to think there is something wrong with Americans?

[TheBloodManCometh]

In Colorado, here for 5 weeks.

Why the HELL is there a half inch gap on either side of the door in all public toilets?? You can see everything going on!!!
This has been the case everywhere I've been in America?
AIBU to be both baffled and embarrassed

lighthearted btw. I don't really think there's something wrong with the Americans

Those buns were a lot more expensive than the standard finger rolls I have used before and since, feel even more ripped off now!

No idea what fried potatoes in icing sugar could possibly be.

Sweet and salty flavors together are common, so bacon and maple syrup is a Thing. Our breakfasts are sweeter, but mostly in restaurants. Like waffles, pancakes, french toast. Usually with bacon and fried potatoes on the side. But it is a treat for most people. A typical daily breakfast is something like eggs and toast, or oatmeal, or cereal.

Oh I wish we had American style biscuits and mash with gravy in KFC here.

Corn on the cob, beans and COLESLAW just isn't the same.

French toast surprised me. I had seen it in TV with sugar, strawberries etc, I was gobsmacked when I realised it was just eggy bread :o (Thank you MAS*H!)

I cant imagine eating sweet eggy bread, sounds revolting!

Halsall Nilla wafers are a brand of biscuits that are used as the crust in some cream pies. Usually vanilla flavored, hence the name, but I suppose there are also chocolate ones.

Graham crackers are used as cheesecake crusts, those are dry honey biscuits.

Other than that one brand, we have the wafers you described, and your post confused me for a moment, I thought of those first!

wants boston market style meatloaf, sweetcorn, cornbread and gravy right now

Bogey I had the most AMAZING freshly made French toast at a hotel in the depths of Pennsylvania - I had thought it would be horrible but it was heaven! It was April but there was a freak snowfall and the fifties-style hotel dining room was playing Sinatra as I are my French toast and gazed out at the garden where snow was falling. It was like a Bing Crosby movie

*ate my toast

We also have these wafers. They are a bit harder to find. You can make pie crust with them or an ice box cake by layering them with whipped cream.

I live in Texas and agree that American bread is horrible and sweet ..... but I now buy loaves from a bakery and ask them to slice them, they are just fine and not sweet at all. Lots of stuff is very sweet but you don't have to buy it all. I find the fruit and veg dept in uk supermarkets for example very disappointing in terms of
quality and variety and couldn't find any green veg juice anywhere in the uk this summer .... I normally have 5 or 6 brands to choose from in my supermarket in the USA....

Scone and letter, aha! Thank you. So they're more like thin biscuits that you can crumble up, looking at that pic.

To me, 'wafers' means things like this:

I'm sorry, OP, but to say that American food is gross is sort of like saying food is gross. I don't know where you are, but we as a nation have a huge variety of different cuisines and a long history of culinary innovation. For example, here in Florida there is a distinctive cuisine, influenced by traditional Southern cooking, Caribbean cuisine, and Spanish-Cuban food.

I agree that a lot of the cheaper food is not very good, but that is true everywhere I think. I also agree that standard pre-packaged supermarket bread is not very good, but I can get very good bread from any number of bakeries where I live.

I had the most amazing food in New York. I'm hungry remembering it.

And also, oddly enough, in a small town in Michigan. Though to be fair, there I also had a lot of revolting food, as you'd expect of small crappy towns anywhere.

scone is right. There's crap food everywhere -- believe me, I had plenty in England too. You can't say all American food is gross, you just need to find the good stuff.

To all Americans

Graham is pronounced Gray-Um, not Gram.

That is all

:o

I know the biscuits and gravy are a sconey cakey thing with sauce made after frying sausage, but it still sounds 'orrible! I think it may be one of those things that tastes better than it sounds, given that so many people love them!

I apologise, a sweeping generalisation.
All the food the family have here is nasty.

I am not fond of biscuits and gravy, but biscuits with butter and jelly jam, that's fine eating.

I just have to tell you that my screen truncated that to:

I am not fond of biscuits and gravy, but biscuits with butt

Personally, I'd rather have the gravy than butt (though I suppose it's basically rump.)

The food in New Orleans is fab. I agree there is cheap shite everywhere and when you haven't got much money you make do with it.

We do eat pork butt... that would be the shoulder of a pig.

Don't ask me to explain that one.

Ha! Well, ham biscuits are very good, too.

(And my brother would be annoyed if you said his name was Gram. We have regional accents too!)