To adore American food and snacks? Please share your favourites

[giantwaterbottle]

I don't actually think I'm unreasonable though my husband does!

Americans please tell me about your favourite American meal or snack, or even better, both!

These are fried clam strips, I forgot to attach the pic

I first went to the US in the early 70s when I was 18, we didn't even have MacDonald's in the UK then. My fav. thing was Gram crackers (don't know if that's how you spell it) stuck together with marshmallows melted on a camp fire.

@FrancesHaHa - I can always buy mint and strawberry cheesecake Oreos as well as birthday cake and golden ones.

@Doobydoo thank you!! American fizz is amazing! Just what I was looking for. It's going to cost me now

@giantwaterbottle You are most welcome!

Gram crackers (don't know if that's how you spell it) stuck together with marshmallows melted on a camp fire.

Graham crackers and if there was chocolate in there too, you had S'mores. One of my favorites.

Is there anything similar to Graham crackers in the UK ?

Thank you RowenaRaven
For some reason I had it in my head that they were kinda mushed up clams, shaped into strips and fried, like a clam chicken nugget/jerky hybrid

I think the closest to a Graham cracker is a digestive? They seem to be interchangeable in recipes.

My favourites (both totally unhealthy)

1. American fudge - it's sooo nice. I like the Rocky Road one best
2. butter popcorn - at its best fresh from the cinema or similar

Honey graham crackers are wonderful and I dip mine in milk. They're not overtly sweet

Goldfish crackers
Mozzarella sticks - I know you can get them here but over there you get a whole pile of them and they're massive.
Bagels, real ones, with pastrami or salt beef
The way you get a pickle on your plate with everything especially sandwiches
Some of the best sushi ever

Proper Mountain Dew. The stuff we had over here was a poor imitation even before Jamie Oliver’s STUPID sugar tax made them switch to artificial sweetener...

Fried clam strips are just clams fried without the belly.

I find it strange on American Tv shows and in books how they refer to these processed, packaged foods as if they were a “real” food/ ingredient. I can’t explain what I mean! They said something like “Oreos” or “twinkies” as if they are saying “carrots” or “rice” or something.

You can get great sushi/Japanese food here, in a city at least.

@GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing

I find it strange on American Tv shows and in books how they refer to these processed, packaged foods as if they were a “real” food/ ingredient. I can’t explain what I mean! They said something like “Oreos” or “twinkies” as if they are saying “carrots” or “rice” or something.

I do understand what you mean, but if the recipe uses chopped oreos everyone would know that it's the packaged cookie. You wouldn't need to explain that it's a packaged food.

I have never seen a recipe with Twinkies as an ingredient. Oreos, yes. Graham crackers, yes and yes again.

Franks buffalo sauce, peanut butter anything (m&m’s, snickers), blooming onions - can’t remember the restaurant but it was outrageously good. Any and all Disney snacks! Snapple drinks and cinnamon rolls from belz outlet malls in Florida! Nom nom!

I'm afraid I found the snacks and other popular foods in the US too artificial - plastic "cheese", artificial "cream" (kool whip, I think it was called), revolting vegetable fats called "shortening", horrible hypersweet "cakes" (do Twinkies still exist?), disgusting donuts, nasty overly sweetened candy and chocolate bars and, to cap it all, virtually everything covered in peanuts!
No thanks! I'd rather have a glass of water and an apple (but sadly the apples weren't very nice either, a bit tasteless).

Red lobster biscuit mix is incredible!

@ToastTriangles

Chesters puffcorn and the muffins and pies from perkins

I love you. The puffcorn is what I miss the most. I made my husband buy 5 packs to bring back for me. It took up most of his small case but I don't care 😁

@80sMum

I'm afraid I found the snacks and other popular foods in the US too artificial - plastic "cheese", artificial "cream" (kool whip, I think it was called), revolting vegetable fats called "shortening", horrible hypersweet "cakes" (do Twinkies still exist?), disgusting donuts, nasty overly sweetened candy and chocolate bars and, to cap it all, virtually everything covered in peanuts! No thanks! I'd rather have a glass of water and an apple (but sadly the apples weren't very nice either, a bit tasteless).

You know, in my 15 years living in the US I've never actually eaten any of that stuff.

You'd think I'd be slimmer, considering apparently that's all you can buy here

StartingGrid
You can buy that on Amazon, and grits if you like them.

Guys what is hamburger helper? It's on Americanfizz and I want to buy it!