In the US we have “German Chocolate Cake.” It is not called that because it comes from Germany, it was actually invented in the US; but instead the name refers to the cake’s English-American inventor, Samuel German.
That's correct. I use German's Baking Chocolate when I make this cake. It has absolutely no German origin, but instead, was first made by a lady in Texas in 1957. Real German chocolate cake looks and tastes just like the cake made in the USA.
I thought it was because its made with 'German chocolate', which is a way of processing cocoa powder which produces a distinct flavor. The process is also called 'Dutch Cocoa' as I belive they actually developed it. Needless to say conflating the Dutch and Germans is a far older issue.
Jarred hot dogs are probably easier to transport and be safe to eat for longer periods than the way they are packaged and sold in the US. It was most likely an economic decision.
I didn't know, I feel like single wrapped pickled sausages are something I see at every convenience store right next to Slim-Jim's, usually called something obnoxious like Firecrackers. Never eaten them, but obviously somebody is if they've been in 7-11 since the 80s and continue to be stocked. Can't imagine it's too much different buying several in a jar, and they'd be preserved pantry items with a huge shelf life, which is good for stores.
Well, to the German host of this TH-cam channel, in 1960 it was not only in Bayern that Lederhosen were worn regularly! I’m an American who as a 5 year old lived in a village, Angelmode, outside of Muenster, Westfalen, for a year from August 1960 to July 1961. There was a two room school house, Volkschule, in the village for grades 1-6. My older brother attended the Volkschule for the whole academic year. I attended the first grad there starting in the spring after Easter, when the German school year used to start. I was actually too young, but my parents wanted me to learn German, which I did. ALL of the German boys in Angelmode wore Lederhosen to school! ALL of them. As a result, both my brother and I wore Lederhosen to the Volkschule, otherwise we would have stood out. This was only 15 years after the end of WWII. A different era. Interestingly, I believe that Germans outside of Bayern have amnesia regarding the wearing of Lederhosen by kids. I also lived in Goettingen, West Germany, from August 1977 through March 1979, on exchange from UC Berkeley. The German students I got to know in Goettingen were shocked that the kids in a village in Westfalen had worn Lederhosen to school. Most of the people I met in Goettingen must not have grown up in a village….
Yeah, 69 year old Army Brat here. We lived in Germany in the early 60s. Post WWII things changed really quickly with the imprint of the American 50s and then the cultural "British Invasion." The post war Germans were eager to put it all behind and join the post war future. I'm not surprised the following generations grew up with their older traditions largely "dissappeared." G
Yes, I would be screaming no at the waiter. I'm just fine with the plain pizza(cheese only) you brought me. Please find me some red pepper flakes and parmesan cheese to top it with. Cheese pizza is so boring
Ok, as an American I think the idea of KFC for Christmas sounds like a cool change of pace. I like it. It is a bit ironic, nonetheless as deep fried turkeys are common in the USA for major holidays.
@@danrhinehart1134 plus people just had thanksgiving a month prior. So, change it up a bit if you like. I’d be okay if I showed up to someone’s house and they had fried chicken, mashed potatoes and biscuits! I’m down with this!
It's not the worst creation I think, and sort of still gets a bit of the message across, big feast with family and friends. Just usually it's homecooked meals and stuff, well I guess it depends on the family and all. The christianity stuff is only for the hyper religious, most just take it as a general holiday since many get the time off work and school. And of course there's the spending money on gifts and stuff, big economic holiday really, so a brand like KFC almost monopolizing it is kind of ironically in line, though I think they got it by lucky accident.
@@CidsaDragoonHe is from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We don't talk that way. We have never talked that way. He's faking it for attention and likes and and hes a doofuss
“Chinese fortune cookies” were created in San Francisco, by a Japanese American commercial baker serving mostly ethnic restaurants. He came up with the idea of folding a traditional Japanese sesame cookie around a fortune, and discovered there was a market for it. One could get the unfolded sesame cookies in San Jose’s Japantown.
Huh, I always heard that it was a Chinese American who invented them, but that fact makes me wonder, are fauxthentic traditions often created by people from geographically adjacent cultures? It makes sense, because they would know enough about the culture to get it mostly right, but wouldn't care about authenticity when using it to sell something to an audience which doesn't know better.
Fried Rice also came from the USA, sweet and sour pork is also an American dish which "immigrated" back to China. There are several more which we think of Chinese food which is not. In fact majority of food in a Chinese resteraunt is NOT Chinese food.
It's always fun seeing your part of the world through the eyes of someone elsewhere. My favorite story is that of an American Steak House in Japan that has a rather interesting breakfast buffet, serving hotdogs (frank is another term as they derive from the German frankfurter) and hamburger patties as sausage and french fries as hashbrowns, etc... This is on top of the KFC thing which never ceases to amuse me as that is the furthest from American traditions as one can get. Also, I am in a rather German part of the U.S, relatively speaking, Kansas to be precise, we kinda pride our German heritage (me less so as I am Welsh) one of our state dishes is the Volga classic Bierrocks, and there is a city here that has an entire dutch/German heritage festival (I know the Netherlands and Gemrany are not the same, but its a combination festival). German also is the 3rd most spoken language in the state, behind Espanol and English. Also BTW, Hawi'ian pizza is actually Canadian, the name comes from the brand of pineapple used. Also so you can get a good metric: A typical American breakfast: Bacon (thinly sliced pork belly style, often extra crispy but never burnt), eggs, sometimes sunny side up, sometimes over easy, toast with butter, and hashbrowns. If you want extra points, add pancakes or waffles (chicken and waffles is another one that is done). This is served with a side of maple syrup, jam of your preference, OJ and/or coffee. However personally, i am weird and prefer sushi as all that jazz up there tends to upset my stomach, Im also not a huge breakfast eater also. Some true American foods (U.S Originals): - Corndogs (obviously) - Biscuits and Gravy (don't knock it til you try it) - Cob Salad - Lobster Roll - Po' Boy (especially if its made with oysters) - Jumbalya - Hamburgers (origins derive from the style of sandwich from Hamburg Germany, however its popularity with people in the U.S make its as American as anything else and preparation has changed over the years from how it was originally concieved.) - Philly Cheesesteak Sandwich - German Chocolate Cake (named after the creator Samuel German). - The Cuban Sandwich (originalted from Cuban immigrants adapting old recipes with new ingredients.) and finally but not the last: New England Clam Chowder.
The only thing he talked about that actually is authentic is the red solo cups. Couple of things, though: 1. They’re very common in America, not because they’re considered glamorous or cool or even American, but because they’re dirt cheap; so they’re great for parties, picnics and barbecues where you have a lot of people. Less widely known around the world are paper Dixie cups, which are also very common at large gatherings in America, but they’re smaller. 2. Solo cups don’t just come in red; I’ve seen them in blue, green and yellow too. But for some reason it’s always the red ones that appear in Hollywood movies. Oh, and I’ll add this: “Americana” is a word used to describe media or materials, typically old or historical stuff, that are considered emblematic of America or American history or culture. At the university library I work for, we have a section of our special collections and rare materials collections called “Americana”, which can include anything from old postage stamps or early 20th century post cards from Yellowstone, to old diaries written by 19th century Americans, old photographs, early film reels, or early American publications.
There are a couple good reasons for the plastic, rather than paper, cups being used in movies. They're more durable, so they can be used for more takes, and their greater opacity makes continuity far easier, as you don't have to worry about obvious changes in the level of liquid in a cup between shots.
@@rachelmaxwell5936 It could just be that they pop on camera better? I mean, I never really thought about if set designers would care about the color of the cups they're using in a scene, but now that I AM thinking about it, I could honestly see that being a reason, lol.
One of the reasons red Solo cups are used could be because of Toby Keith's hit song "Red Solo Cup". The song got to #9 on the Billboard charts and has over 600,000 views on TH-cam.
@@rachelmaxwell5936they contrast on camera better than other colors, but i also wouldn't be surprised if solo paid a bunch of money for product placement
As an American, I am proud of the balls of the guy who convinced an entire country that we eat fried chicken on Christmas 😂 Any true American can appreciate that entrepreneurial spirit 😂
Not even mad about the guy convincing Japan to eat fried chicken on Christmas. The man started a legit cultural tradition because of that. It's absolutely genius.
literally up there with macy's in the early 1900s coming up with santa claus 😂 i can't wait until japanese people start hearing about that bit of history bc their reactions will be utter gold
@@dead-claudia I think the legend of Santa Clause came before Macy's. Many cultures have a variation of the tale and I'm fairly certain the Americanized version is based on St. Nicholas. Although, the history of Christmas and traditions have many origins from the winter solstice, to being outlawed from the church, to later being associated with the birth of Christ, and finally acceptance as a national holiday, etc.
pretty sure Santa Clause and Macy is talking about during the Christmas season to have a Santa Clause in the store for kids to see and sit on his lap and not that Macy’s came up with Santa Clause entirely
Also the Japanese do not typically have the type of ovens we have in the West. Cooking a whole turkey is not really an option there. I'm not even sure you heat up a ham. Pretty much all the traditional Western feast foods aren't much of an option. Besides, chicken's way better than Turkey anyway. The only good thing about a turkey is it's a bigger bird.
The thing a lot of people don't realize is many people around the world actually eat pretty similar things on a day-to-day basis. For example, if someone asks me, an American, what I eat on the regular for dinner, this is my response: Chicken breast, diced, sautéed in either butter or olive oil, with broccoli florets and diced onion (usually yellow or red onion), seasoned with cinnamon, sea salt, paprika, cayenne pepper, and ground telicherry peppercorns, served over a bowl of long grain rice (usually Jasmine rice). For my drink, cold water. I will have an orange or honeycrisp apple for desert. Now, my spices may differ, but the crux of my meal is chicken+rice+veggies, and some fruit on the side. I bet most of y'all eat something similar. If I only ate fried chicken and pork ribs drenched in BBQ sauce like foreigners think we eat, I'd be dead by now, lol! Sometimes, you just gotta eat what's on hand. Like tonight, I'm making spaghetti noodles with Alfredo sauce, and pinto beans. Maybe some mixed frozen veggies (carrots, green beans, corn, green peas). I need to do some grocery shopping, so this is just what I have available tonight. It'll be delicious, for sure, but I don't think it's really any one culture's food, y'know? I'm sure there are Italians out there gasping at my blasphemy, but bro, times are tough, and a man's gotta eat. How can you say no to delicious noodles in tasty sauce with beans and veggies? It's all good!
The "American sauce" is close to what we call "tartar sauce" (mayonaisse and diced pickles) but missing lemon juice or other ingredients. Tartar sauce is almost exclusively eaten with fish, especially breaded and fried fish.
or that they're mad cheap to buy xD my Icelandic friends bought solo cups as souvenirs when they visited me in DC. I was done, these were people I had went to university with in Japan for 3 years. They saw my apartment had solo cups and they could never find them.... cuz I always got em at the Costco in Fukuoka.
@@lordblazer Love it. Had friends from UK over and they said a 12 pack of "American cups" cost them £26 when they could find them. I just gave them a pack of 80 I got at target for $4 and they were in awe.
When I visted Germany several years ago, I stayed at a hostel in Dresden and the elevator was advertising the "Amerikanisch Pizza" which was topped with tuna, peas, and mac and cheese. Frankly, as an American, sounded rather disgusting.
If the crust was thin with no sauce, that would be similar to a tuna casserole that my mom used to make with saltine crackers. It wasn't bad for an occasional change of pace.
I've had it a couple times growing up in Ohio. It's a quick add-on to cheap take-and-bake pizzas with skimpy toppings when trying to use up food in the fridge. It's not exactly good, moreso bland. But there's worse toppings.
While never on a pizza, i’ve seen pizzas that had pretzel dough with Pigs-In-A-Blanket crusts. I think it was a Pizza Hut thing. Also saw a hotdog rolled in with the crust. Also think it was Pizza Hut.
Absolute college food.....Cheap totinos frozen pizza, add some sliced hotdogs and extra cheese to up the calories and protein. I eventually moved on to better pizza and better toppings, but that remains a strong memory.
I will likely never get to travel and see other places and experience new things, so videos like this never fail to entertain. One small point, you saying "Hawai'ian" in your accent is 100% more accurate than how most Americans say it. I've got a friend who lives in Deutschland (I can't recall what part) and we exchange boxes every christmas of just random crap that each other's countries don't have or don't regularly sell. Last time we did this, I got a German newspaper and a book on travel (entirely in German) and a cool little coin. I sent Kraft mac 'n cheese and a bunch of other foodstuffs not very common there. I believe his words were "no food on earth should be this virulent shade of orange, but it wasn't bad".
whats funny about the "christmas fried chicken" is, as an American- when we dont want to deal with cooking turkey and everything that goes with it, we go out to a chinese buffet for christmas lmfao
Chinese places where I am don't close for anything. We've had roughly 2 tornado warnings in my entire lifetime in the area I live in and during the more recent of them, the couple running a chinese food truck in the area just walked into a nearby bar to wait out the storm itself and got right back to cooking once it was done.
Evidently, Chinese on Christmas is traditional for Jewish folks, because they don't celebrate Xmas. We went out for Chinese on Christmas Eve, because my mom refused to cook that day.
I was living in Japan in the early 2000s and found it funny to see T-Shirts sold with English words and phrases that were all non-sense. It reminded me of Americans who got tattoos with Japanese symbols that were pretty random. I have a pair of Japanese house slippers that read, "Toilet. Always a pleasant surprise." They made me laugh so hard when I saw them.
I watch a lot of Thai dramas and they frequently wear shirts with English text on them, I think because it looks cool in Thailand. However sometimes the shirts are really random and hilarious, like a young male college student wearing a shirt that said "Baseball Mom" or another character wearing a Christmas shirt in the summer.
The lederhosen stereotype came about in the US because after WW2 the American occupation zone was mostly confined to Bavaria so American soldiers would see Bavarians in these clothes and see Bavarian culture and thought the rest of Germany was like that.
Another factor is that the traditional Bavarian clothing is pretty distinctive and recognizable, whereas Germans in other areas dressed pretty much like anyone else, so it was only the odd-looking Bavarian garb that stuck in people's minds as being representative of Germany. Although truthfully, it's doubtful that any educated US person today thinks that Germans dress any diffeently than Americans do. We've seen too many documentaries and modern shows not to realize that it's just a silly stereotype. Just as I'm pretty sure most Germans don't think that all Americans dress like cowboys.
JJ explained in the past that he speaks in terms of American Culture including Canada because not only are we all apart of "North America", but the culture of the United States is what kind of bled up to create the culture of Canada (with some regional differences.) For example, while Canada remained under the crown and was slowly populated by fur traders and lumberjacks to send resources back to England, it didn't have much global cultural influence, so a lot of what defines them today is simply adopted from the US. (I may be mis-remembering the finer details of the history, so please forgive me, but I believe that was the gist of what he said. I saw it a while ago. 😅)
@@Kipicus I don't even know what poutine is but this Canuckistani is larping big. No fried okra, grits, barbecue, or red snapper? Not American at all.
@@SecuR0M (with some regional differences.) Fried Okra, grits, and red snapper is southern, you won't find these things in the north. You're saying people who don't have these things are larping as American? Wait... Jefferson Davis is that you???? 👀 If you think having Tim Hortons makes you fake American in North America, then you're minds going to get blown when you find out there's a Central and South America, and they are a LOT less friendly when you tell them they're not American. 😂
"yeah- I could see that. With the Santa and KFC" as American Christmas - I actually spit my water laughing :) that is adorable that seems so American. Those kids were so happy - don't take that from them LOL
Funny part is, the Japanese don't actually believe KFC is a traditional American Christmas food. The whole thing became a thing because people wanted Christmas turkeys, but turkey is a very rare food to find at all in Japan (at least, whole turkey is), so KFC decided to do a Christmas KFC marketing campaign. Ever since, KFC has been a popular Christmas dinner treat.
@@MrMontanaNights Thank you. Makes sense. Christmas is definitely one of the days that we don't get fast food! Those little kids with their buckets of fried chicken are so cute though. Definitely not an American tradition.
The black and white cookie supposedly was first made by Bavarian immigrants, who opened Glaser's Bake Shop in 1902 in a Manhattan neighborhood. By the 1950's, the cookie was a key part of NYC's Ashkenazi Jewish culinary identity and can still be found in bakeries, corner stores and delis throughout the metropolitan area. I've always found them in Jewish deli's where I live in Ohio.
@@samanthac.349 and being that I've lived in rural Georgia since 08 I'm very happy to have seen them finally. I used to have to make my own Black and White cookies until I saw them at Publix a few years ago 😊
Fried chicken on Christmas actually made my eyebrow raise, because I've never heard of that here in America. I can't speak for other families, but growing up in the cold Midwest, our family had the traditional honey glazed ham, with all the fixin's like mashed potatoes, sweet baked yams, green bean casserole, stuffing, and of course, an assortment of pies, like cherry pie, apple pie, and pumpkin pie. We might also have some cranberry sauce on the side, and perhaps some buttermilk biscuits (flakey bread rolls, not cookies). Oh, but yeah, we would also bake gingerbread men, and Christmas tree shaped sugar cookies decorated with icing and those little red cinnamon candies (as the ornaments). The ham could be replaced with a turkey. I know some people have goose, but I don't know where the hell you buy a goose; never seen one for sale in the meat section). But we never had fried chicken for Christmas... Ever.
When I lived in Belgium for 8 years, I was shocked to see raw ground beef with green spices labeled American Pate. I don't know any American who would ever eat raw ground beef.
I now live in the northern part of South Dakota and there is a tradition here of serving what is locally called Tiger Meat which is a special mixture of richly seasoned, freshly ground locally raised beef which is served raw on crackers particularly at the holidays. It is actually quite good. I think this was a tradition brought over by the German Russians who settled in the area.
As 1st generation American from a Mexican background, I see this all the time from both ends. Like my Mexican friends ask me what it with Americans and guns, it's just deeply rooted in American history and culture. Back when America was untamed and scattered you have to fend for yourself where there's little help. The stand offish attitude and the what's mine is mine mentality is rooted heavily in the culture and history. Conversely my American friends can't understand why romance, love, sadness and happiness are the main thing people in Mexico loves. Mexican history is full of full of sadness, helplessness, tragedy, and enduring it all with a loving heart, crying and dancing. It builds a sense of community, strength and love you rarely see in the US. And I love both. I often feel like the bridge to two worlds. I love the cultures of both, the food, the people and the music.
You still do have to fend for yourself. There are many places where you are 50 miles, 100 miles or more from a gas station. Even if you are in NYC, it can take Police - once called - a half hour or more to get to you because of the congestion.
Another thing about the US. We do not, in general, think of hot dogs as sausages. They exist as a separate category. Brats are sausages, but hot dogs are hot dogs or sometimes called franks, short for frankfurters. The best hot dog I ever ate was on the Staten Island ferry-no ketchup, no mustard, no relish, just plain in a bun. Amazing!
Yeah, I would second this. Sausage is a completely different thing. It's usually bigger and made of better quality meat. And it can be made of any kind of meat. There's really good chicken and apple sausages that taste amazing when cooked on the grill or over a camp fire. You can get "Vienna sausages" which are tiny and come in a can. Also vegan sausages and/or hot dogs, which are made of plant proteins and only marginally edible. 😅😂 And then there's breakfast sausage, which is usually made of pork with specific seasonings. It can be hot dog shaped (but smaller), or formed into a patty. Sometimes even just scrambled. Not even going down the summer sausage / salami rabbit hole... Maybe we deserve the "America = hot dogs" reputation.
Interestingly, it seems to be a thing among Mexican immigrants. My wife and her family do in fact use hot dogs as a replacement for almost any type of sausage which isn't chorizo.
I'd like to point out that there are some things labeled "sausages" that really look like slightly bigger (and maybe tastier) hot dogs. Otherwise, sausages are generally composed of coarser bits of meat and seasonings, i.e.; less processed.
@@KellAnderson Probably because we don't really eat sausage. I never saw any in Mexico. We have "longaniza" and "chorizo", but those are different. We do have "salchicha", which is kind of like a hot dog whiner, that are just now being more popular due to tourist influence. Granted, Mexico has so many indigenous populations and dialects that food from one state can vary a lot from another, but I've never met someone from there that knew what sausage was.
In the USA, there's a cake that only dates back to the 1950s called German Chocolate Cake (Originally German's Chocolate Cake). It was named for a brand of chocolate that was named after an English-American man named Samuel German. The cake was made with German's Chocolate. Over time, Americans just dropped the possessive and just started calling it German Chocolate Cake.
It's like graham crackers. They were invented by a man named Thomas Graham. So they were Graham's crackers. When he sold his company the new owners dropped the possessive too.
Scott Pilgrim was written by a Canadian, takes place in Canada, and is directed by a Brit. It's so weird that a film where Toronto is at the center of everything is thought of as American.
So, America’s is the continent, isn’t it? So technically Canada is American, no? The only actual issue that people have is think only about the US when they hear “America”, even though American is the continent and the US is the country. Like Canada and some small Latin countries too.
Canada is on the American continent and I've heard plenty of Canadians refer to themselves culturally as being American. It's easy to make everything about us when we're from the USA
@@xxmathiasnofacexx No. NORTH America, which stops at Ecuador, is the continent. The continent is split by the isthmus, much like Africa is separated from Eurasia by an Isthmus. And I've known perfectly kind, nice, polite Canadians who would fight you for calling them American.
@@xxmathiasnofacexx No. Everyone knows "American" refers to people/things from the United States of America. No one from Canada or Mexico (or any other country in the Americas) refers to themselves as "American." This would cause an unbelievable amount of confusion. And Canadians definitely don't want to be associated with America. They're easily confused as Americans by the rest of the world due to having a similar accent. Why do you think they're so quick to point out to everyone that they're Canadian and to always wear/display the Canadian flag when they're traveling. Similarly, I've never heard of a Brit who didn't object to being called "European." While Great Britain is technically in Europe, they're not part of the mainland continent of Europe and tend to consider themselves British (or English, Welsh, etc) not European. Even though Canadians inhabit the continent of North America, they don't consider themselves (and Americans would never refer to anyone outside of the U.S. as) American.
Also little tidbit about rare meat. Rare steak is usually very safe to eat as long it was stored properly because all the bacteria is on the outside. So when it's seared all that bacteria is killed, while trapping all the moisture and flavor inside. Ground beef on the other hand... gotta cook that stuff thoroughly because the bacteria gets mixed around inside patty.
Heh. That raw beef thing reminded me of a supposedly Wisconsin-specific tradition called the cannibal sandwich. Interesting to hear that the raw ground beef on bread thing is authentically German, as there is a large German community, especially in the Milwaukee area.
I screamed out loud in horror at the Polish "American" pizza. Taking a perfectly normal cheese pizza and pouring a can of creamed corn on it would get you shot in 49 states. (In California they'd just sic the LAPD on you.)
I seem to recall a pizza place in France having the idea that putting hamburger and cheddar cheese on a pizza made it New York style. Because hamburgers and America, right? I don't think there's a pizza place in America that would dare to attempt that particular culinary blend, no matter how good it might actually taste.
@@Keldor314maybe Michigan lol a place here puts all kinds of stuff on there pizza the philli stake pizza sells well it looks like hamburger with the peppers/flavors of the philli stake sandwich
I was in Europe somewhere cant remember EXACTLY but I do remember them putting Corn on my pizza and being like "Oh... This must be a xxxxx Thing" Amazing they think its American. 😂😂
Most of our "American" traditions actually originated in other, mostly European, countries. When we migrated here, we brought the traditions from our home countries 😊
Yeah traditions brought over and then marketed to other tastes. American hamburgers, hot dogs and beer were largely German but designed to appease British, Italians, etc. Same with Italian-American food, Chinese-American, etc. appealing to others and whatever ingredients were cheap and in abundance.
@@jarvindriftwoodThe German invented Hamburg steak which was the Germans cheap alternative to actual steak. It more resembles American Salisbury steaks cooked in a gravy. The hamburger was invented in Connecticut.
Sam Panopoulos, a Greek immigrant who moved to Canada in 1954 invented that "Hawaiian Pizza." He created the first Hawaiian pizza at his restaurant, Satellite, located in Chatham, Canada.
This is exactly what I was thinking! Our nearest KFC was closed on Christmas, and the only restaurant I can think of that was open was the Chinese takeout.
11:05 As a 65-year-old lifelong New Yorker, I've always been told that "black and white cookies" originated in Brooklyn , NY. I rarely see them outside of New York and New Jersey, but within that area they're very common, and a lot of New Yorkers are quite proud of them. I'll have to investigate now, to find out if we've all been mislead. Another treat that's common in NY but almost unknown everywhere else is the "egg cream," a beverage that contains no egg and no cream. It's made from chocolate syrup dissolved in a little bit of milk, then a lot of seltzer is added to give it a foamy white head. It's basically an ice cream soda without the ice cream, and it originated in Brooklyn during the Depression. It's traditionally served with a crunchy pretzel rod, but when I was a kid I liked to have one with a grilled cheese sandwich.
I'm 75. Grew up on the northern coast of Massachusetts. Black & Whites were a weekly treat from the local bakery when I was a kid. Still are in most bakeries. Although we had egg creams when on vacation in Rhode Island, there were a few dairy bars in Mass. that sold them too.
Americans actually don't really believe most of the stereotypical things we hear about especially food like we know Mexican and Chinese food isn't all that authentic in America we just love the taste of it.
Yup this is it. I don't know why people insist on thinking we believe it's authentic. Perhaps it's to feel that they're smarter and correcting somebody?
Yes, exactly! We often call it Americanized because we recognize that it is our own version of it, and when trying to differentiate what we want to eat we say "I want some AUTHENTIC *insert place here* food"
I once traveled to Germany and ordered a pepperoni pizza. It came not with pepperoni, but with pepperoncini peppers. I didn't mind because I like the peppers, but when I described when I'd expected, I was told, "Oh, that's Italian sausage!" Here, Italian sausage looks more like ground beef.
Oh goodness... I'm baffled by some of these. I've never in my life seen hotdogs in jars or on pizza, much less creamed corn on pizza. It's funny. 😊 bless it. 😂
As an American I can honestly say that hotdogs aren't nearly as popular here as it's obviously made out to be. American Breakfast: Hashbrowns, Eggs (Scrambled or over easy), Pancakes or Waffles with syrup, and a cup of coffee, or orange juice (that's orange). American Lunch: Peanut Butter and Jelly is a classic, but more often than not it's left overs or fast food (like McDonalds, Taco bell, etc) American Dinner: Varies so much you can't really put a label on it. Christmas Dinner: Usually involves Ham or Turkey with stuffing, Cranberry Jelly, Sweet Potato Pie or Candied Sweet Potatoes (Baked sweet potatoes with brown sugar and marshmellows on top), Green Been Casserole and more. It's practically the same menu as on Thanksgiving except a Christmas Ham is more popular whereas on Thanksgiving it has to be a Turkey.
Hot dogs are a particular food that we eat in particular contexts, sometimes. But they're a uniquely American style of sausage so overseas they're treated like something we eat all the time. In fairness there are some contexts which an American would absolutely eat hot dogs- A fourth of July outdoor picnic with grilled hot dogs and hamburgers is almost like _America's_ stereotype of America.
You obviously are not a Chicagoan. The Chicago style hot dog ( see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago-style_hot_dog ), italian beef, polish sausage, and Chicago style pizza are the cullinary tastes unique to Chicago and popular for casual dining, along with hamburgers. If you are a Sam's Club or Costco member. hotdogs are their #1 sellers in their cafes.
Depends on where you're from. Here in LA, Bacon wrapped hot dogs are a huge thing from street vendors and people who go to baseball games eat a lot of hot dogs and fry them on their grills
Those breakfasts are true to a degree, but I know way more people just eating cereal or something quick like that for breakfast on work/school days. People are tired and in a hurry.
Here in Texas, chili dogs are quite popular. Or just ketchup, mustard or mayo, and relish. Sauerkraut goes hard, too. Hot dogs should be burned on a charcoal grill.
In the U.S. "Americana" (not the same spelling) is a word that refers to stereotypical American things. If you go to a store like Walmart or Target than they will often have Americana sections selling products with American Flag designs, although the term would also cover American cultural artifacts not sold as retail products as well. An alternate meaning is a genre of music called Americana, which is kind of a hybrid of folk, country and early rock music.
American breakfast: Buttermilk biscuits, sausage gravy, eggs, and bacon or round sausage pieces. - pancakes, eggs, bacon - eggs, bacon, or sausage - quiche - fruit bowel, and eggs - cereal - etc. Something to keep in mind about America, is that it is a melting pot of people from all over the world, so many countries influence what is eaten in America. America is a very large country that has numerous varieties of cultures spread throughout each state. There are also different accents in each state and cultural etiquette. Example: In some places of America you call people Mam or Sir. In some places of America you yield to someone older than you when in a grocery line. In some places of America men take their hats off when entering a building... Every state has it's own unique style. People can also be found wearing different styles of clothing in each state. Much of the different styles of clothing is because many states have different climates and culture.
He is an American pop culture fan, so his perspective is always interesting, since he is himself violently Canadian but he studies US culture extensively.
Here is the southeast US: Christmas meal is typically the same thing we eat for Thanksgiving. Roast turkey or ham. In my city we usually have mashed potatoes with turkey gravy, cranberry sauce, green bean casserole, and roasted vegetables. Breakfast: Where I live it typically consists of fried or scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, pancakes, waffles, patty or link sausage, seasonal available fruit, biscuits and gravy, and hashbrowns. American section in the store: Despite what he said, most of that American section is correct. I think the issue there is that he's from Canada and not the US. I can tell by his accent. Hot dogs: Ok, these are very simple. They are basically the left over trimming from when cows and pigs are processed in factories. You can get hotdogs that are actual decent cuts of meat ground up, but those are VERY expensive. Around here the typical hotdog is simply the hotdog in a hotdog bun with mustard or ketchup on it. Some people put diced onion or relish on there. That's the typical hotdog. Chicago is definitely one exception. They have the Chicago Dog which at it's simplest for has a chunk of tomato, lettuce, and a pickle spear. Then we have the simple chili dog. That's just a hotdog with chili on it. Other than the ChicagoDog, that's pretty much the typical way of hotdogs where I live. Creamed Corn: It's a real thing here. However most people hate it because of its texture and people prefer whole kernel corn. It does not in any circumstance touch pizza. That would start a fight here. Ok, hotdogs do not belong on anything here except a hotdog bun. The only exception that is typically given is hotdog pieces on some types of baked beans. There's a brand for that called Beenie Weenie. Fries do not go on anything.
@@timmy334 I was just commenting this. I also live in the southeast and I've only heard of ham or turkey for Christmas and Thanksgiving, the home cooked meal being essential for that day. I've never heard of people eating Chinese, pizza, or fast food. I assumed all the US did this because I wasn't born in the US, but I guess not 🤷♀️
Well, cut up hotdogs on pizza isn't really unheard of. But it's more of a budget/emptying the fridge sort of meal. I'd even call it a college broke meal. Throw it on a cheap home bake pizza.
the red solo cup is only used because we want one or more of these 1. easy clean-up, just through it in the trash 2. cheep disposable cups that we do not care if you brake 3. an easy way to label whose cup it is, just right there name on it with a sharpy marker also we use paper plates for the same reason
I'm an American watching a German watching a Canadian talk about American style foods from around the world 😂😂😂😂😂 This was so entertaining! I LOVE IT 😂
The reason a lot of American stereotypes about Germany are Bavarian is because that’s where we were stationed after WW2. So the things soldiers picked up while in Germany were there
Also, a significant number of the German immigrants in the late 1800s/early 1900s were from Bavaria. I grew up in southwestern Minnesota, and the German population there is very Bavarian. Our German teacher in high school also focused heavily on Bavarian words, culture and holidays.
You do realize this is false and the actual reason we have a lot of German stereo types in the US is because of the large amount of German immigrants from around 1860s when Bismark decided to unite the Prussian states into a unified Germany to the 1990's when the wall fell.
Um, no, I was stationed in Germany. Bavaria is where a lot of the vacation areas are. But the American Army and Air Force are/were in Darmstadt, Ramstein, Heidelberg, Weissburg, Berlin, etc.
8:56 As an American in Europe who gets so tired of smug Europeans making fun of the US for inventing travesties like Pizza Hawaii, it absolutely delights me to inform them that Pizza Hawaii was invented in Canada by a Greek immigrant. Another thing that hints at it not being of American origin is that for the most part, we don’t name our pizzas in USA! With a handful of exceptions (like “supreme”), we just list what’s on it. (E.g. a “pizza margherita” is just a “cheese pizza”. A “pizza caprese” is just “pepperoni and olives”, etc.) Naming each combination is a very, very European thing. Here in Switzerland, there’s a god-awful “American” pizza chain called Sam’s Pizza Land, festooned in all manner of fake Americana, where every pizza is named after a US state or city. So already quite non-American. But even worse, whoever did the original naming clearly had ZERO clue about the US and its states, because the names don’t make any sense. (For example, why is a pizza with curried chicken and pineapple the “Oklahoma”? I reckon the average Oklahoman would throw it in the trash.) And this is an improvement over years ago, where they had a pizza with some kind of ocean seafood on it, and named it after some landlocked inland state like Kansas. 🤦 And many of their pizzas use ingredients that you never, ever put on pizza in USA (like corn, Swiss mountain cheese, leeks, or the aforementioned curried chicken.).
This is broadly accurate. Certain pizza chains here may have a small handful of named topping combos just for fun or ease of ordering, but it's not the norm. That said, my old gaming group ordered a pizza with pepperoni, sausage, and ham at one point and nicknamed it the Triple Pig. I think that one's pretty good. lol
Some places do name their pizzas other things, like papa murphey's cowboy pizza which has sausage, olives, and mushrooms, but generally most places will stick with something generic like "meat lovers pizza" for a pizza with lots of meat on it
You realize that Canada does share part of the North American continent, which would also make them Americans even though it is not in the country’s name.
As an American I'm happy to say I've never seen anything close to those foods they attribute to us. Most of them looked truly awful, except for the black and white cookie. I think a lot of Americans have the lederhosen image of Germans due to October Fest. Everyone has seen pictures of pretty blonde women in traditional clothes serving gigantic mugs of beer and some of the men wearing lederhosen as part of the celebration. It's a great image, so don't tell me it's not true Chris!
Funny thing is, this guy with the Mullet is Canadian. ** Marshmallow Fluff is big in the New England states, with the Fluffer Nutter sandwich. Yes, PB and fluff. I'm from Pennsylvania, but my Mom comes from South Shore Boston. So I was exposed to Fluffer Nutters and I like them. ** Pickled Sausages I have seen in big jars, usually your neighborhood bar will have a jar of them for sale. Then there are small cans of Viennies, (Vienna Sausage) the sportsman's go to snack (best with some hot sauce). But jarred or canned Hot Dogs? That ain't right. ** Because of this reason, the last time my relatives from Germany were visiting, I bought BLUE Solo Cups. You're correct, looks French. I have NEVER seen a cup, NO - Goblet like that for sale.
Yeah we had marshmallow fluff in my house at all times when I was growing up. The exact one he showed a picture of. The photo of the “American” grocery store shelf looked a bit like my childhood pantry tbh 😂
In America on Christmas Eve most businesses close early and stay closed over Christmas. Even the "box" stores. America celebrates Christmas for family, friends, good meals, presents and church.
And yes, I agree with you on the glass cup. Nothing about it said American and yes French comes to mind when I first saw it. This whole video I loved! That was a lot of fun watching with you! I loved when there was something you recognized. Thanks for another great video!
As an American of German descent, I've always been fond of 'German' things like bratwurst with sauerkraut, Hefeweizen and Kölsch beer. There is a stereotype that Germans build higher quality automobiles and drink lots of beer. One thing I suspect few Europeans realize is that from the Rocky Mountains to the west coast was first concurred by the Spanish back in the 1500's and what we call 'Mexican' food is about as common as hamburgers and hotdogs in the southwest. It's mostly Tex-mex, New Mexican and northern Mexican foods where the specific varieties of chili peppers are used in different ways to bring enormous variety of intense flavors various types of meats and cheeses. It's really funny how 'watered down' and bland poorly imitated Mexican food is. What we also have is both regional offerings, like New York Deli's, Texas BBQ, Southern fried chicken, midwestern burgers, California pizzas, Cajun gumbo, along with highbred Americanized versions of Chinese, Italian, Thai, Indian, Vietnamese, Greek, and Sushi. There is so much variety of different ethnic and regional restaurants these days.
Duct take was created for the US army as a take that would hold up well in water. I believe the official name was a number, as most military products are, but nicknamed Duck tape by the men. Later it became synonymous with craftsmen work such as air ducts which how it gained the current name. Red solo cups are popular because they are cheap and disposable. They are also more durable than other plastic or Styrofoam cups. Like many foods, the way it is prepared or cooked depends on what region or city you are in. A New York style Pizza is very different than a Chicago Style Pizza. You can get a hot dog with a lot of fixings (toppings) depending on where you are. In Philly (Philadelphia) you can easily get a chili cheese dog. That is A hot dog with bean & meat chili and melted cheese. Most common is mustard, ketchup, and maybe sauerkraut and/or relish. There is also the Philly cheese steak but that is whole other video. I also immediately thought of fancy French cup. I think most Americans consider ethnic food to be "Americanized." Nobody thinks American Chinese food is how a Chinese citizen actually eats.
It's correctly called _duct_ tape. As in, it is used on ventilation ducts and such. The military developed their own formula for the tape that has a stronger adhesive and rubberized backing that is used for high-stress applications. This type of tape is commonly referred to as _100 mph_ tape. In the TV and film industry it is called _gaffer's_ tape, as the gaffers are the ones who use the tape to secure items on set.
@@TestUser-cf4wj Duck tape actually came first. The name comes from cotton duck (also known as or duck canvas), a type of cloth that was originally used in electrical applications and for wrapping steel cables. Revolite (then a division of Johnson & Johnson) developed an adhesive tape made from a rubber-based adhesive applied to a durable duck cloth backing coated in waterproof polyethylene. This tape resisted water and was used to seal ammunition cases during that period. Most commercial duct tape is actually poor for use on HVAC ducts, as the adhesive on standard duct tape fails and the synthetic fabric reinforcement mesh deteriorates when used on heating ducts. You want foil tape for that.
in germany Duct Tape is called "Panzer Tape" bc it is very strong and you can seal "everything", you could even build a cannon with a cardboardtube and a few panzer tape layers around it
@@TestUser-cf4wj Gaffer's Tape is not the same as duct tape. Gaffer's tape is not waterproof and has a black paper backing similar to masking tape and it is easy to tear by hand. It's also very useful for creating and adjusting soft boxes and flaps and such to adjust the shame and intensity of film lights.
@@VladamireD Correct. No one who knows anything would use "duct tape" on an actual duct. We must campaign for it to be called duck tape. For taping up ducks.
This goes both ways, I felt so shocked when i asked my german grandmother about the hanging a pickle ornament on the christmas tree. She'd never heard of it and we've only heard of it as a German tradition.
I'm 56 years old, born & raised in the USA. I have never eaten KFC on Christmas. One year my father made hasenpfeffer, aka rabbit stew. Normally it would be ham. Occasionally we had a turkey. But we never had KFC. WOW! to be honest some of those food "item's" I have NEVER seen or heard of let alone eaten, as an American. For instance, the hot dog pizza or hot dog anything, EW! I will eat a hot dog. But usually as a Chicago Dog or a chili dog. One thing, here in Milwaukee, we have what is called the FRIDAY FISH FRY. It's fish, normally cod dipped in a beer batter & fried in a fryer. It usually has some choices for "side" items, like Potatoe Pancakes or French fries. You usually have a side of coleslaw as well. As for the relish & mayonnaise mix, we do that, it's called tartar sauce & it's used/ eaten with the fried fish.
The hotdog thing is because the food aid that the USA sent to war torn areas after WW2 and Korea, and the army rations for US soldiers, had a lot of processed meats that could survive the shipping. Fish on Friday is a global catholic thing, not a Milwaukee thing. Tartar sauce is quite a bit more than relish in mayonnaise, but I can see the simplification.
My second trip to the UK, my entire family was appalled to discover Pizza Huts selling Chicago style Pizza which consisted of cheese pizza topped with whole kernal corn. And the kicker was, when we questioned this, they had the nerve to argue with us, native born Americans, and insist this was actually authentic. I have worked in Chicago, stayed in Chicago, visited Chicago... you get the idea. But no, I couldn't possibly know what I am talking about!
@@yossarian6799There are two types of Chicago-Style. Deep Dish, which everyone thinks of. There is also Chicago Thin-Crust, which anyone who ever went to a Bowling Alley or had a frozen pizza is likely more accustomed to. Yeah, that right there is Chicagoan.
@@hiddendesire3076 If it's from Chicago, it's sus. Oh and I can thank the Windy City for that stoopit, douchebaggy "pub cut" trend. I've sent countless pizzas back for not being cut properly
As someone from NY we call Amerikaners “black and white cookies”. They are very popular and often advertised as an exotic German cookie. “The origins of the black-and-white cookie are debated, but many believe it was created by Glaser's Bake Shop in Manhattan, New York, around 1902. Bavarian immigrants John and Justine Glaser reportedly brought the recipe with them from Bavaria. The cookies were among the bakery's original recipes and became popular, spreading to other bakeries, including Jewish bakeries by the mid-1900s.”
I always assumed that the bones of your tale was more or less the origin of the black and white cookie in NYC, but despite living mere blocks from the establishment for virtually my entire life, had no idea that Glaser's played such an important role.
@@oliviawolcott8351extra funny because they’re in every German bakery and are only recently trending in the U.S. outside of places where there are Jewish bakeries.
@@oliviawolcott8351 no "Germany" doesn't think of them as American. I've nerver met anyone who thought that or claimed that they were. The name of those cookies most likely derives from "ammonium bicarbonate" which is used in making those cookies maybe intentionally bastardized after WWI.
Yeah, as an American, I think of black and white cookies as "New York City cookies" not "American cookies". I grew up in Massachusetts, not too far away, and had no idea they were a thing until I was a full adult and stayed in NYC for a week. But it makes sense that super local NYC city things would get global attention due to shows like Friends and Seinfeld being so ubiquitous.
Not gonna lie, all those pizzas sound great! Then again, I'm an American that will try any cuisine at least once. I even had fugu with the "taste of death!" That's where you have fugu prepared by a master chef whom intentionally leaves a trace amount of the neurotoxin in the cut. Turns your mouth, throat, and face numb. No idea if they actually do that in Japan, but the sushi place I went to in Barrington, IL, did, and that was a crazy experience. They dim the lights, and everyone chants, "FUGU! FUGU! FUGU!" to try to get you wuss out, because if you eat it, it's free, but if you wuss out, it's $100. I didn't have $100, so down the hatch! 😂
Fortune cookies were invented here in San Francisco........by a Japanese American. Japanese Americans also invented Mochi Ice Cream, possibly the best invention of mankind after the wheel.
Lots of non-Christians partake of some or many Christmas traditions in the US, such as decorations, or putting up a tree. :) I personally had a Jewish family as a neighbor who put up a Christmas tree because it was fun.
So there's this tiny inn outside of Rome that i stayed at for my flight back out back in 2017. The ENTIRE restaurant was western themed. Western figurines everywhere, giant steaks, old country music playing on the speaker. It was a sight to behold honestly. My mom and I laughed so hard we were almost crying at the dinner table.
In Britain, hot dogs canned in brine are branded as "American Sausages"; in America, (usually half-length) hot dogs canned in brine are branded as "Vienna Sausages". But if you want to try a 'Real American Hot Dog', it's basically just a slender chicken-and-pork bologna - so much so that, as a kid, I saw a whole bologna sausage at a butcher's shop and thought it was a giant hot dog. An 'American-style' breakfast originated as part of our (older) work ethic, when we worked long hours of strenuous labor and needed to bolster up with protein and carbs. As most of America was rural back then, eggs and 'pig parts' were plentiful and formed the foundation of breakfasts - fry up some bacon or sausage, fry some diced potatoes and eggs in the grease, and add some flour and cracked pepper to turn the remaining grease into gravy to pour over some biscuits. If you had some hamburger meat (ground beef), you could do chicken-fried steak instead of pig (bacon, sausage, ham, chorizo, etc). Plenty of variety, but it basically boils down to; eggs, meat, potatoes, and bread. That glass makes me instantly think of 'fine crystal', leading me to think Austria or Bavaria. When it comes to spaghetti westerns, what many claim to have become the most iconic exemplar is an American homage to the spaghetti western, itself an Italian homage to the American 'wild west' - Rango (2011).
NGL, there isn't anything more American than convincing an entire nation to adopt a tradition to buy your products during the holidays. The chicken for Christmas is amazing and props to them for doing it. It may not be an American tradition, but now they get a fun new tradition of their own which I find incredible.
J.J. is the most Canadian person I've ever seen. His videos are good. My only complaint is that he believes unique Canadian cultural things exist, but tends to lump American things in with an overall North American culture. He never really gives credit to American culture on its own. I don't know if that's from a lack of knowledge or interest but I've found it frustrating sometimes.
In the US we tend to either have a spiral ham or a turkey for Christmas dinner. Most families celebrate Christmas here. Not only Christians, but most atheists, and many secular Muslims and Jews so as to not leave their children feeling left out when kids come back from winter break talking about Christmas gifts. Only Christians recognize it’s religious significance, but most Americans celebrate the holiday.
I mean, most people that I know use it as an excuse to reconnect with family/friends despite not being religious at all. Eat good food, spend a couple of days not dealing with work, and remembering why it's only once a year you talk to these people instead of calling them all the time.
@@KrashyKharma May I ask exactly how Atheistic Satanism works? Wouldn’t the belief in Satan insinuate a belief in God? At a minimum, wouldn’t Satan at a minimum equate to some form of diety? Not looking to be combative, just genuinely curious.
@@bigploppa154 (I'll preface this by saying I'm also not being combative, because the way I talk in text often sounds like I am) Look at the way you phrased this for a clue; if the topic is *Atheistic* Satanism, wouldn't you assume that *belief* in anything, Satan or otherwise, would be excluded from that? Satanism, like Buddhism, is a religion that completely lacks deities and any interest in supernaturalism, and instead focuses on ritual, symbolism, and personal beliefs about how to live life in the way most desirable to the individual practitioner. What happens after life is of no concern to Satanism, it's entirely focused on what happens when you're alive. There are no deities involved. Again like Buddhism, a commonly known and understood character is used as an archetype, emblematic of how that life is lived. In this case the character is Satan, who symbolizes rebellion against systems of domination and arbitrary dogma, and in support of self empowerment and personal responsibility. A comparison often made is that it's like forming a religious philosophy around Darth Vader. Obviously followers of that religion would not believe that George Lucas' fictional character is real, they would be using him as a model for behavior and philosophical belief. What makes it a religion and not a philosophy, if that phrasing makes you curious, is the focus on ritual, personal identification, and aesthetic (et al).
(I'll preface this by saying I'm also not being combative, because the way I talk in text often sounds like I am) Look at the way you phrased this for a clue; if the topic is Atheistic Satanism, wouldn't you assume that belief in anything, Satan or otherwise, would be excluded from that? Satanism, like Buddhism, is a religion that completely lacks deities and any interest in supernaturalism, and instead focuses on ritual, symbolism, and personal beliefs about how to live life in the way most desirable to the individual practitioner. What happens after life is of no concern to Satanism, it's entirely focused on what happens when you're alive. There are no deities involved. Again like Buddhism, a commonly known and understood character is used as an archetype, emblematic of how that life is lived. In this case the character is Satan, who symbolizes rebellion against systems of control and arbitrary dogma, and in support of self empowerment and personal responsibility. A comparison often made is that it's like forming a religious philosophy around Darth Vader. Obviously followers of that religion would not believe that George Lucas' fictional character is real, they would be using him as a model for behavior and philosophical belief. What makes it a religion and not a philosophy, if that phrasing makes you curious, is the focus on ritual, personal identification, and aesthetic (et al).
I did a study abroad in Taipei. I saw a number of restaurants with "American style" dishes. 100% of them was something with a side of spaghetti and meatballs. There was "American style" breakfast that was eggs with a side of spaghetti and meatballs. I thought it was quite fun.
I have been to Germany several times. The idea of what is American always struck me. I find it interesting. The Taste of America is nowhere near close, but it makes sense. Snacks that have a long shelf life. I was at a mall in Iraq and went to the food court and that was way worse. I have a bud that lives there and he mentioned it. I sent him a care package. 120 worth of stuff and it cost me 180 to ship it. It brightened up his year. He told me he made some cornbread and offered some to his family. They tried a bite and decided it wasnt for them. I sent him some Velvetta too to make some Mac and Cheese. Spices, just things I know you can't get there. Something I know you can't get there but the Germanics here make and could be made there - Scrapple. That is a taste of America. I know families that will stock up for the year with one days worth of work. The mini grill sets in Germany really got to me. Like...why? And the Pulled Pork Crazy, i wasnt even going to bother. -Edit, that same bud, his daughter made him an American breakfast. Scrambled eggs, toast and baked beans. An A for effort but very much wrong.
Scrapple is HIGHLY regional, so I can't imagine most Americans knowing what it is, let alone eating it regularly and considering it "American food". I ate it a few times as a kid (mostly when visiting my grandparents), but stopped when I learned the ingredients!
8:06 Im American born and raised and I had the EXACT same reaction to this. I have never seen a pizza with hotdogs on it. Now we do have what we call "Cheeseburger Pizza" but that just takes the stuff form a cheeseburger and put it on a pizza. Like gound hamburger, sometimes the sauce is like mustard and or ketchup, cheddar cheese, lettuce tomatoes and even pickles. It is quite good actually.
Putting hot dogs and fries seams like something a bunch of drunk college students would do at a party you know putt all the food on a slice of pizza so you can shovel more in your mouth at once.
A local pizza place to me in upstate NY makes a fantastic taco pizza. the sauce is taco sauce, the meat is ground beef, it is cooked and then afterwards cold shredded mozarella, lettuce, and tomato are added on top and left uncooked. So good! But very unusual for a pizza lo, just like a cheeseburger pizza would be .
Agreed. Ham Christmas Eve for the German heritage side of the family. Roast beef Christmas Day for the English side of the family. Turkey ONLY for thanksgiving. I am from NW Washington state
In the US we have “German Chocolate Cake.” It is not called that because it comes from Germany, it was actually invented in the US; but instead the name refers to the cake’s English-American inventor, Samuel German.
That's my favorite cake!
That s my favorite cake.
That's correct. I use German's Baking Chocolate when I make this cake. It has absolutely no German origin, but instead, was first made by a lady in Texas in 1957. Real German chocolate cake looks and tastes just like the cake made in the USA.
I thought it was because its made with 'German chocolate', which is a way of processing cocoa powder which produces a distinct flavor. The process is also called 'Dutch Cocoa' as I belive they actually developed it. Needless to say conflating the Dutch and Germans is a far older issue.
@@kennethferland5579 German's chocolate is named after Samual German as well
As an American, I'm BAFFLED by the jarred hotdogs. Also, creamed corn on pizza is borderline sacrilege 😂
as much as i love creamed corn i would NEVER put it on a pizza, i barely tolerate my moms love of having pineapple on her pizza
Yeah, but I have had them in a jar.
I was in scotland not long ago and didn't see that anywhere lol
Jarred hot dogs are probably easier to transport and be safe to eat for longer periods than the way they are packaged and sold in the US. It was most likely an economic decision.
I didn't know, I feel like single wrapped pickled sausages are something I see at every convenience store right next to Slim-Jim's, usually called something obnoxious like Firecrackers. Never eaten them, but obviously somebody is if they've been in 7-11 since the 80s and continue to be stocked. Can't imagine it's too much different buying several in a jar, and they'd be preserved pantry items with a huge shelf life, which is good for stores.
Watching a German watch a Canadian talk about what's not actually American in other countries. This is why the internet exists.
LOL The first time he said "about," I said, "Hey! He's Canadian!"
Yep, 'aboot'. Seems a good guy though. I'd be OK with him as a neighbor, and not just a neighboring country.
Scrolled down here for this very reason. What does this dude know if he doesn't live here?
@@roberthunter479 Maybe has has lived in the USA for a period of time. He seemed to know enough that his assessments were accurate lol.
Did the "Aboot" give it away.
Well, to the German host of this TH-cam channel, in 1960 it was not only in Bayern that Lederhosen were worn regularly! I’m an American who as a 5 year old lived in a village, Angelmode, outside of Muenster, Westfalen, for a year from August 1960 to July 1961. There was a two room school house, Volkschule, in the village for grades 1-6. My older brother attended the Volkschule for the whole academic year. I attended the first grad there starting in the spring after Easter, when the German school year used to start. I was actually too young, but my parents wanted me to learn German, which I did. ALL of the German boys in Angelmode wore Lederhosen to school! ALL of them. As a result, both my brother and I wore Lederhosen to the Volkschule, otherwise we would have stood out. This was only 15 years after the end of WWII. A different era. Interestingly, I believe that Germans outside of Bayern have amnesia regarding the wearing of Lederhosen by kids. I also lived in Goettingen, West Germany, from August 1977 through March 1979, on exchange from UC Berkeley. The German students I got to know in Goettingen were shocked that the kids in a village in Westfalen had worn Lederhosen to school. Most of the people I met in Goettingen must not have grown up in a village….
Yeah, 69 year old Army Brat here. We lived in Germany in the early 60s. Post WWII things changed really quickly with the imprint of the American 50s and then the cultural "British Invasion." The post war Germans were eager to put it all behind and join the post war future. I'm not surprised the following generations grew up with their older traditions largely "dissappeared." G
If you pour creamed corn on my pizza, we're about to fight.
@aaronburdon221 Right? I'm with you! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes, I would be screaming no at the waiter. I'm just fine with the plain pizza(cheese only) you brought me. Please find me some red pepper flakes and parmesan cheese to top it with. Cheese pizza is so boring
I think I would be too dumbstruck to fight. I think I'd honestly just cry.
@@ryanewald9740 SAME i would be like- mourning
I’d just get up and leave. I’m not touching that.
Duct tape being called "American tape" fills me with nationalistic pride. Please continue doing that.
😂😂😂
I'm also now calling roller coasters American Slides
@@UODZU-Plmfaoooo
agreed
It makes me think of Mythbusters.
The guy that convinced Japanese people to have fried chicken on Christmas is a genius. Not even mad lol
Ok, as an American I think the idea of KFC for Christmas sounds like a cool change of pace. I like it. It is a bit ironic, nonetheless as deep fried turkeys are common in the USA for major holidays.
@@danrhinehart1134 plus people just had thanksgiving a month prior. So, change it up a bit if you like. I’d be okay if I showed up to someone’s house and they had fried chicken, mashed potatoes and biscuits! I’m down with this!
It's not the worst creation I think, and sort of still gets a bit of the message across, big feast with family and friends. Just usually it's homecooked meals and stuff, well I guess it depends on the family and all. The christianity stuff is only for the hyper religious, most just take it as a general holiday since many get the time off work and school.
And of course there's the spending money on gifts and stuff, big economic holiday really, so a brand like KFC almost monopolizing it is kind of ironically in line, though I think they got it by lucky accident.
Wish KFC tasted as good as it did 20 years ago!
Those eating the fried chicken aren't mad either.
Thanks for the video! Keep at it! I hope you find ways past the depression! We’re all rooting for you to succeed in life.
funny thing is, this guy is Canadian. i laugh everytime he says aboot.
Me too!!! It was killing me!!😅
He has the most stereotypical Ontario accent ever, it's great.
@@CidsaDragoonHe is from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We don't talk that way. We have never talked that way. He's faking it for attention and likes and and hes a doofuss
Me, too
Still north americs
“Chinese fortune cookies” were created in San Francisco, by a Japanese American commercial baker serving mostly ethnic restaurants. He came up with the idea of folding a traditional Japanese sesame cookie around a fortune, and discovered there was a market for it. One could get the unfolded sesame cookies in San Jose’s Japantown.
Huh, I always heard that it was a Chinese American who invented them, but that fact makes me wonder, are fauxthentic traditions often created by people from geographically adjacent cultures? It makes sense, because they would know enough about the culture to get it mostly right, but wouldn't care about authenticity when using it to sell something to an audience which doesn't know better.
Fried Rice also came from the USA, sweet and sour pork is also an American dish which "immigrated" back to China. There are several more which we think of Chinese food which is not. In fact majority of food in a Chinese resteraunt is NOT Chinese food.
I remember going to the fortune cookie factory in the 70s on a field trip🙂
@@w8stral Yeah, it was Chinese or ethnic Chinese cooking for Anglo customers, using available food items.
I'm getting queasy and just hearing about these
An American,watching a charming german, laugh at a funny Canadian. Sometimes I love the Internet 😊
I relate! I’m also American, and this video has been such a fun experience.
I giggled every time he said aboot, my grandmother was Canadian, we have family there so we went there occasionally (mainly Nova Scotia)
As a Mainer who can see the Canadian border from my front yard....I agree :)
One minute in I felt like I was in a Salvador Dali movie, but I am deff having fried chicken for Christmas next year.
He doesn't have kids: gold fish are ubiquitous
It's always fun seeing your part of the world through the eyes of someone elsewhere. My favorite story is that of an American Steak House in Japan that has a rather interesting breakfast buffet, serving hotdogs (frank is another term as they derive from the German frankfurter) and hamburger patties as sausage and french fries as hashbrowns, etc... This is on top of the KFC thing which never ceases to amuse me as that is the furthest from American traditions as one can get.
Also, I am in a rather German part of the U.S, relatively speaking, Kansas to be precise, we kinda pride our German heritage (me less so as I am Welsh) one of our state dishes is the Volga classic Bierrocks, and there is a city here that has an entire dutch/German heritage festival (I know the Netherlands and Gemrany are not the same, but its a combination festival). German also is the 3rd most spoken language in the state, behind Espanol and English.
Also BTW, Hawi'ian pizza is actually Canadian, the name comes from the brand of pineapple used. Also so you can get a good metric:
A typical American breakfast: Bacon (thinly sliced pork belly style, often extra crispy but never burnt), eggs, sometimes sunny side up, sometimes over easy, toast with butter, and hashbrowns. If you want extra points, add pancakes or waffles (chicken and waffles is another one that is done). This is served with a side of maple syrup, jam of your preference, OJ and/or coffee. However personally, i am weird and prefer sushi as all that jazz up there tends to upset my stomach, Im also not a huge breakfast eater also.
Some true American foods (U.S Originals):
- Corndogs (obviously)
- Biscuits and Gravy (don't knock it til you try it)
- Cob Salad
- Lobster Roll
- Po' Boy (especially if its made with oysters)
- Jumbalya
- Hamburgers (origins derive from the style of sandwich from Hamburg Germany, however its popularity with people in the U.S make its as American as anything else and preparation has changed over the years from how it was originally concieved.)
- Philly Cheesesteak Sandwich
- German Chocolate Cake (named after the creator Samuel German).
- The Cuban Sandwich (originalted from Cuban immigrants adapting old recipes with new ingredients.)
and finally but not the last: New England Clam Chowder.
The only thing he talked about that actually is authentic is the red solo cups. Couple of things, though: 1. They’re very common in America, not because they’re considered glamorous or cool or even American, but because they’re dirt cheap; so they’re great for parties, picnics and barbecues where you have a lot of people. Less widely known around the world are paper Dixie cups, which are also very common at large gatherings in America, but they’re smaller. 2. Solo cups don’t just come in red; I’ve seen them in blue, green and yellow too. But for some reason it’s always the red ones that appear in Hollywood movies.
Oh, and I’ll add this: “Americana” is a word used to describe media or materials, typically old or historical stuff, that are considered emblematic of America or American history or culture. At the university library I work for, we have a section of our special collections and rare materials collections called “Americana”, which can include anything from old postage stamps or early 20th century post cards from Yellowstone, to old diaries written by 19th century Americans, old photographs, early film reels, or early American publications.
There are a couple good reasons for the plastic, rather than paper, cups being used in movies. They're more durable, so they can be used for more takes, and their greater opacity makes continuity far easier, as you don't have to worry about obvious changes in the level of liquid in a cup between shots.
@@mpf1947 Do you know why they always specifically use the red solo cups, though, when they come in multiple colors?
@@rachelmaxwell5936 It could just be that they pop on camera better? I mean, I never really thought about if set designers would care about the color of the cups they're using in a scene, but now that I AM thinking about it, I could honestly see that being a reason, lol.
One of the reasons red Solo cups are used could be because of Toby Keith's hit song "Red Solo Cup". The song got to #9 on the Billboard charts and has over 600,000 views on TH-cam.
@@rachelmaxwell5936they contrast on camera better than other colors, but i also wouldn't be surprised if solo paid a bunch of money for product placement
As an American, I am proud of the balls of the guy who convinced an entire country that we eat fried chicken on Christmas 😂
Any true American can appreciate that entrepreneurial spirit 😂
Helll no I am absolutely offended 😂
Absolutely. Props to him. That's hilarious.
100% the second most American thing I have seen on this video next to "Now in Bacon Flavored".
@@TheLoreLabs I honestly wanted to try that...
It's a very clever ploy
Not even mad about the guy convincing Japan to eat fried chicken on Christmas. The man started a legit cultural tradition because of that. It's absolutely genius.
literally up there with macy's in the early 1900s coming up with santa claus 😂
i can't wait until japanese people start hearing about that bit of history bc their reactions will be utter gold
@@dead-claudia I think the legend of Santa Clause came before Macy's. Many cultures have a variation of the tale and I'm fairly certain the Americanized version is based on St. Nicholas. Although, the history of Christmas and traditions have many origins from the winter solstice, to being outlawed from the church, to later being associated with the birth of Christ, and finally acceptance as a national holiday, etc.
pretty sure Santa Clause and Macy is talking about during the Christmas season to have a Santa Clause in the store for kids to see and sit on his lap and not that Macy’s came up with Santa Clause entirely
@@amyyamasaki8529 Oh, that makes sense, haha
Also the Japanese do not typically have the type of ovens we have in the West. Cooking a whole turkey is not really an option there. I'm not even sure you heat up a ham. Pretty much all the traditional Western feast foods aren't much of an option.
Besides, chicken's way better than Turkey anyway. The only good thing about a turkey is it's a bigger bird.
The thing a lot of people don't realize is many people around the world actually eat pretty similar things on a day-to-day basis.
For example, if someone asks me, an American, what I eat on the regular for dinner, this is my response:
Chicken breast, diced, sautéed in either butter or olive oil, with broccoli florets and diced onion (usually yellow or red onion), seasoned with cinnamon, sea salt, paprika, cayenne pepper, and ground telicherry peppercorns, served over a bowl of long grain rice (usually Jasmine rice). For my drink, cold water. I will have an orange or honeycrisp apple for desert.
Now, my spices may differ, but the crux of my meal is chicken+rice+veggies, and some fruit on the side. I bet most of y'all eat something similar.
If I only ate fried chicken and pork ribs drenched in BBQ sauce like foreigners think we eat, I'd be dead by now, lol!
Sometimes, you just gotta eat what's on hand.
Like tonight, I'm making spaghetti noodles with Alfredo sauce, and pinto beans. Maybe some mixed frozen veggies (carrots, green beans, corn, green peas).
I need to do some grocery shopping, so this is just what I have available tonight. It'll be delicious, for sure, but I don't think it's really any one culture's food, y'know? I'm sure there are Italians out there gasping at my blasphemy, but bro, times are tough, and a man's gotta eat. How can you say no to delicious noodles in tasty sauce with beans and veggies? It's all good!
Who has Alfredo and pinto beans?!?!?!,🤢🤢🤢☠️☠️☠️
The "American sauce" is close to what we call "tartar sauce" (mayonaisse and diced pickles) but missing lemon juice or other ingredients. Tartar sauce is almost exclusively eaten with fish, especially breaded and fried fish.
They have tartar sauce in Germany. It’s like the bedrock of their one fast food restaurant, a surprisingly fresh seafood chain called Nordsee.
It sounds pretty similar to thousand island, just tobasco instead of ketchup.
@@Furluge I'd rather the tobasco. Mmm
It might be similar to Big Mac sauce which is a topping on one of McDonald's burgers.
Tartar sauce is much older than America though, the debate is over the origin deriving from the Roman Empire or France.
I host a lot of foreign visitors to the US. The look on their face when they realize that solo cups come in every color you can imagine is hilarious.
or that they're mad cheap to buy xD my Icelandic friends bought solo cups as souvenirs when they visited me in DC. I was done, these were people I had went to university with in Japan for 3 years. They saw my apartment had solo cups and they could never find them.... cuz I always got em at the Costco in Fukuoka.
@@lordblazer Love it. Had friends from UK over and they said a 12 pack of "American cups" cost them £26 when they could find them. I just gave them a pack of 80 I got at target for $4 and they were in awe.
They didn't use to.
Other colors have to be a fad. Nothing says "kegger" like the red solo cup.
It's so weird learning just today that anyone cares about solo cups at all.
When I visted Germany several years ago, I stayed at a hostel in Dresden and the elevator was advertising the "Amerikanisch Pizza" which was topped with tuna, peas, and mac and cheese. Frankly, as an American, sounded rather disgusting.
If the crust was thin with no sauce, that would be similar to a tuna casserole that my mom used to make with saltine crackers. It wasn't bad for an occasional change of pace.
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Vile 🤢
Someone dumped a casserole on a pizza. 😳
@@martaledbetter2911 yeah, that was my first thought as well, but still less than appetizing.
Never in my life have I eaten a hot dog from a jar 😂
Or put hot dog on a pizza. Gag!
Hot dogs in a jar are from Germany and some areas in England.
We do have pork and beans though. 😅 Cut up hot dogs in BBQ beans. I haven't had it since I was a kid, but it's still out there. 😆
@@briansmith48 the pork and beans in the can, are pieces of pork, not hotdogs.
never a hot dog but sausages. Bar sausages to be exact
My understanding is that Hawaiin Pizza was "invented" in Canada.
hence the Canadian bacon...
Yes…by a Greek immigrant
Yeah, it got the "hawaiin" name from the can of Pineapples the chef used.
@@amaegith9871 I had a feeling it was because of the pineapples.
LOLOLOL, a fusion thing! Way better with fresh pineapple.
I'm a 41 year old American, and I have never heard or even ever seen a hotdog on a pizza in my life!!!!
Same, I learned something new today. That combination is wild.
I've had it a couple times growing up in Ohio. It's a quick add-on to cheap take-and-bake pizzas with skimpy toppings when trying to use up food in the fridge.
It's not exactly good, moreso bland. But there's worse toppings.
While never on a pizza, i’ve seen pizzas that had pretzel dough with Pigs-In-A-Blanket crusts. I think it was a Pizza Hut thing. Also saw a hotdog rolled in with the crust. Also think it was Pizza Hut.
Saw it on a pizza in Mexico. They called it sausage pizza
Absolute college food.....Cheap totinos frozen pizza, add some sliced hotdogs and extra cheese to up the calories and protein. I eventually moved on to better pizza and better toppings, but that remains a strong memory.
I will likely never get to travel and see other places and experience new things, so videos like this never fail to entertain. One small point, you saying "Hawai'ian" in your accent is 100% more accurate than how most Americans say it. I've got a friend who lives in Deutschland (I can't recall what part) and we exchange boxes every christmas of just random crap that each other's countries don't have or don't regularly sell. Last time we did this, I got a German newspaper and a book on travel (entirely in German) and a cool little coin. I sent Kraft mac 'n cheese and a bunch of other foodstuffs not very common there. I believe his words were "no food on earth should be this virulent shade of orange, but it wasn't bad".
whats funny about the "christmas fried chicken" is, as an American- when we dont want to deal with cooking turkey and everything that goes with it, we go out to a chinese buffet for christmas lmfao
Chinese places where I am don't close for anything. We've had roughly 2 tornado warnings in my entire lifetime in the area I live in and during the more recent of them, the couple running a chinese food truck in the area just walked into a nearby bar to wait out the storm itself and got right back to cooking once it was done.
that is a jewish tradition! movies and chinese food.
christmas in new zealand is a barbeque and lots of beer
@@mikekilkelly2138isn’t it summertime in December over there I know the seasons there are slightly different from the us
Evidently, Chinese on Christmas is traditional for Jewish folks, because they don't celebrate Xmas. We went out for Chinese on Christmas Eve, because my mom refused to cook that day.
I was living in Japan in the early 2000s and found it funny to see T-Shirts sold with English words and phrases that were all non-sense. It reminded me of Americans who got tattoos with Japanese symbols that were pretty random. I have a pair of Japanese house slippers that read, "Toilet. Always a pleasant surprise." They made me laugh so hard when I saw them.
My favorite was “I Feel Coke.” I love Japanese nonsense tees!
I watch a lot of Thai dramas and they frequently wear shirts with English text on them, I think because it looks cool in Thailand. However sometimes the shirts are really random and hilarious, like a young male college student wearing a shirt that said "Baseball Mom" or another character wearing a Christmas shirt in the summer.
Some Japanese homes have special slippers worn for using the toilet.
@@LorenIpsum75but I hope it isn’t _always_ a surprise, even a pleasant one
Figure it's only fair. Lol
The lederhosen stereotype came about in the US because after WW2 the American occupation zone was mostly confined to Bavaria so American soldiers would see Bavarians in these clothes and see Bavarian culture and thought the rest of Germany was like that.
My father was stationed around Nuremburg in the early 1960's. He had a set of Bierkrugs marked "Lowenbrau Munchen"
eh alot of americans were out of bavaria too but i believe it
The stereotype is way older than WW2. Many migrants moved from Bavaria to the USA in the 19th century.
@@TheDuckofDoom. True.
Another factor is that the traditional Bavarian clothing is pretty distinctive and recognizable, whereas Germans in other areas dressed pretty much like anyone else, so it was only the odd-looking Bavarian garb that stuck in people's minds as being representative of Germany. Although truthfully, it's doubtful that any educated US person today thinks that Germans dress any diffeently than Americans do. We've seen too many documentaries and modern shows not to realize that it's just a silly stereotype. Just as I'm pretty sure most Germans don't think that all Americans dress like cowboys.
As a American, I'd probably eat every single food item in this video.
Gotta love a video of a Canadian telling a German about what's American and what isn't
I know, right! 😁
I was thinking the same thing, but hey, Canada is America’s fraternal twin, he basically knows American culture
JJ explained in the past that he speaks in terms of American Culture including Canada because not only are we all apart of "North America", but the culture of the United States is what kind of bled up to create the culture of Canada (with some regional differences.) For example, while Canada remained under the crown and was slowly populated by fur traders and lumberjacks to send resources back to England, it didn't have much global cultural influence, so a lot of what defines them today is simply adopted from the US. (I may be mis-remembering the finer details of the history, so please forgive me, but I believe that was the gist of what he said. I saw it a while ago. 😅)
@@Kipicus I don't even know what poutine is but this Canuckistani is larping big.
No fried okra, grits, barbecue, or red snapper? Not American at all.
@@SecuR0M (with some regional differences.) Fried Okra, grits, and red snapper is southern, you won't find these things in the north. You're saying people who don't have these things are larping as American? Wait... Jefferson Davis is that you???? 👀 If you think having Tim Hortons makes you fake American in North America, then you're minds going to get blown when you find out there's a Central and South America, and they are a LOT less friendly when you tell them they're not American. 😂
"yeah- I could see that. With the Santa and KFC" as American Christmas - I actually spit my water laughing :) that is adorable that seems so American. Those kids were so happy - don't take that from them LOL
Funny part is, the Japanese don't actually believe KFC is a traditional American Christmas food. The whole thing became a thing because people wanted Christmas turkeys, but turkey is a very rare food to find at all in Japan (at least, whole turkey is), so KFC decided to do a Christmas KFC marketing campaign. Ever since, KFC has been a popular Christmas dinner treat.
@@MrMontanaNights Thank you. Makes sense. Christmas is definitely one of the days that we don't get fast food! Those little kids with their buckets of fried chicken are so cute though. Definitely not an American tradition.
The black and white cookie supposedly was first made by Bavarian immigrants, who opened Glaser's Bake Shop in 1902 in a Manhattan neighborhood. By the 1950's, the cookie was a key part of NYC's Ashkenazi Jewish culinary identity and can still be found in bakeries, corner stores and delis throughout the metropolitan area. I've always found them in Jewish deli's where I live in Ohio.
I’ve seen the black and white cookies in bakeries here in the Southern States.
@@samanthac.349 and being that I've lived in rural Georgia since 08 I'm very happy to have seen them finally. I used to have to make my own Black and White cookies until I saw them at Publix a few years ago 😊
They’re common at any bakery in the N.Y. capital region.
The black and white cookies are a pretty common bakery item throughout the midwest, though sometimes they're smaller.
@@JoHennyes! And in central NY we call them half moon cookies.
Fried chicken on Christmas actually made my eyebrow raise, because I've never heard of that here in America.
I can't speak for other families, but growing up in the cold Midwest, our family had the traditional honey glazed ham, with all the fixin's like mashed potatoes, sweet baked yams, green bean casserole, stuffing, and of course, an assortment of pies, like cherry pie, apple pie, and pumpkin pie. We might also have some cranberry sauce on the side, and perhaps some buttermilk biscuits (flakey bread rolls, not cookies). Oh, but yeah, we would also bake gingerbread men, and Christmas tree shaped sugar cookies decorated with icing and those little red cinnamon candies (as the ornaments). The ham could be replaced with a turkey. I know some people have goose, but I don't know where the hell you buy a goose; never seen one for sale in the meat section).
But we never had fried chicken for Christmas... Ever.
When I lived in Belgium for 8 years, I was shocked to see raw ground beef with green spices labeled American Pate. I don't know any American who would ever eat raw ground beef.
Me when making meatballs
I now live in the northern part of South Dakota and there is a tradition here of serving what is locally called Tiger Meat which is a special mixture of richly seasoned, freshly ground locally raised beef which is served raw on crackers particularly at the holidays. It is actually quite good. I think this was a tradition brought over by the German Russians who settled in the area.
@@juliamccolister9355 I grew up in South Eastern S. D. So glad it is your tradition up north. Thanks for the info.
Well hick, try going to a "fancy" high-end restaurant in s "big city", not common anymore, but you can still find it.
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As 1st generation American from a Mexican background, I see this all the time from both ends. Like my Mexican friends ask me what it with Americans and guns, it's just deeply rooted in American history and culture. Back when America was untamed and scattered you have to fend for yourself where there's little help. The stand offish attitude and the what's mine is mine mentality is rooted heavily in the culture and history.
Conversely my American friends can't understand why romance, love, sadness and happiness are the main thing people in Mexico loves. Mexican history is full of full of sadness, helplessness, tragedy, and enduring it all with a loving heart, crying and dancing. It builds a sense of community, strength and love you rarely see in the US.
And I love both. I often feel like the bridge to two worlds. I love the cultures of both, the food, the people and the music.
You still do have to fend for yourself. There are many places where you are 50 miles, 100 miles or more from a gas station. Even if you are in NYC, it can take Police - once called - a half hour or more to get to you because of the congestion.
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Another thing about the US. We do not, in general, think of hot dogs as sausages. They exist as a separate category. Brats are sausages, but hot dogs are hot dogs or sometimes called franks, short for frankfurters. The best hot dog I ever ate was on the Staten Island ferry-no ketchup, no mustard, no relish, just plain in a bun. Amazing!
Yeah, I would second this. Sausage is a completely different thing. It's usually bigger and made of better quality meat. And it can be made of any kind of meat. There's really good chicken and apple sausages that taste amazing when cooked on the grill or over a camp fire.
You can get "Vienna sausages" which are tiny and come in a can. Also vegan sausages and/or hot dogs, which are made of plant proteins and only marginally edible. 😅😂
And then there's breakfast sausage, which is usually made of pork with specific seasonings. It can be hot dog shaped (but smaller), or formed into a patty. Sometimes even just scrambled.
Not even going down the summer sausage / salami rabbit hole...
Maybe we deserve the "America = hot dogs" reputation.
Correct. Sausage and hotdogs are different things.
Interestingly, it seems to be a thing among Mexican immigrants. My wife and her family do in fact use hot dogs as a replacement for almost any type of sausage which isn't chorizo.
I'd like to point out that there are some things labeled "sausages" that really look like slightly bigger (and maybe tastier) hot dogs. Otherwise, sausages are generally composed of coarser bits of meat and seasonings, i.e.; less processed.
@@KellAnderson Probably because we don't really eat sausage. I never saw any in Mexico. We have "longaniza" and "chorizo", but those are different. We do have "salchicha", which is kind of like a hot dog whiner, that are just now being more popular due to tourist influence. Granted, Mexico has so many indigenous populations and dialects that food from one state can vary a lot from another, but I've never met someone from there that knew what sausage was.
13:00 Yup, I said France too. I am American.
Correct.
yep
Same😂😂😂
In the USA, there's a cake that only dates back to the 1950s called German Chocolate Cake (Originally German's Chocolate Cake). It was named for a brand of chocolate that was named after an English-American man named Samuel German. The cake was made with German's Chocolate. Over time, Americans just dropped the possessive and just started calling it German Chocolate Cake.
Unlike most of these faux American foods, German Chocolate Cake actually tastes good.
It's like graham crackers.
They were invented by a man named Thomas Graham. So they were Graham's crackers.
When he sold his company the new owners dropped the possessive too.
Thank you for sharing this! I have kinda taken everything named here in America with a grain of salt since I have grown up.
@@martha3445 Yep, it is really good.
I wonder if the man pronounced his name Grrr-man. I know someone whose name is spelled "German" but is pronounced Grrr-man.
Scott Pilgrim was written by a Canadian, takes place in Canada, and is directed by a Brit. It's so weird that a film where Toronto is at the center of everything is thought of as American.
So, America’s is the continent, isn’t it? So technically Canada is American, no? The only actual issue that people have is think only about the US when they hear “America”, even though American is the continent and the US is the country. Like Canada and some small Latin countries too.
Canada is on the American continent and I've heard plenty of Canadians refer to themselves culturally as being American. It's easy to make everything about us when we're from the USA
@@xxmathiasnofacexx No. NORTH America, which stops at Ecuador, is the continent. The continent is split by the isthmus, much like Africa is separated from Eurasia by an Isthmus.
And I've known perfectly kind, nice, polite Canadians who would fight you for calling them American.
@@xxmathiasnofacexx No. Everyone knows "American" refers to people/things from the United States of America. No one from Canada or Mexico (or any other country in the Americas) refers to themselves as "American." This would cause an unbelievable amount of confusion. And Canadians definitely don't want to be associated with America. They're easily confused as Americans by the rest of the world due to having a similar accent. Why do you think they're so quick to point out to everyone that they're Canadian and to always wear/display the Canadian flag when they're traveling.
Similarly, I've never heard of a Brit who didn't object to being called "European." While Great Britain is technically in Europe, they're not part of the mainland continent of Europe and tend to consider themselves British (or English, Welsh, etc) not European. Even though Canadians inhabit the continent of North America, they don't consider themselves (and Americans would never refer to anyone outside of the U.S. as) American.
@@bobtheduck but why America then, it’s just US what ppl mean, right? Ppl should say US
Geez!! This guy’s Canadian accent is killing Me!!!!
He's all Oot and Aboot, eh. Thick as maple syrup.
did he seriously say "aboot"?
Exactly ... the "about", "out", etc are dead giveaways that he's Canadian ... I was waiting for "eh" ... LOL 😊🇺🇸
@@Diesal3 Yes, Yes he did. No Doot, aboot it ,Eh!
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Not to mention the Vancouver license plate.
10:30 You're exactly right. As a hungry American as I was thinking, "looks good to me."
Also little tidbit about rare meat. Rare steak is usually very safe to eat as long it was stored properly because all the bacteria is on the outside. So when it's seared all that bacteria is killed, while trapping all the moisture and flavor inside. Ground beef on the other hand... gotta cook that stuff thoroughly because the bacteria gets mixed around inside patty.
Unless it’s freshly ground, and if it’s tartare the salt and acid will kill the bacteria as well.
Heh. That raw beef thing reminded me of a supposedly Wisconsin-specific tradition called the cannibal sandwich. Interesting to hear that the raw ground beef on bread thing is authentically German, as there is a large German community, especially in the Milwaukee area.
I screamed out loud in horror at the Polish "American" pizza. Taking a perfectly normal cheese pizza and pouring a can of creamed corn on it would get you shot in 49 states. (In California they'd just sic the LAPD on you.)
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No no. Shot in 48 states. In CA they sic the LAPD and in MN they sic the Minneapolis PD on you!😂
I seem to recall a pizza place in France having the idea that putting hamburger and cheddar cheese on a pizza made it New York style. Because hamburgers and America, right? I don't think there's a pizza place in America that would dare to attempt that particular culinary blend, no matter how good it might actually taste.
@@Keldor314maybe Michigan lol a place here puts all kinds of stuff on there pizza the philli stake pizza sells well it looks like hamburger with the peppers/flavors of the philli stake sandwich
I was in Europe somewhere cant remember EXACTLY but I do remember them putting Corn on my pizza and being like "Oh... This must be a xxxxx Thing" Amazing they think its American. 😂😂
My grandmother was German. She took great pride in her placemats.
I haven't seen a placemat since some time in the 1970's
We still use place mats
That first display is pretty authentic lol.
Most of our "American" traditions actually originated in other, mostly European, countries. When we migrated here, we brought the traditions from our home countries 😊
America is a melting pot after all!
Yeah traditions brought over and then marketed to other tastes. American hamburgers, hot dogs and beer were largely German but designed to appease British, Italians, etc. Same with Italian-American food, Chinese-American, etc. appealing to others and whatever ingredients were cheap and in abundance.
@@jarvindriftwoodThe German invented Hamburg steak which was the Germans cheap alternative to actual steak. It more resembles American Salisbury steaks cooked in a gravy. The hamburger was invented in Connecticut.
@@jarvindriftwoodthe Germans did indeed invent hot dogs tho they did that over 500 years ago in Frankfurt Germany way before America was even a thing
@@schoon44 German hot dogs (frankfurters) are very different from American hot dogs.
Fun fact, "Hawaiian" pizza was invented by a guy in Canada.
Sam Panopoulos, a Greek immigrant who moved to Canada in 1954 invented that "Hawaiian Pizza." He created the first Hawaiian pizza at his restaurant, Satellite, located in Chatham, Canada.
Blame Canada! 😂 🍕🍍🍕🍍🍕🍍🍕🍍🍕🍍🍕🍍🍕🍍🍕🍍
Yeah, pineapple and Canadian bacon. It was later appropriated by California.
5:29 Same in the USA. In fact, KFC and McDonalds are likely to be closed on Christmas Day (and closed early on Christmas Eve).
This is exactly what I was thinking! Our nearest KFC was closed on Christmas, and the only restaurant I can think of that was open was the Chinese takeout.
I have never seen a McDonalds closed on Christmas. Most have shortened hours, but they all stay open.
But the Chinese restaurants are open! My husband is Jewish, and he says Chinese on Christmas is their “tradition”
Hello from Texas! Great video!
11:05 As a 65-year-old lifelong New Yorker, I've always been told that "black and white cookies" originated in Brooklyn , NY. I rarely see them outside of New York and New Jersey, but within that area they're very common, and a lot of New Yorkers are quite proud of them. I'll have to investigate now, to find out if we've all been mislead.
Another treat that's common in NY but almost unknown everywhere else is the "egg cream," a beverage that contains no egg and no cream. It's made from chocolate syrup dissolved in a little bit of milk, then a lot of seltzer is added to give it a foamy white head. It's basically an ice cream soda without the ice cream, and it originated in Brooklyn during the Depression. It's traditionally served with a crunchy pretzel rod, but when I was a kid I liked to have one with a grilled cheese sandwich.
Oy vey.....
Gonna have to try the egg cream now
I'm 75. Grew up on the northern coast of Massachusetts. Black & Whites were a weekly treat from the local bakery when I was a kid. Still are in most bakeries. Although we had egg creams when on vacation in Rhode Island, there were a few dairy bars in Mass. that sold them too.
We have the same cookies in Philly and I’ve seen them in OH too as well as MA
Ive seen them here in Florida at most grocery stores my entire life
Americans actually don't really believe most of the stereotypical things we hear about especially food like we know Mexican and Chinese food isn't all that authentic in America we just love the taste of it.
Yup this is it. I don't know why people insist on thinking we believe it's authentic. Perhaps it's to feel that they're smarter and correcting somebody?
Yes, exactly! We often call it Americanized because we recognize that it is our own version of it, and when trying to differentiate what we want to eat we say "I want some AUTHENTIC *insert place here* food"
Wait!? Taco Bell is not REAL Mexican food!?!?
😮😮😮
Same with American Sushi, which is VERY American once you get into all the crazy versions of it.
This
I once traveled to Germany and ordered a pepperoni pizza. It came not with pepperoni, but with pepperoncini peppers. I didn't mind because I like the peppers, but when I described when I'd expected, I was told, "Oh, that's Italian sausage!" Here, Italian sausage looks more like ground beef.
Pepperoni is from the US, you want a spicy salami in Italy often called pizza diavolo
Yeah, in my experience that is a common mistranslation in Germany
Oh goodness... I'm baffled by some of these. I've never in my life seen hotdogs in jars or on pizza, much less creamed corn on pizza. It's funny. 😊 bless it. 😂
As an American, that cup looks like some chalice Dracula would use.
very much, my first thought was 'the culture that looks like is... vampires'
When someone says "Abooot", he loses American street cred.
He's not American...he's Canadian...
he never had american street cred, he just wishes he was american =/
@@slossboss Have you looked at the comments? The Canadians aren't claiming him either 😂
It's only American phrasing if he's asking if you've seen his other boot. 🥾 NOT! 😂
You've never been to Minnesota?
As an American, I can honestly say I had never seen anything similar to what he showed, nor would I want to eat any of it 😂
There is a restaurant here in Columbus Ohio that sells a hoagie with fries in it like he showed at 11:34.
The restaurant is called
Crazy Chicken. 🐔 😆
@@briansmith48 how is it?
@@bobdillashaw4360. It pretty good. It's been a while since I've had one though. It's not my go to sandwich. I would prefer a Philly cheesesteak.
Honestly, depending on the sauces I might would eat that Hot dog from Latin America, minus the quail eggs
Same, except for those black and white cookies, I've seen them quite a bit and they are pretty good.
That was a cool video, Chris!
As an American I can honestly say that hotdogs aren't nearly as popular here as it's obviously made out to be.
American Breakfast:
Hashbrowns, Eggs (Scrambled or over easy), Pancakes or Waffles with syrup, and a cup of coffee, or orange juice (that's orange).
American Lunch:
Peanut Butter and Jelly is a classic, but more often than not it's left overs or fast food (like McDonalds, Taco bell, etc)
American Dinner: Varies so much you can't really put a label on it.
Christmas Dinner: Usually involves Ham or Turkey with stuffing, Cranberry Jelly, Sweet Potato Pie or Candied Sweet Potatoes (Baked sweet potatoes with brown sugar and marshmellows on top), Green Been Casserole and more. It's practically the same menu as on Thanksgiving except a Christmas Ham is more popular whereas on Thanksgiving it has to be a Turkey.
Hot dogs are a particular food that we eat in particular contexts, sometimes. But they're a uniquely American style of sausage so overseas they're treated like something we eat all the time. In fairness there are some contexts which an American would absolutely eat hot dogs- A fourth of July outdoor picnic with grilled hot dogs and hamburgers is almost like _America's_ stereotype of America.
You obviously are not a Chicagoan. The Chicago style hot dog ( see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago-style_hot_dog ), italian beef, polish sausage, and Chicago style pizza are the cullinary tastes unique to Chicago and popular for casual dining, along with hamburgers. If you are a Sam's Club or Costco member. hotdogs are their #1 sellers in their cafes.
Depends on where you're from. Here in LA, Bacon wrapped hot dogs are a huge thing from street vendors and people who go to baseball games eat a lot of hot dogs and fry them on their grills
Those breakfasts are true to a degree, but I know way more people just eating cereal or something quick like that for breakfast on work/school days. People are tired and in a hurry.
Here in Texas, chili dogs are quite popular. Or just ketchup, mustard or mayo, and relish. Sauerkraut goes hard, too. Hot dogs should be burned on a charcoal grill.
In the U.S. "Americana" (not the same spelling) is a word that refers to stereotypical American things. If you go to a store like Walmart or Target than they will often have Americana sections selling products with American Flag designs, although the term would also cover American cultural artifacts not sold as retail products as well. An alternate meaning is a genre of music called Americana, which is kind of a hybrid of folk, country and early rock music.
The term started around the 1940's to describe antique furniture styles. Then later on it was used for describing American folk music.
We also borrowed that and came up with "Canadiana" here in Canada.
Exactly.
American breakfast: Buttermilk biscuits, sausage gravy, eggs, and bacon or round sausage pieces. - pancakes, eggs, bacon - eggs, bacon, or sausage - quiche - fruit bowel, and eggs - cereal - etc. Something to keep in mind about America, is that it is a melting pot of people from all over the world, so many countries influence what is eaten in America. America is a very large country that has numerous varieties of cultures spread throughout each state. There are also different accents in each state and cultural etiquette. Example: In some places of America you call people Mam or Sir. In some places of America you yield to someone older than you when in a grocery line. In some places of America men take their hats off when entering a building... Every state has it's own unique style. People can also be found wearing different styles of clothing in each state. Much of the different styles of clothing is because many states have different climates and culture.
Huh, buttermilk biscuits are usually just a dinner thing where Im from
@@notimportant768 It's amazing how America is so diverse. Thank you for sharing.
You left out hashbrowns. I will NOT eat eggs without hashbrowns, ever!
Real men don’t eat quiche!!!
@@bigal2876 😁😆😅🤣😂
As a true blooded American, I can honestly say I love everything on those shelves!!! Especially the marshmallow fluff!!!!!! 💯🩶💯🩶
It's weird watching a Canadian correct the world about America...
Extremely weird. Wasn’t this man a magician in the 70’s?
He said America, not the United States. Canada is in North America
@@erikawilliams9558did he mention anything not pertaining to the US? Lets use logic here
He is an American pop culture fan, so his perspective is always interesting, since he is himself violently Canadian but he studies US culture extensively.
@@lordshamus “violently Canadian” is a good band name.
Here is the southeast US:
Christmas meal is typically the same thing we eat for Thanksgiving. Roast turkey or ham. In my city we usually have mashed potatoes with turkey gravy, cranberry sauce, green bean casserole, and roasted vegetables.
Breakfast: Where I live it typically consists of fried or scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, pancakes, waffles, patty or link sausage, seasonal available fruit, biscuits and gravy, and hashbrowns.
American section in the store: Despite what he said, most of that American section is correct. I think the issue there is that he's from Canada and not the US. I can tell by his accent.
Hot dogs: Ok, these are very simple. They are basically the left over trimming from when cows and pigs are processed in factories. You can get hotdogs that are actual decent cuts of meat ground up, but those are VERY expensive. Around here the typical hotdog is simply the hotdog in a hotdog bun with mustard or ketchup on it. Some people put diced onion or relish on there. That's the typical hotdog. Chicago is definitely one exception. They have the Chicago Dog which at it's simplest for has a chunk of tomato, lettuce, and a pickle spear. Then we have the simple chili dog. That's just a hotdog with chili on it. Other than the ChicagoDog, that's pretty much the typical way of hotdogs where I live.
Creamed Corn: It's a real thing here. However most people hate it because of its texture and people prefer whole kernel corn. It does not in any circumstance touch pizza. That would start a fight here.
Ok, hotdogs do not belong on anything here except a hotdog bun. The only exception that is typically given is hotdog pieces on some types of baked beans. There's a brand for that called Beenie Weenie.
Fries do not go on anything.
Good explanations! 👍 I have started putting sliced hotdogs and fries on other food dishes, but I’m weird/Swiss 😂
@@timmy334 I was just commenting this. I also live in the southeast and I've only heard of ham or turkey for Christmas and Thanksgiving, the home cooked meal being essential for that day. I've never heard of people eating Chinese, pizza, or fast food. I assumed all the US did this because I wasn't born in the US, but I guess not 🤷♀️
False.. fries are great in a Carne asada burrito(maybe it's a socal thing).. also poutine.
Hotdogs go in macaroni and cheese too.
Well, cut up hotdogs on pizza isn't really unheard of. But it's more of a budget/emptying the fridge sort of meal. I'd even call it a college broke meal. Throw it on a cheap home bake pizza.
the red solo cup is only used because we want one or more of these
1. easy clean-up, just through it in the trash
2. cheep disposable cups that we do not care if you brake
3. an easy way to label whose cup it is, just right there name on it with a sharpy marker
also we use paper plates for the same reason
*Throw
*Cheap
*Break
*Write
*Sharpie
If you understood them enough to correct their spelling, then you understood them well enough.
I'm an American watching a German watching a Canadian talk about American style foods from around the world 😂😂😂😂😂 This was so entertaining! I LOVE IT 😂
Idk why, but a German and Canadian react-conversing about american traditions is exactly what this american needed tonight 😂😂 iykyk
The reason a lot of American stereotypes about Germany are Bavarian is because that’s where we were stationed after WW2. So the things soldiers picked up while in Germany were there
We still are.
Also, a significant number of the German immigrants in the late 1800s/early 1900s were from Bavaria. I grew up in southwestern Minnesota, and the German population there is very Bavarian. Our German teacher in high school also focused heavily on Bavarian words, culture and holidays.
@@chetombabeaver4829 I remember years ago visiting a brewery in New Ulm while in high school. (A German language class outing.)
You do realize this is false and the actual reason we have a lot of German stereo types in the US is because of the large amount of German immigrants from around 1860s when Bismark decided to unite the Prussian states into a unified Germany to the 1990's when the wall fell.
Um, no, I was stationed in Germany. Bavaria is where a lot of the vacation areas are. But the American Army and Air Force are/were in Darmstadt, Ramstein, Heidelberg, Weissburg, Berlin, etc.
8:56 As an American in Europe who gets so tired of smug Europeans making fun of the US for inventing travesties like Pizza Hawaii, it absolutely delights me to inform them that Pizza Hawaii was invented in Canada by a Greek immigrant.
Another thing that hints at it not being of American origin is that for the most part, we don’t name our pizzas in USA! With a handful of exceptions (like “supreme”), we just list what’s on it. (E.g. a “pizza margherita” is just a “cheese pizza”. A “pizza caprese” is just “pepperoni and olives”, etc.) Naming each combination is a very, very European thing.
Here in Switzerland, there’s a god-awful “American” pizza chain called Sam’s Pizza Land, festooned in all manner of fake Americana, where every pizza is named after a US state or city. So already quite non-American. But even worse, whoever did the original naming clearly had ZERO clue about the US and its states, because the names don’t make any sense. (For example, why is a pizza with curried chicken and pineapple the “Oklahoma”? I reckon the average Oklahoman would throw it in the trash.) And this is an improvement over years ago, where they had a pizza with some kind of ocean seafood on it, and named it after some landlocked inland state like Kansas. 🤦 And many of their pizzas use ingredients that you never, ever put on pizza in USA (like corn, Swiss mountain cheese, leeks, or the aforementioned curried chicken.).
This is broadly accurate. Certain pizza chains here may have a small handful of named topping combos just for fun or ease of ordering, but it's not the norm. That said, my old gaming group ordered a pizza with pepperoni, sausage, and ham at one point and nicknamed it the Triple Pig. I think that one's pretty good. lol
@@zibbitybibbitybop Exactly! And yes, the Triple Pig is an awesome name! :D
Some places do name their pizzas other things, like papa murphey's cowboy pizza which has sausage, olives, and mushrooms, but generally most places will stick with something generic like "meat lovers pizza" for a pizza with lots of meat on it
@@josefstalin9678 Hence the “for the most part” qualifier in my original comment.
@@zibbitybibbitybopthat's a hell of a name 😂
2:00 - Ahh, yes, yes, yes. Yes, it is totally decadent nonsense that we Americans eat Goldfish on the regular. *slowly hides bag of Goldfish*
He's talking about American culture, but all I can notice is that his accent is very, very Canadian. :)
You realize that Canada does share part of the North American continent, which would also make them Americans even though it is not in the country’s name.
@@SteveSmith-os5bs Good point! I know that when people worldwide hear the name America, they think of Canada.
He could be a dirty southern Canadian (Vermont).
I couldn't stop thinking aboot that either LOL
North America covers the USA and Canada but yeah I think the things he talks about are more on the US side
As an American I'm happy to say I've never seen anything close to those foods they attribute to us. Most of them looked truly awful, except for the black and white cookie. I think a lot of Americans have the lederhosen image of Germans due to October Fest. Everyone has seen pictures of pretty blonde women in traditional clothes serving gigantic mugs of beer and some of the men wearing lederhosen as part of the celebration. It's a great image, so don't tell me it's not true Chris!
naja, ich stimme dir zu.
Lederhosen are basically lingerie. I am a fan. Quite sexy imo.
The Black and White cookie was invented in America by a Bavarian immigrant, which was then reintroduced to Germany after WW2.
The Oreo is America's eternal gift to the world.
Most US Soldiers were stationed in Bavaria, so it makes sense they brought that thought back to the mainland
Funny thing is, this guy with the Mullet is Canadian. ** Marshmallow Fluff is big in the New England states, with the Fluffer Nutter sandwich. Yes, PB and fluff. I'm from Pennsylvania, but my Mom comes from South Shore Boston. So I was exposed to Fluffer Nutters and I like them. ** Pickled Sausages I have seen in big jars, usually your neighborhood bar will have a jar of them for sale. Then there are small cans of Viennies, (Vienna Sausage) the sportsman's go to snack (best with some hot sauce). But jarred or canned Hot Dogs? That ain't right. ** Because of this reason, the last time my relatives from Germany were visiting, I bought BLUE Solo Cups. You're correct, looks French. I have NEVER seen a cup, NO - Goblet like that for sale.
I grew up eating marshmallow fluff with peanut butter sandwiches and I grew up in San Diego.
Yeah we had marshmallow fluff in my house at all times when I was growing up. The exact one he showed a picture of. The photo of the “American” grocery store shelf looked a bit like my childhood pantry tbh 😂
@@JasonBowman121 parents from New England, maybe?
mmmmmm fluffernutters........
Fluff is def New England…also Canadians are American, they live in North America.
In America on Christmas Eve most businesses close early and stay closed over Christmas. Even the "box" stores. America celebrates Christmas for family, friends, good meals, presents and church.
And yes, I agree with you on the glass cup. Nothing about it said American and yes French comes to mind when I first saw it. This whole video I loved! That was a lot of fun watching with you! I loved when there was something you recognized. Thanks for another great video!
As an American of German descent, I've always been fond of 'German' things like bratwurst with sauerkraut, Hefeweizen and Kölsch beer. There is a stereotype that Germans build higher quality automobiles and drink lots of beer. One thing I suspect few Europeans realize is that from the Rocky Mountains to the west coast was first concurred by the Spanish back in the 1500's and what we call 'Mexican' food is about as common as hamburgers and hotdogs in the southwest. It's mostly Tex-mex, New Mexican and northern Mexican foods where the specific varieties of chili peppers are used in different ways to bring enormous variety of intense flavors various types of meats and cheeses. It's really funny how 'watered down' and bland poorly imitated Mexican food is. What we also have is both regional offerings, like New York Deli's, Texas BBQ, Southern fried chicken, midwestern burgers, California pizzas, Cajun gumbo, along with highbred Americanized versions of Chinese, Italian, Thai, Indian, Vietnamese, Greek, and Sushi. There is so much variety of different ethnic and regional restaurants these days.
*conquered
*hybrid
Duct take was created for the US army as a take that would hold up well in water. I believe the official name was a number, as most military products are, but nicknamed Duck tape by the men. Later it became synonymous with craftsmen work such as air ducts which how it gained the current name.
Red solo cups are popular because they are cheap and disposable. They are also more durable than other plastic or Styrofoam cups.
Like many foods, the way it is prepared or cooked depends on what region or city you are in. A New York style Pizza is very different than a Chicago Style Pizza. You can get a hot dog with a lot of fixings (toppings) depending on where you are. In Philly (Philadelphia) you can easily get a chili cheese dog. That is A hot dog with bean & meat chili and melted cheese. Most common is mustard, ketchup, and maybe sauerkraut and/or relish. There is also the Philly cheese steak but that is whole other video.
I also immediately thought of fancy French cup.
I think most Americans consider ethnic food to be "Americanized." Nobody thinks American Chinese food is how a Chinese citizen actually eats.
It's correctly called _duct_ tape. As in, it is used on ventilation ducts and such.
The military developed their own formula for the tape that has a stronger adhesive and rubberized backing that is used for high-stress applications. This type of tape is commonly referred to as _100 mph_ tape.
In the TV and film industry it is called _gaffer's_ tape, as the gaffers are the ones who use the tape to secure items on set.
@@TestUser-cf4wj Duck tape actually came first. The name comes from cotton duck (also known as or duck canvas), a type of cloth that was originally used in electrical applications and for wrapping steel cables. Revolite (then a division of Johnson & Johnson) developed an adhesive tape made from a rubber-based adhesive applied to a durable duck cloth backing coated in waterproof polyethylene. This tape resisted water and was used to seal ammunition cases during that period. Most commercial duct tape is actually poor for use on HVAC ducts, as the adhesive on standard duct tape fails and the synthetic fabric reinforcement mesh deteriorates when used on heating ducts. You want foil tape for that.
in germany Duct Tape is called "Panzer Tape" bc it is very strong and you can seal "everything", you could even build a cannon with a cardboardtube and a few panzer tape layers around it
@@TestUser-cf4wj Gaffer's Tape is not the same as duct tape. Gaffer's tape is not waterproof and has a black paper backing similar to masking tape and it is easy to tear by hand. It's also very useful for creating and adjusting soft boxes and flaps and such to adjust the shame and intensity of film lights.
@@VladamireD Correct. No one who knows anything would use "duct tape" on an actual duct. We must campaign for it to be called duck tape. For taping up ducks.
This goes both ways, I felt so shocked when i asked my german grandmother about the hanging a pickle ornament on the christmas tree. She'd never heard of it and we've only heard of it as a German tradition.
I'm 56 years old, born & raised in the USA. I have never eaten KFC on Christmas. One year my father made hasenpfeffer, aka rabbit stew. Normally it would be ham. Occasionally we had a turkey. But we never had KFC. WOW! to be honest some of those food "item's" I have NEVER seen or heard of let alone eaten, as an American. For instance, the hot dog pizza or hot dog anything, EW! I will eat a hot dog. But usually as a Chicago Dog or a chili dog.
One thing, here in Milwaukee, we have what is called the FRIDAY FISH FRY. It's fish, normally cod dipped in a beer batter & fried in a fryer. It usually has some choices for "side" items, like Potatoe Pancakes or French fries. You usually have a side of coleslaw as well. As for the relish & mayonnaise mix, we do that, it's called tartar sauce & it's used/ eaten with the fried fish.
Hey, a fellow cheesehead! Nice!
The hotdog thing is because the food aid that the USA sent to war torn areas after WW2 and Korea, and the army rations for US soldiers, had a lot of processed meats that could survive the shipping.
Fish on Friday is a global catholic thing, not a Milwaukee thing. Tartar sauce is quite a bit more than relish in mayonnaise, but I can see the simplification.
My immigrant grandmother made hasenpfeffer out of the rabbits who raided her immense garden in Newark, NJ.
Nothing like a good supper club fish fry on a nice Summer Frida...
@@alhollywood6486 Shame most supper clubs are dying out.....
My second trip to the UK, my entire family was appalled to discover Pizza Huts selling Chicago style Pizza which consisted of cheese pizza topped with whole kernal corn. And the kicker was, when we questioned this, they had the nerve to argue with us, native born Americans, and insist this was actually authentic. I have worked in Chicago, stayed in Chicago, visited Chicago... you get the idea. But no, I couldn't possibly know what I am talking about!
And a Chicago deep dish pizza is actually a culinary work of art, which should be served unchanged around the world!
as a native of the Eastern seabord I would be appalled to discover Chicago-style "pizza" being served in _any_ manner.
@@Sinjinator Chicago pizza a culinary work of art? _"this is an above-ground marinara swimming pool for rats."_ - Jon Stewart
@@yossarian6799There are two types of Chicago-Style. Deep Dish, which everyone thinks of. There is also Chicago Thin-Crust, which anyone who ever went to a Bowling Alley or had a frozen pizza is likely more accustomed to. Yeah, that right there is Chicagoan.
@@hiddendesire3076 If it's from Chicago, it's sus. Oh and I can thank the Windy City for that stoopit, douchebaggy "pub cut" trend. I've sent countless pizzas back for not being cut properly
I love how excited and interested you seem to be :D it’s so great seeing people exploring their interests and enjoying learning 🩷🩷
As someone from NY we call Amerikaners “black and white cookies”. They are very popular and often advertised as an exotic German cookie. “The origins of the black-and-white cookie are debated, but many believe it was created by Glaser's Bake Shop in Manhattan, New York, around 1902. Bavarian immigrants John and Justine Glaser reportedly brought the recipe with them from Bavaria. The cookies were among the bakery's original recipes and became popular, spreading to other bakeries, including Jewish bakeries by the mid-1900s.”
I always assumed that the bones of your tale was more or less the origin of the black and white cookie in NYC, but despite living mere blocks from the establishment for virtually my entire life, had no idea that Glaser's played such an important role.
I love that germany thinks of them as American and Americans think of it as German.
@@oliviawolcott8351extra funny because they’re in every German bakery and are only recently trending in the U.S. outside of places where there are Jewish bakeries.
@@oliviawolcott8351 no "Germany" doesn't think of them as American. I've nerver met anyone who thought that or claimed that they were. The name of those cookies most likely derives from "ammonium bicarbonate" which is used in making those cookies maybe intentionally bastardized after WWI.
Yeah, as an American, I think of black and white cookies as "New York City cookies" not "American cookies". I grew up in Massachusetts, not too far away, and had no idea they were a thing until I was a full adult and stayed in NYC for a week. But it makes sense that super local NYC city things would get global attention due to shows like Friends and Seinfeld being so ubiquitous.
Not gonna lie, all those pizzas sound great!
Then again, I'm an American that will try any cuisine at least once.
I even had fugu with the "taste of death!" That's where you have fugu prepared by a master chef whom intentionally leaves a trace amount of the neurotoxin in the cut. Turns your mouth, throat, and face numb. No idea if they actually do that in Japan, but the sushi place I went to in Barrington, IL, did, and that was a crazy experience. They dim the lights, and everyone chants, "FUGU! FUGU! FUGU!" to try to get you wuss out, because if you eat it, it's free, but if you wuss out, it's $100. I didn't have $100, so down the hatch! 😂
Fortune cookies were invented here in San Francisco........by a Japanese American. Japanese Americans also invented Mochi Ice Cream, possibly the best invention of mankind after the wheel.
Lots of non-Christians partake of some or many Christmas traditions in the US, such as decorations, or putting up a tree. :)
I personally had a Jewish family as a neighbor who put up a Christmas tree because it was fun.
My Jewish neighbor called hers a Hannukah bush.😊
I know many Christians who include a menorah in their Christmas decorations
And why shouldn't they since it is a pagan tradition
@@PatriceCortes Just replying to the video
Pepperidge Farm Parmesan Goldfish Crackers are a staple of my diet.
I like the pretzel ones. So does my toddler
2:41 Nope. They were invented in San Francisco.
ok the red solo cup is spot on, everything else I was like "whaaaaaat?!!!"
So there's this tiny inn outside of Rome that i stayed at for my flight back out back in 2017. The ENTIRE restaurant was western themed. Western figurines everywhere, giant steaks, old country music playing on the speaker. It was a sight to behold honestly. My mom and I laughed so hard we were almost crying at the dinner table.
In Britain, hot dogs canned in brine are branded as "American Sausages"; in America, (usually half-length) hot dogs canned in brine are branded as "Vienna Sausages". But if you want to try a 'Real American Hot Dog', it's basically just a slender chicken-and-pork bologna - so much so that, as a kid, I saw a whole bologna sausage at a butcher's shop and thought it was a giant hot dog.
An 'American-style' breakfast originated as part of our (older) work ethic, when we worked long hours of strenuous labor and needed to bolster up with protein and carbs. As most of America was rural back then, eggs and 'pig parts' were plentiful and formed the foundation of breakfasts - fry up some bacon or sausage, fry some diced potatoes and eggs in the grease, and add some flour and cracked pepper to turn the remaining grease into gravy to pour over some biscuits. If you had some hamburger meat (ground beef), you could do chicken-fried steak instead of pig (bacon, sausage, ham, chorizo, etc). Plenty of variety, but it basically boils down to; eggs, meat, potatoes, and bread.
That glass makes me instantly think of 'fine crystal', leading me to think Austria or Bavaria.
When it comes to spaghetti westerns, what many claim to have become the most iconic exemplar is an American homage to the spaghetti western, itself an Italian homage to the American 'wild west' - Rango (2011).
NGL, there isn't anything more American than convincing an entire nation to adopt a tradition to buy your products during the holidays. The chicken for Christmas is amazing and props to them for doing it. It may not be an American tradition, but now they get a fun new tradition of their own which I find incredible.
J.J. is the most Canadian person I've ever seen.
His videos are good. My only complaint is that he believes unique Canadian cultural things exist, but tends to lump American things in with an overall North American culture. He never really gives credit to American culture on its own. I don't know if that's from a lack of knowledge or interest but I've found it frustrating sometimes.
hes 100% Canadian
idk why he bothers me a bit, can't place it
hes a good guy, but idk man lol
He's an entertaining guy, his "aboot"s always get a chuckle outta me though.
He see canadian culture as a sub culture of the broader American culture
@@seth9382 It's the head bobbing and tilting, plus the occasional upwards inflection of his accent that sounds "unsure."
@@cm-jr9vt I assume you mean "North American" culture?
In the US we tend to either have a spiral ham or a turkey for Christmas dinner. Most families celebrate Christmas here. Not only Christians, but most atheists, and many secular Muslims and Jews so as to not leave their children feeling left out when kids come back from winter break talking about Christmas gifts. Only Christians recognize it’s religious significance, but most Americans celebrate the holiday.
Hell, I'm an Atheistic Satanist and I celebrate Christmas 🤷
I mean, most people that I know use it as an excuse to reconnect with family/friends despite not being religious at all. Eat good food, spend a couple of days not dealing with work, and remembering why it's only once a year you talk to these people instead of calling them all the time.
@@KrashyKharma May I ask exactly how Atheistic Satanism works? Wouldn’t the belief in Satan insinuate a belief in God? At a minimum, wouldn’t Satan at a minimum equate to some form of diety? Not looking to be combative, just genuinely curious.
@@bigploppa154 (I'll preface this by saying I'm also not being combative, because the way I talk in text often sounds like I am) Look at the way you phrased this for a clue; if the topic is *Atheistic* Satanism, wouldn't you assume that *belief* in anything, Satan or otherwise, would be excluded from that? Satanism, like Buddhism, is a religion that completely lacks deities and any interest in supernaturalism, and instead focuses on ritual, symbolism, and personal beliefs about how to live life in the way most desirable to the individual practitioner. What happens after life is of no concern to Satanism, it's entirely focused on what happens when you're alive. There are no deities involved. Again like Buddhism, a commonly known and understood character is used as an archetype, emblematic of how that life is lived. In this case the character is Satan, who symbolizes rebellion against systems of domination and arbitrary dogma, and in support of self empowerment and personal responsibility. A comparison often made is that it's like forming a religious philosophy around Darth Vader. Obviously followers of that religion would not believe that George Lucas' fictional character is real, they would be using him as a model for behavior and philosophical belief. What makes it a religion and not a philosophy, if that phrasing makes you curious, is the focus on ritual, personal identification, and aesthetic (et al).
(I'll preface this by saying I'm also not being combative, because the way I talk in text often sounds like I am) Look at the way you phrased this for a clue; if the topic is Atheistic Satanism, wouldn't you assume that belief in anything, Satan or otherwise, would be excluded from that? Satanism, like Buddhism, is a religion that completely lacks deities and any interest in supernaturalism, and instead focuses on ritual, symbolism, and personal beliefs about how to live life in the way most desirable to the individual practitioner. What happens after life is of no concern to Satanism, it's entirely focused on what happens when you're alive. There are no deities involved. Again like Buddhism, a commonly known and understood character is used as an archetype, emblematic of how that life is lived. In this case the character is Satan, who symbolizes rebellion against systems of control and arbitrary dogma, and in support of self empowerment and personal responsibility. A comparison often made is that it's like forming a religious philosophy around Darth Vader. Obviously followers of that religion would not believe that George Lucas' fictional character is real, they would be using him as a model for behavior and philosophical belief. What makes it a religion and not a philosophy, if that phrasing makes you curious, is the focus on ritual, personal identification, and aesthetic (et al).
I did a study abroad in Taipei. I saw a number of restaurants with "American style" dishes. 100% of them was something with a side of spaghetti and meatballs. There was "American style" breakfast that was eggs with a side of spaghetti and meatballs. I thought it was quite fun.
The Solo cup might be the most accurate thing on this list, and it’s not even edible. 🤣
I have been to Germany several times. The idea of what is American always struck me. I find it interesting. The Taste of America is nowhere near close, but it makes sense. Snacks that have a long shelf life. I was at a mall in Iraq and went to the food court and that was way worse.
I have a bud that lives there and he mentioned it. I sent him a care package. 120 worth of stuff and it cost me 180 to ship it. It brightened up his year. He told me he made some cornbread and offered some to his family. They tried a bite and decided it wasnt for them. I sent him some Velvetta too to make some Mac and Cheese. Spices, just things I know you can't get there. Something I know you can't get there but the Germanics here make and could be made there - Scrapple. That is a taste of America. I know families that will stock up for the year with one days worth of work.
The mini grill sets in Germany really got to me. Like...why? And the Pulled Pork Crazy, i wasnt even going to bother.
-Edit, that same bud, his daughter made him an American breakfast. Scrambled eggs, toast and baked beans. An A for effort but very much wrong.
baked beans as breakfast is apparently an option in the northeast
@@SamGarcia I'm not doubting or throwing shade. I haven't seen it at local diners or local homes. I lived in that area but it is Angloland...
I think baked beans and toast is a British thing.
Scrapple is HIGHLY regional, so I can't imagine most Americans knowing what it is, let alone eating it regularly and considering it "American food". I ate it a few times as a kid (mostly when visiting my grandparents), but stopped when I learned the ingredients!
8:06 Im American born and raised and I had the EXACT same reaction to this. I have never seen a pizza with hotdogs on it. Now we do have what we call "Cheeseburger Pizza" but that just takes the stuff form a cheeseburger and put it on a pizza. Like gound hamburger, sometimes the sauce is like mustard and or ketchup, cheddar cheese, lettuce tomatoes and even pickles. It is quite good actually.
I used to order those from Domino's Pizza every now and then. They were delicious.
The sauce for cheeseburger pizzas is usually Thousand Island dressing in my experience
It’s an abomination.
Putting hot dogs and fries seams like something a bunch of drunk college students would do at a party you know putt all the food on a slice of pizza so you can shovel more in your mouth at once.
A local pizza place to me in upstate NY makes a fantastic taco pizza. the sauce is taco sauce, the meat is ground beef, it is cooked and then afterwards cold shredded mozarella, lettuce, and tomato are added on top and left uncooked. So good! But very unusual for a pizza lo, just like a cheeseburger pizza would be
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Ham or turkey meat is what we have on Christmas and Thanksgiving in USA.
It depends on the region. In the PNW you're just as likely to see roast beef on the Christmas table. Ham is for Easter. Turkey is for Thanksgiving.
Agreed. Ham Christmas Eve for the German heritage side of the family. Roast beef Christmas Day for the English side of the family. Turkey ONLY for thanksgiving. I am from NW Washington state
You come across as having a very sweet and kind personality. I wish good things for you.
As an American, my thought was "Hot Dog pizza...That's not something we do here...but...maybe we should..."
I've had one. It was okay, but not great; the place that made it makes several other pizzas that are significantly better.
French fries pizza sounds even better! But don’t try rice or ramen on pizza.
No. We shouldn't.
"There's always bacon.." Yeeep, that checks out. XD
We have black and white cookies here and I've always been told they're German
Me too
It's both! They were invented in New York by German immigrants
When motorists sped in and out of traffic, all she could think of was those in need of a transplant.