Food is a big part of any culture, but what's yummy to some might be yucky to others. Take American food, for example. Some classic American dishes might make people from other countries scratch their heads or even feel a bit queasy. From spray cheese to sugary cereals, let's dig into 10 American foods that are downright puzzling to folks from other lands.
Table of Contents
- 1. Candy Corn
- 2. Twizzlers
- 3. Donuts
- 4. Blooming Onion
- 5. Canned Foods
- 6. Various Forms of Cheese
- 7. Sugar Content
- 8. Sweet Potato Casserole
- 9. Hershey’s Chocolate
- 10. Ambrosia Salad
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- 10 Poor People Foods We Will Eat Even If We Win The Lottery
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- Top 10 Best Tasting Fish
1. Candy Corn
What’s not to love about baked cornstarch, filled with colored sugar and rolled in wax? A lot, according to some comments on the thread. Thankfully, haters just need to avoid the Halloween season if they visit. To be fair, it isn’t America’s most excellent candy offering!
2. Twizzlers
Brits are elitist about their candy being the world’s greatest (biased sidenote: it is rather good). Such a sentiment appeared in one scathing epithet, stating how their mom once visited them in the States. She was amazed that “people were chewing on plastic.” After trying a Twizzler, she confirmed it tasted as expected.
3. Donuts
It is not news that Europeans eat less sugar than Americans. Therefore, complaints about donuts are hardly a surprise. But who could be down on this treat? Furthermore, with Dunkin’ and Krispy Kreme dueling it out for supremacy, there has never been a better time to enjoy an American donut.
4. Blooming Onion
Australians are struggling with America’s time-honored culinary excursion: the themed restaurant. The culprit here is Outback Restaurant and its use of the Aussie vernacular.
One chap, in particular, wanted to know “what in the flying firetruck a ‘Blooming Onion’ has to do with anything,” as it has nothing to do with Australia. Fair dinkum.
5. Canned Foods
For some reason, there was beef with the humble tradition of canned food — more precisely, items that “probably don’t need to be canned.” Maybe this is pertinent: things lose flavor if they live in cans too long. However, fierce patriots fought back, stating how a mountain winter in the Boonies relied on canned goods.
6. Various Forms of Cheese
Wisconsin’s favorite product got a shellacking in the conversation. Comments ranged from ambivalence over mac-and-cheese to Cheese Whiz being disgusting, but particular outrage formed over cheese in a can or “cheese product,” which is only required to contain 51% cheese.
7. Sugar Content
I think most people are just surprised at how much sugar goes into the average American diet. I recall buying a peanut-butter cake recipe mix one time. Upon baking, I couldn’t eat the thing because it was so sweet, so I gave it to an American friend who demolished it.
8. Sweet Potato Casserole
Anyone lucky enough to experience Thanksgiving dinner will attest to having a meal of ten on the enjoyment scale. Some may have bristled when offered the sweet potato casserole with its marshmallow and brown sugar topping. I think the combination of sweetness somehow works with its savory bedfellows.
9. Hershey’s Chocolate
Even Americans agreed on this one. Somehow, the iconic 'chocolate' bar turned industrial candy bar still manages to find a market.
The theory is that Hershey’s chocolate has cheapened in production over the years, using a soured milk powder that gives it a distinctive flavor. I agree wholeheartedly with some comments that we cannot call this a chocolate bar. Come on, now.
10. Ambrosia Salad
I am firmly in the camp on this one and have a perimeter fence with tripwires and angry rottweilers to defend my position. Another strange number, ambrosia salad, is like a sweet coleslaw. It is a variation of coconut, canned fruit, marshmallows, and nuts with mayo or cream. Just no.
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I love candy corn, and I am 100% American, it's just a preference.
American here and while I could work on the sugar intake (soda), the only thing on this list that I would eat is donuts. Maybe certain canned food...but I can't tell you the last time I did.
I guess I 100% agree with the rest of the world. But donuts, a fresh and warm glazed, that is some good stuff.
I think that salty bacon mixed with maple syrup and egg and fruit gross me out. Sweet and salty doesn't go together. Also can beans are hard to eat. Donuts are super sweet my tongue feels numb at the first bite. Turkey stuffings are bad too. Soggy bread in gravy taste bad. And peanut better cup feel you up so fast you don't need entire meal. It takes years to get use to american sweets
Americans dont like candy corn either. Im convinced its only still made and sold to prank trick or treaters but giving them a "trick" disguised as a treat.