British Guy Reacts to The Number 1 American Comfort Food From Every State in the USA! 

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The term "comfort food" normally refers to food that people like because they have fond memories of it from childhood. The saying "just like mom used to make" tends to apply. Zucchini is a type of summer squash that is green when ripe. Some Brits know it under the French name, "courgette". In large parts of North America, it's extremely common for people to have relatives who live hundreds of miles away (e.g., people in Ohio might have cousins in Pennsylvania and another set of cousins in Indiana or Illinois). When there's a death in the family, then, a bunch of out-of-state relatives arrive all at once for the funeral. The family has a lot to deal with right then, and so it is customary for the family's church to host a meal for the family of the deceased, so that they can just sit down after the funeral and eat and talk with one another for an hour or so, before they all have to start the long trip back home.

biscuits shouldn't be dry my man. they have a ton of butter in them. flaky and tender with a crisp exterior is the texture of a good southern biscuit.

Biscuits are never dry, unless they are bad. They are almost nothing like "scones". They are moist, and crumbly, and NEVER sweet on their own, they can be topped with sweet things, but are almost always topped with savory things.

Funeral potatoes....in the south when someone passes away, the community brings in meals and food to the family so they don't have to worry about cooking. So "funeral" potatoes is a hearty "meal" often taken to the house of those who lost the loved one.

Biscuits aren't supposed to be dry EVER. They are straight butter. Scones are dry & crumbly, not southern biscuits. In culinary school I was taught to put a knife straight in the heads of any live shellfish BEFORE putting them in boiling water. EVERYONE, should always research shellfish before cooking. Some HAVE TO be alive or frozen, no in between, or you can be poisoned.

Comfort food definitely isn't something to nibble on lol. It's more like something that makes you happy and fills up your belly, or at least your heart, especially on a down day or if it's raining/snowing out.

As a Georgia girl I've never made a peach pie, but I have made a lot of peach cobbler, pecan pie, and especially fried green tomatoes. Yum!

I commented in one of your other videos that I’m from Kansas, in the middle of the USA, however, my Mom’s side of the family has deeper roots in the northern Midwest. (Iowa, North and South Dakota, Minnesota and Nebraska). I mention this because my all-time favorite dessert/comfort food is Rhubarb Pie, and it’s something I never would have discovered if my Great-Grandmother and Grandmother hadn’t introduced it to me. It’s sweet, but it also has a strong tangy (almost sour) edge to it. Absolutely delicious, especially with vanilla ice cream on the side.

“the fuck is a zucchini” absolutely sent me🤣🤣🤣

As a girl with roots in Mississippi, i can say that the po boy is, without question, NOT what we think of when we think of comfort food. I don't associate po boys with MS. People associate them with Louisiana. Fried catfish would've been a better choice for Mississippi.

You might have missed something in the translation for English to Murican. Chocolate covered chips are what you would call chocolate covered crisps. You need to try one they are delicious. Try a chocolate covered hard pretzel while you are at it. What you call apple cider is fermented apple juice. Which is an alcoholic beverage. Here it is unfiltered juice from pressed apples. We call the alcoholic version hard cider.

definitely Deep-fried pickles. Jucy Lucy is cheese sealed between two Hamburger patties then cooked without the cheese melting out.

Biscuits are not dry if made fresh and properly. They are light, buttery, flaky and super soft. You can eat them plain, with butter, jam, honey, meat, egg, sausage, chili, soup....the list goes on and on.

Scrambled eggs with pancakes is AMAZING. -An American who is proud of his country's cuisine

For us Americans, comfort food refers to food you usually have at home, but really don’t make anymore because few people have the time to make these dishes.

Comfort food is a double-edged sword. It taps into that back part of the brain where everything just melts away. Either to childhood or just something to bring warmth back into your heart, there are also a lot of comfort foods that come with heavy prices. Heavy being the literal word here. Many comfort foods will leave you wanting a cozy nap, or just being stationary and content.

Comfort Food is simply food used to quite literally bring comfort. Usually eaten at times of physical and/or mental stress. Like being sick, angry, sad, confused, bad weather etc. You want to eat something that you know will help you feel better and that food is usually tied to some positive memory. A lot of the time you don't even know what memory its tied to but your body does. All you know is that when you eat said food, you feel more settled. For me its cereal. A close second would be a porkroll sandwich but cereal always makes me feel like a kid again, so it remains the king.

As a native Wisconsinite, I can honestly tell you that cheese curds are absolutely outstanding.

My mom is a restaurateur. While I'm not as food educated, I have worked in her restaurants most my life. Typically for crab you do a knife right into its brain quick and painless cause if it dies in pain the meat stresses and tenses up. Not all of these are localized, but you're not gonna find pierogies or scrapple much outside PA.

My dad was in the Army, so I have lived all over the US. Some of these foods are only available in certain areas commercially, but the ingredients, for the most part, are available in all grocery stores. I live in Texas but spent the most years in Nebraska. I can't go to a restaurant and order a runza, but I can buy the ingredients to make one at home. My husband, on the other hand, spent most of his childhood in England and Japan, so he has to order things online or go to a specialty shop.

I'm from Southern California (San Diego) and yes, fish tacos are amazeing. Made with light flakey white fish, shreaded cabbage which adds a bit of crisp, served in warm soft corn totillas... squeeze a little avacado sauce and fresh lime juice on top and mmmm, mmmm!!! Chefs kiss.

"Are noodles doughy?" Bro.... They are dough.

Scrapple is delicious! They use the leftover meat from the cheeks of the pig & organ meets. They add corn meal and mix. We fry it in a little oil in a skillet or bake it and eat it as a side dish for breakfast. My favorite way to eat it is on a sandwich with fried egg. Nothing better than a scrapple & egg sandwich!!!

Blue crab and Dungeness crab are immediately dunked under boiling water and they die quickly. They have a hard shell so there is no way to stab them with a knife and kill them quickly like you can with a lobster. You don't just eat the legs from the crabs, you open the shell and they have lots of white meat, hard to get at, but very tasty with butter.

Funeral potatoes. It's common for friends, family and neighbors to bring over food to a family that has recently lost someone. The thought behind it is so that they don't have to worry about making meals while grieving. Often people bring casseroles or things that can easily be reheated.

"Comfort food" in the States can refer to basically any food, meal or snack sized. It just has to make someone feel warm and fuzzy, like they're smiling on the inside, and typically evokes some sense of nostalgia. I feel like the video you reacted to here was slightly misleading, in that it wasn't really focused on "comfort foods" as much as like...regional staples, or regional specialties. But you can generally get any of these dishes anywhere in the US. (Well, except maybe the Runza...and the Scrapple, whatever that is.)

FYI - Lobster is in the crab family. Seafood you should try - fillet of flounder (mild white fish, can be breaded & fried or baked/broiled. I like it stuffed but the stuffing Is maryland crab cake mixture.

"Comfort food" in America is either deep fried, intensely sweet, or something cheap we all ate as kids. Affordable, easy to make, delicious. They bring back comforting memories of youth.

The items being added to the Louisiana Jambalaya were crawfish or crawdads.

They are available everywhere it’s just certain foods for each state is the most popular because you’ve eaten it regularly since you were just small. Some they didn’t include is banana pudding, baked beans,also with the fry bread you can top it with confectioners sugar and honey as a dessert,macaroni and cheese,open faced roast beef and gravy sandwich, and lots of desserts.

That steamed burger is at a joint across the street from the entrance to Harvard. The cooking device is over 100 years old and has been used every day. The steamer for the cheese, you have to see to believe.

I like when corn is just plain no butter or anything just the natural sweetness.

In Boston Massachusetts in the early years, it was against the law to serve lobster to your servants more than twice a week because it was considered food for animals, not for people.

Comfort food = food that brings you comfort. It's just that simple. There's no need to overcomplicate it.

I am a gardener. My husband and I both love fried green tomatoes since forever…I have had to train my husband on this one point only…only this one point: GREEN TOMATOES ARE NOT TO BE PICKED UNTIL THE *END* OF THE GROWING SEASON! When we were still dating, he picked green tomatoes out of my garden in the middle,of the summer…of COURSE I let him fry them up. OF COURSE. It took a few years to break him of this habit. I need the tomatoes to ripen in the summer because I can them for soup in the winter…the ones we don’t just eat, of course. But fried green tomatoes are the treat at the end of the season in my life experience. Something to look forward to, when the last of the tomatoes will not have time to ripen.

Green chili stew from New Mexico, is to die for. It may not look appetizing, but the smell and the flavor is beyond verbal and written description.

My man's about to cry about not having a peach pie in front of him right this moment. Not that I blame him.

I have been to many countries and food is often a part of that; however, a lot of people don't truly understand the depth of differences and variety that actually exists in the US when it comes to food. The US is portrayed, wrongly, as simply some kind of cheap processed food or fast food generators, which is partially true but only the very beginning of the story of food in the US. No other country even remotely has the kind of food diversity either in markets or at restaurants than the US. It isn't even close. In a single plaza you might have a Turkish cafe run by a family that immigrated from Izmir, several fast food joints like Subway or Jersey Mike's, a fine dining Japanese sushi bar run by immigrants from Japan, a local pizza joint, a bar run by a Hungarian woman who uses her family recipes for their food, an old Korean couple that loves to argue while serving some kind of hot pot dishes, and a drug store to buy chips and beer. Head across the street and you are assaulted with several more fast food joints and some creepy stairs that takes you to a famous steakhouse and a hipster cafe. Up top there are chain restaurants like Olive Garden and Chili's but also some guy from Chicago that is trying to popularize real Chicago style hotdogs in a different city. I can go on and on with this because it is simply true. Without even getting into my car, I can jump from Mexican to Ethiopian to Hungarian to whatever kinds of foods. I live in the suburb of a moderately large city and I can easily find shiritaki noodles, Korean bean paste, ingredients for Thai soup, ancho chilis, and so on without even getting into my car. For instance, at the end of my street, there are several Russian markets and an Italian market. Oddly enough, I can get "imported" wild caught salmon from Alaska imported to the US from Russia and locally made sour cream from the Amish at the same store.

With all the comments you will not see this story but to anyone who does and love lobster and butter I got a story. My Grandmother was a Lady. There is manners and manners have a reason. That reason is what defines the quality of who we are in life by the manner in which we live that life. Both of my Grandmothers had defining manners that expressed who they were by how they lived. One lived by action and example and the other lived with manners and expressed by instruction. One in the farmland North of Boise, one from cattle ranching living in Seattle. This story is about Seattle and the manners she would teach whenever she had the chance. As children there was three of us she would take together and instruct in social educate. With one outing that has always stayed with me. Lobster and butter was a part of a mid afternoon session that took over 30 years to understand.

Scallops, crab cakes, deviled crab, fried oysters, lobster, fish tacos, New England clam chowder ... they're all wonderful, as are fishes of all kinds.

There two main types of Clam Chowder: Manhattan {Red/tomato base} and New England {white/cream base}. There is also a Rhode Island variety that has a more clear base to it.

Scrapple is not comfort food in Pennsylvania. Cheesesteaks are.

Has anyone else seen the YT channel Captain Meck? He's a British guy who cooks American food just so he can try it. I love it because I see so many people watching food videos and wishing they could try stuff, and usually what they're drooling over is super easy to make. So it's cool to see someone actually doing that. He could open a diner with all the good down-home cooking he's been doing.

As soon as peach pie popped up, I started to smell peaches, I don't have any peaches in my house, so I appearently smelt it through the screen of my phone.

Im a native Utahn, and funeral potatoes are absolutely fantastic! We dont only have them at funeral luncheons, we also have them at different holidays, or family gatherings.

I live in NJ, USA. I've eaten seafood all my life and never once have I gotten food poisoning. It's not the seafood, it's the people handling it that cause that issue. As far as shellfish - Go with Lobster, King Crab or Blue Crab, then freshwater - Crayfish/Crawdads/Mud Bugs/ Fresh Water Lobsters {all names for the same shellfish, and there's a few more names I didn't list} As far as Mollusks - Go with Scallops and bacon, Then Clams on the half shell, then Spaghetti and mussels As far as actual fish - Go with Salmon {lemon pepper Salmon is my fav}, then Mahi Mahi, then you can try some white fish like Flounder or talapia, and finally Catfish is very good

Comfort food in of itself is a food that brings back fond memories of childhood meals with family. Often-times cheap, always filling and tasty. Although some you have to grow up with to properly appreciate them.

As a woman from Pennsylvania we also have whoopie pies and that is a more accurate comfort food everyone in the state enjoys, it's essentially is you cut off the top of two cupcakes and put icing between them. Not everyone loves Scrapple but everyone loves a good ol' whoopie pie.

them putting chicago style pizza instead of italian beef for illinois is actually insane

Comfort food is like a hug from mom and dad in food form. It’s got a bit of nostalgia and it’s always good.

I have lived in Pennsylvania all my life and I have literally never seen or heard of anyone eating scrapple. On the other hand pierogi or haluski were insanely popular to the point they were on our school lunch menus.

Go to Morehead City, North Carolina on the waterfront where restaurants have their own docks and fishing boats. Once seated around 4 PM you’ll see the boats come in, tie up to the dock outside the window and unload the days catch. Your waitress will tell you what’s just come in and they’ll prepare several different kinds of fish, blue crab and other delicious foods like deep fried hush puppies, home made coleslaw, baked Mac and cheese plus much more. You can quench your thirst with southern sweet tea, beer and other beverages. There are a variety of great restaurants on and near the waterfront both in Morehead and in Beaufort just minutes away. From July to October the bounty is great and the southern hospitality and charm is wonderful.

This video is more about popular foods in each state than it is about comfort foods. Comfort foods are what your mom made when you came in from a snowy, cold day or when you didn't feel well.

I have noticed a trend that UK RU-vidrs tend to be down of fish dishes. The US has many amazing fish dishes. New England, East coast, Southern / Caribean, West coast, Hawaii, Alaska, and all the rivers and lakes; all varieties of fish and crustecean dishes that are amazing. Don't dismiss the category! Impossible to pick one kind to try.

Connecticut here, Meriden, to be exact. That’s the town where the steamed cheeseburgers originated. The first shop, Ted’s, is still open and operated by Ted’s sons. I don’t eat meat, and Ted used to make me a beautiful steamed cheddar and tomato sandwich. The poppy-seeded rolls they use are also wonderful. What a fun video! Thanks for sharing ❤

And THIS is why we Americans are so “fluffy”! There are too many marvelous food choices! And with that, I’m going to get something to eat!

Chicken fried steak is something that always comforts the heart. And yes, it is grease constricting it, but it's totally worth it ❤

For that bad bison joke, you need to have some Rocky Mountain Oysters.

Funeral potatoes are similar to a hashbrown casserole, but yeah when people bring food for funerals mainly casseroles so the grieving don't have to cook, they are delicious. We make them on holidays

Great video, loved your reactions. No lie, I was going to watch this during my lunch hour (I was in the office today) and its a good thing I didn't because looking at that peach pie, I would have gone over to the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia (just across the street) and bought a peach pie. Comfort food for me is potatoes (mashed, baked, fried, boiled) and cake with occasional ice cream. Crabs and lobsters are bottom feeders. Lobsters, crabs, and shrimp aka prawns (crustaceans) are of a similar family to roaches. No thank you! My Dad would always order crab cakes if we went to a restaurant and they were on the menu. Chicken and dumplings in South New Jersey is called "Chicken Pot-Pie" which is far more of a comfort food for South Jersey (which is all of New Jersey below New Brunswick) than Pork Roll. I thought that chocolate covered potato chips (crisps) was madness until I tried them. They are so good. Scrapple is not a go to comfort food, its an acquired taste. In Philly, we love our cheesesteaks and our soft pretzels.

Comfort food is usually (but not always) a high-calorie food, though not necessarily sweet. It's a food that makes you happy when you eat it, often because it reminds you of loved ones, good times during childhood, or other happy memories.

Perhaps saying " the only time Ive eaten crab " rather than " the only time ive had crabs" might be a better way of saying it lol .

You are correct about these being available only in certain places. Some of the foods you've shown, like the fry bread taco, I've never seen before. Many of these are nationwide.

It varies on how widespread cuisine is. Biscuits are like soft pillowy inside and slightly crunchy exterior.

8:45 Have you never had grilled corn? Next time you cook burgers on the grill throw some corn on husk and all. keep turning it over hot coals until the husks have all burned off but one and you can see the kernels start to uncover... at least that's how I cook them close to the flames so the husks dry, burn, and smoke the corn as well as act like a built in timer. Wrap them in foil to rest with the burgers and you have sweet and smokey grilled corn.

Scallops w/angel hair pasta sauteed in garlic butter with asparagus sun dried tomatoes, blackened corn with seasoning topped with cilantro, Halibut grilled, as well as salmon steak grilled, wait orange roughy grilled, grilled swordfish....and here in Las Vegas where restaurants are open 24 hours a day with awesome deals graveyard shifts meaning around 12am to 6am you can get 2-4 eggs pancakes bacon sausage and Hash browns for about $1.50 at local casinos not on the strip.. not too many all you can eat buffet's any more.. but

Utah here: funeral potatoes got their name because mormon funerals are also typically a potluck affair. You make a huge ammount of one food item and bring it to the funeral for the whole neighborhood to share. Theyre a staple at weddings and other parties too. Hot tip: add dill , green onion and black pepper, and skip the crumbled topping. Thats my moms recipe and she had the best one in the neighborhood for years. The other relief society ladies got pissed at her because hers were better than theirs and they always got left with an oversized pan of leftovers 😂

I love your reactions. Makes me smile every time.

Comfort food is something you eat when feeling bleh, had a rough day and it feels like the food is giving you a nice even reasuring hug. 😊

Just FYI with most of these foods it's not that you can't find them in other states but because of their popularity you're much more likely to find them in their home states. Just check a menu or if you see something close and have a chill chef (and the restaurant isn't busy) they'll probably add/take away whats needed to get as close as possible. As for the lobster roll there is a hot and a cold version and many debate which is better. Im a cold fan and yes I lived in MA for years but I get called out all the time saying hot is the only way to go. Either way a lobster roll will absolutely blow your tits off if and I must emphasize IF it prepared correctly and simply.

Funeral Potatoes are basically potato au gratin. Some potatoes are cubed or sliced and turned into a casserole, to put it simply. Quick, easy, and great for gatherings. Found at funerals quite often here in Utah.

I was born and raised in Pennsylvania and stayed there till I got married when I was 21 years old. So, for 21 years straight, I never heard of, not just ate, but never heard of Scrapple. Nobody I know from the state has heard of it either. What I would consider the comfort food of PA, is the Italian Hoagie. Kind of like a sandwich from Subway, it is a footlong loaf of Italian bread cut in half long-ways and has American cheese, Provolone cheese, Bologna, Ham, and Turkey, with Mayonnaise on top. You eat it like a big sandwich. That's what every school marching band/club around Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Hanover, and a couple other large cities would sell to fundraise field trips. Plus, there were loads of restaurants and shops selling them, including Giant Eagle, Sam's Club, and Walmart.

Stuffies are a Rhode Island must but usually also have chorizo in them due to the large Portuguese community here.

Here in WV “funeral” potatoes go by “cheesy” or “scallop” potatoes as well as funeral… it just depends on the family. Also they’re made with shredded or diced potatoes. I make mine with diced potatoes, family size can of cream of chicken, a whole small onion diced, 16 oz of sour cream, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and a ton of shredded cheddar. I leave off the corn flakes. But bread crumbs can be nice.

They're all lovely. The "shrimp" in the jambalaya is crawfish. A freshwater crustacean. Really, any of the fish dishes in this video are good. Most of them can be found all over. It's just started in those states and they're the best at preparing them. Chicken fried steak is also wonderful in a sandwich.

Comfort food is what your mom made for you on a cold rainy day. Ours was grilled cheese sandwiches with navy bean soup. I still make it and it's like a warm hug - and I always think of mom.

Zucchini = courgette. Americans use the Italian word, Brits use the French. Don't ask me why.

Comfort Food is something that comforts your soul, fills your belly & you fall asleep after eating. Louisiana here, ours should have been Gumbo ✌🏻

I make a few comfort foods at home for my family and all from scratch. Blueberry buttermilk hotcakes (pancakes cooked in bacon grease), sausage gravy with buttermilk biscuits, fried chicken with honey mustard BBQ sauce, and smoked brisket. Absolutely delicious!

Food ie "comfort" foods are usually brought to the family at the wake after the funeral to be shared with the guests present to pay their respects to the departed and the family and then to feed the fammily for several days after to eleminate their need to cook while mourning. Usually the most common items brought are casseroles like this ffuneral potatoes dish.

Most all of the foods can be found in most all of the states. This video was about the more popular dishes in each state. But as I said can be found across the country. What happens with this type of video is that they just have to find out usually where a specific food that still exists was invented or discovered or first made. And I'll tell you what it seems in America. At least how difficult it would be to only choose one comfort food per state when there's probably a dozen or a dozen and a 1/2 in each state.

Chocolare covered pretzels are everywhere but flip over chocolate dipped potato chips... Okay here's one... you love a nice brown beef gravy on your mashed potatoes right? Try that gravy on your fries(chips) with some cheese. Poutine is what it is called. Smear some peanut butter on your pancake before putting the syrup on. Thats how you can tell if someone is really from New Hampshire/Vermont/Maine. Absolutely have crab again, and those Maryland crab cakes might be the easy in for ya. If you get the chance at a lobster roll take that chance. As a native Mainer it MUST be on a split top butter toasted bun, with just a touch of mayo and a squeeze of lemon. That is it... nothing else except maybe a touch of lettuce. Don't let someone sell you over complicated crap. New England Clam Chowder(white) and Manhattan Clam Chowder(contains tomatoes) are old american cuisine and have some mind blowingly good representation out there... but they are everywhere and not all of em are good. Don't despair and give it a second try sometime if the first isn't great.

25:35 Pepperoni rolls generally DO NOT have peppers, onions in them, nor marinara sauce. The most common additional filling is mozzarella cheese. OG rolls have ONLY a stick of pepperoni (NOT THE ROUNDS) and as the bread bakes, the orange grease from the pepperoni permeates the soft bread inside. Some people like to top them with all of the things mentioned in the video, but most people simply eat the meat in the bread. NOTE: Pepperoni rolls can be found at pretty much every gas station and convenience store in West Virginia, but are actually illegal in some states because of the meat inside the bread not being refrigerated.

As a Utah born, funeral potatoes got their name because we do serve them at a reception after a funeral. Loved ones friends and family gather after to help mourn and grieve and eat.

Breaded tenderloin sandwiches are fantastic. Add some onion, pickles, mustard and ketchup. I’m originally from the Midwest and moved to Oregon for 10 years. I couldn’t find a tenderloin sandwich anywhere. Now I’m back in the Midwest and keep looking for new places to get them.

Born, raised, and currently living in Missouri. I can assure you that T-Ravs (Toasted Ravioli) are absolutely AMAZING. There are grocery stores that sell them frozen and come in either beef or three/four cheese varieties, but they are absolutely better when homemade. The quick shortcut is to buy a bag of regular frozen ravioli, thaw them out, and toss them in egg and breadcrumbs and use a good jarred marinara sauce. Also, Chicken and Dumplings are a HUGE staple in the south and are amazing to eat as well.

Of course we can make food from differ regions across the country, but certain recipes and ingredients tend to inform our food choices. The midwest has lots of grain and livestock so their diet tends to lean towards meat, poultry, dairy, and corn or wheat... anywhere in the "Bible belt" aka mid-america farm country (and the south too) will also have so many types of casseroles to take to church potlucks. The southwest has a lot of influence from Mexican flavors and tends to have more beans and spice. The northeast coast has a lot of lobster and crab and fresh seafood. The west coast grows a lot of fruits and veggies and tend to be very fresh healthy eating. And the southern gulf has lots of seafood, fruit, and a long tradition of deep-frying anything they can. But we all share our customs and can find all sorts of cuisine in various forms of "authentic" all over. And eventually even the local "secrets" get distributed around. Especially if a big name food company or restaurant chain is inspired like Red Lobster taking seafood across America or Buffalo wings being so ubiquitous that I just now realized that they originated in Buffalo NY and are mot in fact named after the animal. We also love our fusion-ethnic foods. Chinese takeout, Tex-Mex (Mexican American), Mediterranean bowls, Italian pasta, Korean BBQ, Indian curry... people all over will enjoy discovering new foods!

If you like sweet corn you should try "corn fritters" It is a good deal of work but so worth it. I grew up with this delicacy that originated in Puerto Rico(my aunt married & live in Puerto Rico). Two ears per person, strip the kernels from the cob into a bowl. Add 1 egg per six ears as a binder. Get a flat top griddle (usually electic; unless you have a flat top on your stove. You serve these as 2 inch (5 cm) rounds on the griddle,(use ghee for less smoke/burning) let them firm up, flip til brown and serve with loads of butter, salt & pepper as soon as they come off the griddle. The cook will be busy for at least 45 minutes depending on how many people. Nothing better.

Idk what this video is talking about, but the most popular New Mexican comfort food is green chile stew. That meatball stew looks like some Las Cruses shit.

Fried green tomatoes sounds odd, but they are SO good. Especially if fried in bacon grease. Lobster resembles crab in taste, but the texture is different. I'd suggest monkfish with drawn butter or catfish, or shrimp, but make sure they season the shrimp AND the batter. You could probably get most of these dishes in most local restaurants, just unlikely to be as good, unless it's on the menu.... exceptions sea/ocean and lake foods. Not all. But many I think unless they just don't have the ingredients. Buckeyes - think Resees cups - but better.

funeral potatoes, party potatoes, or cheesy potatoes are all different regional names for the dish like cornhole v. baggo. everyone's got a different family recipe. in my experience, the term funeral potatoes comes from a formal funeral + wake where people give sympathy to family members of the deceased, who are at the funeral home all day. there is usually a back room/kitchenette for said family members to excuse themselves where there is usually a spread of food, potluck style. some people even get funerals catered. it's also a way to make sure grieving people feed themselves. anyway if you're in the midwest having a potluck, gathering, or holiday meal, keep an eye out for the funeral potatoes cuz you blink and they're gone.

The ingredients are always reflective of the area. Look close at the ingredients and there is the building block of Comfort Food

We never called those "funeral potatoes" and I was like "WHAT!?" the first time I heard them called that. When I was growing up, we called them "Party Potatoes". We also never topped it with corn flakes...ours were topped with crunched up potato chips.

4:03 “Something Shrek would eat” 🤣 That’s a new one and I only have 3 US friends so I hear a lot of different ways people describe our food 😂

Im not from south carolina but i go there quite often. I never seen piminto cheese anything. South carolina staple i noticed are: Chocolate or carmel pralines ( candy) Low country boils. Pot steamed with shrimp or crab legs , smoked sausage, corn on the cob, red potatoes..in a buttered thyme sauce with cheapeake bay seasoning.

As someone who has lived in the American (USA) South almost all his life I was really surprised that "sausage gravy and biscuits" didn't get an honorable mention. I do live in middle Tennessee so do know a thing or two about Nashville Hot Chicken and I can tell you almost all the restaurants get it wrong: the spice is one note (all cayenne) and the sides (meant to remove the heat and add to the chicken's flavor) often suck (mac-n-cheese, potato salad, God forbid "French Fries" are served). Good Nashville Hot Chicken has a layer of flavors: hot, sweet, and complex. I mean cayenne powder, brown sugar, citrus, thyme, sage, paprika, jalapeno powder, even ghost pepper powder are in the mix. You want the flavor in the first few seconds, then the heat comes in, in waves from the different peppers. Good sides like a creamy potato salad remove the heat and give you a reprise before the next bite of chicken.

As a Utahn I can confirm that funeral potatoes are indeed eaten at funerals. Everyone has their own version, but they are one of my favorites to eat even if not at a funeral. 😋

I’ll never understand why every video like this defaults to Clam Chowder for Massachusetts. I’m a native Massachusetts citizen and the only time I’ve seen it ordered at a restaurant was once by people visiting thinking they were getting a classic New England dish. Instead, by far the dish ordered most often by family that have moved away and came back to visit has been fried clams! Every one I know when they return beelines it to a clam shack for fried clams. My pick for Massachusetts would be entirely different. I would pick Chocolate Chip Cookies which were invented in Massachusetts and are wholly iconic American to the core!

Funeral Potatoes are so versatile. Basically, they are hash brown potatoes, cream of something soup, sour cream and shredded cheese. Vary the soups and cheeses. Use add-ins like cubed ham, asparagus, broccoli, etc. Use frozen Potatoes O'Brien for a flavorful take or try Tater Tots. Go wild. Then there is the topping. Crushed crackers, potato chips, corn flakes, or tortilla chips with a bit of melted butter. Make and freeze ahead of time. Bake it at home and reheat at the gathering place. Make it vegetarian or carnivorous. Yum!