New Zealand Family React to American Food The Rest of the World Finds Weird (THIS GOT VERY WEIRD...) 

Meatloaf is absolutely delicious I love meatloaf. I would cry if there wasn't enough meatloaf for second or third helping when I was a kid

What you may find interesting is that many foods that are served in american homes are recipes brought from Europe that haven't changed in generations. Our swedish exchange students were shocked when we served them a swedish dinner; which they denied that it was Swedish only to find out that when their parents came for a visit that our recipe was exactly like how their grandparents made that dinner.

Your daughter is smart her willingness to try something new is a good thing. We have a saying in America " Don't knock it until you try it." I try any food and decide afterwards if it's something i like or not.

Meatloaf is indeed a popular southern dish - and when cooked well, it is really good.

I can't believe meatloaf isn't a dish world wide it's so easy to make and is a satisfying meal. We would make cornbread and milk gravy to go with it. awesome.

Meatloaf remains one of my favorites, even today. Although what most people don’t know was that meatloaf was actually designed to stretch 1lb of ground beef into 2lbs of food. It also satisfied the requirements of the food pyramid (if your old enough to remember that) because essentially it had red meat, bread, and eggs which were all good things back then.

I grill my PB&J like a grilled cheese. It’s the bees knees. Some lactose intolerant guests of mine tried it for the first time and have since made this a staple sandwich in their homes. Melted Peanut butter is amazing.

Shrimp and grits is a Cajun dish, The sauce varies some but if you can picture peeled shrimp cooked in a spicy tomato and Alfredo sauce and served on grits instead of pasta. The grits and sauce mixes so perfectly together that it goes down like creamy butter. I am from north east Tennessee ,which makes me a hillbilly, and it isn't something I grew up eating but it is among my favorite Cajun dishes. Love watching your family, keep up the good work.

I've never tried chicken and waffles but it doesn't sound weird to me. Sweet and savory often go well together.

Greetings from the US Southwest. New Mexico to be exact. I can say for sure that the fried rattlesnake thing is weird to us too. It usually isn't something you find in a restaurant. It's more of an "adventure" food that you might find at a state fair. Love your videos. Thank you for posting them.

Grits is familiar to Italians as polenta, the staple of northern Italy in place of pasta. Same thing. When sold as polenta, you may have choices of fineness of grind, but different brands of grits offer that, too. It's all just milled maize, so it's mostly yellow or white. From the Southeastern U.S., you can get naturally orange or blue grits. So it's really not considered strange in Europe or anywhere Italian food is found.

I LOVE to see and hear foreigners reaction to sights and sounds from America. Keep making these videos family from New Zealand! You folks are excellent!!

I’m 52 and have lived in the southeast US all my life. I’ve never had chicken and waffles. Never even heard of it until about 15+ years ago. It started showing up on Food and Travel networks and they kept talking about it being an iconic southern food when most southerners had never heard of it.

The 'chicken and waffles' plater was invented in New York, to cater to the appetites of late night diners looking for both dinner and breakfast. (I originally thought that it was Southern too before I learned this fact)

Chicken and waffles is actually really good. It's similar to bacon that has some pancake syrup on it. Doesn't sound good, but oh man it tastes good. The sweet actually works with the flavor profile of the batter on the chicken.

I made candied yams (kind of like sweet potato casserole, but different) for friends in Sweden. They were sure they wouldn't like it when they saw me make a sauce of honey, molasses, maple syrup and brown sugar to pour over the yams while they were cooking. When I added the marshmallows, they were laughing pretty hard. When they actually ate them, they were VERY surprised and all of them really liked it.

I still remember one of the most unique combinations to make a meal that I ever had- when I was a kid I once spent the night at a friend’s house and breakfast the next morning was memorable. My friend’s Dad was from the south, his mom was Korean, and this was in Hawaiʻi, and this meal combined all 3- Breakfast was Grits, those spicy Korean mini-wings, and fried Spam slices. And it surprisingly worked!

Popcorn is another uniquely American dish. My brother was living in Scotland and locals refused to even try it.

No, I’ve never had it. Would love to see you all do more videos about New Zealand. You have a beautiful country and so much to share.

Hi! from USA (Delaware). Love watching your videos. Keep them coming. The pure enthusiasm is a joy to watch. Pretty darn cool family also!

Scrapple, perfect name as the ingredients (from Wiki) are a mush of pork scraps and trimmings combined with cornmeal and wheat flour, often buckwheat flour, and spices. It is primarily found in the Mid-Atlantic states, especially in Pennsylvania.

Chicken and waffle is a southern classic that you should try

Sam & Nadine - PLEASE try buttermilk with cornbread. I grew up eating this as a child. And if you live in any of the Southern states in the USA, this is a very popular combination! All you do is crumble cornbread into a glass until it is about halfway full of cornbread crumbs. (Make sure the crumbs are about the size of an American penny - not too small). Then, fill the glass the rest of the way up with buttermilk. Stir well. Use a spoon to eat it. YUM! This was a comfort food to me as a child and still is since I have fond memories of my Dad sitting with me when he came home from work. We would sit together and eat this while watching TV together. PLEASE try it!

The US is so large that there are a lot of regional foods and some of those listed are not common or readily available everywhere. Except PB &J of course. Everyone has had a PB & J.

Meatloaf depends a lot on the recipe. In some ways, it’s like a solid loaf of burger. A restaurant near me has an entrée they call the “mile high meatloaf “ because of how tall it is. ( The joke is that they simply turn the meatloaf on its side so it looks like it’s standing “tall”.)

My grandmother was from the south. She would make eggs, bacon and grits on the weekends. I can almost taste the delicious gravy that went on top. It was so good. I only ate peanut butter and jelly during the summer vacation. It was easy, quick and you didn't have to cook it. Our food didn't always have so much sugar in it. Around 1980 someone had the bright idea to put high fructose corn syrup in everything. That's why bread is so sweet and so many people are obese.

When I make a meatloaf, I don't refer to it as a loaf. I call it a spicy meatcake. Bread is made into a loaf, since cake is also sort of a bready-thing, I call it a cake. I do so because the way I cook it, the glaze I apply throughout the baking process is added in thin layers periodically over the cooking time all over the surface.I also remove the pan after forming the meat to allow more surface area to be exposed. I'm not a fan of marshmallows on sweet potatoes. Butter, brown sugar, and salt does it right as rain.

I like my sweet potatoes cut into chunks and baked with butter, salt and Emeril's Essence (Emeril Lagasse's signature seasoning blend). Definitely not as sweet, and they go very well together.

My mother grew up with a very plain midwestern diet, so when she joined the Navy and began meeting people from all over the country as well as from all over the world, she learned a lot about food from other cultures. Growing up, she always told me and my siblings to keep an open mind and try everything at least once. My mother also loved cooking and either learned from friends or taught herself how to cook dishes from many cultures, and she even passed on that love of cooking and exploring food from all over the world to me. It's why I work as a restaurant chef today. One of my favorite memories from growing up is how me and my mother would sing and dance in the kitchen while cooking. It's also why I love watching you guys cook together as a family, brings back good memories :D

Y’all gotta try hush puppies! As a southerner, it is an essential and tastes amazing combined with pulled pork bbq and some Mac and cheese 👌👌. Greetings from North Carolina 🇺🇸

Also, Frogs Legs are good - sort of like chicken. Note these are made from the hind legs of Bull Frogs - which grow about 2 pounds (1kg) and since jumping is their defense, there legs is where most of their meat is.

There are so many different ways you can alter meatloaf to your liking! I have at least 3 recipes that I use depending on my mood. Also, it you find pop tarts too sweet, try spreading a little bit of butter on the back side just after toasting so it melts into the dry crust. This adds some savory to balance out the sweet

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My first experience with grits was as an adult. I recommend cheese grits. And my family ALWAYS loved my meatloaf. Secret is to add a good barbeque sauce to the recipe. Family would have it hot for dinner & loved meatloaf sandwiches the next day. I have been vegetarian for almost 10 years, so there we are. Blessings to my wonderful NZ Family, from Southern California.

The “secret” to meatloaf is that there are endless ways to prepare it. Which is why many people hate it and many of us love it! I was born in 1949 and I grew up with meatloaf. As a child it was a comforting and delicious partner to mashed potatoes. As a 19 year old housewife on an extremely limited budget, it was a meal that was not only dinner for one night, but also lunches for the next day and left-overs for our next dinner. As a grown woman who has lived in Germany and Sweden for 35 years, meatloaf has become a challenge to the ingredients available to me at the time I have prepared it. EXACTLY as how I imagine and believe how meatloaf was originally “born”. Perhaps I can tempt you to consider grated carrots, masses of garlic, absolutely NO ketchup or tomatoes, fresh mushrooms fried in butter, garlic and wine, naturally onions (you choose which kinds), Boursin cheese, salvia, oregano and basil in your next meatloaf. Food is utterly about survival, not obviously because it is physically essential, but also because It has provided an essential bonding of folk which has insured the growth of civilizations. You must admit, there is something “deliciously” satisfying, uplifting and purely gratifying to one’s soul to share a meal.

Here in Central Pennsylvania we have scrapple or panhaus. Both scrapple and pan haus / pon haus / panhaas (etc.) are variations on the same theme, and some use the words interchangeably. Both include pork (usually the scraps left over after butchering, thus the name "scrapple") and cornmeal (sometimes also buckwheat), boiled together in the meat broth; the distinction is that scrapple seems to be mostly meat with just enough cornmeal to hold it together, while pon haus seems to be mostly cornmeal, with just enough meat for flavoring. It's usually fried for breakfast and topped with syrup but sometimes made for supper.

They didn't mention Scrapple. I recently bought some and another shopper asked me what it was. I told her it's everything left from a pig that couldn't be made into something else (ham, bacon, pork chops, etc.). I think it's very tasty, but I advise people who haven't tried it to not read the ingredients list. I have blocked them from my memory 😂.

Lots of people look at fried okra as very strange. It's one of my favorite side dishes.

Jelly, Jam, and Preserves are three different products here. Meatloaf is great. We’ve used different fillers, from bread, to Italian bread crumbs, to crackers, to oatmeal.

Atlanta, snails, properly prepared, are truly delicious! I encountered them in my early twenties in a French restaurant in San Diego, California and tried them as a dare. Was I ever surprised! I loved them. So I encourage you young woman, Go For It!

I like Atlanta's willingness to try things. I firmly believe in exposing your taste buds to as many flavors and textures as possible. It REALLY opens your mind up when cooking and also to our many cultural differences... Love you guys 😊😊😊😊😊

Frog legs and rattle snake both have a chicken-like texture, but there's definitely an amphibian/reptile note in their flavor. I really like snails. The texture is kinda like steamed mussels n they have a "grassy" flavor. If you're having them in France, they're generally drowning in parsley and garlic butter and served w/ some bread to sop up all the drippings. 💕🍽️

Chicken an Waffles don’t knock it till you try it. The saltiness an spiciness of the fried chicken on waffles with syrup an bourbon butter. Sweet an savory works trust me it’s fantastic. Biscuit an gravy to us is similar to chicken pot pie. Grits aren’t for everyone

I have a recipe that I believe is primarily Pennsylvania Dutch. I live at the Mason Dixon line (the border between Pennsylvania & Maryland.) Southeastern corner of Pennsylvania. The recipe consists of scrapple sliced, approximately 1/4 inch to 3/8 inch thick, fried crispy, but not hard. The sliced scrapple is then served, topped with cottage cheese, which is then topped with apple butter. Yum, yum!!

I was born in the north but now live in the south and love grits with butter and I like frog legs. And my brother makes a fantastic meatloaf. There is one where others would think it strange and the older Southerners know about. It is a wild plant called Polk Sallat or Polk Salad that you take the leaves off boiled them at least one time as it is slightly toxic. You then rinse it and fry in oil or my favorite bacon grease. I like to pour a little apple cider on it on what I eat. I have had it with dandelion weeds and sour vine added to it which makes it Polk Salad.

Peanut butter and sliced dill pickle sandwiches are something everyone in my family enjoys.

From what I've tried, frog legs sauteed in white wine, butter and shallots is delicious. Escargot is a little like eating garlic flavored pencil erasers. And meatloaf, when done right, is amazing.

Not sure where else it might be popular, but in Indiana, we hunt morel mushrooms in the woods (April is “mushrooming” season). Then we clean (you have to soak them in saltwater to draw the bugs out), flour, and fry them in bacon grease. I don’t really like most mushrooms, but I can eat a few of those. 😊 I also seem to recall having them as a side dish for pancakes. The maple syrup goes well with them.

I grew up in the midwest, but my parents are from the south. Grits are one of my favorite dishes. My mom and I often pick out breakfast restaurants based on if they serve grits or not. My favorite way to eat them is with salt, pepper, butter and cheese. The thought of a savory porridge might be weird or off-putting to some, but to me, it's sooo yummy!

Sweet potato casserole is not sweet potatoes with melted marshmallows on top. That dish is called Candied Yams. Sweet potato casserole is mashed sweet potatoes with a caramelized pecan brittle crust on top. And both dishes are delicious

I was always more of a peanut butter and honey guy myself. When the honey crystallizes underneath the peanut butter, it adds a nice sweet crunch to the salty smoothness.

One of my favorite school cafeteria lunches growing up was Potato Boats (bologna boats). Bake bologna until the edges curl into a bowl shape. Place a good size dollop of mashed potatoes in the center, top with grated cheddar cheese and place back in oven until cheese melts. Yum! (Texas)

Sweet and salty often go together in America. Turkey and cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes as a side dish, and chicken with waffles and maple syrup. When KFC first opened they had honey on the tables. I still love it on chicken. Also, grits are similar to polenta.

They completely forgot Elvis presley favorite. Fried peanut butter and banana sandwich.

Americans have jam as well. We make a distinction between jam, which includes fruit pulp, and jelly, which is made with just the juice.

In the midwest many Gen x (latch key kids of the late 70's/80's) grew up making peanut butter and marshmallow creme sandwiches, Or apple and Miracle Whip sandwiches, or Tomato and Mayonnaise sandwiches, and we still eat them!

When I moved to North Carolina, I found that many convenience stores had a couple of hot pots of "boiled peanuts", which could be scooped out into a styrofoam cup. The sounded bad, and smelled worse, but when I tried them, I was instantly addicted. Either the regular (salty) or spicy (and salt) are just wonderful...and twice as good when eaten hot.

I'm from California however growing up as a kid my grandparents who were from back East would always make grits for breakfast and added butter. It was honestly one of my favorite breakfasts to eat as a child and I still find it pretty good.

One of my fav sandwiches is peanut butter, mayonnaise and raisins. I have also tried dill pickle slices in place of the raisins. The peanut butter I use is just peanuts and salt.

One of the restaurants i love does chicken and waffles, but instead of syrup they use a kight brown gravy. Its fantastic

A quick mention to Atlanta, when I was about 8 yrs old a co-worker or my mother's had my mother, brother, and myself over for a 12 course authentic French meal. He was an architect that was born and raised in France, Maurice. He taught me his secret to the BEST fried potatoes, and one of the appetizers was snails or escargot. Keep in mind I was 8, and at the time I was a HUUUUGGGE Strawberry Shortcake fan (if you don't know who that is, all you need to know is her best friend was a snail named Escargot) so when I saw this on the menu I freaked out. Sadly I did what was taught and always try everything once, so I put it in my mouth, and Maurice noticed my face turn BEET RED and barely able to move it in my mouth. He looks at me and says, "the bathroom is that way!" I ran to the bathroom and spit it out and gave the rest to my brother. I thought you might find that story funny. I didn't have a sophisticated pallet back then. LOL

Growing up in my family the one off menu items that all my friends always found weird, and that you should definitely give it a try is peanut butter and bacon on toast. So good.

we have this in southern but it is different because where i am from, arkansas, my mama sometimes makes meatloaf with ketcup and it is good

I like butter and salt in my grits. I just use strawberry jam on my peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches. Sometimes Blackberry jam.

Being from America, I of course grew up eating Hershey bars and enjoyed them. I later worked a confectionary where we made assorted chocolates ( truffles, turtles, haystacks, caramels, cherries etc).I tried the Swiss and other European chocolate. I don't like my chocolate so creamy. Like all food, it kind of depends on what you grew up to know as food.

First of all, most of these I actually have not tried as an American from the north east. Second, one food that is less well known than the PB&J and is regional to where I grew up are "fluffernutters". It is like a pb&j but a marshmellow creme branded as "fluff" is used in place of the jelly.. Fluff was also often used instead of marshmallows in hot chocolate. That right there was my childhood 😭

I live in Cincinnati Ohio. We have a dish called a 3 way. It's Cincinnati style chili (a meat sauce seasoned with cinnamon and cloves poured over spaghetti noodles with lots of cheddar cheese. You can add onions and/or beans to make it a 4-way or 5-way (onions and beans)

Atlanta. Definitely go with the Snails. I had it on a cruise ship, saute in butter, and it was wonderful.

I grew up with hunters and fishers. We ate snapping turtle, frog legs, squirrel, rabbit, deer and catfish whenever it was in season and at game suppers where the community would get together and share what they had hunted during the different hunting seasons. Granted, you're not going to find wild game on the menu at very many restaurants. Except for catfish, that's pretty common, and pretty good.

Our family meatloaf always had ground beef, chopped onion (sometimes green bell pepper) egg and crushed saltine crackers or bread crumbs. A combination of ketchup and brown sugar was poured over the top as a glaze. Delicious. The drippings were good on potatoes.

I'm from Florida and some things that we eat locally are alligator tail (it's battered and fried) and now lion fish (a venomous species of fish that is now classified as invasive in the Gulf of Mexico) Another thing many Southerners eat is chitlins (also known as chitterlings). It is the intestines primarily of a pig in the southern United States, but it can be made from beef, lamb, and goat. It is often paired and eaten as chitlins and grits.

It’s actually crazy how much the daughter looks like the mother and the son looks like the father 😂

As an American... I tend to agree with Europe about Hershey's, Pop Tarts, and white bread. That being said... because they were all a part of my upbringing... every so often I get an irresistible craving for a Hershey's... or even the occasional Pop Tart.

Sweet potato casserole with melted marshmallows on top is one of my favorite desserts. It is delicious and must have during the holidays.

Grits is effectively a version of polenta, a Italian preparation of the same cornmeal

II was fun finding your channel. My oldest Nephew (who was born in Texas) now lives in NZ and works at Weta Digital.

You guys do so many food videos. I may have missed it but have you ever had a backwards day? Dinner for breakfast and breakfast for dinner. Lunch is always lunch but depending what you have for breakfast you might not be hungry by lunch time. I don't know why but eating breakfast foods for dinner is oddly satisfying. My go-to is pancakes or french toast for dinner. Usually on days when I don't have to go to work the next morning.

Being from Pennsylvania, I grew up eating scrapple for breakfast. I know a lot of people who won't even try it but I absolutely love it served with maple syrup!!

Grits are basically polenta made from white corn. They have little flavor by themselves. For breakfast most people use salt, pepper, and butter to flavor them. They'll take on the flavor of anything one might care to add.

Hello to you in New Zealand. We are very welcoming and glad to have you visit our country. I live in a pretty area of southern California by the beach and we love learning about all our visitors. Hope you enjoy your travels! PS - I'm a big foodie like you. We have lots of good local specialities from all over the US so try!

I was recently in Nashville and had a spin on chicken & waffles at a restaurant called The Row - it was a giant slice of french toast topped with Nashville hot chicken, a fried egg, and maple syrup...it was FANTASTIC!

I love meatloaf, but I especially love leftover meatloaf. When it's been in the fridge overnight, you take a big piece of it and make a sandwich with it and that wonderful sliced white bread! Heaven! There was one dish that my father loved that most of the family considered weird. He would love to slice a ripe tomato up, put it in a bowl, and put chocolate pudding over it. Yeah, it's a wonder I wasn't scarred for life!

South during the holidays we have chicken dressing. A dish made with cornbread eggs and chicken broth.

If you try grits DO NOT get “instant” ones. In a pinch get the “quick” ones that take only a few minutes to cook on the stove, but by far the best are stone ground grits. These can be made from yellow, white or even blue corn. Cooking takes 30/45 minutes. These are the real thing, and only in the southern US! Add butter, cheese and some (real) bacon on top! Yes, they are good with shrimp and also with fried catfish!!😮😊

It is not a common food, but a peanut butter and bacon sandwich is so good. My best friends in Highschool family would make them all the time, and if I was there they would ask me if I wanted one. For a long time, I said no, because I thought it sounded nasty. One day I tried it and loved it. It is hard to describe the taste, but the peanut butter cuts the greasiness and salty flavor of the bacon, and the bacon gives the peanut butter a more savory flavor. As to the French foods talked about, Escargot/snails are so good. I order them whenever I see them on a menu. They are not too chewy if cooked right and are normally cooked with a lot of butter, garlic, and other herbs. It is just getting past the thought of what they are. My Grandmother said she would never eat them, But we went to a nice restaurant they were on the menu and we ordered them. She did not know that Escargot was snails and because they looked and smelled so good she asked to try it. She loved them and I waited a few days before telling her what it was. LOL, She was mad that I did not tell her but finally agreed that it was tasty.

I grew up as a Boy Scout in Pennsylvania. While camping or out on hikes we never passed up an opportunity for a "local" meal. That meant hunting or snaring anything around or eating from the woods. I have to say that most of the fun was in the catching of the meal. Getting to eat rattlesnake just tasted better when it was a challenge to not get bitten by your evening meal. A midnight snack was much better when it was fun to catch the biggest bullfrogs after dark. (The legs really aren't small, some are larger than a typical chicken wing). We often had cray fish from streams or grubs from under logs for breakfast. Dinners were enhanced by carefully selected mushrooms and leafy salads. We made juice from Sumac and other berries. If you think you might have a hard time trying something new. just try catching or harvesting it yourself. Its a great adventure and makes the meal more worthwhile.

I would like to put this out there. As a person from the Southern part of the US, the thumbnail caught my attention with the chicken and waffles and that was the only reason I clicked on this video. But I was pleasantly surprised and loved the video and went through and watched some more videos. Now I am subscribed.

My mom was from southern Mississippi, so I grew up loving biscuits, grits, and cornbread (as well as fried okra). But I never heard of "southern style" chicken & waffles until about 10 years ago or so. I was raised in PA Dutch country (near Hershey), and our (PA Dutch style) chicken & waffles is totally different. It's regular waffles topped with chicken that's in a thick gravy, and is delicious! So is another PA Dutch specialty, shoo-fly pie, which I highly recommend trying if you can. We also have red beet eggs and chow chow, among other delicious foods.😋

Both my parents worked for American Airlines. Due to this, I was able to try other cultures foods. Like escargot. It was a bit chewy but it was delicious with garlic butter sauce. I have also tried calamari. They took me to London, England; Paris, France and Narita, Japan. Before I met them I was a ward of the state of Texas. They adopted me at the age of 13. As such, I was fed salmon patties and meatloaf once a week at one of the shelters I lived in. I told them that I did not like either and my mother made meatloaf her way and I was astonished at the flavor. She took the hamburger meat and seasoned it shaped it into a loaf and then placed bacon on top as it hung there it flavored the loaf as it baked. I like to put diced onion in my meatloaf and my husband likes to put bell peppers (different colored ones) as well as onion and tomatoes in it.

I love how with some reactions these days it allows you to reminisce along with us on older videos of trying different things! Love your family wish the best for you guys, thanks for all the videos!

A lot of people put plain salted chips on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Some people do put flavored chips as well. I sometimes put hot sauce on PB&J’s. I don’t eat them much anymore since I’m 27, But they are easy and filling.

Shrimp and grits is one of my favorite dishes. There are lots of variations of it.

Sweet potato casserole is my favorite Thanksgiving Day dessert. Y’all can keep the pecan pies and the pumpkin pies, give me some sweet potato casserole! We don’t put marshmallows on the top of ours, though, just some brown sugar that gets crispy at the edges. 😋

While canadian, we've got some odd balls; old timey dish that survived to today, Ramaki - water chestnut, wrapped in bacon, covered in a mixed paste of brownsugar and ketchup, and baked. Nanaimo bars (dessert) - graham cracker / coconut / butter / cocoa powder base, butter / cream / sugar / cornstartch (or custard powder) middle, topped with melted chocolate

Not really a popular thing here in America, but one of my teachers in elementary school used to talk about this sandwich he would make with lettuce, mayo, peanut butter and cheddar cheese. It sounds weird but I actually tried it and my life has never been the same since. It’s sooo good.

My biscuits are made with both shortening and butter, with buttermilk and sour cream as the moistening agent. Gravy made with a roux made from the drippings from pork breakfast sausage and whole wheat flour, lightly salted, heavily peppered (coarse) and slurried with at least half &half if not full whipping cream. Breakfast of Champions y'all.

Shrimp and grits are SO GOOD. Really unmissable. My own weird combination comes from Mr. Rogers: Take a slice of American Cheese ("plastic cheese"), spread peanut butter on it, and wrap it around a banana (peeled, obviously). Such a great snack, especially for kids (I still eat it as an adult). Another weird American food I love is Mayonnaise and banana sandwiches. It's also southern. Super tasty. I hope you try it!

Chicken and Waffles was created in Harlem, New York. After the clubs closed in the morning, it was too late for fried chicken, but too early for breakfast. Since waffles are easy to make, they added the waffles with fried chicken which is also easy to cook up.

I love sweet potato casserole! I don't use marshmallows. I make the topping with candied pecans and baked in the oven.

Root beer hasn’t been made from sassafras since 1960 when it banned from commercial products. I think many items on this list are exaggerated. The US is not the only country that uses grits, and I find the Hershey bar claim that boyfriends are told to go purchase it for girlfriends just plain odd because the candy is readily available everywhere and is not used as a gift item.