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32 Weird American Foods That Are Uniquely American
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Posted on 12/06/2023 8:55:27 PM PST by DallasBiff

Circus Peanuts

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To: bigbob

Noooooo! My grandma grew up in London and made really tasty English food.


21 posted on 12/06/2023 10:26:44 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: jy8z; DallasBiff

Lots of us like the human interest stuff. It’s not all politics 24/7 in a healthy mind.

I don’t click on threads that look bad to me.


22 posted on 12/06/2023 10:28:34 PM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: bigbob

I’m convinced English food is why England developed into such a far-flung worldwide empire. Some Englishman looked at that sorry slab of boiled mutton on his plate, said “Bugger this, I’m going out for Chinese carry-out or a nice curry,” and the next thing you know he’d sailed to the other side of the world and conquered India and Hong Kong.


23 posted on 12/06/2023 10:31:19 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (You can vote your way into Socialism, but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: ViLaLuz
Two words prove what you say: "Scotch" and "Eggs". :) I worked in Birmingham for a while and absolutely adore English food.

But I grew up in Georgia and I *never* heard of chicken and waffles until I moved to the mountain west, where everybody and their brother tells me it's a "traditional Southern food"!
24 posted on 12/06/2023 10:46:40 PM PST by Retrofitted
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To: DallasBiff

Chicken Fried Steak is totally German.

Pork rinds are as much Mexican (chicarones) as American.


25 posted on 12/06/2023 11:21:15 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: DallasBiff

Thumbs up for pumpkin pie, PB&J, and gumbo. That’s about it.


26 posted on 12/06/2023 11:23:15 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Soros on assisting the Nazis with the Holocaust: "That's when my character was made.")
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To: Paladin2

Those are not chopped pecans.


27 posted on 12/06/2023 11:23:43 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Responsibility2nd

So funny

Thanks for posting!!


28 posted on 12/06/2023 11:33:48 PM PST by redinIllinois (Pro-life, accoountant, gun-totin' Grandma - multi issue voter )
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To: DallasBiff

Deep fried butter?????


29 posted on 12/06/2023 11:34:02 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: Paladin2

That’s not American Cheese. That’s processed cheese food,
Often sold under a name like “American Slices.” It’s disgusting. As to real American cheese, I don’t think anything is better as a melting cheese for burgers or grilled cheese


30 posted on 12/06/2023 11:45:37 PM PST by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: DallasBiff

Bleh. There are way better things! How about key lime pie, buffalo wings, BLTs, gumbo, clam chowder, and many others? Some of the foods listed here I don’t even find edible. :D


31 posted on 12/06/2023 11:51:17 PM PST by grimalkin (Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. -Fulton J. Sheen)
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To: Fresh Wind

Oh, they listed gumbo. Missed it.


32 posted on 12/06/2023 11:52:24 PM PST by grimalkin (Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. -Fulton J. Sheen)
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To: DallasBiff

That’s only 1...


33 posted on 12/07/2023 12:10:32 AM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I don’t call what they poured over the biscuit *gravy* either.


34 posted on 12/07/2023 1:02:16 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: bigbob

My family visited England when my sister got married (both USAF) and the food was ...... predictable.

The menu at every restaurant had fish and chips, some sort of beef, gammon (ham), “American style hamburgers” (dried out hockey pucks), peas, and fried mushrooms.

The Chinese restaurants were AWESOME!!!!!! Best Chinese I ever ate.


35 posted on 12/07/2023 1:14:52 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: jy8z

Lighten up, Francis. Everything doesn’t have to be angst-filled doom and gloom.


36 posted on 12/07/2023 1:36:59 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (As God's children, we live on promises, not explanations - WiersbeIIRC, )
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To: DallasBiff

I like Circus Peanuts, but never eat them. Terrible for you.

Biscuits and gravy here in the south looks nasty, with the white slime. (What even IS that?) Growing up, we ate a lot of bread and gravy, but the gravy was regular beef gravy.

I love cornbread, but without sweetener, which makes it cake.

Some of those things I had not heard of.


37 posted on 12/07/2023 1:43:40 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (As God's children, we live on promises, not explanations - WiersbeIIRC, )
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To: DallasBiff

Sloppy Joe’s are uniquely American? Not that the supremacy of American cuisine was ever in doubt, but that should clinch it for the slow learners.


38 posted on 12/07/2023 1:44:09 AM PST by sphinx
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To: bigbob

“don’t even ask about a “full English breakfast”

Been there done that, the baked beans are out of place but the grilled tomato is something I enjoyed. Eggs and Bangers, nothing unusual. The limp non crispy Bacon is meh. Overall I have had worst.


39 posted on 12/07/2023 1:45:37 AM PST by DAC21
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To: rdl6989

“Deep fried butter?????”

Probably one of the odd ball things they serve up at County / State Fairs.


40 posted on 12/07/2023 1:48:44 AM PST by DAC21
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