British Couple Reacts to 25 Foods Americans Love That Non Americans Think Are Disgusting 

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No American hot dog comes from a tin(can) or jar. They are from the refrigerated meat case.

We have all beef hotdogs. We even have Kosher hotdogs. Not all hotdogs are alike.

If you think "grits" sounds unappealing, just change the name to "polenta" and suddenly it sounds exotic! Basically the same thing. 😂

I’ve seen so many videos of foreigners trying biscuits and gravy for the first time and 99% of them loved it.

Fruit salad? I think he meant Ambrosia. Fruit salad is something in its own right, and no marshmallows

yeah a blooming onion is an onion that has been cut around the edge (with the root left intact to keep it from falling apart) and then battered and deep fried, you can than peel off the individual fried strands of the onion. it's essentially a big onion ring but w/ the entire onion instead of rings

Twinkies were ruined years ago when Hostess was sold. Never a good thing for peoples favorites. During the war they stopped using a banana filling. I would have loved those.

If y'all can find an A & W drive-in, root beer just might become a favorite. Try a root beer float 😋

Ok the hot dog depends on type. Kosher dogs (like Hebrew National) will be 100% beef. Pure pork and pork beef mix. Heard of turkey, chicken, or even tofu. Now to blow minds a 'Breakfast Corndog" that has no hot dog or cornmeal batter, it is a breakfast sausage dipped in pancake batter and cooked.

There are several brands of kosher corn dogs available, they hold to an explicitly high standard as far as the meat used in the recipe.

I do > not < have the "middle stays frozen" problem with Hot Pockets. The microwaves I have had (lots of them over time) always heated them completely.

Here it has nothing to do with the water. Poor restaurants don't clean the ice makers often enough.

When it comes to 'hot dogs', there a HUGE variety in quality. And meat types. Beef 👍, pork👍, chicken 😒, turkey😒, even 'non-meat' 🤢 (please, just don't, even the dog knows better).... 'Kosher' hot dogs are usually the ones with the fewest bizarre ingredients. The fried corn batter adds a sweetness- started out as 'fair food'. Very good. Worth a try if you're from another country.

True story - I used to manage a theater and when we added Twizzlers we did not sell a single one for ten months. Not one. We found a buyer and got rid of them all at once. That weekend a customer walked up, looked around and asks You don't sell Twizzlers?" I looked right at him and asked "Where the Hell were you for the last ten months?!"

Frosty mug is the only way to drink a root beer. I own a mug that I keep in my freezer for this specific drink. It's very similar to Dr. Pepper in that it has to be ICE cold to be really good. Literally needs to have little ice crystals floating in it (or ice cream if you like root beer floats). Blooming onions are pretty tasty, but the dipping sauce helps a lot

Grits are made from hominy, which is brinded corn [preserved in a salt bath], so to start it depends on how well the hominy has been made. Then it is sort of like eating white rice, it mostly depends on how much you like what you put on it.

They show a nice fruit salad which I love without marshmallows in it. I think he's referring to Ambrosia or Watergate salad. Those have marshmallows & other sweet stuff. Watergate is our fav & that has instant pistachio pudding, pineapple, nuts & marshmallows. Some other variations. You mix it up with the powdered pudding mix and let it set up in the fridge overnight. Very rich though. Ambrosia is not a favorite of mine but it is ok. I think it's has orange slices, coconut, marshmallows & no idea what else.

Root Beer: It's the same with us. It's either you love or hate it. Myself I can only do a Root Beer Float. It's been 20yrs.

There's nothing worse about hotdog ingredients than other sausages, it's just a running joke. And they never come packed in liquid like the weird jars you have.

I just returned from a 23 day trip to the UK, France, Spain, & Portugal. One of the first things I did when I got home was to fill a glass with ice and pour some Coke into it. Don't get me wrong. I understand the cultural difference regarding ice (or lack thereof) in most European countries. I just missed a full glass of ice so much, I had to have it to feel at home.

Also, in my experience most people in the northern US don’t think sweet tea is gross

Ice machines should be emptied, cleaned and disinfected once a week but many are never cleaned out. Mold and a mucous type of slime can build up in the freezing area that makes the cubes. Be careful where you get your ice.

Sweet and savory dishes aren't just an American thing. In the Middle Ages, there were quite a few sweet and savory dishes in Europe. I made one such dish a couple years ago, it's called biancomangiare, there's a modern version that's just a regular dessert but the medieval version is almost like a bowl of oatmeal or porridge but it's made with bread and chicken and almond milk, and it is sweetened. It actually doesn't taste savory at all but it's very filling. These days sweet foods are just empty calories.

Just for the record, I'm a 70 year old American from the south and I've NEVER eaten Chicken and Waffles .... at least not together! Grits are fantastic but they must be cooked correctly and seasoned correctly! If you ever have them done right, you couldn't help but love them!!! For me, I want lots of bacon with my grits .... or shrimp!

My pro tip on Hot pockets; cook them for a minute in the microwave and then put them in a toaster oven for about 10 minutes to brown the outside properly.

Southern style Biscuits and sausage gravy is hard to beat! Be sure, if you come here you get 'em from some in the South, but not FL.

Having spent 2 years in West Europe on Active Duty,I was always willing to try the local food were ever I went. I’ve also seen most non-Americans absolutely Hate most American cuisine without even trying the food in the first place!😂

Grits are so good. Creamy with butter and sugar. Biscuits and gravy are soooo delicious omg. Its my fav breakfast food

A&W rootbeer in a frosted cold glass mug after it's been in the freezer awhile. Grits with garlic, cheddar cheese, and butter.

I'm a New Jersey native, and when I make grits, I add some sautéed onions, especially if they are vidalia onions (they're naturally sweetened tasty). I serve the grits with scrambled eggs and crispy bacon, and toasted oatmeal bread.

it makes sense that he said he's from Florida, as several of these are from the South. Waffles n Fried Chicken, Grits, Sweet Potato Casserole, sweet tea, cracklin's. As for the root beer, there are Tons of brands who make it. People have their favorite brands, usually "Dad's", "A&W", and "Barq's" are the main ones. At any rate, UK has blood sausage and hagis. France has snails.

My favorite Pop Tart is Blueberry. If you get the chance to try them they’re best hot with a cold glass of milk. But if you don’t drink milk I think they would be good with tea as well.

pop tarts are 100% a hot or cold option, they are good both ways

I like brown sugar cinnamon pop tarts. But not the frosted ones. The unfrosted ones are harder to find but I like to add butter to it after I toast them.

Sweet potat 8:04 o casserole is delicious (I just leave off the marshmallow)!😊 Grits are good they just have to be cooked right (with salt, pepper, butter and sometimes cheese, tasty. They're great savory for breakfast, lunch or dinner.🙂

Hot dogs can be like pizza, ranging from really good to really bad.

Allow me to speak up for grits. They're called 'grits' because they are made from dried corn kernels; the kernels are broken off the cob and roughly ground, leaving a gritty pile of pure corn. They get cooked up until they end up like a bland porridge. From there, they are seasoned just like rice. You can eat grits (or rice) like a savory (salt, pepper, then a choice of butter, gravy, or cheese; some add cheese and shrimp) or you can eat grits (or rice) like a sweet (usually sugared, but may be honey or a syrup). Mostly, grits are served savory, with breakfast, alongside fried eggs and either sausage or bacon. Sweetened grits (or rice) are eaten like hot cereal, with milk poured on it and maybe some berries. While savory grits can be a side dish at other mealtimes, sweetened grits are always eaten at breakfast time. Love corndogs, although I eat turkey or chicken corndogs; I don't eat pork or beef. They're quite good. I currently have about 20 of them in my freezer. It turns out Sweet Potato Casserole was an invention of a marshmallow manufacturer in 1917. The industries of wide-circulation magazines and advertising were established in America in the first decades of the 20th century, and one way food companies enticed people to buy their products was to include original recipes using their products. This is where Heinz introduced their original recipe of Beans on Toast! Not sure why Hot Pockets are supposed to be 'disgusting' or weird; not a lot of difference between them and pasties. I rather like the Chicken and Broccoli Hot Pockets. I couldn't live without ice, and I've tried! My freezer's too small to accommodate frozen food and an ice tray, so I now have an ice maker that sits on my kitchen countertop making ice all day. I need ice to regulate my body temperature from the inside. Without ice, I overheat, even in winter. Sweet corn is a foundational agricultural staple in the US. Its growth is even regulated by Congress, which gives tax credits to some farmers to grow it and tax credits to others NOT to grow it. Corn is sold as human food and livestock food, especially to cattle, pigs, and poultry. It's used to make fuel for vehicles and it's refined to make various grades of syrup. Corn is artificially kept cheap by Congressional regulation, so there is a lot of it and we use it in everything. At no point in any corn product is there any nutritional value beyond empty calories and there is science that proves it tricks the brain into not recognizing the body's own satiety levels; this means anything sweetened by corn syrup makes you keep eating past fullness, which is great for sales for manufacturers of corn-sweetened products. I prefer whole wheat bread, not white bread. Better fiber, nutrition, and flavor. Yes; Americans love their battered deep-fried foods. But it took the Scots to go from Scots Eggs to battered deep-fried Mars bars. The jury's still out on whether it was Americans or the Japanese who invented battered deep-fried ice cream.

Southerner here. Grits are not gritty. They are delicious when topped with butter and cheese. Here in SC, we prefer shrimp added to our grits. Again, absolutely delicious!

When I was little I lived next to a girl who wouldn't eat burgers because she had see raw ground beef and thought it looked like worms. So she and her cousin would only eat hot dogs.

New york has great thin crust pizza - Chicago has awful deep dish tomato soaked bread.

There are different kinds of hotdogs. The cheapest are the ones that are pork and chicken together, but there are turkey dogs, chicken, and my favorite are the 100% beef ones.

I grew up on biscuits and sausage gravy, fried potatoes, cornbread & beans, black-eyed peas and various other southern leaning dishes. My grandparents grew up in the southern states and those recipes were handed down. We love red beans and rice with andouille sausage. Chocolate gravy is a treat with biscuits and butter.

I’m with James… disgusting is strong. I always say that is not my taste. I think it’s disrespectful to say disgusting when you are blessed enough to have food when so many people in the world don’t.

Not all of our cereals are sweet. I'm a Cheerios person myself.

This is for millie. Your mental issue with hot dogs can be solved quite easily and positively. What you want to do is get the brand Hebrew National hot dogs. They are hugely popular in America. What separates them from all the other Hot dogs is the fact that they are required by Jewish law to be kosher. This ensures that there is nothing funky going on! They are delicious and I might even say more delicious than almost any other brand hot dog on the market. Add that to the purity of the product. Because it's kosher and you have a winner. Delicious and pure.

Lou Malnati's in Chicago makes great deep dish pizza. They also freeze it and ship it to you for you to bake yourself!

We had corn dogs for school lunch in rural Japan back in 2000. So it isn't just those in the United States. There was an A&W restaurant in Malaysia when I was there, too.

Root beer and ice cream is the bomb. Root Beer Float

TBH I'm 33 and from the American south east and just recently learned of chicken and waffles and shrimp and grits; the only southern dish I grew up with was "biscuits and gravy" which is basically a savory muffin doused in white gravy with sausage.👍👍

A favorite childhood treat was a root beer float - a scoop or two of vanilla ice cream with root beer poured over it! Delicious!!

6:04 in Minnesota, "Fruit Salad" can either be a bowl of fresh fruit or a "salad" with Jello, canned/fresh fruit, whipped cream or "Dream Whip" or "Cool Whip", coconut, pie filling, condensed milk, mini marshmallows, nuts, candy bars, etc. My mom frequently made Orange Pop Salad - it's Orange pop, orange jello, Dream Whip & canned mandarin orange segments. She also made Classy Strawberry Salad - Strawberry-Banana Jello, frozen strawberries, fresh bananas & water (it's my favorite this way, but the actual recipe also includes crushed canned pineapple & sour cream). Her Snickers Salad is an extended family favorite too.

The US reactions videos are getting to the point, in my opinion, where they've run their course. Every single channel I follow reacts to the same ones. Everyone who comes to the US comes to US does food videos. How about reacting to our attractions or at least going to a local diner instead of chain restaurant. Some of the videos have become disrespectful to our country and our culture. Using words like disgusting are unnecessary. I see many channels now are reacting to our old TV shows like I Love Lucy, Seinfeld, All in the Family...there are very interesting because the reactors really discuss them.

We do have premium hot dogs that are just made out of choice cuts of meat

Grits are made from corn. Lots of youtube videos showing how it's made. I love them. Rootbeer is, I think, an aquired taste. I strongly suggest you also try a "Rootbeer Float". 1st put a couple of scoops of vanilla ice cream in a large drinking glass. Then s l o w l y pour some rootbeer over it. The rootbeer will very quickly bubble up & expand, so pour just a little at a time. Repeat until filled to the top. Use a long handle teaspoon (we originally used them for iced tea) and a straw to enjoy it. So, so good.

I worked in the food industry. The ugly fact is most ice machines are not cleaned and are dirty and have mildew. A feature in Houston where I grew up on every Friday was Marvin Zinder slime in the ice machine list of all the restaurants that were cited by health inspectors each week.

Grits...if you prefer savory, try cheesy grits or shrimp and grits. I prefer brown sugar and butter grits. I like the sweet with the corn flavor. If you like cream of wheat, you'll probably like grits. If not, then you probably won't like them

Just get a good beef hotdog and it will work great with the corn dog.

As I understand it some band members were working to about 3am or 4am. When they asked for the restaurant for something they were unsure to fix supper or breakfast, so the restaurant combined the two meals serving chicken and waffles

Grits: cornmeal is just crushed corn broken down into bits so small that they'll go through a very fine sieve; grits are the tiny pieces of corn that are just barely too large to fit through that sieve. They are bland as is, but they take on other flavors really well, especially savory flavors like cheese. They're an integral part of my favorite Southern dish, shrimp and grits. :)

If you already tried Mug or A&W root beer, try Barq's. Barq's and Boylan are the only brands I like. It has a bite to it, and seems not as overly sweet.

Millie once you try a corndog in America your mind will change, I'm from Chicago I love deep dish pizza it's not the only style of pizza we have in Chicago we've stuffed pizza, pan pizza, tavern pizza, and pizza pot pie.

My daughter-in-law’s Mom prefers Mug over all other root beers. For some weird reason the grocery stores where she lives don’t carry it, but if she goes to a more major metropolitan area she can find it at the same grocery chains. So when I’m going to visit my son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter, I find a store with a good sale and buy numerous twelve packs and take it over, as she lives quite near them and can come pick it up.

6:04 you definitely have to try Barq's Root Beer! It's the only root beer with caffeine. I am in Northeastern Minnesota & it took quite a while for Barq's to become available up here. I remember staying at the 4-H Building for different summer camps & the MN State Fair in the mid1980s -(it's in the state fairgrounds in the Twin Cities Metro Area) the building is 3 floors & no elevator (at that time). The ground floor was the public access display space during the fair, the 2nd floor was the cafeteria & the stage/auditorium (most of the camp activities were there) & the 3rd floor was the dorms. They had 5 pop machines (pop is Minnesotan for soda) on the 2nd floor - 1 had Coke, Sprite, etc & the others were all Barq's. I kinda felt bad that the Coke delivery guy had to haul all of the cases upstairs! He was there every day (sometimes multiple times a day) whenever I was there. I remember stopping at the store & stocking before the 3+ hour drive home so I could have it at home for a while 😂. A&W, Dad's, Mug & the other brands of root beer taste a bit different than Barq's does. Trying Diet versions are even more different in taste - I hate the after taste the sugar substitutes leave & they have given me an instant migraine ever since I tried them back in the 1970s already. If you are someplace that has an A&W restaurant, you can actually buy a gallon jug of root beer to take home - my aunt in Wisconsin always had a jug in her fridge since the town has an A&W. I used to like the other brands of root beer at a drive-in restaurant because they used to all serve it in a frosty mug (lots have switched to disposable cups). They basically just freeze the thick glass mugs right after washing to get a layer of ice in it.

All hot dogs, and by extention, corn dogs are not created equal.

Since you two are Family Guy fans: "Have you ever put butter on a Pop-Tart? Its so frickin' good. If you've never put butter on a Pop-Tart then I think you really should". 😁

rootbeer has so many variations. Some are very sweet, some are more savory.

Take MS Beasley to Michigan for a corn dog or hotdog. It's Michigan state law that all hotdogs produced in the state has to be made from Prime cuts of meat. So no lips, hooves and.........other things. 😂

The problem is most hot dogs outside the US tend to be pork only and don’t really have the right spice nor fat content. America leans heavily into the beef hotdog always spicing correctly and it’s made with trimmings from normal cuts just chopped into paste and stuffed into a casing. Pork sausages don’t do that and have to use a lot of random filler bits that you don’t want to eat. We also use nitrate salt out of pure tradition but it’s being phased out for a different salt although some butcher still use it. Beef is also our best choice to get around the Kosher diet restriction as the very large Jewish population do not eat pork or certain people can’t handle pork at all hence the beef is the meat of choice. I actually prefer the all beef hotdog myself.

We make fruit salad with whipped cream, canned mixed fruit, mini marshmallows,shaved coconut, and walnuts. I just had chicken fried chicken with gravy and biscuits & gravy for dinner.

The trick with Pop-Tarts, they HAVE to be toasted to warm them up. and then, flip them frosting side down, and spread a coating of butter on the crust, like you would butter toast. it adds a satisfying layer of fatty moisture to an otherwise very dry crust.

Y’all should try making the Chicago pizza (Atlanta from Your Nee Zealand Family made it and I tried the same recipe. It’s now my go to pizza to make. Sooooo goooooood!) I actually made homemade peppermint patties for Christmas. 😂 Root Beer 🤢 I’m 68 and didn’t taste grits until my early 60s. I like shrimp and grits. They are delicious that way! Not a fan of most cold cereals.

Chicago style deep dish Pizza is heaven for cheese lovers. Imagine so much cheese that you can't put it on the top or it would burn. So instead you put the cheese and "toppings" in the middle nice and THICK and put the sauce over the top instead of under the cheese to keep the thick layer of cheese so "gooey" so that when you take a bite, the cheese stretches on forever. It's an art!!

Try beef kosher hot dogs. They are readily available in the U.S.

In the South, always tell them "half and half", with the sweet tea.

There was a broadcaster here in Houston many years ago who made his name by finding restaurants with "slime in the ice machine,"

Grits are awesome they are so versatile you can put salt and pepper and butter in them and you can also put jelly and butter in them I like to mix mine in with my eggs over easy. But it's true by themselves they are very bland

But ketchup and mayonnaise mixed together in certain proportions. Makes what we in Utah and Idaho call frysauce.

@TheBeesleys99 - I had never had nor heard of Chicago style pizza, until I traveled there many years ago. Thankfully, I was with locals who knew the best place to go. I really liked it and I haven't had any that came near to that one experience since. The thick breading did not overpower the condiments, nor was it greasy. It was a perfect balance of everything.

American here, born and raised. My family loves strawberry twizzlers. Not a fan of candy corn though. I think it really depends on each individual person's taste. Sweet potato casserole is a staple at Thanksgiving in our house. I think the guy you are watching is picky. 😂 lol

whats so funny is they think chicken a waffles are strange. and these people think beans on toast are good LMAO we put butter on toast not beans lol.

A must for y’all to do when you come is go to a Waffle House. They are mostly found in the south, hence they have great Grits, and Biscuits & Gravy. Not the best, but very much like grandma would make at home growin’ up. For Root Beer, you must try that at an A&W restaurant, in a frosty mug. Unfortunately, there’s not many A&W Drive In Restaurants around anymore. But if you can find one, their foot long coney dog and an order of onion rings are classic favorites. To get deep fried anything you really need to go to a fair. They always have tons of deep fried everything down the midway in every fair I’ve ever been to. Lastly, yes Millie, when you think of what goes into hot dogs, they are disgusting even though they taste delicious and because of all the carcinogens in them they are worse for you than smoking cigarettes, HOWEVER, speaking as a Vegan, Aldi has a delicious Vegan Hot Dog that actually tastes like a hot dog but just doesn’t leave your mouth with that greasy coating that you get with regular hot dogs. Don’t know how they do it, but you can eat them without thinking of all the gross things that go into normal hotdogs.

When I was a kid- about 20 years ago- my parents went to the UK from the US and we asked for ice in drinks a lot. And every restaurant we went to in London at the time- the person would go "What do you want ice in your drinks for" or give us weird looks. I remember it so vividly because in the US we always have ice in drinks

I love root beer, but I love root beer floats even more, they are the perfect drink on a hot day. If you cannot find an A&W Restaurant, try In-N-Out, you won't find it on their menu as it is part of their "secret menu".

After watching this, I kinda want to send y'all a basket of different American foods to try for a video.

When I am ordering a drink, I always tell them “No ice!”😊

I was born and raised in PA, considered a northern state. Until I moved to NW PA I never heard of anyone drinking unsweetened iced tea. My mother always made tea, added sugar and lots of ice cubes. I was shocked when I heard it was considered a southern thing.

I WISH fresh southern biscuits could be imported here to Europe. That's the one food that I miss the most from the US. It's usually difficult to replicate recipes while living abroad without all of the necessary ingredients.

Biscuits and gravy is great if you substitute butter and syrup for the gravy. Especially cane syrup.

In the northeast USA we have birch beer- made.from the sap of birch trees! Love it!

I’m from the Southern part of the U.S. and here is the deal on the “grits” topic; Grits are a vehicle for another food like cheese or some kind of meat. I do not like them alone but add a fruit or meat to them and you will have a very delicious meal. Grits and shrimp are simply amazing! Just so you know, Grits originated during the 16th century among the Native American Muskogee tribes of southeastern states, including Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. These tribes are credited with grinding dried corn into a coarse, gritty texture and serving it to colonists. Since grits typically lack flavor, they are often cooked with butter, cheese, cream, or gravy, and topped with shrimp, mushrooms, ham, or bacon. Shrimp and grits, a traditional Southern preparation, serves as many peoples' introduction to rich, creamy grits. But that's only the beginning: There are more grits recipes than kernels on a cob!

The running joke about hotdogs is that they are made from the "lesser" meats or so-called "throw away" meats that people say they are made from lips and a$$holes.

Hope you are doing well and have a Blessed Merry Christmas. I’m from the US. Love corn dogs, root beer, sweet potato casserole, onion rings and anything with chocolate and mint. Like grits. Not found of the sweet cereals, Hot Pockets, ranch dressing, most flavors of Pop Tarts, but they must be toasted to be tolerable or Twinkies.

Many Americans when traveling, will understand to avoid a possibility suspect water supply, but then forget and ask for ice in their drinks. Now, even water bottled in plastic is suspect.

Shrimp and grits are wonderful. Go to Charleston for this dish. In my area of NC, grits are best with red eye gravy (which isn't made from eye balls, but country ham drippings and coffee - delicious).

Non-Americans: Chicken and waffles? Have you eaten waffles with sausage, ham, or bacon on the side? Corndogs/hotdogs? Do you know what goes into the sausage you enjoy? Cereal? There's lots of US cereal that isn't sweet. Most sweet cereal is marketed towards kids. Ice? It's not the water; it's the lazy people who don't clean the ice-making machines. Twinkies? If you put icing on the OUTSIDE of a sponge cake, would you still hate it? Grits? Ground corn..... depends on how you make it. Cheese grits, shrimp grits, or with just butter and black pepper as a side dish for your bacon and eggs... yum! You can put some sausage gravy on grits as well as biscuits. Chicago pizza? Personally, I don't consider it as "pizza", but it's DELICIOUS all the same. Root beer? Yeah, you either love it or hate it. If you hate it, put a scoop of vanilla ice cream in it and try it again. Like many foods, it depends on how it is prepared and not having pre-conceived notions of what it will taste like. Try it!

The first time I tasted grits, it was like cream of wheat, but cornmeal. Not bad, I was pleasantly surprised.

I've lived in the US for 18 years and I just can't get used to certain foods: corn candy, Twizzlers, grits, meatloaf, sweet potato caserole, cheez it, or cheese in a can. However, I love sweet potato fries, onion rings, onion blossoms, stuffing, hot pockets, corn dogs, popcorn chicken/shrimp, iced coffee, Hawaiian pizza, P & J sandwiches, fruit salad with marshmallows and whipped cream, cream cheese, funnel cake, and chocolate chip ice cream. I do think cereals, drinks, bread, syrups are too sweet, but I still enjoy them. I have yet not been brave enough to try chicken and waffles, but I might one of these days.

I'm from the northern US and when I went to the south and tried sweet tea I ended up ordering it everywhere I went. The south knows how to do food and drinks!

Restaurants NEVER clean out ice machines, that is the problem.