Strange foreign food.

[kiwi]

American Jam is regular jam, the same stuff that the English and Aussies and Kiwis use.
American Jelly is regular jam that is strained until all the seeds and "bits" of the fruit are removed.
Think of it like pulpy orange juice versus smooth oj.

Jelly in Aussie and NZ (and I think in England) is what Americans would call jello, it contains gelatin and sets into a dessert, often used in trifle.

[IDrinkaRum]

Cat - PB&M is the most divine of divines!

For the rest of the board: I <3 Mayo. I mean, I really <3 mayo! As for what to dip my fries in? I mix ketchup & mayo together. Yummy! OMG! I'm in heaven just thinking about it.

That is all.

[tabbyblack13]

I love homemade Crab apple jelly. My mom makes it almost every year. I have kiwi jelly that a coworker made. I love nutella on bagels. As for corn dogs, I love them. The only thing is you never want to read the nutrition labels to see the amount of fat and calories is in just one. I usually make grits with goat cheese.

How about Mayo cake. It was created during the Great Depression and uses mayo to replace eggs and oil in the cake recipe. I love it and it doesn't taste like mayo.

I love burritos but the the original recipe. The original burritos use to contain burro meat aka donkey meat. I was always taught that Chitlins were pig intestines. Either way I don't what to eat that part of any animal.

[TTAZ]

Mexicans have peppered sugar.

I would think menudo would be ickier to most folks than spicy candy.

American pancakes. I didn't know they were made different in the UK, but when my son's father's family visit, his mother begs denny's cooks for the recipe and his niece gags at the idea. What is so disgusting about big fluffy buttermilk pancakes?

Cracklin' is good-put it in your cornbread and have cracklin' bread!

Here's a question- my ex always bitches about American bacon vs. "streaky bacon"...wtf is streaky bacon and how is it different?

What about green bean casserole? Canned french style green beans in a dish with cream of mushroom condensed soup baked in the oven with canned french fried onions on top. I am an American and I think that shit should be outlawed as an environmental disaster. I offended my family one year by asking why we had that awful glop at Thanksgiving dinner.

"It's tradition!" they said

"So that's what killed the Indians?" I said

"Get your plate and go away" they said

And a new tradition was born!

[AdminAssistant]

Ah, since someone has pointed out putting cracklin's in cornbread.

Cornbread is always ALWAYS savory - as in made with salt and no sugar. In northern climes, people like to put in sugar and sometimes even make them like...muffins. This is not cornbread. It's a sweet corn bread-like substance.

I have no idea if it even exists outside of the States...does it?

[kamn]

Around here?

Žganci. Corn or wheat. Rather good.

Blood sausages (Why does everyone translate that stuff to black pudding?! It doesnt look like pudding, doesnt have the flavor or the texture of a pudding. Its a sausage, made from blood (and rice). Blood-sausage!)



Over-Mura-moving-cake. Direct translation for Prekmurska gibanica.
...just.... ....dont ask.... Its good though.


Pizza-burek!

[Boozy]

Where do you live, kamn?

Blood sausages sound horrifying to me.

[DesignFox]

Where do you live, kamn?

Blood sausages sound horrifying to me.

me too. *shudder*

[lordlundar]

Where do you live, kamn?

Blood sausages sound horrifying to me.

Well, here's a fun thought for you: Gravy is essentially the same. It's taking meat drippings which are cooked blood and adding starch to it. In gravy's case, it's usually a flour mixture. With blood sausages, it's rice.

[Boozy]

On some level, I understood what gravy was, but chose not to think about it. You've ruined gravy for me forever.

[lordlundar]

Happy to oblige.

[muses_nightmare]

Aren't meat drippings basically the fat in the meat, not the blood?

[Dreamstalker]

That's what I thought it was.

I shop in Chinatown grocery stores (not terribly often). Mostly I buy packaged noodles (where else are you going to find duck-flavored ramen?), Chinese broccoli and frozen dim sum items. Also the occasional snacky-thing. Mom seems to think I'm taking my life in my hands (today's lecture over my bringing home interesting-sounding corn noodles and a small box of cakes that were imported from ZOMG-China).

What in the world would one use pork spleen for? (saw that today in my quest) I didn't even know that was edible.

[IDrinkaRum]

Ah, since someone has pointed out putting cracklin's in cornbread.

Cornbread is always ALWAYS savory - as in made with salt and no sugar. In northern climes, people like to put in sugar and sometimes even make them like...muffins. This is not cornbread. It's a sweet corn bread-like substance.

I have no idea if it even exists outside of the States...does it?

All the sweet cornbread I've had came from the South. That's where the Sweet Tea comes from & the grits come from too. Maybe I've been to weird southern restaurants?

[AdminAssistant]

Might be a coastal thing. My family's from the Delta, but I've got several friends from Georgia, and there seems to be a pronounced difference in cuisine. For example, I've never had these "grits" you speak of. And one of my Georgia friends had never heard of serving pickled tomatoes with catfish. I do love my Sweet Tea, and up here I pretty much just have to make it myself.