@neolithiumproduction And those marshmallows in the video appeared to be homemade, too. Yum. Just give me a S'mores or a cup of hot chocolate, please. 😋
Marshmallows are practically 99% sugar. So by toasting them you are melting them and bringing out the caramel notes of the sugar. THAT is what makes them so wonderfully delicious when toasted. Not to mention everything is better toasted. Coconut, Bread, beautiful ladies....
The Graham crackers originated in the U.S. thus most other countries don't even know what it is. Imagine eating a marshmallow, chocalate and what most people think of a cracker. It wouldn't be the same. lol
@@Arcturus-One I think maybe a graham cracker is most like a biscoff cookie or digestive biscuit by European standards. It's not an exact comparison, as graham crackers are made with a coarser meal than either of those, but the comparison is pretty close.
@@dylnfstr Only the Brits could make a cookie/cracker sound boring by calling it a "Digestive biscuit". Of course you're digesting it. Do your other biscuits NOT digest?
Ok: 1. The top desserts should be cheesecake, brownies, & s'mores! 2. No one calls brownies "squares" 3. We love marshmallow fluff in tons of things, but toasted marshmallow is NOTHING like the plain stuff 4. Yes, I watched Cookie Monster in Sesame St!
Just did some research because I was curious. Brownies are a more specific term. "Squares" refers to a wider variety of desserts - including Brownies, but also a wide variety of other... square shaped desserts. - there are some requirements beyond just being square shaped... but uh, interesting thing I came across was that - apparently if you bake a cake with the size and shape of brownies, you can technically consider it a brownie - So I guess, cakes also count as Squares.
@@EMShelley That is nothing like fudge. It's a no bake dessert at best. Brownies with a Peanut Butter Swirl is amazing and Peanut Butter Fudge is amazing. I can't believe fudge didn't make the list.
S'mores are very common across the entire country. They usually make appearance at a campfire but not exclusively. They are part of almost every American childhood.
@@coollady2179 I'm gonna talk to that inner child of yours for a sec. Hey coolgirl, I'm sorry you never got to try a s'more. But guess what, it's not too late! Even if you like none of the components, it's worth it.
Are we aware of S'more in the USA? ...let's put it this way. I have never in my life even considered the possibility that any human in a civilized country has never heard of a S'more. Just had some with the wife and kids 2 days ago!
Much like peanut butter & jelly sandwiches... ;) People ... people have ... have never heard of this, or ever tried one?? **Blank stare** "Whaaaaa--??" Or Grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup... Just some good simple comfort foods that like literally everyone has eaten at some point in the USA, usually as a kid, but as a tradition into adulthood.
@@MGmirkin American here, and I've had grilled cheese - but never in my life have I considered tomato soup as an actual thing. (Though could just be my bias, I hate tomatoes so I avoided most things that are primarily tomatoes)
best things on their list. I will say that the very best rice crispy treats are made by my grandma, I never even had a Kellogg's made one until I went away for college and it was so disappointing and way worse.
The closest candy to a campfire s'more I ever purchased at a candy store was a Fanny Farmer Easter chocolate egg loaded with marshmallow creme sitting on a graham cracker. A wonderful combination of taste treats.
@@everydayamerican8639 My grandmas never even heard of them. If you come from from another country, it's understable if you don't know what they are. I wasn't allowed to have growing up anything with sugar unless it was like a bday cake and my mom baked it. As a kid, you don't desire anything unless you've had it before. Halloween, my brothers and I had to turn our bags over to my mom while she weeded out anything she didn't deem healthy. Chocolate was okay, candy's? Nope.
The video seems to have lumped all square/block desserts together ("brownies/squares"), bc she also mentioned lemons (lemon bars) alongside the pb squares. I personally wouldn't put them all together like that bc of completely different texture/density/etc.
I 100% disagree with you. S’mores and rice crispy treats are 100% delicious! Cooked marshmallows have a different taste and texture and putting it together with other ingredients makes it taste even better. We love s’mores so much we have multiple things with its flavor like pop tarts, cookies, cake, pie, and ice cream. Rice crispy treats have multiple different variations where they can have chocolate, Reese, nuts, caramel, and cinnamon. So please try them out before placing any judgement.
0:23 yes, they’re a camping staple and they’re delicious. How dare you? 4:20 Pie is mostly just for holidays. Most people aren’t out eating pie for dessert on a random Saturday.
@@BoraBaeOT7 Maybe it’s regional for me, but I see pies being sold all the time here. There’s an apple walnut pie in my kitchen now, and there were like ten different options being sold at the event I went to this past weekend. It’s also super common on menus.
My cousin is from Switzerland, and we took her camping one summer when she was in the USA for a visit. We introduced her to s'mores. When she went back home, she brought graham crackers and marshmallows with her (The Swiss outperform Hershey's any day of the week. No need to bring that.). Every year for a while she asked us to send her graham crackers since she couldn't find them in Switzerland. Later she found a recipe so she could make her own from scratch. All of her friends back home LOVED them. Don't knock it 'til you try it! EDIT: The key is to roast the marshmallow really slowly over the fire so it's thoroughly heated and gooey on the inside and crispy on the outside, and then let it melt the chocolate before eating the s'mores. SO FREAKING GOOD!!! Don't be a barbarian like my brother and let the marshmallow catch fire and then put it on the chocolate. If you do that, you have a marshmallow with a burned exterior and a cold interior. 🤢 My brother's insane. How one prepares s'mores can tell you a lot about a person. :)
😂 this comment was delightfully everything American. Down to the sibling ribbing. Felt like I was 12 years old again with my brother and sister watching the fire, looking for sticks to roast marshmallows on.
Both S'mores and Rice Crispy Treats are staples for most people growing up in America and if you think for one second that they're not worth mentioning you'd be drastically mistaken as both are DELIGHTFUL! Especially if they're fresh home made versions. Honestly, to many Americans pudding is way lower tier than either S'mores or Rice Crispy Treats.
Yeah I'd 1000% take rice crispy treats and s'mores over pudding and I think the majority of Americans would probably agree with me on that. Actually as a pastry chef who has put versions of all three on menus before, I can be relatively confident in saying at least the city of Austin agrees with me on that, even though both banana pudding and peanut butter pudding were relatively popular.
Marie Callendar makes the best microwavable chicken pot pie AND any other pie flavor (cold/hot) hands down! Growing up we had an actual restaurant less than two hours away and we'd bring home a giant cheesecake that lasted the entire week. They perfected the art as far as I'm concerned.
Rice Crispy treats are usually one of the first things we learn to make in the kitchen, as kids, because they're so easy to make. You melt a little butter in a pan, drop an entire bag of marshmallows in there and stir over low heat until everything is melted, then you dump a bunch of rice crispies in the melted stuff until it's all coated with the marshmallow, and dump it into a glass pan to cool, pressing down on it with hands coated with butter. After it cools completely, it's done.
Oh my gods as they say, don’t knock it until you try it! The best smores are over a campfire. The gooey smokey sweetness of the marshmallow, the warmed chocolate and the crunch and cinnamon of the graham cracker. They’re called smores because you’ll want some more! Rice Krispies, made by Kelloggs. Another ooey gooie treat…they’re good at room temp but wow warmed. YUM!!!! You can add all sorts of candies in it!
It's actually a graham cracker, a square of chocolate and a heated over the campfire marshmallow! Marshmallows heated over a campfire are awesome whereas just eating them from the bag they are kind of yucky! Loved your reaction Andre!
I was laughing that 2 of the "honorable mentions" were ice cream alternatives then ice cream itself was the number one since sorbet is used for kids with dairy allergies and people going for froyo for health reasons
@@Ladywizard Bingo! As a kid, myself, 1 brother and my dad are very lactose intolerant. Never had ice cream, but always had popsicles, sherbet as a kid. Even ice cream man, I knew what to go for on truck. Now, thank goodness for froyo!
I recommend buckeyes, or peanut butter balls! It's basically a little ball of peanut butter rolled in melted chocolate. (Someone in the midwest thought that this dessert looked like buckeye nuts, and the name has stuck.) Like all great desserts, there are many variations, but I haven't found a bad version yet!
You seemed confused on the Baked Alaska. Basically, it's a layer of plain cake covered with a mound of ice-cream, then covered with a creamy whipped meringue. It's then placed in freezer until very firmly frozen after which it's then placed in a very hot oven until meringue is toasted.
S'mores: for anyone who doesn't know, a graham cracker is a mildly sweet cracker/cookie made from coarse ground wheat flour. They're often crumbled up to use as pie crust. The great thing about s'mores is how the hot marshmallow melts the chocolate just a bit, and picks up that wonderful toasted marshmallow flavor.
It is an easy fun activity for kids at a campfire. So lots and lots of kids had these alots at picnics and outdoor events. And rice krispie treat is easy to make with kids helping, so lots of nostalgia. Both treats are also fairly cheap so nearly everyone had the common experience
S'mores are amazing. Sometimes we swap the chocolate bar for another form of chocolate, like a Reece's peanut butter cup, or a Ghirardelli caramel chocolate square.
Smores were a staple of my childhood. Every camping trip, 4th of July or any summer celebration, we had Smores to eat with the food. There so good when done right.
The thing with rice crispy treats is the hot butter mixes with the marshmallow and gives it this great caramel taste. I don't particularly like plain marshmallows myself, but when they get all caramelized and paired with other ingredients they're great.
Marshmallows are NEVER supposed to be eaten cold. They're designed to melt over the fire and they are awesome! Much better than cold marshmallows. You MUST trie them!
I thought Marshmallows were designed to be eaten at room temperature - rather, to act akin to a sweet bandaid for injuries in your mouth - atleast in their origin.
@@maxtomchris oh, wow. I had no idea this was the original purpose of marshmallows. Just looked it up and apparently it was used in Ancient Egypt to soothe coughs, sore throats, and even to heal wounds. Crazy.
Baked Alaska, originally called Alaska Florida because of the preparation of the dessert having contrasting temperatures, was a dessert made to celebrate the acquisition of Alaska from Russia by the USA in the 1860s, making it our 49th state. It was first made in the fabled Delmonico’s restaurant in New York City, it consists of ice cream, cake and meringue. The “baked” part comes from caramelizing the meringue by setting it on fire for presentation. The Ice cream is frozen at such a temperature that it doesn’t melt when the meringue comes in contact with the heat for the short period it happens. Variants exist in the UK where they use leftover Christmas Pudding instead of cake and China has its own variant as well.
S'mores are a fantastic outdoor treat. They taste great, but a big part of why they're so good is the ritual of toasting the marshmallow over an open fire outdoor, which many (maybe most) Americans have amazing childhood memories of doing on a beautiful summer night. They really aren't the same if you try to have them inside.
Or, as Spock calls them in Star Trek 5, a “Marshmelon”. Despite how bad that movie is, the scenes of Kirk, Spock, & McCoy spending their shore leave camping in Yosemite are INCREDIBLE!
Baked Alaska is a dessert consisting of ice cream and cake topped with browned meringue. The dish is made of ice cream placed in a pie dish, lined with slices of sponge cake or Christmas pudding, and topped with meringue. After having been placed in the freezer, the entire dessert is then placed in an extremely hot oven for a brief time, long enough to firm and caramelize the meringue but not long enough to begin melting the ice cream. Another common method of browning the meringue is to torch the dessert, sometimes even lighting it on fire for presentational purposes.
The secret of marshmallows is that they are bought and sold in the U.S. almost exclusively to use as an ingredient in baking. They are almost never eaten straight but rather used as a baking ingredient that supplies both sweetness and binding effect to stick other ingredients together. The toasting of the marshmallow is key to the s'more, and I'm willing to guess the reason why *most* of all marshmallows in America are bought and sold. When toasted, the interior of the marshmallow becomes hot and soft and gooey while the outside becomes crispy and takes on a caramelized sugar flavor. The ideal is to make these outside around a campfire because toasting the marshmallow over wood smoke specifically adds a woodsmoked flavor that cannot really be replicated in any other way. So that is why s'mores are on the list!
@@EricMcConnaughey Some of us can't stand plain marshmallows, and don't get me started on the abomination that is cereal marshmallows like in Lucky Charms. In hot chocolate is completely different though since they basically melt into foam.
@@Reyn_Roadstorm Lucky Charms Rules! They're magically delicious! Oops, nobody tell the manufacturer, I don't wanna get hit for copyright infringement, or some such BS.
Smores have an awesome crunchyness when toasted in fire with the soft gooey center that changes texture once cooked. It is definitely worth trying it with melted marshmellow done in that way. Traditionally cooked over a campfire on a marshmellow stick.
S’mores are a very popular treat for children. They are in reality overly sweet, but adults get nostalgic, remembering how much they loved them when they were kids. toasting marshmallows over a campfire is one of the best things about camping as a child.
My favorite dessert growing up is called Special K bars. Some people call them Scotcheroos. It’s peanut butter mixed with Special K cereal (like corn flakes, but not sweet), corn syrup, granulated sugar (Yes, these are both sugar. It’s not my recipe. 🤷♀️), and vanilla. That’s made into bars, and then topped with melted chocolate, and some recipes combine butterscotch chips (for Scotcheroos). If this list sounds good, you’ll think you’ve died and gone to heaven in most American bakeries. S’mores and Rice Crispies are incredibly nostalgic for Americans. It’s like all the good feelings of childhood. As much as people say as “American as Apple Pie”, Apple pie is really only thought of on like the 4th of July of for a summer barbecue. Pumpkin is mostly consumed only on Thanksgiving, some on Christmas. Pecan is also mostly for the Holidays. Whereas moms all over the country make rice crispy treats for kids on a regular basis all year long, and a common tradition year round when people gather around a fire is to make s’mores. As an American, donuts being in this list just seems wrong to me. Yes they are sweet. But they are considered a breakfast food only. Most shops open at 5am- with all donuts for the day freshly made- and close by 2pm. So it seems so out of place to have them on a list of desserts! 😂 Dessert is at dinner in the evening.
I give you points for the donuts facts. We made a peanut butter butterscotch haystack with small marshmallows and chow mein noodles in the fall every year. Not sure if it was a Texas thing or my mom brought in down here from up north as a child. They are soooooo good.
I have hosted foreign exchange students from all over the world and their favorite American sweet was the s’more. I even got them sneaking some fresh strawberries from the garden and putting them inside their s’mores. Now as your statement for Americans, taking lot of food from other cultures yes because America is a melting pot for so many different cultures/countries and they bring their foods to America so yes, we have adopted so many different things, but we have tweaked them through the years .
i mean just look at lasagna, and how our lasagna is almost unrecognizable to modern day italians. theirs is more of a light side with much thinner pasta, and ours is much more of a standalone meal with thicker pasta and different ingredients.
@@dead-claudia Yeah, it's true for a lot of our adopted foods. Pizza is another example. We've gone off and made things the Italians wouldn't even recognize as pizza, like deep dish.
My family has a fire pit in our backyard, right by a blackberry patch. At the end of summer, we always make s'mores with blackberries in them. So good!
Part of the charm of s'mores is that preparing one for yourself over the campfire can be tricky. You need to toast the marshmallow's surface and melt the inside, enough so the heat will melt the chocolate when you assemble the s'more, but *without* getting your skewer too close to the flame and setting the marshmallow's surface on fire. Do it just right, and you feel like you've accomplished something. So there's two kinds of satisfaction in one: a demonstration of skill *and* a tasty treat!
Smores are a nostalgic treat. Not really something you'd get at a restaurant or a food cart. Part of their allure comes from the fact you're making them yourself as part of an outdoor activity like camping. They're simple and easy, and you can't quite get the same taste from anything other than an authentic campfire-roasted more, so anytime you make them tends to be memorable. As for Rice-krispy treats. Put aside your disdain for marshmallows. The best part of krispy treats is the texture and taste.
10:20 - The hole in the middle of some doughnuts is there to ensure a more even cooking, but not all doughnuts have to have one. "Donuts" popularized the toroidal shape outside the US, but American doughnuts often come without a hole. In fact, in the 90's, the Donuts brand released a product called "American Donut" in Portugal, the commercial for which, set in an American diner and spoken in English throughout, featured a customer asking for a Donut, receiving the hole-less American Donut and asking "where's the hole" exactly like André did, prompting his annoyed server to quickly and aggressively cut out a hole in the middle of the doughnut with a drinking glass. At the comedic finale of the commercial, the customer demanded his hole back.
The thing with marshmallows is that it tastes a little different depending on how you cook them. S’mores roast marshmallows over an open fire, which gives it an almost smoky but still very sweet and gooey taste. Rice crispy treats heat the marshmallow with butter and the unsweetened rice crispy cereal tones down the sweetness ever so slightly. Marshmallows in cereal I’m not even sure if you can call real marshmallows because they’re crunchy and condensed, but still are made of pure sugar. Then there’s regular marshmallows which are spongy and the taste is super strong because it’s not combined with anything. Also, I ate with whoever replied to a comment about fruity pebble rice crispy treats. At a gas station that was more common in the south until recently (Casey’s), they have unicorn bites or something like that… it’s basically fruity pebble crispy treats with mini marshmallows mixed in and they’re drizzled with icing afterwards. Yes, it’s a LOT of sugar, but it is SO worth it 😋
S’mores are a heavenly sent dream that make camping worth all the effort. So sooo soooooo good. And I don’t like marshmallows, Hershey chocolate, or gram crackers; but you put them together and it’s heaven. You know what’s better than donuts? S’more donuts! Better than pudding? S’more pudding. Cheesecake? S’more cheesecake! Ok I may have a s’more problem.
There’s a sweet potato dish that has marshmallows in it too. Not my cup of tea, but it’s an iconic dessert here in the South. You’ll always see it at thanksgiving dinners or church potlucks.
A couple days ago a German lady asked me how Americans make cheese cake. I said with Philadelphia cream cheese. Or off-brand. She said, "CREAM CHEESE?" "Yes." "CREAM CHEESE!~?!??!?!?##" "Yes!" Germans use a type of yogurt instead, which makes it significantly more sour. Still good, just not American.
Agree! I like New York cheesecake. I had a friend from Jersey that used to make them from scratch, springform pan and all. Topped with fresh berries, chocolate or other fruits, or plain! Yums!
@@LythaWausW I would never replace the cream cheese with yogurt. I have replaced the sour cream with full fat yogurt(basically the same thing), but never the cream cheese. In fact if moving to another country means I cannot find cream cheese I will stay in the U.S forever. Because that is a torture I do not want to endure. Zero carb cheesecake is the one sweet I allow myself. 1lb whipped cream cheese, 1/2c sour cream or yogurt, 2 eggs. That's it. Super smooth and slightly sweet.
S’mores are really good. They are traditionally cooked outdoors but I make them on the stovetop in the winter. Regarding Sesame Street, maybe they think your accent sounds like The Count ❤
The Count jumped into my brain too, when he referred to Sesame Street. But, then I remembered hearing that Portuguese sounds like Spanish with a Russian accent. 🤗😉🤣
17:57 - Ah, the Baked Alaska...! That's a deceptive treat of ice cream covered in meringue, which is then either crested in the oven or outright flambé. The outside is hot and crispy, but, because the meringue is such a good insulant, the inside is still frozen. So good...!
Homemade rice crispy treats are so much better than that nasty stuff they sell packaged in the grocery store. Stir in a half a cup of chopped pecans to the melting marshmallows before stirring in the rice crispies.
It would have been better to ask, "Who has never had a s'more?" I don't know anyone who doesn't love them. As an adult, I prefer to preassemble in foil packets and stick them in the fire coals for cleaner eating. Regardless of the technique used to make them, they are yummy!
The humble S’more is even better when you play with its base ingredients. Instead of a regular chocolate bar, you use one filled with caramel or nuts or even a Reese’s cup. The peanut butter variations of S’mores are an offshoot of a thing we have on the New England coast called a Fluffernutter, only instead of a bread sandwich with marshmallow fluff and peanut butter, its Graham Crackers with PB and Marshmallows and adding chocolate to it.
Chicken pot pie was a favorite of my childhood. It has a buttery, flaky crust with a cream-based savory stew of chicken and vegetables inside. You can buy them frozen, but freshly-made is better.
Hand-cranking ice cream in the backyard on a blistering hot day? Perfection. Then you go drink some ice-cold water straight from the garden hose. Childhood in America.
@@guyperson6417shucking corn, but it was worth it for my grandmother's home made creamed corn, made using silver queen heirloom variety sweet white corn grown in the 5 acre plot out back that grew everything wonderful. Okra, tomatoes, field peas,corn and so much more.
Can confirm! The S'more as others have said, is a staple of childhood summers and the great outdoors! S'mores are amazing, they're simple and most of all delicious! Truly one of the highlights of camping or hanging out in your back yard fire pit (if you have one) or just over a grill!
The big thing about s'mores is that they are usually part of a young American's childhood camping experience. So they're associated with fond memories of warm campfires and fun with family and friends. Plus food tastes better in the wilderness for some reason and you get to make them yourself. For an elementary school kid, using fire and skewers to make your own dessert is a big deal.
The first recipe for s'mores is found in a Girscout handbook. But it's not proven to be the invention of the treat, nor was it attributed to a particular person. It was likely already around before 😻
Andre, toasted marshmallow is quite different from untrusted in taste. Additionally, the combination of melted chocolate, toasted marshmallow, and the crunchy texture of the slightly sweet Graham crackers, is what makes it so very good ! Before judging, try a taste test!
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I'm enjoying your reactions to the different varieties of the desserts you were familiar with. They make me laugh and realize at the same time how I take it for granted how not everyone is familiar with American desserts
You'd be hard pressed to find an American who hasn't had a s'more. They're usually a treat reserved for camping or other outdoor outings, but if you have a fire pit (or fireplace?) at home, it can be an easy treat to make whenever. But now there are other gadgets that help us have them whenever, such as air fryers. But while camping is always the best. Same with rice krispies treats. Everyone has had them. There are lots of varieties that have come along since the original, using chocolate or fruit flavored cereal, adding chocolate chips, sprinkles, or other bits of candy, topped with fudge or caramel... It's very versatile. AND yet again, the same with Sesame Street. Almost everyone who was a kid in the past 40-50 years watched Sesame Street growing up. It's up there with Mr. Rogers when it comes to iconic kids' shows lasting several decades.
You are a bit hasty in judging the s'mores, I think. A toasted marshmallow is wildly different from an untoasted one in terms of texture and even flavor. (Toasting caramelizes the sugar, a bit.) Got a like from me because of the mind-blown reaction of discovering the brownie alternatives of blondies/ lemon bars/ peanut butter bars. There are a thousand other variations as well, involving fruit or crossing over with cookies, cheesecake and yes, there is even a s'mores bar.
Precisely on the s'mores. It's so different that people have preferences in their s'mores regarding how well done the marshmallow is before they consider it perfect.
S'mores are delicious, but they have not been the same since Hersheys changed the shape of their chocolate bars. It use to be thinner and divided in little squares, 4 of which fit perfectly on half a graham cracker, it made for the perfect ratio of the 3 items with the American size and shape of marshmallow. Also it's important to toast the marshmallow slowly and gently so as not to scorch but become completely hot and liquid inside and will then melt the chocolate when placed on top.
Baked Alaska is an ice cream cake (layer of cake with a layer of ice cream) usually shaped in a dome pan, covered in meringue, and usually served with some type of flammable booze on fire
5:34 you can also make them with pretty much any kind of candy, you can dip them in chocolate, you can make sweet sandwiches with them, there’s many things you can do with rice krispy treats.
S'mores are an "all-american" thing. Almost everyone has had them. Ice cream is Hella popular here and it's been a staple since they substituted ice scream for alcohol during prohibition. Hearing you say "not hot marshmallows, normal marshmallow" is wild to me - they're literally designed to be roasted over a fire with a stick! What is Europe doing?! XD
S'mores are mostly the "dessert" at a picnic or summer bonfire, although there are kitchen gizmos that allow you to make them at home without an open fire.
S’more are a staple of childhood summers. Children will become feral after eating a couple of them
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That is when you send them to catch lightening bugs in old peanut butter jars! It is all about the timing, lol....
You bet! Anyone who has daughters has filled up on s’mores, and will be pestered about going camping (for s’mores) until you go! Yummm.
@@auburnkim1989true also
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Roasted marshmallows are nothing like regular marshmallows
So true. I hate normal marshmellows. But melty, toasted marshmallow is a whole different beast.
@@neolithiumproduction me too
@neolithiumproduction And those marshmallows in the video appeared to be homemade, too. Yum. Just give me a S'mores or a cup of hot chocolate, please. 😋
Make sure you burn your marshmallows. It gives the s'mores an extra bite.
Marshmallows are practically 99% sugar. So by toasting them you are melting them and bringing out the caramel notes of the sugar. THAT is what makes them so wonderfully delicious when toasted.
Not to mention everything is better toasted. Coconut, Bread, beautiful ladies....
We have a restaurant called the Cheesecake Factory that has 25 different cheesecakes. Including S'more.
Nah, they have way more than that!
This comment rules
The fact this comment doesn't more likes (223 by time of posting) is criminal
@@jessicatillman800 that's the number on their current online menu. that's not enough? I think there's at least 3 chocolate types.
Don't knock S'mores and Rice Crispy treats until you try them.
The Graham crackers originated in the U.S. thus most other countries don't even know what it is. Imagine eating a marshmallow, chocalate and what most people think of a cracker. It wouldn't be the same. lol
Came here to say exactly that
@@Arcturus-One I think maybe a graham cracker is most like a biscoff cookie or digestive biscuit by European standards. It's not an exact comparison, as graham crackers are made with a coarser meal than either of those, but the comparison is pretty close.
@@Arcturus-One tell them digestive biscuit instead of graham cracker.
@@dylnfstr Only the Brits could make a cookie/cracker sound boring by calling it a "Digestive biscuit". Of course you're digesting it. Do your other biscuits NOT digest?
Started really bad? Bless your heart. You’ve obviously never tried S’mores or Rice Krispie treats.
If you like rice crispy treats, you should try some made of fruity pebbles, they're even more amazing, and colorful!
Aw
He’ll never realize what you said cause if he doesn’t know *smore’s* he obviously doesn’t speak southern
Sweet potato casserole with marshmallows also came to mind.
@@girlsamurai19 while sweet, that's not usually served as a dessert.
He needs to come to the states to camp. I'll accept him bringing wurst and beer. We can have a cultural exchange
Ok:
1. The top desserts should be cheesecake, brownies, & s'mores!
2. No one calls brownies "squares"
3. We love marshmallow fluff in tons of things, but toasted marshmallow is NOTHING like the plain stuff
4. Yes, I watched Cookie Monster in Sesame St!
Just did some research because I was curious. Brownies are a more specific term. "Squares" refers to a wider variety of desserts - including Brownies, but also a wide variety of other... square shaped desserts. - there are some requirements beyond just being square shaped... but uh, interesting thing I came across was that - apparently if you bake a cake with the size and shape of brownies, you can technically consider it a brownie - So I guess, cakes also count as Squares.
Nah, top desserts are cheesecake, key lime pie and banana pudding.
Also the peanut butter and chocolate square is not a brownie. It's closer to fudge.
@@EMShelley That is nothing like fudge. It's a no bake dessert at best. Brownies with a Peanut Butter Swirl is amazing and Peanut Butter Fudge is amazing. I can't believe fudge didn't make the list.
When they said "squares", I thought of lemon bar type deserts. I would never group those in with brownies.
S'mores are very common across the entire country. They usually make appearance at a campfire but not exclusively. They are part of almost every American childhood.
I’ve never had one and I’m 65. 😂
Exactly! I think I had my first smore before I even had my first tooth haha
We had them every summer at my family cottage ❤❤❤❤
@@coollady2179 I'm gonna talk to that inner child of yours for a sec. Hey coolgirl, I'm sorry you never got to try a s'more. But guess what, it's not too late! Even if you like none of the components, it's worth it.
@@coollady2179 I don't think smores were around in the 60s and 70s. Never heard of them until later in the 80s.
I’ve lived in America almost all my life, then I moved to Germany. I taught my friends how to make smores and they LOVED them, now it’s tradition
Are we aware of S'more in the USA?
...let's put it this way. I have never in my life even considered the possibility that any human in a civilized country has never heard of a S'more.
Just had some with the wife and kids 2 days ago!
SAME LIKE WTF YOU MEAN THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO NEVER HAD ONE BEFORE!?!?!?!?!
Much like peanut butter & jelly sandwiches... ;)
People ... people have ... have never heard of this, or ever tried one?? **Blank stare** "Whaaaaa--??"
Or Grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup...
Just some good simple comfort foods that like literally everyone has eaten at some point in the USA, usually as a kid, but as a tradition into adulthood.
Wait. There was a time in human history when people didn't sit around campfires making s'mores?!
@@MGmirkin American here, and I've had grilled cheese - but never in my life have I considered tomato soup as an actual thing. (Though could just be my bias, I hate tomatoes so I avoided most things that are primarily tomatoes)
Well known in Canada as well.
"You're killing me, Smalls!"
Thank You. I was like someone better have said it. I scrolled down a bunch and almost gave up then I saw this.
"How can I have s'more of something, I haven't had"
I wore that T-shirt today! One of my favorite movies growing up.
8:24 we don't agree, s'mores and rice crispy treats are amazing 💕
best things on their list. I will say that the very best rice crispy treats are made by my grandma, I never even had a Kellogg's made one until I went away for college and it was so disappointing and way worse.
When my daughter felt the need to try and bribe me for a favor she usually led off with home made rice krispies treats. Pretty effective tactic 🤩
The closest candy to a campfire s'more I ever purchased at a candy store was a Fanny Farmer Easter chocolate egg loaded with marshmallow creme sitting on a graham cracker. A wonderful combination of taste treats.
S’mores are fantastic. I recommend using brown butter and a little salt for rice crispy treats
@@everydayamerican8639 My grandmas never even heard of them. If you come from from another country, it's understable if you don't know what they are. I wasn't allowed to have growing up anything with sugar unless it was like a bday cake and my mom baked it. As a kid, you don't desire anything unless you've had it before. Halloween, my brothers and I had to turn our bags over to my mom while she weeded out anything she didn't deem healthy. Chocolate was okay, candy's? Nope.
That 'peanut butter brownie' as pictured at 13:24 is not actually a brownie or even a 'square' - it's a kind of fudge. My wife makes them every year.
We called them scotcharoos where I grew up in the Midwest. They're a staple, but definitely not a brownie like this video suggests.
The video seems to have lumped all square/block desserts together ("brownies/squares"), bc she also mentioned lemons (lemon bars) alongside the pb squares. I personally wouldn't put them all together like that bc of completely different texture/density/etc.
I 100% disagree with you. S’mores and rice crispy treats are 100% delicious! Cooked marshmallows have a different taste and texture and putting it together with other ingredients makes it taste even better. We love s’mores so much we have multiple things with its flavor like pop tarts, cookies, cake, pie, and ice cream. Rice crispy treats have multiple different variations where they can have chocolate, Reese, nuts, caramel, and cinnamon. So please try them out before placing any judgement.
I don't think you'll find any American who hates s'mores.
0:23 yes, they’re a camping staple and they’re delicious. How dare you?
4:20 Pie is mostly just for holidays. Most people aren’t out eating pie for dessert on a random Saturday.
Except pecan pie in the south. It's a staple down here, though so is banana pudding with nilla wafers.
@@NovusIgnis now I want pecan pie.
I buy pies all the time. It’d be awful if I had to wait for the holidays.
@@Lauren.E.O I said most. I recognize that outliers exist.
@@BoraBaeOT7 Maybe it’s regional for me, but I see pies being sold all the time here. There’s an apple walnut pie in my kitchen now, and there were like ten different options being sold at the event I went to this past weekend. It’s also super common on menus.
You are not American until you have had s'mores. It is the cheapest easiest dessert.
Guess I’m not an American. 😂.
Not a fan of s’smores.
@@coollady2179 Having a s’mores is a requirement to become a U.S. citizen.
PREACH 😂@@KPA78
It is a emergency survival food if lost in the woods.
Do not forget about Ice creams final form, THE ICE CREAM CAKE!
S'More's and Rice Crispy treats is a bad start? Bite your tongue buddy. No we can not agree.. They're awesome..
Homemade Rice Krispies Treats are addictive . . . like crack . . . only better. :) (Don't bother with the prepackaged ones, they're crap.)
@@defletcher2902 It be like that when grandma starts turning the Halloween cereals into rice krispy treats
I’m with you on this
My cousin is from Switzerland, and we took her camping one summer when she was in the USA for a visit. We introduced her to s'mores. When she went back home, she brought graham crackers and marshmallows with her (The Swiss outperform Hershey's any day of the week. No need to bring that.). Every year for a while she asked us to send her graham crackers since she couldn't find them in Switzerland. Later she found a recipe so she could make her own from scratch. All of her friends back home LOVED them. Don't knock it 'til you try it!
EDIT: The key is to roast the marshmallow really slowly over the fire so it's thoroughly heated and gooey on the inside and crispy on the outside, and then let it melt the chocolate before eating the s'mores. SO FREAKING GOOD!!! Don't be a barbarian like my brother and let the marshmallow catch fire and then put it on the chocolate. If you do that, you have a marshmallow with a burned exterior and a cold interior. 🤢 My brother's insane. How one prepares s'mores can tell you a lot about a person. :)
😂 this comment was delightfully everything American. Down to the sibling ribbing. Felt like I was 12 years old again with my brother and sister watching the fire, looking for sticks to roast marshmallows on.
Both S'mores and Rice Crispy Treats are staples for most people growing up in America and if you think for one second that they're not worth mentioning you'd be drastically mistaken as both are DELIGHTFUL! Especially if they're fresh home made versions. Honestly, to many Americans pudding is way lower tier than either S'mores or Rice Crispy Treats.
I cant eat pudding, the texture makes me gag. S'mores and rice crispies are 1000% better, imo
Amen!
Yeah I'd 1000% take rice crispy treats and s'mores over pudding and I think the majority of Americans would probably agree with me on that. Actually as a pastry chef who has put versions of all three on menus before, I can be relatively confident in saying at least the city of Austin agrees with me on that, even though both banana pudding and peanut butter pudding were relatively popular.
Most pudding like jello or snack pack are yucky. All chem's. I like Kozy-Shack in the refrigerated section.
@@defletcher2902 I make my own pudding from scratch and I still would take S'mores or Rice Crispy treats over it most of the time.
Potpies are delicious. They are a pie with meat, vegetables, and a thick creamy sauce in a flaky, light pastry crust.
Marie Callendar makes the best microwavable chicken pot pie AND any other pie flavor (cold/hot) hands down! Growing up we had an actual restaurant less than two hours away and we'd bring home a giant cheesecake that lasted the entire week. They perfected the art as far as I'm concerned.
S'mores are a camping favorite. Yummy and messy.
Rice Crispy treats are usually one of the first things we learn to make in the kitchen, as kids, because they're so easy to make. You melt a little butter in a pan, drop an entire bag of marshmallows in there and stir over low heat until everything is melted, then you dump a bunch of rice crispies in the melted stuff until it's all coated with the marshmallow, and dump it into a glass pan to cool, pressing down on it with hands coated with butter. After it cools completely, it's done.
S’mores are amazing. No one in America goes camping without making S’mores
Maybe that’s why I’ve never had one. Never camped in my life. Sounds terrible. Give me a Hampton Inn any day of the week.
@@coollady2179 lol I haven’t been camping in years! I’ll take the Hyatt every time
I haven’t been camping in years and have no desire to ever do so again. However, I’ll take a s’more anytime.
@@coollady2179 There's these things that are called RV's, just saying. Some are more expensive then your house.
@coollady2179 There's these things that are called RV's, just saying. Some are more expensive then your house.
Oh my gods as they say, don’t knock it until you try it! The best smores are over a campfire. The gooey smokey sweetness of the marshmallow, the warmed chocolate and the crunch and cinnamon of the graham cracker. They’re called smores because you’ll want some more!
Rice Krispies, made by Kelloggs. Another ooey gooie treat…they’re good at room temp but wow warmed. YUM!!!! You can add all sorts of candies in it!
Homemade rice crispy treats are super addictive. The store bought ones are gross.
Amen to that!!
Yup! Exactly!
They don't even deserve to be called by the same name.
They're so easy to make as well, a little butter marshmallows and rice crispies.
And don't forget the vanilla
It's actually a graham cracker, a square of chocolate and a heated over the campfire marshmallow! Marshmallows heated over a campfire are awesome whereas just eating them from the bag they are kind of yucky! Loved your reaction Andre!
Smores are 100% almost expected if you are going to be around a fire at night camping. They are fantastic
Plus the controversy over how much to roast/burn the marshmallows over the fire.
Or just sitting around a fire in your back yard .
19:30 im afaird your rating is worthless when you havint tried the thing your attempting to judge my man.
Most Americans have had s'mores 😻👹🐾🎆
Yep. Nummers!
The marshmallow aren't "warmed:, they are melted, often charred and goopy.
S’mores are the ideal camping food. Easy to carry and absolutely yummy.
Ice cream is so important to Americans that in ww2 we built barges to ship it to the pacific
@@jeffslote9671 I know it's that important to me. 😋
Out of concrete.
I was laughing that 2 of the "honorable mentions" were ice cream alternatives then ice cream itself was the number one since sorbet is used for kids with dairy allergies and people going for froyo for health reasons
The Fat Electrician has a wonderful video on American ice cream ships in WWII. (!!! Swearing involved, but really well done!)
@@Ladywizard Bingo! As a kid, myself, 1 brother and my dad are very lactose intolerant. Never had ice cream, but always had popsicles, sherbet as a kid. Even ice cream man, I knew what to go for on truck. Now, thank goodness for froyo!
I recommend buckeyes, or peanut butter balls! It's basically a little ball of peanut butter rolled in melted chocolate. (Someone in the midwest thought that this dessert looked like buckeye nuts, and the name has stuck.) Like all great desserts, there are many variations, but I haven't found a bad version yet!
No. We did Not start " bad". Lol
You seemed confused on the Baked Alaska. Basically, it's a layer of plain cake covered with a mound of ice-cream, then covered with a creamy whipped meringue. It's then placed in freezer until very firmly frozen after which it's then placed in a very hot oven until meringue is toasted.
Heating a marshmallow over fire heightens the taste
Caramelizing the sugar which brings out that flavor over the sugar sweetness.
Thank you, Mailliard reactions :D
Mmm, caramelized + carbonized sugar...
"Ohh, cooked it 1/2 second too long, ...and now it's just a flaming fireball!" :P
S'mores: for anyone who doesn't know, a graham cracker is a mildly sweet cracker/cookie made from coarse ground wheat flour. They're often crumbled up to use as pie crust. The great thing about s'mores is how the hot marshmallow melts the chocolate just a bit, and picks up that wonderful toasted marshmallow flavor.
I'd be very surprised if 99% of Americans hadn't had s'mores is literally like a childhood memory that basically every American has had
I never even heard of them until I was an adult. Had my first ones in 1988 at the age of 35! Not a fan of them.
I know of them, but never had one. Don’t like messy food and not a fan of chocolate. 🤷🏻♀️
The 2 losers that commented they dont like them are definitely spies lol. 100% not American…
While I write there’s 200 comments on this, there are 2 comments saying they’ve never had them. So 99% tracks
Especially if they ever went to scout camp. Back in the 60's that's where I remember seeing them the most.
It is an easy fun activity for kids at a campfire. So lots and lots of kids had these alots at picnics and outdoor events. And rice krispie treat is easy to make with kids helping, so lots of nostalgia. Both treats are also fairly cheap so nearly everyone had the common experience
I'm afraid you picked a fight when you downgraded S'mores and Rice Krispy Treats.
And if there's anything Americans love more than Dessert, it's Fightin'
@@Aichi1138 🎶🎵Next to lovin' I like fightin', I like fightin', it's excitin'! Next to loving I like fighting best!🎶🎵
S'mores are amazing. Sometimes we swap the chocolate bar for another form of chocolate, like a Reece's peanut butter cup, or a Ghirardelli caramel chocolate square.
your lack of respect of the marshmallow is.. disturbing
👍😂
To be fair, it's a bit of a travesty to just eat marshmallows out of the bag, there are so many much more tasty ways to eat them.
Also marshmallows are different in Europe.
Funny! 🤣
European marshmallows taste like the very worst, cheapest, bargain US marshmallows, so he just doesn't know the pure heaven of really good ones.
Smores were a staple of my childhood. Every camping trip, 4th of July or any summer celebration, we had Smores to eat with the food. There so good when done right.
Don’t knock s’mores or rice krispy treats until you have had them!
The thing with rice crispy treats is the hot butter mixes with the marshmallow and gives it this great caramel taste.
I don't particularly like plain marshmallows myself, but when they get all caramelized and paired with other ingredients they're great.
Marshmallows are NEVER supposed to be eaten cold. They're designed to melt over the fire and they are awesome! Much better than cold marshmallows. You MUST trie them!
I thought Marshmallows were designed to be eaten at room temperature - rather, to act akin to a sweet bandaid for injuries in your mouth - atleast in their origin.
Or melting in a cup of hot chocolate in the winter...
@@maxtomchris oh, wow. I had no idea this was the original purpose of marshmallows. Just looked it up and apparently it was used in Ancient Egypt to soothe coughs, sore throats, and even to heal wounds. Crazy.
Unless it's Marshmallow Ice Cream, then it's great cold.
Baked Alaska, originally called Alaska Florida because of the preparation of the dessert having contrasting temperatures, was a dessert made to celebrate the acquisition of Alaska from Russia by the USA in the 1860s, making it our 49th state.
It was first made in the fabled Delmonico’s restaurant in New York City, it consists of ice cream, cake and meringue. The “baked” part comes from caramelizing the meringue by setting it on fire for presentation. The Ice cream is frozen at such a temperature that it doesn’t melt when the meringue comes in contact with the heat for the short period it happens.
Variants exist in the UK where they use leftover Christmas Pudding instead of cake and China has its own variant as well.
S'mores are a fantastic outdoor treat. They taste great, but a big part of why they're so good is the ritual of toasting the marshmallow over an open fire outdoor, which many (maybe most) Americans have amazing childhood memories of doing on a beautiful summer night. They really aren't the same if you try to have them inside.
Or, as Spock calls them in Star Trek 5, a “Marshmelon”. Despite how bad that movie is, the scenes of Kirk, Spock, & McCoy spending their shore leave camping in Yosemite are INCREDIBLE!
Baked Alaska is a dessert consisting of ice cream and cake topped with browned meringue. The dish is made of ice cream placed in a pie dish, lined with slices of sponge cake or Christmas pudding, and topped with meringue. After having been placed in the freezer, the entire dessert is then placed in an extremely hot oven for a brief time, long enough to firm and caramelize the meringue but not long enough to begin melting the ice cream. Another common method of browning the meringue is to torch the dessert, sometimes even lighting it on fire for presentational purposes.
Oh, they are so good. There are arguments about how whether you burn the marshmallows or just toast them.
Arguments? In some places they devolve into genuine generational feuds.
As a Girl Scout lifetime member & having met my husband through a job at a Lutheran church camp, I ALWAYS say charred marshmallows are the BEST!
Burn mine please, thats how I like my s mores 😊😊😊😊😊
@@augiegirl1 I will hand off the burned ones to you. I'll keep the toasted ones.
For me, a marshmallow isn’t truly ready until it has been on fire. 😋
Campfire smores while camping or roughing it is SOOOOOOOO satisfying.
The secret of marshmallows is that they are bought and sold in the U.S. almost exclusively to use as an ingredient in baking. They are almost never eaten straight but rather used as a baking ingredient that supplies both sweetness and binding effect to stick other ingredients together. The toasting of the marshmallow is key to the s'more, and I'm willing to guess the reason why *most* of all marshmallows in America are bought and sold. When toasted, the interior of the marshmallow becomes hot and soft and gooey while the outside becomes crispy and takes on a caramelized sugar flavor. The ideal is to make these outside around a campfire because toasting the marshmallow over wood smoke specifically adds a woodsmoked flavor that cannot really be replicated in any other way. So that is why s'mores are on the list!
What the hell you smokin' Willis? Not eat marshmallows plain? Ppphhhttthhh!! Little marshmallows in hot chocolate rules!!
@@EricMcConnaugheyfr lol
most marshmallows are used in baking and topping, and only a minority are used in smores.
@@dead-claudia ohh I forgot you could make toppings out of them! I'm a s'mores and rice krispies girl myself.
@@EricMcConnaughey Some of us can't stand plain marshmallows, and don't get me started on the abomination that is cereal marshmallows like in Lucky Charms.
In hot chocolate is completely different though since they basically melt into foam.
@@Reyn_Roadstorm Lucky Charms Rules! They're magically delicious! Oops, nobody tell the manufacturer, I don't wanna get hit for copyright infringement, or some such BS.
Smores have an awesome crunchyness when toasted in fire with the soft gooey center that changes texture once cooked. It is definitely worth trying it with melted marshmellow done in that way. Traditionally cooked over a campfire on a marshmellow stick.
He went against s’mores and Rice Krispies treats and he will be on the no fly list!
S’mores are a very popular treat for children. They are in reality overly sweet, but adults get nostalgic, remembering how much they loved them when they were kids. toasting marshmallows over a campfire is one of the best things about camping as a child.
Everyone watching has tried S'mores, Andre, usually in front of a campfire. 😊
My favorite dessert growing up is called Special K bars. Some people call them Scotcheroos. It’s peanut butter mixed with Special K cereal (like corn flakes, but not sweet), corn syrup, granulated sugar (Yes, these are both sugar. It’s not my recipe. 🤷♀️), and vanilla. That’s made into bars, and then topped with melted chocolate, and some recipes combine butterscotch chips (for Scotcheroos).
If this list sounds good, you’ll think you’ve died and gone to heaven in most American bakeries.
S’mores and Rice Crispies are incredibly nostalgic for Americans. It’s like all the good feelings of childhood. As much as people say as “American as Apple Pie”, Apple pie is really only thought of on like the 4th of July of for a summer barbecue. Pumpkin is mostly consumed only on Thanksgiving, some on Christmas. Pecan is also mostly for the Holidays. Whereas moms all over the country make rice crispy treats for kids on a regular basis all year long, and a common tradition year round when people gather around a fire is to make s’mores.
As an American, donuts being in this list just seems wrong to me. Yes they are sweet. But they are considered a breakfast food only. Most shops open at 5am- with all donuts for the day freshly made- and close by 2pm. So it seems so out of place to have them on a list of desserts! 😂 Dessert is at dinner in the evening.
I give you points for the donuts facts.
We made a peanut butter butterscotch haystack with small marshmallows and chow mein noodles in the fall every year. Not sure if it was a Texas thing or my mom brought in down here from up north as a child. They are soooooo good.
I have hosted foreign exchange students from all over the world and their favorite American sweet was the s’more. I even got them sneaking some fresh strawberries from the garden and putting them inside their s’mores.
Now as your statement for Americans, taking lot of food from other cultures yes because America is a melting pot for so many different cultures/countries and they bring their foods to America so yes, we have adopted so many different things, but we have tweaked them through the years .
i mean just look at lasagna, and how our lasagna is almost unrecognizable to modern day italians. theirs is more of a light side with much thinner pasta, and ours is much more of a standalone meal with thicker pasta and different ingredients.
@@dead-claudia Favored by fat orange cats who abuse their owners and hate Mondays.
@@dead-claudia Yeah, it's true for a lot of our adopted foods. Pizza is another example. We've gone off and made things the Italians wouldn't even recognize as pizza, like deep dish.
My family has a fire pit in our backyard, right by a blackberry patch. At the end of summer, we always make s'mores with blackberries in them. So good!
Part of the charm of s'mores is that preparing one for yourself over the campfire can be tricky. You need to toast the marshmallow's surface and melt the inside, enough so the heat will melt the chocolate when you assemble the s'more, but *without* getting your skewer too close to the flame and setting the marshmallow's surface on fire. Do it just right, and you feel like you've accomplished something. So there's two kinds of satisfaction in one: a demonstration of skill *and* a tasty treat!
S'mores are amazing it's crazy to think people haven't even heard of them before.
Smores are a nostalgic treat. Not really something you'd get at a restaurant or a food cart. Part of their allure comes from the fact you're making them yourself as part of an outdoor activity like camping. They're simple and easy, and you can't quite get the same taste from anything other than an authentic campfire-roasted more, so anytime you make them tends to be memorable.
As for Rice-krispy treats. Put aside your disdain for marshmallows. The best part of krispy treats is the texture and taste.
I would guess that more than 95% of Americans have had s’mores. They are awesome!
S'Mores are friggin' awesome!
Memories of childhood backyard campouts and adult camping trips beneath pine trees...
Cheesecake Factory is an actual restaurant.
10:20 - The hole in the middle of some doughnuts is there to ensure a more even cooking, but not all doughnuts have to have one. "Donuts" popularized the toroidal shape outside the US, but American doughnuts often come without a hole. In fact, in the 90's, the Donuts brand released a product called "American Donut" in Portugal, the commercial for which, set in an American diner and spoken in English throughout, featured a customer asking for a Donut, receiving the hole-less American Donut and asking "where's the hole" exactly like André did, prompting his annoyed server to quickly and aggressively cut out a hole in the middle of the doughnut with a drinking glass. At the comedic finale of the commercial, the customer demanded his hole back.
3:21 - Plain marshmallows are nothing like roasted marshmallows. I don't like plain marshmallows either, but I LOVE roasted marshmallows.
The thing with marshmallows is that it tastes a little different depending on how you cook them. S’mores roast marshmallows over an open fire, which gives it an almost smoky but still very sweet and gooey taste. Rice crispy treats heat the marshmallow with butter and the unsweetened rice crispy cereal tones down the sweetness ever so slightly. Marshmallows in cereal I’m not even sure if you can call real marshmallows because they’re crunchy and condensed, but still are made of pure sugar. Then there’s regular marshmallows which are spongy and the taste is super strong because it’s not combined with anything. Also, I ate with whoever replied to a comment about fruity pebble rice crispy treats. At a gas station that was more common in the south until recently (Casey’s), they have unicorn bites or something like that… it’s basically fruity pebble crispy treats with mini marshmallows mixed in and they’re drizzled with icing afterwards. Yes, it’s a LOT of sugar, but it is SO worth it 😋
Yes, S’more are Amazing
S'mores are one of my favorite desserts. The warm marshmallow warms the chocolate just enough that it's a little melty and it's sooo goood.
S’mores are a heavenly sent dream that make camping worth all the effort. So sooo soooooo good.
And I don’t like marshmallows, Hershey chocolate, or gram crackers; but you put them together and it’s heaven.
You know what’s better than donuts? S’more donuts! Better than pudding? S’more pudding. Cheesecake? S’more cheesecake!
Ok I may have a s’more problem.
😂😂😂
What’s better than having a loving wife and children? Having s’mores with a loving wife and children!
There’s a sweet potato dish that has marshmallows in it too. Not my cup of tea, but it’s an iconic dessert here in the South. You’ll always see it at thanksgiving dinners or church potlucks.
You can't make a good cheesecake without Philadelphia cream cheese.
A great cheesecake has whipped cream cheese. If it cuts easily with a fork it's amazing.
A couple days ago a German lady asked me how Americans make cheese cake. I said with Philadelphia cream cheese. Or off-brand. She said, "CREAM CHEESE?" "Yes." "CREAM CHEESE!~?!??!?!?##" "Yes!" Germans use a type of yogurt instead, which makes it significantly more sour. Still good, just not American.
Agree! I like New York cheesecake. I had a friend from Jersey that used to make them from scratch, springform pan and all. Topped with fresh berries, chocolate or other fruits, or plain! Yums!
@@LythaWausW I would never replace the cream cheese with yogurt. I have replaced the sour cream with full fat yogurt(basically the same thing), but never the cream cheese. In fact if moving to another country means I cannot find cream cheese I will stay in the U.S forever. Because that is a torture I do not want to endure.
Zero carb cheesecake is the one sweet I allow myself. 1lb whipped cream cheese, 1/2c sour cream or yogurt, 2 eggs. That's it. Super smooth and slightly sweet.
Making Smores is a staple of summer campouts and firepit conversations.
I think you would change your mind about s'mores & krispy treats after you had one! 😋
I love that you said “America and pies…there is a love story there.” So funny and true…I always ask for a birthday pie instead of cake.
S’mores are really good. They are traditionally cooked outdoors but I make them on the stovetop in the winter. Regarding Sesame Street, maybe they think your accent sounds like The Count ❤
hahaha he totally does sound like The Count ah-ah-ah-ah
The Count jumped into my brain too, when he referred to Sesame Street. But, then I remembered hearing that Portuguese sounds like Spanish with a Russian accent. 🤗😉🤣
17:57 - Ah, the Baked Alaska...! That's a deceptive treat of ice cream covered in meringue, which is then either crested in the oven or outright flambé. The outside is hot and crispy, but, because the meringue is such a good insulant, the inside is still frozen. So good...!
Homemade rice crispy treats are so much better than that nasty stuff they sell packaged in the grocery store.
Stir in a half a cup of chopped pecans to the melting marshmallows before stirring in the rice crispies.
You ever try peanut butter and rice crispy treats? Very good. Even if from the store.
That sounds yummy
Pecans in Rice Crispy Treats? That sounds yummy!
Yes, S’mores are a staple of every American. There are so many ways to get creative. We love them.
The vampire on Sesame Street is named The Count, because he likes to count. I loved him when I was young!
ONE lalalal, Two, LOLOLOL Three....
Smores are a camping treat. I grew up with one of my favorite treats.
It would have been better to ask, "Who has never had a s'more?" I don't know anyone who doesn't love them. As an adult, I prefer to preassemble in foil packets and stick them in the fire coals for cleaner eating. Regardless of the technique used to make them, they are yummy!
The humble S’more is even better when you play with its base ingredients. Instead of a regular chocolate bar, you use one filled with caramel or nuts or even a Reese’s cup.
The peanut butter variations of S’mores are an offshoot of a thing we have on the New England coast called a Fluffernutter, only instead of a bread sandwich with marshmallow fluff and peanut butter, its Graham Crackers with PB and Marshmallows and adding chocolate to it.
The filled donuts are called bismarks. Bavarian cream is my favorite filling for this.
Chicken pot pie was a favorite of my childhood. It has a buttery, flaky crust with a cream-based savory stew of chicken and vegetables inside. You can buy them frozen, but freshly-made is better.
Hand-cranking ice cream in the backyard on a blistering hot day? Perfection.
Then you go drink some ice-cold water straight from the garden hose.
Childhood in America.
What was a worse chore, hand cranking the ice cream or shucking the corn on the cob?
@@guyperson6417shucking corn, but it was worth it for my grandmother's home made creamed corn, made using silver queen heirloom variety sweet white corn grown in the 5 acre plot out back that grew everything wonderful. Okra, tomatoes, field peas,corn and so much more.
Can confirm! The S'more as others have said, is a staple of childhood summers and the great outdoors! S'mores are amazing, they're simple and most of all delicious! Truly one of the highlights of camping or hanging out in your back yard fire pit (if you have one) or just over a grill!
S'mores are one of the best.
The big thing about s'mores is that they are usually part of a young American's childhood camping experience. So they're associated with fond memories of warm campfires and fun with family and friends. Plus food tastes better in the wilderness for some reason and you get to make them yourself. For an elementary school kid, using fire and skewers to make your own dessert is a big deal.
S'mores were invented by a Girlscout leader.
The first recipe for s'mores is found in a Girscout handbook. But it's not proven to be the invention of the treat, nor was it attributed to a particular person. It was likely already around before 😻
You're gonna have to show some proof before I believe that.
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Andre, toasted marshmallow is quite different from untrusted in taste. Additionally, the combination of melted chocolate, toasted marshmallow, and the crunchy texture of the slightly sweet Graham crackers, is what makes it so very good !
Before judging, try a taste test!
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I'm enjoying your reactions to the different varieties of the desserts you were familiar with. They make me laugh and realize at the same time how I take it for granted how not everyone is familiar with American desserts
S'mores are actually amazing, great on camping trips!
You'd be hard pressed to find an American who hasn't had a s'more. They're usually a treat reserved for camping or other outdoor outings, but if you have a fire pit (or fireplace?) at home, it can be an easy treat to make whenever. But now there are other gadgets that help us have them whenever, such as air fryers. But while camping is always the best.
Same with rice krispies treats. Everyone has had them. There are lots of varieties that have come along since the original, using chocolate or fruit flavored cereal, adding chocolate chips, sprinkles, or other bits of candy, topped with fudge or caramel... It's very versatile.
AND yet again, the same with Sesame Street. Almost everyone who was a kid in the past 40-50 years watched Sesame Street growing up. It's up there with Mr. Rogers when it comes to iconic kids' shows lasting several decades.
You are a bit hasty in judging the s'mores, I think. A toasted marshmallow is wildly different from an untoasted one in terms of texture and even flavor. (Toasting caramelizes the sugar, a bit.) Got a like from me because of the mind-blown reaction of discovering the brownie alternatives of blondies/ lemon bars/ peanut butter bars. There are a thousand other variations as well, involving fruit or crossing over with cookies, cheesecake and yes, there is even a s'mores bar.
Precisely on the s'mores. It's so different that people have preferences in their s'mores regarding how well done the marshmallow is before they consider it perfect.
Yo! Native Texan here, and s'mores are a childhood favorite all across America! They're so good! Warm, and sweet, and cozy. 😙👌
S'mores are delicious, but they have not been the same since Hersheys changed the shape of their chocolate bars. It use to be thinner and divided in little squares, 4 of which fit perfectly on half a graham cracker, it made for the perfect ratio of the 3 items with the American size and shape of marshmallow. Also it's important to toast the marshmallow slowly and gently so as not to scorch but become completely hot and liquid inside and will then melt the chocolate when placed on top.
That’s one of the reasons I use Ghirardelli squares. They cover the area better, and are also, in my opinion, just a better chocolate.
Baked Alaska is an ice cream cake (layer of cake with a layer of ice cream) usually shaped in a dome pan, covered in meringue, and usually served with some type of flammable booze on fire
Brownies and squares are 2 different desserts.
5:34 you can also make them with pretty much any kind of candy, you can dip them in chocolate, you can make sweet sandwiches with them, there’s many things you can do with rice krispy treats.
S'mores are an "all-american" thing. Almost everyone has had them.
Ice cream is Hella popular here and it's been a staple since they substituted ice scream for alcohol during prohibition.
Hearing you say "not hot marshmallows, normal marshmallow" is wild to me - they're literally designed to be roasted over a fire with a stick! What is Europe doing?! XD
S'mores are mostly the "dessert" at a picnic or summer bonfire, although there are kitchen gizmos that allow you to make them at home without an open fire.