To adore American food and snacks? Please share your favourites

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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!

@Worldwide2 toasted sandwich on rye bread with corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, Russian (thousand island) dressing. Coronary on a plate, but bloody delicious, perfect hangover food

I lived there for many years, although I'm British and live in the UK now.

Velveeta Shells and cheese
Hidden Valley Ranch, I bought the powder off Amazon and make my own now... tastes exactly as it should.
Danone fruit in the bottom yogurts
Frozen Yogurt, TCBY
Proper bagels
Campbell's Clam Chowder
Chips Ahoy
Taco Bells Chili Salad

Red Lobster Fettuccine Alfredo

@TheKeatingFive

Not quite what you’re talking about, but the pepperoni pizza I had in a little non descript restaurant in NY was the best thing I’ve ever eaten in my life.

I still fantasise about it.

New York pizza is fabulous. It's said that the mineral content of the water is ideal for making a good pizza dough and bagels. So much so that other places try to replicate it.

www.foodandwine.com/news/new-york-watermaker-water-whole-foods

During the lockdown, we started making pizza at home instead of getting takeaway, but I buy the dough from a posh Italian market.

@Puzzledandpissedoff

One of the THE best bits about the States is their epic Texas BBQ

Oh, yes ... YES!!!
I never knew what all the fuss was about; after all brisket's just a cheap cut in the UK and nothing special

Then I had it in Texas ...

Absolutely this.

We found a super authentic old-school BBQ place in a small town near San Antonio which was apparently famous across the state. You had to go into this tiny smoke-filled back room which looked like it hadn’t been painted for 100 years to get your sausage, ribs & brisket which was just chucked into bits of paper and thrown at you. It was just extraordinarily good.

This thread has made me almost tearfully nostalgic about all our amazing holidays in the US. We WILL return.

@FVFrog sounds bloody delicious 😋

Still mourn the delicious sliced tongue the defunct Carnegie Deli used to sell. Zabar's is ok but not as good, alas.

@GyozaPoser

Thank you so much!!

You can get cheesecake factory cheesecake & peanut butter pretzels in Costco (& other American delights)

Peanut butter M&Ms
Malley's (local to Ohio) chocolate pretzels and chocolate
Cheesecake Factory

[quote Worldwide2]@FVFrog what's a reuben sandwich??[/quote]
Omg the sandwiches! I have a memory of my first US trip in... 1998? In Boston, had this unbelievable sandwich with warm bread of some kind (something not standard, can't remember what) with ginger and pickled red cabbage and layers of wafer thin pastrami and turkey, and gherkins and maybe grated cucumber and horseradish... it was EPIC.

@ShinyMe they do epic sandwiches!

I’m english and would just love to go to a proper Thanksgiving dinner, with all the sweet potato pies and pumpkin pies... i‘d love to try a corn dog! I love pop tarts and reeses pieces and as a kid thought hot tamales (sweets) were super spicey! Oh an Big Red chewing gum too

Snyders pretzels as pps have said. I have found small bags of jalapeño, honey and mustard and cheese flavour here. I really want to get my hands on a jumbo size bag of hot wings flavour. Hell yeah.

@IHaveBrilloHair

Biscuits and gravy. Shrimp and grits.

These are the things that I most want to try! I hear about them on American shows/films but have no idea what they're actually like.

My favourite American treats though are peanut butter m&ms and butterfingers.

I bought grits on Amazon but biscuits and gravy is really easy to make, and its delicious.

@hermionieweasley

I love Synders Pretzel Pieces could eat sooo many bags

When we've been to the US theyu're usually top of the list of things we have to bring back! In the US they have a coffee flavoured Werthers and they're wonderful, wish we had them here.

@MissConductUS

A bear claw is like a danish pastry, usually filled with almond paste and sometimes with raisins.

I like Newman's Ranch dressing better than Hidden Valley.

You can make a brisket in a slow cooker, but it's a bit of time and work. I'd rather just order it when I go out. We have a Tex/Mex place near us that makes a divine brisket taco with pickled vegetables.

Newman's cloudy lemonade is great. Waitrose do something called a bear claw that seems to fit this description,

Not American but have friends who are.

Top of my list is fried cornbread, biscuits and gravy, pumpkin pie and big fat crusty po boy sandwiches.

I am overweight now, if I lived in America with easy access to these delights I'd be enormous

@VettiyaIruken

We do swap boxes with family members in America and what strikes me is how much sweeter things are than here. The cereals in particular are crazy sweet!

I may have demolished entire packets at a time 😃.

That's one of the things I don't like about American food, even the bread is too sweet unless you can get artisan bread which is relatively expensive. Looking at many of the lists I find little I miss in the snack area, not being a fan of pretzels or peanut butter! So agree about American chocolate, utterly vile. I once had a long chat with someone on the cheese counter in Whole Foods about the lack of decent cheese and he said it was because of the rules regarding pasteurisation.

All peanut butter products.
HEB peanut butter trail mix
Denny's
Biscuits

Garrett's Popcorn and Lou Malnati's Deep Dish pizza. I'm so glad I have a child who lives in Chicago who I can visit.

Living in Maine, we buy our lobsters freshly steamed, in takeaway bags, from the supermarket. We do that whenever we have visitors from away.

BBQ especially Burnt Ends. And Brisket.

Biscuits with sausage gravy.

NY bagels.

I've always loved Buffalo chicken wings with blue cheese dressing, and pulled pork, but I think those are now pretty common in the UK?

Fish and chips eaten while sitting in the bed of the pick-up truck in a sea breeze on a Downeast island in Maine.

I once had a long chat with someone on the cheese counter in Whole Foods about the lack of decent cheese and he said it was because of the rules regarding pasteurisation.

That must have been a very long time ago, because I've been here nearly 15 years and have been able to buy decent cheese that entire time in my local grocery store.

Is it stinky?
I need stinky cheese.

• Pepperidge Farm Cookies - Sausalito are my favourites
• Twizzlers
• Goldfish crackers