# Foods Americans like that non-Americans find disgusting **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 21, 2015, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054 "2015-09-21T01:22:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054/261 "2015-10-01T13:19:23Z")
> [@Mikeisskeptical](#): > > I’m from the UK and it’s hard to overstate how much I love a pb&j sandwich. If you eat them in public though, people will not disguise their disgust. Also people here think tend to think putting maple syrup on a cooked breakfast is about as appealing as putting detergent on it. Bacon with syrup sounds pretty nice to me though. Well, we don’t put maple syrup on the eggs and fried potatoes. Only on the waffles/pancakes/French toast and, oops!, “accidentally” on the bacon. Salty, delicious bacon pairs amazingly with maple syrup. Also, fake maple syrup is an abomination. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054/262 "2015-10-01T16:36:59Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > In the US, it’s fairly available in dried form, if not the most popular of herbs. I remember my mom having a McCormick’s (most popular spice manufacturer) bottle around, but rarely using it. I’ve only grown the fresh stuff, both summer savory and winter savory, but I’ve never seen it at grocery stores. Perhaps a farmer’s market may carry it. I generally use it for beans and for a French meat pie called tourtiere. The flavor is something like in that oregano/thyme general area. I would say a little closer to thyme than oregano, myself. It is also friggin amazing when used in stuffing/dressing for turkey or chicken, or in fish cakes. You can also find savoury online [here](http://www.tidespoint.com/food/savoury.shtml). ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054/263 "2015-10-01T16:44:33Z")
> [@](#): > > I could never eat cold beans in a can, the water is just disgusting. > [@Lamia](#): > > They have corn dogs in Japan, only they’re called “American dogs” there. > > Who does that? I don’t think I’ve ever even heard of an American eating cold beans from a can except in situations where they were stuck without a stove/microwave/campfire. Dreiberg/Note Owl: You want me to heat those up for you, or something? Walter Kovacs/Rohrshach: Fine like this. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054/264 "2015-10-01T17:42:17Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Ignore the haters, my transatlantic friend. The “full English” breakfast is, along with trial-by-jury, the plays of Shakespeare, and Pippa Middleton’s ass, Britain’s noblest contribution to civilization. To that I’ll add: meat pies & pasties, mushy peas, sticky toffee pudding, Sunday roasts, gravy, gravy, gravy. Alongside these comfort foods are their modern manifestations by chefs at numerous gastro pubs and cafes. A glorious time to eat in London. English food has never been better. ---
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054/265 "2015-10-01T17:55:43Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Yeah… In that case, it’s better just to buy dried beans and rehydrate them yourself. > > This is usually what I do when I make, e.g., chili con carne from scratch. Except that anyone who knows beans about chili knows chili doesn’t have any beans. (it’s a Texas thing) A few years ago, my friend Deb had some friends visiting her from home: NYC. We gathered at her house for pot luck brunch before heading out one morning. Some of the Texans were whispering “fish and cream cheese for BREAKFAST? Gross”. Some of the NYers were whispering “beans and jalapenos for BREAKFAST? Gross”. I had some of both, but I prefer the El Nino taco: beans, chorizo, and jalapenos. Time to WAKE UP. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054/266 "2015-10-01T19:45:23Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > Truly, it is one of life’s simplest pleasures. > > However, proper form must be observed. One must not simply put syrup on the bacon. That would be gauche. The syrup goes on the pancakes or waffles. Once those have been eaten, the bacon (or sausage) may be dragged through the syrup left on the plate. Watchu talkin bout Willis? Of course you put the syrup straight on the bacon. Also straight on the sausage. You did order sausage didn’t you? :dubious: > [@McDoogins](#): > > Moreso hot dogs and mac n cheese as a meal. Hot dogs in man n cheese is for children. An adult puts a right proper sausage, of your choosing, in their mac n cheese. > [@Shagnasty](#): > > Corn dogs are damned good especially with bright yellow mustard. Corn dogs are awesome. Also good is breakfast dogs. A breakfast sausage dipped in pancake batter and fried. > [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > Well, we don’t put maple syrup on the eggs and fried potatoes. Are you sure you’re an American and not some Commie Pinko Russian spy pretending to be an American? :dubious: Of course you put the syrup on the eggs and potatoes, right after you put the hot sauce on them. Spicy and sweet is the best flavor. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054/267 "2015-10-01T19:49:14Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Ignore the haters, my transatlantic friend. The “full English” breakfast is, along with trial-by-jury, the plays of Shakespeare, and Pippa Middleton’s ass, Britain’s noblest contribution to civilization. This begins to remind me of a bizarre conversation I had once with a fellow American who insisted that British persons ate only English muffins and tea for breakfast. And sometimes ham, which they called “bacon.” He knew. He’d been there. It was against the law, or something… The fellow didn’t know what Weetabix were, which caused me to doubt. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054/268 "2015-10-01T19:50:49Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Of course you put the syrup on the eggs and potatoes, right after you put the hot sauce on them. Yeah, well, you’re drunk. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054/269 "2015-10-01T21:00:29Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > They have corn dogs in Japan, only they’re called “American dogs” there. Really? Is their word for “dog” **inu** , the same as their word for **canine**? Or do they use a different word? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054/270 "2015-10-01T21:21:14Z")
> [@Master\_Wang-Ka](#): > > Really? Is their word for “dog” **inu** , the same as their word for **canine**? Or do they use a different word? ドッグ, “doggu.” ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054/271 "2015-10-01T21:26:24Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > ドッグ, “doggu.” So that’d be “American doggu.” Thanks. I’ve grown up calling them hot dogs, but I wasn’t sure the idiom carried over too well into Japanese… but durned if I wasn’t curious. Because I know they have hot dog pizza crusts over there. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054/272 "2015-10-01T21:31:16Z")
Well, アメリカンドッグ, Amerikandoggu if you want to get technical 🙂 The hot dog crust started in Japan as far as I know, but has since made its way to America! ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054/273 "2015-10-01T21:45:04Z")
I kept thinking about the old Yakov Smirnoff joke, “Ew! In Soviet Russia, we don’t eat that part of the dog! What a country!” ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054/274 "2015-10-01T23:07:24Z")
> [@Master\_Wang-Ka](#): > > So that’d be “American doggu.” Well, really it’s just the English term “American dog” transliterated into Japanese. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054/275 "2015-10-01T23:14:38Z")
Well, I’m thinking that “americandoggu” is a term for a meat snack, whereas “american inu” is a Japanese term for a canine lifeform from America. I was just curious as to whether they were actually the same word or phrase. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054/276 "2015-10-02T00:24:46Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > They have corn dogs in Japan, only they’re called “American dogs” there. > > Who does that? I don’t think I’ve ever even heard of an American eating cold beans from a can except in situations where they were stuck without a stove/microwave/campfire. I do, enthusiastically. Van Camp’s Pork 'N Beans, cold out of the can? A feast for the gods. And you get a concert afterwards. I don’t eat the little pad of pork fat, though. That’d be disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![breezman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@breezman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breezman)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054/277 "2015-10-02T01:03:27Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > I do, enthusiastically. Van Camp’s Pork 'N Beans, cold out of the can? A feast for the gods. And you get a concert afterwards. > > I don’t eat the little pad of pork fat, though. That’d be disgusting. I couldn’t have said it any better myself. Straight from the can is the best way to eat pork and beans. And the cat likes the little pork fat piece. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054/278 "2015-10-02T01:08:34Z")
> [@Master\_Wang-Ka](#): > > Well, I’m thinking that “americandoggu” is a term for a meat snack, whereas “american inu” is a Japanese term for a canine lifeform from America. > > I was just curious as to whether they were actually the same word or phrase. I should have said that the Japanese term for corn dogs was the English words “American” and “dog” transliterated into Japanese, as “American dog” isn’t actually the English term for corn dogs. Japanese for hot dog is also just “hot dog” transliterated into Japanese, so it would be clear to a Japanese speaker that an American dog is a variation on a hot dog. The term for canines from America never came up in conversation when I was over there and my Japanese isn’t great, but it’s probably “Amerika no inu” (literally “dog of America”). ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054/279 "2015-10-02T01:16:24Z")
> [@stui\_magpie](#): > > I don’t get the hate for the white sliced bread, we have the same thing here, but have plenty of other options. The old white bread may have basically zero nutritional value but is mandatory for a bbq sausage with tomato sauce. As an Aussie living in the US, the cheap white bread here is NOT the same as cheap white bread in Aust. It’s much much sweeter. As in, the 2nd ingredient on the list is high-fructose corn syrup, and the 3rd is sugar. I make all of our bread now. It’s the only way I can get the Vegemite to taste right. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054/280 "2015-10-03T04:06:37Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > Given that most of the actual calories come from the bread and the beans if on there (or hash browns if included), its not actually that high calories wise. JD Wetherspoons has it down for 918 calories for a normal one. I’m sure packages and a bowl of cereal will be more than that. Pancakes _and_ a bowl of cereal? It’d be weird to eat both. I wonder how fattening pancake syrup is. A bowl of non-kiddy cereal is only going to be a couple hundred calories, so you’re either eating a lot of pancakes too or loading them with other stuff. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-americans-like-that-non-americans-find-disgusting/732054.md?page=15)