A lot of people don't know this. But, the red sauce(Tomato sauce), was actually created by an Asian man, who lived in the mountains and had Asian noodles, and a large tomato farm, and he happened to add some garlic and onions to the paste, and he ate it with his family, and it spread out from his family member's and friend's starting to make it themselves. Now, the Italian true sauce is more of the olive oil sauce, with the garlic, and other ingredients in it, as well as, the cream based sauces. But, it was a tomato farmer in China, that was the first to create the first tomato based sauce. And, because it was so similar to the Italian sauces, it was eventually adopted by the Italian cuisine culture, as one of their sauces. Granted, back when the Asian farmer was making it, it didn't have all of the Italian style of herbs and spices, like it does, now. And, because of the heavy altercations of the tomato sauce, over the generation's, it's why it's considered Italian cuisine, now...
Couldn't the soundtrack "Backburner" by the After Hours Big Band have been used in the video? Besides, of the big bands, there are or were sweet bands and hot bands. Why not introduce such music to Chinese?
Yes, if I eat breakfast in the morning, I am lazy that day. I think breakfast is only good if you do physical labor. If you work in the office or go to school you should skip breakfast so that you will stay awake.
we go nuts during the holidays. We do biscuits and gravy, mac and cheese, Chucky taters, 30+ pieces of bacon, french toast and oatmeal/cream of wheat for some fiber. We do hold a 10-15 persons family meal every two weeks from Oct-Jan. Don't do the dennys or norms kinda thing.
The reason traditional American breakfasts were so heavy is because they're farmer's meals. When you're up and working at 4 am and eat breakfast at 5:30 or 6, you need a heavy carb load to kick start things and a lot of protein for the long burn. You're not getting lunch for about 8 hours, so you've got to have the kcal to power through a regular person's work day before your next meal. Lunch is light so you don't get the 2 o'clock sleepies at noon or so, then you're going to work another 6 hours before dinner. If you didn't get something close to a full 2k calories for breakfast you'd never make it through the 14 hour work day and the 6 day work week. Farming is hard ass work with long hours. You don't just deserve great meals, you need them to survive.
@kevinerose No need? Like at all? I disagree. Studies show that a good breakfast improves cognitive power. I will say that you definitely don't need one as hearty as a farmer's breakfast, though.
I grew up in California, breakfast then was a couple eggs, bacon , toast with butter. After graduating from high school in 1983 I joined the Army, I got sent to Fort Sill in Oklahoma for OSUT Basic Training, that’s where I learned what a “Southern” or “Country” breakfast was. Eggs, grits, hash browns, biscuits & gravy, toast, both sausages and bacon, and a choice of orange juice/milk/coffee/tea/chocolate milk to wash it down. My “Standard” breakfast in the Mess Hall every morning became an Omelette with ham/cheese/mushrooms/onions/green bell peppers, 2 sausages, 2 strips of bacon, grits with butter, biscuits and gravy, 2 slices of sourdough toast with butter.
It seemed like they were under the impression that this was what Americans eat every day rather than diner food that we eat occasionally. But glad they had a good experience!
@@Mystical_Tmac Exactly. I generally don't even have breakfast since I work early in the morning. What was portrayed here, I may have on a Sunday morning once in a while.
@@codealias3234 yeah lol I don’t even eat breakfast or lunch almost most of the time they need to be clear when making videos like this it’s kinda annoying
For context: the average American breakfast is something like a bowl of cereal and some coffee or a bagel and cream cheese and some coffee or a breakfast burrito and some coffee or something else small along those lines. The full dinner breakfast experience is something usually reserved for days off when you plan on a light lunch like a salad or no lunch or for days you're driving long hours and need the mental fuel to keep going. Protein feeds your body, fruit and vegetables give you the vitamins and fiber to self regulate and run more optimally, and sugars and carbs give you the energy to operate. You can tell by the sugar and carb heavy diets of many Americans that we value having the energy to get through our busy days above anything else.
Our bread is like their rice. It makes sense if u think about it. They grow rice, we grow wheat. Things eaten were very much based on what could be grown locally and for the most part those traditions have stuck around over the yrs. I never thought about what she said how the styles of cooking sort of mimic attitudes. Like direct cooking for direct Americans. And I feel like their style of cooking is very indicative of their attitudes as well. Very interesting!
@@TheOtherBill they are not complaining, they are just surprised by the different culture , as i was too when i first moved to america. i'm sure no one would complain about bread --- we are just very used to rice; bread is very much a breakfast-food in china.
I dunno I know a lot of chinese people and I find them way more direct/honest, just more polite generally instead of being a karen. But really depends on the person, not race really.
I feel that the American pancake is one of the most universal foods - seems like people from different cultures around the world seem to love it the first time they try it.
Pancakes resemble some of the oldest foods humans have made since we were a thing. I think that's why cultures adapt to it quickly. Most cultures have a very similar food, just some eat it savory and some eat it sweet.
My parents had an exchange student from Japan that said he thought we were all about meat before he was in the states, and then he had a day when he ate potatoes at every meal! Decided that potatoes were the equivalent of rice in Asia.
Well he isn't wrong. Meat used to be a lot more central to the American diet before the 1960s. Then it started to get limited due to scaremongering. There's a reason Texas chili, pot roasts, steak and eggs, hamburgers, meatloaf, etc. are considered traditional everyday American foods. They were. Pre-1960s.
@@Saffron831 Yes, scaremongering. There is nothing wrong with red meat and animal fat. I've consumed 2-3lbs of pork(including bacon and bratwurst), beef, and lamb everyday - prioritizing shoulder, rib, or belly cuts, for the last 9 years and my vitals and labs are normal. Not even just normal, my doctor tells me they are perfect and that whatever I am doing I should continue. My doctor dislikes hearing about what I eat though, which is why she only says to keep doing it in a vague way. She is very resistant to the idea that a very red meat heavy diet is the one thing that actually lowered my ferritin, creatinine, and blood pressure to ideal levels, and restored my kidney function from 30% to 90%. I only have 1.5 kidneys(genetic deformity).
You missed one of the essential experiences to the grilled cheese and tomato soup meal. Gotta dip the sandwich in the soup and it tastes so good together! Also, most people won't eat those kinds of breakfasts too often. That's like a once per week or even less frequent kind of thing. People often have a bowl of oatmeal and some honey and fruit, a bagel with butter or cream cheese, or some kind of cereal. Very rarely you'll see people who have a smaller version of those breakfasts like a few egg whites or 1-2 eggs in the morning with a side of toast. Some people definitely overeat though!
@@SarahNGeti physical workers like that typically eat larger breakfasts, but tend to aim for higher carbloads through things like grits, homefried potatoes, or hashbrowns. They also tend not to eat eggs every morning, though some do. Especially farmers with chickens.
Bread in American cuisine outside of sandwiches is used to clean up excess juices and sauces. Like with the runny egg that squirted out you would use the bread to sop up the egg yolk and that would lead to a more satisfying dining experience. Bread is never meant to be experienced by itself. We have rolls that you can eat with butter or fruit jams and preserves if you want bread. Bread is for maximizing the use of sauce. Often times there is more sauce than noodles so you would use the bread to finish off the sauce
That's not my experience. I never use bread to dop up runny stuff or extra sauce, nor does anyone I know. Where I live it is quite common to eat a variety of breads by themselves.
@@lmjs-jk1bp seeing some of your other responses, i wonder if it's a regional thing (the use is a big place afterall). i've lived in the midwest all my life and find it's a very common practice.
This huge diner breakfast is a throwback to when America was first being farmed. Families would be up working from dawn until sometimes after dark doing extremely physical labor. So they needed hearty meals to fuel their work. Nowadays we have a big spread like this on special occasions. If you want to get an idea of how hard people worked vs how much they ate, you should read "Farmer Boy" by Laura Ingalls Wilder. It tells the story of Laura's husband Almanzo Wilder's childhood growing up on his family's farm. It's an engrossing read and I highly recommend it.
I think it would have added to their experience if you showed them how we eat these dishes. Like dipping our toast in the egg yolk or the grilled cheese in the tomato soup. Also eating with them would have given them idea on how to use the silver ware for American style dinning.
I'm a Chinese here, since in China we have a lot of various different food that go with rice, so eating these things feel like we're eating the same thing, but honestly I love Italian food, I can't deny that
Its the same for westerners, we think all Asian food is something with rice. Because it kinda is, just like Asians think all western food is bread cuz it kinda is lol. There are exceptions but generally western food uses wheat or potato as the starch and Asian foods use rice and thats just kinda how it is. Then the middle east seems to have some rice/bread overlap.
Hashbrown rounds is crazy to be served at a diner, never seen that or heard of hashbrown rounds being served at a diner. It's either griddled hashbrown potatoes or country style potatoes or home fries.
When i was a kid i never liked grilled cheese with tomato soup, but when i grew up a bit, added more oregano, a bit of cheese to the soup, and then realized two whole sandwiches are the ideal bowl of soup ratio for max absorbtion. Also use sour dough it soaks like a sponge while staying crispy
I always get a kick out of seeing other cultures try our foods. Root beer is the funniest. I have heard people from other countries say it tastes like medicine! 😆 Cream soda is so much better in my humble American opinion! BTW true Italians use the bread to dip in the sauce! 😉
I’m American and never heard we had a pancake day…however the Pancake day you refer too is very close in time to Maslenitsa- a Slavic holiday celebrating the end of winter that is accompanied by blini…or Slavic pancakes 😊 and butter. Lots of butter.
For the diner experience, I'm shocked that the root beer float never came up. That, and no milkshake was a bit of a shock. Also, there's a decent mix and match between these items typically. If you get the steak and eggs (which are typically over easy), there's salsa on the side. If you want waffles, there's some syrup or jam on the side too (you might even see chicken & waffles too depending on availability and region). And the breakfast drink is either the cheap drip coffee or OJ for breakfast. For lunch, there's the classic BLT, Club Sandwich, and Chowder of some sort. Broccoli and cheddar soup is also pretty popular. And of course, you cannot forget about chicken noodle soup, and minestrone. Diner dinners could also serve pork chops with applesauce, sauteed veggies, roasted veggies, and chicken parmesan.
I love diners. And yes, breakfast has to be the most important part of the day, especially those yummy yummers delicious Toaster Strudels my mom gets for me.
American diner breakfast isn’t the same as traditional American breakfast at home. At home it’s usually a cold or hot cereal. Occasionally we have two eggs and toast with fried ham, bacon, or sausage. Sometimes I make grits (a hot corn based cereal) with fried eggs,…sort of like having fried eggs on a bed of hot rice.
As someone from New Jersey (the diner capital of the world), the portions seemed ok. Normally, diners (at least the NJ diners) offer deals. Like lunch and dinner entrees normally come with salad, soup, and dessert (like pudding or jello, pie/cake is an upcharge) and the pasta dishes normally come with rolls. Diners are a real bang for your buck kind of deal
NJ diners, especially owned by the Greeks, are the best! Especially the breakfast sausage. Very different. Lol but there's a special place in my heart for dim sum, Cantonese and Taiwanese!
I think a lot of people outside of America do not realize that basically all meals eating out inevitably result in leftovers. Most people won't eat the whole plate. I am 6'4" 250lbs, so I will. But not everyone here is that big. And not dipping the grilled cheese in the soup is a big fail.
With sunny side up eggs you dip the toast in the egg yoke, for tomato soup & grilled cheese you dip the sandwich in the soup and eat it. The bread is served with the spaggetti and any other italian food to help get the food on the fork and soak up the extra sauce to clean your plate. that spaggetti needed a lot more sauce. the mashed potatoes are to dip the steak in and you eat a little bit of everything together.
There are still parts of China where a wrap or something bun-like are eaten as a lunch or some kind of fast food, like Roujiamo, or Guabao, or Huoshao, ... they are technically main courses. What meal do Xianbing(panfried buns with minced meat fillings) count as in Beijing? Those are so good on cold winter days, and oily as heck.
All the comments saying to dip the grilled cheese in the soup glad I wasn’t the only one I WAS SCREAMING WHY ARENT THEY DIPPING IT????? Like there’s milk and there’s cookies but soaking a cookie in some milk and then eating it is a different heaven
I would've gone for a meatloaf over a steak for a typical diner dinner. Feels more diner-y, especially with the gravy and mashed potatoes and mixed vegetables. Everything else pretty spot-on... plenty of other diner classics to choose from for a sequel video (breakfast hash, patty melt, liver and onions, etc.)
Not me having an anxiety attack because they didn't dip the grilled cheese in the soup...lol. Great video, but unrealistic to have 3 huge meals all in one day for me. Thanks for sharing.
in the future you should have them dip sandwiches in the soup. many people do this with grilled cheese and tomato soup, its a whole different experience, kind of wish they tried it that way.
Awesome intro on Diners! What struck me 2nd was the Chinese guy saying.."to our parent's generation..." This seems to be Global....so in many ways no matter where you are...there you are! Feelin' me?
There is a ginormous gap between those two generations in China though. Their parents would have grown up in a closed China without open borders or open trade
Just to be clear, very rarely would you eat a breakfast lunch and dinner like this in one day. Also, we'd usually take between a third to half home to finish at another time. (My brothers might eat the whole thing, if they were hungry. My mom and sister and I rarely would. I'd usually take close to half home.)
Historically i dont believe we used to eat heavy breakfasts. There was a marketing campaign during the 1920's that conviced americans to start their day with a heavy breakfast and more importantly with bacon. One of Sigmund Freuds relatives ran the marketing campaign for the pork industry client. If memory serves me right
ALL Americans do have a custom of sharing food. It's called "family style" in the US when we put dishes in the center of the table and all get food from those dishes. The difference is, in the US it would be large dishes of food that we would take from or pass around to add to our individual plates. Whereas in China, the dishes put in the middle to share are very small. And in an unsanitary way, everyone picks one bite of food from that small dish and adds it to their rice bowl. So the men in that video may have been confused not knowing the custom or culture. Maybe they wouldn't think those plate sized dishes would be enough to be shared with everyone else.
If I had time I would eat like this in the morning. Normally I have a shake and bring a snack to work but that still gets me almost 600 calories before lunch time.
Agree so much with the medium rare or bust with steaks lol. You either have people who love steaks, or you have people who order them well done and don't seem to like steak that much 😂
Of course the root in Root Beer, both the original, and as remade in the 1900s was indeed medicine. ...Apparently some patients liked the flavor enough to create a drink.
Although I'm Chinese, when I found out enerybody in the comment is talking about dipping the grilled cheese into the tomato soup, I get it, because I had tomato soup in England. The soup is super tasty so it has to be great when mixed with many other foods.
What I dislike about this is leaving people thinking this is how Americans eat all day every day. If we ever go out for a large diner style breakfast, or make it at home, we probably are not having lunch and dinner is fairly light. If we get a big lunch, it's because we skipped/skimped on breakfast and dinner will still likely be light. And if we have a big dinner, it's because we haven't eaten all day or maybe had a small breakfast and we're freaking starving. If you only have time for one or one and a half meals per day, some of them might seem pretty big.
i've lived in america for 15 years since elementary school (grew up in a very all american area throughout middle/high school), i've never been told to dip my grilled cheese in soup. is this what "eating correctly" is? i swear, not everyone does it. is it really such an important thing as everyone in the comments seems to be saying...?
I've never dipped my grilled cheese in soup. Nobody I know does that. I'll have to try it. I think most people where I live would find it a bit strange. Not bad, just un expected.
The US isn't obese because we eat so much. It's what in our foods like corn syrup, seed oils and additives. After those items were allowed into US foods heart disease went from 10% as the cause of death to over 30% and obesity has sky rocketed. It's why your doctor keeps telling you to stop eating processed foods.
Merry Christmas y'all! 🎄🥰🎄
EDIT: Subs are fixed now- enjoy the video !!!
You didn't tell them to dip the grilled cheese in the tomato soup!!?????
Belated Merry Christmas
A lot of people don't know this. But, the red sauce(Tomato sauce), was actually created by an Asian man, who lived in the mountains and had Asian noodles, and a large tomato farm, and he happened to add some garlic and onions to the paste, and he ate it with his family, and it spread out from his family member's and friend's starting to make it themselves. Now, the Italian true sauce is more of the olive oil sauce, with the garlic, and other ingredients in it, as well as, the cream based sauces. But, it was a tomato farmer in China, that was the first to create the first tomato based sauce. And, because it was so similar to the Italian sauces, it was eventually adopted by the Italian cuisine culture, as one of their sauces. Granted, back when the Asian farmer was making it, it didn't have all of the Italian style of herbs and spices, like it does, now. And, because of the heavy altercations of the tomato sauce, over the generation's, it's why it's considered Italian cuisine, now...
Couldn't the soundtrack "Backburner" by the After Hours Big Band have been used in the video?
Besides, of the big bands, there are or were sweet bands and hot bands.
Why not introduce such music to Chinese?
Normally Americans don't eat this on busy days. We eat a lot lighter. Those breakfasts is for the weekend so that you can pass out afterwards 😂😂
Yes, if I eat breakfast in the morning, I am lazy that day. I think breakfast is only good if you do physical labor. If you work in the office or go to school you should skip breakfast so that you will stay awake.
@@kevineroseexactly 💯 our bodies go into low metabolism when we sleep, so if you wake up and eat then it's just going to go to your gut and thighs.
we go nuts during the holidays. We do biscuits and gravy, mac and cheese, Chucky taters, 30+ pieces of bacon, french toast and oatmeal/cream of wheat for some fiber. We do hold a 10-15 persons family meal every two weeks from Oct-Jan. Don't do the dennys or norms kinda thing.
Yup, these foods are not eaten every day. My breakfast is coffee and a granola bar, lol. Maybe oatmeal or yogurt if I'm hungry.
@@cloudsn yeah ill do coffee, cottage cheese and blue/blackberries.
The reason traditional American breakfasts were so heavy is because they're farmer's meals. When you're up and working at 4 am and eat breakfast at 5:30 or 6, you need a heavy carb load to kick start things and a lot of protein for the long burn. You're not getting lunch for about 8 hours, so you've got to have the kcal to power through a regular person's work day before your next meal. Lunch is light so you don't get the 2 o'clock sleepies at noon or so, then you're going to work another 6 hours before dinner. If you didn't get something close to a full 2k calories for breakfast you'd never make it through the 14 hour work day and the 6 day work week. Farming is hard ass work with long hours. You don't just deserve great meals, you need them to survive.
Yes, breakfast is for people who have labor jobs to give energy. There is no need for breakfast if you work in an office or go to school.
@kevinerose No need? Like at all? I disagree. Studies show that a good breakfast improves cognitive power. I will say that you definitely don't need one as hearty as a farmer's breakfast, though.
@@kevinerose I ate 99% of time for breakfast coffee and tobacco in manual labor job for the past 10 years but we do eat lunch at 9 am
I grew up in California, breakfast then was a couple eggs, bacon , toast with butter. After graduating from high school in 1983 I joined the Army, I got sent to Fort Sill in Oklahoma for OSUT Basic Training, that’s where I learned what a “Southern” or “Country” breakfast was. Eggs, grits, hash browns, biscuits & gravy, toast, both sausages and bacon, and a choice of orange juice/milk/coffee/tea/chocolate milk to wash it down.
My “Standard” breakfast in the Mess Hall every morning became an Omelette with ham/cheese/mushrooms/onions/green bell peppers, 2 sausages, 2 strips of bacon, grits with butter, biscuits and gravy, 2 slices of sourdough toast with butter.
You definitely get it! Us southerns know how to eat good
I almost cried when you didn't tell them to dip the grilled cheese in the tomato soup 😢
I'm over here yelling "DIP IT!!!!!" at the screen.
yep
The best part of grilled cheese tomato soup combo....😣
Yep, gotta do this all over again. They didn't actually have grilled cheese and tomato soup.
That would make it more disgusting 😂
Unsure if you're aware but generally we dip the grilled cheese into the tomato soup for a more complex flavor experience.
Exactly!
True
Plus butter on pancakes, jam on toast, and ketchup on eggs!
And bread with spaghetti is for mopping up sauce
in canada its also very normal to dip grilled cheese into ketchup, but apparently thats very strange to americans
It seemed like they were under the impression that this was what Americans eat every day rather than diner food that we eat occasionally. But glad they had a good experience!
This is what happens when you have canadians explain to other countries how americans eat.
Right cuz every American eats different he should say not all Americans eat like this but some do and you can find food at restaurants
@@Mystical_Tmac Exactly. I generally don't even have breakfast since I work early in the morning. What was portrayed here, I may have on a Sunday morning once in a while.
@@codealias3234 yeah lol I don’t even eat breakfast or lunch almost most of the time they need to be clear when making videos like this it’s kinda annoying
@@Mystical_Tmacmissing 2 meals a day isn't normal. It's disordered eating.
For context: the average American breakfast is something like a bowl of cereal and some coffee or a bagel and cream cheese and some coffee or a breakfast burrito and some coffee or something else small along those lines. The full dinner breakfast experience is something usually reserved for days off when you plan on a light lunch like a salad or no lunch or for days you're driving long hours and need the mental fuel to keep going. Protein feeds your body, fruit and vegetables give you the vitamins and fiber to self regulate and run more optimally, and sugars and carbs give you the energy to operate. You can tell by the sugar and carb heavy diets of many Americans that we value having the energy to get through our busy days above anything else.
Egg on toast
exactly
It’s not a real holiday if you don’t have the mandatory day off
and maybe some coffee
My typical breakfast is a few bites of some cold leftovers from the previous night's meal, and a cup of coffee.
Our bread is like their rice. It makes sense if u think about it. They grow rice, we grow wheat. Things eaten were very much based on what could be grown locally and for the most part those traditions have stuck around over the yrs. I never thought about what she said how the styles of cooking sort of mimic attitudes. Like direct cooking for direct Americans. And I feel like their style of cooking is very indicative of their attitudes as well. Very interesting!
They complain about bread at every meal yet they eat rice at every meal.
@@TheOtherBill they are not complaining, they are just surprised by the different culture , as i was too when i first moved to america. i'm sure no one would complain about bread --- we are just very used to rice; bread is very much a breakfast-food in china.
@@TheOtherBill lol us growing up in the west complain about bread/too much carbs lol.
I dunno I know a lot of chinese people and I find them way more direct/honest, just more polite generally instead of being a karen. But really depends on the person, not race really.
@@vanessaland5090 haha true
Missing that American diner milkshake
I feel that the American pancake is one of the most universal foods - seems like people from different cultures around the world seem to love it the first time they try it.
Pancakes resemble some of the oldest foods humans have made since we were a thing. I think that's why cultures adapt to it quickly. Most cultures have a very similar food, just some eat it savory and some eat it sweet.
My parents had an exchange student from Japan that said he thought we were all about meat before he was in the states, and then he had a day when he ate potatoes at every meal! Decided that potatoes were the equivalent of rice in Asia.
Well he isn't wrong. Meat used to be a lot more central to the American diet before the 1960s. Then it started to get limited due to scaremongering. There's a reason Texas chili, pot roasts, steak and eggs, hamburgers, meatloaf, etc. are considered traditional everyday American foods. They were. Pre-1960s.
That's the Irish influence
@@LycanFerret "Scaremongering" Lol.
@@Saffron831 Yes, scaremongering. There is nothing wrong with red meat and animal fat. I've consumed 2-3lbs of pork(including bacon and bratwurst), beef, and lamb everyday - prioritizing shoulder, rib, or belly cuts, for the last 9 years and my vitals and labs are normal. Not even just normal, my doctor tells me they are perfect and that whatever I am doing I should continue. My doctor dislikes hearing about what I eat though, which is why she only says to keep doing it in a vague way. She is very resistant to the idea that a very red meat heavy diet is the one thing that actually lowered my ferritin, creatinine, and blood pressure to ideal levels, and restored my kidney function from 30% to 90%. I only have 1.5 kidneys(genetic deformity).
You missed one of the essential experiences to the grilled cheese and tomato soup meal. Gotta dip the sandwich in the soup and it tastes so good together!
Also, most people won't eat those kinds of breakfasts too often. That's like a once per week or even less frequent kind of thing. People often have a bowl of oatmeal and some honey and fruit, a bagel with butter or cream cheese, or some kind of cereal. Very rarely you'll see people who have a smaller version of those breakfasts like a few egg whites or 1-2 eggs in the morning with a side of toast.
Some people definitely overeat though!
I feel like laborers or farmers would eat a breakfast like this every day if they work very hard physically all day.
@@SarahNGeti physical workers like that typically eat larger breakfasts, but tend to aim for higher carbloads through things like grits, homefried potatoes, or hashbrowns.
They also tend not to eat eggs every morning, though some do. Especially farmers with chickens.
Thank you for the quick re upload with subtitles! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
got y'all
Bread in American cuisine outside of sandwiches is used to clean up excess juices and sauces. Like with the runny egg that squirted out you would use the bread to sop up the egg yolk and that would lead to a more satisfying dining experience. Bread is never meant to be experienced by itself. We have rolls that you can eat with butter or fruit jams and preserves if you want bread. Bread is for maximizing the use of sauce.
Often times there is more sauce than noodles so you would use the bread to finish off the sauce
Yeah.....no American would put a sunny side up egg on bread like that. 😂😂😂
That's not my experience. I never use bread to dop up runny stuff or extra sauce, nor does anyone I know. Where I live it is quite common to eat a variety of breads by themselves.
@@lmjs-jk1bp seeing some of your other responses, i wonder if it's a regional thing (the use is a big place afterall). i've lived in the midwest all my life and find it's a very common practice.
You should have had them dip the grilled cheese in the soup. That's a game changer.
I've never dpped my grilled cheese in tomato soup. I'm sure it's good, we just don't do that where I live
@@lmjs-jk1bp Do you live under a rock?
@_HippieThugg_ Why be rude? I grew up on Long Island. I lived in Albany for decades, now Vermont.
This huge diner breakfast is a throwback to when America was first being farmed. Families would be up working from dawn until sometimes after dark doing extremely physical labor. So they needed hearty meals to fuel their work. Nowadays we have a big spread like this on special occasions.
If you want to get an idea of how hard people worked vs how much they ate, you should read "Farmer Boy" by Laura Ingalls Wilder. It tells the story of Laura's husband Almanzo Wilder's childhood growing up on his family's farm. It's an engrossing read and I highly recommend it.
I think it would have added to their experience if you showed them how we eat these dishes. Like dipping our toast in the egg yolk or the grilled cheese in the tomato soup. Also eating with them would have given them idea on how to use the silver ware for American style dinning.
Haha I love the "wtf sandwich AGAIN!?" reaction.
A typical American breakfast is usually a bowl of cereal/oatmeal with some bacon and orange juice.
I usually do a bagel with bacon bits inside and OJ
A lot of times it's just eggs and toast and that's perfectly fine with me!
I have buffalo wings.
I'm a Chinese here, since in China we have a lot of various different food that go with rice, so eating these things feel like we're eating the same thing, but honestly I love Italian food, I can't deny that
Its the same for westerners, we think all Asian food is something with rice. Because it kinda is, just like Asians think all western food is bread cuz it kinda is lol. There are exceptions but generally western food uses wheat or potato as the starch and Asian foods use rice and thats just kinda how it is. Then the middle east seems to have some rice/bread overlap.
I'm Italian but live in the US. I love the Chinese foods. :)
@@winterrain1947 Dang lol
want to see more of Fanfan and Alan! I love their energy, they are so enthusiastic and positive with experiencing a new cuisine!
Woahhh amazing video really excited to see it pop up
Watching from Singapore hehe
Hashbrown rounds is crazy to be served at a diner, never seen that or heard of hashbrown rounds being served at a diner. It's either griddled hashbrown potatoes or country style potatoes or home fries.
2:18 Wait, what? I'm in the US and my first thoughts are that this meal is for a huge bear of a man. I make that much food for my whole day!
Wow, so good to see people tell the right way to eat those delicious food!
Never seen or heard of anyone eating bacon with a fork before. Wow!!
its pretty interesting to see people try something for the first time
The guests are amazing
When i was a kid i never liked grilled cheese with tomato soup, but when i grew up a bit, added more oregano, a bit of cheese to the soup, and then realized two whole sandwiches are the ideal bowl of soup ratio for max absorbtion.
Also use sour dough it soaks like a sponge while staying crispy
I always get a kick out of seeing other cultures try our foods. Root beer is the funniest. I have heard people from other countries say it tastes like medicine! 😆 Cream soda is so much better in my humble American opinion! BTW true Italians use the bread to dip in the sauce! 😉
we call corn pancakes johnny cakes. made with cornbased batter in the usa its a old recpie thats not eaten much anymore
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I’m American and never heard we had a pancake day…however the Pancake day you refer too is very close in time to Maslenitsa- a Slavic holiday celebrating the end of winter that is accompanied by blini…or Slavic pancakes 😊 and butter. Lots of butter.
For the diner experience, I'm shocked that the root beer float never came up. That, and no milkshake was a bit of a shock.
Also, there's a decent mix and match between these items typically. If you get the steak and eggs (which are typically over easy), there's salsa on the side. If you want waffles, there's some syrup or jam on the side too (you might even see chicken & waffles too depending on availability and region). And the breakfast drink is either the cheap drip coffee or OJ for breakfast.
For lunch, there's the classic BLT, Club Sandwich, and Chowder of some sort. Broccoli and cheddar soup is also pretty popular. And of course, you cannot forget about chicken noodle soup, and minestrone.
Diner dinners could also serve pork chops with applesauce, sauteed veggies, roasted veggies, and chicken parmesan.
I love diners. And yes, breakfast has to be the most important part of the day, especially those yummy yummers delicious Toaster Strudels my mom gets for me.
Diners are great. Good, cheap, food. Usually 24 hours and you can have any meal, no matter what time of day.
American diner breakfast isn’t the same as traditional American breakfast at home. At home it’s usually a cold or hot cereal. Occasionally we have two eggs and toast with fried ham, bacon, or sausage. Sometimes I make grits (a hot corn based cereal) with fried eggs,…sort of like having fried eggs on a bed of hot rice.
YOU HAVE TO TELL THEM TO DIP THE GRILLED CHEESE IN THE SOUP!!!!!!
Great vid and merry christmas!!!
As someone from New Jersey (the diner capital of the world), the portions seemed ok. Normally, diners (at least the NJ diners) offer deals. Like lunch and dinner entrees normally come with salad, soup, and dessert (like pudding or jello, pie/cake is an upcharge) and the pasta dishes normally come with rolls. Diners are a real bang for your buck kind of deal
I mix the eggs, and hashbrowns together.
Rootbeer is best in a frozen glass mug, with vanilla ice cream. (Rootbeer float)
NJ diners, especially owned by the Greeks, are the best! Especially the breakfast sausage. Very different. Lol but there's a special place in my heart for dim sum, Cantonese and Taiwanese!
I think a lot of people outside of America do not realize that basically all meals eating out inevitably result in leftovers. Most people won't eat the whole plate. I am 6'4" 250lbs, so I will. But not everyone here is that big.
And not dipping the grilled cheese in the soup is a big fail.
With sunny side up eggs you dip the toast in the egg yoke, for tomato soup & grilled cheese you dip the sandwich in the soup and eat it. The bread is served with the spaggetti and any other italian food to help get the food on the fork and soak up the extra sauce to clean your plate. that spaggetti needed a lot more sauce. the mashed potatoes are to dip the steak in and you eat a little bit of everything together.
There are still parts of China where a wrap or something bun-like are eaten as a lunch or some kind of fast food, like Roujiamo, or Guabao, or Huoshao, ... they are technically main courses. What meal do Xianbing(panfried buns with minced meat fillings) count as in Beijing? Those are so good on cold winter days, and oily as heck.
breakfast usually
4:24 this is pure American cuisine, just mashing it all together and seeing what sticks.
Merry Christmas mate, cheers.
I love how we have Asians Canadian teach chineses how American cultures work 😂😂
All the comments saying to dip the grilled cheese in the soup glad I wasn’t the only one I WAS SCREAMING WHY ARENT THEY DIPPING IT????? Like there’s milk and there’s cookies but soaking a cookie in some milk and then eating it is a different heaven
I would've gone for a meatloaf over a steak for a typical diner dinner. Feels more diner-y, especially with the gravy and mashed potatoes and mixed vegetables. Everything else pretty spot-on... plenty of other diner classics to choose from for a sequel video (breakfast hash, patty melt, liver and onions, etc.)
Like in SPAIN 🙂 lunchbreak and siesta, and even if you do not sleep, at least a break/rest.
We need the Chinese napping culture here in America. HOLY SH*T. Sometimes all I need at work is a nap.
the chinese work and school days are way longer though
Not me having an anxiety attack because they didn't dip the grilled cheese in the soup...lol. Great video, but unrealistic to have 3 huge meals all in one day for me. Thanks for sharing.
Them not dipping the grilled cheese in the soup made me lose my mind
Chinese: ...so everyone eats pancakes on that da.
American: Don't tell me what to do.
Never stop with the history lessons, they’re so much more impactful than you think 🥺🫡
You got yourself a new sub! Happy holidays and a successful new year! Awesome video.
in the future you should have them dip sandwiches in the soup. many people do this with grilled cheese and tomato soup, its a whole different experience, kind of wish they tried it that way.
Awesome intro on Diners! What struck me 2nd was the Chinese guy saying.."to our parent's generation..." This seems to be Global....so in many ways no matter where you are...there you are! Feelin' me?
There is a ginormous gap between those two generations in China though. Their parents would have grown up in a closed China without open borders or open trade
You’re right though! Thinking our parents are so different from us lol that unites everyone
i use bread to soak up the running yolk, tomato soup, and pasta sauce.....lol.
Normal American breakfasts are usually one or two of the things on those plates but yes diner food on the weekends or days off you pig out
Does a Chinese ever say to another Chinese:
This American food is different and tasty but five minutes after eating, I'm hungry again?
Or maybe, I'm still full
All of my Japanese friends say root beer smells like Salonpas. I'd never used them until getting older and now that I have used them...I agree.
The post lunch food coma is only bad if you go out somewhere that has large portions or serves beer 😂.
Mash potatoes, pan cakes,chicken fried steak,meat loaf , pot roast, that is you American typical food menu
I’m Asian and when I get mosquito bites we do use that oil to treat the bites.
Just to be clear, very rarely would you eat a breakfast lunch and dinner like this in one day. Also, we'd usually take between a third to half home to finish at another time. (My brothers might eat the whole thing, if they were hungry. My mom and sister and I rarely would. I'd usually take close to half home.)
4:07 - I just ate bacon and scrambled eggs for brunch. Totally agree. It's a perfect combo for crispy bacon.
only quick ones will know this is a re-upload with subs
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@@Capellx same I got 2 notifications for this vid since I subbed
got to try a American cheesesteak with green peppers ,onion, mushrooms. East coast fav
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Merry Christmas to you!
The spaghetti came with garlic bread… which is typically served on the side with spaghetti!
"a sandwich again?"
She didn't get a sandwich for breakfast
That not a hotdog,
Its an Australian zanger.😂
Just missing fry onion and tomato sauce😅
Historically i dont believe we used to eat heavy breakfasts. There was a marketing campaign during the 1920's that conviced americans to start their day with a heavy breakfast and more importantly with bacon. One of Sigmund Freuds relatives ran the marketing campaign for the pork industry client.
If memory serves me right
ALL Americans do have a custom of sharing food. It's called "family style" in the US when we put dishes in the center of the table and all get food from those dishes. The difference is, in the US it would be large dishes of food that we would take from or pass around to add to our individual plates. Whereas in China, the dishes put in the middle to share are very small. And in an unsanitary way, everyone picks one bite of food from that small dish and adds it to their rice bowl. So the men in that video may have been confused not knowing the custom or culture. Maybe they wouldn't think those plate sized dishes would be enough to be shared with everyone else.
If I had time I would eat like this in the morning. Normally I have a shake and bring a snack to work but that still gets me almost 600 calories before lunch time.
Dunk grill cheese sandwich in ketchup! Oh so good too!
Agree so much with the medium rare or bust with steaks lol. You either have people who love steaks, or you have people who order them well done and don't seem to like steak that much 😂
Of course the root in Root Beer, both the original, and as remade in the 1900s was indeed medicine. ...Apparently some patients liked the flavor enough to create a drink.
Butter the pancakes. Mix egg yolks into the hash browns. Need to have grits, coffee, and OJ added.
real miss not having them dip the grilled cheese in the tomato soup. that's a classic!
We need to adopt Siesta!
11:14
It's not far off from most American soda's origin of being medicinal and soda fountains being at pharmacies
It makes sense they get that vibe
The old spaghetti on the napkin technique
Although I'm Chinese, when I found out enerybody in the comment is talking about dipping the grilled cheese into the tomato soup, I get it, because I had tomato soup in England. The soup is super tasty so it has to be great when mixed with many other foods.
What I dislike about this is leaving people thinking this is how Americans eat all day every day. If we ever go out for a large diner style breakfast, or make it at home, we probably are not having lunch and dinner is fairly light. If we get a big lunch, it's because we skipped/skimped on breakfast and dinner will still likely be light. And if we have a big dinner, it's because we haven't eaten all day or maybe had a small breakfast and we're freaking starving. If you only have time for one or one and a half meals per day, some of them might seem pretty big.
I think an interesting vid would be seeing Chinese people trying Bodybuilders Diets or Meal Plans
They also needed someone to teach them how to use cutlery as well!
Bread in the west is like rice in the east, it's not part of every meal, but it's part of most of them.
There are no holidays for food in the US. It's just a day like any other.
I could never eat that large breakfast but I would order it to have a little of everything.
I normally don't eat a large breakfast unless I'm working in the yard for hours, or I'm skipping lunch.
Not dipping that grilled cheese is criminal. Why not instruct them to eat correctly?
This channel needs an American advisor to tell them things like that.
@@TheOtherBill yeah theres no authentic American instructor for them lol
i've lived in america for 15 years since elementary school (grew up in a very all american area throughout middle/high school), i've never been told to dip my grilled cheese in soup. is this what "eating correctly" is? i swear, not everyone does it. is it really such an important thing as everyone in the comments seems to be saying...?
I've never dipped my grilled cheese in soup. Nobody I know does that. I'll have to try it. I think most people where I live would find it a bit strange. Not bad, just un expected.
@@TheOtherBill True because these guys are Canadian!
merry christmas cantoo
The hashbrown they need to try is the diner style that is loose and not the patty kind. You gotta dip the bacon in the yolk 😊
The US isn't obese because we eat so much. It's what in our foods like corn syrup, seed oils and additives. After those items were allowed into US foods heart disease went from 10% as the cause of death to over 30% and obesity has sky rocketed. It's why your doctor keeps telling you to stop eating processed foods.
Happy New Year!
They should try some pie, root beer float, and milkshake.
I a bowl of chili, a Philly Cheesesteak sandwich, French fries cherry cheesecake would do the trick.