I'm 80 years old this year. I bet I have eaten tonnes of pb&j. I actually met a man who had never eaten a pb&j sandwich until in his late 50's. I thought he was pulling my leg. My generation grew up on peanut butter, and cheese.
ATTENTION! EMERGENCY ALERT! ATTENTION: There is NO cheese on a PB&J. I repeat: There is NO cheese on a PB&J. This has been a public service announcement. Thank you.
I had my German neighbors over for Thanksgiving dinner. First, they do not celebrate Thanksgiving in Europe, so this was a surprise for them. I brought out the Turkey and one neighbor said "That is the biggest chicken I have ever seen" When I brought out the corn on the cob, another neighbor said, "Isn't that cow food". They had never had sweet corn. Only field corn. Once they tasted it, they fell in love with sweet corn.
I didn't know the difference either until once I stopped for sweetcorn at a roadside field stand. I couldn't figure out why it was so tough and not sweet at all until someone said I'd been had and sold field corn! I've never bought from a stand again😢
Corn on the cob slathered in butter and sprinkled with salt is one of my favorite summer foods. Always include corn on the cob with burgers, chicken, hot dogs, and potato salad at backyard get togethers.
It's much more popular in Mexico than America actually, they make corn on the cob in so many different ways, just corn in general for that matter, corn is a huge Mexican staple food. It's not really an everyday food here in America, it's more of a BBQ or celebration type of food.
I grew up in the southern part of Wisconsin, a huge sweet corn growing area, and every Labor Day holiday weekend many small towns blocked off their main street and had a big street fair. One of the food items was corn on the cob, cooked in the husk on a grill. When done they'd peel the husk down, wrap it in a paper towel and hand it to you. There was a big kettle full of melted butter for you to dunk the corn in and lots of salt shakers.
@@garyleibitzke4166 The smell of uncooked corn on the cob plus the smell (and then the taste) of grilled and buttered corn on the cob is forever instilled in my memory. Absolutely delicious. From MN.
corn on the cob...yes!!! You must realize that corn is a crop grown virtually everywhere, so in the summer time, they have large bins of unhusked corn near the front doors of the grocery stores. In rural areas, you can stop by the side of the road at vegetable stands, and get freshly picked corn as well. It is a staple at any grill or barbeque event. The most common type is just butter and salt.
For me corn on the cob buttered, salted and peppered while its still hot is best. Even though I have yet to try this, I understand that one of the best street foods in Mexico City is corn on the cob that has been grilled, slathered in mayonnaise and queso cheese, sprinkled with a bit of cayenne pepper.
@@williamking3301 Yes! It’s called elote. Very popular in most states that are known for their Mexican food. You can find street vendors selling elote all day here in California.
IMPORTANT TO NOTE: Grilled cheese sandwiches have the outside of the bread buttered before, "grilling" in the pan. Butter is a MUST and ubiquitous with grilled cheese sandwiches
Yes Butter is a primary, However. Try mayo in place of butter, brings another level in taste. I like them both ways, personally. I Think, mayo and swiss is better tasting than a butter and swiss toasty.
I agree g-cheese can be good! I usually dont eat grilled cheese cause 1. so much cheese.. and 2, sometimes the bread is moist and i hate moist bread/bread adjacent items
agree, butter on the outside of the bread, cheese and nothing else for the perfect grilled cheese sandwich (but I toast mine under the broiler instead for the extra crunch.
You have to remember that when alot of us were growing up both our parents might have been having to work. So when you got home from school you have your house key around your neck for safe keeping & you might be home alone a few hours until one or both your parents got home from work. Some of us were forbidden to cook & it was so easy to make a PBJ sandwich by our selves. My favorite was smooth peanut butter & grape jam at that timr but then i saw Smucker's made a seedless Blackberry Jam & that still is my favorite all these many years later. But as i got older i also like to lightly toast my bread & then put the peanut butter on it so it melts a little then a good amount on the other slice of toast & put them together & cut in half. I also like tropical jams like guava, mango or passion fruit jams in my PBJ. You have to try alot of jams, jellies& preserves to see what's your favorite.
I make a roux, add sharp Cheddar, maybe some Greyer. I 75% cook my macaroni but with cut up green pepper in the water. And I take the green peppers out of the macaroni, then bake.with Cheddar butter and bread crumb topping. Bake.Gets really crusty and tender
Google the recipe for John Legend's Mac & Cheese. It's wonderful, and you can use your favorite cheese. I usually use Mexican blend cheese, but once I used Swiss and it was wonderful!!
Cops and donuts became associated because back in the day in most areas the donut shop was either the only thing open all night or the first thing open. So cops that worked the night shifts had few options for a snack or bathroom break and often found themselves at the donut shop. The other part of that is these busineses commonly had only one or two workers making donuts overnight and would sometimes get targeted for robberies. So it was also to the beneifit of the donut shop to have cops eating there late at night and early in the morning to scare off criminals..
Yes, police would go to donut shops and the donut shop would give them free coffee and donuts so they made it a regular stop every night even multiple times a night.
There was a donut shop in Ames Iowa that opened at 1 am on weekends, for the after bar crowd ( bars closed at 2am) in the early 70s not many places to get food that late
Alternatives to jelly on your peanut butter sandwich are honey, sliced bananas or even sliced apples. It was a popular sandwich because it was a) inexpensive, b) a filling, high-protein, high-energy lunchbox choice that didn't require refrigeration, c) of all the ingredients, only the jelly or jam required refrigeration for storage. In my home, we grew berries and other fruits, making our own jellies and jams in summer. My preferred sweet spread is blackberry jam, with strawberry and blueberry competing for 2nd place.
Re: Donuts... Back in the 1950's (or even before) there were basically very few stores open in the middle of the night... Donut shops opened at 2 or 3 am (if they weren't open 24 hours) to allow their chefs time to make the next morning's donuts. The stores often allowed late-night or early morning patrol cops in and gave them free coffee and sometimes other treats as a "thank you" but also so the donut cook wasn't alone at night and subject to problems from bad guys... And thus the "cops love donuts" stereotype was born.
Exactly right. The stereotype probably dates back even before the 1950s, but likely REALLY became a thing as suburbs exploded in America after WWII - whereas, previously, you either lived in a major city, or in the countryside, and there wasn't much in-between. In the US, being the only major country that wasn't bombed out, the economy had a big boom in the late 40s and the 50s, and tons of people who would have otherwise lived in apartments in the city were able to afford new (usually small and cheap) homes in these new things called suburbs. This meant a lot more area to police, and so a lot more police officers, and as mentioned, ESPECIALLY in the suburbs, nothing was open in the middle of the night except donut shops - many of which were 24 hours because they already needed someone there working through the night to have fresh donuts for the morning. Given that night-shift cops had no other options, it was very common for them to grab coffee and donuts when working at night - starting a habit that continued when they worked during the day. By the 1990s, it was common for other kinds of restaurants and shops to be open 24 hours. The "7-Eleven" convenience store was originally open 7am-11pm, but by the 1970s became open 24 hours, and many diners and even "chain diners" like Denny's and Lyons and Waffle House went to 24 hours, and in the 1980s, some fast-food places also went to 24 hours. As such, it's somewhat less common to see police eating donuts - though they're still people and they still eat them sometimes.
Peanut butter and jelly/jam sandwiches were easy to send with kids to school for lunch. They didn’t need to be refrigerated. Peanut butter gives some protein to go with the sugary jam for afternoon energy. Peanut butter is also inexpensive. The traditional PB&J is made with grape jelly, but I love strawberry, peach, blackberry, cherry, any fruit jam; and I prefer jam to jelly because it spreads more easily.
Plus PB&J was cheap. A definite "staple" for those kids who's parents couldn't afford school lunches. Usually a PB&J on white bread, an apple or banana, maybe a handful of potato chips and one or two homemade cookies.
Macaroni and cheese is indeed a comfort food my family do have our own recipe for making it as a casserole dish. I have also during hard times of low wages took box Mac and cheese and added different meats to it and made a meal of it(like browned hamburger or tuna). Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are great with a tall glass of milk( no matter what flavor jelly, jam, or preserves you choose). Grill cheese sandwiches pair quite well with tomato soup( my family used campbell’s soup brand). Corn on the cob is great with butter and a little salt is also great( my family grew their own when I was growing up and it one of my favorites. During hard times when I was a child, my mom would make baked beans with hot dog wieners sliced up in them which was another comfort food. To find this already in a can was called beanie weeny. Another comfort food not mentioned in the video was home made vegetable soup with some kind of meat cooked in it ( the options were practically endless).
Must add to your list home made pizza rolls made with half a fat Biscuit or a half English muffin and used tomato sauce from can and hamburger and grated block cheeses to make many cheap individual pizzas! so cheap to make
Mac and cheese doesn't need to be American cheese. Basically for the cheese sauce you want to make a roux and then add milk or cream and melt in the cheese you want. Cheddar is probably the most popular cheese choice. We have so many popular cheeses in America, not just American cheese.
@@Jaxicat May I suggest a deep rectangle heavy glass baking pan. Toss shredded cheese with dry pasta. Place in the pan and cover in milk. Cover and cook down until almost as thick as you want it.
American cheese is popular for it cause it tends to contain sodium citrate naturally, which makes the cheese sauce smoother and causes it to take longer to start hardening or clumping. You can get the same effect with other types of cheese if you want more rich flavor, but it takes a but more work, or adding in the sodium citrate
While the noodles are boiling put some milk butter and velvetta into a pan and warm until mixed, drain the pasta and combine, two pans to clean but it doesn't take extra time to warm up.
I've made a lot of homemade mac and cheese over the years and I've never used American cheese. I've used just about every other cheese known to man, in different combinations but for some reason, American cheese just never pinged my mac and cheese radar.
Hi: Food nerd here. 2:39 Mac and cheese isn't made with American cheese. It is made with a cheddar that uses sodium citrate so it doesn't break or separate the oil. Alternatively (and historically) you can do a Mournay or Bechemel cheese sauce. You can 100% make mac and cheese basically anywhere with pasta, cheese, flour, butter and milk. Do a hard aged cheese like cheddar and a younger softer cheese like gruyere with this method for best results.
The video did say that mac 'n cheese is made traditionally with cheddar cheese. I think the person in the video was saying they don't get any or many American cheeses in their local stores; not specifically the cheese that is sold in slices that is called American cheese in America, but in general any type of cheese they consider an American variety of cheese (such as American-style cheddar cheese).
I have made my own Mac & Cheese for around 15-20 years. After I found out what was in the boxed kind, I decided I can make my own much healthier and tastier version. I don't use flour though. Flour, to me, gives the cheese sauce a raw flour taste unless it's baked for a long time. Instead, I use eggs to thicken the sauce, keeping the heat on the lower end so the eggs don't scramble. I use whatever kind of cheese I happen to have. Usually cheddar and pepper jack or mozzarella, provolone, sometimes even cheddar and blue cheese. Mix-ins are always tasty too. I have added smoked sausage, bacon, or chili or sometimes broccoli (separately, not with chili). The sky's the limit!
The key is that it has to be freshly picked when it's young and tender. Americans often buy corn on the cob directly from the farm and shuck it themselves. On the rare occasion that you can find it sold in Europe, it's always too old and tough, so it's no wonder that it hasn't caught on.
I'm just now watching this. I didn't grow up eating this for lunch. I would eat the lunch made in our school cafeteria. But it was a treat for breakfast on Saturday or for Saturday lunch. We always had grape jelly. But never the most expensive brand. The cheapest jelly and the cheapest peanut butter. I grew up eating smooth peanut butter. But when I found chunky as an adult, I prefer that. I add one extra ingredient to my PB & J . I add & B. Butter. We ate margarine as a child. But again, as an adult, I only eat real butter. And I do prefer toasted. But not a dark toast with burned crust. I have no idea why the director allowed those burned edges of bread on their video. Yuk. It makes the whole bread taste burned to me. So add a creamy layer of butter. We would even "fry" the bread in butter. Kind of like a grilled cheese. It makes it extra creamy and extra good. And luxurious. PB& H was common at our house, too. Honey. It was used just as much as jelly. But I never understood the kids that ate it every day for lunch. Boring. And we had thicker layers of the PB & J. Never miniscule layers. We ate gooey goodness. Take note. I had to have an ice-cold glass of milk with it. If we didn't have that, I wouldn't eat it. Same with chocolate chip cookies and chocolate cake. If there is no icy cold milk to wash it down, I won't eat it. And yes, we would add ice sometimes to make our milk icy cold. Yum! Delicious! This sandwich became popular in America during the Great Depression. Meat was expensive. And peanut butter was plentiful and a good source of protein and inexpensive. We may all have to go back and eat this as a staple since everything is so expensive.
Corn on the cob has to be a "sweet" corn variety. When I was in Europe, I had what was supposed to be "American style" corn on the cob. It was awful, the cernals were tough and did not taste good at all. That was because they were not using sweet corn but a variety that was grown specifically as a liveatock food
Lol Well they probably don't have many kinds of corn in Europe probably. We must have hundreds of kinds in America. Sweet corn boiled and buttered and salted when it's ripe off the stalk in July! Is there anything better??
22:50 I was sick last week and didn't know what to eat. My eyes lit up and I gasped to my bf I want grilled cheese and tomato soup!! It truly is a comfort meal
PB&J's are **iconic** childhood food for American kids, and even the adults. It's easy to make, fairly inexpensive so good for college students on a strict budget. I'm 60 years old and I'll STILL have one from time to time. Oh, gotta have a very cold glass of milk with it. Nothing better. And the foods you showed ..... very common. Corn on the cob is common at picnics and BBQs and other outside summer activities/events. Tomato soup and grilled cheese is one of my fave comfort foods - dunk the sandwich in the soup for an additional treat!!
We eat a lot of corn on the cob. Great with salt and butter, cooked on the grill with butter, garlic salt and pepper, or my family's favorite melted butter and sugar.
@@jodydiou the absolute best! I soak the corn still in the cob for at least an hour, then throw in grill. Cob cones off clean with no silks. Smothered in butter and salt, yes!!
As a state where Corn is the majority crop, the farmers have stands along the highway where you can buy fresh sweet corn. You basically steam it in the husk or shuck (clean it) and boil/steam it. You add some butter and a little salt, and the sweet flavor of the corn contrasts the salt!
If you have enough people/corn to justify it, get a whole stick of butter and place it in a butter dish. Then roll the corn around right on top of the butter. Yes sir!
Corn on the cob, eaten with butter and salt, is common at backyard BBQs. However, we have a Mexican influence of it called Elote, which is corn on the cob, slathered in mayo, and sprinkled with chili pepper. It is seriously delicious.
School lunches weren't really that popular until around the mid 90's so most kids brought their own food in lunch boxes that were kept in the classrooms. PBJ sandwiches became so popular because after the invention of the refridgerator, cured meat went out of style in America, so in order for kids to take food to school where it would not be chilled, they used peanut butter as a protein alternative and the jelly made it more palatable since kids prefer sweet stuff.
To be clear, "American cheese" does not refer to just any cheese made in or popular in the US. American cheese is a very specific type of processed cheese product that melts easily and is common on burgers or sandwiches. Kraft Singles is a popular brand. The most popular kind of real cheese in the US is probably cheddar, but that's not "American cheese".
I grew up in central Pennsylvania, where we ate delicious real American cheese...white preferred over yellow, no plastic included with sweet Lebanon bologna to get sandwiches. Probably ate at least 1500 of each PBJ and boloney n cheese by age 18.
corn on the cob is a late summer staple here in the midwest. The house I grew up in was directly next to a local farm that grew sweet corn every year, and it was always a big deal when they would finally start putting it out for sale in July. Corn from major grocery stores was fine, but there was nothing comparable to the freshly harvested corn grown by our neighbhors.😊
i can’t grow corn where I am, so I buy it at the corner vegetable market. The preferred way to prepare it, at my house, is to break off the stem, peel off the outer leaves, but leave a shell on. Cut the silk end off. Put the corn on the grill, and turn it often, until the shell has started to blacken. Pile the corn up, and play hot potato to clean them up. The silk is steamed, and comes right off with the shell. A blob of butter, a sprinkle of salt, and my bunch wont leave any behind.
No commercial grown corn is even close to home grown. Commercial is loaded with chemicals, forced to grow quickly for profit. Home grown sweet corn is grown with love and respect to nature,friends and family.
@@DawnCummins-lv2gg isn’t that the meal? Whatever meat with bbq sauce, grilled corn, potato salad. Pick a green thing, whatever is on hand. Bean, broccoli, cabbage. Who cares? My house has 6 working adults in it. We cook 2 meals at once. One for dinner, and one for packed lunches. 8 cobs, grilled, and broke in half when they are done. They will almost fight over a cob that has a little brown on it.
All you really need is cheddar cheese, butter, and cream or milk, and elbow macaroni (cooked). Salt and pepper to taste! I'm sure you can find an easy recipe online!
@@antaine1916 Yes!!! When I was growing up my mom would make this for my sister's and me, especially on cold rainy days. Sometimes to fill us up more what my mom would do is take some La Moderna alphabet soup, fried it a bit with a piece of onion until it was lightly toasted. Then she'd add some water and some cubes of consome de tomate. She let it boil and then let it simmer until the soup reduced a bit and the tomato flavor deepened. Add the hot and cheese pulling grilled cheese and 👨🍳💋 delish. To this day when I smell grilled cheese or tomato soup it brings up happy childhood memories. .. Sorry for the rant. Jajaja.
I went a step further as a kid. I'd rip the sandwich up into bit sized chunks and put it into the soup in place of crackers. The soup would soak into the bread, and the cheese would infuse into the soup, it was *delicious.*
My mum made us grilled cheese hamburgers. Just add a cooked burger to the sandwich before grilling. Add the tomato soup and you had a meal worthy of the old gods.
15:21 toasting your bread before you put peanut butter and jelly on is so yummy. The heat changes the texture of the peanut butter and makes the smell stronger.
Oh my yes...toasted bread , bagel or English muffin. PB & bacon on warm toast is heaven!! The salty, fatty bacon, melts that gooy PB into pure bliss. Try it !!
The key is that it has to be freshly picked when young and tender. Americans often buy it directly from the farm and shuck it themselves. On the rare occasion that you can find it sold in Europe, it's always too old and tough, so it's no wonder that it hasn't caught on.
I like the instant boxed kind of mac & cheese. You're using powdered cheese, but it's quick and easy, and it has a nice flavor. You can even order boxes online.
No boxed Mac and Cheese compares to home made. Period. My mother used to make it with extra sharp Cheddar cheese. Chef's kiss. PB&J all the time as a kid. I can't say I have ever tried it toasted. Grilled Ham & Cheese on Whole Wheat. Corn on the cob with butter and ground black pepper, no extra salt, our butter has salt in it.
Check your butter -- you can get salted *and* unsalted. If you're making your own mac & cheese, take the extra time to bake it (350°F for... 20? 25? minutes... or, until the top and edges are lightly browned. It's still easy, and the extra time is SO worth it. Pkaying around with cheeses and types of noodles is also fun, snd can still be *easy.* Best I had used asiago cheese and rotini pasta. Someone else mentioned sharp cheddar.
Completely agree. Kraft mac and cheese is its own thing. It's a childhood favorite because it's familiar, cheap, and easy, but it is not at all the same dish as homemade mac and cheese, which has better flavor and texture by far.
@@S_047 That's a good idea. I use sour cream in place of some of the milk, which makes it creamier, and I love adding black pepper, but I never thought, "Just put more cheese in there" for some reason!
Canadians and American's BOTH LOVE CORN ON THE COB. We eagerly wait for the harvest we have a lot of corn festivals. Corn roasted on the bbq or in the campfire or boiled on the cob then smeared with butter and sprinkled with salt and pepper is best. There's several ways to wrap up the cob before cooking on fire or the bbq so it doesn't burn right through. I personally smear a large amount of butter salt and pepper then wrap in foil and put on the grill or at the sides of your camp fire and cook for about 30 minutes unwrap ( careful REALLY HOT ) and eat by scraping the corn off the cob with your teeth while holding both ends. Butter should run down your chin as you enjoy that sweet juicy corn , don't worry everybody get's messy especially good with bbq ribs or chicken. O.K. now I'm hungry !!!!
@@donnaearl302Well, corn is native to the Americas, so, it's likely in our DNA to enjoy it. Another amazing option is Elotes Locos (crazy corn) spread mayo on the corn on the cob so that it melts, sprinkle with chile powder, and crumbled cotija cheese, (I like to add just a drizzle of lime juice.)
When I grew up almost every kid who brought their lunch to school in a decorated lunch box had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. My parents and grandparents also ate PB & J sandwiches regularly as children and adults. Quick to make and always delicious. The proper jelly is concord grape, but strawberry will do in a pinch. My brother and I had PB & Js at least 4-6 times a week and were very happy to have those. Sometimes we had peanut butter and honey, which is also delicious. I buy creamy peanut butter and Welch's grape jelly once a year or so to have these nostalgic and delicious sandwiches again in my early 60s. Grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup in which to dip the corner of your sandwiches is a classic pairing. Corn on the cob is amazing! Best fresh in summer. Slathered in butter and sprinkled in salt is delicious. Last week I made country fried steak, milk gravy, and corn on the cob for dinner. Sooooooo good! Your incredulity looks like you ate something really sour. Thanks for sharing!
Just curious since some have mentioned Tuna sandwiches, in place of PB&J or grilled cheese, & soup for a meal... what are the different things you might put in your tuna salad? I grew up with my mother using Miracle Whip instead of Mayo (I prefer Mayo - always. It's not as sweet but creamier), with diced red onion & diced sweet pickles, on plain white bread. The "on toast" was introduced to me by an old friend when we were about 20... had never tried that before. She also put iceberg lettuce on the sandwiches, which was new & I found I really liked it. My older son prefers diced dill pickle instead of sweet, it does change the taste, without lettuce, untoasted & the tuna mounded high. After decades, he decided he also liked Fritos on his sandwiches.😄 Mom liked 1/2 a sandwich with either a cup of creamed tomato soup or Fritos, never both. Although I've tried tuna salad on a variety of breads, I still prefer it on untoasted white, with lettuce if I have it in the fridge, & a hearty amount of tuna salad, soup if it's cold, chips or Fritos during the summer... &/or a slice of cantaloupe.
Where I grew up the Donut shops stayed open late or even 24 hrs. In the winter it often got very cold and the cops would hang out there to get warm. They would drink coffee and "Dunk" their donuts in it.
Not only this, but some of the shops would start giving discounts/freebies to the cops to encourage them to hang around. Cheaper than hiring overnight security....
Andre, I'm 54 and my mother is 84 and we still eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches all the time. Just had one like 3 or 4 days ago. Grape is the #1 flavor for the jelly with strawberry as #2. I toast the bread but I've never grilled it. The peanut butter gets nice and gooey and it's so good. Still a great option for a snack or lunch with some Lay's potato chips...YUM! Today there are so many kids with peanut allergies, that's not something they allow on the regular if at all in school lunch boxes. JIF is the #1 selling peanut butter not Skippy. We buy JIF though we used to buy Peter Pan when I was a kid. The BEST mac and cheese isn't made with American cheese. Some people do use it. Some use Velveeta which is a processed cheese product. Some use cheddar cheese. But it's usually a combination of cheeses that really make so yummy. Cheddar doesn't melt well and gets oily so you really need another to help balance it out. You could totally make it with gruyere, swiss, mozzarella, pepper jack, colby and gouda. No cops/donut shops isn't a stereotype, lol. Grilled cheese and tomato soup...CLASSIC!!! Oh you haven't LIVED if you've never had salted and buttered corn on the cob!!!!
I'm a grandmother from the American South (state of Georgia). I think you are so sweet, funny, kind and absolutely adorable! May God bless you and yours.
From 1 grandmother to another. I absolutely love watching this sweet adorable soul. He will be and is a fantastic loving, open minded son, husband, father and friend 😊
Yes, we eat that much pb&j. Grilled cheese and tomato soup is a classic, and one of everyone’s favorite meals. Sometimes we do ham and cheese, sometimes bacon. Yes, we also eat Mac and cheese quite often. At least once or twice a week. Kraft is good as a boxed version, but homemade is always better. KFC is delicious! Try dipping your fried chicken in the gravy they give you for the mashed potatoes. It’s chef’s kiss. Corn on the cob slathered in butter with salt and pepper is amazing! You should definitely try all these things!
The “Hamburg Steak”, chopped beef formed into a patty, cooked, and served on a plate with potatoes and gravy, was indeed a german invention. But it was americans who slapped it into a bun and made the “hamburger”.
I'm writing from Western Canada, and I started school in 1965. We had peanut butter and jam sandwich everyday, usually on brown bread (whole wheat). It was a low cost food. Once in a while we got a bologna sandwich. And after a special occasion dinner at Easter or Christmas, then we got a turkey sandwich. That was extra special. We had a lot of Kraft dinner, usually on the weekend for a lunch meal (a Canadian brand name for mac and cheese). We didn't get brownies at home, but mostly we got cookies in our school lunch, and cakes, pies and ice cream for dessert after dinner. Mom made donuts at home as a treat. They were plain and delicious. Tim Hortons Donuts are famous in Canada, and started by Tim Horton, an Albertan, and famous hockey player. There's lots of great peanut butter brands. I love crunchy peanut butter (pieces of peanut in it). It's very common to have bread with peanut butter and jam any time of the day. It's a snack / comfort food. We love fried chicken, and any kind of cooked style of chicken. James L. Kraft was born in Ontario, Canada, and immigrated to the U.S., where he started the Kraft brand. We absolutely love corn on the cob! Love, especially with chicken. This kind of corn was introduced to the newcomers to North America by the Natives. Also pumpkins and turkeys. Many American and Canadian foods are the same, or similar, but food brands are different, and holidays, and holiday food customs and traditions will have differences.
Grilled cheese is wonderful… Simply select the type of bread you want to use which must be flatbread because you are going to put some butter in a pan and then put the grilled cheese sandwich on top of it and cook one side The easiest way to do it is to get two slices of bread select the cheese or cheeses you want on one slice, put the top slice of bread on top and then put butter on the top slice. Then lift and put it into the pan with butter, already melted it in the pan. Once the underside is getting golden brown, use a spatula to turn it over and the butter that was on top will now be cooking the second slice of bread and help it to turn golden brown. I like to use two different types of cheeses and I prefer Gouda and Havarti. Of course, you can put a slice of meat in between two slices of cheese inside the sandwich, which is the best way to keep the sandwich together because the melted cheese will stick to the bread so if you have meat in between them, the cheese will melt onto the bread and onto the meat and keep it one solid sandwich. For example, if you were to use a slice of Bologna, remove a small portion in the very center of the Bologna so that the cheese can get through the middle and the sandwich will stay together, otherwise it may slip apart when you try to turn it over. Another wonderful addition I enjoy with grilled cheese is using horseradish. You can also use sliced tomatoes as well. Enjoy!
Growing up we ate corn on the cob all the time. Now I live in an area we grill it every harvest. As a child, Fried chicken was a dish we ate every other week if not weekly. Macaroni and cheese was every few days. My grandma would boil the macaroni and when finished mix in cuber velveeta cheese, a stick of butter and add milk for a creamy consistency. We ate mashed potatoes often with butter. One of my big comfort foods not shown here was slow cooked pinto beans with salted pork cooked in with a side of cornbread and fried okra.
I remember after my mom died my dad made a shank of ham and about three pounds of two day refrigerator soaked great northern white beans and he baked in oven slow with ham till they became light brown and yum!
Andre, every year, our big family holiday in America is called Thanksgiving. Families get together and traditionally have a quintessentially American meal - potatoes, corn, beans, squash and turkey; all foods originating in the Americas. The point of the holiday is to celebrate the bounty we have been given, and to give thanks for our good fortune and hope for the future, just as the original settlers did, some 400 years ago. "Comfort foods" evoke a similar emotion, about making us feel warm and safe.
Yes, Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. He was also our third President. He was a brilliant man who is credited with many inventions, such as: Revolving chairs, pasta machines, automatic doors, dumbwaiters, etc. He also made many improvements to the plow, and Americanized the Pomme Frites to French Fries.
One thing to remember is that most of these foods listed are cheap and easy to make especially pb&j, and grilled cheese paired with tomato soup... Something a single parent or otherwise overworked parent could easily maintain on a budget... Do not forget most of Americans fall below the poverty line... Having grown up in the Midwest with both parents physically disabled I cannot stress how important it was to grow our own food, and yes this most definitely includes corn on the Cobb... All that being said I feel quite blessed with a modest 2 acre plot we were able to grow a LARGE variety of food enough actually that 2/3 was divided between friends, family, church, and food banks all while maintaining a beautiful property (picture this hand-built swing with a seedless grapevine canopy and you'll find me), and that's not to mention the wild life you'd attract most of which we'd help raise at one point or another... Looking back as man about to turn 40 my first 10 years was lived as a Disney princess lol.
Midwest corn is usually feed corn, generally turned into ethanol to add to gasoline. Sweet corn is generally grown "locally" because it is best as soon as possible after it is picked.
Feed corn, field corn, dent corn can also be eaten fresh, but it’s not as sweet, and more starchy than sweet corn. However, if you add some sugar to the corn water, and cook it longer, it makes it a bit better.
The best corn in the cob(sweet corn) is when it’s cooked within 15 minutes of picking, slathered in butter, wrapped in foil and cooked on a charcoal grill. 😛🥰
My grandpa worked at Green Giant. He brought us bags of corn on the cob all the time. We had it almost every day when it was in season. Yes, smothered in butter and salted. Corn season is still my favorite time of year.
funny about green giant! During massive summer season would give away lots of corn that was not full ears as was harder to process if missing some rows on ends
Toasted PBJ is my favorite! The peanut butter & Jelly melt together and it is awesome! Peter Pan Honey Peanut butter is my favorite with Raspberry jelly.
Yes, I'm from California and I can attest that the best cold winter day lunches I loved as a little girl were my mom's grilled cheddar cheese sandwich with a bowl of tomato soup! The best! And yes, peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwiches are a kid's favorite because they were so easy for kids to make. When I was in elementary school and I got home from school in the afternoon and my parents weren't home yet because they were both at work (I'm a latchkey kid [Gen X], so i knew how to fend for myself), I would take out two slices of bread, lightly toast them in the toaster, then spread one slice of bread with Skippy's Chunky Peanut Butter and the other with Smucker's Strawberry Jam, put the slices together and BAM - a PB&J sandwich which I would have with a glass of milk. It is the salty taste of the peanut butter and the sweetness of the jam together that makes a PB&J a treat. Then I would watch cartoons in the living room while doing my homework during the commercials! I would not recommend you buy Skippy's peanut butter or Smucker's jam today, because what we didn't know in the 1970's and we know now, is how horrible these brands are. They are full of salt, sugar and preservatives. A jar of peanut butter should only have peanuts and salt. Period. There are so many good organic, "clean" peanut butter brands now. I buy the organic brand from Whole Foods Market. I avoid sugar, so I have not bought or had jam in over 20 years. But yes, I remember making PB&Js as a kid. And macaroni and cheese is best made homemade. Don't buy the Kraft brand in a box. It is full of chemicals and preservatives.
The best part is getting to use the corn cob holders. some people spread the butter with a knife, but I spin it on a stick of butter. I grew up getting free corn from a neighbor and I would help my grandma shuck corn. We eat this at home for dinner, cookouts, and bbqs.
My husband always adds a patch of sweet corn at the edge of the corn field (of feed corn) closest to our house. Many neighbors do the same.Great straight from the field.
University of Nebraska football team was called the Cornhuskers, now just go by the Huskers. They were literally named after the job of husking corn, which is pulling the green outer part and silk off the cob. You will also find corn on the cob in dishes such as crab, crawdad or shrimp boils where it is combined with a bunch of seafood, potatoes, sometimes sausage and of course Old Bay seasoning.
Another very common American lunch sandwich is the bologna sandwich. Made on white bread with real mayo or Miracle Whip. I grew up with Miracle whip. But as an adult I only eat real mayo. It isnt sweet. I only eat Helman's mayo now. Its the most delicious to me. I add iceberg lettuce on mine. And tomatoes if they are in season. The southerners fry their bologna. It's actually quite good.
@@stevendeveau6155 My mom grew up in Tx & when I was a kid, she introduced us to Succotash... a veggie side-dish consisting of corn kernels, diced tomatoes, lima beans & sliced okra with butter & salt. It never developed into a family favorite but when you grew up during the Great Depression like she did, you learned to eat a variety of foods whether they appealed to you or not.
For the corn on the cob, it’s really a comfort food for me. My family used to live in Central Illinois, where most of my family were farmers. Every end of summer/early fall, one of my uncles would harvest all of his sweetcorn. We would spend like a week shucking, cooking, cutting, and freezing it all. So we always had corn on the cob. It brings back a lot of memories, and is very comforting when I have it, especially when the corn is really fresh.
Fresh corn is overwhelmingly better than even a couple days old. My country relatives were 'corn snobs' . They turned their noses up at corn bought at roadside stands. According to them, the only corn worth eating was corn you picked yourself, and if you were smart, they said, you started the water (for boiling it) before you went out to pick!
Growing up 'poor' although us kids never realized it until around Jr High School, we would get as much sweet corn as we wanted from the farmer across the road (2 lane country road with no yellow stripes). He would stop by a week or so before the corn ripened enough to tell us to 'take as much as you want, I won't even notice the lack when I harvest my 27 Acres'. We would have baby corn, and fresh corn on the cob. We would boil corn and slice it off the cob, and then freeze it, to have in winter and early in the following year,. So much corn! But like Mac 'n Cheese, us kids loved it and ate it whenever we could get it. Yes, slathered in butter, with salt and a hint of pepper. Oh, and lets NOT forget Corn Bread!
Corn on the cob is very common, sometimes for back yards barbecues, sometimes with steak, there’s also “elote” which is a mexican “street food” that you can get which is pretty good.
Grilled sweet white corn on the cob is one of my favorite BBQ foods. Something about grilling the corn and the smokiness you get from it just hits the spot.
I like to peel it down, but not pull the husks off, then pull out the cornsilk spread on a bit of butter then pull the husks back up and grill it that way! SO sweet and yummy! The real trick, whether you boil or grill, is not to overcook it!!!
I am from the United States and was born and raised in Oklahoma. 1. I had PB&J when I was kid. It was very common. I also toasted the bread, it seemed more upscale LOL. 2. For the mac & cheese you should try the kraft brand, it's still very popular in the U.S. I don't know if it will taste the same in europe. 3. KFC is good, but is cooked differently than traditional fried chicken. 4. Corn on the cob is very popular. I hope this comment helped answer some of your questions.
You can put any kind of cheese in mac n cheese. It's usually cheddar, but I like to use a bunch of different cheeses like Colby, Monterey Jack, Asiago, Mozzarella. Some people like smoked cheese too.
There are entire subsets of PBandJ sandwich toppings: bananas, bacon, mayo, marshmallow whip, hazlenut or chocolate spreads, using French toast or cinnamon bread, waffles, dessert dogs, ice cream, pb and j pudding. We could do a whole Bubba Gump montage of the types. The PBandJ is a blank canvas that almost every American kid has eaten.
My big brother had a thing for both PB and tomato or PB and olive. I just would wince every time I had to make one for him. I like bananas with cinnamon sugar sprinkled on the banana.
The association of cops & donuts is simple to explain. Many donut shops are open 24 hours a day & cops are on duty 24 hours a day, so when the cop on night duty gets hungry & needs some coffee, the donut shop is the logical place for them to gather. So simple , so true !
Cops also gravitate to doughnut shops because they are 24 hours and they make a great place to wait for a call out. As you are likely close to the action, then. The cops in my town visit coffee shops all over the city. But they only camp out in the ones in high crime areas. This makes them so welcome in the doughnut shops that they get free service. People feel safer if the police are just chilling in the establishment, so it vastly increases business. Dunkin Doughnuts and Krispy Kreme both figured this out. Starbucks has not.
You can toast almost anything in America. 😂 I'm surprised they didn't find a deep-fried one. Not that I've seen them deep-fried, but I'll bet somebody has, either at a State Fair or in Florida.
JIF, man. Always get JIF and that way you don't need crunchy to destroy the perfect custard-like smoothness. JIF is the peanutiest and choosy mom's choose JIF
Retired cop here and yes we love donuts :) the reason I was given as a young cop is because many years ago there were very few places to eat on the late night shift so most cops went to the donut shop which was usually open all night. And yes for the record Pepperoni is a must on pizza, nothing better than a pizza with just pepperoni.
That was what I was thinking….depends on where you are located…some food places closed at 9 / 10 pm…where companies had swing shifts a lot of restaurants were open 24 hrs…Denny’s decided to close for thanksgiving but they couldn’t find the key to lock up…they were a 24 hour chain in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
Lol when I worked at Duncan donuts we had this one cop who literally never left, the city threatened us with obstruction if we didn't cut him off, but he would come in and threaten us to get donuts until he was kicked off the force, the other cop's were really nice.
@@janetbaker645 exactly. In Irvine and Newport Beach there are hardly any places open past 10pm. The two places that come to mind which stay open late or are 24 hours are In-n-Out, which closes at about 1-3 am depending on location, and the donut places in Newport which are all 24 hours if memory serves. Love the one on the boardwalk that serves thai tea donuts 😋
I think American comfort foods are so collected and influenced by the other cultures cause our country isn’t that old. We came together from all over the world and our flavors blended like our people did. It’s beautiful. ❤😊
That's true of every culture, no matter how new and no matter how ancient. The Romans originally got pizza from the ancient Greeks and it eventually became an Italian thing because they made it their own. Italians brought it to the USA and then, particularly after World War II, its popularity around the country exploded and now, American pizza be very different than pizza in Italy,
@hortagent5687 yeah I know about pizza history. Best pissa I ever had is a Gyro pizza. Spaghetti is all American but Italian inspired. I live in the Southwest. Everything southwest cuisine is inspired by Spanish food.
😂😂 yes, we put butter and salt on the corn on the cob. It is so good when freshly picked and you have that night with your grilled cheeseburger or chili dog. Yum, yum. 😋 With a side of mustered potato salad. Corn on the cob is a very common in the summertime.
kraft is the worst of the worst when it comes to mac and cheese...however, as Americans, we all ate it when younger and sometimes we want to live in our childhood again...lol
Yes, the Kraft box mix is desperation Mac. Don't do it without a full understanding this is our trash version we all grew up with and love for that reason, but find yourself a nice American recipe instead.
Kraft is technical awful mac and cheese but having eaten so much of it as kids many of us fine it so nostalgic that we rate it higher then it deserves i am not immune to this.
I love Kraft Mac & cheese. I sometimes add shredded cheese to make it cheesier. I also don’t cook the macaroni as long as the package says, if you follow the box directions the pasta turns out mushy.
Kraft Deluxe Mac N Cheese is one of the most popular in America. The regular version with the powder is insanely cheap though which is why so many Americans have eaten so much of it. Especially now with inflation killing us.
I'm in my 30s and I still eat PB&J at least once a week. Toasting the bread first makes it even better. Use whatever flavor jelly/jam you want. I like blackberry or raspberry.
Kraft is the default big brand, that doesn't mean it's the best, in fact it probably means it's not. But it would be the norm people are used to and familiar with, I guess. The most mass-produced is usually not the best quality (but not always). I like Annie's but I haven't tried a lot of them. I'm sure homemade is quite different too.
Yes toasted pb and j is good especially when cold out. Don’t over toast bread. Careful peanut butter has super low melting point changes the texture so glass of milk is most common side with it. Try dunking it into the milk then eating it.
As a kid I probably ate just as many fluffernutters (peanut butter and marshmallow fluff) sandwiches as pb+j. Strawberry preserves was my go to for pb+j' s but peanut butter and apple butter is really good too. Soup is also a comfort food, especially in winter. There's not much better on a rainy or snowy day.
Southern Mac n Cheese does not contain American cheeses but a mix of cheeses, mostly cheddar. You can use whatever cheeses you like, but I would caution against parmesan and mozzarella due to how they melt. American cheese-well, it is not really cheese, meaning non-dairy, but processed something.
American cheese is cheese. You thinking of things labeled "cheese food" "American cheese is a type of processed cheese made from cheddar, Colby, or similar cheeses, in conjunction with sodium citrate, which permits the cheese to be pasteurized without its components separating. It is mild with a creamy and salty flavor, has a medium-firm consistency, and has a low melting point. "
@@harryballsak1123and when most Americans are asked to point to an American cheese brand, a vast majority will point to Kraft, and Kraft singles are legally not cheese. You're not wrong but you're missing the forest for the trees.
@@benjaminjameskreger Kraft does have slices of cheese that are cheese. Those are the one's not wrapped. And if you look the wrapped slices will say they are "cheese food" or "cheese product". I can't help if people are dumb but facts are facts. American cheese is cheese. PERIOD
First, because I watched you all the way through my comments are out of order- I NEVER eat corn on the cob without salt and butter. NEVER. We have some end of the season sweet corn in the fridge I am cooking tomorrow with butter and cajun seasoning. Next, my kid is on Fall Break from school today and all he wanted for lunch was PBJ- we have smooth peanut butter, raspberry preserves and whole wheat bread. (I grew up with crunchy peanut butter and icky concord grape jelly and was not a PBJ fan. Once I started buying raspberry preserves instead of grape jelly, I loved PBJ.) Also, I have never toasted PBJ sandwiches, but we make hot toast with melty peanut butter for breakfast all the time. Peanut butter has good protein. We eat grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup for dinner about every 2-3 weeks- easy dinner for busy nights. So delicious and economical. And you can make mac and cheese with SO MANY cheeses! YES PLEASE! Record a trip to KFC. I love their biscuits, too.
I had PB&J all through jr. high and high school. I still have PB&J now, but it's rolled up in a tortilla instead of store-bought bread. Mac & Cheese box mix (Kraft brand) is a staple for many families with children; when my kids were living with me and we were on a budget, I would make a box of mac & cheese, add a can of tuna and a can of sweet peas for a quick budget-friendly dinner.
Try peanut butter and, instead of jelly, use marshmallow fluff. It’s called a fluffernutter. So good. It’s been yrs since I’ve had one, but ate them all the time in college
oh my... what a treat!!!!! i MISS FLUFF!!!! It is hard to find but more often than not it will be where they sell the chocolate/butterscotch/caramel for ice cream condiments!
And second video I have watched and I'm from the middle of nowhere New Mexico. And yes it's in the USA right between Texas and Arizona South of Colorado even people that live in the USA don't know that I'm in US. Don't knock it when you get home from school and mom tells you eat what you want but no stove or oven but only hard one fire and I put it out right away so it's been PB&J❤. 😂😅 Try peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwich is awesome also and 2 PB&J a day for 15 years so 1,500 is very possible. Mac and cheese can be made with all different kinds of cheese and different pasta noodles. I was working in a 4 star restaurant as a prep cook and grill cook we had a special cheese sauce but customer wanted it made with Munster and Bree cheeses so I asked if he was in a hurry cause I could smoke it for a little bit with grape vines and apple wood to enhance the flavors. They said yes that they never heard of it, when I brought it out they asked if that was all of I said no I made a good size batch they asked for the rest to take with them and asked if could show his wife the recipe for it. I said nope cause I just made it up because of the types of cheeses and what I can do to enhance the flavors I told her what I did and how I smoked it. He said that it was awesome the best ever had even better than his mother's Mac and cheese. 2 years later he asked if I still worked there so I went talked to him he said can you do that Mac and cheese again I asked if he was allergic to shell fish he said no why just another flavor enhancement. I did it again with shrimp scampi and grilled lobster diced up it then smoked it again. It blow him away the new head chef asked how come they asked for me personally I told him he wanted a plate also for himself the chef said that is on the menu tomorrow. Don't order a hamburger if you want cheese on it order a cheeseburger. KFC is good but you need to get some southern fried chicken in America. In Arizona in Tucson they sell a Sonoran dog hot dog with jalapeno and cheese wrapped in bacon then deep fried so good. At one time Burger King did sell hot dogs I think it was in the 80's or 90's. I love to roast corn take it off the cobb to eat or smoke it with mesquite wood is good also there people where I live that roast the corn husk it put mayonnaise on it the cover it with Parmesan cheese powder then Mexican spices it's okay.
Corn on the cob is very common. Mostly a summer treat. I have a friend that I met right after he moved from East Europe who never tried it and thought the idea horrible. He thought it would be like corn grown for animal feed (feed corn). That's not the corn that we eat. We eat SWEET corn, which is a totally different animal. Sweet corn is AMAZING. And yes, it should be soaked in butter at the very least. I keep the husk on and bake it in the oven. Most people boil it, but why dilute the flavor? If you bake it in the husk, you'll also have a built-in handle to eat it!
There's a better& easier way to have sweet corn all year. My mom takes the sweetest corn( grown in her garden), dips in hot water for 1 minute ( maximum), take knife and take off kernels, let cool a few moments,put in zip lock bags& freeze- flat in freezer. You'll have fresh flavor,just put in sauce pan with butter ,salt& pepper. I still have a pkg she gave me last year. 😊 Only part is you don't deal with Cob.
Corn on the cob is also great cooked on the barbecue! I don't like my corn boiled either. I live alone so when I want a corn cob, I keep the husk on, wrap the cob in parchment paper and then cook it in the microwave for about 2.5 minutes. Let it cool for a few minutes after or you will burn your fingers removing the husk. Then slather it in butter and sprinkle the salt. Delicious and easy!
Corn is EVERYWHERE, Andre. Here in New England there are still many small farms that sell freshly picked corn in the summer. One favorite way to cook it is to roast it over charcoal without removing the green outer husk.
Corn is so everywhere concerning America, Mexican farmers have been torching their agave fields to grow more corn for us, it's actually leading to an inevitable tequila shortage.
The key is that it has to be freshly picked when it's young and tender. Americans often buy it directly from the farm with the husk on. On the rare occasion that you can find it sold in Europe, it's always too old and tough, so it's no wonder that it hasn't caught on.
As a Black American growing up in the South (Virginia), we ate Mac & Cheese every other week. Usually with fried fish or chicken. We have it at every holiday & most cookout. *Pop-up American History lesson* Thomas Jefferson had an enslaved young man, James Hemings, who was his chef. James Hemings, born into slavery in 1765, became the first American chef to run the kitchen at a U.S. embassy in Paris. (TJ inherited James when he was 8 years from his father in law). Mr. Hemings combined his cooking knowledge (passed down through generations of slavery) with the lessons he learned from French chefs Jefferson had train him while they lived in Europe for 2 years. He brought over dishes from abroad & created his own (like other enslaved cooks). They became the dishes the South (and America) is known for, including Barbecue. There was a story in the news recently here in Virginia, about President Thomas Jefferson’s DNA linking him to several descendants of Sally Hemings (who 30 years younger than Jefferson, she was James’ sister, she was also owned by TJ & she was fathered by her mother’s slavemaster/owner, TJ’s father in law. So, Sally & Jefferson’s wife, Martha were half sisters). Her 6 children by Jefferson were also enslaved & owned by him until they became adults.
Just as an FYI, there are a lot of correspondence from the time that indicates people who were against slavery kept slaves to keep their families together in a time that it wouldn't have been acceptable to do so otherwise (like mixed race families) or to keep their slaves' families together. Washington kept slaves that he inherited so that their families would not be separated and sold off and put it in his will that they would be freed upon his wife's death so she wouldn't be left without help after he passed away. Even freed slaves were in danger as so called "slave hunters" would kidnap free men in the north, claiming they were runaway slaves, and sell them in the south so many would only free their families slaves if there were well off family still alive to protect them.
@@sivonni Of the 317 enslaved people living at Mount Vernon in 1799, a little less than half (123 people) were owned by George Washington himself. Another 153 enslaved people were owned by the Custis estate. When Martha Washington's first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, died without a will in 1757, she received a life interest in one-third of his estate, including enslaved people. Washington wrote his will several months before his death in December 1799. In the document, Washington left directions for the eventual emancipation of enslaved people he owned after the passing of Martha Washington. Of the *317 enslaved people* at Mount Vernon in 1799, *123 of the individuals were owned by George Washington and were eligible to be freed as per the terms of the will.* By law, neither George nor Martha Washington could free the people owned by the Custis estate. Upon Martha Washington’s death in 1802, these individuals were divided among the Custis grandchildren.
ty for sharing this i have said for a long time that slaves built america with out them the rich wouldnt have done anything well they didnt do it their slaves did it all they may have had the ideas but the slaves had to put it all together and correct mistakes so it wouldnt all fall a part i dont know why others cant seem to grasp that slaves done it all one white man sure didnt do it they had others do it and they claimed the credit
PBJ Sandwiches are awesome! You can toast it, first. Any kind of jam, jelly, or fruit preserves, or honey goes well with the peanut butter. Additionally, you can slice fresh fruits like bananas or strawberries to pair with the PB.
We just had corn on the cob with dinner tonight! I threw together some sloppy joes on hamburger buns and had some of the last corn on the cob of the season. Here's how to make corn on the cob. Clean husks and silk off corn. Wet a large paper towel and wrap around one corn on the cob. Continue until all cobs are wrapped. Place on microwave safe plate and cover plate with plastic wrap. Microwave about 6 to 8 minutes for a plate of 4 corn on the cobs. It's finished when kernals are soft to the touch. Cover corn in butter and salt and eat hot. Very yummy. Sloppy joes are ground beef completely cooked with sauce of one's choice added. I use a can of Manwich Sauce with a few tablespoons of bbq sauce mixed in. Served on hamburger buns. Truly American comfort food.
I'm surprised that sloppy joes don't show up more on these 'tour of American food" videos since they're a common food for us but probably not common elsewhere. I make my own sloppy joe sauce, but your Manwich/bbq sounds good!
PB&Js are great. I'm almost 70 and have eaten them all my life and the total number is easily over 1,500. They're best when you use grape jelly in them with apple and strawberry close behind. Skippy, Jif and Peter Pan are all good tasting name brand peanut butters and Jif is actually the top selling brand. Jif tastes a lot like Skippy, but not quite as sweet. The 10 most iconic American foods they're talking about are 1. Hamburgers 2. Hot Dogs 3. Fried Chicken 4. BBQ Ribs 5. Mac and Cheese 6. Clam Chowder 7. Chicken Fried Steak 8. Buffalo Wings 9. Cornbread 10. Apple Pie. How Biscuits and Gravy didn't make the list is a mystery to me. KFC chicken is no where as good as it used to be when Colonel Sanders was still running the company. Ever since YUM Brands acquired the KFC chain, the quality of the chicken has gone downhill. YUM has done the same thing to Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. P.S. You need to stop making these assumptions about what the best brand of products in America are with zero personal experience.
Fact check... Colonel Harland Sanders never owned any KFC restaurants or the company at any time, while he did try to run a restaurant at one point it failed. he played mad scientist, invented an oil pressure cooker and sold his design to everyone who was interested... another party purchased the copyright from him and then hired him as a mascot. He also shot a man over a gas station sign in his youth...
Pb and j is filling, easy to make, and cheap. What's not to like? I can't believe they didn't include mashed potatoes! That is my ultimate comfort food, but I also love the corn on the cob (Wisconsinite here), hot dogs, and fried chicken! 😋
When I was a skinny kid, my grandma would make my favorite meal at least twice a week. Pot roast, with mashed potatoes and gravy with a vegetable side usually green beans. Yummmmm. It is still 5 decades later a favorite.
I’m from Southern California… I love pb & j especially with crunchy peanut butter!! Especially if it’s grilled or fried on the outside. Melts gooey and delicious! My husband’s favorite (before he passed in July 2024) was pb&j with cheese!!!
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No exaggeration, I've eaten at least 5,000 PB&Js in my lifetime and I don't plan on stopping any time soon!
No chance! Really? Ty for sharing
Yup 55 years old and still love em
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@@european-reactsyou should try a PBJ grilled like you would a grilled cheese sandwich, it is amazing.
1500 would be really average. It is just assumed that if you need to make food for kids, that is almost guaranteed to satisfy almost all of them.
I'm 80 years old this year. I bet I have eaten tonnes of pb&j.
I actually met a man who had never eaten a pb&j sandwich until in his late 50's. I thought he was pulling my leg. My generation grew up on peanut butter, and cheese.
ATTENTION! EMERGENCY ALERT! ATTENTION:
There is NO cheese on a PB&J. I repeat: There is NO cheese on a PB&J.
This has been a public service announcement. Thank you.
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Not all heroes wear capes...
Peanut butter and cheese crackers, the orange ones?
Grilled cheese and tomatoe soup is a big thing in America for lunch at home!
Especially when it's cold outside.
That grilled cheese and tomato soup season is right around the corner. My favorite after school snack.
Yes, fantastic!
hell yes grilled cheese and tomatoe soup of the win
G.O.A.T. of all confront foods in American
I had my German neighbors over for Thanksgiving dinner. First, they do not celebrate Thanksgiving in Europe, so this was a surprise for them. I brought out the Turkey and one neighbor said "That is the biggest chicken I have ever seen" When I brought out the corn on the cob, another neighbor said, "Isn't that cow food". They had never had sweet corn. Only field corn. Once they tasted it, they fell in love with sweet corn.
Lol Giant chicken and cow food 😂
I'm glad your German friends got to try and love our foods.
Lol Giant chicken and cow food 😂
I'm glad your German friends got to try our food and love it.
Lol Giant chicken and cow food 😂
I'm glad your German friends got to try our food and love it.
I didn't know the difference either until once I stopped for sweetcorn at a roadside field stand. I couldn't figure out why it was so tough and not sweet at all until someone said I'd been had and sold field corn! I've never bought from a stand again😢
@@luanneaydelotte8366 live and learn
I still eat PBJs today and I am 70 years old. I love to sometimes mix peanut butter with honey instead of jelly in my sandwich....yummy;)
Yes, that was a great day, learning to sub or just add honey to PB&J!
Regular syrup works too.
I love peanut butter and honey, but syrup will do in a pinch (not maple syrup).
I am older and I had one this weekend. 😅😅😅
@@Seastallionlight karo syrup ❤
Corn on the cob slathered in butter and sprinkled with salt is one of my favorite summer foods. Always include corn on the cob with burgers, chicken, hot dogs, and potato salad at backyard get togethers.
It's real fine sprinkled with parmigian cheese or sometimes chili powder. AFTER the butter, of course.
instead of smores we have dipped corn on camping trips. my kids will fight you for the last piece. or trade you a smoore for it
Corn on the cob with butter and salt is absolutely the BEST. LOVE IT.
@@Blue-rl5dp old bay is the go too in Delaware
It's much more popular in Mexico than America actually, they make corn on the cob in so many different ways, just corn in general for that matter, corn is a huge Mexican staple food. It's not really an everyday food here in America, it's more of a BBQ or celebration type of food.
Yes we ALWAYS put butter on corn. Also salt and pepper.
Im pretty sure its illegal to not douse all vegetables in butter in america...or at least it should be
Salt and butter,yes. Pepper is a no for me.
Chili powder and Parmesan cheese is popular on maíz in the Sonoran Desert.
I grew up in the southern part of Wisconsin, a huge sweet corn growing area, and every Labor Day holiday weekend many small towns blocked off their main street and had a big street fair. One of the food items was corn on the cob, cooked in the husk on a grill. When done they'd peel the husk down, wrap it in a paper towel and hand it to you. There was a big kettle full of melted butter for you to dunk the corn in and lots of salt shakers.
@@garyleibitzke4166 The smell of uncooked corn on the cob plus the smell (and then the taste) of grilled and buttered corn on the cob is forever instilled in my memory. Absolutely delicious. From MN.
Kraft is different there than it is in the US. Half of the ingredients in our version are banned there.
I'm 71 and STILL love eating PB&J. Awesome with a tall glass of cold milk!
I'm sixty six I still have a glass of milk and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
and potato chips on the side!
77 and had PB&J for dinner!
61, and I choose coke over milk. Every so often, you just have to have a PB&J.
I'm 65----but I like my peanut butter sandwich with my morning coffee.
corn on the cob...yes!!! You must realize that corn is a crop grown virtually everywhere, so in the summer time, they have large bins of unhusked corn near the front doors of the grocery stores. In rural areas, you can stop by the side of the road at vegetable stands, and get freshly picked corn as well. It is a staple at any grill or barbeque event. The most common type is just butter and salt.
add old bay to the corn if you wanna get a little wild
I second This
For me corn on the cob buttered, salted and peppered while its still hot is best. Even though I have yet to try this, I understand that one of the best street foods in Mexico City is corn on the cob that has been grilled, slathered in mayonnaise and queso cheese, sprinkled with a bit of cayenne pepper.
@@williamking3301 Yes! It’s called elote. Very popular in most states that are known for their Mexican food. You can find street vendors selling elote all day here in California.
@@mitchellhpI praise the day I moved to Seattle & found elote! ❤ One of my favorite foods!
IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
Grilled cheese sandwiches have the outside of the bread buttered before, "grilling" in the pan. Butter is a MUST and ubiquitous with grilled cheese sandwiches
Yes Butter is a primary, However. Try mayo in place of butter, brings another level in taste. I like them both ways, personally. I Think, mayo and swiss is better tasting than a butter and swiss toasty.
Unless you’re crazy like my husband’s family… where they use mayo instead of butter. Surprisingly it’s good. Still prefer it with butter though!
@@druidaros3482 I prefer the buttery flavor. Tried both.
I agree g-cheese can be good!
I usually dont eat grilled cheese cause 1. so much cheese.. and 2, sometimes the bread is moist and i hate moist bread/bread adjacent items
agree, butter on the outside of the bread, cheese and nothing else for the perfect grilled cheese sandwich (but I toast mine under the broiler instead for the extra crunch.
You have to remember that when alot of us were growing up both our parents might have been having to work. So when you got home from school you have your house key around your neck for safe keeping & you might be home alone a few hours until one or both your parents got home from work. Some of us were forbidden to cook & it was so easy to make a PBJ sandwich by our selves. My favorite was smooth peanut butter & grape jam at that timr but then i saw Smucker's made a seedless Blackberry Jam & that still is my favorite all these many years later.
But as i got older i also like to lightly toast my bread & then put the peanut butter on it so it melts a little then a good amount on the other slice of toast & put them together & cut in half. I also like tropical jams like guava, mango or passion fruit jams in my PBJ.
You have to try alot of jams, jellies& preserves to see what's your favorite.
The thing about PB&J, it's so easy to make that it's also one of the only meals / snacks you're allowed to make on your own when you're a kid.
It's also shelf stable. You can leave it in an unrefrigerated lunchbox until noon no problem.
I could make eggs on my own at like. 6.
But yeah, I loved me a good PBnJ
It’s also cheap and pretty energy dense so a good way to keep a bunch of kids fed.
@@AcmeRacing My Mom occasionally made roast beef or meatloaf sandwiches, but all the jostling around made them fork food by lunchtime.
NO! Please don't put cheese in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Kraft Mac and cheese is cheap and easy, but it's not hard to make good Mac and cheese from scratch.
I make a roux, add sharp Cheddar, maybe some Greyer. I 75% cook my macaroni but with cut up green pepper in the water. And I take the green peppers out of the macaroni, then bake.with Cheddar butter and bread crumb topping. Bake.Gets really crusty and tender
Google the recipe for John Legend's Mac & Cheese. It's wonderful, and you can use your favorite cheese. I usually use Mexican blend cheese, but once I used Swiss and it was wonderful!!
That part!
Kraft Mac and cheese is pretty tasteless so don’t waste your money if you want a true, tasty Mac and cheese
@@lindawick455 *Gruyere
Cops and donuts became associated because back in the day in most areas the donut shop was either the only thing open all night or the first thing open. So cops that worked the night shifts had few options for a snack or bathroom break and often found themselves at the donut shop. The other part of that is these busineses commonly had only one or two workers making donuts overnight and would sometimes get targeted for robberies. So it was also to the beneifit of the donut shop to have cops eating there late at night and early in the morning to scare off criminals..
There is a donut shop called Cops and Donuts in Clare, Michigan.
@@bshopsbh yep, just so
Absolutely correct, can verify as the daughter and wife of cops. Urban myths often have basis in fact.
Yes, police would go to donut shops and the donut shop would give them free coffee and donuts so they made it a regular stop every night even multiple times a night.
There was a donut shop in Ames Iowa that opened at 1 am on weekends, for the after bar crowd ( bars closed at 2am) in the early 70s not many places to get food that late
Alternatives to jelly on your peanut butter sandwich are honey, sliced bananas or even sliced apples. It was a popular sandwich because it was a) inexpensive, b) a filling, high-protein, high-energy lunchbox choice that didn't require refrigeration, c) of all the ingredients, only the jelly or jam required refrigeration for storage. In my home, we grew berries and other fruits, making our own jellies and jams in summer. My preferred sweet spread is blackberry jam, with strawberry and blueberry competing for 2nd place.
Yeah buddy. I just had peanut butter and banana sandwich for supper last night. That's some good stuff right there.
My favorite way to eat it. I dislike jelly, but add a banana and I'm in.
I also ate cream cheese and homemade strawberry jam
We also put sugar on peanut butter as a sandwich.
Re: Donuts...
Back in the 1950's (or even before) there were basically very few stores open in the middle of the night...
Donut shops opened at 2 or 3 am (if they weren't open 24 hours) to allow their chefs time to make the next morning's donuts.
The stores often allowed late-night or early morning patrol cops in and gave them free coffee and sometimes other treats as a "thank you" but also so the donut cook wasn't alone at night and subject to problems from bad guys...
And thus the "cops love donuts" stereotype was born.
I live in Nprth Carolina, the home of Krispy Kreme.
I made a similar comment, but your comment is even better. 👍
Exactly right. The stereotype probably dates back even before the 1950s, but likely REALLY became a thing as suburbs exploded in America after WWII - whereas, previously, you either lived in a major city, or in the countryside, and there wasn't much in-between. In the US, being the only major country that wasn't bombed out, the economy had a big boom in the late 40s and the 50s, and tons of people who would have otherwise lived in apartments in the city were able to afford new (usually small and cheap) homes in these new things called suburbs. This meant a lot more area to police, and so a lot more police officers, and as mentioned, ESPECIALLY in the suburbs, nothing was open in the middle of the night except donut shops - many of which were 24 hours because they already needed someone there working through the night to have fresh donuts for the morning. Given that night-shift cops had no other options, it was very common for them to grab coffee and donuts when working at night - starting a habit that continued when they worked during the day.
By the 1990s, it was common for other kinds of restaurants and shops to be open 24 hours. The "7-Eleven" convenience store was originally open 7am-11pm, but by the 1970s became open 24 hours, and many diners and even "chain diners" like Denny's and Lyons and Waffle House went to 24 hours, and in the 1980s, some fast-food places also went to 24 hours. As such, it's somewhat less common to see police eating donuts - though they're still people and they still eat them sometimes.
In my town the doughnut shop is still about the only place open 24 hours. The cops still hang out there in the middle of the night
Exactly right. Cops eat so many donuts because donuts are often the only prepared food available to them during their night shifts.
I ate PB&J sandwiches almost every day for school lunch from First grade through 8th grade. 😂 And yes, toasted PB&J is great!
One of my favorites 😂
Europeans don't always like the taste of peanut butter. It's cheap in the USA so most everyone grew up eating them.
PB&J, but my fave is Speculous Cookie Butter and Marshmallow Fluff. Fluffier nutters are second most favorite.
The way the peanut butter gets runny from the heat of the toasted bread? Insanely good.
Nothing beats that warm peabutbutter
Peanut butter and jelly/jam sandwiches were easy to send with kids to school for lunch. They didn’t need to be refrigerated. Peanut butter gives some protein to go with the sugary jam for afternoon energy. Peanut butter is also inexpensive. The traditional PB&J is made with grape jelly, but I love strawberry, peach, blackberry, cherry, any fruit jam; and I prefer jam to jelly because it spreads more easily.
Plus PB&J was cheap. A definite "staple" for those kids who's parents couldn't afford school lunches. Usually a PB&J on white bread, an apple or banana, maybe a handful of potato chips and one or two homemade cookies.
You can use the box of Kraft macaroni and the powered cheese, but add real cheddar cheese.
Kentucky Fried Chicken used to have the best corn on the cobs. They were sweet and buttery!!
Macaroni and cheese is indeed a comfort food my family do have our own recipe for making it as a casserole dish. I have also during hard times of low wages took box Mac and cheese and added different meats to it and made a meal of it(like browned hamburger or tuna). Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are great with a tall glass of milk( no matter what flavor jelly, jam, or preserves you choose). Grill cheese sandwiches pair quite well with tomato soup( my family used campbell’s soup brand). Corn on the cob is great with butter and a little salt is also great( my family grew their own when I was growing up and it one of my favorites. During hard times when I was a child, my mom would make baked beans with hot dog wieners sliced up in them which was another comfort food. To find this already in a can was called beanie weeny. Another comfort food not mentioned in the video was home made vegetable soup with some kind of meat cooked in it ( the options were practically endless).
Must add to your list home made pizza rolls made with half a fat Biscuit or a half English muffin and used tomato sauce from can and hamburger and grated block cheeses to make many cheap individual pizzas! so cheap to make
Mac and cheese doesn't need to be American cheese. Basically for the cheese sauce you want to make a roux and then add milk or cream and melt in the cheese you want. Cheddar is probably the most popular cheese choice. We have so many popular cheeses in America, not just American cheese.
@@Jaxicat May I suggest a deep rectangle heavy glass baking pan. Toss shredded cheese with dry pasta. Place in the pan and cover in milk. Cover and cook down until almost as thick as you want it.
American cheese is popular for it cause it tends to contain sodium citrate naturally, which makes the cheese sauce smoother and causes it to take longer to start hardening or clumping. You can get the same effect with other types of cheese if you want more rich flavor, but it takes a but more work, or adding in the sodium citrate
While the noodles are boiling put some milk butter and velvetta into a pan and warm until mixed, drain the pasta and combine, two pans to clean but it doesn't take extra time to warm up.
I've made a lot of homemade mac and cheese over the years and I've never used American cheese. I've used just about every other cheese known to man, in different combinations but for some reason, American cheese just never pinged my mac and cheese radar.
Gruyere works well.
Hi: Food nerd here. 2:39 Mac and cheese isn't made with American cheese. It is made with a cheddar that uses sodium citrate so it doesn't break or separate the oil. Alternatively (and historically) you can do a Mournay or Bechemel cheese sauce. You can 100% make mac and cheese basically anywhere with pasta, cheese, flour, butter and milk. Do a hard aged cheese like cheddar and a younger softer cheese like gruyere with this method for best results.
Then, put it in an oven proof pan, put bread crumbs on top and toast the top in the oven for a bit until crunchy.
The video did say that mac 'n cheese is made traditionally with cheddar cheese. I think the person in the video was saying they don't get any or many American cheeses in their local stores; not specifically the cheese that is sold in slices that is called American cheese in America, but in general any type of cheese they consider an American variety of cheese (such as American-style cheddar cheese).
Its best with American cheese.
I have made my own Mac & Cheese for around 15-20 years. After I found out what was in the boxed kind, I decided I can make my own much healthier and tastier version. I don't use flour though. Flour, to me, gives the cheese sauce a raw flour taste unless it's baked for a long time. Instead, I use eggs to thicken the sauce, keeping the heat on the lower end so the eggs don't scramble. I use whatever kind of cheese I happen to have. Usually cheddar and pepper jack or mozzarella, provolone, sometimes even cheddar and blue cheese.
Mix-ins are always tasty too. I have added smoked sausage, bacon, or chili or sometimes broccoli (separately, not with chili). The sky's the limit!
@@jamiecq American cheese is though cheddar cheese like 100% it's made with chedder but melted with water and some bonding agents added
Corn on the cob is heavenly
The key is that it has to be freshly picked when it's young and tender. Americans often buy corn on the cob directly from the farm and shuck it themselves. On the rare occasion that you can find it sold in Europe, it's always too old and tough, so it's no wonder that it hasn't caught on.
With tons of melted butter and salt.
Just had some early. Yum.
You cant go wrong with it.
as well as cornbread, corn chowder and corn salad YUM
I'm just now watching this. I didn't grow up eating this for lunch. I would eat the lunch made in our school cafeteria. But it was a treat for breakfast on Saturday or for Saturday lunch. We always had grape jelly. But never the most expensive brand. The cheapest jelly and the cheapest peanut butter. I grew up eating smooth peanut butter. But when I found chunky as an adult, I prefer that. I add one extra ingredient to my PB & J . I add & B. Butter. We ate margarine as a child. But again, as an adult, I only eat real butter. And I do prefer toasted. But not a dark toast with burned crust. I have no idea why the director allowed those burned edges of bread on their video. Yuk. It makes the whole bread taste burned to me. So add a creamy layer of butter. We would even "fry" the bread in butter. Kind of like a grilled cheese. It makes it extra creamy and extra good. And luxurious.
PB& H was common at our house, too. Honey. It was used just as much as jelly. But I never understood the kids that ate it every day for lunch. Boring. And we had thicker layers of the PB & J. Never miniscule layers. We ate gooey goodness. Take note. I had to have an ice-cold glass of milk with it. If we didn't have that, I wouldn't eat it. Same with chocolate chip cookies and chocolate cake. If there is no icy cold milk to wash it down, I won't eat it. And yes, we would add ice sometimes to make our milk icy cold. Yum! Delicious! This sandwich became popular in America during the Great Depression. Meat was expensive. And peanut butter was plentiful and a good source of protein and inexpensive. We may all have to go back and eat this as a staple since everything is so expensive.
Grill cheese sandwich with tomato soup. A true American classic
Agree
My Catholic School lunch on Fridays
comfort food for me
It's a toss up for me..grilled cheese or tuna sandwich with tomatoes soup
Oh, you're making me hungry! An American classic for sure.
Corn on the cob has to be a "sweet" corn variety. When I was in Europe, I had what was supposed to be "American style" corn on the cob. It was awful, the cernals were tough and did not taste good at all. That was because they were not using sweet corn but a variety that was grown specifically as a liveatock food
Lol Well they probably don't have many kinds of corn in Europe probably. We must have hundreds of kinds in America. Sweet corn boiled and buttered and salted when it's ripe off the stalk in July! Is there anything better??
When visited England found many items fresh were brought in by slow ship and not very good so had to shop amazon overnight delivery by air!
That kind is known as FIELD CORN. BEING FROM THE MIDWEST, WE AUTOMATICALLY KNOW THAT!!
Field Corn is fine to eat.
Sweet corn is obviously better, but I've eaten plenty of field corn RAW right off the stalk.
Peach's and Cream sweet corn is the way to go.
22:50 I was sick last week and didn't know what to eat. My eyes lit up and I gasped to my bf I want grilled cheese and tomato soup!! It truly is a comfort meal
The best!
Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the worst thing you can eat when you are sick. Its too heavy on your stomach.
@@MaryannHurley-od9ln Maybe if you're nauseous, but when you're sick your body needs a lot of raw nutrients to fight off the infection.
PB&J's are **iconic** childhood food for American kids, and even the adults. It's easy to make, fairly inexpensive so good for college students on a strict budget. I'm 60 years old and I'll STILL have one from time to time. Oh, gotta have a very cold glass of milk with it. Nothing better.
And the foods you showed ..... very common. Corn on the cob is common at picnics and BBQs and other outside summer activities/events. Tomato soup and grilled cheese is one of my fave comfort foods - dunk the sandwich in the soup for an additional treat!!
All of these are EXTREMELY common. Yes we do corn 🌽 on the cob slathered with butter and salt 🧂
Thrown on a grill 🤤
We eat a lot of corn on the cob. Great with salt and butter, cooked on the grill with butter, garlic salt and pepper, or my family's favorite melted butter and sugar.
i like putting spices on mine
Elotes is the best. It's safe for white people.
@@jodydiou the absolute best! I soak the corn still in the cob for at least an hour, then throw in grill. Cob cones off clean with no silks. Smothered in butter and salt, yes!!
As a state where Corn is the majority crop, the farmers have stands along the highway where you can buy fresh sweet corn. You basically steam it in the husk or shuck (clean it) and boil/steam it. You add some butter and a little salt, and the sweet flavor of the corn contrasts the salt!
If you have enough people/corn to justify it, get a whole stick of butter and place it in a butter dish. Then roll the corn around right on top of the butter.
Yes sir!
Even in other states that grow other things than Corn, there are feiut stands that sell fresh corn
Not a majority crop in my state, but always one item at a stand and do have some exclusive sweet corn stands around 🗿👽🗿
In every grocery store UK too.
And a few years ago I learned to microwave the corn, which is delicious.
Corn on the cob, eaten with butter and salt, is common at backyard BBQs. However, we have a Mexican influence of it called Elote, which is corn on the cob, slathered in mayo, and sprinkled with chili pepper. It is seriously delicious.
Or Crema too it's like sour cream but creamier
Elote aka Mexican street corn also heavily dusted with cotija or parmesan cheese.
I prefer Powdered cheese in lieu of chili powder myself. Been a while since I've stopped a 'corn guy' for some street corn and shaved ice... damn ^,^
You missed the cotija cheese
I love the cotija😢
School lunches weren't really that popular until around the mid 90's so most kids brought their own food in lunch boxes that were kept in the classrooms. PBJ sandwiches became so popular because after the invention of the refridgerator, cured meat went out of style in America, so in order for kids to take food to school where it would not be chilled, they used peanut butter as a protein alternative and the jelly made it more palatable since kids prefer sweet stuff.
To be clear, "American cheese" does not refer to just any cheese made in or popular in the US. American cheese is a very specific type of processed cheese product that melts easily and is common on burgers or sandwiches. Kraft Singles is a popular brand. The most popular kind of real cheese in the US is probably cheddar, but that's not "American cheese".
Melt easily? You can't melt that stuff with a blow torch.
Cheddar in America is still not real like Cheddar in England.
@@dilligaf73Exactly. " American" Cheese is a processed cheese food and must be labeled as such. It is a far cry from actual REAL Cheddar Cheese.
I grew up in central Pennsylvania, where we ate delicious real American cheese...white preferred over yellow, no plastic included with sweet Lebanon bologna to get sandwiches. Probably ate at least 1500 of each PBJ and boloney n cheese by age 18.
@@senasaito2701 You seem like the kinda guy who can burn water
corn on the cob is a late summer staple here in the midwest. The house I grew up in was directly next to a local farm that grew sweet corn every year, and it was always a big deal when they would finally start putting it out for sale in July. Corn from major grocery stores was fine, but there was nothing comparable to the freshly harvested corn grown by our neighbhors.😊
i can’t grow corn where I am, so I buy it at the corner vegetable market. The preferred way to prepare it, at my house, is to break off the stem, peel off the outer leaves, but leave a shell on. Cut the silk end off. Put the corn on the grill, and turn it often, until the shell has started to blacken. Pile the corn up, and play hot potato to clean them up. The silk is steamed, and comes right off with the shell. A blob of butter, a sprinkle of salt, and my bunch wont leave any behind.
No commercial grown corn is even close to home grown. Commercial is loaded with chemicals, forced to grow quickly for profit. Home grown sweet corn is grown with love and respect to nature,friends and family.
Yes. Home grown by neighbors, family and local home grown at the farm stand.🥰
Corn is nessary at summer meals.....season is so short.....barbecue...corn on grill.. yum.
@@DawnCummins-lv2gg isn’t that the meal? Whatever meat with bbq sauce, grilled corn, potato salad. Pick a green thing, whatever is on hand. Bean, broccoli, cabbage. Who cares? My house has 6 working adults in it. We cook 2 meals at once. One for dinner, and one for packed lunches. 8 cobs, grilled, and broke in half when they are done. They will almost fight over a cob that has a little brown on it.
PB&J. Still a late night snack with a cold glass of milk. Can’t help it.
PERFECT snack. Makes the tummy smile.
You aren't the only one. So good
OH yes must be ice cold milk....
Yes! Why? Why does it hit so much better after midnight? I can't PBJ while the sun is out. Maybe stormy or winter weather.
Always with milk!!!
All you really need is cheddar cheese, butter, and cream or milk, and elbow macaroni (cooked). Salt and pepper to taste! I'm sure you can find an easy recipe online!
If you have the grilled cheese with tomato soup, DUNK THE SANDWICH!!!!
Can't have ONE without the OTHER in my humble opinion
Isn’t it a law?😂
@@antaine1916 Yes!!! When I was growing up my mom would make this for my sister's and me, especially on cold rainy days. Sometimes to fill us up more what my mom would do is take some La Moderna alphabet soup, fried it a bit with a piece of onion until it was lightly toasted. Then she'd add some water and some cubes of consome de tomate. She let it boil and then let it simmer until the soup reduced a bit and the tomato flavor deepened. Add the hot and cheese pulling grilled cheese and 👨🍳💋 delish. To this day when I smell grilled cheese or tomato soup it brings up happy childhood memories. .. Sorry for the rant. Jajaja.
I went a step further as a kid. I'd rip the sandwich up into bit sized chunks and put it into the soup in place of crackers. The soup would soak into the bread, and the cheese would infuse into the soup, it was *delicious.*
My mum made us grilled cheese hamburgers. Just add a cooked burger to the sandwich before grilling. Add the tomato soup and you had a meal worthy of the old gods.
15:21 toasting your bread before you put peanut butter and jelly on is so yummy. The heat changes the texture of the peanut butter and makes the smell stronger.
We always did that too. Man, I can smell the toasted PB&J just thinking about it. And always with a glass of NesQuik
Lightly buttered toast gives the peanut butter a little salty flavor too!
@@marvelousrex2866😲
Oh my yes...toasted bread , bagel or English muffin. PB & bacon on warm toast is heaven!! The salty, fatty bacon, melts that gooy PB into pure bliss. Try it !!
Corn on the cob is quite common. A lovely summer addition to meals. Pairs well with hamburgers & hotdogs at backyard grilling. :)
The key is that it has to be freshly picked when young and tender. Americans often buy it directly from the farm and shuck it themselves. On the rare occasion that you can find it sold in Europe, it's always too old and tough, so it's no wonder that it hasn't caught on.
I like the instant boxed kind of mac & cheese. You're using powdered cheese, but it's quick and easy, and it has a nice flavor. You can even order boxes online.
No boxed Mac and Cheese compares to home made. Period. My mother used to make it with extra sharp Cheddar cheese. Chef's kiss.
PB&J all the time as a kid. I can't say I have ever tried it toasted.
Grilled Ham & Cheese on Whole Wheat.
Corn on the cob with butter and ground black pepper, no extra salt, our butter has salt in it.
💯… boxed Mac & Cheese is a rare “treat” for my kids!!
Always do scratch, easy and SO much better!!!
Check your butter -- you can get salted *and* unsalted.
If you're making your own mac & cheese, take the extra time to bake it (350°F for... 20? 25? minutes... or, until the top and edges are lightly browned. It's still easy, and the extra time is SO worth it.
Pkaying around with cheeses and types of noodles is also fun, snd can still be *easy.* Best I had used asiago cheese and rotini pasta. Someone else mentioned sharp cheddar.
Completely agree. Kraft mac and cheese is its own thing. It's a childhood favorite because it's familiar, cheap, and easy, but it is not at all the same dish as homemade mac and cheese, which has better flavor and texture by far.
Anytime I use box I always add more cheese . 2-3 sticks of string cheese does the trick
@@S_047 That's a good idea. I use sour cream in place of some of the milk, which makes it creamier, and I love adding black pepper, but I never thought, "Just put more cheese in there" for some reason!
Canadians and American's BOTH LOVE CORN ON THE COB. We eagerly wait for the harvest we have a lot of corn festivals. Corn roasted on the bbq or in the campfire or boiled on the cob then smeared with butter and sprinkled with salt and pepper is best. There's several ways to wrap up the cob before cooking on fire or the bbq so it doesn't burn right through. I personally smear a large amount of butter salt and pepper then wrap in foil and put on the grill or at the sides of your camp fire and cook for about 30 minutes unwrap ( careful REALLY HOT ) and eat by scraping the corn off the cob with your teeth while holding both ends. Butter should run down your chin as you enjoy that sweet juicy corn , don't worry everybody get's messy especially good with bbq ribs or chicken. O.K. now I'm hungry !!!!
It's also popular in Mexico. Must be a North American treat!
@@donnaearl302Well, corn is native to the Americas, so, it's likely in our DNA to enjoy it.
Another amazing option is Elotes Locos (crazy corn) spread mayo on the corn on the cob so that it melts, sprinkle with chile powder, and crumbled cotija cheese, (I like to add just a drizzle of lime juice.)
My dinner last night was 2 corn on the cobs that I had picked up a couple of hours ago at a nearby farm.
When I grew up almost every kid who brought their lunch to school in a decorated lunch box had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. My parents and grandparents also ate PB & J sandwiches regularly as children and adults. Quick to make and always delicious. The proper jelly is concord grape, but strawberry will do in a pinch. My brother and I had PB & Js at least 4-6 times a week and were very happy to have those. Sometimes we had peanut butter and honey, which is also delicious. I buy creamy peanut butter and Welch's grape jelly once a year or so to have these nostalgic and delicious sandwiches again in my early 60s. Grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup in which to dip the corner of your sandwiches is a classic pairing. Corn on the cob is amazing! Best fresh in summer. Slathered in butter and sprinkled in salt is delicious. Last week I made country fried steak, milk gravy, and corn on the cob for dinner. Sooooooo good! Your incredulity looks like you ate something really sour. Thanks for sharing!
Just curious since some have mentioned Tuna sandwiches, in place of PB&J or grilled cheese, & soup for a meal... what are the different things you might put in your tuna salad?
I grew up with my mother using Miracle Whip instead of Mayo (I prefer Mayo - always. It's not as sweet but creamier), with diced red onion & diced sweet pickles, on plain white bread. The "on toast" was introduced to me by an old friend when we were about 20... had never tried that before. She also put iceberg lettuce on the sandwiches, which was new & I found I really liked it.
My older son prefers diced dill pickle instead of sweet, it does change the taste, without lettuce, untoasted & the tuna mounded high. After decades, he decided he also liked Fritos on his sandwiches.😄 Mom liked 1/2 a sandwich with either a cup of creamed tomato soup or Fritos, never both.
Although I've tried tuna salad on a variety of breads, I still prefer it on untoasted white, with lettuce if I have it in the fridge, & a hearty amount of tuna salad, soup if it's cold, chips or Fritos during the summer... &/or a slice of cantaloupe.
Where I grew up the Donut shops stayed open late or even 24 hrs. In the winter it often got very cold and the cops would hang out there to get warm. They would drink coffee and "Dunk" their donuts in it.
Not only this, but some of the shops would start giving discounts/freebies to the cops to encourage them to hang around. Cheaper than hiring overnight security....
They even made plain doughnuts with a little extra bump on the side to use as a handle when dunking them.
@@tamarlindsay8382 Those were my favorite. Soft on the inside and slightly crunchy on the outside perfect for dipping in milk, tea or coffee.
While young and even when older i found it comforting to know where i could find the police if i needed them!
Andre, I'm 54 and my mother is 84 and we still eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches all the time. Just had one like 3 or 4 days ago. Grape is the #1 flavor for the jelly with strawberry as #2. I toast the bread but I've never grilled it. The peanut butter gets nice and gooey and it's so good. Still a great option for a snack or lunch with some Lay's potato chips...YUM! Today there are so many kids with peanut allergies, that's not something they allow on the regular if at all in school lunch boxes. JIF is the #1 selling peanut butter not Skippy. We buy JIF though we used to buy Peter Pan when I was a kid.
The BEST mac and cheese isn't made with American cheese. Some people do use it. Some use Velveeta which is a processed cheese product. Some use cheddar cheese. But it's usually a combination of cheeses that really make so yummy. Cheddar doesn't melt well and gets oily so you really need another to help balance it out. You could totally make it with gruyere, swiss, mozzarella, pepper jack, colby and gouda.
No cops/donut shops isn't a stereotype, lol.
Grilled cheese and tomato soup...CLASSIC!!!
Oh you haven't LIVED if you've never had salted and buttered corn on the cob!!!!
I'm a grandmother from the American South (state of Georgia). I think you are so sweet, funny, kind and absolutely adorable! May God bless you and yours.
From 1 grandmother to another. I absolutely love watching this sweet adorable soul. He will be and is a fantastic loving, open minded son, husband, father and friend 😊
@@TeresaGrimes-q3g Thank you. What state are you in?
Georgia... specifically the Blue Ridge mountains.
Sweet southern grandmas are the best!
I'm a Southern grandmother too (South Carolina) and I agree.
Yes, we eat that much pb&j. Grilled cheese and tomato soup is a classic, and one of everyone’s favorite meals. Sometimes we do ham and cheese, sometimes bacon. Yes, we also eat Mac and cheese quite often. At least once or twice a week. Kraft is good as a boxed version, but homemade is always better. KFC is delicious! Try dipping your fried chicken in the gravy they give you for the mashed potatoes. It’s chef’s kiss. Corn on the cob slathered in butter with salt and pepper is amazing! You should definitely try all these things!
The “Hamburg Steak”, chopped beef formed into a patty, cooked, and served on a plate with potatoes and gravy, was indeed a german invention. But it was americans who slapped it into a bun and made the “hamburger”.
We saw it at the world's fair and ran with it
Pretty sure Germany still technically created hamburgers, but we're the ones who invented cheese on burgers to make cheeseburgers
@@ryapowa Depends on whether you mean the hamburger steak or the hamburger (sandwich).
And now we call the original a hamburger steak!
America is the land of food evolution & innovation.
Hamburger steak patties were from Germany. Making a sandwich out them by putting a hamburger patty on a bun was an American innovation.
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Actually, on bread. The hamburger bun was a slightly later innovation.
If I remember my food history right, the 1st hamburger "sandwich" was the Patty Melt.
I'm writing from Western Canada, and I started school in 1965. We had peanut butter and jam sandwich everyday, usually on brown bread (whole wheat). It was a low cost food. Once in a while we got a bologna sandwich. And after a special occasion dinner at Easter or Christmas, then we got a turkey sandwich. That was extra special.
We had a lot of Kraft dinner, usually on the weekend for a lunch meal (a Canadian brand name for mac and cheese).
We didn't get brownies at home, but mostly we got cookies in our school lunch, and cakes, pies and ice cream for dessert after dinner. Mom made donuts at home as a treat. They were plain and delicious.
Tim Hortons Donuts are famous in Canada, and started by Tim Horton, an Albertan, and famous hockey player.
There's lots of great peanut butter brands. I love crunchy peanut butter (pieces of peanut in it). It's very common to have bread with peanut butter and jam any time of the day. It's a snack / comfort food.
We love fried chicken, and any kind of cooked style of chicken.
James L. Kraft was born in Ontario, Canada, and immigrated to the U.S., where he started the Kraft brand.
We absolutely love corn on the cob! Love, especially with chicken. This kind of corn was introduced to the newcomers to North America by the Natives. Also pumpkins and turkeys.
Many American and Canadian foods are the same, or similar, but food brands are different, and holidays, and holiday food customs and traditions will have differences.
JAM! for sure lol none of that wimpy jelly stuff,
I've never liked jelly. To this day I only like preserves or jam. I don't think I've ever purchased jelly as an adult.
Bologna tastes like cold hotdogs that been stepped on and their is a trick that helps a little when having to eat one, olives.
I also love peanut butter and honey sandwiches😅
Very similar to our comfort foods in the NW Georgia, US👍🏼
Grilled cheese is wonderful… Simply select the type of bread you want to use which must be flatbread because you are going to put some butter in a pan and then put the grilled cheese sandwich on top of it and cook one side
The easiest way to do it is to get two slices of bread select the cheese or cheeses you want on one slice, put the top slice of bread on top and then put butter on the top slice. Then lift and put it into the pan with butter, already melted it in the pan. Once the underside is getting golden brown, use a spatula to turn it over and the butter that was on top will now be cooking the second slice of bread and help it to turn golden brown. I like to use two different types of cheeses and I prefer Gouda and Havarti.
Of course, you can put a slice of meat in between two slices of cheese inside the sandwich, which is the best way to keep the sandwich together because the melted cheese will stick to the bread so if you have meat in between them, the cheese will melt onto the bread and onto the meat and keep it one solid sandwich. For example, if you were to use a slice of Bologna, remove a small portion in the very center of the Bologna so that the cheese can get through the middle and the sandwich will stay together, otherwise it may slip apart when you try to turn it over. Another wonderful addition I enjoy with grilled cheese is using horseradish. You can also use sliced tomatoes as well. Enjoy!
Growing up we ate corn on the cob all the time. Now I live in an area we grill it every harvest. As a child, Fried chicken was a dish we ate every other week if not weekly. Macaroni and cheese was every few days. My grandma would boil the macaroni and when finished mix in cuber velveeta cheese, a stick of butter and add milk for a creamy consistency. We ate mashed potatoes often with butter.
One of my big comfort foods not shown here was slow cooked pinto beans with salted pork cooked in with a side of cornbread and fried okra.
I remember after my mom died my dad made a shank of ham and about three pounds of two day refrigerator soaked great northern white beans and he baked in oven slow with ham till they became light brown and yum!
Andre, every year, our big family holiday in America is called Thanksgiving. Families get together and traditionally have a quintessentially American meal - potatoes, corn, beans, squash and turkey; all foods originating in the Americas. The point of the holiday is to celebrate the bounty we have been given, and to give thanks for our good fortune and hope for the future, just as the original settlers did, some 400 years ago. "Comfort foods" evoke a similar emotion, about making us feel warm and safe.
Yes, Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. He was also our third President. He was a brilliant man who is credited with many inventions, such as: Revolving chairs, pasta machines, automatic doors, dumbwaiters, etc. He also made many improvements to the plow, and Americanized the Pomme Frites to French Fries.
One thing to remember is that most of these foods listed are cheap and easy to make especially pb&j, and grilled cheese paired with tomato soup... Something a single parent or otherwise overworked parent could easily maintain on a budget... Do not forget most of Americans fall below the poverty line... Having grown up in the Midwest with both parents physically disabled I cannot stress how important it was to grow our own food, and yes this most definitely includes corn on the Cobb... All that being said I feel quite blessed with a modest 2 acre plot we were able to grow a LARGE variety of food enough actually that 2/3 was divided between friends, family, church, and food banks all while maintaining a beautiful property (picture this hand-built swing with a seedless grapevine canopy and you'll find me), and that's not to mention the wild life you'd attract most of which we'd help raise at one point or another... Looking back as man about to turn 40 my first 10 years was lived as a Disney princess lol.
Love corn on the cob. Needs butter, a bit of salt (if unsalted butter), and some pepper or paprika
Midwest corn is usually feed corn, generally turned into ethanol to add to gasoline. Sweet corn is generally grown "locally" because it is best as soon as possible after it is picked.
Feed corn, field corn, dent corn can also be eaten fresh, but it’s not as sweet, and more starchy than sweet corn. However, if you add some sugar to the corn water, and cook it longer, it makes it a bit better.
The best corn in the cob(sweet corn) is when it’s cooked within 15 minutes of picking, slathered in butter, wrapped in foil and cooked on a charcoal grill. 😛🥰
@@courtneyraymer6586I’m drooling…
I live in midwest we have sweet corn as well. I've had field corn, not very good.
@@lindawolffkashmir2768 I didn't know about the sugar in the corn water, I'll have to try that.
My grandpa worked at Green Giant. He brought us bags of corn on the cob all the time. We had it almost every day when it was in season. Yes, smothered in butter and salted. Corn season is still my favorite time of year.
Grew up on Green Giant 💚👽🗿👽🗿👽
funny about green giant! During massive summer season would give away lots of corn that was not full ears as was harder to process if missing some rows on ends
Toasted PBJ is my favorite! The peanut butter & Jelly melt together and it is awesome! Peter Pan Honey Peanut butter is my favorite with Raspberry jelly.
Yes, I'm from California and I can attest that the best cold winter day lunches I loved as a little girl were my mom's grilled cheddar cheese sandwich with a bowl of tomato soup! The best! And yes, peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwiches are a kid's favorite because they were so easy for kids to make. When I was in elementary school and I got home from school in the afternoon and my parents weren't home yet because they were both at work (I'm a latchkey kid [Gen X], so i knew how to fend for myself), I would take out two slices of bread, lightly toast them in the toaster, then spread one slice of bread with Skippy's Chunky Peanut Butter and the other with Smucker's Strawberry Jam, put the slices together and BAM - a PB&J sandwich which I would have with a glass of milk. It is the salty taste of the peanut butter and the sweetness of the jam together that makes a PB&J a treat. Then I would watch cartoons in the living room while doing my homework during the commercials! I would not recommend you buy Skippy's peanut butter or Smucker's jam today, because what we didn't know in the 1970's and we know now, is how horrible these brands are. They are full of salt, sugar and preservatives. A jar of peanut butter should only have peanuts and salt. Period. There are so many good organic, "clean" peanut butter brands now. I buy the organic brand from Whole Foods Market. I avoid sugar, so I have not bought or had jam in over 20 years. But yes, I remember making PB&Js as a kid. And macaroni and cheese is best made homemade. Don't buy the Kraft brand in a box. It is full of chemicals and preservatives.
The best part is getting to use the corn cob holders. some people spread the butter with a knife, but I spin it on a stick of butter. I grew up getting free corn from a neighbor and I would help my grandma shuck corn. We eat this at home for dinner, cookouts, and bbqs.
Corn on the cob is very common. When it's in season in farm areas, you can find farmers stands on the side of the road selling fresh sweet corn.
And eaten in the UK too
My husband always adds a patch of sweet corn at the edge of the corn field (of feed corn) closest to our house. Many neighbors do the same.Great straight from the field.
I don't use salt or pepper. Don't keep either in my place.
University of Nebraska football team was called the Cornhuskers, now just go by the Huskers. They were literally named after the job of husking corn, which is pulling the green outer part and silk off the cob. You will also find corn on the cob in dishes such as crab, crawdad or shrimp boils where it is combined with a bunch of seafood, potatoes, sometimes sausage and of course Old Bay seasoning.
@@angelickaveach I spent much of my childhood husking corn by hand. Lots of memories... But I'm an Ohio Buckeye :)
Another very common American lunch sandwich is the bologna sandwich. Made on white bread with real mayo or Miracle Whip. I grew up with Miracle whip. But as an adult I only eat real mayo. It isnt sweet. I only eat Helman's mayo now. Its the most delicious to me. I add iceberg lettuce on mine. And tomatoes if they are in season. The southerners fry their bologna. It's actually quite good.
We seriously dont know anything else but salt and butter on corn. Pure heaven
Try some garlic herbal butter or just regular butter with Parmesan cheese. Both are amazing!🤩
Salt and Tabasco
@@stevendeveau6155
My mom grew up in Tx & when I was a kid, she introduced us to Succotash... a veggie side-dish consisting of corn kernels, diced tomatoes, lima beans & sliced okra with butter & salt.
It never developed into a family favorite but when you grew up during the Great Depression like she did, you learned to eat a variety of foods whether they appealed to you or not.
For the corn on the cob, it’s really a comfort food for me. My family used to live in Central Illinois, where most of my family were farmers. Every end of summer/early fall, one of my uncles would harvest all of his sweetcorn. We would spend like a week shucking, cooking, cutting, and freezing it all. So we always had corn on the cob. It brings back a lot of memories, and is very comforting when I have it, especially when the corn is really fresh.
Fresh corn is overwhelmingly better than even a couple days old. My country relatives were 'corn snobs' . They turned their noses up at corn bought at roadside stands. According to them, the only corn worth eating was corn you picked yourself, and if you were smart, they said, you started the water (for boiling it) before you went out to pick!
Growing up 'poor' although us kids never realized it until around Jr High School, we would get as much sweet corn as we wanted from the farmer across the road (2 lane country road with no yellow stripes). He would stop by a week or so before the corn ripened enough to tell us to 'take as much as you want, I won't even notice the lack when I harvest my 27 Acres'. We would have baby corn, and fresh corn on the cob. We would boil corn and slice it off the cob, and then freeze it, to have in winter and early in the following year,. So much corn! But like Mac 'n Cheese, us kids loved it and ate it whenever we could get it. Yes, slathered in butter, with salt and a hint of pepper. Oh, and lets NOT forget Corn Bread!
@@franksmedley8619 mmm-mm!
Corn on the cob, drenched in butter is delicious! It’s often found at cookouts.
Butter with a side of corn please! 😂
Corn on the cob is one of my favorite foods ever! Summer wouldn't be complete without it! You must try it, it's delicious.
Corn on the cob is very common, sometimes for back yards barbecues, sometimes with steak, there’s also “elote” which is a mexican “street food” that you can get which is pretty good.
Grilled sweet white corn on the cob is one of my favorite BBQ foods. Something about grilling the corn and the smokiness you get from it just hits the spot.
I leave the husk on and soak it for a few hours then toss it on the BBQ while doing the meat.
I get alot of fresh sweet corn in the summer and blanch it then cut it of the cob and freeze it and use it throughout the year.
I like to peel it down, but not pull the husks off, then pull out the cornsilk spread on a bit of butter then pull the husks back up and grill it that way! SO sweet and yummy! The real trick, whether you boil or grill, is not to overcook it!!!
I am from the United States and was born and raised in Oklahoma.
1. I had PB&J when I was kid. It was very common. I also toasted the bread, it seemed more upscale LOL.
2. For the mac & cheese you should try the kraft brand, it's still very popular in the U.S. I don't know if it will taste the same in europe.
3. KFC is good, but is cooked differently than traditional fried chicken.
4. Corn on the cob is very popular.
I hope this comment helped answer some of your questions.
Peter Pan peanut butter is the best!
You can put any kind of cheese in mac n cheese. It's usually cheddar, but I like to use a bunch of different cheeses like Colby, Monterey Jack, Asiago, Mozzarella. Some people like smoked cheese too.
There are entire subsets of PBandJ sandwich toppings: bananas, bacon, mayo, marshmallow whip, hazlenut or chocolate spreads, using French toast or cinnamon bread, waffles, dessert dogs, ice cream, pb and j pudding. We could do a whole Bubba Gump montage of the types. The PBandJ is a blank canvas that almost every American kid has eaten.
My big brother had a thing for both PB and tomato or PB and olive. I just would wince every time I had to make one for him. I like bananas with cinnamon sugar sprinkled on the banana.
My ex-husband loved PB and dill pickle sandwiches.
@@KeleeS1275And that's why you had to divorce him!? Yuck😅
yeah for fluffernutters..PBJ with mashmellow fluff.
Most of us Americans have eaten thousands of PB&J sandwiches ❤
FALSE 😊
And going to eat thousands more 👽🗿👽🗿👽
The association of cops & donuts is simple to explain. Many donut shops are open 24 hours a day & cops are on duty 24 hours a day, so when the cop on night duty gets hungry & needs some coffee, the donut shop is the logical place for them to gather. So simple , so true !
Exactly, real stereotype is coffee. Cops have a lot coffee an the donuts are the sidekick
Cops also gravitate to doughnut shops because they are 24 hours and they make a great place to wait for a call out. As you are likely close to the action, then. The cops in my town visit coffee shops all over the city. But they only camp out in the ones in high crime areas. This makes them so welcome in the doughnut shops that they get free service. People feel safer if the police are just chilling in the establishment, so it vastly increases business. Dunkin Doughnuts and Krispy Kreme both figured this out. Starbucks has not.
As soon as a kid in America can be trusted to handle a butter knife, they get to make their own pbj's for lunch. And I had them all of the time.
You can toast almost anything in America. 😂 I'm surprised they didn't find a deep-fried one. Not that I've seen them deep-fried, but I'll bet somebody has, either at a State Fair or in Florida.
JIF, man. Always get JIF and that way you don't need crunchy to destroy the perfect custard-like smoothness. JIF is the peanutiest and choosy mom's choose JIF
I grew corn in our garden. And cantaloupe. Radishes, carrots. Zuccini. Homegrown is amazing.
Retired cop here and yes we love donuts :) the reason I was given as a young cop is because many years ago there were very few places to eat on the late night shift so most cops went to the donut shop which was usually open all night. And yes for the record Pepperoni is a must on pizza, nothing better than a pizza with just pepperoni.
That was what I was thinking….depends on where you are located…some food places closed at 9 / 10 pm…where companies had swing shifts a lot of restaurants were open 24 hrs…Denny’s decided to close for thanksgiving but they couldn’t find the key to lock up…they were a 24 hour chain in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
Lol when I worked at Duncan donuts we had this one cop who literally never left, the city threatened us with obstruction if we didn't cut him off, but he would come in and threaten us to get donuts until he was kicked off the force, the other cop's were really nice.
A good doughnut is always appreciated....I like my local grocery baked in store doughnuts better than any chain. 🗿👽🗿👽🗿
Don't knock classic Plain Cheese Pizza with the oregano & garlic & parmesan from those shakers they have in the pizzeria.
@@janetbaker645 exactly. In Irvine and Newport Beach there are hardly any places open past 10pm. The two places that come to mind which stay open late or are 24 hours are In-n-Out, which closes at about 1-3 am depending on location, and the donut places in Newport which are all 24 hours if memory serves. Love the one on the boardwalk that serves thai tea donuts 😋
I think American comfort foods are so collected and influenced by the other cultures cause our country isn’t that old. We came together from all over the world and our flavors blended like our people did. It’s beautiful. ❤😊
That's true of every culture, no matter how new and no matter how ancient. The Romans originally got pizza from the ancient Greeks and it eventually became an Italian thing because they made it their own. Italians brought it to the USA and then, particularly after World War II, its popularity around the country exploded and now, American pizza be very different than pizza in Italy,
@hortagent5687 yeah I know about pizza history. Best pissa I ever had is a Gyro pizza. Spaghetti is all American but Italian inspired. I live in the Southwest. Everything southwest cuisine is inspired by Spanish food.
Corn on the cob is a popular dis particularly in the summer time. It is common at BBQ's. It is also often paired with seafood boils.
😂😂 yes, we put butter and salt on the corn on the cob. It is so good when freshly picked and you have that night with your grilled cheeseburger or chili dog. Yum, yum. 😋 With a side of mustered potato salad. Corn on the cob is a very common in the summertime.
kraft is the worst of the worst when it comes to mac and cheese...however, as Americans, we all ate it when younger and sometimes we want to live in our childhood again...lol
Yes, the Kraft box mix is desperation Mac. Don't do it without a full understanding this is our trash version we all grew up with and love for that reason, but find yourself a nice American recipe instead.
Kraft is technical awful mac and cheese but having eaten so much of it as kids many of us fine it so nostalgic that we rate it higher then it deserves i am not immune to this.
I love Kraft Mac & cheese. I sometimes add shredded cheese to make it cheesier. I also don’t cook the macaroni as long as the package says, if you follow the box directions the pasta turns out mushy.
Kraft Deluxe Mac N Cheese is one of the most popular in America. The regular version with the powder is insanely cheap though which is why so many Americans have eaten so much of it. Especially now with inflation killing us.
I was gonna say the only reason we eat Kraft mac and cheese as adults is cuz it is what we grew up on as kids. There are much better versions now.
I'm in my 30s and I still eat PB&J at least once a week. Toasting the bread first makes it even better. Use whatever flavor jelly/jam you want. I like blackberry or raspberry.
Red plum jam!
Black currant
Nectarine!
Kraft is the default big brand, that doesn't mean it's the best, in fact it probably means it's not. But it would be the norm people are used to and familiar with, I guess. The most mass-produced is usually not the best quality (but not always).
I like Annie's but I haven't tried a lot of them. I'm sure homemade is quite different too.
Like mom and pop restaurant Mac n cheese is typically awesome....or you can mix in bacon for something fancy 👽🗿👽
Yes toasted pb and j is good especially when cold out. Don’t over toast bread. Careful peanut butter has super low melting point changes the texture so glass of milk is most common side with it. Try dunking it into the milk then eating it.
As a kid I probably ate just as many fluffernutters (peanut butter and marshmallow fluff) sandwiches as pb+j. Strawberry preserves was my go to for pb+j' s but peanut butter and apple butter is really good too. Soup is also a comfort food, especially in winter. There's not much better on a rainy or snowy day.
Fluff is true old school, grandma's jams and jelly was the best on my pb&j 🗿👽🗿👽🗿
Southern Mac n Cheese does not contain American cheeses but a mix of cheeses, mostly cheddar. You can use whatever cheeses you like, but I would caution against parmesan and mozzarella due to how they melt. American cheese-well, it is not really cheese, meaning non-dairy, but processed something.
American cheese is cheese. You thinking of things labeled "cheese food"
"American cheese is a type of processed cheese made from cheddar, Colby, or similar cheeses, in conjunction with sodium citrate, which permits the cheese to be pasteurized without its components separating. It is mild with a creamy and salty flavor, has a medium-firm consistency, and has a low melting point. "
@@harryballsak1123and when most Americans are asked to point to an American cheese brand, a vast majority will point to Kraft, and Kraft singles are legally not cheese.
You're not wrong but you're missing the forest for the trees.
@@benjaminjameskreger Kraft does have slices of cheese that are cheese. Those are the one's not wrapped. And if you look the wrapped slices will say they are "cheese food" or "cheese product". I can't help if people are dumb but facts are facts. American cheese is cheese. PERIOD
First, because I watched you all the way through my comments are out of order- I NEVER eat corn on the cob without salt and butter. NEVER. We have some end of the season sweet corn in the fridge I am cooking tomorrow with butter and cajun seasoning.
Next, my kid is on Fall Break from school today and all he wanted for lunch was PBJ- we have smooth peanut butter, raspberry preserves and whole wheat bread. (I grew up with crunchy peanut butter and icky concord grape jelly and was not a PBJ fan. Once I started buying raspberry preserves instead of grape jelly, I loved PBJ.) Also, I have never toasted PBJ sandwiches, but we make hot toast with melty peanut butter for breakfast all the time. Peanut butter has good protein.
We eat grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup for dinner about every 2-3 weeks- easy dinner for busy nights. So delicious and economical.
And you can make mac and cheese with SO MANY cheeses!
YES PLEASE! Record a trip to KFC. I love their biscuits, too.
Try a peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwich! A new favorite for me!
Corn on the cob is awesome!!! Summer is the best time to get the best corn!!
KFC is indeed Kentucky Fried Chicken, also known as PFK in French here in Canada
I had PB&J all through jr. high and high school. I still have PB&J now, but it's rolled up in a tortilla instead of store-bought bread.
Mac & Cheese box mix (Kraft brand) is a staple for many families with children; when my kids were living with me and we were on a budget, I would make a box of mac & cheese, add a can of tuna and a can of sweet peas for a quick budget-friendly dinner.
I do something similar. After the mac and cheese is cooked I add spinach, sliced roma tomatoes, and diced ham.
My mom's tuna casserole! Must add onion I learned as an adult, giving it so much flavor!
Try peanut butter and, instead of jelly, use marshmallow fluff. It’s called a fluffernutter. So good. It’s been yrs since I’ve had one, but ate them all the time in college
oh my... what a treat!!!!! i MISS FLUFF!!!! It is hard to find but more often than not it will be where they sell the chocolate/butterscotch/caramel for ice cream condiments!
OMG I was going to suggest a fluffernutter and then saw your post. AMAZING!!!
And second video I have watched and I'm from the middle of nowhere New Mexico. And yes it's in the USA right between Texas and Arizona South of Colorado even people that live in the USA don't know that I'm in US.
Don't knock it when you get home from school and mom tells you eat what you want but no stove or oven but only hard one fire and I put it out right away so it's been PB&J❤. 😂😅 Try peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwich is awesome also and 2 PB&J a day for 15 years so 1,500 is very possible.
Mac and cheese can be made with all different kinds of cheese and different pasta noodles. I was working in a 4 star restaurant as a prep cook and grill cook we had a special cheese sauce but customer wanted it made with Munster and Bree cheeses so I asked if he was in a hurry cause I could smoke it for a little bit with grape vines and apple wood to enhance the flavors. They said yes that they never heard of it, when I brought it out they asked if that was all of I said no I made a good size batch they asked for the rest to take with them and asked if could show his wife the recipe for it. I said nope cause I just made it up because of the types of cheeses and what I can do to enhance the flavors I told her what I did and how I smoked it. He said that it was awesome the best ever had even better than his mother's Mac and cheese. 2 years later he asked if I still worked there so I went talked to him he said can you do that Mac and cheese again I asked if he was allergic to shell fish he said no why just another flavor enhancement. I did it again with shrimp scampi and grilled lobster diced up it then smoked it again. It blow him away the new head chef asked how come they asked for me personally I told him he wanted a plate also for himself the chef said that is on the menu tomorrow.
Don't order a hamburger if you want cheese on it order a cheeseburger.
KFC is good but you need to get some southern fried chicken in America.
In Arizona in Tucson they sell a Sonoran dog hot dog with jalapeno and cheese wrapped in bacon then deep fried so good. At one time Burger King did sell hot dogs I think it was in the 80's or 90's.
I love to roast corn take it off the cobb to eat or smoke it with mesquite wood is good also there people where I live that roast the corn husk it put mayonnaise on it the cover it with Parmesan cheese powder then Mexican spices it's okay.
Corn on the cob is very common. Mostly a summer treat.
I have a friend that I met right after he moved from East Europe who never tried it and thought the idea horrible.
He thought it would be like corn grown for animal feed (feed corn). That's not the corn that we eat. We eat SWEET corn, which is a totally different animal. Sweet corn is AMAZING. And yes, it should be soaked in butter at the very least. I keep the husk on and bake it in the oven. Most people boil it, but why dilute the flavor? If you bake it in the husk, you'll also have a built-in handle to eat it!
My mother always called them "rosen' ears" (roasting ears) which continually confused me because she always boiled them.
There's a better& easier way to have sweet corn all year.
My mom takes the sweetest corn( grown in her garden), dips in hot water for 1 minute ( maximum), take knife and take off kernels, let cool a few moments,put in zip lock bags& freeze- flat in freezer. You'll have fresh flavor,just put in sauce pan with butter ,salt& pepper.
I still have a pkg she gave me last year. 😊
Only part is you don't deal with Cob.
Boiling doesnt do anything to the flavor.
As long as those kernels stay intact you're good.
Corn on the cob is also great cooked on the barbecue! I don't like my corn boiled either. I live alone so when I want a corn cob, I keep the husk on, wrap the cob in parchment paper and then cook it in the microwave for about 2.5 minutes. Let it cool for a few minutes after or you will burn your fingers removing the husk. Then slather it in butter and sprinkle the salt. Delicious and easy!
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We always soak the whole cob with the husk on in water before putting it on the grill.
Corn is EVERYWHERE, Andre. Here in New England there are still many small farms that sell freshly picked corn in the summer. One favorite way to cook it is to roast it over charcoal without removing the green outer husk.
Corn is so everywhere concerning America, Mexican farmers have been torching their agave fields to grow more corn for us, it's actually leading to an inevitable tequila shortage.
@@benjaminjameskregertequila shortage?? Oh no, whatever shall we do??
The key is that it has to be freshly picked when it's young and tender. Americans often buy it directly from the farm with the husk on. On the rare occasion that you can find it sold in Europe, it's always too old and tough, so it's no wonder that it hasn't caught on.
I have 2 neighbors who grow corn in their yards!
We always take it camping and roast it in the coals of the campfire.
As a Black American growing up in the South (Virginia), we ate Mac & Cheese every other week. Usually with fried fish or chicken. We have it at every holiday & most cookout.
*Pop-up American History lesson* Thomas Jefferson had an enslaved young man, James Hemings, who was his chef. James Hemings, born into slavery in 1765, became the first American chef to run the kitchen at a U.S. embassy in Paris. (TJ inherited James when he was 8 years from his father in law). Mr. Hemings combined his cooking knowledge (passed down through generations of slavery) with the lessons he learned from French chefs Jefferson had train him while they lived in Europe for 2 years. He brought over dishes from abroad & created his own (like other enslaved cooks). They became the dishes the South (and America) is known for, including Barbecue.
There was a story in the news recently here in Virginia, about President Thomas Jefferson’s DNA linking him to several descendants of Sally Hemings (who 30 years younger than Jefferson, she was James’ sister, she was also owned by TJ & she was fathered by her mother’s slavemaster/owner, TJ’s father in law. So, Sally & Jefferson’s wife, Martha were half sisters). Her 6 children by Jefferson were also enslaved & owned by him until they became adults.
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@@mahatmasloth6543 I’m not surprised. They do that to my comments all the time. They are triggered by the truth about American History & the facts.
Just as an FYI, there are a lot of correspondence from the time that indicates people who were against slavery kept slaves to keep their families together in a time that it wouldn't have been acceptable to do so otherwise (like mixed race families) or to keep their slaves' families together. Washington kept slaves that he inherited so that their families would not be separated and sold off and put it in his will that they would be freed upon his wife's death so she wouldn't be left without help after he passed away. Even freed slaves were in danger as so called "slave hunters" would kidnap free men in the north, claiming they were runaway slaves, and sell them in the south so many would only free their families slaves if there were well off family still alive to protect them.
@@sivonni Of the 317 enslaved people living at Mount Vernon in 1799, a little less than half (123 people) were owned by George Washington himself. Another 153 enslaved people were owned by the Custis estate. When Martha Washington's first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, died without a will in 1757, she received a life interest in one-third of his estate, including enslaved people.
Washington wrote his will several months before his death in December 1799. In the document, Washington left directions for the eventual emancipation of enslaved people he owned after the passing of Martha Washington. Of the *317 enslaved people* at Mount Vernon in 1799, *123 of the individuals were owned by George Washington and were eligible to be freed as per the terms of the will.*
By law, neither George nor Martha Washington could free the people owned by the Custis estate. Upon Martha Washington’s death in 1802, these individuals were divided among the Custis grandchildren.
ty for sharing this i have said for a long time that slaves built america with out them the rich wouldnt have done anything well they didnt do it their slaves did it all they may have had the ideas but the slaves had to put it all together and correct mistakes so it wouldnt all fall a part i dont know why others cant seem to grasp that slaves done it all one white man sure didnt do it they had others do it and they claimed the credit
PBJ Sandwiches are awesome! You can toast it, first. Any kind of jam, jelly, or fruit preserves, or honey goes well with the peanut butter. Additionally, you can slice fresh fruits like bananas or strawberries to pair with the PB.
We just had corn on the cob with dinner tonight! I threw together some sloppy joes on hamburger buns and had some of the last corn on the cob of the season. Here's how to make corn on the cob. Clean husks and silk off corn. Wet a large paper towel and wrap around one corn on the cob. Continue until all cobs are wrapped. Place on microwave safe plate and cover plate with plastic wrap. Microwave about 6 to 8 minutes for a plate of 4 corn on the cobs. It's finished when kernals are soft to the touch. Cover corn in butter and salt and eat hot. Very yummy. Sloppy joes are ground beef completely cooked with sauce of one's choice added. I use a can of Manwich Sauce with a few tablespoons of bbq sauce mixed in. Served on hamburger buns. Truly American comfort food.
I'm surprised that sloppy joes don't show up more on these 'tour of American food" videos since they're a common food for us but probably not common elsewhere. I make my own sloppy joe sauce, but your Manwich/bbq sounds good!
PB&Js are great. I'm almost 70 and have eaten them all my life and the total number is easily over 1,500. They're best when you use grape jelly in them with apple and strawberry close behind. Skippy, Jif and Peter Pan are all good tasting name brand peanut butters and Jif is actually the top selling brand. Jif tastes a lot like Skippy, but not quite as sweet. The 10 most iconic American foods they're talking about are 1. Hamburgers 2. Hot Dogs 3. Fried Chicken 4. BBQ Ribs 5. Mac and Cheese 6. Clam Chowder 7. Chicken Fried Steak 8. Buffalo Wings 9. Cornbread 10. Apple Pie. How Biscuits and Gravy didn't make the list is a mystery to me. KFC chicken is no where as good as it used to be when Colonel Sanders was still running the company. Ever since YUM Brands acquired the KFC chain, the quality of the chicken has gone downhill. YUM has done the same thing to Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. P.S. You need to stop making these assumptions about what the best brand of products in America are with zero personal experience.
Fact check... Colonel Harland Sanders never owned any KFC restaurants or the company at any time, while he did try to run a restaurant at one point it failed. he played mad scientist, invented an oil pressure cooker and sold his design to everyone who was interested... another party purchased the copyright from him and then hired him as a mascot. He also shot a man over a gas station sign in his youth...
Pb and j is filling, easy to make, and cheap. What's not to like? I can't believe they didn't include mashed potatoes! That is my ultimate comfort food, but I also love the corn on the cob (Wisconsinite here), hot dogs, and fried chicken! 😋
Right!?! Where were mashed potatoes????? I'd rather eat that for comfort over hot dogs any day of the week!
When I was a skinny kid, my grandma would make my favorite meal at least twice a week. Pot roast, with mashed potatoes and gravy with a vegetable side usually green beans. Yummmmm. It is still 5 decades later a favorite.
I’m from Southern California… I love pb & j especially with crunchy peanut butter!! Especially if it’s grilled or fried on the outside. Melts gooey and delicious! My husband’s favorite (before he passed in July 2024) was pb&j with cheese!!!