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!

Triscuit Rosemary and Olive Oil flavour crackers, also Dill and Sea Salt.
Smucker's Naturals Peanut Butter
Gardetto's Snack Mix
S'mores (Graham crackers, Marshmallows, Hershey bars - sorry, but they come into their own in a s'more)
Hint of Lime tortilla chips

@ToastTriangles

Chesters puffcorn and the muffins and pies from perkins

@ToastTriangles OH MY GOD. Someone else remembers Perkin’s!! I spent so many college (undergrad) late nights there eating chicken fingers!

Reading this entire thread has made me completely homesick. The food is so much better and varied in the US. I can’t wait to visit this summer and eat EVERYTHING.

[quote MisterT373]@AgeLikeWine You were at Smittys Market in Lockhart which has 4 BBQ joints in it. I could wax lyrical about Texas BBQ for hours and like you can't wait to get back over there![/quote]
That sounds familiar, thank you!

I’m impressed by the creativity, diversity, and availability of US craft beer. There are great craft beer scenes in various European countries, but if I want something unusual, I have to either find it at a pub or buy it by the individual bottle/can. In the US, you can find a real variety by the sixpack/twelvepack. Just as an example - last trip, my new obsession was 10 Barrel “Crush” Cucumber Sour beer. They also make a bunch of fruit sours - lemon, raspberry, strawberry, apricot, guava - and offer a mixed 12pack of 12 oz (35.5 ccl) cans for under $20 (£14).

Also love:

• Fried whole (belly intact) clams - clam plate, clam roll, clam roll plate
• Prawn quesadillas
• Eggplant parmigiana subs
• Corn chowder
• BLTA - (American) bacon, lettuce, tomato, avocado sandwich
• Avocado smoothies
• Mexican horchata (different from Spanish horchata, which I also like) and aguas frescas (my fave is sandía/watermelon), in big tanks at any Mexican restaurant, even the smallest take-out place
• Spiced sweet potato pie - had a delicious one at H’s cousin’s house in Massachusetts and was sure it must be home-made, but no: it was from the in-house bakery at a local supermarket (Stop & Shop) and available as a whole pie, half, quarter, or slice.
• Maple sugar candy - can find good (expensive) maple syrup in Europe, but never candy.
• Jalapeño jelly and claret jelly (jam)
• Sourdough walnut bread, zucchini (courgette) bread, cranberry bread, banana bread, cornbread.
• Utz brand crab flavoured and fried dill pickle flavoured potato chips (crisps)

I love American food. And how totally regional American cuisine is. It's so much more interesting and varied than many people in the UK seem to assume.

I love American food! Let's see, pretzels from street vender, bran muffins, combos, Cheetos Nik nak type crisp, cheese flavour... Love them! Milk duds. Their coffee and flavoured creamers.... Love them! Breakfast biscuits. Umm, probably more, but will leave it there. Next time I go USA I want to go to a diner and try some American pies, apple, cherry, pecan... :)

Oh god.... musnt forget Tacos!

Red vines! Could eat them all day!

peaceanddove I PMed a fail safe cooking method for you

Kraft Dinner
Goldfish crackers

Goldfish crackers are a Christmas thing in our house.
I can't remember how it started but now Dd says its not Christmas until we have them.

You’ll have to make it yourself but a Blooming Onion

Oh god, anything from Taco Bell. And I can’t let myself buy Snyder Honey and Onion Pretzel Bites as I can’t stop eating them!

Red hots, an old fashioned cinnamon candy, crunchy outside chewy inside
Hidden Valley Ranch
Baby Ruth and Butterfinger candy bars
Buttermilk biscuits
Grits (cheese, or plain)
Breakfast sausage (Jimmy Dean style)
Gulf coast shrimp
Maryland style crab cakes
Watermelon and tomatoes grown outside in full southern heat
Corn bread
Pole beans and baby potatoes cooked with bacon in the pot liquor
Southern style wild hog roast

The cheese, chocolate and supermarket bread are not worth a flip.

Is the Bronx Irish deli called Tierneys by any chance?

BLACK AND WHITE COOKIES (you'll have to bake these at home)
Hot fudge sundae pop tarts
Mint Oreos
Twizzlers
York Peppermint Patties
White cheddar popcorn
Blue corn chips (crisps)
Queso (I've only seen proper queso here at D Grande in Chiswick)
Fish tacos
NY pizza by the slice
Chicken Parm
Root beer

Corn Dogs
The American version of Mountain Dew
Root beer
Little Debbie's oatmeal cream pies
Zebra cakes
Twinkies
Hershey's chocolate
M&M pretzels
Almond and vanilla special K
The flavoured coffee creamers especially the egg nog and pumpkin spice ones
Pecan pie
Pumpkin pie
Pretzels with mustard dip

@MissConductUS yes I totally forgot the ghirardelli chocolates. We used to keep going in and out of the ghirardelli shop at downtown Disney just to get a free sample of chocolate. We used to buy something of course too.

Banana laffy taffy

24hr breakfasts

• eggs over easy with hash browns/home fries
• pancakes with.....
• huevos rancheros

Taco Bell - why, just why, don't we have Taco Bell in the UK ? Fritos Corn Chips - as above, why can't I find corn chips in the UK crisp aisles? There's lots of snacky. crispy stuff, but no bloody Corn Chips.

I do not understand it.

@TheHateIsNotGood there is Taco Bell!
https://www.tacobell.co.uk

Taco Bell - why, just why, don't we have Taco Bell in the UK ?

There’s one in Central London on Baker Street across the street from Baker Street Tube Station.

@TheHateIsNotGood

Add to your breakfast list unlimited refills of drinks and the offer of a "to go cup" when you pay the check

Also "shall I box that up for you" when you haven't manage to eat everything.