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Trying New England Foods for the First Time
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- Published on Feb 13, 2026
- Is New England food the best food in the country?? We tried Midwestern recipes and Alessio LOVED them. Now it's time to try classics like Boston Baked Beans, American goulash, moxie soda, fluffernutter sandwich, Maine wild blueberry pie, coffee milk and of course, B&M brown bread in a can. Yes... bread in a can. Which region should we try next??
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Chocolate Chip cookies were created at The Toll House Inn in Whitman Mass. Another New England treat to enjoy.
My favorite dessert of all time.
My dad used to work there as a kid way back in the day. Way back lol
The Toll House sign is still up between a Wendy's and a Walgreens
State cookie!
Toll house cookie pie was always my favorite!
Born and raised in Massachusetts this warms my heart seeing you enjoying what’s makes us , US
don't forget to mention a Mass delight: north shore roast beef, with james river sauce!
Massachusetts human as well!
What makes you Someone from Mass. They left out New Hampshire, Connecticut and Vermont.
I love the peanut butter and fluff!!
@jaimesk1688hell yeah!
When I was young beans, hot dogs and brown bread were a Saturday night staple. We would slice the brown bread and then steam it, eating it hot with butter.
That's what my grand parents did every Saturday night.
I never liked it but yeah everyone ate it
For me too!! Every Saturday night!!
Beans and franks every Saturday.
I’m from Rhode Island, where the coffee milk comes from. It is not a coffee substitute. It’s literally like having a chocolate milk. You have it when you want it. With dessert or as a snack. All our kids have it as kids and it’s a drink you have for nostalgia as an adult. It’s a tradition to get a coffee milk when you go out for lunch and get wieners (a Rhode Island spin on a type of hot dog).
Agree!
@BG-sl9lvEclipse was the original in RI for coffee syrup, Autocrat bought them out. Had a relative that worked for Eclipse in the late 1920’s and they were making coffee syrup back then.
@kathleen4688 they're using Autocrat
Rhode islander as well. They need to try weiners!
@becki_booo Yeah, you can't have coffee milk without tree all da way!
You have to toast the brown bread in a frying pan with butter! It’s so much better 😅
This!!
Alternately steamed and then some butter.
Absolutely perfect grilled with butter.
The best way to prepare it, especially brown bread with raisins...delicious!
What!? You don't like Moxie?!? BTW, Necco (New England Confectionery Company) Wafers are from Boston, where you'll be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't love fluffernutters.
New Englander her, and I have to say, Apple cider donuts in the fall at the apple orchard will change your life. Also you can’t judge New England food with getting fresh off the boat seafood. It’s pretty much the pinnacle of New England food and what we are most known for. Glad to see you got the coffee milk, but a coffee frappe is basically a drinkable ice cream version of that and is 10 times better.
Im in MN and we have apple cider donuts too!! So good
coffee cabinet!
The flavour in the brown bread is molasses. The version with raisins is better and always needs butter. 99% of New Englanders just use the B&M canned beans, and nobody I have ever met eats cold beans for breakfast. Try pouring that coffee syrup over vanilla ice cream. Fluffernutter... use real Fluff, and IMO you must use crap white bread, a light smear of peanut butter (1/2 amount) on each piece with fluff in the middle. Peanut butter seals the bread so the Fluff doesn't soak in and become soggy before school lunchtime.
^^^^This guy gets it.
My mom used to eat cold bean sandwiches - it looked disgusting
That sums it up perfectly!
My wife fries the brown bread in a little butter. It's good with the hotdogs in beans
I answered before I saw this comment, but you nailed it.
You can't do a New England food program without the legendary boiled dinner we all grew up with.
What’s a boiled dinner? Like corned beef and cabbage
@roseleepastrana4020 Corned beef and cabbage is a variation of boiled dinner.
Boiled dinner is very popular in the upper Midwest too. I grew up in Minnesota. My grandma made hers with a meaty ham bone (usually left over from Easter) and lots of root vegetables like potato, carrot, rutabaga, onion, and of course, cabbage.
Smoked pork shoulder boiled with cabbage, potatoes and onions
@julietaylor2497 thanks!
@julietaylor2497We used turnip instead of rutabaga.
Born & raised near Boston, Massachusetts. For the brown bread, try it sliced, buttered, and put under the broiler until the butter melts. Also, I liked the one with raisins in it vs the plain. My grandfather loved Moxie, I could never really get a taste for it. Coffee milk has always been a staple in southern New England, it's a kids thing, which adults love to remember their childhood. It's definitely not a coffee substitute. New England has another dessert you should try, I can send you a recipe if you like, whoopie pies. Fluffernutter sandwich is a classic, but you need a natural peanut butter without sugar, since you have plenty of sugar from the fluff.
Teddie peanut butter of course!
Born and raised New Englander! When Alessio rated our american chop suey 10 of the 10 it felt like striking the lottery!!! LOL So fun! And our baked beans are legendary for a reason! The brown bread is made with a combo of cornmeal, rye flour, wheat flour and sweetened with molasses. It is SO good if you put the slices in a steamer insert and steam them until they are warm, then put butter on the slices and eat with the baked beans. They were made in the can, way back in the day, as a way of preserving bread to last longer and not go stale. Moxie is disgusting. End of story. Not many nowadays even drink Moxie unless they live way up Maine or have been double dog dared too, lol! You HAVE to come to Maine (in the summer) and try REAL seafood!! We are also known for lots of stews, chowders and casseroles because its COLD up here and we need hearty, warming and filling meals. Such a fun video! Also, I think you used marshmallow creme and NOT FLUFF...so that doesn't count. Our Fluff has a very different texture. Its also nice with crunchy PB for added texture too ;)
Truth!!!
It looks like they used Teddy peanut butter so point for that.
Yeah, eating unheated brown bread is like eating unheated hot dogs.
Sorry dude. I love Moxie. It's amazing.
I love American Chop Suey. When someone asks for a dish that will feed lots and save money, I always say American Chop Suey.
I was born and raised in New England, looking forward to this!!!!
Brown Bread, warmed up, slathered in butter is a Gift from the GODS! ( slice it into about 10 pieces, wrap it in paper towel and toss in the microwave for a couple minutes )
Ham and Bean suppers at the church.
My mom was from New Bedford... She learned to make it in coffee tins and bean cans... I absolutely loved it!
Thank goodness we can still get the brown bread here in Florida
Yessss❤❤❤❤
@curleyqlink228my favorite ❤
Agreed. Sautee a slice in a pan with some butter to caramelize it and it's quite good.
Lived in New England my entire 58 years and have never had a bean sandwich.
I am from South Carolina. I grew up eating fluffernutters, whoppie pies and amazing blueberry pie. My dad was stationed in Massachusetts in the 1950’s in the Air Force. My mom was a young wife and mother. She gathered a lot of family recipes as she traveled with my dad in his military career. I realized in the last few years where these recipes came from when my daughter moved to Boston for school. She is now a young wife living in Massachusetts..my mom would be so proud..
As a New Englander, we would never eat a Fluffernutter for school lunch. We would have them occasionally, but it's not a regular meal, and it's not so dissimilar to pb&j in terms of sugar content if that helps you reframe your feelings on it. Lastly, you used the wrong kind of Fluff, you need Fluff brand from Massachusetts for the original. It's also FABULOUS on top of a cup of hot cocoa. Just grab a big scoop and plop it on top. I prefer to use cocoa powder and a little sugar in milk so it's not as sweet as the packets, then add the Fluff for sweetness. It dissolves as you drink it, so good. And if you really want to have fun, come to the annual Fluff Festival in Somerville, MA, this year it's on Sept. 20 so you still have time to get here.
They only sell the real fluff in New England. When I was briefly in Texas with my dad and wife, they didn't sell it there. She would have people send it to her
I have lived my entire life in Rhode Island and had Fluffernutters every day for school lunch from first grade up until third grade in the 60's.
Agreed on the fluff 100%. Also good in banana pudding with (another MA product) - gram crackers!
Beans on bread is not a thing in CT.
@Videogal54not in Maine either. It absolutely is part of a traditional English “full breakfast” though.
My Grandmother served B&M baked beans and Brown bread. She steamed the brown bread for a few minutes and served with butter, Delicious! If you bake your own beans, they need to be done in a traditional bean pot for 6 - 8 hours.
Ditto on both! Born in Massachusetts, 50 years in New Hampshire. I have never eaten brown bread that has not been heated up. Yuk!
Native New Englander here. I've never heard of cold bean sandwiches for breakfast. Pie for breakfast, yes, but not beans. Moxie: invented in Massachusetts (by a Maine native), claimed by Maine, and produced and bottled in New Hampshire. Diet Moxie is a little less harsh. Both go well with rum, bourbon, or vodka. One thing that you can't get easily outside of the region is a North Shore roast beef sandwich, available all over most towns from the northern neighborhoods of Boston (East Boston, maybe parts of Downtown) and into Seacoast New Hampshire. Order a "Super beef, three way": a large on an onion roll with mayo, James River BBQ sauce, and American cheese. I like to add onions too. If you visit and go to Salem, you'll have no problem finding a roast beef place
Baked beans on toast for breakfast. Very New England, very, very British.
@GeneralPutnam1775 Beans on toast is a British thing, not a New England thing, and is something this lifelong New Englander had never heard of it until relatively recently. The "baked" beans that the Brits eat are nothing like New England baked beans (from which the British variety were derived), and they're not even baked, they're stewed beans in a sweet tomato sauce that is not dissimilar from SpaghettiOs or Chef Boyardee canned pasta, as opposed to New England baked beans, which are slow baked with molasses, brown sugar, onions, mustard and a big fatty hunk of salt pork or bacon and are more savory.
A super Beef 3 way is the best!!!!!!! less and less Roast Beef sub shops around these days it seems but if you can find one and get this, it's heaven...I used to love Peter's Super Beef in Revere ( so sad they're gone! ) and Royal's in East Boston still makes a good one!
Rhode Islander here to let you know that I used to get baked bean sandwiches for lunch when I was in the 4th grade. my mother's homemade beans;)
Agree. No beans for breakfast but pie for sure
As a native New Englander (one of the smaller ones), you missed out on all the yummy maple stuff... and our favorite Fall food.. apples.. apple cider (warm or cold - Cold Hollow is the best). apple cider donuts, maple creamee (soft serve for everyone else), and sugar on snow (real maple syrup poured over snow). You need the GOOD brand of fluff.. Fluffenutter! Also, we only called it goulash, not American goulash, but I get it. LOL.. And for some reason, when a lot of people got together, the go-to meal was goulash made with ziti (or a ziti bake - basically goulash with mozzarella cheese melted on the top) and baked chicken. Great video though! This was my first of yours!
Hello Fellow 802er
I agree, missed all of Vermont with nothing Maple. Goulash is a staple in fall and winter, along with baked beans. And yes, I feel bad the South and even the West don't get Fluff, just that Jet Puffed stuff and it's not the same. My cousin moved to Iowa and stocks up when she comes home lol. Also we love adding Pepperoni to our goulash, oh and toast the fluffenutter like a grilled cheese (Minus the cheese)
@RickHammondJr Except that's not goulash. Hungarian is the correct way. Unless you specify American.
My mother called it American chop suey.
Fluffenutter, definitely!
@RickHammondJrMassachusetts gal here. We always called “goulash”American Chop Suey. It was a favorite week day supper dish. I still make it. 😋
I’ve lived in New England my whole life, I was born and raised about a half hour or so north of Boston. I’ve lived my entire adult life (25 or so years) in southern Maine. When I was a kid, my parents used to make fresh baked beans on Sundays. They would invite my grandmother over and we’d all have baked beans and brown bread together for dinner. You HAD to have brown bread with your beans. I remember the beans cooking all day long in the oven in big crocks. I never liked the brown bread, but my younger brother loved the brown bread, and he called it chocolate bread. I’ve never been a fan of Moxie soda-yuck. I know tons of people here in Maine who love coffee milk. Again, this New England girl doesn’t like coffee milk haha. I’m a black coffee person. American chop suey was a staple dinner and also served as hot lunch at school. My mom and brother ate fluffer nutters all of the time. I don’t like fluff- I guess I’m picky lol. Thanks for the video- a taste of my childhood.
You should definitely have tried a Whoopie Pie, a classic Maine treat. Another trick is to put some butter in a fry pan and put the Fluffernutter in the melted butter and cook it like a grilled cheese. It creates almost a caramel taste in addition to the fluffernutter base.
I thought the same thing! And pumpkin pie
A Mainer, here😊
Coffee flavored milk is available in most grocery stores in Maine
And use Marshmallow Fluff not jet puff creme
Jet Puff is trash.
YAY!!!! Coffee syrup is the official drink of Rhode Island. It is just like chocolate milk (but coffee flavored). American chop suey is awesome. It is a lot like sloppy joes. Fluffernutter is old school. I am 65 and used to have it when I was a kid. The pie looks fabulous and yes Maine blueberries are great. If you ever come to Rhode Island I will happily treat you to a gastronomical adventure that you will love!!!! Ciao, kids!!!
I'm from Rumford! I love coffee milk. 💙
@lauramayfair7887 RI is the only place McD's served the awesome Coffee Milkshake!!!
My mom was from Providence, RI. I remember the Awful Awful.
Oh! And a NY System!
@auntlynnie Newport Creamery!!!!!!
The brown bread is awesome toasted with either butter or cream cheese. The raisin brown bread is great too. The sweetness comes from molasses.
I am from Maine and know these dishes like the back of my hand along with the recipes .Goulash doesn't have cheddar cheese in it, You steam the brown Bread in the can in boiling water, use the other lid to push the Brown bread through the can. use salt pork in the Baked Beans. You got the Beans and Hot dogs right. Moxie is a Maine Soda. Coffee Milk is excellent. Awesome job on the pie! A Fluffanuttah is a go to food.
Red hot dogs😊
Whoopie pies!
Then you know its supposed to be coffee brandy and milk lol
Fluffernutter is definitely a comfort food, BUT, it has to be fluff
Why you calling it goulash? It's chop suey, if you're from Maine.
Born and raised in Maine, when I was real young, if the wind was right, you could smell the beans baking from the B & M cannery from where we lived, if they happened to be baking brown bread that day, absolute heaven. Of course if the wind was coming from the wrong direction you got the paper mill, and there's a reason why people from Maine have been known to ask "was that you or the mill?". Unless it was a special occasion we usually had canned B & M beans, brown bread, and Jordan's red snapper hot dogs (now made by Kayem). They are called fluffernutters for a reason, marshmallow fluff, not jet puffed. As a Mainer you are required to be able to chug an entire can of Moxie that has been sitting out in the sun on the hottest day of August to maintain your Maine resident status, lol. Coffee syrup and milk? Nah, Allen's 5 Star Coffee Brandy and milk, lol. When we were kids our grandmother would take us wild blueberry picking on Saturday mornings. She gave us each a plastic bucket and one plastic 4 cup measuring cup and told us if we wanted blueberry pie for desert we had to fill it up to the 4 cup line, if we also wanted blueberry muffins with Sunday breakfast fill it to the top. We always filled it to overflowing, lol. Anything after that went in our buckets to snack on. Simpler times for sure.
I’m in Maine too, I miss the B&M factory. Such an icon, gone ☹
This is my childhood in Portland to a tee. We lived off Congess St so we got the paper mill most of time except when we visited my grandparents who lived off Washington ave then you get the B&M baked bean smell.
@rivereagle5524 We were living in So. Portland on Harriet St., off of Broadway. We got SD Warren more than B&M but some days we got lucky.
Kayem are not Jordan's
WA Bean in Bangor bought up all the Red Dogs
I used to work right across Tukey's bridge from B&M, loved it when the wind shifted and we got the bean breeze
Bostonian here & I don't put cheddar cheese in mine & have eaten many different ppl's over the years & neither did they😂. I always just put grated parm on the table for everyone to use on top.
Necco wafers are also a New England food! (The name is the acronym for the New England Candy Company.) 😊
My Grandfather was the head of the hard candy division at NECCO (but he always carried Life Savers in his pocket.
What a cool fact!
I lived in London for a while in the '00s. I had a friend mail me Neccos a dozen at a time. Where else can I enjoy a clove candy?
Yup!
Skybars !!!!!
B&M baked beans and bread were a childhood staple along with hot dogs. Growing up in Portland Maine the factory was on the edge of the city and had the most wonderful smell. The taste in the bread is most likely molasses
But they need to toast the brown bread
Best baked beans😊
That smell heading towards Washington Ave was indeed heavenly and one of a kind. Sucks they moved away. 😢
Sad not to see it there anymore when I drive to Portland
I miss the old B&M plant. It smelled SO good for blocks around, especially on Saturday mornings.
I’m from New England. I was born and brought up in Vermont. I’m 73 years old. Old-fashioned Boston baked beans have been around for a very long time. When I make them, it takes between eight and 10 hours in the crockpot. I use molasses brown sugar and maple syrup in mine. The last time I made them I used thick cut, smoked maple bacon. The brown bread and the can I grew up with. Mom and dad would make the baked beans on Saturday leave the crock in the back of the oven and leave it in the oven all day and we would have that with hot dogs at night. We would have a can of brown bread with it. Brown bread is made with molasses. It’s the only time I eat brown bread and I still buy it. I enjoy it.
The first one, "American Chop Suey" was a staple in my house growing up. Brown bread in a can is a molasses bread. Great warmed in the oven with butter. It slso comes with raisins. It was also a staple on Saturday with supper/dinner with mom's homemade Boston Bak😂ed Beans. My mom likes to put piccalilly (which is a green tomatoe sweet relish) on her beans. My mom is 94 yrs old and still makes her own Boston Baked Beans, cooking them low and slow in the stoneware "bean" crock. They cook all day stiring occasionally and adding water so they cook and don't dry out and it helps concentrate the flavors and she also used lots of salt pork pieces that cooked in the beans and absorbed the flavors.
Raisin one is def better.
You just made me as a Midwesterner never ever want to try brown bread
Im a born and raised from the state of Maine in New England. Brown bread in a can with some baked beans and hot dogs , Sooo good. Also, I can send you my dad's Corn Chowder Recipe. We are a generational New England family. You must get ahold of some Moxie... you either love it or hate it...Maine has a Moxie festival each year! Fun fact ...B&M baked beans factory was located in Maine! It was demolished not long ago. We miss driving by and seeing the big B&M from the highway. In Portland, Maine.
I discovered Moxie when we lived in Boston from 2001 until we sold our house (during Covid) in early 2021. Absolutely love Moxie and went to the festival at Lisbon Falls in 2011 -- even had the Moxie ice cream! Delicious! Just wish I could get it down here in New Orleans without buying it from Amazon :(
I grew up in Maine but born elsewhere in New England. I Was thinking they should also try red hot dogs, fiddleheads, and whoopie pies besides the Moxie. Don't let Pennsylvania fool you. Whoopie pies are a Maine thing.
BIG B M🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣I’m still a 12 year old 😮😅😊
I miss the smell of the B&M factory.
My great-grandfather canned beans for the New England Bean Company. He had a full setup in a building in his backyard.
In my area of Maine, Auburn, which isn't that far from Lisbon Falls. We used to judge people on whether they actually drank Moxie regularly or not. If you did, you were either old or a hipster. I drink it every so often, just to make sure I hate it still.
Born and raised in north central Massachusetts on the border of New Hampshire. Mom would make beans and goes it took all day. It’s dad and sisters birthday meal. Beans, hotdogs, coleslaw, brown bread. I like the brown bread toasted on cast iron with butter and jelly. I also liked adding jelly to my peanut butter fluff sandwich. Just had coffee milk as a kid, you got it when the adults had coffee, just to feel part of it all. Blueberry pie jut yum!
Never had a moxie, got to try it.
A fluffernutter sandwich was a once in a while treat for us but never was a school lunch. My grandparents used to make coffee milk for us when we would spend the night at their house. It was not made with syrup but with real coffee they perked with lots of cream or milk. We loved it. I enjoy watching your video's it makes my heart happy.
Every time I forgot lunch school gave me a fluffernutter. Very Standard school lunch in Boston in the 1980s
But they did not use Marshmallow Fluff instead they used some generic
jet puffed marshmallow
Yes, it's funny that Alessio was asking if people sent their kids off to school that way, if it was a lazy way of doing it. And that's exactly how that syrup came to be! 😅
@blazera7328 I noticed that too! I must be FLUFF for a Fluffernutter
Apple cider donuts, apple pie with melted cheddar cheese, and whoopie pies are also classic New England fair. Also anything maple.
I've lived in the south for decades and still get the weirdest looks when I have cheese with my apple pie. I grew up in RI with it!
@jntdhome Grew up in MA and I gotta say, that's a new one for me
Im from PA & always thought that whoopie pies were from the Pennsylvania Dutch. ( Amish)
My mom grew up in New England, and so many of these things were staples in my youth. I love Moxie, B&M brown bread (toast it and eat with butter, it is life changing), and baked beans! YUM. My grandpa made the best American chop suey!
You’re missing out as right now is Apple season in New England. We have really good apples which we use to make fresh apple cider (warm or cold), apple pie, apple cider donuts, etc. 👌
It’s a must have!
When an US person says cider they mean nonalcoholic, correct?
Cider donuts and fresh cider up here is the best 🤤 🍎
@dollmob1206it depends but when I refer to apple cider it is non-alcoholic. I would say hard cider for the alcoholic version.
@dollmob1206 These are just donuts made with fresh New England apple cider. Perhaps you're thinking hard cider?
It's peach and nectarine season too !!
When I lived in Massachusetts and Rhode Island they served coffee milk in cartons to kids with their school lunch!
I live in RI❤
@jenntaylor952I lived in Wakefield for 20 years. We were off Rte 138 about one mile from URI
@lindajackson6180I live in Westerly. I used to work in Wakefield 😊
When I was a kid, I grew up in Connecticut. Back then my uncle had a bakery, which had been started by his grandfather. They had big brick ovens. On Saturdays he sold baked beans, which had baked all night, in giant crocks. Many Saturday suppers were dogs and beans. If we ate at my grandmother‘s, she always had brown bread too. I usually wash it down with a can of Moxie.
It should be noted that being a native of New England, President Coolidge was a New England native.Prohibition was in effect during his presidency, so his beverage of choice was Moxie.
People in Rhode Island drink coffee milk at any time of the day, not just for breakfast. I grew up eating franks and beans with brown bread every Saturday evening. If I never see another piece of brown bread in front of me again, I'll die a happy man.
Also, if it's not made with genuine Marshmallow Fluff, it's not a Fluffernutter. That jar that you had looked like marshmallow creme, which isn't the same.
first thing i thought is WRONG fluff!! lol
Coffee syrup was for “kids coffee” when I was growing up in New England. And yes, we always used it like Hershey’s syrup for coffee milk instead of chocolate milk (add to taste). I haven’t tried it since moving to the South, so may not like it as an adult, but it made us kids feel like grown-ups back in the day!
American chop suey, franks and beans, and fluffernutters were staples in my childhood home. Never ate the cold bean sandwich, but often ate hot beans with breakfast (like an English breakfast).
This was a fun video and felt super nostalgic for this “transplanted Southerner!” I guess I’ll always be a Yankee at heart…or maybe stomach 😊
We always used the coffee syrup to make ice cream sodas.
I grew up in Virginia and my family made “kids coffee” too. It’s been a treat passed down to a few generations now!
I got that brown bread on my shelf. It lives in the back of the cupboard for a storm if we run out of food. Lol (it also has the brown bread with raisins yum)
The brown bread is nice warmed with butter. They are a heavy molasses bread, it’s real thick and heavy. It’s a great addition to a meal when you want a sweet bread that goes with the molasses in the beans.
Never heard of a cold bean on bread sandwich. I live in Massachusetts.
Fun Fact: The Fluffernutter is considered the official sandwich of Massachusetts Your timing though is really good because next week is the annual "What the Fluff" Festival.
Brigham's Ice Cream (now made at Hood) made "Fluffernutter ice cream" for a special flavor a few years ago... it was a perfect mix !
I love Fluffernutters! Also, LOVE that there is a “What the Fluff” festival! That is so fun!
Going to MA, you need to get full bellied fried clams, Chowder, also try some Portuguese/ Cape Verdean food. First dish, we just call it Macaroni in my house. Instead of the diced tomatoes and cheese, we just use condensed tomato soup and a little water. Never put cheese in it, just some parm on top. I think I've had brown bread once and that says it all. Just add the warm beans to your breakfast plate. They go great with eggs. Blueberry pie was my mom's favorite. I'm 54 and I just made a fluffernutter last night. It's great as an every once in a while snack. Another thing to try is a New England Boiled Dinner, with cole slaw.
Yes to the fried clams!! 💯
The best whole belly clams come from the Eastern Connecticut shore into Western Rhode Island. There's a reason Family guy lives in a town named Quahog.
@joebob1538 I grew up on the east coast of MA, we also have clams. Grew up eating steamers and fried clams my whole life.
Go to Bob's Clam Hut in Kittery Maine for great whole bellied clams.
@GinaLwhatdaflockusay Ipswich clams are hard to beat. There's a reason most of the state tries to use those clams for the seasonal seafood shacks.
Always lived in New England. American Chop Suey was also served in school, and yes the "Fluffah Nuttah" also! Never been a fan of Boston baked beans, but my family had them all the time, usually with hot dogs, either in the beans, or in a New England hot dog bun (they arrive with cut sides, then you toast and butter it, bun opens from top, not the side). Maine berries are tiny and very good. I'm okay with brown bread in a can but not my favorite. My mom liked the coffee milk stuff. I had Moxie once; enough said on that! I was thinking there would be candy apples on a stick and something maple, and something cranberry- cranberry bread, juice or pumpkin. Thanksgiving food!
Boston brown bread is a nostalgic taste of my childhood. Rye flour, cornmeal and molasses are the dominant ingredients. The cooking method is similar to an English steamed "pudding". New England cuisine was initially influenced by English maritime traditions of the Jacobean period and the bounty provided by cold water fishing and
Marshmallow Fluff was invented in Somerville, MA before WWI. American Chop Suey is obviously the result of the immigration of many cultures and cuisines in this port city as the "New World" was developed and populated.
I didn't like it when I was a kid, then I went through a phase and middle-aged where I enjoyed the brown bread as long as it was toasted and had butter on it. I bought some out of nostalgia a year or two ago, and I was not excited about it. Must have forgotten about the Rye flour
Brown bread has molasses in it. Brown bread was initially cooked in a can by being steamed. Franks n beans with brown bread was a Saturday night meal. If you come to New England stop at Fox’s Lobster House in York, ME for some fantastic scallops. Go to Roy Moore Lobster Company in Rockport, MA for fresh off the boat lobster. Their cold lobster roll is to die for! Wild blueberries are the best! I live in NH and our pumpkin pie is fantastic. You also used the wrong fluff and put too much on the sandwhich. I was never allowed to have it for lunch. It was always a treat. We use the Fluff brand not Jetpuff. You should also try a boiled dinner and New England apple pie.
I'm from Maine. One of my friends moved to Chicago and flexes on her Chicago friends by chugging Moxie when they can't even stand the aroma of it.
I think it tastes like pennies that you find in couch cushions.
And I grew up about 10 minutes from wild blueberry plains and would go picking every year. You also need real Fluff, none of the Jet Puft crap :P
I am also from Maine, born & raised, and they didn't have the real red snappers....(Hotdogs) no regular hot dog can come close to a snapper! Fluffernutter not jet puffed crap, and rubarb pie, and maple snow! Just to name a few.
Moxie is gentian flavored. It was meant to be a bitter digestive soda over 150 years ago. and Autocrat is for kids as well, makes a great coffee float with coffee and ice cream. We are also known for Whoopi pies if you can find home made ones. And pie is a traditional part of New England breakfast.
They're fortunate, that what they drank. Wasn't the Original formula. 😉
You gotta try a whoopie pie and needham cookies and a holy donut
@dmabrownOH God Needhams!
PA likes to claim Whoopie Pies too. My big sister used to bake them every morning up Mass.
One more dessert I would have added to the list is Indian pudding, served warm with vanilla ice cream.
Yes!! I was born and raised in Maine and my Mom used to make Indian Pudding!!
I love Indian Pudding!
Indian pudding is delicious.
Lifelong member of the North Shore in Massachusetts, and this made me smile. American chop suey is one of my favorite dishes, and I still drink coffee milk in my 30s.
Hopefully one day you get to come to the North Shore while trying seafood here and try our specialty: Roast Beef Sandwiches. It's a shaved roast beef sandwich in either a white or onion roll with some combination of cheese, Mayo, and James River BBQ sauce. If you want all three, you ask for a "Junior Beef, 3-way", lol. Absolute heaven!
Idk if you put mustard in your baked beans, but if they're too sweet, try adding a teaspoon or two of mustard. It actually makes them edible, as I don't normally eat beans.
I think Jessie found her pregnancy craving with those beans.
We do that in the south sometimes
Oh my gosh! Yes! Mustard is just simply the best in-baked beans-- or even pork and beans for that matter😊
That is the one thing I will always put in my beans regardless of how they taste... It just makes them better
@wilds121 I was raised in Texas and have lived here, NC and SC most of my adult life. I was shown that by my friends from Western NC. Definitely a southern thing here in my house!
I commented grammas recipe she uses mustard no onion green peppers!❤
Yes. Sweet and sour.
To really experience a fluffernutter you got to get a jar of Teddies peanut butter. It's tradition. If you ever want to really experience everything New England has come to the Big E. Every State has it's own building and it's a massive fair. Tons of New England traditions all in one place. Can't recommend it enough!
YESSSS! TEDDIS!!! Well if you didn't have teddis then it was Peter Pan or Jeff you know what I mean or government peanut butter let's be real a lot of us made fluffy nutters or a peanut butter and apple jelly sandwiches with government peanut butter. I mean all these dishes and recipes just make me miss my childhood. and being born and raised here in Portland Maine, I just miss all these dishes but I don't miss the MOXIE 😂😂😂😂
We always used Peter Pan peanut butter. We never used the Jet-Puffed marshmallow creme they used in the video though. It’s a fluffernutter. You’re supposed to use Fluff, which tastes so much better in my opinion.
Yeah, to be truly authentic, it should be Marshmallow Fluff and Teddie Peanut Butter. Devotees don’t mess around with the “trial-size” version… you buy the quart-sized container of Fluff!
The Deerfield Fair is soon.
Just make sure you STIR the Teddies first. LOL.. otherwise you're in for a shock. My friend goes to the Big E every year and she loves it! I can't wait to go one year!
This is the first video of this channel that I have watched... As a Mainah... I have no idea what is going on... I have no idea where these folks are from but I think they need to really come up here and try our things. There is so much more to our tastes than "Moxie" and "beans". The blueberries we have are far better than what the rest of the country knows, but we have so much more. As far as the Fluffinutter goes... Its a staple... Just because you don't have the taste for it doesn't mean you have to look down on us for it...
I’m a “ Mainah “ so foods are near and dear to our potato farming, seafood fishing, blueberry raking, etc families!
Red hotdogs with flat sided buns, whoopie pies and lobsters along with everything you mentioned are our soul foods! Enjoy!
Don't forget the Needhams!
Ya' can't get thereh' from herh'
Must have the correct roll for hot dogs and lobster rolls. Flat sides for good toasting!
I'm from MA and you're missing out on chowder, lobster rolls, and Apple cider donuts!!
My first thought too - what?! no chowder??
Lobster rolls used to be fairly affordable. Nowadays you pay more than 10 bucks for a lobster roll and only get a tiny bit of lobster in it. Sad, really. They're very tasty when made correctly, that is LOADED with lobster.
My family found specifically Tilton NH and also my 2xgreat grandfather was one of Massachusetts first state police and his father was one of the first firemen in Massachusetts. As a life long Masshole go to Kelly's roast beef for a lobsta roll and fried clams. Bush beans and hotdogs on white bread ❤️.
This entire video was like being in my grandma's kitchen in the 80s. WOW. I had powerful feels from the Goulash. I need to make some now. I am elated that Alessio loved it! "10 of the 10!"
Agree. I'm in the Mid-Atlantic but most of these were definitely 80s childhood staples here as well.
Anadama Bread is homemade brown New England bread....so delicious. Also portguese sweet bread, grew up on that as well! I've never had the bread from a can as a born and raised New Englander. If you go hiking in the summer you can find wild low bush blueberries all over the place, which is my favorite treat after a hike. Where are the apples, apple cider donuts, and maple? Maple Creamees
Ahh, good old American Chop Suey - a classic - definitely a family favorite! Baked beans was a classic Sunday dinner - we would have baked beans (my family used Canadian Bacon) with hot dogs on the side (not in the beans), coleslaw, sour garlic pickles and biscuits instead of brown bread (I think brown bread was more popular with the older generation - like my grandparents'). Moxie is probably an acquired taste - I never liked it growing up but as I got older I came to like it quite a bit (it definitely has some root beer qualities). Blueberry pie is awesome - take it up a notch by adding rhubarb and have warm blueberry rhubarb pie with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream. Coffee flavored milk is just like the other flavored milks (i.e. chocolate, strawberry, etc. - there are commercially available dairy milks in the grocery stores that have chocolate, strawberry and coffee flavored milks in New England). I do love fluffernutters with a nice glass of cold milk - if you think about it, it's kind of like eating a peanut butter fudge sandwich since two of the main ingredients that you can use to make a simple peanut butter fudge are peanut butter and marshmallow fluff - but fluffernutters are definitely more of a treat rather than a part of your daily balanced breakfast or lunch!
I'm probably the only native New Englander to have never eaten a fluffernutter. My mom didn't buy it so I never ate it. Honestly the best non seafood here are the roast beef sandwiches up on the North Shore and other areas north of Boston. There are also the classic boiled dinners, but really New England without seafood isn't right. Clam chowder, fried clams, fish chowder, steamers, steamed lobster with drawn butter, it's the essence of New England.
We also have hyper local dishes as well. I'm from the Merrimack Valley where you have meat pies and spinach pies, which really only exist in a couple cities and are effectively inverted pizzas, not exactly a calzone. There are also something called crispelli which are some originally Sicilian specialty that I've never seen outside of the area. And of course, the beach pizza, Sicilian slices with a sweet sauce, which is associated with places like Tripoli's and Cristy's.
And of course the most New England drink can't be forgotten...an iced coffee from Dunkin, even in the dead of Winter.
Nutmegger here. I also never had the fluffernutter. I would have a peanut butter and butter (unfortunately, margarine in the 70's) sandwich. Or maybe that with honey added since Dad had bees. But mom would not buy fluff.
Kelly's Roast Beef at Revere Beach is still the best on the North Shore! Wicked expensive nowadays, though. The other location is Saugus is good enough if you don't want to fight the traffic at the beach, and was closer to the house we bought in Lynn so that became our go-to place on Route 1.
YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOURE MISSING XOXOX IT ISSSS DELICIOUS!! ❤❤❤
My mother was from New Bedford Mass... Every year when I was young, my grandmother would bring us back a case of the coffee syrup, the Portuguese bread and Boston brown bread... My mom used to always make brown bread in coffee cans. (It has molasses, brown sugar and raisins in it--- think of it as a English figgy pudding)
Now you can get it here in Florida! It's delicious when it's warmed with butter.
And I think we had American chop suey at least once a week-- definitely a childhood favorite
The beans on bread is reminiscent of an English beans on toast!
I think a lot of these recipes are more English than everyone realizes
One other thing they used to do in Massachusetts was you take Cake donuts Slice them in half and fry them in butter on one side..Add a slice of cheddar cheese to it and it's heaven simply heaven...
I was born in Fairhaven, right next to New Bedford.
Autocrat (a swallow will tell you) and Eclipse (you'll lick your lips)
@stephaniepelc1618My aunt was from fairhaven! We could be related
What stores have the brown bread. I know I can order it from Amazon or Walmart.
I live up the road from New Bedford. never heard of the cake donuts slice and fry deal .. maybe I'll try it. I have relatives in Florida and they get chourico and linguica shipped down there twice a year!
Wait until you try coffee ice cream!!!! 😋 😋
And traditional frozen custard, too.
I’m born and raised in Massachusetts. Maine is also famous for Whoopie pies, which is like a devil dog but better. New England clam chowdahhh, lobstahhh, and fried clams are some of my favorites when you come up for a trip, I’ll recommend my favorite seafood shacks! We also do a lot with cranberries in the fall/winter since 80% of the cranberries come from Cape Cod. Cranberry bread is delicious. Cider donuts cooked fresh from the apple orchards are to die for and we have tons of orchards in Massachusetts. Maple syrup from Vermont is like nothing you’ve ever tasted and once you do you won’t want anything else. Your beans looked delicious but I have to admit I just doctor up the B&M beans out of the can, put in crockpot, add brown sugar, mustard etc and it’s a great shortcut. We often make baked beans for cookouts/barbecues with our hot dogs and hamburgers and potato salad. Moxie is 🤮. I also grew up on fluffernutters or pb& jelly sandwiches. Your blueberry pie looked amazing! 🤩
Have to live in NE for Devil Dogs. Never could get them anywhere else.
I love everything you mention… I also love Moxie!! 😂
Very good description of whoopie pies it really is the same type cake as devil dogs.
Crumb topped baked haddock is a Maine fav. of mine.
oh man, Maple Creamies in VT in the summer are next level. I love White Birch Beer too, maybe we just like the flavor of trees.
Love Brown Bread! Every Saturday night we had hotdogs, baked beans and brown bread. Slice the bread in about 1/2 inch slices, put butter between each slice, wrap in foil and put in 350 degree oven for about 20 minutes. Yum!!
And don't forget the coleslaw LOL
Me too, and I'm from Buffalo. Saturday night tradition!
Born in Rhode Island, grew up in NH and stayed here my whole life (34). I've never had the canned bread (seen it, never had it), and never done the cold beans on bread, closest is frank and beans on bread as a sorta play off a chili dog.
American chop suey I love, frank and beans are great, Moxie seems to come and go around me (seems to be a love/don't like drink), coffee milk is basically adjacent to chocolate, strawberry, or blueberry milk, a solid blueberry pie just good, fluffernutters is ok, but it's more a quick half meal half treat.
You’re coming to New England? You need to have pizza in New Haven and steamed cheeseburgers in Meriden! ❤ come check out the best CT had to offer!
OMG yes, I can't wait to see them try the New Haven pizza!
Agreed!! They can't legit rate pizza until they've New Haven pizza!!
Absolutely! They should try all of them - Pepe's, Sally's, and Modern. IMO, travel just a little and try Zuppardi's in West Haven!
Modern pizza or Zupardies for new haven pizza and Kay Lamay is better than Ted's for the steamed cheeseburger.
@markc6207 I agree K lamays is better than Ted’s. They should definitely give little rendezvous a shot in Meriden too!
Okay, as a born and raised New Englander, once you get the brown bread out of the can you slice it into thick slabs and toast it or pan fry it with butter. After that you spread about a quarter stick of butter on it. Not margarine and not " I can't believe it's not crap" , real butter!!. You then dip it in the sauce of the beans and enjoy. BTW the meal is not complete without hot dogs to go with it. Oh, and the taste you recognize is probably molasses in the brown bread. Mike from Mass.
Born and raised in CT and still here. Mom was from CT and Dad from VT so there are differences. My mom had her Goulash receipe- it was more a quick dinner. Usually no peppers. Never chopped tomatoes. We never had brown bread, Dad only ate just beans, mom fried hot dogs (butterflyed) then baked the baked beans with the hot dogs (some on top). So good. That was it for beans. No sandwiches. My mom was known for her apple pie. And fluffernutters. Yes I did eat those for school lunches, and I still have them on rare occasions. And add banana slices. Yummy. And you are missing some real good ones. Non seafood and seafood! You guys made me hungry! Lol
During Covid, when shelves were bare for a while, canned brown bread was available and so were canned baked beans. Butter a couple of slices and warm in a frying pan butter side down for a couple of minutes. Eat with warm baked beans and fried eggs. Yum. The flavor you taste in the bread is molasses. Tastes like a bran muffin. Beans from a can, just heat to a bubble. Then you dunk! Hot dogs and beans..cook the sliced dogs in the beans, heat together! Love coffee milk but never heard of Moxie.
I’m from Iowa and we call beans and hotdogs: beanies & weinies 🤣. Pretty good but I haven’t had them forever tbh.
Awful lot of sugar in those dishes.
Fun video, thanks for posting. I am an Italian -USA dual citizen who grew up between Rome and Providence (Federal Hill). “American Chop Suey” is the best! Brings me back to tough economic times when we had pasta every Wednesday and Sunday. But since American Chop wasn’t considered standard pasta -- we would often have it on Monday nights for dinner! Great memories! Also, in RI coffee milk is not coffee with milk. It is called a coffee cabinet, a classic drink, especially with NY System hot wieners…… Really enjoyed the video! PS: RI’s official food is fried calamari, these are traditionally from Pt.Judith, RI
I had a lot of American chop suey in grade school. Of course, the elbow pasta was horribly puffed up, so the poster's instinct to go al-dente is an improvement!
So, in Providence? Big in Mass and Maine too. Used to be in most diners.
10:00 Baked beans on toast comes from the UK, but not cold beans on untoasted white bread. Yuck.
Right?! It has to be the British Heinz beans!! And I grew up with open faced style.
Love Moxie - dad was from New England and all this stuff is very familiar. Never did like the bread.
I love brown bread with raisins and you can eat it just by itself warm with butter…yumm
A couple things from this Bostonian. Brown bread in a can was a thing up until the 1960's for it's novelty. Not so much after that. For the reasons you discovered. Beans on toast is an open face 'sandwich'. Really more of a tartine. Coffee Milk is more of a Rhode Island thing. You won't find it in Boston. When you visit Boston you need to take a drive up the coast to Ipswich to Woodman's. Their whole belly fried clams are life-changing! SO good!
Maine blueberries really are the best! As a kid vacationing in Maine we would go into the woods a pick fresh blueberries for breakfast with a little bit of cream - yum!
I love brown bread, to me it tastes like bran muffins, they even have a raisin one! I also love the chop suey, my dad always made it, so good! The fluffernutter I can’t eat, too much sugar! Coffee milk ,still so good! And as for beans ,I eat the vegetarian ones now ,still same taste just no pork! I never had beans on bread but def had it with Hot Dogs and I love to add ketchup or mustard to my beans! You gotta try the fish and chips and clam chowder next, I think you guys would enjoy that! ❤😊
In the Fall, fresh apple crisp with vanilla ice cream is a must! Portuguese kale soup and linguica pizza.
I grew up in Massachusetts. I knew Alessio would love chop suey! Also, brown bread is a thing we pretend to like so we can get outsiders to try it. Moxie is black licorice flavor, and an acquired taste.
Coffee milk is a Rhode Island staple - not a coffee substitute, but just flavored milk. Dunkies often has it on the menu here.
Those cold bean sandwiches are amazing - protein, fiber, and easy to eat. Most things labeled as "Boston" style have molasses - it's a reference to how much molasses we used to store there, and the molasses flood. Boston creme pie is the exception, just delicious cake and custard.
Also, New England wild blueberries are absolutely amazing. Much more flavorful than the shipping-friendly options at the store.
Also, a fluffernutter is the best after a day of hard work. Such a good balance of sweet and savory.
I'm from new england I have never seen anyone eat boston baked on white bread for breakfast
same!!
I've seen old people do it
I've never seen it on bread but my Dad always put them on our pancakes. Still eat them that way.
My dad used to bring cold bean Sammy’s to work for lunch
@benjaminminty9602 Cold bean sandwiches is what the poor kids brought to school for lunch when I was growing up.
Lifelong New Englander here! Yes to the American Chop Suey. Baked beans and brown bread.... I have never liked baked beans but my mom always made it from scratch. I also grew up with the brown bread. We would remove it from the can, slice it, and steam it on top of the stove, ALWAYS put butter on lt. I have never heard of a cold bean sandwich. Moxie it is a love it or hate it type of thing. Personally, I don't like it. I also don't see coffee milk that much. Blueberry pie is THE BOMB! You NEED to try the Boston Cream pie! You will love it! Grew up with the Fluffernutter. Still love it but just dont eat it anymore.
My Dad always ate a cold bean sandwich late at night on Saturday, hours after our Saturday night suppah (beans and franks and brown bread of course!).
kids in the 80's ate fluffa nutters. add fluff to hot Co Co its a treat!
Everyone ate fluffernutters. Not just the 80's
I’m from Boston and love this video so much! We don’t really eat much of this anymore. It’s kind of a dying tradition. (Beans, Moxie especially). But goulash is definitely still a thing!
Also, the coffee milk is more of a treat. It’s basically melted coffee ice cream. I don’t personally care for it.
Loved my mom's chopped Sue's. Had it weekly.
Lol...my 25 yo sons fav,Moxie..Some StopNShops have it still.
Did you guys call it American chopped suey? We didn't have a name for the dish - it was just something we ate a lot.
Delicious. Brown bread Especially good with cream cheese
Yes!! That's how my Mom always made for me as a kid.
Oh, my gosh!! As a native Rhode Islander, I am ROLLING at Alessio's coffee milk reaction!! LOVE it!! It's our official state drink, even!
When I was little we moved to Illinois for a few years and my grandmother sent us bottles of Eclipse coffee syrup so my mother could put it in my lunchbox every day. It's definitely a Rhode Island treasure just like Del's frozen lemonade (WITHOUT a straw!), pizza strips, calamari, johnnycakes, stuffies - stuffed quahog clams, and "three all the way" - NY system wieners with meat sauce, onions and mustard.
I used to eat philly cream cheese smeared on the brown bread. We used to eat the raisin version.
Raisin version is the way to go!
I knew there were raisins!! I kept looking at what they opened & kept thinking "I don't think that's brown bread." Apparently my Mom only got the kind with raisins & I grew up thinking that was the only one there was, lol!
Coffee milk is great for an afternoon pick-me-up. It's also essential for a great coffee milkshake along with strong coffee ice cream.
Born and raised in Massachusetts (I still live here). I have never, nor would I ever, try the bread in a can! So good for you for trying it. Also, American chop suey is the best! Come to New England in the summer or fall for beautiful scenery and amazing seafood!
Fluffernutter!❤. I cannot tell you how many of those we ate as kids, no, we never had it for lunch. It was a snack! 😅
Yes! A treat! I haven’t had one in over 30 years. 😊
Exactly, I used to have them after school.
Coffee milk! Fluffernutter! Homemade baked beans! Native of Massachusetts 😊
Another Massachusetts girl here. My mother fried that bread in cast iron, and slathered in butter.
She baked beans all day on Saturday ( with a piece of salt fat pork in it), and we ate it with Hot dogs! Traditional Saturday night supper! The beans the next morning go on toast!
I’m from New England and I have never heard of this brown bread before nor have I ever seen someone eat it 😂
I’m surprised you never had brown bread. My dad was from Revere, MA and every once in a while he would find a can of brown bread and bring it home, warm it up and put butter on it. We loved it as kids.
It's not that common anymore. I don't think I've ever bought it, but remember some restaurants that had it. I can't remember if 99 does, but think the long defunct Anthony's Pier 4 did.
The brown bread in a can is in every grocery store in the area guaranteed
Same here. I'm from MA & never heard of it or anyone I've known has served it.
American Chop Suey was a meal standard growing up in New Hampshire. Toast the brown bread and use butter, fry the hot dog pieces in a pan get them browned and a little crisp on the ends and add them to the beans. Growing up in New Hampshire we had beans and hot dogs with brown bread Saturday night dinner. New Englander all my life and many generations in my family never heard of a bean sandwich for any meal. Fluffernutters were a special treat. Where I'm from in New Hampshire, Apple Pie is a must in the fall. But never had it for breakfast. But Blueberry pie is great too! Moxie has a sharp taste not all New Englanders like Moxie. Coffee milk is like chocolate milk or strawberry milk. :)
I grew up in New Brunswick, Canada. Baked beans and brown bread every Saturday night for supper. My mother made both the beans and bread from scratch. I've never had canned brown bread.
I confess to apple pie for breakfast. I'd have it right now if I could.
Born, raised and still living in New England. Born in Connecticut, living in rhode Island and have vacationed all over. I live that you all loved American Chop Suey, Alessios response was great. I dated a girl from Texas and she had no idea what it was and loved it. Brown bread NEEDS to be fried in a pan with butter. And beans for breakfast for me, are hot not cold. Coffee milk is liquid gold here in Rhode Island where I live and it's from. This is what introduced kost of us kid to coffee...it's that first step lol. We have weiner restaurants that sell it with the weiners the two go hand in hand. And I LOVE Moxie. It's an acquired taste but tastes like New England with that hint of licorice. Your blueberry pie came out great visually. Oh and there's never too much fluffernutter. It can be oozing out the side. Not necessarily the school lunch of kids. More a surprise treat when we got it...especially strawberry fluff. Or a treat while watching cartoons after school. But it's also a staple in rice crispy treats.
Now there can be a part two because there are soooo many more New Engkand foods to try. Especially the maple candies. I look forward to your New England Seafood vid
We would eat the beans with potato chips, scoop them up, and crunchity crunch!
Warm the bread in the oven and slather with butter. Yum! B&M Brown Bread is *not* always available. I search for it and LOVE it!
Those beans are REALLY dry.
Fluffernutters were also eaten in the Midwest, by many of us, in the Chicago area.
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yes I grew up in the northern suburbs of Chicago and we ate Fluffernutter sandwiches as a snack and not in our school lunches back in the late 60’s and 70’s.
As a lifelong New Englander, no we do not replace our morning coffee with coffee milk lol but we do drink it while we eat our pancake breakfast
True! My Rhode Island Gram would disagree, however. Coffee syrup & milk was the only way she drank "coffee." Grandpa, however, would have a Dunks donut and Pepsi for breakfast. Hmmmm... now I may understand why I am how I am today 😆
Baked beans and hot dogs, that was my struggle meal growing up. Still great to this day.
I've never had beans for breakfast and ive never known anyone to eat it like that either. Being from Southern NH, we always had something with maple syrup like pancakes, waffles, French toast, etc
Moxie is uniquely disgusting. 🤢
As for the rest, we do eat a lot of baked beans and goulash in Maine. Canned bread is a dying taste. Loved the video!😊
I would never have guessed Alessio would like American Chop Suey. My father loved it.
When you go to New England, try the lobster obviously, but also try the clams. Steamed and/or fried.
Coffee milk is exquisite.
Which lobster roll? Connecticut or Maine? (Both, obviously)
Back in the day when my father was little, and even before that it was tradition on Saturday morning , you would take your beans to the local baker because he was the only one that had an oven. He would bake all the towns beans the kids would come back in the evening and that was Saturday dinner.
You should try Indian Pudding. Served warm with vanilla ice cream.
It can be harder to find, but Grapenut Pudding is pretty good too. Similar to Indian Pudding
@cylontoaster7660 Haven't tried that one. My Nana used to make Grapenut Ice Cream.
Absolutely. While watching the video, I kept wondering if they'd try Indian pudding. I'm a Massachusetts native and my Massachusetts-native grandfather was not a big dessert eater, but he'd have Indian pudding every chance he got.
Y'all gotta go to New Haven, get some Sally's, Pepe's, Modern, Bar, etc.
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I feel like they missed all the best foods from New England. Obviously, they said they skipped the fish and seafood. But New Haven pizza, seafood all the good stuff they probably can’t recreate.
Pot roast why is nobody talking about pot roast it is the best. Zupardies in West Haven has great pizza also Modern.
I grew up in New England. Foods I hope you will try: fried clams with or without bellies, steamers (pronounced "steamahs"), seafood newburg, New England Clam chowder, lobster rolls that vary (my favorite in Maine style, but Connecticut style is great too), local pizza that varies from state to state in New England (NY style, Greek style, New Haven style), Papa Gino's pizza (the only acceptable fast food pizza), Otto's Pizza from Portland (Maine), local maple syrup (including blueberry maple syrup from Maine), whoopie pies, blondies, fried dough (with melted butter, cinnamon and powdered sugar), maple candy, fresh apple cider (hot or cold), fresh apple cider doughnuts, and penuche fudge (made with brown sugar and has a buttery caramel flavor). I hope you get to try the ice cream too. New England has so many local ice cream shops that make their own ice cream with some unique flavors. I grew up near Hodgie's Ice Cream in Amesbury, Massachusetts and I love to have a frappe made with their orange & pineapple ice cream (with bits of orange and pineapple) and ginger ice cream (with bits of ginger).
Check out Marshmallow Fluff! Invented in Lynn, MA. The baked bean sandwiches were a sometimes necessary budget stretcher. No to brown bread unless it is grilled or toasted. then is is almost tolerable. Moxie is based on Gentian root. It can be given to people from away as either a kind of litmus test, or to get a laugh from their initial reaction It was originally a patent medicine called Moxie Nerve Food.
Came here to say something similar. That's not fluff, and it's just not the same.
It was invented in Somerville, Ma. They have a yearly Fluff festival!
Gentian is also the key bittering flavor in Aperol, as well as Angostura and Peychaud bitters. Definitely an acquired taste. Like quinine-bittered items (e.g., tonic water and Campari), I find non-Americans who think everything here is too sweet tend to have a much greater appreciation for it.