WTF is a corndog?

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Twinkies are a bit like chocolate mini rolls. Only not as nice.

Was bitterly disappointed when I bit into my first ever corn dog, after years of hearing about them. . And I lurve hot dogs....

Americans also eat jelly (jello) as a savoury dish. No idea why...

Egg nog good. Eggos ( frozen sweet waffles) even better.

I wondered why you see recipes for "jello salad" - I always thought they meant like fruit salad!

From the US recipe sites I've also noticed that "casserole" seems to mean pasta bake and macaroni cheese always comes out of a box rather than being made from an actual cheese sauce... quite a lot of cake recipes also seem to start with "take one box of X flavor cake mix".

When we were in America the school meals menu included sloppy joe a lot, but we never found out what it was...but they also had a salad bar which dd1 loved. We also had a jar of 'fluff' which was a marshmallow spread. But no idea what to spread it on.

Ooh Fluff is quite nice - they sell it in Tesco. You can make chewy rice krispie cakes with it or just have it on toast.

My understanding is that Sloppy Joes are a bolognaise type mince in sauce served in a bun like a burger. It sounds very messy to eat!

Yes, we had sloppy joes. Mince sandwich! It's nice. I lived in the south. Well, south-ish, and the one thing the school did superbly was southern fried chicken. But it was Kentucky.

I hated Twinkies but to this day, even after 20 years, I still prefer American chocolate. Was so happy when Reeses peanut butter cups became widely available in the UK. I developed a taste for peanut butter and jelly (jam) sandwiches which a lot of my UK friends think of as strange.

Yy I was just going to post about Reese's pb cups.

A colleague came home from trip to US with mahoosive bags of them and Reese's Pieces too. yum yum yummy.

We had peanut butter and jam sandwiches long before we went to America! And peanut butter and marmalade, which is even tastier. Yum.

PB and marmalade is the toast topping of champions.

We lived in New York for nearly 3 years and I never tried a corndog or a Twinkie. My friend is out there on holiday at the moment and asked if there was anything I wanted her to bring back and i couldn't think of anything apart from a bottle of wine that you can't get over here!

If I could transport my favourite Nyk restaurants over here I'd do it in a flash - miles better than restaurants in London.

Corndogs are evil.

My SIL is from Georgia and when we visit the family she is constantly trying to foist Southern 'delicacies' on me.

Grits (revolting).

Biscuits (stale scone things served with fried breakfast. Vom).

And that good ol' American family staple - 'mac n cheese' out of a packet, resembling powdered astronauts food. Because boiling some pasta and making a cheese sauce is so time consuming .

I scoff, but actually, I like a lot of American dishes. Love soul food (heart attack city, but hey). I love their breakfasts. I could eat pancakes for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

No corndogs, though

Ooh! What about funnel cakes? Like an evil cross between a waffle and a doughnut. Mmmm... There's nothing like an American county fair to bring out the corn dogs/funnel cakes/oreo shakes.

Nigella has a recipe for something akin to a Reece pb cup. In Domestic Goddess, I think.

Never plucked up the courage to make it. Would scoff the lot

Oh, very disappointed to learn that biscuits and gravy is not actual biscuits and gravy (I imagined digestives and thought it must be delicious).

A quick google suggests that cream toast is toast - or 'moistened toast', made by wetting some toast - with a bechemel sauce on top.

WHY???

I could understand it if it involved cheese, like a croque monsieur kind of thing.

Biscuits and gravey look absolutely rank.

Uncle what is the point of funnel cake? In canada tim hourtons sell tiny little bitesize bits of doughnuts called tim bits that are ment to be the bits they cut out of the middle of doughnuts. Yum.

I used to work at a restaurant that sold oreos. One day one of the nobhead bar tenders played an awefull trick on one of the waitresses who was renouned for being obsessed with oreos. He carefully removed two packed wads of used coffee grounds from the machine and stuck them together with mayo. He told her it was a new giant oreo we'd been sent to trial and she gleefully ran off to hide in the fire exit where she could enjoy her prize. I found out about it when she was sick all over said fire exit.

Biscuits are gravy are delicious but it's very important not to think about how the gravy's made.

The point of funnel cake... Hmm... I think it's like the point of candyfloss.

Corndogs are vile, my DS1 will eat anything.. except them!

Twinkies and cockroaches will be the only thing that survives a nuclear attack... so I've heard....

I do think US consumers seem to appreciate cinnamon a lot more than we do - other than Cinnamon Grahams you hardly get anything with that flavour here, whereas in the US there seems to be Cinnamon everything!

Like mmm, churros dipped in cinnamon and sugar, and cinnamon iced buns, and even cinnamon tic tacs!

I made biscuits and gravy a couple of weeks back. No idea how authentic it was as I've never been to the US, but it was delicious.
I halved the recipe for two I found though, and served with tons of veg as an evening meal!

I couldn't cope with it in the morning.

I think the chocolate in Reeses is different from the Hersheys chocolate.

Cream toast always struck me as a Depression era sort of a way to stretch very few ingredients into some sort of dish for a family.

They served nacho cheese and flaming hot cheetos at the Friday night football games of one team DS's school used to play. I passed.

I'd really love the chilled dough for making cinnamon roll - so that I can pretend to be breakfasting in a motel with inclusive breakfast! I love American baked goods, and neighbours randomly giving us cookies (we spent fall in Maine in a place like Desperate Housewives). And American pizza seems better to me than Italian. I like snack foods better than 'proper food' in USA.

Here's a cinnamon roll recipe but please use butter, not margarine.

It is not cheese either.