While corn dogs, PB&J and root beer was a staple for me growing up, my wife (from the UK) has a different perspective. She has never eaten a hot dog or PB&J, and says she never will. I tried to tell her when she went to her citizenship ceremony, they had to have photographic proof you ate at least one PB&J sandwich. After all...hundreds of millions of American children (past and present) can’t be wrong on such a tasty treat.
Russians on the other hand have this thing about all things corn related. To them, corn is only used as pig feed, and never for human consumption.
Many Americans feel the same way about rye bread, and even Americans who hate Wonder Bread don't go in for Russian black bread.
I don't think corn grows in most of Russia. Except in the south, the growing season is too short. Italians and Romanians, though, did take to eating corn mush.
[Russians on the other hand have this thing about all things corn related. To them, corn is only used as pig feed, and never for human consumption.]
For those old enough to remember “Leon” on the old Andy Griffith Show, it was the messy, half-eaten sandwich he offered to everyone he met that grossed me out then, and does to this day.
Same with Italians, and people from many world areas who do not have access to our fat, juicy American hybrid corn suitable for on-the-cob or canned kernels consumption. They are used to seeing their scrawny and tough antique corn varieties fed only to animals.
