European Reacts to Summer Foods I Only Encountered After Moving to America 

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Yes, he was making a joke with "pechans." Butter Pecan isn't pecan flavored ice cream though, it's butter ice cream with pecans in it. It's pretty tasty.

2 things I would add or change. It's iconic on a hot day to have a root beer float. Get a scoop of vanilla ice cream and pour root beer over it. It is an acquired taste because almost every European that I've seen try it, hate it. Second thing is that having a s'more around a campfire at night is another iconic summertime food.

3:15 laurence's "poor man's" here doesn't mean "lower quality/worse", but rather "made with alternative ingredients". As in "poor man's hotdog" - "we improvised with what we had - not quite traditional, but it'll work!" Kind of like substitutions in a recipe (flour if you don't have corn starch, etc.)

Yes, Lawrence was making a joke. The joke is funnier when you realize that the word "pecan" is pronounced at least three different ways depending on where in the USA you live.

I wonder if he's ever tried a root beer float....which is a root beer with a nice big scoop of vanilla ice cream dropped in....Heavenly!

I'm from Indiana and our pork tenderloin sandwiches are often larger than the dinner plate they're served on. They can easily be 10 to 12 inches wide and sometimes even larger.

Root Beer is not a alcoholic drink, it is a very sweet carbonated drink. It is brewed to make 1 gallon when using 3 pounds of sugar to make it.

Pig racing is about what it sounds like. Pigs wearing numbers run around a miniature track like racehorses. You buy a number one of the pigs and win a prize if your pig wins. Harmless fun.

Be careful about getting into the chilli beans vs no beans.There's strong opinions on both sides that both swear they're way is right.😂😂

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A chili dog is neither Mexican food nor TexMex. I love a footlong chili dog from Sonic!

Typical summer foods: corn on the cob, cooked directly on the grill (shuck the husk); anything on the grill; watermelon; desserts with any summer berries; popsicles and ice cream cones; homegrown tomatoes; zucchini and yellow squash dishes. My favorite birthday dinner (as it's in July), and it's very summery: BBQ ribs, sauteed or broiled asparagus (or simmered all day greens), slaw, baked beans (or mashed potatoes or baked potatoes), warm cornbread with lots of butter, sliced cucumbers and onion in vinegar.

Oh, me, oh my, love me some corn dogs with mustard. Big bowl of macaroni salad, deviled eggs, cowboy beans and oh yes BBQ pulled pork with Cole slaw on top in between a big bun.

In the US, in the frozen section of your local supermarket, you can find boxes full of corndogs...

I love chili dogs. But, I must confess, to avoid the mess, I eat them with a fork.

9:43 Root beer is my absolute favorite soda... And one of the only sodas I will actually still drink.

It is pecan the nut and the ice cream is AMAZING

Rocky Road was one of my favorite flavors growing up.

I worked at Dryers Ice Cream for 10 years. Just outside my office, we had a large freezer full of Haagen-Dazs and Dryers ice cream. We could have as much as we wanted! My freezer at home was packed full at all times:)

Root beer is really a year round drink. The summer version would be the root beer float. This is a glass of root beer with a scoop of vanilla ice cream in the glass and sometimes whipped cream.

It's butter pecan, like the nut because that's what it is. Also, a scoop of vanilla ice cream in a glass of cold root beer (a flavor of carbonated soft drink) is called a root beer float. You get a kind of foamy froth on top. You need both a spoon and a straw to consume it. Very yummy. Also the ice cream is good with an orange soda. If you use chocolate ice cream with the orange soda, it tastes very similar to a tootsie roll.

No, Andre, not all chili has beans added. In fact many people refuse to add beans to chili. The most popular chili in cans comes both with and without beans.

Butter Pecan ice cream is awesome.

I'm surprised he didn't mention Root Beer Float...a wonderful concoction of root beer with a couple scoops of vanilla ice cream, when the soda hits the ice cream it creates a frothy, creamy drink that rivals milkshakes

Butter pecan ice cream is one of my favorites

Back in 1975. Tried "Sonics" in Kanass. Their chili dog was the best garbage food I have eaten since serving overseas. I liked it. That's it.

🤣 Americans often have big, yet differing, feelings about how to pronounce the word "pecan". Lawrence is making a concession to both sides of the debate by pronouncing it a way that BOTH will consider wrong. 😆 Very clever!

The corn dog was invented in Springfield Missouri

My 5 are hamburgers/hot dogs/any bbq, chicken, beef, or pork. Gotta have the grilled vegetables. Corn especially. Fruits, watermelon,pineapple, peaches,plums,oranges,strawberries, grapes ect. Great cooling snack in the warm weather places.

The pecan tree is native to the southern half of the US. Native Americans gave us the word pecan but they didn't tell us how to say it. The root beer float is essential summer fare. A tall glass, one or two scoops of vanilla ice cream in the glass, pour in the root beer. In New Mexico we make our chili dogs with our hot red chile sauce, cooked with ground beef, and lots of cheese. We also put this on fries. Navajo Tacos are also summer fair food.

😂😂😂 Lawrence saying "pechan", made me think of my dear, sweet Granddad calling a pizza, "peacha", and zucchini he called "juizzini". We're Appalachian though, so our dialect is a lot different than most of the rest of the country. I say "wheelbarrie" instead of wheelbarrow, and then get asked, "...a what???", so then had to explain what a wheelbarrie is, and she said, "Aaah, you mean a wheelbarrow!", and I laughed and said, "Yeh!"😂 So many different dialects from so many different cultures. I love listening to folks from all over talk. Had a woman from Pennsylvania tell me one time, "You talk like a hick.", and I said, "Yeh, and you talk like a yankee."😂😂😂

Andre, we'll race anything. Cars, horses, pigs, even babies.

Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream Shop is a chain that sells Ice Cream and is often combined with Dunkin Donuts. They usually have 31 flavors on hand, but the company makes more than 1,400 flavors. Most stores have certain flavors all the time and others rotate in and out.

Today the temp reached 92 F or 33.3 C in Iowa. Yes, a bit warm.

1) The Texas 'version' of a pork tenderloin sandwich is a chicken fried steak sandwich, and it's 100x better. 2) Mint chocolate chip is the best ice cream flavor ever created.

Pork Tenderloin Sandwiches are biggest in Indiana. They are a way of life there.

Yes, a joke. It's pee-can (pecan) Also root beer is best if you make a root beer float. A couple scoops of vanilla ice cream plopped into a tall glass, then fill with root beer.

When o was a kid, Root Beer in a mug had a foamy head.

Corn dogs are delicious plain. But we usually put a condiment on them. Which is mustard and/or ketchup. I like mine with just mustard. With the stick, you can buy one at a stand and just eat it as you walk around the fair. But if you are seated at a table, you can put some mustard on a paper plate . . . . . dip your corndog in the mustard . . . take a bite . . . dip your corndog in the mustard . . . take a bite . . .

Chili Dogs are not Mexican. They are standard American fare. You can get Chili Dogs almost anywhere but not in Mexican food establishments. One of my favorite foods. Make them at home all the time. Pork tenderloin sandwiches are not Texan. They're big everywhere. Tastes great. Love them.

We do pork tenderloin sandwiches here in Montana. They are amazing. Yes, pecan. Butter pecan ice cream is the best.

Pork tenderloin is not just in the Midwest, we eat it year round. I can consume the rest all year but are more prevalent in the summer ☀️

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73 years living in America's southern and mid-western States and I've never heard pecan pronounced that way. Laurence is a brilliant linguist so he must know something we natives don't.... there are three correct pronunciations, two of which are acceptable.

The name comes from the nut itself, that used to be buttered, roasted, and slightly salted before being added to vanilla ice cream. A fine-tuned process of ice cream mfg. At one time Breyer's had the best butter pecan ice cream going...not anymore though, in the same way they don't seem to put as much emphasis on preparing(buttering - roasting) the nuts as they used to, so most BP doesn't taste the same as it used to.

Lawrence didn't mention the Root Beer Float. A scoop of vanilla ice cream in a glass of Root Beer.

I’m American and I’ve always eaten chili dogs with a knife and fork!

My fav chili dog has chili (made without beans, also with chopped white onions & shredded cheddar cheese)

Andre, I love watching your videos. At some point we need to start a gofundme to get you and your family over here for a long visit. I’d like to see your adventures while you spend a couple of months in an RV driving and camping across the USA.

At our neighborhood bbq place they have an amazing dish called a Junkyard Dog. Start with an Oversized hot dog bun, then an oversized all beef hotdog, add bbq chicken or pork, bbq sauce, next bbq baked beans, and everything topped with Cole slaw. You can’t pick this thing up, you have to eat it with a fork and knife. Heavenly deliciousness. It will feed two happy people. 😊

Yes, he's talking about "butter pecan" ice cream. Pecan rhymes with "the can" or "the con" depending on where you are from.

I love corn dogs dipped in mustard. Actually, I love hotdogs with just mustard too. Chili dogs aren't as messy if you put the chili on the hotdog in the bun then put a couple of slices of cheese on top of the chili then toast it in the oven. The cheese helps hold the chili in place a little better.

1942 Mr Fletcher rented a booth at the Texas State Fair. He ran out of hot dog buns, but had corn meal. He inserted a small stick so that they could be eaten while walking around the fair.

I’m American and have never had a pork loin sandwich per se. Imagine that. The Cuban sandwich here in Miami does have pork and is great but not the same thing. Drop a scoop of vanilla ice cream in that root beer to really blow the European mind. Pure goodness.

I love pork tenderloin! I was lucky enough to have learned how to cook a loin before I turned up my nose at a dry and tasteless cut. The secret is to sear the outside first then give it about 20 minutes or so in a 325 degree oven. Check with a thermometer and get it out at least ten degrees less than they tell you. The chance of getting anything from tender juicy pork that isn’t brown clean through is vanishingly small. Once you have given that lovely piece of meat about fifteen to twenty minutes to rest (you can make graveyard to go with it if you want) cut into 1/2 slices and dinner. I like it thinner for sandwiches that I can bite right through.

Chili dogs were invented by Greek restaurants in Detroit...which makes the name "Coney Islands" a little weird given that Coney Island is in New York. However, a friend from upstate New York says that they are called "Michigan Dogs" where he comes from.

The pork tenderloin Sandwich is from the Midwest. As a rule the tenderloin must be much bigger than the bun! Mustard onion and pickles are the only acceptable toppings haha.

ROOT BEER is also better for you as a DARK soda cuz it does NOT have phosphorus which other dark sodas have. people with kidney disease should avoid dark sodas [w/phosphorus]. it is also low in potassium. ALSO for non-americans, try putting a couple scoops of vanilla ice cream in a MUG and then fill the mug with ROOT BEER soda. you now have a Root Beer Float [spoon and straw recommended]. 10/10

The pork tenderloin sandwich is identical to a schnitzel sandwich. In fact German and Austrian immigrants to the mid-west (not just IN you can find it all over the MidWest) brought it with them. Traditionally, root beer was made with sassafras bark as well as the root, hence "root beer", and wintergreen. It was, yep brewed in a syrup sweetened with molasses. Sassafras does have some medicinal qualities for pain relief and anti-inflammatory. Commercial use of sassafras was banned in the 70s after high doses in lab animals showed carcinogenic effects.

Italians in WV created a no-mess, no-beans, 'chili' dog that burns twice.

Cincinnati chili is different from a tex-mex chili. You'll often find the former on chili dogs.

Sassafras root is not only used to make root beer soft drinks, but the root is also used in some medicines. I use sassafras root bark to make a spring tonic tea. The herbal remedy has many health benefits.

When I was a kid, corn dogs were much more of a regional food. I had never even seen one until I went to college. One day the cafeteria served them. Chili dogs are usually made with a sauce that isn't quite like the chili you eat as a soup. In some areas of the country, the chili sauce has a cinnamon and is seasoned somewhat differently than regular chili. The chili dog has little to do with Mexican food. Now Sonoran hot dogs... (Invented in Hermosillo, Sonoran hot dogs are wrapped in bacon, served in a bolillo bun, and topped with pinto beans, onions, tomatoes, jalapeño salsa, mayonnaise, and mustard.) Down here in Texas, it would a chopped BBQ brisket sandwich not a deep fried pork loin. We grill in the summer. (Because watching your host sweat to death next to a hot grill on a 100F day, while you're seated in the air conditioning, is a special kind of sadistic.) Hamburgers, chicken, steaks, brats.... Served with cold salads and baked beans or ranch-style beans.

My soul died a little every time he said "Pechawn" It's pecan...pronounced like pe kawn, oh, he did us so dirty on that one

New England 4th of July dinner is poached salmon, boiled new potatoes and fresh peas. It's all food you could catch or harvest from your garden after a long hard winter.

Butter pecan. And pecan pie. It is the nut pecan

Well pork tenderloin is all over the USA not just the midwest

My favorite pig races were also a pig raffle. Kansas State Fair, Hutchinson Kansas, sometime in the 1970s. My dad had a winning ticket 14/12. Pig # 14 came in twelfth, and we got about 150 pounds of cuts from the butcher a few days later. We had roasts, ham, barbecue, bacon, etc. in our freezer for the rest of the summer.

Barqs is most popular root beer in the south, and it originated in Biloxi MS.right across the bay from my hometown Ocean Springs. And it’s puh-con (pecan)

I worked at a Place called “Triple X”, a Root-beer stand in Renton, Washington State. We made lots of different root-beer drinks, in heavy root-beer mugs. It was a very popular place. You could come inside to eat, or park at “the curb” in your car, and order through a speaker. Then we would bring it out to you on a tray and put it on a tray by your car window. At some places the servers wore roller skates. We made a drink called a frosty, which was basically a rootbeer and ice cream milkshake. Yummy! Ice cream floats with soft serve ice cream are also to die for! Triple X burgers in a basket with fries were a huge seller also, and Friday nights it was a hot spot for fancy cars and young people meeting up. There are still places like these around the country. A&W had the same type of restaurants, and their root beer is still famous.

The winter version of a chili dog is a chili size, with a z not a d. It is a grilled hamburger bun with a thick grilled hamburger on it topped with lots of chili, raw onion and lots of shredded cheddar cheese. Best summer ice cream is homemade fresh peach.

My favorite summertime/ warm weather foods include bbq chicken, bbq ribs, potato salad, grilled corn on the cob, cold watermelon, root beer floats, popsicles, all flavors of ice cream except coffee, coleslaw, fruit salad, & fresh strawberry pie with whipped cream, just to name a few. I was born & raised in California, so we can grill most of the year. 😊

Root beer : carbonated & sweetened sassafras tea ! Great with vanilla ice cream called a 'black cow'.

Laurence said Pringles not pickles. Pringles are potato chips that are stackable and sold in a tube with a lid,.they come in different flavors and you can stack them to create different flavors. The marketing for them is once you Pop.yiu can't stop! Meaning once you pop one into your mouth.you can't stop

The beans or no bean chili discussion is REAL in America.

I like a chili dog with no beans with chopped onions, cheese, sweet pickle relish, and plain yellow mustard. It's a mess but so good.

We have a lot of ice cream flavors like mint chocolate chip and lemon cheesecake and snickers and Reese’s peanut butter cup or Reese pieces and Oreo and caramel pecan and peanut butter and jelly etc

I want to mention that root beer tends to taste weird to a lot of Europeans because it uses the same flavoring that apparently a lot of their medicines add to try to make them taste better. Its amazing if you don't have that association though. And as a lot of people have mentioned, add a scoop or three of vanilla ice cream to get a root beer float!

Ceiling fans have 3 speed. Hi, lo , slow. But the new ceiling fans have remote control. Most a/c are central. This means you have an a/c unit on the outside of your home with a control box inside your home.

chili dogs aren't Mexican or TexMex & people get into arguments bout beans or no beans....root beer floats are LOVE....A&W is the most popular brand plus they have fast food burger restaurants where you could get a root beer float in an ice cold glass mug that you got to take home....the other popular brand is called Barq's....there's a similar drink called Sarsparilla which I love but isn't as easy to find anymore....I actually know a place where you can get a milkshake that has fruity pebbles in it....Rocky Road & Butter Pecan is such good ice cream flavors

Because temperance movements were very common in US history, we have a lot of soft drink flavors that are medicinal tasting. Until the invention of the seltzer bottle they were fermented to contain as little alcohol as possible but did, indeed, contain alcohol so you had to use the medicinal qualities as an excuse. Root beer is a soft drink with a base of sassafras, licorice, ginger and wintergreen (among other flavors). Sarsaparilla is made from a root of the same name. Birch beer is made from birch bark and/or sap and tastes like wintergreen (true wintergreen is an evergreen shrub with pink berries and is the flavorant of pepto bismol) Black cherry is a popular soda flavor not because of the fruit but because of the bark- which was also originally an ingredient in root beer. Basically we’ll ferment anything to see what it tastes like.

Chili dogs are all American food, not TexMex or Mexican food. I do not put beans on my chili dog or chili when I make it from scratch.

Laurence means butter pecan ("k" sound) and it is my FAVORITE ice cream flavor!...YUM YUM!🍦🍦🍦

I’m from metro Detroit & we have our own version of a coney dog. The chili is bean free & ours are served with raw onion & mustard. In Detroit there are 2 coney restaurants next to each other who have been rivals since the mid 1920s. It is a staple comfort food here!

The pig races are at fairgrounds. The young pigs are easily taught to run the track because there is food at the end.

The pork tenderloin was invented in Huntington Indiana and they are really good. Sometimes they are so large that you can share the sandwich.

Root beer doesn’t have alcohol in it. It’s a fizzy drink like Pepsi. We call carbonated drinks “pop” where I come from.

Hot and humid 35°C here in Florida. ❤

Florida, US, here. I love your reactions.

Butter pecan is amazing, and another flavor called pecan praline. This is vanilla ice cream, butter pecans with a caramel ribbon . It's so good.

The first corn dog on a stick was in Springfield, IL.

Andre, believe it or not, there is something at many state fairs called pig racing, and it's just as it sounds. Little pigs run around a track as fast as they can, to the delight of the hundreds of fairgoers. Chili dogs were actually invented in Los Angeles. Some Europeans don't like root beer, saying it has a taste of medicine because it's made from sassafras, but it's my favorite soft drink. When he mentioned butter peshon ice cream, he was changing the pronunciation of butter pecan just "for giggles".

Corndogs from any set up where they are fresh-made are generally great. And of course if you make them yourself you can tailor the experience. But the frozen ones they sell in big boxes in the supermarkets are generally made from cheaper ingredients, so your mileage will vary there. Butter-pecan is my favorite flavor too, unfortunately it’s getting harder to find in my area.

Oh honey, you don't know heat until you've seen a southern summer. We count it as a miracle if there's no heat index warning. And the humidity here his enough to leave a person gasping. 😂

There is an ice cream bar in the US identical to what he called the "feast" bar. It is from a company called Good Humor and comes in strawberry or chocolate. You don't see the chocolate as often because the strawberry flavor bar is more popular.

Apparently Europeans have been prejudiced against root beer because many of their childhood medicines are flavored with the same herbs. "Ooooh, it tastes like medicine!". I'm so sorry that your enjoyment of this flavor has been subverted.

the way he pronounced pecan is killing me!

The best ice cream flavor is Pralines and Cream, which is a vanilla ice cream mixed with candied pecans and swirls of caramel. 😋

LOVE ROOT BEER! We used to make our own, hubby would go up on our mountain and dig the sassafras root up to make it.