European Reacts to Summer Foods I Only Encountered After Moving to America
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Andre, congratulations on the growth of your channel! I mean it is amazing. I can't remember at what point I subscribed but it was when you had much less subscribers. it is a credit to you for how likable and entertaining you are. It literally has become my favorite channel and I subscribe to ALOT. Pretty soon you will be able to quit your job (whatever that is) and live exclusively off your income from this channel and be able to travel to the US regularly. Hey you could even become a digital nomad and base yourself in the US, even part time! I also wanted to comment about the background in your videos. You had asked what we thought. I love it! I love the paint color and the quirky and eclectic posters and figurines you have. It is quite unique.
Andre, a couple days ago it was 33 centigrade here. Today it's cooler, 24.4. 🙂 In "Silicon Valley" part of "San Francisco Bay Area". Later this week, 31.6 centigrade is predicted. 🙂
The city of San Francisco is a little cooler than down here in Silicon Valley; it is directly exposed to the cold air from the pacific.
But here in SV, there is a mountain range that blocks the seabreeze from the Pacific, so we only get the seabreeze at night, when it comes in from San Francisco Bay. 🙂
During the day we very much need AC! I am running it right now (it is 1630 hours). But we're 80% solar power here in California right now, so it is causing very little pollution. Guilt-free AC 🙂
I'm from Cincinnati Ohio and we were called "Porkopolis" sometimes back in the day. At the fairs we love cotton candy and fried waffles with powdered sugar on top. Ice cream favorite is banana cream pie!
Where do you live?
Learn how to say Pecan, not Pechan.
Yes, he was making a joke with "pechans." Butter Pecan isn't pecan flavored ice cream though, it's butter ice cream with pecans in it. It's pretty tasty.
butter pecan ice cream is absolutely amazing. but it gives you diabetes twice as a fast.
@@bvbxiong5791😳 Do explain please!? I was just thinking of getting some earlier today!
You don’t get butter pecan ice cream in Europe? How sad. It’s binge-worthy!
Some people from the Deep South states like Alabama, Georgia, etc., pronounce it like “ pee cans” which cracks me up every time I hear it
There's also Butter (other nuts like almonds).
It was my dad's favorite.
Yes, Lawrence was making a joke. The joke is funnier when you realize that the word "pecan" is pronounced at least three different ways depending on where in the USA you live.
We can, she can, he can, PECAN!
It's a bad joke. Anyone not from the US has no idea what he's talking about, like the European watching this.
Here in the south we definitely know you can pronounce peecan all kinds of different ways 🤣 I at least hear it said three different ways 🤣🤣 I'm sure one of the ways you say it is a Yankee way but the rest of them they're pretty Southern. 🤣
Pecan is pronounced pee-can in most of the places where the trees actually grow, which is were we invented the pie, in the South.
2 things I would add or change. It's iconic on a hot day to have a root beer float. Get a scoop of vanilla ice cream and pour root beer over it. It is an acquired taste because almost every European that I've seen try it, hate it.
Second thing is that having a s'more around a campfire at night is another iconic summertime food.
Even though I'm American, I can't stand root beer either. I just get the ice cream alone from root beer float stands. Also, if you have a mint-flavored food with lemonade, it tastes like root beer, so I avoid that, too.
The New Zealand family didn't like root beer, but loved the root beer floats.
Pepsi float.
@@minkademko2335
I HAVE had that before & I agree, it's pretty good. Mountain Dew floats are great, too.
So are 7up floats
Be careful about getting into the chilli beans vs no beans.There's strong opinions on both sides that both swear they're way is right.😂😂
Even plenty of people who put beans in their chili don't if they are planning to put the chili on hot dogs. I'm one of those.
@@BTinSFsame here. I don't eat chilli dogs but if I did it's more like chilli sauce than the chilli I would sit and eat a bowl of. In that kinda chilli I put a lot of peppers, beans, and mushrooms. But for hotdog chili it's basically marinara consistency with a much different flavor profile.
In New Mexico you might need to specify you want “Texas” chilli if you don’t want roasted green chilies on your hot dog.
It's kind of like with us in the second amendment. The pro 2A people are right and the gun control people think they're right. Very strong opinions on both sides. I'm pretty sure by my profile picture you can tell which side I fall on. Very pro 2A
both are delicious..
3:15 laurence's "poor man's" here doesn't mean "lower quality/worse", but rather "made with alternative ingredients".
As in "poor man's hotdog" - "we improvised with what we had - not quite traditional, but it'll work!" Kind of like substitutions in a recipe (flour if you don't have corn starch, etc.)
Not corn starch, it is CORN MEAL, (finely ground corn)
Wrong! Corn starch is a thickening agent. You don’t use corn meal to thicken anything! Apparently you aren’t a cook. That figures.
Guys... I was giving an entirely separate example. "Substitutions in a recipe" -in general, for instance "corn starch" is a thickening agent that can be switched for flour in a pinch.
Corn meal is what corn dogs are made of, yes Hopcat.
You're both correct in different ways? And both seem to be addressing entirely different sections of the comment I left.
I'm American and " poor man's" anything refers to cheap version .
It's not a cheap hotdog . I wouldn't even say it's in the hotdog realm.
His New Jersey origin story is false because corn meal is a Southern thing and people in the Northeast at that time likely didn't even know what cornbread was.
Texas State Fair is the origin of corn dogs
I wonder if he's ever tried a root beer float....which is a root beer with a nice big scoop of vanilla ice cream dropped in....Heavenly!
Other ice creams can be good too. We used to do cookie dough when I was a kid. When you got to the bottom there would be a few lumps of cookie dough at the bottom.
@@pacmon5285 sometimes I would do vanilla ice cream into orange soda..or orange sherbert into 7up
There's also the Coke float. Root beer float is my fave though.
Root beer and chocolate ice cream.
@@KathyStrickland-nh9vx, I often like to do Coke floats with chocolate ice cream (because I don't care for vanilla ice cream). Coke and chocolate actually go well together. I haven't tried it with root beer, though.
Pig racing is about what it sounds like. Pigs wearing numbers run around a miniature track like racehorses. You buy a number one of the pigs and win a prize if your pig wins. Harmless fun.
A chili dog is neither Mexican food nor TexMex. I love a footlong chili dog from Sonic!
What's interesting is, I think chili dogs might be Greek? Both of the regional chili dog variations I'm familiar with in the U.S. were created by Greek immigrants.
Sonic has great chili dogs❤
@@jeffhampton2767 Portillo's chili-cheese dog is a REAL hotdog, Sonic is a poor substitute really, nasty dog in those.
@@bruss529 FALSE princess 🤔😆😆
I was going to make a comment about that. I've probably eaten more than 100 chili dogs in my lifetime and it never crossed my mind to think of it as Mexican or Tex-Mex. I just think of it as generic American food though the chili portion of the chili dog does go back to cowboy culture, so I can see where he might try to lump it in as Tex-Mex.
I also thought it was funny when he commented that the pork tenderloin pictured might be the Texas version because of its size. I would be surprised if you even found that item on the menu of any restaurant in Texas. I live in Oklahoma and had never heard of that type of sandwich until researching a trip through Indiana and other states in that region as I like to look for good local places to eat and regional foods that I haven't tried. I put a restaurant that was recommended for that dish on my itinerary and tried it while passing through. It was good.
Root Beer is not a alcoholic drink, it is a very sweet carbonated drink. It is brewed to make 1 gallon when using 3 pounds of sugar to make it.
It's made with the roots plants including the bark of the Sassafras tree
I'm from Indiana and our pork tenderloin sandwiches are often larger than the dinner plate they're served on. They can easily be 10 to 12 inches wide and sometimes even larger.
In the US, in the frozen section of your local supermarket, you can find boxes full of corndogs...
FALSE 😂😂😂
@@jeffhampton2767no it's not
Yes, you can always find them in the fzr section here in California.
You can, and they are good, but not nearly as good as a freshly dipped and fried corndog from the fair.
I love chili dogs. But, I must confess, to avoid the mess, I eat them with a fork.
Ditto! You pretty much have to eat chili dogs with a fork, or else you'll end up with more food on your shirt than in your tummy. 😅 Especially when one puts all the good fixin's on 'em! 😁😁😋😋😋
I think it's a situational decision. Whether it is a regular (8 to 1) or jumbo (4 to 1), how over the top are the toppings applied and how messy I'm willing to get!
You can't drive and eat chili dogs at the same time.
@@gregwilliams386 Well, you can...but you'll wear more than you eat.
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Typical summer foods: corn on the cob, cooked directly on the grill (shuck the husk); anything on the grill; watermelon; desserts with any summer berries; popsicles and ice cream cones; homegrown tomatoes; zucchini and yellow squash dishes. My favorite birthday dinner (as it's in July), and it's very summery: BBQ ribs, sauteed or broiled asparagus (or simmered all day greens), slaw, baked beans (or mashed potatoes or baked potatoes), warm cornbread with lots of butter, sliced cucumbers and onion in vinegar.
Oh, me, oh my, love me some corn dogs with mustard. Big bowl of macaroni salad, deviled eggs, cowboy beans and oh yes BBQ pulled pork with Cole slaw on top in between a big bun.
9:43 Root beer is my absolute favorite soda... And one of the only sodas I will actually still drink.
Rocky Road was one of my favorite flavors growing up.
Root beer is really a year round drink. The summer version would be the root beer float. This is a glass of root beer with a scoop of vanilla ice cream in the glass and sometimes whipped cream.
I'm surprised he didn't mention Root Beer Float...a wonderful concoction of root beer with a couple scoops of vanilla ice cream, when the soda hits the ice cream it creates a frothy, creamy drink that rivals milkshakes
Mmmmm root beer floats are soooo gooood
The only time I drink root beer.
Also known as a "brown cow". A "red cow" is a red cream soda float.
No, Andre, not all chili has beans added. In fact many people refuse to add beans to chili. The most popular chili in cans comes both with and without beans.
And real Coney sauce is not the same as chilli. Has to have beef, and beef heart.
Indeed, the chilli most people put on hot dogs and that several chili canners sell just for that purpose doesn't have beans.
Technically "chili" never has beans. But when I eat it beans are in mine!
Chili is like snowflakes, no two chili's are alike.
Cincinnati chili is cooked down to being almost a gravy, no beans either. beans are added seperately upon request. 🤣
It is pecan the nut and the ice cream is AMAZING
Butter Pecan ice cream is awesome.
Butter pecan ice cream is one of my favorites
It's butter pecan, like the nut because that's what it is. Also, a scoop of vanilla ice cream in a glass of cold root beer (a flavor of carbonated soft drink) is called a root beer float. You get a kind of foamy froth on top. You need both a spoon and a straw to consume it. Very yummy. Also the ice cream is good with an orange soda. If you use chocolate ice cream with the orange soda, it tastes very similar to a tootsie roll.
Yes!!! The orange + chocolate = Tootsie Roll!
@@darcyjorgensen5808 Jah, when I used to tend bar there was a drink called a tootsie roll, it was creme de cocoa and O.J.
There's also the (rarer) Coca-Cola + vanilla ice cream drink, called a "Black Cow". Haven't seen a restaurant list it on its menu in a long while, though most have the ingredients. I'm not sure, but iirc it doesn't work as well with Pepsi, but an off brand like RC Cola might be ok?
😂😂😂 Lawrence saying "pechan", made me think of my dear, sweet Granddad calling a pizza, "peacha", and zucchini he called "juizzini". We're Appalachian though, so our dialect is a lot different than most of the rest of the country. I say "wheelbarrie" instead of wheelbarrow, and then get asked, "...a what???", so then had to explain what a wheelbarrie is, and she said, "Aaah, you mean a wheelbarrow!", and I laughed and said, "Yeh!"😂 So many different dialects from so many different cultures. I love listening to folks from all over talk. Had a woman from Pennsylvania tell me one time, "You talk like a hick.", and I said, "Yeh, and you talk like a yankee."😂😂😂
I worked at Dryers Ice Cream for 10 years. Just outside my office, we had a large freezer full of Haagen-Dazs and Dryers ice cream. We could have as much as we wanted! My freezer at home was packed full at all times:)
Back in 1975. Tried "Sonics" in Kanass. Their chili dog was the best garbage food I have eaten since serving overseas. I liked it. That's it.
The corn dog was invented in Springfield Missouri
I’m from Missouri and didn’t know that 😅
Pretty sure its Springfield Illinois - maybe at Cozy Dogs?
🤣 Americans often have big, yet differing, feelings about how to pronounce the word "pecan". Lawrence is making a concession to both sides of the debate by pronouncing it a way that BOTH will consider wrong. 😆 Very clever!
Andre, we'll race anything. Cars, horses, pigs, even babies.
Turtles and frogs too. Don't make any other plans for the day if you're going to a turtle race though. Lol.
And pigeons. My brother had a racing flock as a teen. He and his best friend who lived across the road would take their 'teams' out on weekends, release them 50 miles away then get straight home to wait for them. Two more friends were stationed at the coops with stopwatch to record when the birds arrived home. There are actually competitions for pigeon racing. By the way, these are not the regular 'city' pigeons but one bred for speed and endurance.
There are slug races here in the Pacific North West😝
@@MeanMistreater-zq3rl Omg! And I thought turtles would take all day. Lol.
In dive bars, we'll also hold cockroach races.
My 5 are hamburgers/hot dogs/any bbq, chicken, beef, or pork. Gotta have the grilled vegetables. Corn especially. Fruits, watermelon,pineapple, peaches,plums,oranges,strawberries, grapes ect. Great cooling snack in the warm weather places.
The pecan tree is native to the southern half of the US. Native Americans gave us the word pecan but they didn't tell us how to say it. The root beer float is essential summer fare. A tall glass, one or two scoops of vanilla ice cream in the glass, pour in the root beer. In New Mexico we make our chili dogs with our hot red chile sauce, cooked with ground beef, and lots of cheese. We also put this on fries. Navajo Tacos are also summer fair food.
1) The Texas 'version' of a pork tenderloin sandwich is a chicken fried steak sandwich, and it's 100x better.
2) Mint chocolate chip is the best ice cream flavor ever created.
I ❤️ mint chocolate chip!!
Mint Chocolate Chip for the win!!!!!!!!!
When o was a kid, Root Beer in a mug had a foamy head.
Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream Shop is a chain that sells Ice Cream and is often combined with Dunkin Donuts. They usually have 31 flavors on hand, but the company makes more than 1,400 flavors. Most stores have certain flavors all the time and others rotate in and out.
OMG! I looove me some Baskin-Robbins! Only they don't have a shop close to where I live. Closest BR might be Des Moines or Iowa City, anymore. 😕
Pork Tenderloin Sandwiches are biggest in Indiana.
They are a way of life there.
And in Germany or Austria, sans the bun. It's practically identical to pork schnitzel. I love both (the German version or the midwest USA version).
@@BTinSF I think Iowa pork tenderloin sandwiches are just as big as the ones in other Midwest locations. The ones at the Iowa State Fair are ginormous. 😅
At Hyvee, which is a Midwestern grocery store chain based in Iowa, the kitchen’s “Daily Special” on Tuesdays is a pork tenderloin sandwich & tater tots. I just got one last week.
@@augiegirl1 Oh, yeah! Where are you at where you have a Hy-Vee? Marshalltown, IA here. 😁😁😁😁
@@a.katherinesuetterlin3028
Topeka, Kansas, but I grew up in Fremont, Nebraska; Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where I went to college, also has 6 Hyvee locations, including one that I used to ride my bike to, since it was less than a mile from campus.
BTW, Nebraska’s new athletic director (Troy Dannen) is from your town.
Chili Dogs are not Mexican. They are standard American fare. You can get Chili Dogs almost anywhere but not in Mexican food establishments. One of my favorite foods. Make them at home all the time. Pork tenderloin sandwiches are not Texan. They're big everywhere. Tastes great. Love them.
I live in Dallas, Tx and have for most of my life. That being said, I have lived in several other states and cities. The one food I really miss is the pork tenderloin sandwiches I had living in Illinois.
Today the temp reached 92 F or 33.3 C in Iowa. Yes, a bit warm.
73 years living in America's southern and mid-western States and I've never heard pecan pronounced that way. Laurence is a brilliant linguist so he must know something we natives don't.... there are three correct pronunciations, two of which are acceptable.
Corn dogs are delicious plain. But we usually put a condiment on them. Which is mustard and/or ketchup. I like mine with just mustard.
With the stick, you can buy one at a stand and just eat it as you walk around the fair. But if you are seated at a table, you can put some mustard on a paper plate . . .
. . dip your corndog in the mustard . . . take a bite . . . dip your corndog in the mustard . . . take a bite . . .
Yes, a joke. It's pee-can (pecan)
Also root beer is best if you make a root beer float. A couple scoops of vanilla ice cream plopped into a tall glass, then fill with root beer.
Or pick-ahn, depending on where you're from.
Special note: For those of you who are unfamiliar with pecans, there is no H in pecan. Pichan's don't exist.
puh-CAWN 😊
puh - KAHN
We do pork tenderloin sandwiches here in Montana. They are amazing. Yes, pecan. Butter pecan ice cream is the best.
For me, it's a triple toss-up between butter pecan, black walnut and mint chocolate chip, as far as favorite flavors. I loved rocky road as a kid, but as an adult, that's one I consider too sweet anymore. 😅
@@a.katherinesuetterlin3028 I had some mango ice cream in Virginia a couple years ago. Haven't found it since. I'd eat that everyday.
@@rhiahlMT I love me some mango, so mango ice cream sounds heavenly! On that note, ever had a mango lassi (lahs-see) from an Indian restaurant? If not, it's kinda like a thinner version of a smoothie (very little ice, if any, but still served on the cold side), and it's sooo delish with a plate of samosas and mint chutney. 😋
@@a.katherinesuetterlin3028 Yep, it's so good. I thought the mango stuff was going to be like a sherbet. But it was just creamy ice cream. I sat and ate the whole pint that night. The only other ice cream I've done that with is cinnamon ice cream I had in Iowa once.
Pork tenderloin is not just in the Midwest, we eat it year round. I can consume the rest all year but are more prevalent in the summer ☀️
My fav chili dog has chili (made without beans, also with chopped white onions & shredded cheddar cheese)
I’m American and I’ve always eaten chili dogs with a knife and fork!
1942 Mr Fletcher rented a booth at the Texas State Fair. He ran out of hot dog buns, but had corn meal. He inserted a small stick so that they could be eaten while walking around the fair.
Wrong. The corn dog was invented in Springfield Missouri
Andre, I love watching your videos. At some point we need to start a gofundme to get you and your family over here for a long visit. I’d like to see your adventures while you spend a couple of months in an RV driving and camping across the USA.
The name comes from the nut itself, that used to be buttered, roasted, and slightly salted before being added to vanilla ice cream. A fine-tuned process of ice cream mfg. At one time Breyer's had the best butter pecan ice cream going...not anymore though, in the same way they don't seem to put as much emphasis on preparing(buttering - roasting) the nuts as they used to, so most BP doesn't taste the same as it used to.
Apparently Europeans have been prejudiced against root beer because many of their childhood medicines are flavored with the same herbs. "Ooooh, it tastes like medicine!". I'm so sorry that your enjoyment of this flavor has been subverted.
Lawrence didn't mention the Root Beer Float. A scoop of vanilla ice cream in a glass of Root Beer.
The pork tenderloin sandwich is identical to a schnitzel sandwich. In fact German and Austrian immigrants to the mid-west (not just IN you can find it all over the MidWest) brought it with them.
Traditionally, root beer was made with sassafras bark as well as the root, hence "root beer", and wintergreen. It was, yep brewed in a syrup sweetened with molasses. Sassafras does have some medicinal qualities for pain relief and anti-inflammatory. Commercial use of sassafras was banned in the 70s after high doses in lab animals showed carcinogenic effects.
Yes, he's talking about "butter pecan" ice cream. Pecan rhymes with "the can" or "the con" depending on where you are from.
Chili dogs were invented by Greek restaurants in Detroit...which makes the name "Coney Islands" a little weird given that Coney Island is in New York. However, a friend from upstate New York says that they are called "Michigan Dogs" where he comes from.
ROOT BEER is also better for you as a DARK soda cuz it does NOT have phosphorus which other dark sodas have. people with kidney disease should avoid dark sodas [w/phosphorus]. it is also low in potassium. ALSO for non-americans, try putting a couple scoops of vanilla ice cream in a MUG and then fill the mug with ROOT BEER soda. you now have a Root Beer Float [spoon and straw recommended]. 10/10
I’m American and have never had a pork loin sandwich per se. Imagine that. The Cuban sandwich here in Miami does have pork and is great but not the same thing. Drop a scoop of vanilla ice cream in that root beer to really blow the European mind. Pure goodness.
I love pork tenderloin! I was lucky enough to have learned how to cook a loin before I turned up my nose at a dry and tasteless cut. The secret is to sear the outside first then give it about 20 minutes or so in a 325 degree oven. Check with a thermometer and get it out at least ten degrees less than they tell you. The chance of getting anything from tender juicy pork that isn’t brown clean through is vanishingly small. Once you have given that lovely piece of meat about fifteen to twenty minutes to rest (you can make graveyard to go with it if you want) cut into 1/2 slices and dinner. I like it thinner for sandwiches that I can bite right through.
At our neighborhood bbq place they have an amazing dish called a Junkyard Dog. Start with an Oversized hot dog bun, then an oversized all beef hotdog, add bbq chicken or pork, bbq sauce, next bbq baked beans, and everything topped with Cole slaw. You can’t pick this thing up, you have to eat it with a fork and knife. Heavenly deliciousness. It will feed two happy people. 😊
The pork tenderloin Sandwich is from the Midwest. As a rule the tenderloin must be much bigger than the bun! Mustard onion and pickles are the only acceptable toppings haha.
Italians in WV created a no-mess, no-beans, 'chili' dog that burns twice.
When I was a kid, corn dogs were much more of a regional food. I had never even seen one until I went to college. One day the cafeteria served them.
Chili dogs are usually made with a sauce that isn't quite like the chili you eat as a soup. In some areas of the country, the chili sauce has a cinnamon and is seasoned somewhat differently than regular chili. The chili dog has little to do with Mexican food. Now Sonoran hot dogs... (Invented in Hermosillo, Sonoran hot dogs are wrapped in bacon, served in a bolillo bun, and topped with pinto beans, onions, tomatoes, jalapeño salsa, mayonnaise, and mustard.)
Down here in Texas, it would a chopped BBQ brisket sandwich not a deep fried pork loin. We grill in the summer. (Because watching your host sweat to death next to a hot grill on a 100F day, while you're seated in the air conditioning, is a special kind of sadistic.) Hamburgers, chicken, steaks, brats.... Served with cold salads and baked beans or ranch-style beans.
My soul died a little every time he said "Pechawn" It's pecan...pronounced like pe kawn, oh, he did us so dirty on that one
I love corn dogs dipped in mustard. Actually, I love hotdogs with just mustard too. Chili dogs aren't as messy if you put the chili on the hotdog in the bun then put a couple of slices of cheese on top of the chili then toast it in the oven. The cheese helps hold the chili in place a little better.
Well pork tenderloin is all over the USA not just the midwest
The pork tenderloin sandwich shown tends, as far as I know, to be a Midwestern thing. I’ve never seen it anywhere else. But of course pigs everywhere have tenderloins.🙄
Tenderloin is everywhere. You'll see it on biscuits a lot, not just as a sandwich.
Butter pecan. And pecan pie. It is the nut pecan
Cincinnati chili is different from a tex-mex chili. You'll often find the former on chili dogs.
Sassafras root is not only used to make root beer soft drinks, but the root is also used in some medicines. I use sassafras root bark to make a spring tonic tea. The herbal remedy has many health benefits.
The winter version of a chili dog is a chili size, with a z not a d. It is a grilled hamburger bun with a thick grilled hamburger on it topped with lots of chili, raw onion and lots of shredded cheddar cheese.
Best summer ice cream is homemade fresh peach.
I like a chili dog with no beans with chopped onions, cheese, sweet pickle relish, and plain yellow mustard. It's a mess but so good.
New England 4th of July dinner is poached salmon, boiled new potatoes and fresh peas. It's all food you could catch or harvest from your garden after a long hard winter.
My favorite pig races were also a pig raffle. Kansas State Fair, Hutchinson Kansas, sometime in the 1970s. My dad had a winning ticket 14/12. Pig # 14 came in twelfth, and we got about 150 pounds of cuts from the butcher a few days later. We had roasts, ham, barbecue, bacon, etc. in our freezer for the rest of the summer.
I want to mention that root beer tends to taste weird to a lot of Europeans because it uses the same flavoring that apparently a lot of their medicines add to try to make them taste better. Its amazing if you don't have that association though. And as a lot of people have mentioned, add a scoop or three of vanilla ice cream to get a root beer float!
Root beer doesn’t have alcohol in it. It’s a fizzy drink like Pepsi. We call carbonated drinks “pop” where I come from.
The beans or no bean chili discussion is REAL in America.
We have a lot of ice cream flavors like mint chocolate chip and lemon cheesecake and snickers and Reese’s peanut butter cup or Reese pieces and Oreo and caramel pecan and peanut butter and jelly etc
My favorite summertime/ warm weather foods include bbq chicken, bbq ribs, potato salad, grilled corn on the cob, cold watermelon, root beer floats, popsicles, all flavors of ice cream except coffee, coleslaw, fruit salad, & fresh strawberry pie with whipped cream, just to name a few. I was born & raised in California, so we can grill most of the year. 😊
Chili dogs are all American food, not TexMex or Mexican food. I do not put beans on my chili dog or chili when I make it from scratch.
Root beer : carbonated & sweetened sassafras tea ! Great with vanilla ice cream called a 'black cow'.
Barqs is most popular root beer in the south, and it originated in Biloxi MS.right across the bay from my hometown Ocean Springs. And it’s puh-con (pecan)
I worked at a Place called “Triple X”, a Root-beer stand in Renton, Washington State. We made lots of different root-beer drinks, in heavy root-beer mugs. It was a very popular place. You could come inside to eat, or park at “the curb” in your car, and order through a speaker. Then we would bring it out to you on a tray and put it on a tray by your car window. At some places the servers wore roller skates. We made a drink called a frosty, which was basically a rootbeer and ice cream milkshake. Yummy! Ice cream floats with soft serve ice cream are also to die for! Triple X burgers in a basket with fries were a huge seller also, and Friday nights it was a hot spot for fancy cars and young people meeting up. There are still places like these around the country. A&W had the same type of restaurants, and their root beer is still famous.
chili dogs aren't Mexican or TexMex & people get into arguments bout beans or no beans....root beer floats are LOVE....A&W is the most popular brand plus they have fast food burger restaurants where you could get a root beer float in an ice cold glass mug that you got to take home....the other popular brand is called Barq's....there's a similar drink called Sarsparilla which I love but isn't as easy to find anymore....I actually know a place where you can get a milkshake that has fruity pebbles in it....Rocky Road & Butter Pecan is such good ice cream flavors
The pig races are at fairgrounds. The young pigs are easily taught to run the track because there is food at the end.
the way he pronounced pecan is killing me!
Because temperance movements were very common in US history, we have a lot of soft drink flavors that are medicinal tasting. Until the invention of the seltzer bottle they were fermented to contain as little alcohol as possible but did, indeed, contain alcohol so you had to use the medicinal qualities as an excuse. Root beer is a soft drink with a base of sassafras, licorice, ginger and wintergreen (among other flavors). Sarsaparilla is made from a root of the same name. Birch beer is made from birch bark and/or sap and tastes like wintergreen (true wintergreen is an evergreen shrub with pink berries and is the flavorant of pepto bismol) Black cherry is a popular soda flavor not because of the fruit but because of the bark- which was also originally an ingredient in root beer. Basically we’ll ferment anything to see what it tastes like.
There is an ice cream bar in the US identical to what he called the "feast" bar. It is from a company called Good Humor and comes in strawberry or chocolate. You don't see the chocolate as often because the strawberry flavor bar is more popular.
Favorite summer foods at our house, back in the day.
Always made by yours truly, in XXL bowls for the family to enjoy for a few days:
Tuna salad
Potato salad.
Macaroni salad.
And from a recipe from our dear late friend, tomato, cucumber & sweet red onion salad. Mixed with vinagrette dressing & chilled for at least a.day.
Usually accompanied by BBQ meats & chicken.
Many, many decades ago.
Many Europeans don’t care for the taste of Root Beer. It has a medicinal flavor which we don’t seem to notice because we grew up drinking this flavor.
And we don’t use it to flavor medicines as often as Europeans.
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I’m from metro Detroit & we have our own version of a coney dog. The chili is bean free & ours are served with raw onion & mustard. In Detroit there are 2 coney restaurants next to each other who have been rivals since the mid 1920s. It is a staple comfort food here!
Laurence means butter pecan ("k" sound) and it is my FAVORITE ice cream flavor!...YUM YUM!🍦🍦🍦
Andre, believe it or not, there is something at many state fairs called pig racing, and it's just as it sounds. Little pigs run around a track as fast as they can, to the delight of the hundreds of fairgoers.
Chili dogs were actually invented in Los Angeles.
Some Europeans don't like root beer, saying it has a taste of medicine because it's made from sassafras, but it's my favorite soft drink.
When he mentioned butter peshon ice cream, he was changing the pronunciation of butter pecan just "for giggles".
The pork tenderloin was invented in Huntington Indiana and they are really good. Sometimes they are so large that you can share the sandwich.
Root beer (it's non-alcoholic) is similar to licorice - not in flavor profile, but in the love/hate relationship people have with it. Some people love licorice/anise, others hate it. Some think cilantro (the leaves) taste like soap, others think it's another herb on a meal. Root beer is the same way. Love it or hate it, do put some vanilla ice cream for a "float." If you're gonna try it, try it right.
American food is very regional. New England summers wouldn't be complete without some kind of clam or lobster bake, corn on the cob, and brown bread in a can.
Butter pecan is amazing, and another flavor called pecan praline. This is vanilla ice cream, butter pecans with a caramel ribbon . It's so good.
Corn dogs are great if they are fried in the right oil. If they aren't cooked right, they can be crummy. As far as Chilli dogs, Gotta have the right Chilli, too. They are delicious with fresh diced onions and cheese.
I love the classic ice cream flavors like butter pecan, pecan pralines, spumoni, pistachio, maple walnut
Good stuff and good memories
Hot and humid 35°C here in Florida. ❤
Corndogs from any set up where they are fresh-made are generally great. And of course if you make them yourself you can tailor the experience. But the frozen ones they sell in big boxes in the supermarkets are generally made from cheaper ingredients, so your mileage will vary there.
Butter-pecan is my favorite flavor too, unfortunately it’s getting harder to find in my area.
Oh honey, you don't know heat until you've seen a southern summer. We count it as a miracle if there's no heat index warning. And the humidity here his enough to leave a person gasping. 😂
TRUTH!!!
Or when you walk outside, you’re immediately drenched in sweat 😂 you gotta be made of sturdy stuff to last in the south during the summer! 😂
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Yep. I keep hearing how people over in Europe are complaining about how hot it is because it's in the 80's. And I'm here thinking '80's? We've hit 80's in December before. Those poor people would probably end up with heat stroke if they visited the South during summer. Bless their poor hearts.' 😂
The best ice cream flavor is Pralines and Cream, which is a vanilla ice cream mixed with candied pecans and swirls of caramel. 😋