Please react to the (paramedic force 5 bridge creek and moore, Oklahoma tornado May 3 1999). It's the first responders response to the 1999 moore, Oklahoma F5 tornando. I currently work as an EMT with EMSA in tulsa, Oklahoma. We use this video for training new hires on mass casualty response. The camera crews riding with these ambulance crews were making a Tv show on the day and life of first responders the day moore got hit. Most people have no idea what happen in the aftermath of a tornado. This video is a great watch to understand what it takes to triage a mass casualty incident.
Adam ostrich meat makes the best steaks. It taste like the leanest cow meat. Since there is not much fat ostrich doesn’t make good hamburgers because the Pattie’s fall apart. But ostrich meat make great tacos or steak. Most ostrich burger Pattie’s have a binder (to keep it from falling apart) and dries out the meat.
Fish comfort food recipe idea: Salmon Patties. A mix of canned salmon, eggs, cracker crumbs and seasoning shaped like a big burger, then fried in a skillet
The seafood dish that you need to try is Shrimp Creole! And if you ever have Fried Green Tomatoes, dip them in Ranch Dressing not mayonnaise! YUMMY!!! Peace, Love & Happiness from Alabama, USA 🇺🇸
The term "comfort food" normally refers to food that people like because they have fond memories of it from childhood. The saying "just like mom used to make" tends to apply. Zucchini is a type of summer squash that is green when ripe. Some Brits know it under the French name, "courgette". In large parts of North America, it's extremely common for people to have relatives who live hundreds of miles away (e.g., people in Ohio might have cousins in Pennsylvania and another set of cousins in Indiana or Illinois). When there's a death in the family, then, a bunch of out-of-state relatives arrive all at once for the funeral. The family has a lot to deal with right then, and so it is customary for the family's church to host a meal for the family of the deceased, so that they can just sit down after the funeral and eat and talk with one another for an hour or so, before they all have to start the long trip back home.
@@captin3149 It _can_ be a snack if it's a snack your mom used to feed you after school every day, or something. But yeah, it tends to be things like scalloped potatoes, (real, baked) macaroni and cheese, grilled cheese sandwiches with cream of tomato soup, PB&J, fried chicken, tater tots, applesauce, casserole, meatloaf, Sunday roast, ... routine everyday stuff that parents like to feed their children on a regular basis.
"Just like mom used to make" is the key, whereas a lot of the food is this clip is restaurant or takeout food, not homemade. The term "recreational eating" would also apply to a lot of it--high fat, high sodium, high starch, etc.
Comfort food definitely isn't something to nibble on lol. It's more like something that makes you happy and fills up your belly, or at least your heart, especially on a down day or if it's raining/snowing out.
It can be both. A comfort food for me is cheese pickles and crackers bc my dad and I would snack on it while watching tv together or if I had a bad day we would sit and talk about it. But also fried chicken and mashed potatoes w/gravy are my comfort food
Small correction on the pepperoni roll -- we (West Virginia) don't put marinara inside the pepperoni roll, some people dip the pepperoni roll in marinara, but most of the time the inside of the roll is just pepperoni and cheese. Some folks will put banana peppers (pepperoncini) inside them, but usually its just pepperoni and cheese. Also, buckeye candies are absolutely legendary! Its literally just melt in your mouth peanut buttery goodness.
If you put marinara in it, its a pizza roll. If you took a pizza roll down into the mines, the other miners would laugh at you, and then bury you alive.
As a kid we never had anything but pepperoni in pepperoni rolls, but they often have cheese in there as well. The idea is that the meaty bread was stable and safe to have outside of refrigeration for most of the day at the least. Adding vegetables and marinara would have prevented the dish from being stable and no miner would have taken them to work for sure.
@@TinaRider-k7p The pepperoni rolls they took into the mines were different from what we have today. The pepperonis back then were harder and larger, go ahead and laugh, than we have now. It didn't need refrigeration at all. If you have seen movies set in the past there is a good chance you saw pepperonis and salamis hanging from the rafters. They were so full of salt, spices and then smoked that they rarely went bad. The bread had a very hard crust so the humidity of the mines wouldn't make it instantly soggy. The crust also protected the food from the coal dust. The miner would peel the crust off with his teeth and only eat the meat and softer bread on the inside. The miners could take a couple of them down to the coal face and eat them fast because at that time you were paid by the ton so you had to WORK the whole 12 hour shift.
I’ve never had a pepperoni roll with peppers and onions in it. Just pepperoni and sometimes cheese and pepperoni. At that it would be more like a mini Stromboli. JRs donuts have the best pepperoni rolls.
I think Brits use the term biscuit to refer to something rather crisp & dry. (Like a crispy cooky or cracker of some sort). Not fluffy & rich & buttery like our USA biscuits are.
@@soniabowater6772 In my experience scones are also way way drier and more dense. Biscuits aren't crumbly, you can peel them by soft and buttery layer when sliced open. Super different. Almost like scone and croissant had a baby.
Biscuits are never dry, unless they are bad. They are almost nothing like "scones". They are moist, and crumbly, and NEVER sweet on their own, they can be topped with sweet things, but are almost always topped with savory things.
If you want to eat like an American, just go buy some spices. Take a steak, dip it in flour, then dip it in egg, then dip in flour with salt, pepper and garlic powder in it, and fry it. Voila you have chicken fried steak. For The gravy, take away the oil except 3 tablespoons, add one tablespoons of flour stir until browned, add 1/2 cup of milk, stir until it starts to thicken, then add another 1/2 milk add salt and pepper stir until thick pour over steak.
Biscuits aren't supposed to be dry EVER. They are straight butter. Scones are dry & crumbly, not southern biscuits. In culinary school I was taught to put a knife straight in the heads of any live shellfish BEFORE putting them in boiling water. EVERYONE, should always research shellfish before cooking. Some HAVE TO be alive or frozen, no in between, or you can be poisoned.
I think back in the Old Testament days. After a couple dozen people died from eating improperly prepared shell fish. The elder Jews looked at each other and said. "I think Yahweh is telling us. This stuff ain't kosher."
As a girl with roots in Mississippi, i can say that the po boy is, without question, NOT what we think of when we think of comfort food. I don't associate po boys with MS. People associate them with Louisiana. Fried catfish would've been a better choice for Mississippi.
The definition of comfort food is any food that brings comfort and nostalgia. Mac and Cheese is a major comfort food for many Americans. The seafood dish you really should try is New England Clam Chowder.
Funeral potatoes....in the south when someone passes away, the community brings in meals and food to the family so they don't have to worry about cooking. So "funeral" potatoes is a hearty "meal" often taken to the house of those who lost the loved one.
When my son was turning 13 he asked me to make him funeral potatoes instead of a birthday cake. I have made him funeral potatoes for his birthday ever since, he is 34 😄 I make my funeral potatoes totally different than how the narrator explains them.
@@tswain92_ I use shredded potatoes, not cubed, and when I am lazy I use the frozen shredded hash browns, thawed, I saute onions in butter and mix it with the chicken soup, sour cream, lots of grated cheese, salt, and pepper to taste, mix it with the shredded potatoes, I stir enough milk so it's not too thick, cover it foil bake for approx 40 minutes, take out of the oven, cover with more grated cheese, put back in oven uncovered until cheese is melted, I don't use the corn flakes. I think I might make some now 😋
Ever had Zucchini bread? It’s basically cake but you put shredded zucchini in it and it looks kinda like a loaf of bread. It’s also good if you add coco powder in, and the frosting is pretty good if made right.
As a Texan my two favorite comfort foods are chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and buttered sweet corn, and then there's a good bowl of chicken and dumplings. New England clam chowder is good too. Clams are good, but they are as chewy as a car tire. We have chili cook offs (contests) around here. Some cook offs have a division for chili with beans, but generally speaking if you put beans in your chili you will be disqualified. "Chili con carne" literally translates to "peppers and meat", not peppers, meat, and beans.
My dad was in the Army, so I have lived all over the US. Some of these foods are only available in certain areas commercially, but the ingredients, for the most part, are available in all grocery stores. I live in Texas but spent the most years in Nebraska. I can't go to a restaurant and order a runza, but I can buy the ingredients to make one at home. My husband, on the other hand, spent most of his childhood in England and Japan, so he has to order things online or go to a specialty shop.
You were right in the whole “I’ve noticed a lot of these foods are exclusive to certain states” and that is super true! Moved from Southeast Tennessee (amazing food galore) to Arizona annnnnnd… I literally want to fly back home weekly just to eat my favorite foods again 😂😭
@@blueboy4244 oh I definitely have! I’ve been visiting here for a long time before moving completely. It’s just not my thing. That’s all. I enjoy the food from the south, it’s just what I grew up on and nothing wrong with missing it… all the time. Every day 🤣
Pancakes with any form of eggs you like is normal here. - Another American, surprised that you were attacked for saying scrambled eggs go with pancakes. Also, all these foods are connected to a place or group, but some are found everywhere, and some are newer and not as well known elsewhere.
Biscuits are not dry if made fresh and properly. They are light, buttery, flaky and super soft. You can eat them plain, with butter, jam, honey, meat, egg, sausage, chili, soup....the list goes on and on.
Pepperoni rolls are one of those foods that just make sense when you think about it. It’s the best parts of a pepperoni pizza enclosed in thick, delicious bread for easy, one-handed munching. This was originally created as a hearty food coal miners could eat on their lunch break, and it’s really grown from there. Many local restaurants have them here in West Virginia, but you can also get them by the bag and wrapped in Saran Wrap at grocery stores and gas stations (the best one I’ve ever had came from a gas station in Wheeling), and of course there’s all the family recipes. But one thing to keep in mind is that it’s very atypical to have sauce inside the roll. It’s almost always pepperoni and cheese, maybe some peppers or additional cheeses. Some folks dip theirs in marinara or even garlic sauce, but mostly pepperoni rolls are eaten straight. Another major comfort food here is macaroni n’ cheese, but that’s not strictly Mountain State. Thankfully, that one caught on to the national degree.
We've got a family variation that has been wildly popular and super fast and easy. Take a tube (or several) of pilsbury biscuits (any kind but the flakey) and roll each out flat. In the middle put a teaspoon of marinara, place a small slice of mozzarella cheese (inch to inch and a half square), some pepperoni slices, and another piece of cheese. Pinch the roll up into a ball, turn over, brush with softened or melted butter, sprinkle with garlic powder and italian seasoning, then top with shredded parmesan cheese and bake as directed on the biscuit can. Voila, pizza balls. Eat as is, or dip in marinara.
Comfort Food is simply food used to quite literally bring comfort. Usually eaten at times of physical and/or mental stress. Like being sick, angry, sad, confused, bad weather etc. You want to eat something that you know will help you feel better and that food is usually tied to some positive memory. A lot of the time you don't even know what memory its tied to but your body does. All you know is that when you eat said food, you feel more settled. For me its cereal. A close second would be a porkroll sandwich but cereal always makes me feel like a kid again, so it remains the king.
I commented in one of your other videos that I’m from Kansas, in the middle of the USA, however, my Mom’s side of the family has deeper roots in the northern Midwest. (Iowa, North and South Dakota, Minnesota and Nebraska). I mention this because my all-time favorite dessert/comfort food is Rhubarb Pie, and it’s something I never would have discovered if my Great-Grandmother and Grandmother hadn’t introduced it to me. It’s sweet, but it also has a strong tangy (almost sour) edge to it. Absolutely delicious, especially with vanilla ice cream on the side.
Strawberry rhubarb is one of my favorites, with some whipped cream. My mom also sometimes makes rhubarb sauce in the microwave, cooking it down with sugar until it's soft, kind of like chunky applesauce, and not quite as tart. Now I'm hungry for rhubarb sauce lol.
My grandmother in N. Dakota grew rhubarb in her backyard. She made stewed rhubarb. Sorta like applesauce. You cook it with enough sugar to make it sweet. Great with ice cream or alone.
Pennsylvania has 3 dishes of note. In Philadelphia it’s all about the cheesesteak. Thin tender cuts of ribeye on a long roll topped with cheese and other things. In Pittsburgh it’s Primanti Brothers sandwiches, typically roast beef topped with coleslaw and French fries. And in central Pennsylvania the item to try is shoofly pie. Essentially it’s made from a molasses and floury crumb mixture, topped with a sugar crumb top.
Funeral potatoes. It's common for friends, family and neighbors to bring over food to a family that has recently lost someone. The thought behind it is so that they don't have to worry about making meals while grieving. Often people bring casseroles or things that can easily be reheated.
West Virginia native. There is no set recipe for Pepperoni rolls because families all had their own way of making them. But they all require white bread dough and pepperoni. Some use slices of pepperoni (like I do) while some take those large sticks of pepperoni and quarter them length-wise into thinner sticks. Some add mozzarella cheese while some don't. Personallly, I just use a standard Amish white bread recipe and add slices of pepperoni. After baking, make sure to coat the top of the roll with some butter. The real secret to a delicious pepperoni roll is...don't skimp on the pepperoni. The oils in the pepperoni leach out into the breast and spice it. The oil also inevitably leaks out and runs under the roll. This fries the bottom of the roll in pepperoni oil. If you cook it just right, it'll be a nice dark red color and will crunch when you bite into it and make it 10x more delicous.
They are available everywhere it’s just certain foods for each state is the most popular because you’ve eaten it regularly since you were just small. Some they didn’t include is banana pudding, baked beans,also with the fry bread you can top it with confectioners sugar and honey as a dessert,macaroni and cheese,open faced roast beef and gravy sandwich, and lots of desserts.
@@Jaster832and don't get me started on the "gumbo" or "jambalaya" available outside of Louisiana. Heck, even in the wrong parts of Louisiana you'll get a totally different dish from what you're looking for.
"Comfort food" in America is either deep fried, intensely sweet, or something cheap we all ate as kids. Affordable, easy to make, delicious. They bring back comforting memories of youth.
@rhov-anion my comfort food is chili macaroni. If I'm making a pot of that it's usually Tuesday and already it's a bad week. My mother used to make it, I think she made it, she said she had but it was way too tasty for her cooking style. Salt, pepper, oregano and parsley were her spices. I needs two shelves.
@Butteredprawns sea water corn? I've never heard of that. I live in jersey we grow corn here, in the summer you can buy it by the bushel, it's sweet naturally we definitely would not be adding any sea water... 🤢
I have been to many countries and food is often a part of that; however, a lot of people don't truly understand the depth of differences and variety that actually exists in the US when it comes to food. The US is portrayed, wrongly, as simply some kind of cheap processed food or fast food generators, which is partially true but only the very beginning of the story of food in the US. No other country even remotely has the kind of food diversity either in markets or at restaurants than the US. It isn't even close. In a single plaza you might have a Turkish cafe run by a family that immigrated from Izmir, several fast food joints like Subway or Jersey Mike's, a fine dining Japanese sushi bar run by immigrants from Japan, a local pizza joint, a bar run by a Hungarian woman who uses her family recipes for their food, an old Korean couple that loves to argue while serving some kind of hot pot dishes, and a drug store to buy chips and beer. Head across the street and you are assaulted with several more fast food joints and some creepy stairs that takes you to a famous steakhouse and a hipster cafe. Up top there are chain restaurants like Olive Garden and Chili's but also some guy from Chicago that is trying to popularize real Chicago style hotdogs in a different city. I can go on and on with this because it is simply true. Without even getting into my car, I can jump from Mexican to Ethiopian to Hungarian to whatever kinds of foods. I live in the suburb of a moderately large city and I can easily find shiritaki noodles, Korean bean paste, ingredients for Thai soup, ancho chilis, and so on without even getting into my car. For instance, at the end of my street, there are several Russian markets and an Italian market. Oddly enough, I can get "imported" wild caught salmon from Alaska imported to the US from Russia and locally made sour cream from the Amish at the same store.
Yes,Because the Brits that we come in contact with through these videos classify all our food that’s at any type of restaurant fast food. I seen one critiquing Crackle Barrel and he called it fast food. And they try to equate a lot of what we have to what they have and you really can’t. Many of them think that if something is a chain restaurant it’s trash food. That’s not always true. I think most of what they think about the US is combined with their less than favorable opinion of us as a country. Sometimes I glad for RUclips because they’re seeing more of our culture and many of their beliefs about us are being exposed as lies. They still question everything because they don’t want to admit that what they’ve heard or thought about us is just not true.
@@Kim-427 90% of all food consumed in the US contains POISON additives. When I last visited for 2 weeks, it took me 3 weeks when I returned to get over a sick stomach. This happens EVERY time I visit the US.
Exactly! In my city I live about a 5 minute drive from Little Italy in one direction and a 2 minute drive to Little Saigon in the other direction, with Greek food in between and grocery stores with Asian characters I can't read except they are not Vietnamese. (And of course Mexican taquerias.) We've got a little bit of everything.
@@Kim-427sometimes I think they see stuff and just assume it's bad yeah. One of my favorite jokes is that cracker barrel is the respawn point for white people since it just has so much that everyone loves, wether it be pancakes, fried chicken, fried pork, biscuits, cornbread, and even steaks and fish. Haven't ever been to the UK but got a friend who loves over there and he'll comment that he almost never goes out to eat for anything other than drinks since he moved back since they just don't have anything as good as what we got.
Are you sitting? Ok crushed corn flakes are used in a cookie recipe called cherry blinks, you roll a piece of dough in the flakes put on tray, add a piece of maraschino cherry after its baked. Seasoned crushed cornflakes are used as a coating on fried chicken
You might have missed something in the translation for English to Murican. Chocolate covered chips are what you would call chocolate covered crisps. You need to try one they are delicious. Try a chocolate covered hard pretzel while you are at it. What you call apple cider is fermented apple juice. Which is an alcoholic beverage. Here it is unfiltered juice from pressed apples. We call the alcoholic version hard cider.
I lived in the UP for a few years and developed a taste for them.. There's a couple of Culver's fairly near me here in North Dallas. Might need to go get some - cholesterol be damned.
@@bretcantwell4921 I haven't had Culvers in a long time, but if there's an A & W near you, their cheese curds are really good. Plus, root beer float lol
Yeah they are fantastic I live in wisconsin so I can say we make so many amazing cheeses in our state like some of my favorites are Colby jack and so on
"Comfort food" is what you eat when the weather is bad or you're sad/depressed, which is why you usually find a lot of carbs in it If you want to get into seafood, I can't recommend salmon enough. I like lobster, but lots of people don't.
I'm from Southern California (San Diego) and yes, fish tacos are amazeing. Made with light flakey white fish, shreaded cabbage which adds a bit of crisp, served in warm soft corn totillas... squeeze a little avacado sauce and fresh lime juice on top and mmmm, mmmm!!! Chefs kiss.
I'm from San Diego and I don't know if it's still around but there was a bar called the Tidewater in Solana Beach that had the fucking best fish tacos I've ever had.
@@InvalidUsername480 I don't know... I've only been to Solana beach a handful of times when I was a teenager in the 80's, when I'd visit a friend who'd moved to Escondido. Growing up and as an adult I've only lived in southern San Diego county, either south or east of Downtown. Pacific Beach around Belmont Park was where I usually went. Though I've been back living in San Diego for 4 1/2 years, I've not been out to any of the beaches. Not a fan of how a lot of younger people behave these days so, I try to steer clear of places they tend to congregate.
I'm from Detroit. Coney Dogs are most definitely DETROIT!! I would say, though, something like pasties are more generally a Mitten State comfort food. I love both!!
In Boston Massachusetts in the early years, it was against the law to serve lobster to your servants more than twice a week because it was considered food for animals, not for people.
@@markballard9942So true, you and I are most likely old enough to remember this from school where we knew which states had slaves and which did not. Well done 👍🏻
I am a gardener. My husband and I both love fried green tomatoes since forever…I have had to train my husband on this one point only…only this one point: GREEN TOMATOES ARE NOT TO BE PICKED UNTIL THE *END* OF THE GROWING SEASON! When we were still dating, he picked green tomatoes out of my garden in the middle,of the summer…of COURSE I let him fry them up. OF COURSE. It took a few years to break him of this habit. I need the tomatoes to ripen in the summer because I can them for soup in the winter…the ones we don’t just eat, of course. But fried green tomatoes are the treat at the end of the season in my life experience. Something to look forward to, when the last of the tomatoes will not have time to ripen.
Brother, whoever told you eggs and pancakes can’t go together was out of their MINDS 😂 When I was younger, one of my first jobs was cleaning tables in a pancake house (a little restaurant that specializes in breakfast items), and our pancakes always came with a side of eggs and either bacon, ham, or sausage. That’s pretty much the standard anywhere in the US.
@@BCowcornyep. I will say that it should have been mud bugs, which are red to orange. But it's not unusual for jambalaya to have shrimp in it. But those were for presentation.
My mom's parents and grandparents were German. NEVER EVER heard of a "Runza" before. I grew up with homemade KRAUT BURGERS. Cooked hamburger, cabbage, salt, and pepper MAYBE onions (sometimes) wrapped in bread dough and baked in the oven.
I have noticed a trend that UK RUclipsrs tend to be down of fish dishes. The US has many amazing fish dishes. New England, East coast, Southern / Caribean, West coast, Hawaii, Alaska, and all the rivers and lakes; all varieties of fish and crustecean dishes that are amazing. Don't dismiss the category! Impossible to pick one kind to try.
Yeah, I've never seen seen so many people from an Island country so disgusted by seafood like I have with brits. If it isn't fish and chips, then they tend to turn their nose up at it. It's utterly baffling.
To be fair, as an American I absolutely HATE 99% of meals with fish, or otherwise tolerate them. It's not that weird for people to hate seafood. I don't know many people, personally, that enjoy it.
@kugetsu of course there are personal preferences, but this seems more than that (lacking any kind of actual study). The only data I have is that USDA showed that 80%-90% of people reported eating seafood in the previous 30 days. That seems to me to be a very common food item.
@@nullakjg767why do Americans always criticize our food ?? We have some great food here regional too and some great sea food seeing as we are an island.
@@claregale9011 Americans and Brits are always antagonizing each other, well, the petty ones anyway. It's a massive misconception that there's not great food in Britain. People just get so stuck in stereotypes that they can't see outside of them. Although I think that guy was mostly just joking. There's some British food that I would love to try, although I've never been a super adventurous eater.
I think that the reason Americans discount british food is because you don't seem to be as obsessed with it the way we are. Your more laid back about it.
I was born in Illinois, lived most of my life in Florida, and now in Oregon. Best thing, my mother started teaching me how to cook whe i was 2 years old. I can make anything anywhere! Most people here started cooking and can make just about anything in their own home. It's food fantastic for people who care about making their own foods. 😊❤
I live in NJ, USA. I've eaten seafood all my life and never once have I gotten food poisoning. It's not the seafood, it's the people handling it that cause that issue. As far as shellfish - Go with Lobster, King Crab or Blue Crab, then freshwater - Crayfish/Crawdads/Mud Bugs/ Fresh Water Lobsters {all names for the same shellfish, and there's a few more names I didn't list} As far as Mollusks - Go with Scallops and bacon, Then Clams on the half shell, then Spaghetti and mussels As far as actual fish - Go with Salmon {lemon pepper Salmon is my fav}, then Mahi Mahi, then you can try some white fish like Flounder or talapia, and finally Catfish is very good
You left out Shrimp. Overall it's the best shellfish. Lobster is overrated and crab is good but a lot of work. Scallops are the best entry-level seafood. There's nothing weird at all about them. They're just straight-up meat. Practically perfect.
"Comfort food" in the States can refer to basically any food, meal or snack sized. It just has to make someone feel warm and fuzzy, like they're smiling on the inside, and typically evokes some sense of nostalgia. I feel like the video you reacted to here was slightly misleading, in that it wasn't really focused on "comfort foods" as much as like...regional staples, or regional specialties. But you can generally get any of these dishes anywhere in the US. (Well, except maybe the Runza...and the Scrapple, whatever that is.)
Scrapple is disgusting. It's one step up from souse, which is truly disgusting. You can literally see the pig snouts and eyelashes in souse meat. It's utterly revolting. Scrapple is just a bit less revolting than that.
True, regional but not limited to that state. Plus you can make most of them at home. Just need to look on the internet at recipe / cooking websites, Pinterest, You-Tube, etc. Great recipes. Just have to remember that all cooks are not created equal. Some of the recipes downright sad looking and probably taste subpar too. lol.
If you don't know what scrapple is... you don't wanna know. I don't know why every damn "comfort food" article chooses scrapple to represent Pennsylvania. Most people here won't go anywhere near it. To me, "comfort food" is the stuff Mom cooked, like simple roast pork with rice or the umpteen ways we prepare pork chops. City chicken. Stuffed cabbage rolls. Pierogis. Or quick foods like a fried egg-and-Taylor-ham sandwich. Or desserts like shoo-fly pie or Amish apple dumplings.
Chile Verde is a NEW MEXICO staple! Why did it go to Colorado?? As to what makes it good, the green Hatch chiles are fire-roasted until the skins char and peel off, and then the savory peppers go into a broth that also has braised pork, hominy or potatoes, blanched tomatillos, dried red chile flakes, cumin, and other spices. Served with chopped onions, cilantro, lime, and warm tortillas, it is an AMAZING dish.
There two main types of Clam Chowder: Manhattan {Red/tomato base} and New England {white/cream base}. There is also a Rhode Island variety that has a more clear base to it.
Translation: There is one type of clam chowder and that's New England. Manhattan chowder can burn in Hell. If you want to try decent clam chowder in the UK see if you can find Campbell's Chunky Clam Chowder. DO NOT get the heart healthy stuff. It tastes like chalk. Super easy, just heat it up and pour it in a bowl. Done. And again, avoid the Manhattan style. It's just weird.
Funeral potatoes are just a potato casserole, easy to throw together, tastes great and makes a good side dish at a funeral spread. My granny and aunts used to go to all the local funerals to meet up with distant relatives and eat the supper. Best fish meal to try: Friday night fish fry at any Wisconsin supper club. Batter fried cod or walleye, served with brandy old fashioneds, veggie sticks, all you can eat salad bar, fries(chips), cole slaw, biscuits or corn bread, and if you’re lucky enough to have found a supper club that’s been around since the 60s, a chocolate pudding parfait served in an ice cream sundae glass. Comfort foods are meals that remind one of childhood or family gatherings.
Im a native Utahn, and funeral potatoes are absolutely fantastic! We dont only have them at funeral luncheons, we also have them at different holidays, or family gatherings.
I've made them since I was a child in Michigan. We moved to Texas when I was 12 and I continued making them there. We always called them "Aunt Donna's Potatoes", since she was the one who gave me the recipe. I make them every Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and any other time we are craving potatoes. I sometimes add cream cheese with the sour cream and cream of something soup. Sometimes I top it with french fried onions (the kind you put in green bean casserole). This year was the best tasting ever! I used home grown potatoes. There is nothing like home-grown veggies to make a recipe over the top!
@@maryjane4432 pretty sure doughy refers to when it still feels like soft dough, either referring to thick/soft bread, or bread that feels like it isn't cooked all the way through. it doesn't just mean it's made of dough
Comfort food in America is something that is fully satisfying and fills your stomach, so much that you need to lay down and sleep, after eating it. Or comfort food could also refer to nostalgic foods-foods you grew up with, often homemade or classic branded food that makes you reminisce of your youth-that’s what American comfort food is.
Just FYI with most of these foods it's not that you can't find them in other states but because of their popularity you're much more likely to find them in their home states. Just check a menu or if you see something close and have a chill chef (and the restaurant isn't busy) they'll probably add/take away whats needed to get as close as possible. As for the lobster roll there is a hot and a cold version and many debate which is better. Im a cold fan and yes I lived in MA for years but I get called out all the time saying hot is the only way to go. Either way a lobster roll will absolutely blow your tits off if and I must emphasize IF it prepared correctly and simply.
Scallops w/angel hair pasta sauteed in garlic butter with asparagus sun dried tomatoes, blackened corn with seasoning topped with cilantro, Halibut grilled, as well as salmon steak grilled, wait orange roughy grilled, grilled swordfish....and here in Las Vegas where restaurants are open 24 hours a day with awesome deals graveyard shifts meaning around 12am to 6am you can get 2-4 eggs pancakes bacon sausage and Hash browns for about $1.50 at local casinos not on the strip.. not too many all you can eat buffet's any more.. but
Nebraska native here, and I worked at a Runza for years. My grandpa moved out of the state, but when he visits, he always buys a bunch of uncooked frozen Runzas to take home. You can also buy them during football games, the criers walking up and down the stands like hot dog sellers.
This video is more about popular foods in each state than it is about comfort foods. Comfort foods are what your mom made when you came in from a snowy, cold day or when you didn't feel well.
Not necessarily. It's just generically referring to a food that makes you feel good and brings comfort. I eat PLENTY of comfort food and my mother was too busy to cook like that when when I was young.
True, I'm a Minnesotan and when I think of "comfort food" the last thing I think of is a jucy lucy. The thing just oozes lava on your hands and barely tastes different than if you just put the cheese on top of the burger. If I had to talk about "Minnesotan comfort food" I would initially think chicken and wild rice soup. But if you asked most normal Minnesotans, its probably mashed potatoes or mac n cheese. Or maybe tater tot hot dish if they're trying to prove something.
So you saying the south and south west have no comfort foods because there ain’t no coming home from a snowy cold day. I think it’s food that reminds you of home.
Wisconsin cheese curds are 💯 % correct! Most people dip them in ranch, however, someone made me try them with honey mustard and OMG! The best thing ever!
8:45 Have you never had grilled corn? Next time you cook burgers on the grill throw some corn on husk and all. keep turning it over hot coals until the husks have all burned off but one and you can see the kernels start to uncover... at least that's how I cook them close to the flames so the husks dry, burn, and smoke the corn as well as act like a built in timer. Wrap them in foil to rest with the burgers and you have sweet and smokey grilled corn.
Yes, roasted corn is great. I soak the corn in cool water for about an hour. When you grill the Corte water steams the corn. The husks don't get very crispy but the ear of corn is hot and steamy.
Dude from Colorado here. I cheered out loud, at full volume, when green chili was brought up because I've eaten green chili my whole life, and for the past several years I've been roasting chiles during the harvest season with my family, not for money but for the love of the chiles. My aunt and uncle have run a chili stand for 26 years now for the love of the chiles, and for the love of the season. We love green chili so much that we petitioned for a specific "PUEBLO CHILES" license plate and got it. Fuckin love Colorado, even with all the extra californians
Comfort food is a double-edged sword. It taps into that back part of the brain where everything just melts away. Either to childhood or just something to bring warmth back into your heart, there are also a lot of comfort foods that come with heavy prices. Heavy being the literal word here. Many comfort foods will leave you wanting a cozy nap, or just being stationary and content.
When Portillos opened up a shop in Texas, the line wrapped around the building and down the block. All about the Italian Beef Sandwiches. Meanwhile, the last Uno's Pizza in the area (Fort Worth) closed down.
Utah born, Cali living. Don't hate on funeral potatoes, they're better than you think. Cheesy potatoes with a crunch. Can't go wrong. Also, yes, people eat at funerals. It's a response to grieving, the body knows it needs sustenance and you become more hungry. After every funeral I've been to there's a get together and the family's home, people bring food and share stories about the recently departed.
FYI - Lobster is in the crab family. Seafood you should try - fillet of flounder (mild white fish, can be breaded & fried or baked/broiled. I like it stuffed but the stuffing Is maryland crab cake mixture.
You'll generally find scrapple only in the eastern part of Pennsylvania. In the west, where I'm from, the choice of comfort food is pierogies: mashed potatoes, cheese or sweet filling in a pillowy dough pocket. It was brought from Eastern Europe by Ukrainian, Polish, and Slovak immigrants.
Comfort food is usually (but not always) a high-calorie food, though not necessarily sweet. It's a food that makes you happy when you eat it, often because it reminds you of loved ones, good times during childhood, or other happy memories.
0:16 Dude, don't knock it 'til you try it. The salty sweet. Ever heard of chocolate popcorn? Sea salt caramel chocolates? Chocolate dipped pretzels? Exactly the same concept.
24:33 - Virginia resident here 🙋♂️ if your eating biscuits dry then you’re doing it wrong. Fresh, buttery biscuits should still have some steam pouring out the center when you bite into them. Worst case, some strawberry jam will bring almost any biscuit back to life. Can’t go wrong.
Chocolare covered pretzels are everywhere but flip over chocolate dipped potato chips... Okay here's one... you love a nice brown beef gravy on your mashed potatoes right? Try that gravy on your fries(chips) with some cheese. Poutine is what it is called. Smear some peanut butter on your pancake before putting the syrup on. Thats how you can tell if someone is really from New Hampshire/Vermont/Maine. Absolutely have crab again, and those Maryland crab cakes might be the easy in for ya. If you get the chance at a lobster roll take that chance. As a native Mainer it MUST be on a split top butter toasted bun, with just a touch of mayo and a squeeze of lemon. That is it... nothing else except maybe a touch of lettuce. Don't let someone sell you over complicated crap. New England Clam Chowder(white) and Manhattan Clam Chowder(contains tomatoes) are old american cuisine and have some mind blowingly good representation out there... but they are everywhere and not all of em are good. Don't despair and give it a second try sometime if the first isn't great.
This comment made my mouth water lmao. I love our food so damn much. Never heard the peanut butter pancake thing before, but I love pb & honey sandwiches so I bet it tastes incredible. I'll give it a try. And thanks from Maryland for shouting out our crabcakes, I'd live off them (and your lobster rolls) if that was financially viable lol.
@@srahhh I am willing to bet you would include fried oyster poboy sandwiches and fried clam bellies in that diet too had they been mentioned. A scallop and shrimp seafood salad on a kaiser roll too.
Salmon fillets soaked in lemon juice for about 15 mins or so. Then sear the outside in a hot frying pan until slightly crispy ( on the outside ) glaze with sugar and serve with steamed veggies and wild rice.... substituting wild rice with twice baked potatoes works too. 😁
Here in WV “funeral” potatoes go by “cheesy” or “scallop” potatoes as well as funeral… it just depends on the family. Also they’re made with shredded or diced potatoes. I make mine with diced potatoes, family size can of cream of chicken, a whole small onion diced, 16 oz of sour cream, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and a ton of shredded cheddar. I leave off the corn flakes. But bread crumbs can be nice.
Frozen tater tots or hash brown in place of diced potatos is really good too. Just bake them as directed and then combine it all the same as usual. Bake until the cheese is melted enough to suit you. Some people add in extras like diced peppers ect. Rotel would probably be good in there too. Utah born and raised so I know my funeral potatos 😂
Ok, thanks for the that.now I know. Thought it was something totally different. Then, my Mom used to make scalloped potatoes. I think she used cream of mushroom soup and something like Panko bread crumbs, also remember her putting a pat of butter on top. Used her favorite med Pyrex casserole bowl too.
@@catw6998 my mom made one out of an old Pillsbury cookbook thats just potatoes, onions, flour, milk, butter and seasonings. I remember liking it but looking at the recipe it looks so plain. Then again, sometimes plain is comfort food too.
Scalloped potatoes are made with round slices of potato, arranged in overlapping layers so the edges make the regular curved shape that is scallops. Plus all the other ingredients, of course. If the pan is deep enough you make two layers.
And Linguiça, most especially when it’s been grilled. Im not Portuguese but my spouse is. We’ve moved miles away but the few times that we have visited and BILmade them, i really, really, really liked them.
The dumplings are either made from scratch, or Pillsbury biscuits (they come in a cardboard tube that you pop on your counter to open them up), that you tear into quarters, & drop them into your broth after you’ve cooked and seasoned your chicken!!!
Idk what this video is talking about, but the most popular New Mexican comfort food is green chile stew. That meatball stew looks like some Las Cruses shit.
Albondigas are usually homemade. They are derived from traditional Mexican cooking. If I had to name a number one NM comfort food I'd have to say posole.
Zackly… I had to comment on this too. I know that CO thinks their green chile is better, but there have been several cooking contests between CO and NM and NM has always won. And I know about albóndigas exist, but I have lived in NM most of my life, and have never ordered, nor made at home, albóndigas soup. If I couldn’t pick something with green chile, cuz they already assigned it to CO (🙄) I’d pick posole and sopaipillas. They better represent NM.
Breaded tenderloin sandwiches are fantastic. Add some onion, pickles, mustard and ketchup. I’m originally from the Midwest and moved to Oregon for 10 years. I couldn’t find a tenderloin sandwich anywhere. Now I’m back in the Midwest and keep looking for new places to get them.
Scallops, crab cakes, deviled crab, fried oysters, lobster, fish tacos, New England clam chowder ... they're all wonderful, as are fishes of all kinds.
Comfort foods, Mac and cheese, tuna noodle casserole, beef stew, mashed potatoes with gravy, tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich, an ice cream Sunday.
Fried green tomatoes sounds odd, but they are SO good. Especially if fried in bacon grease. Lobster resembles crab in taste, but the texture is different. I'd suggest monkfish with drawn butter or catfish, or shrimp, but make sure they season the shrimp AND the batter. You could probably get most of these dishes in most local restaurants, just unlikely to be as good, unless it's on the menu.... exceptions sea/ocean and lake foods. Not all. But many I think unless they just don't have the ingredients. Buckeyes - think Resees cups - but better.
Most all of the foods can be found in most all of the states. This video was about the more popular dishes in each state. But as I said can be found across the country. What happens with this type of video is that they just have to find out usually where a specific food that still exists was invented or discovered or first made. And I'll tell you what it seems in America. At least how difficult it would be to only choose one comfort food per state when there's probably a dozen or a dozen and a 1/2 in each state.
Yes, I can vouch for tacos being the comfort food of choice for Texans. Especially breakfast ones. I have not had Chile con Carne in decades. It is good, though.
To your question about whether these foods are only found in specific states, some food are found in certain regions and no where else and others are found in multiple states. Some of these are considered a "southern food" or "Midwest food", or "Northeast food". I live in Mississippi, home of the Poboy, we have things like pancakes with maple syrup just like in New Hampshire and ham biscuits like in Virginia. We also have peach pie (Georgia), chicken and dumplings (Arkansas), fried green tomatoes (Alabama), pulled pork (North Carolina), pimento cheese (South Carolina), sweet corn (Iowa), prime rib (Nebraska), chicken fried steak (Oklahoma), and buffalo wings (New York). Other things we have but we call them something else. We have burnt ends like in Kansas, but we call them beef tips. My aunt makes slippery dumplings like in Delaware. The main difference is regular dumplings are basically a ball of dough "dumped" in boiling water with seasoning and slippery dumplings are rolled out and cut before cooking. There are other things you usually won't find here or it is hard to find. Things like jambalaya, clam chowder, toasted ravioli, runza, albondigas, clam, scrapple, and chislic aren't usually found in our area. This is only a small example, but you can get the idea.
Born, raised, and currently living in Missouri. I can assure you that T-Ravs (Toasted Ravioli) are absolutely AMAZING. There are grocery stores that sell them frozen and come in either beef or three/four cheese varieties, but they are absolutely better when homemade. The quick shortcut is to buy a bag of regular frozen ravioli, thaw them out, and toss them in egg and breadcrumbs and use a good jarred marinara sauce. Also, Chicken and Dumplings are a HUGE staple in the south and are amazing to eat as well.
Scrapple is delicious! They use the leftover meat from the cheeks of the pig & organ meets. They add corn meal and mix. We fry it in a little oil in a skillet or bake it and eat it as a side dish for breakfast. My favorite way to eat it is on a sandwich with fried egg. Nothing better than a scrapple & egg sandwich!!!
As a Pennsylvanian, I have heard of Scrapple, but I have never had it. If anything, it was a poor choice. If you want to talk about comfort food in PA, talking about our sandwiches would be way better, a Philly Cheese Steak or a Pirmanti's Sandwich would have been far better choices.
Key lime pie is the best. It's now popular across the States and is actually simple to make. Sweetened, CONDENSED MILK, NO EVAPORATED MILK, lime or lemon juice, 3-6 egg yolks, graham cracker crust (pre-made) and whipped cream or meringue (whipped cream is better, imo). Mix the lime juice milk and egg yolks until smooth and bake for about 10-12 minutes. Then, refrigerate until cold and firm. Add whipped cream to the top and enjoy. You have to check the baking temp, but probably around 350F. Don't knock crabs just because you had one bad experience. Crab is delicious. I've never had a problem with it and Maryland crab cakes are just the meat and well cooked, so there is little chance of food poisoning with them. Some of those foods make it across state lines and across the entire country. New England clam chowder, crab cakes, key lime pie, jambalaya, prime rib, Buffalo wings, Chicago deep dish, are found everywhere. I lived in Virginia for four years and never heard of their biscuits. Bad joke for bad joke: Why was the American buffalo chosen as the official mascot for the July 4th celebration in 1976? Because it was the nation's Bison-Tennial.
Mate, Alaskan king crab is the most expensive item of all 50 here. Depending on where you live in the States, 1 American pound (~453g) will run anywhere between $50 and $85 (~39 to 68 British Pounds), so if you're ever fed Alaskan king crab for free, you are basically eating money. The only other thing that I know comes close to it is Ossetra black caviar which is not American but still amazing. + Who tf gave you a hard time for pairing pancakes with scrambled eggs? That is a classic in all of America. Pickles are amazing when fried. Fries (chips) are amazing dipped in milkshake just like Brits do with mayo. Lastly, almost everything is better when dipped in chocolate and/or fried like ice cream and cheese. Try chocolate-covered bacon (fried even) - life changer. Cheers.
I get some funny stories from my mom sometimes. My grandad was in the Air Force so got moved around a bunch, and she has fond memories of getting to stay at a few hotels whenever they would be moving into an area before getting a new home set-up, and in Alaska she apparently stayed in a hotel for a bit that had an all you can eat crab bar open all day since the hotel was about 3mi from a fishery and the owner was friends with a few of the captains who brought back hauls and sold them to him cheap. She also stayed at a holiday inn in main that had a lobster buffet for free, and I'm envious because who wouldn't want free crab/lobster all day similar to the free breakfast most places do
Crab is amazing but it's a lot of work. You can skip the work if you get crab claws, which are just crab meat with a little handle. Very convenient. I've not had king crab but I hear good stories. Fried pickles are surprisingly addictive. You might try one, but then you find you can't stop eating them.
My mom is a restaurateur. While I'm not as food educated, I have worked in her restaurants most my life. Typically for crab you do a knife right into its brain quick and painless cause if it dies in pain the meat stresses and tenses up. Not all of these are localized, but you're not gonna find pierogies or scrapple much outside PA.
Fun fact about buffalo wings: my grandfather grew up in Buffalo and his friends mom owned the bar that started the wings, she used to put them at tables as free sides like restaurants do bread, she would just do one basket to get them started. He grew up with them before they became super popular
For us Americans, comfort food refers to food you usually have at home, but really don’t make anymore because few people have the time to make these dishes.
I somewhat disagree: I think people have always been busy but now lots of people choose to eat out or get take out because it's available (which wasn't always true) and they want to spend their time in ways other than cooking. So it's not that people don't have time to cook, they don't want to cook and maybe never learned how so they perceive these dishes as requiring excessive time, which isn't true for all of them.
Some of them are regional and only available in certain places, but others are available everywhere. Scrambled eggs and pancakes are totally normal here. Sweet and salty is awesome. The crabs are either boiled or steamed before they are broken down, and yes they're alive when the cooking process starts.
It’s a courtesy to bring a “dish” when “sitting” with the family while visiting the family at their home prior to the actual funeral. My family custom also included sitting up the table of food and keeping it clean and current. We call it “sitting with the family”. Good food does help keep you grounded during times of distress.
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Adam ostrich meat makes the best steaks. It taste like the leanest cow meat. Since there is not much fat ostrich doesn’t make good hamburgers because the Pattie’s fall apart. But ostrich meat make great tacos or steak.
Most ostrich burger Pattie’s have a binder (to keep it from falling apart) and dries out the meat.
Fish comfort food recipe idea: Salmon Patties.
A mix of canned salmon, eggs, cracker crumbs and seasoning shaped like a big burger, then fried in a skillet
Lobster is fantastic!
The seafood dish that you need to try is Shrimp Creole! And if you ever have Fried Green Tomatoes, dip them in Ranch Dressing not mayonnaise! YUMMY!!! Peace, Love & Happiness from Alabama, USA 🇺🇸
The term "comfort food" normally refers to food that people like because they have fond memories of it from childhood. The saying "just like mom used to make" tends to apply.
Zucchini is a type of summer squash that is green when ripe. Some Brits know it under the French name, "courgette".
In large parts of North America, it's extremely common for people to have relatives who live hundreds of miles away (e.g., people in Ohio might have cousins in Pennsylvania and another set of cousins in Indiana or Illinois). When there's a death in the family, then, a bunch of out-of-state relatives arrive all at once for the funeral. The family has a lot to deal with right then, and so it is customary for the family's church to host a meal for the family of the deceased, so that they can just sit down after the funeral and eat and talk with one another for an hour or so, before they all have to start the long trip back home.
This. It's almost never referring to a snack, it's referring to a full-on meal that makes you feel warm and nostalgic
@@captin3149 It _can_ be a snack if it's a snack your mom used to feed you after school every day, or something.
But yeah, it tends to be things like scalloped potatoes, (real, baked) macaroni and cheese, grilled cheese sandwiches with cream of tomato soup, PB&J, fried chicken, tater tots, applesauce, casserole, meatloaf, Sunday roast, ... routine everyday stuff that parents like to feed their children on a regular basis.
"Just like mom used to make" is the key, whereas a lot of the food is this clip is restaurant or takeout food, not homemade. The term "recreational eating" would also apply to a lot of it--high fat, high sodium, high starch, etc.
I really dislike zucchini!
The brits aren't known for their food. It seems that they don't have much choice of foods.
Comfort food definitely isn't something to nibble on lol. It's more like something that makes you happy and fills up your belly, or at least your heart, especially on a down day or if it's raining/snowing out.
It can be both. A comfort food for me is cheese pickles and crackers bc my dad and I would snack on it while watching tv together or if I had a bad day we would sit and talk about it. But also fried chicken and mashed potatoes w/gravy are my comfort food
Small correction on the pepperoni roll -- we (West Virginia) don't put marinara inside the pepperoni roll, some people dip the pepperoni roll in marinara, but most of the time the inside of the roll is just pepperoni and cheese. Some folks will put banana peppers (pepperoncini) inside them, but usually its just pepperoni and cheese.
Also, buckeye candies are absolutely legendary! Its literally just melt in your mouth peanut buttery goodness.
If you put marinara in it, its a pizza roll.
If you took a pizza roll down into the mines, the other miners would laugh at you, and then bury you alive.
As a kid we never had anything but pepperoni in pepperoni rolls, but they often have cheese in there as well. The idea is that the meaty bread was stable and safe to have outside of refrigeration for most of the day at the least. Adding vegetables and marinara would have prevented the dish from being stable and no miner would have taken them to work for sure.
@@TinaRider-k7p The pepperoni rolls they took into the mines were different from what we have today.
The pepperonis back then were harder and larger, go ahead and laugh, than we have now. It didn't need refrigeration at all. If you have seen movies set in the past there is a good chance you saw pepperonis and salamis hanging from the rafters. They were so full of salt, spices and then smoked that they rarely went bad.
The bread had a very hard crust so the humidity of the mines wouldn't make it instantly soggy. The crust also protected the food from the coal dust.
The miner would peel the crust off with his teeth and only eat the meat and softer bread on the inside. The miners could take a couple of them down to the coal face and eat them fast because at that time you were paid by the ton so you had to WORK the whole 12 hour shift.
I’ve never had a pepperoni roll with peppers and onions in it. Just pepperoni and sometimes cheese and pepperoni. At that it would be more like a mini Stromboli.
JRs donuts have the best pepperoni rolls.
Pepperoncini and banana peppers are 2 different things. Very close but heat index and color are distinctively different. But both are acceptable 👍
biscuits shouldn't be dry my man. they have a ton of butter in them. flaky and tender with a crisp exterior is the texture of a good southern biscuit.
You're making my mouth water and I just ate an over priced croissant. LOL🤤
I think Brits use the term biscuit to refer to something rather crisp & dry. (Like a crispy cooky or cracker of some sort). Not fluffy & rich & buttery like our USA biscuits are.
Best with creamy white sausage gravy. 😍
@@donnadehardt5728Australians like the British call biscuits what you call cookies. From what I have seen your biscuits are what we would call scones.
@@soniabowater6772 In my experience scones are also way way drier and more dense. Biscuits aren't crumbly, you can peel them by soft and buttery layer when sliced open. Super different. Almost like scone and croissant had a baby.
Biscuits are never dry, unless they are bad.
They are almost nothing like "scones".
They are moist, and crumbly, and NEVER sweet on their own, they can be topped with sweet things, but are almost always topped with savory things.
Ay real strawberry shortcake is a great example of biscuits topped with sweet items and is delicious
@@nicole2089 strawberry shortcakes are made with pound cake, not biscuits.
@@nicole2089 or angel food cake, pound cake or angel food cake.
@stapuft maybe where you come from, but it's a big country: we too use a lightly sweetened biscuit dough to make shortcake.
you've not had honey biscuits? They're pretty sweet on their own, just sayin
If you want to eat like an American, just go buy some spices. Take a steak, dip it in flour, then dip it in egg, then dip in flour with salt, pepper and garlic powder in it, and fry it. Voila you have chicken fried steak. For The gravy, take away the oil except 3 tablespoons, add one tablespoons of flour stir until browned, add 1/2 cup of milk, stir until it starts to thicken, then add another 1/2 milk add salt and pepper stir until thick pour over steak.
Biscuits aren't supposed to be dry EVER. They are straight butter. Scones are dry & crumbly, not southern biscuits.
In culinary school I was taught to put a knife straight in the heads of any live shellfish BEFORE putting them in boiling water.
EVERYONE, should always research shellfish before cooking. Some HAVE TO be alive or frozen, no in between, or you can be poisoned.
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@@MicahSps So they're holding back this time, eh?
Over there, their biscuits are our "cookies." That's why.
Correct!
I think back in the Old Testament days. After a couple dozen people died from eating improperly prepared shell fish. The elder Jews looked at each other and said. "I think Yahweh is telling us. This stuff ain't kosher."
As a girl with roots in Mississippi, i can say that the po boy is, without question, NOT what we think of when we think of comfort food. I don't associate po boys with MS. People associate them with Louisiana. Fried catfish would've been a better choice for Mississippi.
That’s what I said!
Kinda calls into question their choices for other states I'm not familiar with. I mean even the origin story is from NOLA.
@@BCowcorn chicken fried steak for Oklahoma is true. We Okies love our chicken fried steak 😂
My peach pie looks spoon much better than anything they showed..
@BCowcorn comfort food...something that reminds you of your childhood AND FILLS YOU UP.
The definition of comfort food is any food that brings comfort and nostalgia. Mac and Cheese is a major comfort food for many Americans. The seafood dish you really should try is New England Clam Chowder.
Funeral potatoes....in the south when someone passes away, the community brings in meals and food to the family so they don't have to worry about cooking. So "funeral" potatoes is a hearty "meal" often taken to the house of those who lost the loved one.
When my son was turning 13 he asked me to make him funeral potatoes instead of a birthday cake. I have made him funeral potatoes for his birthday ever since, he is 34 😄 I make my funeral potatoes totally different than how the narrator explains them.
@@jodeeps2287 Don't hold out on us. How do you make yours?
Not just the South.
@@tswain92_ I use shredded potatoes, not cubed, and when I am lazy I use the frozen shredded hash browns, thawed, I saute onions in butter and mix it with the chicken soup, sour cream, lots of grated cheese, salt, and pepper to taste, mix it with the shredded potatoes, I stir enough milk so it's not too thick, cover it foil bake for approx 40 minutes, take out of the oven, cover with more grated cheese, put back in oven uncovered until cheese is melted, I don't use the corn flakes. I think I might make some now 😋
@jodeeps2287 That sounds delicious. I think I'll make some too. I may have all the ingredients already. Thank you.😊
“the fuck is a zucchini” absolutely sent me🤣🤣🤣
They say courgette over there.
Nope, nope, nope, nope. No eggs without hashbrowns, ever! Pancakes require bacon on the side.
@@thomashernandez8700 I say nope over here!
Yea they call them courgette
Ever had Zucchini bread? It’s basically cake but you put shredded zucchini in it and it looks kinda like a loaf of bread. It’s also good if you add coco powder in, and the frosting is pretty good if made right.
As a Texan my two favorite comfort foods are chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and buttered sweet corn, and then there's a good bowl of chicken and dumplings. New England clam chowder is good too. Clams are good, but they are as chewy as a car tire.
We have chili cook offs (contests) around here. Some cook offs have a division for chili with beans, but generally speaking if you put beans in your chili you will be disqualified. "Chili con carne" literally translates to "peppers and meat", not peppers, meat, and beans.
As a Georgia girl I've never made a peach pie, but I have made a lot of peach cobbler, pecan pie, and especially fried green tomatoes. Yum!
Have you ever had bananas foster? It's my favorite, always ask for it when I visit my family down near Athens.
Yeah, I know peach pie exists, but cobbler is much, much more common, even in a "pie shop" they'll have apple pie and peach cobbler.
Yesss!! I’m from the south- and this is everything!!
I love GA peach cobbler. I am PA, and I must have ate 3lbs of cobbler before I went home 😂
Was about to say ain't nobody making peach pie it's cobbler all the way
My dad was in the Army, so I have lived all over the US. Some of these foods are only available in certain areas commercially, but the ingredients, for the most part, are available in all grocery stores. I live in Texas but spent the most years in Nebraska. I can't go to a restaurant and order a runza, but I can buy the ingredients to make one at home. My husband, on the other hand, spent most of his childhood in England and Japan, so he has to order things online or go to a specialty shop.
You were right in the whole “I’ve noticed a lot of these foods are exclusive to certain states” and that is super true!
Moved from Southeast Tennessee (amazing food galore) to Arizona annnnnnd… I literally want to fly back home weekly just to eat my favorite foods again 😂😭
from middle TN to Arizona. what do you mean Carl's Jr doesn't have biscuit and gravy? 🥲
@@tomf4122 dude we don’t have SHIT here lol. I miss home soooooo much 😭
@@YenShively get on the southwest food train - lot of good stuff to be had
@@blueboy4244 oh I definitely have! I’ve been visiting here for a long time before moving completely. It’s just not my thing. That’s all. I enjoy the food from the south, it’s just what I grew up on and nothing wrong with missing it… all the time. Every day 🤣
Learn to cook? j/k
Scrambled eggs with pancakes is AMAZING.
-An American who is proud of his country's cuisine
Pancakes with any form of eggs you like is normal here. - Another American, surprised that you were attacked for saying scrambled eggs go with pancakes.
Also, all these foods are connected to a place or group, but some are found everywhere, and some are newer and not as well known elsewhere.
Yeah, tell those haters not to food shame, bro!
Literally what Mom used to make!
i love that i literally just ate that today but yesterday my pancakes were chocolate chip
I love cakes n eggs. Especially when the syrup gets on the eggs. SOOO GOOD
Biscuits are not dry if made fresh and properly. They are light, buttery, flaky and super soft. You can eat them plain, with butter, jam, honey, meat, egg, sausage, chili, soup....the list goes on and on.
Cheesey biscuits
Preach girl! ❤
I made blueberry lemon biscuits with a lemon glaze.
@@tswain92_ That sounds amazing! I LOVE lemon!
Blue crabs are the best! I’m from Maryland
Pepperoni rolls are one of those foods that just make sense when you think about it. It’s the best parts of a pepperoni pizza enclosed in thick, delicious bread for easy, one-handed munching. This was originally created as a hearty food coal miners could eat on their lunch break, and it’s really grown from there. Many local restaurants have them here in West Virginia, but you can also get them by the bag and wrapped in Saran Wrap at grocery stores and gas stations (the best one I’ve ever had came from a gas station in Wheeling), and of course there’s all the family recipes. But one thing to keep in mind is that it’s very atypical to have sauce inside the roll. It’s almost always pepperoni and cheese, maybe some peppers or additional cheeses. Some folks dip theirs in marinara or even garlic sauce, but mostly pepperoni rolls are eaten straight.
Another major comfort food here is macaroni n’ cheese, but that’s not strictly Mountain State. Thankfully, that one caught on to the national degree.
We've got a family variation that has been wildly popular and super fast and easy. Take a tube (or several) of pilsbury biscuits (any kind but the flakey) and roll each out flat. In the middle put a teaspoon of marinara, place a small slice of mozzarella cheese (inch to inch and a half square), some pepperoni slices, and another piece of cheese. Pinch the roll up into a ball, turn over, brush with softened or melted butter, sprinkle with garlic powder and italian seasoning, then top with shredded parmesan cheese and bake as directed on the biscuit can.
Voila, pizza balls. Eat as is, or dip in marinara.
Comfort Food is simply food used to quite literally bring comfort. Usually eaten at times of physical and/or mental stress. Like being sick, angry, sad, confused, bad weather etc. You want to eat something that you know will help you feel better and that food is usually tied to some positive memory. A lot of the time you don't even know what memory its tied to but your body does. All you know is that when you eat said food, you feel more settled. For me its cereal. A close second would be a porkroll sandwich but cereal always makes me feel like a kid again, so it remains the king.
I ocassionly make the whole box of cereal a single serving. But I do refills to keep the milk to cereal ratio stable.
@@J.D666 As it should be.
We call our home cooked food comfort food in the uk . Especially shepherd's pie , cottage pie , bangers and mash , hearty food that fills you up . 😊
Cereal is also my and Jerry Seinfeld’s comfort food.
For me it's chillimac. My dad is from Michigan where it's popular.
I commented in one of your other videos that I’m from Kansas, in the middle of the USA, however, my Mom’s side of the family has deeper roots in the northern Midwest. (Iowa, North and South Dakota, Minnesota and Nebraska). I mention this because my all-time favorite dessert/comfort food is Rhubarb Pie, and it’s something I never would have discovered if my Great-Grandmother and Grandmother hadn’t introduced it to me. It’s sweet, but it also has a strong tangy (almost sour) edge to it. Absolutely delicious, especially with vanilla ice cream on the side.
I discovered Strawberry-Rhubarb pie a couple of years ago. OMG, I freaking LOVE it SO much!
Strawberry rhubarb is one of my favorites, with some whipped cream. My mom also sometimes makes rhubarb sauce in the microwave, cooking it down with sugar until it's soft, kind of like chunky applesauce, and not quite as tart. Now I'm hungry for rhubarb sauce lol.
I love Rhubarb pie. Also Rhubarb Strawberry jam.
Another Kansas and Nebraska favorite...chili and cinnamon rolls. Yum!
My grandmother in N. Dakota grew rhubarb in her backyard. She made stewed rhubarb. Sorta like applesauce. You cook it with enough sugar to make it sweet. Great with ice cream or alone.
Pennsylvania has 3 dishes of note. In Philadelphia it’s all about the cheesesteak. Thin tender cuts of ribeye on a long roll topped with cheese and other things.
In Pittsburgh it’s Primanti Brothers sandwiches, typically roast beef topped with coleslaw and French fries.
And in central Pennsylvania the item to try is shoofly pie. Essentially it’s made from a molasses and floury crumb mixture, topped with a sugar crumb top.
My man's about to cry about not having a peach pie in front of him right this moment.
Not that I blame him.
Funeral potatoes.
It's common for friends, family and neighbors to bring over food to a family that has recently lost someone. The thought behind it is so that they don't have to worry about making meals while grieving. Often people bring casseroles or things that can easily be reheated.
also the casserole can be frozen so they can have a meal handy to reheat later when they need it
And funeral potatoes are bangin'.
@@NsTheName"Banging" is very British.
@@thomashernandez8700 Well, I did grow up in England, haha. But it’s quite popular in America as well :)
It's a Utah thing originally, but the tradition of bringing food to grieving families is definitely an American thing, and a great tradition.
West Virginia native. There is no set recipe for Pepperoni rolls because families all had their own way of making them. But they all require white bread dough and pepperoni. Some use slices of pepperoni (like I do) while some take those large sticks of pepperoni and quarter them length-wise into thinner sticks. Some add mozzarella cheese while some don't. Personallly, I just use a standard Amish white bread recipe and add slices of pepperoni. After baking, make sure to coat the top of the roll with some butter. The real secret to a delicious pepperoni roll is...don't skimp on the pepperoni. The oils in the pepperoni leach out into the breast and spice it. The oil also inevitably leaks out and runs under the roll. This fries the bottom of the roll in pepperoni oil. If you cook it just right, it'll be a nice dark red color and will crunch when you bite into it and make it 10x more delicous.
They are available everywhere it’s just certain foods for each state is the most popular because you’ve eaten it regularly since you were just small.
Some they didn’t include is banana pudding, baked beans,also with the fry bread you can top it with confectioners sugar and honey as a dessert,macaroni and cheese,open faced roast beef and gravy sandwich, and lots of desserts.
I like fry bread with butter and cinnamon sugar
They don't know what "chicken fried steak" is in California. Try ordering "clam chowder" in Texas.
@@Jaster832and don't get me started on the "gumbo" or "jambalaya" available outside of Louisiana. Heck, even in the wrong parts of Louisiana you'll get a totally different dish from what you're looking for.
Green chili stew from New Mexico, is to die for. It may not look appetizing, but the smell and the flavor is beyond verbal and written description.
Right?! Fuck off with Colorado green chile*! Shits nasty. Hatch only
right?! giving green chili to Colorado was absolutely criminal
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New England Clam Chowder is phenomenal. One of my favorite soups
"Comfort food" in America is either deep fried, intensely sweet, or something cheap we all ate as kids. Affordable, easy to make, delicious. They bring back comforting memories of youth.
Disagree, as an American. I think that's your version but that's not the definition.
@rhov-anion my comfort food is chili macaroni. If I'm making a pot of that it's usually Tuesday and already it's a bad week. My mother used to make it, I think she made it, she said she had but it was way too tasty for her cooking style. Salt, pepper, oregano and parsley were her spices. I needs two shelves.
California: "Fish Tacos." Not even half way through and it already contradicts your point.
@TuWear I mean over here at least in California fish tacos are cheap and easy, but I’d argue seawater corn is better
@Butteredprawns sea water corn? I've never heard of that. I live in jersey we grow corn here, in the summer you can buy it by the bushel, it's sweet naturally we definitely would not be adding any sea water... 🤢
I have been to many countries and food is often a part of that; however, a lot of people don't truly understand the depth of differences and variety that actually exists in the US when it comes to food. The US is portrayed, wrongly, as simply some kind of cheap processed food or fast food generators, which is partially true but only the very beginning of the story of food in the US.
No other country even remotely has the kind of food diversity either in markets or at restaurants than the US. It isn't even close. In a single plaza you might have a Turkish cafe run by a family that immigrated from Izmir, several fast food joints like Subway or Jersey Mike's, a fine dining Japanese sushi bar run by immigrants from Japan, a local pizza joint, a bar run by a Hungarian woman who uses her family recipes for their food, an old Korean couple that loves to argue while serving some kind of hot pot dishes, and a drug store to buy chips and beer.
Head across the street and you are assaulted with several more fast food joints and some creepy stairs that takes you to a famous steakhouse and a hipster cafe. Up top there are chain restaurants like Olive Garden and Chili's but also some guy from Chicago that is trying to popularize real Chicago style hotdogs in a different city.
I can go on and on with this because it is simply true. Without even getting into my car, I can jump from Mexican to Ethiopian to Hungarian to whatever kinds of foods.
I live in the suburb of a moderately large city and I can easily find shiritaki noodles, Korean bean paste, ingredients for Thai soup, ancho chilis, and so on without even getting into my car. For instance, at the end of my street, there are several Russian markets and an Italian market. Oddly enough, I can get "imported" wild caught salmon from Alaska imported to the US from Russia and locally made sour cream from the Amish at the same store.
Yes,Because the Brits that we come in contact with through these videos classify all our food that’s at any type of restaurant fast food. I seen one critiquing Crackle Barrel and he called it fast food. And they try to equate a lot of what we have to what they have and you really can’t. Many of them think that if something is a chain restaurant it’s trash food. That’s not always true. I think most of what they think about the US is combined with their less than favorable opinion of us as a country. Sometimes I glad for RUclips because they’re seeing more of our culture and many of their beliefs about us are being exposed as lies. They still question everything because they don’t want to admit that what they’ve heard or thought about us is just not true.
@@Kim-427 90% of all food consumed in the US contains POISON additives. When I last visited for 2 weeks, it took me 3 weeks when I returned to get over a sick stomach. This happens EVERY time I visit the US.
Exactly! In my city I live about a 5 minute drive from Little Italy in one direction and a 2 minute drive to Little Saigon in the other direction, with Greek food in between and grocery stores with Asian characters I can't read except they are not Vietnamese. (And of course Mexican taquerias.) We've got a little bit of everything.
@@Kim-427sometimes I think they see stuff and just assume it's bad yeah. One of my favorite jokes is that cracker barrel is the respawn point for white people since it just has so much that everyone loves, wether it be pancakes, fried chicken, fried pork, biscuits, cornbread, and even steaks and fish. Haven't ever been to the UK but got a friend who loves over there and he'll comment that he almost never goes out to eat for anything other than drinks since he moved back since they just don't have anything as good as what we got.
@@Kim-427 I suppose that’s true but I have a US born relative that sniffs when they see all of our chain/big box ff and restaurants.
Are you sitting? Ok crushed corn flakes are used in a cookie recipe called cherry blinks, you roll a piece of dough in the flakes put on tray, add a piece of maraschino cherry after its baked. Seasoned crushed cornflakes are used as a coating on fried chicken
You might have missed something in the translation for English to Murican.
Chocolate covered chips are what you would call chocolate covered crisps. You need to try one they are delicious. Try a chocolate covered hard pretzel while you are at it.
What you call apple cider is fermented apple juice. Which is an alcoholic beverage. Here it is unfiltered juice from pressed apples. We call the alcoholic version hard cider.
Thats a big no on chocolate covered chips.
How about chickens, we tear off their legs when we eat them.
I don't eat scrapple.
@@garycamara9955 Uhh?
@@garycamara9955 Uhh! What..!
As a native Wisconsinite, I can honestly tell you that cheese curds are absolutely outstanding.
I lived in the UP for a few years and developed a taste for them.. There's a couple of Culver's fairly near me here in North Dallas. Might need to go get some - cholesterol be damned.
Cheese curds, yummy yummy cheese curds.
@@bretcantwell4921 I haven't had Culvers in a long time, but if there's an A & W near you, their cheese curds are really good. Plus, root beer float lol
Yeah they are fantastic I live in wisconsin so I can say we make so many amazing cheeses in our state like some of my favorites are Colby jack and so on
@@kclovelypinky8561 there was a place on i 94 that had truck parking. Amazing curds and wide selection of other yummy cheese.
"Comfort food" is what you eat when the weather is bad or you're sad/depressed, which is why you usually find a lot of carbs in it
If you want to get into seafood, I can't recommend salmon enough. I like lobster, but lots of people don't.
I'm from Southern California (San Diego) and yes, fish tacos are amazeing. Made with light flakey white fish, shreaded cabbage which adds a bit of crisp, served in warm soft corn totillas... squeeze a little avacado sauce and fresh lime juice on top and mmmm, mmmm!!! Chefs kiss.
I'm from San Diego and I don't know if it's still around but there was a bar called the Tidewater in Solana Beach that had the fucking best fish tacos I've ever had.
@@InvalidUsername480 I don't know... I've only been to Solana beach a handful of times when I was a teenager in the 80's, when I'd visit a friend who'd moved to Escondido. Growing up and as an adult I've only lived in southern San Diego county, either south or east of Downtown. Pacific Beach around Belmont Park was where I usually went. Though I've been back living in San Diego for 4 1/2 years, I've not been out to any of the beaches. Not a fan of how a lot of younger people behave these days so, I try to steer clear of places they tend to congregate.
I'm from Detroit. Coney Dogs are most definitely DETROIT!! I would say, though, something like pasties are more generally a Mitten State comfort food. I love both!!
Chicken fried steak is something that always comforts the heart. And yes, it is grease constricting it, but it's totally worth it ❤
Lobster is absolutely amazing and even has a slight sweetness to it, I cant get enough of Lobster Tails specifically.
In Boston Massachusetts in the early years, it was against the law to serve lobster to your servants more than twice a week because it was considered food for animals, not for people.
you misspelled slaves.
@@1perfectpitch Not all servants were slaves, especially in Massachusetts.
Indentured servitude was popular especially regarding dutch or Irish immigrants... You work for a guy 10 years and then are accepted as a citizen.
@@markballard9942So true, you and I are most likely old enough to remember this from school where we knew which states had slaves and which did not. Well done 👍🏻
This is crazy considering how much lobster costs now. Lamb and Salmon were considered cheap food as well and now are incredibly expensive.
I am a gardener. My husband and I both love fried green tomatoes since forever…I have had to train my husband on this one point only…only this one point: GREEN TOMATOES ARE NOT TO BE PICKED UNTIL THE *END* OF THE GROWING SEASON!
When we were still dating, he picked green tomatoes out of my garden in the middle,of the summer…of COURSE I let him fry them up. OF COURSE. It took a few years to break him of this habit. I need the tomatoes to ripen in the summer because I can them for soup in the winter…the ones we don’t just eat, of course.
But fried green tomatoes are the treat at the end of the season in my life experience. Something to look forward to, when the last of the tomatoes will not have time to ripen.
Top one with a fried shrimp and some remolaude.
Brother, whoever told you eggs and pancakes can’t go together was out of their MINDS 😂
When I was younger, one of my first jobs was cleaning tables in a pancake house (a little restaurant that specializes in breakfast items), and our pancakes always came with a side of eggs and either bacon, ham, or sausage. That’s pretty much the standard anywhere in the US.
definitely Deep-fried pickles. Jucy Lucy is cheese sealed between two Hamburger patties then cooked without the cheese melting out.
Juicy Lucys. Yum.
The items being added to the Louisiana Jambalaya were crawfish or crawdads.
Or shrimp(prawns for the Brits)
I saw shrimp.
@@bradleyanderson4315 or crayfish, i'm from New England.
@@BCowcornyep. I will say that it should have been mud bugs, which are red to orange. But it's not unusual for jambalaya to have shrimp in it. But those were for presentation.
As a Louisianan - it’s always crawfish. never crayfish, crawdads of mud bugs. Always crawfish.
My mom's parents and grandparents were German. NEVER EVER heard of a "Runza" before. I grew up with homemade KRAUT BURGERS. Cooked hamburger, cabbage, salt, and pepper MAYBE onions (sometimes) wrapped in bread dough and baked in the oven.
I have noticed a trend that UK RUclipsrs tend to be down of fish dishes. The US has many amazing fish dishes. New England, East coast, Southern / Caribean, West coast, Hawaii, Alaska, and all the rivers and lakes; all varieties of fish and crustecean dishes that are amazing. Don't dismiss the category! Impossible to pick one kind to try.
Yes. What's up with that? Who eats all their seafood? They're basically island countries after all.
Yeah, I've never seen seen so many people from an Island country so disgusted
by seafood like I have with brits. If it isn't fish and chips, then they tend to turn their nose up at it. It's utterly baffling.
Is that what happened during the potato famine, people from Ireland were starving because they refused to eat fish and seafood? Very curious.🤔
To be fair, as an American I absolutely HATE 99% of meals with fish, or otherwise tolerate them. It's not that weird for people to hate seafood. I don't know many people, personally, that enjoy it.
@kugetsu of course there are personal preferences, but this seems more than that (lacking any kind of actual study). The only data I have is that USDA showed that 80%-90% of people reported eating seafood in the previous 30 days. That seems to me to be a very common food item.
Comfort food = food that brings you comfort. It's just that simple. There's no need to overcomplicate it.
in the UK food only brings you misery.
@@nullakjg767why do Americans always criticize our food ?? We have some great food here regional too and some great sea food seeing as we are an island.
@@claregale9011 Americans and Brits are always antagonizing each other, well, the petty ones anyway. It's a massive misconception that there's not great food in Britain. People just get so stuck in stereotypes that they can't see outside of them.
Although I think that guy was mostly just joking.
There's some British food that I would love to try, although I've never been a super adventurous eater.
I think that the reason Americans discount british food is because you don't seem to be as obsessed with it the way we are. Your more laid back about it.
I was born in Illinois, lived most of my life in Florida, and now in Oregon. Best thing, my mother started teaching me how to cook whe i was 2 years old. I can make anything anywhere! Most people here started cooking and can make just about anything in their own home. It's food fantastic for people who care about making their own foods. 😊❤
I live in NJ, USA. I've eaten seafood all my life and never once have I gotten food poisoning. It's not the seafood, it's the people handling it that cause that issue.
As far as shellfish -
Go with Lobster, King Crab or Blue Crab,
then freshwater - Crayfish/Crawdads/Mud Bugs/ Fresh Water Lobsters {all names for the same shellfish, and there's a few more names I didn't list}
As far as Mollusks -
Go with Scallops and bacon, Then Clams on the half shell, then Spaghetti and mussels
As far as actual fish -
Go with Salmon {lemon pepper Salmon is my fav}, then Mahi Mahi, then you can try some white fish like Flounder or talapia, and finally Catfish is very good
Never tilapia. Have you seen how they are raised.
Like the irish are known for their food, hahahaha aaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahaha!
You left out Shrimp. Overall it's the best shellfish. Lobster is overrated and crab is good but a lot of work.
Scallops are the best entry-level seafood. There's nothing weird at all about them. They're just straight-up meat. Practically perfect.
Halibut is also good.
"Comfort food" in the States can refer to basically any food, meal or snack sized. It just has to make someone feel warm and fuzzy, like they're smiling on the inside, and typically evokes some sense of nostalgia.
I feel like the video you reacted to here was slightly misleading, in that it wasn't really focused on "comfort foods" as much as like...regional staples, or regional specialties. But you can generally get any of these dishes anywhere in the US. (Well, except maybe the Runza...and the Scrapple, whatever that is.)
Scrapple is disgusting. It's one step up from souse, which is truly disgusting.
You can literally see the pig snouts and eyelashes in souse meat. It's utterly revolting.
Scrapple is just a bit less revolting than that.
True, regional but not limited to that state. Plus you can make most of them at home. Just need to look on the internet at recipe / cooking websites, Pinterest, You-Tube, etc. Great recipes. Just have to remember that all cooks are not created equal. Some of the recipes downright sad looking and probably taste subpar too. lol.
Which says a lot about a state that would choose Fish Tacos as their comfort food. Fish tacos aren't generally made at home.
If you don't know what scrapple is... you don't wanna know. I don't know why every damn "comfort food" article chooses scrapple to represent Pennsylvania. Most people here won't go anywhere near it. To me, "comfort food" is the stuff Mom cooked, like simple roast pork with rice or the umpteen ways we prepare pork chops. City chicken. Stuffed cabbage rolls. Pierogis. Or quick foods like a fried egg-and-Taylor-ham sandwich. Or desserts like shoo-fly pie or Amish apple dumplings.
Chile Verde is a NEW MEXICO staple! Why did it go to Colorado??
As to what makes it good, the green Hatch chiles are fire-roasted until the skins char and peel off, and then the savory peppers go into a broth that also has braised pork, hominy or potatoes, blanched tomatillos, dried red chile flakes, cumin, and other spices. Served with chopped onions, cilantro, lime, and warm tortillas, it is an AMAZING dish.
Colorado is known for Chile Verde as well as New Mexico
There two main types of Clam Chowder: Manhattan {Red/tomato base} and New England {white/cream base}. There is also a Rhode Island variety that has a more clear base to it.
Translation: There is one type of clam chowder and that's New England.
Manhattan chowder can burn in Hell.
If you want to try decent clam chowder in the UK see if you can find Campbell's Chunky Clam Chowder. DO NOT get the heart healthy stuff. It tastes like chalk. Super easy, just heat it up and pour it in a bowl. Done. And again, avoid the Manhattan style. It's just weird.
I grew up in NY, but New England clam chowder rules
My Dad made the best NE "chowda". I did have the RI variety at a friends on the bay with freshly dug quohogs.
@@MFiction60 love new england clam chowder ... especially if its made with a cap of melted cheese on top of it
@@siliciaveerah9327 I've never tried it that way. Sounds yummy
Comfort food is like a hug from mom and dad in food form. It’s got a bit of nostalgia and it’s always good.
Well, when my mom is focused, other times, well your guess is as good as mine ;).
Funeral potatoes are just a potato casserole, easy to throw together, tastes great and makes a good side dish at a funeral spread. My granny and aunts used to go to all the local funerals to meet up with distant relatives and eat the supper.
Best fish meal to try: Friday night fish fry at any Wisconsin supper club. Batter fried cod or walleye, served with brandy old fashioneds, veggie sticks, all you can eat salad bar, fries(chips), cole slaw, biscuits or corn bread, and if you’re lucky enough to have found a supper club that’s been around since the 60s, a chocolate pudding parfait served in an ice cream sundae glass.
Comfort foods are meals that remind one of childhood or family gatherings.
Im a native Utahn, and funeral potatoes are absolutely fantastic!
We dont only have them at funeral luncheons, we also have them at different holidays, or family gatherings.
Also from Utah, also a family favorite.😊
I feel like the only way funeral potatoes could be more Utah ( apart from working fry sauce in there somehow) is if they were made in a Dutch oven.
I’m from Ohio and we always had them at holidays and family gatherings, I didn’t even know they were funeral potatoes honestly
We just make them for dinner here and just add some ham cubes and a side veggie. We love them!
I've made them since I was a child in Michigan. We moved to Texas when I was 12 and I continued making them there. We always called them "Aunt Donna's Potatoes", since she was the one who gave me the recipe. I make them every Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and any other time we are craving potatoes. I sometimes add cream cheese with the sour cream and cream of something soup. Sometimes I top it with french fried onions (the kind you put in green bean casserole). This year was the best tasting ever! I used home grown potatoes. There is nothing like home-grown veggies to make a recipe over the top!
"Are noodles doughy?"
Bro.... They are dough.
If they are doughy, they aren’t done.
@@circedelunethe point is they are made of dough
@@maryjane4432 pretty sure doughy refers to when it still feels like soft dough, either referring to thick/soft bread, or bread that feels like it isn't cooked all the way through. it doesn't just mean it's made of dough
When he said that, he wasn’t looking at noodles, he was looking at dumplings and yes dumplings, unlike noodles, are doughy.
Comfort food in America is something that is fully satisfying and fills your stomach, so much that you need to lay down and sleep, after eating it. Or comfort food could also refer to nostalgic foods-foods you grew up with, often homemade or classic branded food that makes you reminisce of your youth-that’s what American comfort food is.
Just FYI with most of these foods it's not that you can't find them in other states but because of their popularity you're much more likely to find them in their home states. Just check a menu or if you see something close and have a chill chef (and the restaurant isn't busy) they'll probably add/take away whats needed to get as close as possible. As for the lobster roll there is a hot and a cold version and many debate which is better. Im a cold fan and yes I lived in MA for years but I get called out all the time saying hot is the only way to go. Either way a lobster roll will absolutely blow your tits off if and I must emphasize IF it prepared correctly and simply.
Scallops w/angel hair pasta sauteed in garlic butter with asparagus sun dried tomatoes, blackened corn with seasoning topped with cilantro, Halibut grilled, as well as salmon steak grilled, wait orange roughy grilled, grilled swordfish....and here in Las Vegas where restaurants are open 24 hours a day with awesome deals graveyard shifts meaning around 12am to 6am you can get 2-4 eggs pancakes bacon sausage and Hash browns for about $1.50 at local casinos not on the strip.. not too many all you can eat buffet's any more.. but
What this person said. 100% agree
Where?
Nebraska native here, and I worked at a Runza for years. My grandpa moved out of the state, but when he visits, he always buys a bunch of uncooked frozen Runzas to take home. You can also buy them during football games, the criers walking up and down the stands like hot dog sellers.
This video is more about popular foods in each state than it is about comfort foods. Comfort foods are what your mom made when you came in from a snowy, cold day or when you didn't feel well.
Agreed, in Indiana I would see Sweet Corn being more of a comfort food than a tenderloin sandwich.
Not necessarily. It's just generically referring to a food that makes you feel good and brings comfort. I eat PLENTY of comfort food and my mother was too busy to cook like that when when I was young.
True, I'm a Minnesotan and when I think of "comfort food" the last thing I think of is a jucy lucy. The thing just oozes lava on your hands and barely tastes different than if you just put the cheese on top of the burger.
If I had to talk about "Minnesotan comfort food" I would initially think chicken and wild rice soup. But if you asked most normal Minnesotans, its probably mashed potatoes or mac n cheese. Or maybe tater tot hot dish if they're trying to prove something.
Your definition is perfect!
So you saying the south and south west have no comfort foods because there ain’t no coming home from a snowy cold day. I think it’s food that reminds you of home.
For that bad bison joke, you need to have some Rocky Mountain Oysters.
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No thanks
That would take some real balls!
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Wisconsin cheese curds are 💯 % correct! Most people dip them in ranch, however, someone made me try them with honey mustard and OMG! The best thing ever!
8:45 Have you never had grilled corn?
Next time you cook burgers on the grill throw some corn on husk and all. keep turning it over hot coals until the husks have all burned off but one and you can see the kernels start to uncover... at least that's how I cook them close to the flames so the husks dry, burn, and smoke the corn as well as act like a built in timer. Wrap them in foil to rest with the burgers and you have sweet and smokey grilled corn.
Yes, roasted corn is great. I soak the corn in cool water for about an hour. When you grill the Corte water steams the corn. The husks don't get very crispy but the ear of corn is hot and steamy.
Ummm 🤔. Have to shout out to Mexican street corn here. Elote! I was waiting for the butter, mayo, Cotija cheese and hot sauce! Hola from Arizona 👋
Scrapple is not comfort food in Pennsylvania. Cheesesteaks are.
You are absolutely right!
Pierogis too!
That's exactly what I was thinking.
I think it probably used to be considered a comfort food, back when home cooking was more common than fast food.
@@erine3185 There it is!
Fried in butter and onions. Give it a splash of sour cream and you're there.
Dude from Colorado here. I cheered out loud, at full volume, when green chili was brought up because I've eaten green chili my whole life, and for the past several years I've been roasting chiles during the harvest season with my family, not for money but for the love of the chiles. My aunt and uncle have run a chili stand for 26 years now for the love of the chiles, and for the love of the season. We love green chili so much that we petitioned for a specific "PUEBLO CHILES" license plate and got it. Fuckin love Colorado, even with all the extra californians
Comfort food is a double-edged sword. It taps into that back part of the brain where everything just melts away. Either to childhood or just something to bring warmth back into your heart, there are also a lot of comfort foods that come with heavy prices. Heavy being the literal word here. Many comfort foods will leave you wanting a cozy nap, or just being stationary and content.
them putting chicago style pizza instead of italian beef for illinois is actually insane
I agree! Chicago style pizza is delicious but I’d vote for Italian beef every time, especially Al’s.
“ Chicago style “ ( deep dish ) is for tourists. Chicago style is tavern style !!
Yeah, a good beef sandwich.
When Portillos opened up a shop in Texas, the line wrapped around the building and down the block. All about the Italian Beef Sandwiches. Meanwhile, the last Uno's Pizza in the area (Fort Worth) closed down.
Utah born, Cali living. Don't hate on funeral potatoes, they're better than you think. Cheesy potatoes with a crunch. Can't go wrong. Also, yes, people eat at funerals. It's a response to grieving, the body knows it needs sustenance and you become more hungry. After every funeral I've been to there's a get together and the family's home, people bring food and share stories about the recently departed.
FYI - Lobster is in the crab family. Seafood you should try - fillet of flounder (mild white fish, can be breaded & fried or baked/broiled. I like it stuffed but the stuffing Is maryland crab cake mixture.
Comfort food is something you eat when feeling bleh, had a rough day and it feels like the food is giving you a nice even reasuring hug. 😊
You'll generally find scrapple only in the eastern part of Pennsylvania. In the west, where I'm from, the choice of comfort food is pierogies: mashed potatoes, cheese or sweet filling in a pillowy dough pocket. It was brought from Eastern Europe by Ukrainian, Polish, and Slovak immigrants.
I’m from Eastern Pa. I don’t consider scrapple a comfort food at all. Don’t like the taste. It’s the Philly cheese steak all the way
Comfort food is usually (but not always) a high-calorie food, though not necessarily sweet. It's a food that makes you happy when you eat it, often because it reminds you of loved ones, good times during childhood, or other happy memories.
0:16 Dude, don't knock it 'til you try it. The salty sweet. Ever heard of chocolate popcorn? Sea salt caramel chocolates? Chocolate dipped pretzels? Exactly the same concept.
24:33 - Virginia resident here 🙋♂️ if your eating biscuits dry then you’re doing it wrong. Fresh, buttery biscuits should still have some steam pouring out the center when you bite into them. Worst case, some strawberry jam will bring almost any biscuit back to life. Can’t go wrong.
Or…..put them on a baking sheet, place an oven safe dish of water in the oven & reheat. Almost good as new. 😅
Zucchini = courgette. Americans use the Italian word, Brits use the French. Don't ask me why.
Italians developed this variety of squash. The Brits presumably got it from the French.
Again, an example of Americans using the original term, while Brits use a word that has evolved through several variations. Like soccer.
Italian immigrants brought it over, the rest is history 😊
Chips w/ chocolate is actually pretty tasty!!
@@claycassin8437 The term 'soccer' literally comes from Britain, it just happened to spread beyond the UK before fading from most dialects in England.
Chocolare covered pretzels are everywhere but flip over chocolate dipped potato chips...
Okay here's one... you love a nice brown beef gravy on your mashed potatoes right? Try that gravy on your fries(chips) with some cheese. Poutine is what it is called.
Smear some peanut butter on your pancake before putting the syrup on. Thats how you can tell if someone is really from New Hampshire/Vermont/Maine.
Absolutely have crab again, and those Maryland crab cakes might be the easy in for ya.
If you get the chance at a lobster roll take that chance. As a native Mainer it MUST be on a split top butter toasted bun, with just a touch of mayo and a squeeze of lemon. That is it... nothing else except maybe a touch of lettuce. Don't let someone sell you over complicated crap.
New England Clam Chowder(white) and Manhattan Clam Chowder(contains tomatoes) are old american cuisine and have some mind blowingly good representation out there... but they are everywhere and not all of em are good. Don't despair and give it a second try sometime if the first isn't great.
This comment made my mouth water lmao. I love our food so damn much. Never heard the peanut butter pancake thing before, but I love pb & honey sandwiches so I bet it tastes incredible. I'll give it a try. And thanks from Maryland for shouting out our crabcakes, I'd live off them (and your lobster rolls) if that was financially viable lol.
@@srahhh I am willing to bet you would include fried oyster poboy sandwiches and fried clam bellies in that diet too had they been mentioned. A scallop and shrimp seafood salad on a kaiser roll too.
Salmon fillets soaked in lemon juice for about 15 mins or so. Then sear the outside in a hot frying pan until slightly crispy ( on the outside ) glaze with sugar and serve with steamed veggies and wild rice.... substituting wild rice with twice baked potatoes works too. 😁
Here in WV “funeral” potatoes go by “cheesy” or “scallop” potatoes as well as funeral… it just depends on the family. Also they’re made with shredded or diced potatoes. I make mine with diced potatoes, family size can of cream of chicken, a whole small onion diced, 16 oz of sour cream, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and a ton of shredded cheddar. I leave off the corn flakes. But bread crumbs can be nice.
Frozen tater tots or hash brown in place of diced potatos is really good too. Just bake them as directed and then combine it all the same as usual. Bake until the cheese is melted enough to suit you. Some people add in extras like diced peppers ect. Rotel would probably be good in there too. Utah born and raised so I know my funeral potatos 😂
Ok, thanks for the that.now I know. Thought it was something totally different. Then, my Mom used to make scalloped potatoes. I think she used cream of mushroom soup and something like Panko bread crumbs, also remember her putting a pat of butter on top. Used her favorite med Pyrex casserole bowl too.
traditionally, scalloped potatoes don't have cheese, just a cream based sauce
@@catw6998 my mom made one out of an old Pillsbury cookbook thats just potatoes, onions, flour, milk, butter and seasonings. I remember liking it but looking at the recipe it looks so plain. Then again, sometimes plain is comfort food too.
Scalloped potatoes are made with round slices of potato, arranged in overlapping layers so the edges make the regular curved shape that is scallops. Plus all the other ingredients, of course. If the pan is deep enough you make two layers.
Stuffies are a Rhode Island must but usually also have chorizo in them due to the large Portuguese community here.
And Linguiça, most especially when it’s been grilled. Im not Portuguese but my spouse is. We’ve moved miles away but the few times that we have visited and BILmade them, i really, really, really liked them.
The dumplings are either made from scratch, or Pillsbury biscuits (they come in a cardboard tube that you pop on your counter to open them up), that you tear into quarters, & drop them into your broth after you’ve cooked and seasoned your chicken!!!
Idk what this video is talking about, but the most popular New Mexican comfort food is green chile stew. That meatball stew looks like some Las Cruses shit.
Bro thank you that’s the first thing I said too 😭 not green chili, not a green chili cheeseburger or carne adovada, but albondigas? Come on man💀
Not the Las Cruces drag 😭🤣🤣
Gonna say... I don't think I ever saw albondigas on a menu in Albuquerque, but green chile stew was ubiquitous.
Albondigas are usually homemade. They are derived from traditional Mexican cooking. If I had to name a number one NM comfort food I'd have to say posole.
Zackly… I had to comment on this too. I know that CO thinks their green chile is better, but there have been several cooking contests between CO and NM and NM has always won. And I know about albóndigas exist, but I have lived in NM most of my life, and have never ordered, nor made at home, albóndigas soup. If I couldn’t pick something with green chile, cuz they already assigned it to CO (🙄) I’d pick posole and sopaipillas. They better represent NM.
Breaded tenderloin sandwiches are fantastic. Add some onion, pickles, mustard and ketchup. I’m originally from the Midwest and moved to Oregon for 10 years. I couldn’t find a tenderloin sandwich anywhere. Now I’m back in the Midwest and keep looking for new places to get them.
comfort food is something that you usually enjoy warm on a cold day or night or if sick possibly
comfort food is also used by poor people because it is cheaper than the other foods
Scallops, crab cakes, deviled crab, fried oysters, lobster, fish tacos, New England clam chowder ... they're all wonderful, as are fishes of all kinds.
Comfort foods, Mac and cheese, tuna noodle casserole, beef stew, mashed potatoes with gravy, tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich, an ice cream Sunday.
The almost crying "I need it." At peach pie made me happy.
Fried green tomatoes sounds odd, but they are SO good. Especially if fried in bacon grease.
Lobster resembles crab in taste, but the texture is different. I'd suggest monkfish with drawn butter or catfish, or shrimp, but make sure they season the shrimp AND the batter.
You could probably get most of these dishes in most local restaurants, just unlikely to be as good, unless it's on the menu.... exceptions sea/ocean and lake foods. Not all. But many I think unless they just don't have the ingredients.
Buckeyes - think Resees cups - but better.
Most all of the foods can be found in most all of the states. This video was about the more popular dishes in each state. But as I said can be found across the country. What happens with this type of video is that they just have to find out usually where a specific food that still exists was invented or discovered or first made. And I'll tell you what it seems in America. At least how difficult it would be to only choose one comfort food per state when there's probably a dozen or a dozen and a 1/2 in each state.
Yes, I can vouch for tacos being the comfort food of choice for Texans. Especially breakfast ones. I have not had Chile con Carne in decades. It is good, though.
To your question about whether these foods are only found in specific states, some food are found in certain regions and no where else and others are found in multiple states. Some of these are considered a "southern food" or "Midwest food", or "Northeast food". I live in Mississippi, home of the Poboy, we have things like pancakes with maple syrup just like in New Hampshire and ham biscuits like in Virginia. We also have peach pie (Georgia), chicken and dumplings (Arkansas), fried green tomatoes (Alabama), pulled pork (North Carolina), pimento cheese (South Carolina), sweet corn (Iowa), prime rib (Nebraska), chicken fried steak (Oklahoma), and buffalo wings (New York). Other things we have but we call them something else. We have burnt ends like in Kansas, but we call them beef tips. My aunt makes slippery dumplings like in Delaware. The main difference is regular dumplings are basically a ball of dough "dumped" in boiling water with seasoning and slippery dumplings are rolled out and cut before cooking. There are other things you usually won't find here or it is hard to find. Things like jambalaya, clam chowder, toasted ravioli, runza, albondigas, clam, scrapple, and chislic aren't usually found in our area. This is only a small example, but you can get the idea.
Born, raised, and currently living in Missouri. I can assure you that T-Ravs (Toasted Ravioli) are absolutely AMAZING. There are grocery stores that sell them frozen and come in either beef or three/four cheese varieties, but they are absolutely better when homemade. The quick shortcut is to buy a bag of regular frozen ravioli, thaw them out, and toss them in egg and breadcrumbs and use a good jarred marinara sauce. Also, Chicken and Dumplings are a HUGE staple in the south and are amazing to eat as well.
Fellow Missourian here, and yes, T-ravs are fantastic! And once you've eaten those, finish the meal with some Gooey Butter Cake!
Biscuits n' gravy, clam chowder, beans n greens w/cornbread, pecan pie, peach cobbler, breakfast burritos...and much much more!
Lobster actually used to be used as a prison food surprisingly. It was that unpopular
Fried green tomatoes are a staple in autumn, THEY ARE DELICIOUS!!!
Scrapple is delicious! They use the leftover meat from the cheeks of the pig & organ meets. They add corn meal and mix. We fry it in a little oil in a skillet or bake it and eat it as a side dish for breakfast. My favorite way to eat it is on a sandwich with fried egg. Nothing better than a scrapple & egg sandwich!!!
My dad used to make it, but I never really liked it.
As a Pennsylvanian, I have heard of Scrapple, but I have never had it. If anything, it was a poor choice. If you want to talk about comfort food in PA, talking about our sandwiches would be way better, a Philly Cheese Steak or a Pirmanti's Sandwich would have been far better choices.
Key lime pie is the best. It's now popular across the States and is actually simple to make. Sweetened, CONDENSED MILK, NO EVAPORATED MILK, lime or lemon juice, 3-6 egg yolks, graham cracker crust (pre-made) and whipped cream or meringue (whipped cream is better, imo). Mix the lime juice milk and egg yolks until smooth and bake for about 10-12 minutes. Then, refrigerate until cold and firm. Add whipped cream to the top and enjoy. You have to check the baking temp, but probably around 350F. Don't knock crabs just because you had one bad experience. Crab is delicious. I've never had a problem with it and Maryland crab cakes are just the meat and well cooked, so there is little chance of food poisoning with them. Some of those foods make it across state lines and across the entire country. New England clam chowder, crab cakes, key lime pie, jambalaya, prime rib, Buffalo wings, Chicago deep dish, are found everywhere. I lived in Virginia for four years and never heard of their biscuits. Bad joke for bad joke: Why was the American buffalo chosen as the official mascot for the July 4th celebration in 1976? Because it was the nation's Bison-Tennial.
Mate, Alaskan king crab is the most expensive item of all 50 here. Depending on where you live in the States, 1 American pound (~453g) will run anywhere between $50 and $85 (~39 to 68 British Pounds), so if you're ever fed Alaskan king crab for free, you are basically eating money. The only other thing that I know comes close to it is Ossetra black caviar which is not American but still amazing.
+ Who tf gave you a hard time for pairing pancakes with scrambled eggs? That is a classic in all of America. Pickles are amazing when fried. Fries (chips) are amazing dipped in milkshake just like Brits do with mayo. Lastly, almost everything is better when dipped in chocolate and/or fried like ice cream and cheese. Try chocolate-covered bacon (fried even) - life changer. Cheers.
I get some funny stories from my mom sometimes. My grandad was in the Air Force so got moved around a bunch, and she has fond memories of getting to stay at a few hotels whenever they would be moving into an area before getting a new home set-up, and in Alaska she apparently stayed in a hotel for a bit that had an all you can eat crab bar open all day since the hotel was about 3mi from a fishery and the owner was friends with a few of the captains who brought back hauls and sold them to him cheap. She also stayed at a holiday inn in main that had a lobster buffet for free, and I'm envious because who wouldn't want free crab/lobster all day similar to the free breakfast most places do
Crab is amazing but it's a lot of work. You can skip the work if you get crab claws, which are just crab meat with a little handle. Very convenient.
I've not had king crab but I hear good stories.
Fried pickles are surprisingly addictive. You might try one, but then you find you can't stop eating them.
My mom is a restaurateur. While I'm not as food educated, I have worked in her restaurants most my life. Typically for crab you do a knife right into its brain quick and painless cause if it dies in pain the meat stresses and tenses up.
Not all of these are localized, but you're not gonna find pierogies or scrapple much outside PA.
Pierogies are all over the place. They’re literally in stores all over New England.
Fun fact about buffalo wings: my grandfather grew up in Buffalo and his friends mom owned the bar that started the wings, she used to put them at tables as free sides like restaurants do bread, she would just do one basket to get them started. He grew up with them before they became super popular
For us Americans, comfort food refers to food you usually have at home, but really don’t make anymore because few people have the time to make these dishes.
I somewhat disagree: I think people have always been busy but now lots of people choose to eat out or get take out because it's available (which wasn't always true) and they want to spend their time in ways other than cooking. So it's not that people don't have time to cook, they don't want to cook and maybe never learned how so they perceive these dishes as requiring excessive time, which isn't true for all of them.
Some of them are regional and only available in certain places, but others are available everywhere. Scrambled eggs and pancakes are totally normal here. Sweet and salty is awesome. The crabs are either boiled or steamed before they are broken down, and yes they're alive when the cooking process starts.
That maple tree has been giving people delicious maple syrup for over 100 years, and nobody ever offered it a pancake.
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It’s a courtesy to bring a “dish” when “sitting” with the family while visiting the family at their home prior to the actual funeral. My family custom also included sitting up the table of food and keeping it clean and current. We call it “sitting with the family”.
Good food does help
keep you grounded during times of distress.