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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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KEYWORDS: circuspeanuts; culture; food
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I'll never get it, my mother loved them, and they are being sold on market shelves today.
1 posted on 12/06/2023 8:55:27 PM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

ummm, that’s not food... that’s candy


2 posted on 12/06/2023 9:00:09 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: DallasBiff

Circus Peanuts belong on the top of Thanksgiving sweet potatoes....

[Colors are complementary, plus it’s tasty...]


3 posted on 12/06/2023 9:03:06 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: DallasBiff

Biscuits and Gravy...

Funny video. British kids try biscuits and gravy for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzdbFnv4yWQ


4 posted on 12/06/2023 9:04:01 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: DallasBiff

With the exception of gumbo, everything on that list is bad for you and most of it, apart from sliced bread and root beer, disgusting.

No wonder why Wal-Mart keeps having to add more and more scooter carts.


5 posted on 12/06/2023 9:04:32 PM PST by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: Responsibility2nd
British kids try lots of American Food for the first time.
6 posted on 12/06/2023 9:05:57 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: DallasBiff

My Italian grandfather used to make his own root beer. Sadly, I never got to try a homemade one.

The one good thing about American cheese is that it’s individually wrapped and never seems to expire, which is a bit frightening.


7 posted on 12/06/2023 9:09:17 PM PST by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: Responsibility2nd

LOL! Fun video. Looks like chopped up ferret!


8 posted on 12/06/2023 9:10:13 PM PST by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: DallasBiff
Most of these foods are made with corn, sweet potatoes or pumpkins. Things that are not often found in Europe who is who they must be talking about when they burble about "people" finding them "confusing". Because no, not really.

In places where European taste do not rule these foods are indeed found and enjoyed.

9 posted on 12/06/2023 9:13:07 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

From a country that boils meat....


10 posted on 12/06/2023 9:15:21 PM PST by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: DallasBiff

On the second eve of December tenth
I spied a peanut upon a plinth
Color of orange with nutty dimples
And an ingredient list that was far from simple


11 posted on 12/06/2023 9:15:51 PM PST by Yardstick
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The drink also goes by the name sarsaparilla, largely because it was originally made using Sassafras roots.

No. Root Beer and Sarsaparilla are different drinks. They are no more the same drink than Root Beer and Birch Beer, or Root Beer and Moxie.
12 posted on 12/06/2023 9:17:50 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: DallasBiff

I’ll never get why you post such pap to Free Republic.


13 posted on 12/06/2023 9:18:48 PM PST by jy8z (Everything you think, do and say is from the pill you took today.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Biscuits and Gravy...”

Plus a side of sausage patties.

Good, rib-sticking food!


14 posted on 12/06/2023 9:18:59 PM PST by Rembrandt (-a sure sign a Dem is lying - his lips are moving.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

I like a few of these things.

Grits, hush puppies and Gumbo are good in the South. Enjoyed them as a kid when we drove from Chicago to New Orleans on Easter vacations to visit my fabulous grandmother there.

I also like Ambrosia salad. But I’m a female. Men probably look at it and wince.


15 posted on 12/06/2023 9:20:49 PM PST by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: jy8z

Because Americana is fun and lots of us enjoy a break from the political hassle.


16 posted on 12/06/2023 9:21:44 PM PST by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: skr

“American cheese is that it’s individually wrapped and never seems to expire”

Plastic Cheese. Bad for the kidneys.....


17 posted on 12/06/2023 9:41:35 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Veto!

I like Ambrosia as well, but I never see it anymore in Oregon. My sister used to make it for Easter and Thanksgiving, when she still cooked.


18 posted on 12/06/2023 9:42:41 PM PST by jimtorr
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To: DallasBiff

We just call them calf-fries in TX.


19 posted on 12/06/2023 9:51:20 PM PST by waterhill (I Believe all you need for home defense is an 870 and a Catahoula)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’m on a FB group called “Rate My Plate”which is mostly Brits. Sausage (aka “sosig”), mash, fried fish, chips (fries), mince, yorkshire pudding, beans, and 3 or 4 fried eggs on every-damn-thing. And with brown sauce sloshed all over, of course. That’s it, that’s the entire British food menu. Throw in mushy peas if you’re eating at a chippy with some nasty looking curry sauce, and don’t even ask about a “full English breakfast”. So British kids or adults have no right to hold an opinion about American food!


20 posted on 12/06/2023 9:58:54 PM PST by bigbob
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