesn't know if you're going to cook it inside or along side the bird.
@@CamoJan I appreciate that the terms are used interchangeably.
Call it whatever you want.
Look it up if you don't believe me!
People put whatever they want in their stuffing/dressing... Sausage, corn bread, oysters, sage, ect..
What it is called is determined by how it is cooked. Stuffed in the bird or dressed on the side.
@@CamoJan Just as I would never get my spaghetti out of a can, I wouldn't get my stuffing out of a box. But to each his own. Enjoy!
We eat tons of pecans because we have tons of pecan trees. Plus they're one of the BEST nuts on Earth.
I have 2 quick reminders about Thanksgiving to share: 1) Half of the 102 Pilgrims died within 1 year of landing at Massachusetts because they weren't prepared to land that far north (they wanted to land closer to Jamestown, Virginia), and 2) The Native American tribe the Pilgrims celebrated Thanksgiving with showed them how to live off the land in exchange for providing them protection/weapons to fight a neighboring tribe, and yet those are aspects of Thanksgiving we often ignore in school.
I learned that information in school but that was a long time ago when our education system was actually good.
I learned that in school not sure why everyone thinks they have the secret sauce that's being hidden from the rest of us.
@@drewpamon I didn't learn that, 90% sure, but if they did, then I completely forgot.
@@colleenmonfross4283 I went to school a long time ago too and our education system was not good.
@@beaujac311 Guess that depends on where you were educated. I grew up in California where it was good at that time.
Pecans are delicious, that's why we eat them. :P
Also, pecans are native to North America and trees produce quite a lot of them.
Pecan trees are native to the south so we eat and use them alot in cooking.
Linda Kyd:. Yes. I was looking through the comments to see if anyone had mentioned this. Also Geography King did not say that the state of Georgia is the leader in production of pecans. He mentioned N. Carolina was the leader in sweet potatoes so I felt some kind of way by him talking that much about pecans and never saying Georgia was the leader in their production.
@@beaujac311 Also, funny fact is Georgia goes by the peach state, but is the largest producer of peanuts in south. South Carolina is a huge grower of peaches and actually has a water tower (not sure if UK has water towers) with a giant peach on top, although at a certain angle it looks like a babies bottom with diaper rash to me. We southerners are a quirkly but fun bunch.
I picked up 5 5gallon buckets last year under my pecan trees. I couldn't give them away
@@tlittle705 Yeah those things hurt like the dickens when shoot out of a lawn mower. LOL
@@tlittle705 How did your tree do this year? Here in N. Georgia the trees did not produce so well this year.
We ABSOLUTELY have baked beans. But they're served as a side usually with hotdogs or burgers. Or mixed with cut up hotdogs making beanie weanies.
don't forget the ketchup and brown sugar in the beanie weanies or it's not beanie weanies!
I don't know why, but I often scoop baked beans onto tortillas. Mmmm. I should give toast a go. Bet I'd love that too.
Yeah I would certainly hope so since we invented them
We had baked beans and Boston brown bread on occasion.
I'm from New Jersey, and Thanksgiving dinner and dessert has always been: turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, stuffing, corn, dinner rolls, green bean casserole, macaroni and cheese, sweet potato casserole, pumpkin pie, and apple pie. Sometimes other things were added, usually different types of salads.
Same here and BlackBerry cobbler
Pretty much same as FL except can't leave out the deviled eggs and we will many times make fresh greens, cook them down with bacon, etc.
And sweet potatoe pie instead of pumpkin in many homes.
Never tried sweet potato casserole or pie but I love sweet potatoes they r so good we usually have them as just cooked sweet potatoes with the skin on and u have to take them off but they r so delicious on Thanksgiving. I live in wisconsin so thats probably why. Even though we r one of the main producers of cranberries I never really like them they r not really my cup of tea if ur out of our country its a saying that means it's not my kind of thing
Don't forget the cranberry sauce!! Homemade, canned, relish etc (south Jersey girl)
I'm surprised that you're surprised that pecans are popular. They are so yummy; sweeter than walnuts. They are native to southern U.S. So, they are easy to grow, in the south. People have them in their backyards.
You'll know a pecan tree when you see the silk all over it.. lol.
My friend spent a lot of money to kill those buggers causing the silk
I spend half the year in Green Valley, Arizona which is a green valley because of a massive commercial pecan orchard.
Pecans are popular because it is indigenous to Georgia and other parts of the South. It has many uses both sweet and savory. Pecans are not cheap, and depending on weather conditions in the South, the prices fluctuate. Just as certain types of food are natural produce in the UK.
Marshmallows on sweet potatoes is a personal thing. Marshmallow is about the same as a meringue is on certain desserts. It is an optional topping.
gmunden1:. We have pecan trees everywhere here in N. Georgia so they are pretty cheap when you collect your own. I grew up in the 1970's and we used to have pecans every year. Now it seems that the trees don't produce as consistently now as they used to. I picked up two paper grocery bag full of pecans last year at my aunts, but the trees didn't produce as well this year. It may have something to do with climate change.
@@beaujac311 you are correct. In the north US, pecans are expensive. I recall many years ago there was an issue with the trees and the production was low as a result. Climate change is indeed a factor (in addition to fungus, root problems and aphids) to production rates of this popular and delicious nut. I remember we used to be able to purchase a large bag of whole pecans but after a few bad seasons, the bags in the stores got smaller and the price increased. If anyone is in the baking business, it is difficult to purchase 5lbs for less than $70. I sometimes just pay the going rate because I know how hard it is for the producers these days.
This guys hasn't spent much time in the south. 1) I have never been to a thanksgiving dinner in my half century experience that did NOT include cranberry sauce. Now I will say not everyone makes it fresh here, many get it canned, we usually get cranberries and make our own. It is also considered a MUST for after thanksgiving, as the thanksgiving sandwiches are pretty much expected following thanksgiving and usually includes left over turkey, mayo, left over cranberry sauce and toasted bread. 2) Also wrong about Squash in the south. Squash Butternut, or yellow is very much a part of southern Thanksgiving.
Happy Turkey Day to fellow Americans. Just finishing and we had 23 different dishes and 47 ppl, tons of leftovers. In the video he's giving a dish, but we typically have a lot of side dishes, desserts and different meats...but Turkey is the star. We had 3 types baked, fried and grilled. Its just a good time and tons of good food. Christmas 🎄 is around the corner and we do it all over with Turkey and Ham.
That's also a bit down to preference. We didn't do turkey this year, we did a ham. We will however have turkey at christmas, though sometimes we switch it up, some years we have different meats, like prime rib, or lamb shanks. We just don't like having too much of any one thing if we can avoid it. But yeah, the meat dish is generally the star, though I've always preferred having a ton of the side dishes, since the meat makes such good leftovers. Midnight sandwiches for the win!
We have baked beans, apparently you have never heard of Boston Baked Beans
It's sweet potato(and it's sooo good), baked and skinned,mashed with butter.Add dark brown sugar and cinnamon.Put into a baking dish and heated,add marshmallows and broil until marshmallows are toasted and they are ready to go.Also sweet potato pie is fantastic.Oh,and I am from the South East(Tennessee mountains)
For me, as long as there are mashed potatoes, gravy, Hawaiian buns, deviled eggs, ham, and turkey, I'm happy. At the same time, some crusted mac and cheese never hurts.
Hey Skoll don't know if you've tried this but next time try putting some crumbled up bacon on the Mac and cheese to me makes it taste 10 times better
I need sweet potatoes. Then im good.
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I eat all that to. I eaten up north to. But i live in Florida
Pecans grow on trees and one tree can produce a LOT of them, which also makes them relatively inexpensive. They are nutritious and taste good. That is why that are added to so many dishes.
Pecans are not relatively inexpensive, not in Chgo. I used to love them as a simple snack but the cost is up to $10-lb & higher now. That is entirely too high. I firmly believe someone is artificially controlling the prices of Pecans & Catfish.
Catfish is routinely over $6-lb(when) used to be under $3. I hardly ever but catfish anymore unless I find it on sale. Pecans, Catfish and Chicken Wings 3-formerly *Inexpensive* *items* & personal favorites that the price has sky-rocketed on & made unaffordable.
Working man can't catch a break☹️
@@geedavia1785 Have the prices increased since January of last year?
@TheBeesleys I live in Tennessee (South.) Where I grew up we had 5 pecan trees in the backyard. Every other year they would produce so much we wouldn't know what to do with them all. We gave them away by the bag full to all kinds of people, neighbors, friends, family, & even strangers that would stop and ask if they could fill a grocery bag with pecans... On the off years, they still produced enough for us and family.
Anyways... Pecan trees are abundant in the South & fall is when their green shells are browning... that's why there are a lot of pecans in the Thanksgiving dishes. Same reason we have a lot of peach dishes.
I have to agree with some I have seen on here Dressing & Stuffing are not the same. You stuff the bird with stuffing. Often non-Southern states will use that mix to have on the side and call it stuffing or dressing.
In the South, (cornbread) dressing is wet and often a main dish in itself. You pair a meat in it (often shredded, but not all the time,) check some Chicken and Dressing (the most common type, but there is turkey, duck, ham, etc...) videos out. Chicken & Dressing is my favorite dish. I could forego the turkey. It's not Thanksgiving without Chicken & Dressing.
Pecan pie with vanilla ice cream and football.
It doesn't matter what we eat on Thanksgiving.Thanksgiving is time to reflect on the past year. Being able to spend a day with those we love or care about. It could be family or friends... Remembering those who are no longer with us. Just being grateful for what and who you have in your life.
Where I was growing up in the South, we had pecans trees everywhere, we had them in our yards. And you didn't have to drive far to find them, or you knew somebody who them. We almost never had to pay for them, you could pickup as many as you find on the ground.
"As long as I can be selective." That's literally how Thanksgiving works. You ask someone to pass the ______ (something you like), and then scoop what you need onto your plate.
Also, baked beans are huge here in the Northeast. Look up Boston Baked Beans, one of Massachusetts finest staples.
Cranberry sauce is a staple in the south, too.
More Northeast
The video made it sound like cranberry sauce was rare in the South, which it's not.
A lot of the foods that are popular are foods that are grown here and in the past was eaten to survive. Pecans are popular because pecan trees grow wild and a lot of people also have them planted in their yards. The pecans are harvested just before thanksgiving.
I think pretty much everyone eats cranberry sauce or cranberries of some sort for Thanksgiving. And here in the south everyone I know calls it dressing, not stuffing. The difference being how it's cooked, inside the bird = stuffing, separate dish = dressing.
Our meal consists of Turkey, Cornbread Dressing, Cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potato casserole with marshmallows, green bean casserole, deviled eggs, pea salad, fruit salad, and dinner rolls. Normally we would have a lot more but we did it smaller this year! Our dessert is peanut butter pie and banana pudding, and Ritz cookies. These are all non traditional but we are allergic to cinnamon so things like pumpkin pie are not an option.
Turkey spaghetti? I haven't seen it here in Texas but I imagine its origins are from having thanks giving left overs and needing to find some use for them.
Left Over meat? Create a sauce and throw in some pasta. Sounds about right.
Just like Turkey Salad, you gotta not waste such lovely food.
I moved to Texas about eight years ago, and encountered one of the first dishes I was unfamiliar with: chicken spaghetti. I guess turkey spaghetti is pretty much the same. Ingredients are canned cream of mushroom and cream of chicken soup, velveta cheese, and of course poultry and spaghetti. Yum!
@@minkademko2335 sounds like the dinner bell just got rung! Good eats are good eats.
By the way, welcome to Texas! Even if it's a bit late to say so.
Fifth generation Texan here never seen that so, I'm not really sure if that is really accurate.
This year in Florida we had Turkey, Dressing, Sweet Potatoes casserole with Marsh mellows, Homemade Cranberry Sauce. Homemade Mac n Cheese. 3 Bean Salad. Mashed potatoes. Dinner Rolls, Sveral cheese ball and French onion dip, Pecan Pie, Apple Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Peach cobbler, Vanilla Bean Ice Cream and caramel Apple Sangria as well as the White and Red wines. Love this time of year. Now we have leftovers for a week. Life is good!
yeah Thanksgiving is a HUGE holiday here in the States...almost everyp;ace is closed. No postal service or even banks open even though its a Thursday.
Lol, banks and govt buildings find any and every excuse they can to close. You know it's a major holiday when big box stores are closed
@@RyanTheLion335 banks close because the Federal Reserve is closed, they cannot do any real transactions that day...it also means the stock market is closed.
I’ve found that Thanksgiving food differs from family to family even within the same city! Some of these were pretty surprising for me though. I’m from the Great Lakes region, and typically have corn casserole, sweet potato casserole (with pecan topping…no marshmallows), mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, & homemade cranberry sauce. Desserts for us are ALWAYS pumpkin pie and apple pie
Heinz products are from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania they are an American company. Heinz put a plant in the UK so they wouldn't have to ship them to the UK and beyond.
LOL right. Though I will say the flavor they put on toast is not the same flavor of sauce for the beans that you would be served with BBQ ribs and cornbread over here.
The first sweet potato casserole has pecans and brown sugar, the second one has marshmallows. They really taste sweet and good together. I’m a midwesterner, but I’m more southern/ central and those recipes don’t fit stuff served down here… my favorites are green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, pumpkin pie, and maple fudge.
Pecans are awesome, as are walnuts! Pecans have a little bitterness that is smoothed out by the nuttiness, and when you add sweet and salty with them...heaven. Walnuts are just simply decadent.
I'm from California and we definitely have Butternut Squash for Thanksgiving, as well as cranberry sauce and stuffing (mandatory). BTW, he got it backwards. It's called stuffing in the West and dressing in the East. I either have white bread stuffing or French bread (sourdough) stuffing. Either way, it has sage in it. And smoked Salmon dip... YUM!!! Also I eat tamales almost every day.
I can't believe he left out the #1 most common Thanksgiving side dish ever... pumpkin pie! Duh! LOL!
Love you guys! Love watching you for how kind and well-mannered you are.
You should definitely make a Thanksgiving dinner. Use the most popular recipes or Martha Stewart's for a fancier version. I think you'd love Turkey, Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes and Green Bean Casserole with Turkey Gravy and Cranberry Sauce.
That's exactly what I grew up with in northern California, finished off with a slice of pumpkin pie with whipped cream.
Love pecans , especially candied but fresh off the tree are great too. My great grandmother had pecan trees and we would go fill bags up when we were there and sit and eat them while we were cracking them for whatever dish our parents were going to use them in.
Any US home during thanksgiving is full of food. Whatever you may not like, there will be 4 other options on that single thing. Every house if filled with delicious options. Most start cooking the day before
my favorite Thanksgiving food is mixing smashed potatoes with sweet corn. Both are good on their own. But together, they're amazing!!!
The two of you are such a joy to watch. Happy Thanksgiving
In the Southeast it's DRESSING. Cornbread dressing. I'd literally never even seen stuffing until I spent Thanksgiving with my mom and stepdad in Vermont once when I was 17. My mother is from Alabama and she made stuffing to placate my stepdad, but made dressing with a separate turkey for the rest of us because she wasn't down with that "dry nonsense." My stepdad tried dressing that year and never went back. They're different dishes.
Watching this while I make my Green Bean Casserole! Happy thanksgiving to all those who celebrate it :) and thanks for the great video you guys!
Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy!
One reason pecans are so popular in the US is there are a lot of pecan farms in our southern states. As nuts go, they have a mild taste with a slight sweetness that make them perfect for sweet, dessert, pastry things. Some will grind up pecans not quite to a flour, while still pretty coarse, and use it to coat fish (usually southern catfish) before baking or frying. Basically, the nuts replace flour, crushed corn flake cereal, or panko. It's quite good.
If your from the south (which I am) there’s 2-4 ways people say pecans.
Im from California and pretty much the same lol
Yep. I’m in Georgia and there are at 3 ways I’ve heard. My family says pub-khans. Makes my skin crawl to hear it pronounced other than that.
The reason the South loves pecans is because pecan trees are native here so pecans are basically our default nut choice. In the past, when Thanksgiving was a harvest festival, people would use what they had on hand and since pecan trees drop their nuts at the end of October and beginning of November, and because in the shell the nuts will store for a long time, people would use them in all kinds of autumn and winter dishes. We also will use black walnuts which are a native walnut but they aren’t as readily available, and being that they can be bitter they’re more of an acquired taste. Other nuts like English walnuts, hazelnuts, and almonds can be really expensive here (like $10+ a pound!) because they have to travel so far so they get used less.
Pecans, pronounced "pee-KAHNs" in the south, are widely available there because of climate and soil conditions. Walnuts and hazelnuts are subbed in farther north.
Pecan is pronounced differently in different regions, sometimes differently state-by-state, and sometimes differently even in the same family. I've witnessed so many arguments amongst my family members over the pronunciation of this word.... Everyone knows what you're talking about, no matter how you say it. Pee-can, pee-cun, pee-kahn... whatever.
Will Streett:. People forget about hickory nuts.
Pecan pie and roasted pecans with the cinnamon and brown sugar on top is just so good I can't even explain it.
My favorite sides are Cranberry sauce, sweet corn and mashed potatoes.
I live in Arizona, and I am of Mexican decent. My family doesn't usually do tamales for Thanksgiving, but would do them for Christmas. They are labor intensive, and it is literally an assembly line to make them. But, if you have a bunch of people to help you, "more hands make light the work."
My top favorite parts of the Thanksgiving dinner is the turkey (my family smokes it in a smoker), my mom's heirloom dressing (passed down from generation to generation), and homemade mashed potatoes with gravy.
Hazelnuts (filberts) are huge in the pacific north west. They definitely make their way into a lot of salads, stuffing/dressing, and as a topping for baked goods. Apple pie and cider are also real popular due to so many being grown here and their autumn harvest. Marionberry pie/wine/jam is an Oregon thing you don't see many other places.
The two pies I actually don't like is pumpkin and apple. I do however like mix berry pie and peach pie. You can find pecan pie in Colorado and other states too. It is a yummy treat that a lot of people in the US Enjoy. I'm kind of not the traditionalist when it comes to pie.
A couple of corrections here Beasley, one America has lots of it in different types. Too American love of pecans is because that's where they're from when the field of discovered that the native uses to cook it became a staple in fact a lot of things America does it's based on our past.
Today I had turkey, corn casserole, yams, deviled eggs, green beans, mashed potatoes, buttered white bread, cranberry sauce and apple cider.
Question. Does the "Full on English Breakfast" have regional variations or is it pretty standardised all over?
Good question! I'd like to know too.
Growing up our south eastern US Thanksgiving, in addition to some of what he mentioned, always had lime jello casserole and succotash, mmmm, and of course as far as Im concerned cranberry sauce only comes in a can and should hold the can's shape after it falls out of the can lol (there's a dividing line in my family on cranberry sauce, "real" vs jellied)
Same here! Twinsies! But my nephew actually made jellied cranberry sauce for me and his dad this year. It wasn’t too bad. A little more tart than the canned variety but quite tasty.
We have baked beans here in the US. Bushes country style are my family's favorite. Our favorite side dish is sweet potato casserole. The topping is corn flakes crushed, brown sugar, pecans bits and melted butter. Delish!!!
14:00 my brother in law is from New Mexico and he introduced me to green chili a handful of years ago at Thanksgiving dinner. Its really not spicy though. A tiny bit of space maybe, but I'd say no more than like the pepperoni on a pizza. But its a nice sweet and tangy flavor. Its really good.
Hello from Oregon coast. The huge thing for us here is Dungeness Crab from Thanksgiving to Christmas. From the crab itself to crab dips for crackers and crab casseroles. Hope every haves amazing holiday season.
Pecan pie is VERY delicious, particularly if prepared correctly. It is sweet and nutritious at the same time.
The reason huckleberries aren't common in areas other than the mountains is because they do not 'domesticate' well at all and are a wild alpine or high-altitude berry rarely found below 2000 feet. More often than not, they are found growing at 2500-5000 feet of altitude. Similar is shape and color on the outside to blueberries, they are however much more acidic (tart, yet sweet) and stain your fingers, lips and tongue purple filled with juice. Personally, I like a blueberry, but LOVE a huckleberry! Only trick is, so do both Black and Grizzly bears... Picking in the late summer can come with encounters in large patches of berries where you can be picking on one side of a 20-30-yard-wide huckleberry patch and a bear is picking on the other side... BTW, they win. 😆
Pecans grow wildly in the South. My neighbor has a pecan tree and drops in my yard but I don't mind. If you get tamales, get them in the southwest those are the best in my opinion. California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, I found it to be zestir and spicier. My favorite is the beef tamales. It's made with chicken and pork also, but you know us we're innovated we'll put anything in a tamale even M&M's. It does take a lot of work to make tamales couple of days I would say and yes it's like an assembly line. All the ladies talking and gossiping while they work. At the end it is worth it. 🦃 Happy Thanksgiving 💖
" If you get tamales, get them in the southwest those are the best in my opinion."
Man... you just get tamales from the sweet little abuela in the grocery store/Home Depot/Walgreen's parking lot... no matter what part of the country you're in. They're the best things you will ever eat.
@@newgrl I didn't say they weren't good, I said a specific area because in Florida some tamales are made differently seasoned differently and use a different husk. It taste different doesn't mean that they're not good. I'm just saying in my opinion those places were existier and spicier. I'm not kicking the tamale down they are good. 🫔 👍🖖
In the reaction video, he said "let us know your opinion and thoughts ". I did. Happy Thanksgiving. 🍗🥑🫔
@@isabellegarza9070 :):) I was just making a small joke. All good. Happy Thankgiving/huge SHOPPING day to you too.
@@newgrl apparently I didn't get the joke. 😶?
@@isabellegarza9070 It's ok. I'm not very funny.
Puppy chow was always my favorite dessert on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
How my family does Thanksgiving turkey....
Thaw Frozen turkey as directed.
Rinse out turkey with warm water to get rid of the frozen blood and stuff inside it.
We usually get a butterball.
Pull out the bits in the back cavity.
Place the neck, gizzards, heart, etc. in a pan full of water and a little salt. Boil until cooked. Pull meat out of pan and let cool. Save stock for later use.
Set up meat grinder and grind two or three medium onions, quartered and four or five stalks of celery into another pan. Strip meat from neck bones and grind up all the neck meat, gizzards etc. into same pan. put half a stick of butter in that pan and simmer until onion/celery is cooked.
Get an extra large bowl and fill with pepperidge farms sage and onion croûtons. Pour onion/celery/meat/butter over croutons. Take stock water you put aside and use that to make the croutons damp. If you can't get the flavored croutons just get plain croutons or make them in the oven overnight and use poultry seasoning (had to do that in Macedonia). Hand mix until evenly distributed.
Stuff Turkey front and back then sew it up.
In a small sauce pan place one stick of butter and two or three rounded tea spoons of paprika. Melt butter and stir in paprika.
Pour butter/paprika mix over turkey and rub all over Turkey.
Preheat oven and roast as the directions state in a roasting pan.
Baste at proper intervals with water and then turkey juice.
Last hour place aluminum Foil tent over Turkey to keep breast from drying out.
Remove turkey to cutting board to rest and after pan has cooled down make gravy from drippings.
Extra stuffing goes into baking dish and is baked right along with turkey if you have the space.
Top meal off with mashed potatoes, corn, garlic green beans with bacon, etc.
I lived in California and now live in Arizona. I have always had baked beans. I've never had it on toast. We usually have it at barbecues alongside potato salad and corn on the cob with hamburgers, chicken or steak.
5:43 did bees just say the US doesnt really have baked beans? the UK actually got baked beans from the colonies and brought it back to the UK. we just arent boring enough to only put it toast out of the tin can 🙄
Our baked beans tend to be more sweet while theirs tend to be more savory. So we do have baked beans, but they are different as well (even from Heinz)
Yeah I deffo interpreted previous comments a little wrong aha!
Ouch, that was rough
@@TheBeesleys99 Heinz is also an American based company. So you're eating a bean product made by an American company when you put your Heinz beans on toast. We know what kind of beans you mean when you say beans on toast. We just tend to think it really unappetizing. However not every American knows your baked beans are more like our pork and beans in flavor, so they might be picturing it as unappetizing in a slightly different flavor profile.
@@TheBeesleys99 Not your fault. All these food videos fail to mention the fact that the reason we love pecans, pumpkins, turkeys, corn, potatoes, cranberries etc is because all of those originated from North America. The settlers ate what was available. Then they shipped them to the rest of the world.
I’m my neck of the woods it’s Turkey or glazed ham. We include gravy, mashed taters, corn, green beans, stuffing if you have a Turkey, pumpkin pie and sweet tater pie, candied yams. This is how we do in the south.
I get tamales every time my grandma makes them, not just thanksgiving, and they are always good
Yeah, but disagreed that tamales are not as popular in Texas as in California. The whole southwest of the US including Texas was part of Mexico that is the origin of tamales...lol
Arguments about stuffing (inside the bird) versus dressing (baked separately in the oven. Every family has their own recipe. Corn casserolle is amazing. Shocked there was no apple or pumpkin pies--those are iconic.
I have an apple pie, pumpkin pie, and a third choice waiting once my appetite returns from eating the main and side dishes earlier. I can choose between a jello dish or a chocolate pie, or buttermilk biscuits with apple butter.
Happy Thanksgiving 🥰
Baked beans in the United States especially in the south is usually part of a barbecue! And I've never been to England but I love baked beans on toast!
Millie! collard greens are divine if cooked with a pinch of sugar to tame any bitter flavor. Many use a salt pork and smoked meat like ham hock to season theirs. I am from North Carolina and we typically eat a cabbage collard as it's called. Also they are better if there has been a groud frost before harvesting. Help with the flavor!
I live in Chicago and my black coworkers convinced me to try their collards. I make it now for me...its 👍 👌 👍
Its the bit of bitterness that I like
@@raymondweaver8526 Agreed, when i say just a pinch of sugar I def mean it. I grew up with collards as I am southern, but also my father's mom hired (during her kids childhood years) a black woman to help around the house as she ran her rest home business. (First intergrated old folks home in my town in the early 60s).
Favorite food is mashed potatoes covered in butter and lots of gravy. Right next to the turkey & cranberry sauce. A big dish beets, again covered in butter, are one thing we grew up with. Apple pies, pumpkin pie and a cherry pie. Love this holiday. Having family come together is a special feeling. Thanks for sharing this!
It’s strange that they always exclude most of Texas when talking about cuisine. We have a fusion cuisine of southern, Mexican, and “Texan” dishes.
Tex-Mex is the best!
Whenever anybody talks about anything American it's either Cali, New York, and surprise surprise........Texas next🥱🥱🥱
New England, Connecticut- Venison Tenderloin,turkey, marshmallows, sweet potatoes, stuffing w/ground sausage & cranberries. Jellied cranberries, corn,butternut squash, brown sugar, butter, raisins, crescent rolls, creamed pearl onions. Apple pie, chocolate pudding pie, chocolate chip /cranberries cookies! ( Shawnee Indian )
I'm from CT too. Your list is just like mine. Now, we have red potatoes and mashed sweet potatoes. I don't do the marshmallow bit though. My pearl onions are cooked with the bird so they are swimming in turkey drippings after coming out of the oven. Do you do Snickerdoodle cookies?
A Thanksgiving meal is my most favorite kind of meal. I can't believe pumpkin pie was not mentioned. Or how about celery with cream cheese and the many variation of gravies. Even cooking the turkey is done in many different ways. We love the meal so much that many of us will have it at Thanksgiving and than again a month later at Christmas.
I just started watching your channel in the last couple of weeks when I would see videos for it on my UA-cam home page -- I really enjoy it! For me, no Thanksgiving is complete without cranberry sauce (with REAL cranberries, NOT the stuff from a can), green bean casserole (didn't see it mentioned in this video for the Midwest, but it's a STAPLE -- green beans baked in a mushroom soup sauce and topped with french-fried onion strings!). My family does sweet potatoes, but with the pecan topping, not the marshmallow. A lot of what people have is determined by 1. Traditions handed down from ancestors and where those ancestors came from/moved from 2. What people could grow easily and successfully based on weather conditions and length of the growing season.
Texas Here! Sweat potato casserole with marshmallows on top is the Bomb Ass Diggity 😍 And Pecan Pie 🤤🤤🤤
Hope all the American viewers had a Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃Loved both of your reactions!😊 This just gives me more reason to be Thankful that I'm from the Southeastern US (SE Tennessee).🙏 We definitely have the best Thanksgiving food. At our house, we have turkey, smoked or honey baked ham, dressing (never stuffing), Italian green beans (not those hard green beans that wouldn't get tender if you cooked them for a week), broccoli casserole, homemade mac & cheese, candied yams (with brown sugar & chopped pecans) that look like the ones in the video with the marshmallows on top, cranberry sauce, giblet gravy, yeast rolls, pumpkin pie & sometimes no-bake cheese cake with cherry pie filling on top or pecan pie! Now, that's Thanksgiving Dinner - NOT fish, rice or tamales (gross)!!!😊🤗😘
The history, and meaning of Thanksgiving is pretty murky (ugly history or regional differences), but it's now more about just being around family, family friends, and just being thankful for what you have.
Not only that, to me anyway, learn a bit around Native American culture. Because it's linked to a temporary alliance with the Natives. Trust me, it's so fascinating!
I'm from Arkansas and have never, ever had turkey spaghetti in red sauce especially at a holiday. Thanksgiving meal usually consists of turkey, dressing (NOT stuffing, there's a difference), sweet potatoes in some form, corn, homemade rolls, greens, green salad, potatoes salad, coconut pie, chocolate pie, and another dessert of some sort. this is particular to my family but generally held true across friends. (Chicken spaghetti is a routine dish and is made with a white sauce.)
Here in north Georgia we call them “pecaans” my Granny said “peacans” are something they used to keep under the bed so they didn’t have to go outside to relieve themselves. 😜
The proper pronunciation is "puh -KAAN," with the vulgar pronuncaition being "pee - KAN," with a short "a."
When it comes right down to it, the differences in what countries like can be boiled down to what's easy to grow in them. Different countries in different climates can grow different things. So things that were easy to grow get used the most in recipies back in the day.
It's also because a lot of these foods are native to North America like corn, potatoes, pumpkin, pecans, cranberries, turkey etc.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I am spending it alone but hope you all have a great time!
With the Beesley Fam actually! Been a legend from literally the start! Have a great day mate! Happy Thanksgiving!
@@TheBeesleys99 Cheers! From my cat to you!
Greetings from FL! We have baked beans but our baked beans are sweet and are usually served at barbeques or outdoor events.
I think he's pretty accurate... If you visit during these holiday times keep in mind the cold! I always recommend Boston or new England area to see a lot in a trip because states are smaller and tons of American history.. But it's cold in Nov!! So in summer I'd recommend south.. Either California or Georgia.
Can't go to Boston for Thanksgiving anyway... Y'all put oysters in your stuffing! What the??? No fishy things in my stuffing please. :):)
@@newgrl I'm from NH and never even heard of someone doing that 🤢
@@angelab401 The food history sites tell me it came over with the British settlers and it's a Northeast tradition. Blech!
@@newgrl I'm about 2 hours north from the only coast in NH to be fair but its definatly nothing I've ever witnessed. It's mostly your typical food's up here. Turkey, stuffing, potatoes, rolls, sweet potatoe cassroll or some equivalent and butter nut squash. Plus a bunch of other traditionally served things like pumpkin pie and banana bread and the like.
Is it weird that I have a slight anxiety of meeting someone from any other part of the world and they start asking me about all these US-specific dishes they saw in a YT video and either I've never had most of it or I'll have no idea what they're talking about? :D
The pecan was an easily shelled nut readily available in the SE US. Like all regional food, the main reason people at it is simply that is was there already.
I wouldn't eat pecans plain, like having a handful of cashews or such, but pecan pie is one of my favorites. With whipped cream. I love anything sweet potato and candied sweet potatoes are a favorite. But they can be made wrong. I'll still like it, just be disappointed. I don't care for stuffing and don't like cranberry sauce. But cranberries in muffins, etc, are good.
Zelma Jenkins:. We had a number of pecan trees and we used to stand under cracking pecans and eating until we were full or our hands were too tired or tender from cracking them.
Pecans taste great
I eat pecans plain all the time. I kind of like the slight bitterness. Candied sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce are the devil though. Sweet Potato pie is awesome, especially when made with a good splash of bourbon.
I love plain toasted, salted pecans! Mmmmmmm
We definitely have baked beans in the US, lol. They're delicious with fried chicken and bbq here in the South, or just in general when we grill.
I believe both of you would love homemade pecan pie. As a Texan I have never heard of turkey spaghetti. Hot peach cobbler with a scoop of vanilla ice cream is the bomb.
Every year I make hash brown casserole.Shredded hash browns,a tub of sour cream,2 cans of undiluted cream of chicken soup,diced onion put into a buttered baking dish.Sprinkle the top with panko bread crumbs.Put small pats of butter on top,cover with foil and bake.Its fantastic
my favorite sweet potato casseeole...has marshmallows in it...and pecans...and coconut! the topping is made with corn flakes...pecans...brown sugar and butter...now hungry! This is the only sweet potato casserole My family gets now!
Sweet potatoes are typically made with cinnamon and sugar for thanksgiving and you put marshmallows and/or pecans on top. Some casseroles are whipped and some are sliced into chunks.
In Connecticut we have butternut squash or carrot soup, turkey with cornbread/apple/walnut stuffing, gravy, sweet potatoes (not necessarily in a casserole), green beans with toasted almonds, broccoli with hollandaise sauce, oven roasted potatoes, carrots, and parsnips, cranberry jelly, cranberry sauce, and cranberry orange relish. Desserts are apple cranberry walnut pie with sharp cheese on the side, and pumpkin pie with whipped cream.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone - Just finished eating.
Turkey
Stove Top dressing
Mash Potatoes and gravy
Sweet Potatoes
7 layer salad
Green bean casserole
Dinner rolls
Green Olives
Pumpkin Pie and Cherry Pie covered in whipped cream.
As an actual Southerner, I gasped a little when Kyle called cornbread dressing "stuffing."
NOOooo, lololol.
Also, peach cobbler and pecan (puh khan) pie are LIFE.
di butler:. Yes. When he said dressing was used out west and stuffing in the east I almost screamed at the video. He said that he has lived in the south most of his adult life but how has he not heard anyone mention dressing in all those years.
We have baked beans, slow cooked white beans with brown sugar, molasses, bacon, onions, sometimes bell peppers, and spices. Cooked in a dutch oven low and slow all day. It's good for holidays, especially the 4th of July