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Apple Cider donuts are made with apple cider instead of water. And some recipes also have bits of apple in the dough as well.

I grew up in Florida and it been my home for 58 years. Never did I have any desire to try a Cuban. When I was 50 my wife asked me to bring her one home for a local deli that wins awards year after year for theirs. She sucked me into tasting it and all I could say was "Why the heck did I wait 50 years"...

New England clam chowder is actually rather good, unless you hate clams. Love a good Southern white gravy; biscuits (not cookies, but the fluffy U.S. kind) & sausage gravy is one of my favorite breakfast dishes. Just gotta keep the arteries open....

As a Washington state native, I was a little sad to see coffee listed. I think of coffee as a beverage rather than a food. I was expecting something more like salmon or apples or Dungeness crabs even. It’s so much fun watching your reactions, especially those focused on the United States! 💚

"She's not picky." "I'll eat anything, especially seafood." Won't eat crabs, lobsters, chili, cinnamon, peanut butter, sweet pies, or coffee. Man, anything is less than I'd thought lol. You need to try from some better places or something whenever you end up coming over!

"I can't do cinnamon" I died a little right then, Millie. 😆

YAY!!!! Millie is back!!!!

If you get to Wisconsin, stay away from the fancy cheese markets near the borders meant for tourists but go to any largish supermarket and you will see an incredible selection of great local cheese. We export a lot, but keep the best for ourselves. Yes, you also need to have deep fried cheese curds directly out of the hot oil at some point.

If you like seafood, you will love the clam chowder, jambalaya, and gumbo, for sure. The testicles scare most of us, too.

The UK is still an island so that's excuse for not liking seafood considering the UKs well know dish is FISH and chips (French Fries)

The one good thing about all the different food dishes in states is the variety. So many different ethnic influences from years ago that are carried on today, that there's always something for everyone's taste buds, no matter where you go.

I got lost when they said that the krab cakes looked disgusting lol. Seriously, they are the best in Maryland and DC.

From America, thank you so much for this video, I really appreciated it, it means so much to me, May God Bless You !

Making your own white gravy at home is very easy. It's really no different than a brown gravy. You just use milk instead of water. Also don't let your roux get too dark.

White gravy is basically just milk and flower mixed in a cup and added to the grease and pan drippings left over from cooking sausage or bacon then stirred well while slowly adding milk till the consistency is right. The white color coming from the milk and flower.

Hi Bees & Millie!!!! Thanks for doing this reaction! If you ever get to Texas in the fall I'd be honored to take y'all out for some BBQ or TexMex and a high school football game!

Love the addition of a co-host. Great work.

You should do the 25 best national parks again with her this time….

Fantastic!! I’m an American and very much love my country and flag.

Being from Illinois, something that is a must to try is a very local regional favorite Horseshoe! It consists of toast covered with a meat of your choice, pile on the French fries over the meat, and then smothered in a cheese sauce! They are delicious and probably a little bit artery clogging! The smaller version is called a Ponyshoe and most restaurants have their own version of huge ones that become a challenge to finish within a set time and earn a prize, get if for free along with your picture going on a “wall of fame” if you finish it. Go online and check out Darcy’s Pint in Springfield IL for a picture and description of Horseshoes.

0:44 Clam Chowder is definitely one of my seafood all time favorites!

A piping hot bowl of clam chowder on a cold winter day is the best, especially if you had been working in the cold. Also, rocky mountain oysters are not bad, they are one of the best "drunk foods". Have a basket or two after pounding back beer, tequila, whiskey, or whatever alcohol you prefer. When you are drunk enough, you won't care what you eat. Us Americans need all the sweet foods to balance out all the savory dishes we have, so after your meals have a dessert.

Remember that these food choices are sponspored and don't accurately reflect each state. Yes, Pepe and Sally and cousin Bimonte have wood fired pizza. They did not invent it, nor is it the best pizza in CT. That is highly subjective. Personallly, I like Rossini's but there are hundreds of great pizza places in CT. New Haven is home of the first actual ground beef hamburger, so technically hamburger should be the non sponsored choice for this video.

I love the video! I'm from the US, and have traveled extensively, but I learned some new dishes to try. Great job, very informative!

It’s cool digging into the history of these foods too, like countries that meshed cultures various settlers combined their cuisines to create something new and local

The secret to finding great BBQ in Texas is asking a local person where they eat. Hopefully they will send to a shabby little place where you are served by an owner or family member. 😋 Avocado is a peculiar color but has creamy mild taste. It is wonderful as guacamole, on sandwiches, cheeseburgers with swiss cheese, and surprisingly eggs.

I live in NH and I live about 10 minutes away from apple crest farm. Every September/October my family and friends go and pick our own apples at the farm. They serve warm apple cider donuts (which is really a more of a plain donut with cinnamon topping). We then bake fresh apple pies during the fall season. It’s a fun activity. Also I can assure you that New England clam chowder and Maine lobster rolls are delicious. We practically live on those two staples most of the summer while dining in Portsmouth at the docks. They have an entire clam chowder/seafood festival every September @ Hampton Beach. You should come and I could show you around the all the local spots. Our region and cuisine is amazing. Also make sure to visit lake winnipesauke (which I stay at from Memorial Day-Labor Day). It’s a beautiful lake with lots of good food around.

There is incredible variety of dishes in the USA. People have immigrated here from everywhere on the planet. They adapted their favorite dishes to the local available foods. The big cities offer a smorgasbord of ethnic restaurants with many authentic recipes and also more familiar options for the less adventurous palate.

So I grew up in Minnesota and now live in Nebraska. Minnesota is also known for fresh water fish, in particular sunfish, battered and fried (absolutely delicious if never frozen or was alive less than an hour ago), and Nebraska has two other foods to mention. The Runza, a eastern Europe immigrant food of a small loaf of bread with fried beef and onions in the middle, and then Omaha Steaks. Beef is king in Nebraska with lots of beef ranches all over the middle of the state that eat all the corn this state can grow.

Michigan is more than Mackinac Island Fudge, although it is my personal fave when combined with vanilla or fudge swirl ice cream. Michigan also has pasties, which are basically very large hot pockets and can be a variety of fillings. My personal fave pasty is a venison and bacon pasty my aunt used to make when we'd go out deer hunting. It's a nice way to warm up when it's below freezing outside and you're sitting in a deer blind for hours. Michigan also is home to Detroit Style Deep Dish Pizza. It is sort of a hybrid of Chicago Deep Dish and New York Style. Just get a large square pan, put in the dough, put in the sauce and toppings, and layer the hell out of it with cheese. Some places have it cut in strips, some cut it up into squares, but it is so gooood! We also have a lot of apple orchards, and yeah, they use apple cider to make and flavor donuts. We also are a major producer of cherries and mint in the world, so there is that bit of info.

I have lived in Chicago most of my life, and I know better than to even try to start the debate on which Pizza is the *Best Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza* , so I would just suggest that you check the internet and try out the top 4 or 5 over a period of time. Choose your favorite that way, and you cannot go wrong!

Just found you guys and LOVE the content. Hope you keep it up, thanks!!

There's a place in northern Colorado called Bruce's Bar that's famous for its Rocky Mountain Oysters. The ironic part is that it's in a town named "Severance".

Narrator: There's even a world cheese dip championship in Little Rock every year. Beesley: We need to visit Wisconsin.

Marionberry from Oregon is just a renamed Blackberry and we have loads of natural growing blackberries here in New Jersey.

White gravy is primarily a southern thing and while I do love southern food I'm still more a brown gravy person. But my son can eat it by the bowl. Especially with biscuits( which are kind of like scones to you ). Catfish if cook correctly is awesome and of course you need a side of hushpuppies with it.

I'm not a fan of fish, but I love shellfish. I'll eat lobster, crabs, clams, oysters, mussels. I used to live in New England, and the Massachusetts clam chowder and Maine lobster rolls are Devine, and so are the Maryland crab cakes!

Rocky Mountain oysters are quite good if cooked properly... sliced thin and coated in egg and cracker crumbs and fried... dipped in ranch dressing when you eat them... yum.

You can make your own white gravy. Brown some ground pork sausage without draining the grease. While keeping on the hot burner mix in ground pepper, flour, and milk to your preference. Continue cooking and stirring, until the gravy is at your desired thickness.

Hi guys! Gumbo doesn't have to have seafood in it. You can use chicken, duck or any kind of fowl, and sausage as well. It's really good if it's done right.

Enjoyed this video. Being born on Galveston Island, the seafood mentioned are some of my favorites. You are a great couple...Keep-up the good work!

Great video. Well done guys

Come to Mackinac Island, Michigan. The fudge is extremely delicious. There are so many different flavors. The island is very small (8 miles circumference) and no cars are allowed. People walk or ride bikes or horses. Only open to tourists May to October, I think.

A bit late, but as a Native Montanan that's a small cross section of what we put Huckleberries in, Chocolate, Hot Sauce, syrup, jams.

We have regular brown gravy as well as white gravy it's the same thing but using milk instead of stock so it's creamier and usually very peppery in a good way

Making that cream gravy is really pretty easy. After you fry your beef/chicken. Leave the oil in the skillet, take some flour and mix it up like a paste. (make a roux) Gradually add milk to it as you whisk it (to keep out lumps) And when it gets almost as thick as you want, remove it from heat because it's gonna get thicker. I never heard of canned gravy until my buddy in Barnsley told mje about it. He calls me an Okie. Which I am! lol

As someone born and raised in South Carolina the Low Country Boil is amazing

For me growing up in Michigan in the 70's it was white castles and coney island. The drinks were faygo and vernors ginger aile.

Gumbo can be chicken or sausage too. And despite the name, it really is good. 3:00 I think you were asking what is in with the cheese dip. It is special canned tomatoes called 'Rotel Tomatoes' they are on Amazon.UK but at £6.75 a can is highway robbery. 11:08 Commonly called Saw Mill gravy.

Louisiana Gumbo can be made several different ways. Pretty much depends on what part of the state you live in. Usually Seafood Gumbo is made with Shrimp, Blue Claw Crab & Oysters. Spicy or not. We also make a dark roux as a gravy thickener & flavor enhancer. It is pretty much standard to use 'The Trinity' in any Louisiana dish. Trinity=onion, bell pepper & crlery. Some people add okra & file'. Chicken Andouille Sasauge is the other main gumbo off Louisiana. Both are delicious!

Jambalaya is another dish that is as iconic from Louisiana as Gumbo and etoufee . Jambalaya is similar to Paella , jambalaya like Paella can be either be all seafood, all meat or a mix and it's very good. White Gravy is traditional for chicken fried steak, but regular brown gravy like what is put on turkey for Thanksgiving can also be put on chicken fried/ Country fried steak

Gumbo is delicious! My family is of Louisiana Creole descent and the best Gumbo is homemade.

to make white gravies brown some flower, in a pan add table of crissgard after brown flower and add mike or water keep steering

Clam Chowder is awesome. One of my go-to soups. A lot of the time it comes in a bread bowl so you eat the bowl when you are done that have the chowder soaked in.

a Virginia ham is essential for Christmas dinners, plus some use it as either a substitute or an addition to turkey for Thanksgiving

In the US, "apple cider" is a concentrated apple juice, non-alcoholic. The white gravy on the chicken-fried steak looks to be a sausage gravy, made milk-based with lots of black pepper, sausage grease, flour, and some sausage patty crumbles.

Born and raised in Northern Michigan but only have been to the island a handful of times, but the fudge is incredible!

The avocado tree is a high growing tree and will drop fruit day and night waking you up, you want to pick it up before the dog gets it or a neighbor sticks his hand over the fence.

I love how enthusiastic you guys are about stuff in the US. Definitely come to Vegas when you make the trip

Maid Rite is a good one for Iowa, but a better one would have been pork chops they're so thick compared to other states, a lot of other states will call a thick pork chop an "Iowa Chop"

You need to try the clam chowder. Or there also that you might like is a fluff a nutter. It’s peanut butter and fluff. It is amazing I make mine with toast and make sure it’s warm so it’s melty and gooey.

Remember if you visit Texas to not forget to eat at Rudy’s but for a breakfast place Cracker Barrel is amazing. Just remember early morning or you could be waiting for a hour or more because of the line to get inside

We've got some great food in Upstate New York. Marinated grilled Chicken Spiedies, Sausage pepper and onion sandwiches, amazing pizza parlors. Its also pretty rural and super beautiful. If you come back to NY, take a trip upstate, you might be pleasantly surprised!

Ok guys, as a person from ND/MN area. I'll give you the fast recipe for Tater Tot Hotdish, all ingredients scale up since most ingredients are canned or frozen. This -is- a winter based comfort food. I'm gonna translate a few terms for better understanding.... 1 can condensed Cream of Celery soup 1 can condensed Cream of Mushroom soup Veggies (Carrots, peas, green beans, corn) make your choices by personal preference here 1 lb (500 grams) hamburger (beef mince - unseasoned - your choice to season) 1 frozen bag of potato crunchies Large baking pan or pot (or 2) Large metal mixing bowl My prep - you can make your own choices here.... Preheat oven to 425 (220 C) Fry the beef mince with 2-3 splashes of Worcestershire or Soy sauce until completely cooked - DO NOT DRAIN OR STRAIN THE JUICES OUT. DO NOT REDUCE LIQUID! You need it!!! While the meat is cooking - cook and heat the Veggies to boiling. Place cream soups into mixing bowl Drain Veggies and add to bowl Pour in meat mixture and stir when completely mixed, place mixture into baking dishes leaving at least 2-3 cm space on the top. top and completely cover with potato crunchies Add cheese if you want on top of that.... Place in the oven for 30-45 minutes - keep an eye on the dish to avoid a spillage - the filling can boil over if not enough space was left from the top of the baking dish. Give it a go :D

Apple cider donuts are to die for if you get them fresh and microwave them for like 5-10 sec. Also we have a couple different gravys, you can get classic brown but we have pork and turkey as well as white. The white is really good on chix fried steak or for breakfast with biscuits and gravy!

New England clam chowder is Food of The Gods

Millie is awesome!! You got yourself a good one there my friend. Hold onto her.

Glad to see you both smiling and having fun. I’ve got a Millie in my family but no Beesley

Storytime- In 98' me and a female work colleague had to travel to Denver from Atlanta on a business trip to meet clients. (Large fiber-optic networking firm) The weather got really bad and we sat on the tarmac for 2 1/2 hours. This turned a 3 1/2 hour trip into 6 hours flight time plus getting our luggage and we were absolutely STARVING. The clients met us to buy our dinner at a steakhouse I can't remember the name of. They already had a double-order of calf-fries on the table when we arrived. We both dug in and started scarfing these things down bc we were so hungry. They were nothing special, I just figured they cut the potatoes in little disc's, deep fried and served with a yummy sweet and sour dipping sauce. Eventually we settled in and one of the clients said: "You guys are really enjoying those calf fries, have you had them before?" Puzzled we were like...."Have we ever had french-fries before?" Client: "These are a little different, they're deep-fried bull testicles." Now something I thought I could never eat was calamari(squid) bc I used to deep-sea fish with it. It's absolutely disgusting, stinky, slimy and it's very difficult to get the funk off your hands. The kinda stuff you have to WEAR OFF instead of washing off. If you fry anything to a crunchy texture and serve it with a good sauce, it's edible. So I shrugged it off. My colleague......Not so much....I cannot even describe the look of horror there was on this woman's face. She excused herself to the washroom and began violently throwing up. As professional gentlemen, we really, really tried not to laugh at her. We all cracked to the point that some of us were in tears. I went to the restroom entrance to ask if she was okay. She came out red-faced, by that time our orders started arriving and she was pissed for about 10 minutes and then she calmed down and had a laugh about it. Girls a trooper.

We have both brown and white gravy. Both are delicious. You will hear the term "chicken fried" and "country fried" in the south. Both represent a breaded and deepfried meat (chicken and steak usually but sometimes pork chops as well). "Country fried" is usually topped with brown gravy while "chicken fried" is usually topped with white. Honestly though, white pepper gravy with sausage poured over southen style buttermilk biscuits is amazing too! Come to think of it, you should visit Arkansas and find a place that serves chocolate gravy while you're at it 😉

Another video with the charming Beesley and the beautiful Millie! ❤️

In Connecticut specifically Meriden Connecticut there is steamed cheese burgers. And it is surprising good. I love it

Love seeing you rewatch with your laqdy....really good

You might consider actually making/cooking some of these foods to try in your reaction videos. We love those!

6:09, talks about Kentucky food, but shows chef Jack Chaplin who's from Conneticut cooking it. Same guy in the chicken fried steak video. He has since passed away.

The "Cuban Sandwich" originated in Tampa when vendors would sell the "mixto" sandwiches to workers from the cigar factories. In a nod to the many Italian immigrants, the "Tampa Cuban" includes Genoa Salami in addition to ham, "lechon asado" (slow roasted pork marinated in sour citrus juice), swiss cheese, dill pickle, and mustard on Cuban bread. It dates from the late 19th century and remains a favorite of the Tampa area. The "Miami" Cuban is more well known and does not include salami. It's history dates back to the influx of Cubans after F. Castro took power in the 1950's. Both styles are usually served hot "pressed" in a panninni press.

I literally only watched this to make sure they had crab cake as Maryland's dish. The old bay is a must have as well.

I've been to the Bacchanal Buffet in Vegas and it was a 3 hour wait to get in but it was amazing. They also gave us mimosas as we waited for them to make food requests for us and the king crab legs were to die for. Would I do it again? No.. but it was worth doing once.

As far as pallate changing...I'm not a picky eater and always try and give something I don't like a go every few years to see if I like it...but I'm 30 years old and one of the few things I didn't like was canned beets (I think you call it beet root?) and mushrooms. Last winter I was pregnant and had a really strong craving for them. They are frequently on the salad bar at my work and I started eating them almost daily...had my baby in February and still like them. I literally tried for YEARS to like them and had given up. Just shows that your taste can change even when you are "old" like me :)

I like how Nevada's wasn't even a food lmao.

I know Brits get confused with our gravy. We do both White and Brown gravy. White gravy is made with cream, sometimes has a smoky taste, and we'll mainly put it on our breakfast foods, we'll also put it on Mashed Potatoes. For dinner meats we'll use regular brown gravy.

I love Salmon 🍣 too, but it’s definitely got to be cooked lol.. I love cooking mine simple.. with sea salt, course pepper, lemon 🍋 slices and lemon juice! With a side of Avocado 🥑 salad.

The clip showing the Kansas BBQ was filmed 7 blocks from my house! (Joe's KC)

I live in Grand Rapids Michigan and Chicago is about 170 miles away. I have been known to get in my car and drive to Chicago Saturday morning for an early evening deep dish Chicago style pizza. Nothing like them. And Mackinac is about a day away from Grand Rapids so we used to go and get fudge in my younger days also. So rich, so good. We would drive non-stop. THe nice thing about any state in the USA is you can experience about 75% of all those foods. People move and bring there menu with them to different states. So in Michigan I can get a take out of BBQ ribs and Brisket and go to the beach on Lake Michigan for the day at Mears state park and enjoy a day eating and drinking on the Lake.

I'll tell you, one of those that you can't appreciate until you have gone down the road of eating a lot of it, is Green Hatch Chili from New Mexico. Many surrounding states like Oklahoma, Texas, and Arizona have been attempting to appropriate it and the Hatch designation as though they originated it or as if Hatch could be any place except where it really is which is New Mexico. The flavor is tremendous when properly grown and used in cooking.

Born and raised in Wisconsin, I have family in England who I've lost contact with. Wisconsin is nice! Close to Chicago and the Woods up N. Lots of parks, Six Flags isn't far, Lake Michigan isn't far. I love Wisconsin. Lots to do and we can get most of these foods where I live.

As a native Minnesotan tater tot hotdish aka casserole is definitely an Iconic dish, But walleye is probably the most iconic food. Walleye fishing opener is like a holiday here in MN. People are crazy about fishing here.

White sauce is aN. Alabama thing. Fried chicken & collards, rice & gravy, cornbread, and banana pudding is what a lot of people eat, especially in Central and South Alabama.

All these foods, except a few, are amazing! I think you might like clam chowder, every restaurant has its own recipe, so if you do like it, you just have to hunt around until you find the one you like. A must is the chicken fried steak; surprisingly, the white gravy is very good. Cracker Barrel has my favorite. These foods are all incredible, but if you ate them regularly, you would be busting your britches in no time at all. If we go on vacation and indulge in the local foods, we have go on a diet when we get back. Have fun trying it all🤗!

How does gumbo not look appetizing? Lol that’s crazy to me as a Louisiana native🤣😩

American apple cider is not alcoholic. It’s what you would call cloudy apple juice. It’s unfiltered cold pressed apple juice.

Hello from Wisconsin! If you try the cheese curds, you've got to try them while they're fresh. It's a whole other experience.

Ore-Ida, a potato-based frozen food company, invented tater tots as a way to use up all the potato trimmings from their frozen French Fries. They're chopped up bits of potatoes, with flour, and seasonings. Formed into a cylinder and fried. Since they're from Ore-Ida, they're then frozen and reheated before serving.

Being a New Orleanian (LA), besides gumbo, y'all need to learn about po-boys, red beans and rice, crawfish boils, jambalaya, muffalettas, beignets, crawfish etouffe, bananas foster, king cakes, chargrilled ersters (how we locals call oysters), etc etc etc. I really enjoy your videos, I hope one day y'all can make a trip to New Orleans and taste some of the finest food that exists on the planet. Y'all will also meet some of the nicest people on this 3rd rock from the sun. Oh and Willie Mae's has the best fried chicken you will ever eat.

Good stuff. "Rather than die on my feet than live on my knees"...is to be American.

Depending who you ask coffee is a food. 😆 🤣 It makes a wonderful breakfast. Specially white coffee

While I don’t disagree that there’s a lot of coffee culture in Washington, we should have been known for our teriyaki, because the style of it is unique to this part of the US.

Buffalo NY, chicken wings and Beef on week. Northern part of Michigan's lower peninsula are pasties!

White gravy on chicken fried steak is a must! White gravy with chicken strips will change your lives!