1:50 I think that’s part of the point; a lot of food that Europeans think are gross are because it looks or sounds bad, not because they’ve actually tasted it
The reason Florida isn't part of "The South" is because it is full of retired Northerners and Latinos. "The South" is more of a culture than its literal location. It's similar to how most wouldn't consider Russians to be "Asian" even though they are a very large part of Asia.
Florida is in the South. I live in Georgia and I've only been hearing that "Florida isn't in the South" for maybe 10 years . Americans who say FL is not in the South sound ridiculous to me.
Yes, fried foods and carnivals/fairs goes that together like a horse & carriage. When there, I do like getting a bit of cotton candy tho. I prefer Toaster Strudels over Pop Tarts. I like the Jimmy Dean biscuits, sausage & gravy bowl. It’s te whiter gravy not the brown gravy. The only time I’ve used the light brown gravy was at Thanksgiving. Some of our Moms and GranMas used to make their own gravies. I prefer y food to be baked or grilled. I’m not really into fried.
If you try Root Beer, you should also try it with a couple of scoops of vanilla ice cream. It is a totally different taste then having it just by itself. Root Beer float. 2 scoops ice cream filled the rest of the way with Root Beer.
Yams: prick all over and microwave until soft. Put the flesh into a food processor with butter, salt and pepper, then whiz until smooth. NO MARSHMALLOWS. The purée freezes beautifully. It is also very good for dogs with tummy issues.
Sweet Tea in the South is SWEETSWEETSWEET. It is the default when you order iced tea. You need to specify unsweet tea if you want to leave the South with your teeth.
No, Ranch is anything but mayo. It's made with Buttermilk. So famously so, a lot of Ranch dressing labels say Buttermilk Ranch on them. But yeah, there's some additional seasoning in there as well. And yeah, it's probably the #1 Salad Dressing in the States, followed by Thousand Island, French, and Italian.
Candy Corn is just corn kernel shaped nouget for the most part. And it's colored like a kernel of corn. Yellow at the top end, orange in the middle, and white at the very tip. It's kinda conical in shape, so picture that. A lot of people don't like them, but sone do. And there's kind of a life hack for them as well. Eat them with peanuts and you'll get near the same flavor and texture as a Payday bar. Which is a caramel covered nouget bar with peanuts stuck in the caramel. I don't know if there's a chocolate covered one, but there ought to be. But then again, that's more or less a Snickers bar, right?
No they Florida isn’t the south because southern Florida is very Hispanic and has areas like Miami that are not culturally southern. The Florida panhandle is Deep South as well as most of northern Florida where there’s more black and white people
I grew up in Alabama, I once dated a girl whose father was a New York Jew and her mother was a Cuban refugee . She said she was a Southerner because she was born in Miami , to which I replied " NO EFFING WAY ".
9:02 there are a few reasons Florida doesn't "count as the South", but a big one is settlement patterns. The people in the South and the people in much of Florida come from different backgrounds, and they have quite different histories.
Root beer is an American Classic - and is best had really cold, and in a tall chilled mug with scoops of Vanilla Ice Cream ! Root Beer Floats are a national Treasure. The “south” is more about historical regional cultures than locations which is why Florida and Texas are not “the South”. Candy corn has nothing to do with corn; it is a kind of plastic feeling sugar bomb made in the shape of corn and colored to look autumnal. The Best Ranch dressing has a base of buttermilk, sour cream, and just a little mayonnaise. Gravy in America is hundreds of colors depending on how it is made, I can’t imagine not having cream based gravies - there are dozens of varieties.
Kabir, I know for a fact that the UK has pork crackling.....you guys call it pork scratchings. Please don't assume you won't like sweet potato casserole. There is a sweet UK family (Mr H and Friends). They have been exploring all things US food and they actually held a Thanksgiving dinner for some of their family. The two main dinner items that everyone could not get enough of were the deviled eggs and the sweet potato casserole! You have to give these foods a chance before saying you would not like it, some you likely won't, but hey, some I think you definitely will!
Grits: 5-6 parts of water (or water plus milk) to one part of stone-ground grits. Butter and salt. Whisk well and cook, covered, for a good hour, stirring occasionally. Add cheese and white pepper at the end. I love them for breakfast or with roasted vegetables for…anytime of the day. They freeze beautifully.
Northern FL is part of "deep South", south of that, u hit Orlando, Tampa, and Jupiter to Key West (south FL), not southern but geographically end of the road in US and south.
With candy corn, the candy itself is supposed to have some likeness to what a kernel of corn looks like when you pluck it from the cob. It has no corn in it but it often does have corn syrup. Candy corn has an almost waxy texture and it tastes like a bit of butter that has been rolled in sugar. Personally, I really like candy corn but I only buy it at Halloween, it is just a traditional candy for that holiday for me. Ranch does have mayonnaise as part of it's base though some use sour cream instead and some use a combination of mayonnaise and sour cream. I make mine with sour cream, mayo and buttermilk. To that add some herbs, onion and I add a bit of garlic. It is creamy and has a bit of a tang. It is a pretty good dip for pizza, too. Air frying is fine but it is not the same as fried. Deep fried anything has a part of its flavor in the fat that remains. It is a lot like baked french fries or fried french fries, baked potato chips or fried potato chips. The texture is similar but the flavor is missing something. Pork Rinds are pork skin that has been boiled, dried then deep fried. I love them with a little hot sauce. Strangely, they are on the dry side, not really greasy at all.
"american cheese" is not considered high quality by Americans....BUT....we do often win praise at international cheese competition. In 2023, we won Silver (2nd place, 2nd best cheese in the world) at the The World Best Cheese Contest in France. So, objectively, Europeans can't say our cheeses are bad, because we score well in THEIR contests. 🙂 "After two days of competition, it is Vincent PHILIPPE (cheese dairy Maison Bordier (Ille-et-Vilaine) France) who wins the trophy. Silver medal was awarded to the American Sam ROLLINS (cheese dairy Cow Bell Fine Cheese, Portland, USA), followed by the English Nick BAYNE ( The Fine Cheese Co., Bath, UK) for the medal of bronze." That's from Mondial Du Fromage in France, SPL Tours Evénements Concours Mondial du Meilleur Fromager 2025 26 boulevard Heurteloup - CS 24225 37042 Tours Cedex 1, France
Brown gravy is for meat Sausage gravy is white sauce made from a roux of the sausage drippings, so more beige than white. Biscuits are sort of in the bread group of food in the States - like dinner rolls. British scones are sweet, desert group items. English muffins ( crumpets) are also considered a bread. Muffins are, too, even tho they can be sort of sweet, depending on added ingredients ( blue berries & toppings ).
There is country gravy which is just sausage gravy, minus the sausage. Used for chicken fried steak, mostly. Goes great with mashed potatoes, better than your standard dinner gravy, but that may be because i love black pepper.
It's only recently that people outside North America don't think mixing salty and sweet is odd. I don't like the wintergreen type mint flavor. You can buy corn dogs in the Iceland store, Kabir. I don't like Twizzlers, and I can only eat so much candy corn before I get ill. Candy corn is just sugar. I don't like sweet potatoes or root beer. I love properly made grits with jalapenos and cheese. Geography doesn't count toward culture. That's why Florida isn't southern. High fructose corn syrup is what the UK would call liquid glucose. Arnold Palmer was a famous golfer. Cracklins are also called pork rinds or, in the UK, pork scratchings. You CAN put pop tarts in a toaster, but a lot of Americans eat them cold.
Kabir, a lot of people from Chicago would tell you to try tavern style pizza instead of, or in addition to deep dish. Also if in the northeast, try New Haven style pizza called apizza. A lot of these aren’t really that loved, or only loved by children or eaten very rarely. Candy corn is just sugar and a waxy substance. Disgusting. Sweet potato casserole is good stuff, but no marshmallows on top please. Just sliced sweet potato, butter, a bit of brown sugar pumkin spice and a bit of cream poured in and bake and top with walnuts (or nothing). Root beer is great, but you really need to tailor your choice to how much “root” flavor you want. A&W is a good choice for mass market brands, but Henry Weinhard root beer is fantastic if you don’t like a strong flavor as it tastes almost completely of honey and vanilla. If you want a strong tasting root beer, try Sprechers. Cereal: I buy cereal with sugar about once per year because I still love Corn Pops and want to spoil myself sometimes. Usually I just have granola, or corn flakes, or grape nuts (wheat nuggets). Even granola often has criminal amounts of sugar, so I just eat it when I need something fast or as a snack. Kabir hot pockets with tomato and cheese is basically a calzone, but there are ham and cheese hot pockets and other types.
You couldn't pay me to eat sweet potato casserole, Twizzlers, ultra sweet tea, twinkies, pop tarts, and most prepackaged sweet treats. Our white gravy is white because it's made with cream or milk. And Cheese Whiz comes in a jar. If you think our biscuits are dry, they weren't made properly. They are usually made with a lot of butter. And homemade ranch dressing is made with buttermilk, not mayo, and it isn't drowning in salt.
If you try the root beer it needs to be ice cold.If you do run into that "medicine" mental block,give it about 5 trys before you give up..Some overcome the hardwiring.
I grew up on the gulf coast and I never thought of Florida as a true southern state because of all the transplanted northern people who have moved there. I have lived in Florida for several years . I was born in Alabama and now live in gulf shores for the past 31 years.
I believe the reason Florida is not considered as a part of the south is it has people from all over the US that go there for the winter or that go there to retire. And I personally do not know of any uniquely Florida things. ie foods or customs/mannerisms. Anyplace else in the country u have things that are unique to that area, accent, types of food. Like say the Cajuns have an accent and foods like jambalaya among other things, You go further east you get into Fried Chicken and sweet tea etc
Florida is not considered a Southern state ( except the panhandle part that touches Alabama & Georgia ) because during the 1800’s when the southern ‘culture’ was forming - think Gone with the Wind - Florida was not settled except for a few fishing villages/towns on the coast - the rest was swamp & forest, so by 1900, when people started coming down from the northern states to stay in the warm coastal resorts during the winter - their northern influence and later, the Latino influence from Cuba & the Caribbean islands kept it un-southern.
I am an American, and I hate Ranch dressing. My go-to is Blue Cheese, followed by Italian. And for those who say that blue cheese dressing is just ranch with cheese chunks, you're wrong and I will fight you. I will die upon this hill.
Pork rinds have no fat on the skin, but cracklins are the skin with the layer of fat beneath and are hard. what he is eating looks to be that hibrid that is treated before frying so the skin part do not get hard as a rock. normel potato chips are more oily than porkrins
Like a lot of things commercially made candy corn and homemade candy corn taste completely different. What he was talking about is fried pork rinds which are fried pieces of pork skin. Cracklings are another name for them. Alot of people that are on strict diets eat them because they are almost calorie free. Pork rinds give you a crunchy salty snack that gives you a feeling of being full without giving you all the bad things that potato chips or other munchies do. Bacon bjts are just bacon that’s been cooked up and then crumbled. They are used on a variety of things but the most common use is on or in salads. You can get fake ones but they are a sad replacement for the real thing.
I was traveling with a group of Australians to Thailand and I saw a can of root beer at a convenience store and I bought it, surprised it was even available in Thailand. I have always heard only Americans can tolerate the taste and I have always loved root beer. I asked the Australians to try it and it was a universal hard pass. They all hated it and nearly spit is out. They said it taste like mouth wash. They were amazed that I could drink it.
Candy corn is like eating sweet candle wax just a little worse than the Twizzlers! 😂 I do love mint chocolate chip ice cream and most mint chocolate candy!!!
"Florida is the only place the further north you go, the further south you get." Mint & chocolate? Yeah, I like it well enough but I don't go searching for it. Corn dogs? Ehh, carnival food, not on the top of my list. Twizzlers - haven't had licorice whips or similar since I was a kid, 60 years ago. They were ok, but again, I wouldn't shop for them. Same for candy corn, root beer, cakes w/candies, catsup/ketchup, Ranch dressing, any sort of coffee or tea, fried carnival food, twinkies, Sweet potatoes are the only thing I can't eat. I can't even stand the smell of them. Bloomin' Onion? Grits? Hell yeah! When I was a kid in school, especially when I was playing sports, I ate a LOT of cereal. 3-4 boxes/week would have been normal. Cheez Wiz is waxy garbage. Imagine eating a candle that the wax didn't really set right. Just don't.... ever. Sugar in bread - Sorry, but I have to call BS. While some breads may vary, the last time I looked plain old white bread in the U.S. has less sugar than the same in England (search the product labels here and there.) I had to use a VPN to see the nutrition labels in your stores. It's 'ranch' NOT 'raunch' as in 'raunchy'. It's not real sweet tea unless there's an inch (25mm) of sugar in the bottom of the pitcher. Chicago pizza? Hell no. Who needs more carbs? And chewing, and chewing and ch... We have brown gravy here as well. We use it on beef and/or mashed potatoes, exclusively. If you really want to mess up your mind try Red Eye Gravy, it is the bomb on breakfast ham and sop up any remaining with your buttermilk biscuit.
Ranch is my favorite condiment. I live in Wisconsin. We love it here. Loving ranch and cheese here in WI in my mind is equivalent to most Brits loving tea and scones. I've liked mint chocolate ice cream since I was a kid. Rocky Road has been my favorite since I was a teenager but I still like mint chocolate chip.
Geographically, Florida *is* part of the South. But due to the high number of people who have moved here from the Northeast and other areas, culturally it is far less so. And the Cuban influence in the Miami area adds even another non-Southern flavor.⬅ I'm an American who doesn't like Ranch dressing. But then, I don't really like mayo either, so probably the distaste is related.
We have many different gravies, turkey, chicken, pork, country (seasoned white flour gravy), sausage, and off course beef gravy which is the brown gravy you are familiar with.
Its been a thing in the south a long time. It migrated north very slowly. I had it as a kid when my dad was in the navy and we were stationed in Georgia in the early 90s.
As an American, I hate Cheese Whiz and love Hershey's Kisses, which are softer and less "waxy" than the candy bars. Not in love with European chocolate, some of which I find too rich, to the point of being sickening. I like peanut butter and chocolate separately but HATE them together. Marshmallows on sweet potatoes? Why on earth do you need to add sugar on top of a healthy veggie that's already naturally sweet? Mint blends well with chocolate flavor, but not much else. [Side note: I wanted to try something quintessentially English while at a nice London restaurant many years ago, so I ordered steak & kidney pie. Looked beautiful and was probably well-made, but it smelled and tasted awful!]
Cracklin’s are pigskin that’s been deep-fried. It also comes in barbecue flavored which I highly recommend over the regular. Why? Because as soon as you open a regular bag, it smells like barnyard. And not in a good way. As far as biscuits and gravy goes, I’ve never seen one person from outside of the United States, Try it and say they didn’t like it. Every single foreigner said that they loved it, So why is it on the list? Also, Twinkies are liked by a lot of people outside of the US. Twislers Is inferior to red vine. If you try it get red vine, strawberry flavored.
Cracklings and pug skins are two different snacks. Cracklings are cute into short strips that are are, I say, about 1/16" inch thick and quite hard to eat. Pig skins, on the other hand, almost melt in you mouth.
I don’t like chicken and waffles. I’m not a fan of mint flavored things, except for maybe toothpaste. I like chocolate flavor the way it is. Mint only ruins it. I don’t like Twizzlers, and I can’t stand candy corn either. I will stop there. This is a good list of items that people from all over the world don’t like, including many Americans.
I like waffles, but not fried chicken, Love mint everything except toothpaste (buy a sensitive toothpaste). I admit I do like Twizzlers and dark chocolate not milk chocolate.
@ We’re almost complete opposites. I like chicken and waffles, just not together, and I like all types of chocolate, as long as the chocolate’s flavor is left alone. What about Chicago pizza? I love it, more than NY pizza.
The panhandle that touches Alabama and Georgia is Deep South. Most of northern Florida would be considered south. South Florida where it’s more Hispanic and touristy is not
Oh candy corn...fond memories for Halloween. Oh Sweet potato casserole yum with marshmallows. Root beer yum! no grits 😝 Well, I use to like frosted corn flakes.....that's about it. cheesewiz is canned cheese and is gross. Ice is good in drinks. Ranch dressing is yum, ketchup is yum! Love mayo. lol Oh I use to love Twinkies, vanilla cake with white fluff inside. No poptarts too sweet. I don't like biscuits n gravy. No fried.
Twinkies, and all Hostess products SUCK. Ever since they changed hands the recipes changed for the worse, and all products got smaller. I miss the Ho Ho's from the 60's and 70's!!! We call it "Pizza Pie", even if it isn't deep.
OK, WHEN we say the South, we are talking about Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, as far as FOOD goes, there were other Southern states if you are talking about the Civil War, but when referring to "THE SOUTH" depends greatly on the context of the conversation, and when you are talking about "THE DEEP SOUTH" those would be the states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
High fructose corn syrup is highly concentrated corn sugar aka it’s made from corn and USA is a high yielding source of corn that’s made things made with high fructose corn syrup are cheaper than cane sugar or other sugar
Ranch can vary in quality, but Wingstop ranch IS that good (although I would never pour it over like a psychopath, the point with wings and fries is to dip. Pouring it over a salad is obviously the original point, but being a dip has surpassed being a dressing.)
All licorice including Twizzlers is gross. I do love candy corn and no actual corn involved other than corn syrup. The only ranch I like is ranch dip which is sour cream and the dry ranch herb seasoning.
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1:50 I think that’s part of the point; a lot of food that Europeans think are gross are because it looks or sounds bad, not because they’ve actually tasted it
Europeans/british know a lot less than they think they do
The reason Florida isn't part of "The South" is because it is full of retired Northerners and Latinos. "The South" is more of a culture than its literal location. It's similar to how most wouldn't consider Russians to be "Asian" even though they are a very large part of Asia.
Real Ranch dressing is made with buttermilk, no mayo.
Ah, I thought it was mayo because of the colour
Some people make it homemade with mayo and buttermilk but it would not be to my liking.
Florida is in the South. I live in Georgia and I've only been hearing that "Florida isn't in the South" for maybe 10 years . Americans who say FL is not in the South sound ridiculous to me.
This American doesn't like Ranch at all.
Yes, fried foods and carnivals/fairs goes that together like a horse & carriage. When there, I do like getting a bit of cotton candy tho.
I prefer Toaster Strudels over Pop Tarts.
I like the Jimmy Dean biscuits, sausage & gravy bowl. It’s te whiter gravy not the brown gravy. The only time I’ve used the light brown gravy was at Thanksgiving. Some of our Moms and GranMas used to make their own gravies.
I prefer y food to be baked or grilled. I’m not really into fried.
You can get biscuits and gravy in all fifty states. It is also very easy to make at home.
Homemade Ranch Dressing includes buttermilk, sour cream and mayo.
Root beer floats!!!! The best!!! A frosty mug😊, ice cold root beer and a big scoop of vanilla ice cream
If you try Root Beer, you should also try it with a couple of scoops of vanilla ice cream. It is a totally different taste then having it just by itself. Root Beer float. 2 scoops ice cream filled the rest of the way with Root Beer.
I came to the comments just to say this. Absolutely perfect treat on a hot day.
Gainsville, Florida and up is Deep South. Below that is a different world.
Yes, Ocala north is Deep South. Unless you are a native FL, others should not define FL. Let a native Floridian explain it.
Yams: prick all over and microwave until soft. Put the flesh into a food processor with butter, salt and pepper, then whiz until smooth. NO MARSHMALLOWS. The purée freezes beautifully. It is also very good for dogs with tummy issues.
Sweet Tea in the South is SWEETSWEETSWEET. It is the default when you order iced tea. You need to specify unsweet tea if you want to leave the South with your teeth.
Mint girl scout cookies are a must-try. Blooming onions are awesome. Florida has a lot of notherners. I should know. I'm one of them.
No, Ranch is anything but mayo. It's made with Buttermilk. So famously so, a lot of Ranch dressing labels say Buttermilk Ranch on them. But yeah, there's some additional seasoning in there as well. And yeah, it's probably the #1 Salad Dressing in the States, followed by Thousand Island, French, and Italian.
For me, it's bleu cheese and roguefort after ranch! Love the tang of 'stinky cheese'! Peace out medames et monsieurs...
Candy Corn is just corn kernel shaped nouget for the most part. And it's colored like a kernel of corn. Yellow at the top end, orange in the middle, and white at the very tip. It's kinda conical in shape, so picture that. A lot of people don't like them, but sone do. And there's kind of a life hack for them as well. Eat them with peanuts and you'll get near the same flavor and texture as a Payday bar. Which is a caramel covered nouget bar with peanuts stuck in the caramel. I don't know if there's a chocolate covered one, but there ought to be. But then again, that's more or less a Snickers bar, right?
Never had an Arnold Palmer myself, but a really good flavor combo is strawberry lemonade. Delicious.
I'm maybe weird, but I do not like lemon in my tea. Strawberry lemonade, though...delicious is the word!!
Twizzlers are great to chew on during a stressful movie at the theater.
They say Florida isn't the south because there are more northerners who live in Fl than anywhere else in the "south."
Ask a native for the real definition of FL not a transplant.
No they Florida isn’t the south because southern Florida is very Hispanic and has areas like Miami that are not culturally southern. The Florida panhandle is Deep South as well as most of northern Florida where there’s more black and white people
mint chocolate chip ice cream is one of my favorites
Yes! It's one of mine, if not my very favorite. Definitely a go-to.
Root Beer + Pizza. Always ,always, my favorite combo growing up. Also, candy corn seems like pure sugar. Loved it as a small kid, hate it now, lol.
The only part of Florida that is southern is the panhandle in the northern part.
Nothing better than a York Peppermint Patty. Deep-fried pickles rule.
We have Andes creme de minthe, wrapped separately, that are amazing 🤩. I buy them, occasionally and freeze them. So refreshing and delicious.
I love these frozen
Of course the dude from Florida called deep dish a casserole. Your assessment is right. Its more like a pie. Why? All pizzas are pies.
If you like ginger try ginger beer (no alcohol). It has a kick to it and is great for heartburn. Cheese Whiz is “cheese food” in a can.
I love ginger beer 😋
Chess Wiz here comes in a jar. Spray cheese (yuk) comes in a spray can.
Cheese! 🤦
Cheese Whiz is so unhealthy!!! I don't care if it comes in a jar or a can....not good for you.
Cheese whiz also comes in a small glass.
I grew up in Alabama, I once dated a girl whose father was a New York Jew and her mother was a Cuban refugee . She said she was a Southerner because she was born in Miami , to which I replied " NO EFFING WAY ".
9:02 there are a few reasons Florida doesn't "count as the South", but a big one is settlement patterns. The people in the South and the people in much of Florida come from different backgrounds, and they have quite different histories.
Baked beans with enough brown sugar to make it stick cooled off is heaven.
Chicago Deep Pan Pizza hands down. Want to try some of the Chicago Thin Crust/Tavern Style Pizza's They look really good also.
I'm a deep dish kinda pizza girl, but I actually prefer Detroit style to Chicago, but I wouldn't say to to Chicago. 😉
14:13 I couldn't tell you Kabir! I think both mayo and ranch are disgusting! lol 🙂
Mint Chocolate Chip...LOVE IT!!!
Florida is its own thing…. Florida aka Florida Man / Florida Woman
I lived in Tampa for 34 years. I went to the Outback on Henderson Blvd many times. I went to the original Hooters on 60 in Clearwater as well.
Tampa sure sounds like culinary heaven. 😘
Root beer is an American Classic - and is best had really cold, and in a tall chilled mug with scoops of Vanilla Ice Cream ! Root Beer Floats are a national Treasure.
The “south” is more about historical regional cultures than locations which is why Florida and Texas are not “the South”.
Candy corn has nothing to do with corn; it is a kind of plastic feeling sugar bomb made in the shape of corn and colored to look autumnal.
The Best Ranch dressing has a base of buttermilk, sour cream, and just a little mayonnaise.
Gravy in America is hundreds of colors depending on how it is made, I can’t imagine not having cream based gravies - there are dozens of varieties.
Candy corn is called that because if you take a bunch and put them tip to tip, they can make a corn on the cob shaped thing.
Kabir, I know for a fact that the UK has pork crackling.....you guys call it pork scratchings. Please don't assume you won't like sweet potato casserole. There is a sweet UK family (Mr H and Friends). They have been exploring all things US food and they actually held a Thanksgiving dinner for some of their family. The two main dinner items that everyone could not get enough of were the deviled eggs and the sweet potato casserole! You have to give these foods a chance before saying you would not like it, some you likely won't, but hey, some I think you definitely will!
My parents used to tell us, “how will you know you won’t like it, until you’ve tried it?”Still, I can understand.
@@catw6998 Yep! My dad had a rule that you couldn't say you don't like something until you've tried it!
When I went to the UK, I had such bad sugar withdrawals that I was putting candy in my coffee 😂
Grits: 5-6 parts of water (or water plus milk) to one part of stone-ground grits. Butter and salt. Whisk well and cook, covered, for a good hour, stirring occasionally. Add cheese and white pepper at the end. I love them for breakfast or with roasted vegetables for…anytime of the day. They freeze beautifully.
South is cultural not geographic.
I’ve heard Florida described as “south of the south”. Pretty accurate I think
Northern FL is part of "deep South", south of that, u hit Orlando, Tampa, and Jupiter to Key West (south FL), not southern but geographically end of the road in US and south.
With candy corn, the candy itself is supposed to have some likeness to what a kernel of corn looks like when you pluck it from the cob. It has no corn in it but it often does have corn syrup. Candy corn has an almost waxy texture and it tastes like a bit of butter that has been rolled in sugar. Personally, I really like candy corn but I only buy it at Halloween, it is just a traditional candy for that holiday for me. Ranch does have mayonnaise as part of it's base though some use sour cream instead and some use a combination of mayonnaise and sour cream. I make mine with sour cream, mayo and buttermilk. To that add some herbs, onion and I add a bit of garlic. It is creamy and has a bit of a tang. It is a pretty good dip for pizza, too. Air frying is fine but it is not the same as fried. Deep fried anything has a part of its flavor in the fat that remains. It is a lot like baked french fries or fried french fries, baked potato chips or fried potato chips. The texture is similar but the flavor is missing something. Pork Rinds are pork skin that has been boiled, dried then deep fried. I love them with a little hot sauce. Strangely, they are on the dry side, not really greasy at all.
Cheez Whiz (spray cheese) is “pasteurised processed cheese food product”. And, yeah, it’s great on Triscuits.
Candy Corn is made from High Fructose Corn Syrup, but they are called Candy Corn because they are made to LOOK like vintage native corn.
Some places will do the mixed sweet tea an unsweetened. I used to drink sweet tea but not so much anymore.
I hate to break it to you, but CORN syrup is made from corn.
The actual taste of Candy Corn is honey.
If you stack them in rings, it looks like a corn cob.
"american cheese" is not considered high quality by Americans....BUT....we do often win praise at international cheese competition. In 2023, we won Silver (2nd place, 2nd best cheese in the world) at the The World Best Cheese Contest in France. So, objectively, Europeans can't say our cheeses are bad, because we score well in THEIR contests. 🙂
"After two days of competition, it is Vincent PHILIPPE (cheese dairy Maison Bordier (Ille-et-Vilaine) France) who wins the trophy. Silver medal was awarded to the American Sam ROLLINS (cheese dairy Cow Bell Fine Cheese, Portland, USA), followed by the English Nick BAYNE ( The Fine Cheese Co., Bath, UK) for the medal of bronze."
That's from Mondial Du Fromage in France,
SPL Tours Evénements
Concours Mondial du Meilleur Fromager 2025
26 boulevard Heurteloup - CS 24225
37042 Tours Cedex 1, France
Brown gravy is for meat
Sausage gravy is white sauce made from a roux of the sausage drippings, so more beige than white.
Biscuits are sort of in the bread group of food in the States - like dinner rolls.
British scones are sweet, desert group items.
English muffins ( crumpets) are also considered a bread.
Muffins are, too, even tho they can be sort of sweet, depending on added ingredients ( blue berries & toppings ).
There is country gravy which is just sausage gravy, minus the sausage. Used for chicken fried steak, mostly. Goes great with mashed potatoes, better than your standard dinner gravy, but that may be because i love black pepper.
It's only recently that people outside North America don't think mixing salty and sweet is odd. I don't like the wintergreen type mint flavor. You can buy corn dogs in the Iceland store, Kabir. I don't like Twizzlers, and I can only eat so much candy corn before I get ill. Candy corn is just sugar. I don't like sweet potatoes or root beer. I love properly made grits with jalapenos and cheese. Geography doesn't count toward culture. That's why Florida isn't southern. High fructose corn syrup is what the UK would call liquid glucose. Arnold Palmer was a famous golfer. Cracklins are also called pork rinds or, in the UK, pork scratchings. You CAN put pop tarts in a toaster, but a lot of Americans eat them cold.
Northern FL is very southern.
Cold pop tarts suck.
Kabir, a lot of people from Chicago would tell you to try tavern style pizza instead of, or in addition to deep dish. Also if in the northeast, try New Haven style pizza called apizza.
A lot of these aren’t really that loved, or only loved by children or eaten very rarely.
Candy corn is just sugar and a waxy substance. Disgusting.
Sweet potato casserole is good stuff, but no marshmallows on top please. Just sliced sweet potato, butter, a bit of brown sugar pumkin spice and a bit of cream poured in and bake and top with walnuts (or nothing).
Root beer is great, but you really need to tailor your choice to how much “root” flavor you want. A&W is a good choice for mass market brands, but Henry Weinhard root beer is fantastic if you don’t like a strong flavor as it tastes almost completely of honey and vanilla. If you want a strong tasting root beer, try Sprechers.
Cereal: I buy cereal with sugar about once per year because I still love Corn Pops and want to spoil myself sometimes. Usually I just have granola, or corn flakes, or grape nuts (wheat nuggets). Even granola often has criminal amounts of sugar, so I just eat it when I need something fast or as a snack.
Kabir hot pockets with tomato and cheese is basically a calzone, but there are ham and cheese hot pockets and other types.
I went to the store today. About half the cookie section was taken up by different flavors and types of Oreos.
You couldn't pay me to eat sweet potato casserole, Twizzlers, ultra sweet tea, twinkies, pop tarts, and most prepackaged sweet treats. Our white gravy is white because it's made with cream or milk. And Cheese Whiz comes in a jar. If you think our biscuits are dry, they weren't made properly. They are usually made with a lot of butter. And homemade ranch dressing is made with buttermilk, not mayo, and it isn't drowning in salt.
The ranch dressing along with bleau cheese dressing are popular with super spicy wings because it neutralizes the spiciness after youve eaten them.
I let other people eat those spicy wings.
I dislike blue cheese. My grandmother liked it.
Im American, I never got the mint thing. I like it in gum, toothpaste and breath mints, but not much else.
Yep, super overrated
The only minty food that is acceptable are the thin mint girl scout cookies.
@@jpcashesrisen Yummmmyyyyyyyyyyy
Mint has grown on me over time
@@jpcashesrisenin my best Tom Hanks voice, “well, yeah”.
No ranch is made with buttermilk not mayonnaise
candy corn is made from primarily sugar and corn syrup. with small amounts of other stuff.
If you try the root beer it needs to be ice cold.If you do run into that "medicine" mental block,give it about 5 trys before you give up..Some overcome the hardwiring.
Cold Root Beer or Root Beer Floats are one of my favorite treats.
Cracklings are called scratchings in the UK.
I grew up on the gulf coast and I never thought of Florida as a true southern state because of all the transplanted northern people who have moved there. I have lived in Florida for several years . I was born in Alabama and now live in gulf shores for the past 31 years.
We have brown gravy too, for potatoes, roasts and all kinds of other things. Candy corn does not have corn in it, it's just sweet.
The panhandle of Florida is culturally Southern, the area south of that is a combination of New Jersey and Havana circa 1955.
This American hates Ranch with a passion! I hate how prevalent it is. Buy a veggie tray, ranch. 🤢 get wings, Ranch
🤢 Salads, Ranch. 🤢
I believe the reason Florida is not considered as a part of the south is it has people from all over the US that go there for the winter or that go there to retire. And I personally do not know of any uniquely Florida things. ie foods or customs/mannerisms. Anyplace else in the country u have things that are unique to that area, accent, types of food. Like say the Cajuns have an accent and foods like jambalaya among other things, You go further east you get into Fried Chicken and sweet tea etc
Ask a darn NATIVE Floridian, not transplants for goodness sakes.
North Florida especially the panhandle is. The panhandle is Deep South. South Florida where it’s more Hispanic and touristy is not
Florida is not considered a Southern state ( except the panhandle part that touches Alabama & Georgia ) because during the 1800’s when the southern ‘culture’ was forming - think Gone with the Wind - Florida was not settled except for a few fishing villages/towns on the coast - the rest was swamp & forest, so by 1900, when people started coming down from the northern states to stay in the warm coastal resorts during the winter - their northern influence and later, the Latino influence from Cuba & the Caribbean islands kept it un-southern.
I am an American, and I hate Ranch dressing. My go-to is Blue Cheese, followed by Italian. And for those who say that blue cheese dressing is just ranch with cheese chunks, you're wrong and I will fight you. I will die upon this hill.
Pork rinds have no fat on the skin, but cracklins are the skin with the layer of fat beneath and are hard. what he is eating looks to be that hibrid that is treated before frying so the skin part do not get hard as a rock. normel potato chips are more oily than porkrins
Like a lot of things commercially made candy corn and homemade candy corn taste completely different. What he was talking about is fried pork rinds which are fried pieces of pork skin. Cracklings are another name for them. Alot of people that are on strict diets eat them because they are almost calorie free. Pork rinds give you a crunchy salty snack that gives you a feeling of being full without giving you all the bad things that potato chips or other munchies do. Bacon bjts are just bacon that’s been cooked up and then crumbled. They are used on a variety of things but the most common use is on or in salads. You can get fake ones but they are a sad replacement for the real thing.
I was traveling with a group of Australians to Thailand and I saw a can of root beer at a convenience store and I bought it, surprised it was even available in Thailand. I have always heard only Americans can tolerate the taste and I have always loved root beer. I asked the Australians to try it and it was a universal hard pass. They all hated it and nearly spit is out. They said it taste like mouth wash. They were amazed that I could drink it.
Florida is in the Caribbean once you get past Jacksonville
Candy corn is like eating sweet candle wax just a little worse than the Twizzlers! 😂 I do love mint chocolate chip ice cream and most mint chocolate candy!!!
I used to get chocolate mint Dilly Bars at Dairy Queen, but they stupidly discontinued them a year or two ago. I no longer go to DQ as a result!
@ me too! Damn them!!!
"Florida is the only place the further north you go, the further south you get."
Mint & chocolate? Yeah, I like it well enough but I don't go searching for it.
Corn dogs? Ehh, carnival food, not on the top of my list.
Twizzlers - haven't had licorice whips or similar since I was a kid, 60 years ago. They were ok, but again, I wouldn't shop for them. Same for candy corn, root beer, cakes w/candies, catsup/ketchup, Ranch dressing, any sort of coffee or tea, fried carnival food, twinkies,
Sweet potatoes are the only thing I can't eat. I can't even stand the smell of them.
Bloomin' Onion? Grits? Hell yeah!
When I was a kid in school, especially when I was playing sports, I ate a LOT of cereal. 3-4 boxes/week would have been normal.
Cheez Wiz is waxy garbage. Imagine eating a candle that the wax didn't really set right. Just don't.... ever.
Sugar in bread - Sorry, but I have to call BS. While some breads may vary, the last time I looked plain old white bread in the U.S. has less sugar than the same in England (search the product labels here and there.) I had to use a VPN to see the nutrition labels in your stores.
It's 'ranch' NOT 'raunch' as in 'raunchy'.
It's not real sweet tea unless there's an inch (25mm) of sugar in the bottom of the pitcher.
Chicago pizza? Hell no. Who needs more carbs? And chewing, and chewing and ch...
We have brown gravy here as well. We use it on beef and/or mashed potatoes, exclusively. If you really want to mess up your mind try Red Eye Gravy, it is the bomb on breakfast ham and sop up any remaining with your buttermilk biscuit.
Ranch is my favorite condiment. I live in Wisconsin. We love it here.
Loving ranch and cheese here in WI in my mind is equivalent to most Brits loving tea and scones.
I've liked mint chocolate ice cream since I was a kid. Rocky Road has been my favorite since I was a teenager
but I still like mint chocolate chip.
Geographically, Florida *is* part of the South. But due to the high number of people who have moved here from the Northeast and other areas, culturally it is far less so. And the Cuban influence in the Miami area adds even another non-Southern flavor.⬅
I'm an American who doesn't like Ranch dressing. But then, I don't really like mayo either, so probably the distaste is related.
Candy corn does have corn syrup in it.
lol, mint is in my favorites, along with lime and cayenne
We have many different gravies, turkey, chicken, pork, country (seasoned white flour gravy), sausage, and off course beef gravy which is the brown gravy you are familiar with.
Excuse me sir Miami is not the south, but have you been to Northern Florida WTH he obviously hasn't it IS THE SOUTH !
Reusable ice cubes are awesome! Especially in a cocktail or drinking things neat 😉
Love that they don't water down my drink. It is the best
RANCH IS NOT MAYO!!!! SHOTS FIRED, SHOTS FIRED!!!! 😂
Nobody in the south puts marsh turds on sweet potatoes. Some of us use use whipped cream though.
63 yr old here and never had chicken and waffles. Never heard of it before 10 yrs ago. Live in Michigan.
Its been a thing in the south a long time. It migrated north very slowly. I had it as a kid when my dad was in the navy and we were stationed in Georgia in the early 90s.
Nutella is terrible, yuck.
York mint patty and Almond Joy eaten together - fantastic!
As an American, I hate Cheese Whiz and love Hershey's Kisses, which are softer and less "waxy" than the candy bars. Not in love with European chocolate, some of which I find too rich, to the point of being sickening. I like peanut butter and chocolate separately but HATE them together. Marshmallows on sweet potatoes? Why on earth do you need to add sugar on top of a healthy veggie that's already naturally sweet? Mint blends well with chocolate flavor, but not much else. [Side note: I wanted to try something quintessentially English while at a nice London restaurant many years ago, so I ordered steak & kidney pie. Looked beautiful and was probably well-made, but it smelled and tasted awful!]
I know it’s confusing but…Florida is actually considered the East Coast..crazy isn’t it but that’s what it is
Florida is a whole other country. NOT the American South.
Cracklin’s are pigskin that’s been deep-fried. It also comes in barbecue flavored which I highly recommend over the regular. Why? Because as soon as you open a regular bag, it smells like barnyard. And not in a good way.
As far as biscuits and gravy goes, I’ve never seen one person from outside of the United States, Try it and say they didn’t like it. Every single foreigner said that they loved it, So why is it on the list? Also, Twinkies are liked by a lot of people outside of the US. Twislers Is inferior to red vine. If you try it get red vine, strawberry flavored.
Cracklings and pug skins are two different snacks. Cracklings are cute into short strips that are are, I say, about 1/16" inch thick and quite hard to eat. Pig skins, on the other hand, almost melt in you mouth.
I don’t like chicken and waffles. I’m not a fan of mint flavored things, except for maybe toothpaste. I like chocolate flavor the way it is. Mint only ruins it. I don’t like Twizzlers, and I can’t stand candy corn either. I will stop there. This is a good list of items that people from all over the world don’t like, including many Americans.
I like waffles, but not fried chicken, Love mint everything except toothpaste (buy a sensitive toothpaste). I admit I do like Twizzlers and dark chocolate not milk chocolate.
@ We’re almost complete opposites. I like chicken and waffles, just not together, and I like all types of chocolate, as long as the chocolate’s flavor is left alone. What about Chicago pizza? I love it, more than NY pizza.
Florida is not culturally the south.
The panhandle that touches Alabama and Georgia is Deep South. Most of northern Florida would be considered south. South Florida where it’s more Hispanic and touristy is not
I love sweet potato casserole.
But I hate ranch dressing.
When u come to Dallas u will find good grits especially at little shops
Not all of us Americans like these foods. Ex i hate twinkies.
we have brown gravy we pour over mashed potatoes and meat like meatloaf
Pork Rinds are different from Cracklins.. Pork Rinds are made from skin and are dry and crunchy. Try Barbecue pork rinds. Delicious.
Oh candy corn...fond memories for Halloween. Oh Sweet potato casserole yum with marshmallows. Root beer yum!
no grits 😝 Well, I use to like frosted corn flakes.....that's about it.
cheesewiz is canned cheese and is gross.
Ice is good in drinks. Ranch dressing is yum, ketchup is yum! Love mayo. lol
Oh I use to love Twinkies, vanilla cake with white fluff inside. No poptarts too sweet.
I don't like biscuits n gravy. No fried.
Ranch = Mayo AND Sour Cream with lovely herbs. It rocks on SO many things.
Twinkies, and all Hostess products SUCK. Ever since they changed hands the recipes changed for the worse, and all products got smaller. I miss the Ho Ho's from the 60's and 70's!!!
We call it "Pizza Pie", even if it isn't deep.
OK, WHEN we say the South, we are talking about Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, as far as FOOD goes, there were other Southern states if you are talking about the Civil War, but when referring to "THE SOUTH" depends greatly on the context of the conversation, and when you are talking about "THE DEEP SOUTH" those would be the states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Marshmallow is also the best 😂
High fructose corn syrup is highly concentrated corn sugar aka it’s made from corn and USA is a high yielding source of corn that’s made things made with high fructose corn syrup are cheaper than cane sugar or other sugar
Ranch can vary in quality, but Wingstop ranch IS that good
(although I would never pour it over like a psychopath, the point with wings and fries is to dip. Pouring it over a salad is obviously the original point, but being a dip has surpassed being a dressing.)
Once you cross the frost line, you're going back north.
I tried black pudding when i visited Plymouth in 2023 - it was alright, I'd be willing to eat it again.
All licorice including Twizzlers is gross. I do love candy corn and no actual corn involved other than corn syrup.
The only ranch I like is ranch dip which is sour cream and the dry ranch herb seasoning.
The fake ice cubes are great because they don't water down the drink.