There was a thread on reddit asking about foods that are popular in your country but that are reviled elsewhere.
Most of the foods that non-americans listed were not surprising to me. As far as foods that are popular in the US but unpopular everywhere else, I think the only one I saw was root beer.
Is root beer not liked outside the US? A lot of people said it tasted like cough medicine.
What other foods are liked here in the US but not liked elsewhere?
I always heard that Americans are one of the few who like peanut butter.
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A recent thread mentioned foreigners recoiling from All-American corn on the cob.
I understood that to be about the presentation, not the taste. They ate sweet corn, just not on the cob.
never mind - wasn’t paying attention!
Peanut butter is used in Asian cooking .
and African.
Root Beer?
My German landlady loved root beer.
Corn on the cob is pretty popular here in Australia. Done on the BBQ or just boiled then butter, pepper and garlic salt added.
There is one thing that I think Aussies genuinely “recoil” from, and that’s PB & J. Peanut butter is practically a staple food here, but to even think about adding the J part - nah!
Jello? is that mostly liked by Americans?
made from collagen in pigskin, and that would be a problem in many cultures.
Yep, what Cara Mel said.
The pickled cucumbers in a burger are something we’ve slowly got used to if you buy Maccas, but no one would put them in a burger made at home.
I don’t mind A&E Rootbeer but it doesn’t have a market here. They tried to create a market for Dr Pepper here a few years back. Fail
Grape flavoured stuff. Yech.
Corn on the cob - no troubles at all.
The close cousin of Root Beer, Sarsaparilla is pretty common in Australia.
I agree with Cara Mel on the PB&J front. I think maybe part of that, is that Peanut Butter is a lot sweeter in the US. So it maybe goes with sweet Jam (Jelly) better.
I would suggest Cheese in a Can meets the OP. Although I’m not sure how truely popular that is in the States. The thought of eating “cheese” sprayed from a can makes me shudder. :eek:
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Interestingly I thought that the A&E Rootbeer has a similar taste to sarsaparilla but my son thinks I have warped taste buds.:o
Taiwan’s version, Hey Song company’s sarsaparilla drink. I get my root beer fix in Beijing using that or Watson’s sarsaparilla drink called Sarsae.
American cheese.
Great. More for me.
All this time and no mention of Hershey’s?
AIUI, the idea of ‘milk chocolate’ is an abomination to most palates.
I certainly despise it.
Has ‘American Cheese’ (imitation cheddar made with vegetable fat instead of milk fat - as oleo margarine is to butter) made inroads?
My Danish relatives think American food is too spicy.
Othertimes it isnt the taste as much as the amounts Americans eat. In Denmark they like several small meals instead of 2-3 really big ones.
It’s popular in the UK (and has been for a long time) - we call it jelly though.
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