The easiest substitution would be turnip and mustard greens prepared the same way, with a hamhock.
What kind of communist uses cracker crumbs on a chicken-fried steak?
Really!
Alternatively, you can leave a bit of the fat in the bottom of the pan, add flour to it and cook a bit to make a roux, then add the milk slowly to deglaze the pan. When it starts to thicken, add a few chunks of butter and some of the sausage to it. Heart attack on a plate.
Seriously. However you can use Ruffles potato chips after running them through the food processor and then pressing the grease out of them with paper towels. Cap’n Crunch works too.
This is my view of generic American fare.
Breakfast:
Buttermilk Pancakes with real maple syrup
American bacon or sausage links, or ham steak
Orange Juice
Coffee
Dinner:
Green salad with Ranch dressing
Steak
Baked potato
Corn on the cob
Dessert:
Apple pie (with or without vanilla ice cream)
Coffee
Do we need to teach WILLASS how to make buttermilk biscuits as well? Because that will likely start a war. 
You just went on my list!
Surely Maine lobster is available if you take out a bank loan?
And let us not forget Yankee pot roast.
And cheeseburgers.
No Coke! Pepsi!
Would that be the good list or the bad list? I got the Cap’n Crunch thing from a Planet Hollywood cookbook, that’s how they make their chicken fingers.
Planet Hollywood chicken fingers are not a good guideline to follow when trying to cook the perfect chicken-fried steak! Atone for your sin by suggesting a potato salad recipe to WILLASS. Or maybe a good chess pie recipe.
Potato salad can get a mite contentious too, but I’ll suggest:
2 1/2 pounds russet potatoes, 3 medium-large potatoes, peeled and cubed
2 ribs celery, finely chopped
1/2 small to medium yellow skinned onion, finely chopped
3 tablespoons sweet pickle relish
1/3 cup mayonnaise
1/3 cup yellow mustard
Salt and pepper
Boil potatoes in salted water 10 to12 minutes, or until just tender. Drain the potatoes and spread out onto a cookie sheet to cool quickly, about 10 minutes.
In a bowl, combine celery, onion, relish, mayonnaise and mustard.
When you are ready to serve, combine cooled potatoes with other ingredients. Stir the potatoes to combine and season with salt and pepper.
Any potato salad without mustard is an abomination before the eyes of the lard.
I know Brits make kickass fish and chips, but you might consider American-style fried fish (or at least a Southern-style–and there are multiple Southern styles, e.g., Calabash-style). Use a mix of yellow corn meal, flour, salt, and pepper for the breading. Dip a trout or catfish (or tilapia, if you can’t get catfish) fillet in milk, then in the breading. Fry in a cast-iron skillet with about a quarter-inch of oil at the bottom. Less oil and it won’t fry correctly; more oil and the fish might float, keeping the breading from caramelizing against the hot iron.
Eat with skillet corn bread (corn bread baked in a cast-iron skillet) and a salad or greens, and you’ve got a killer Southern meal.
Daniel
I’d add our omelettes, particularly the Denver Omelette. Yeah, they’re patterened on European ones, but they’re different enough here, and very typical fare.
If you can make yourself some homemade corned beef and hash – that’s a very American breakfast. Corned beef & hash, fried egg, rye toast. What a way to start the day.
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Since no one seems to want to tackle beverages, lemme give it a go.
Ice tea. Sweet versus unsweet is a huge theological schism here. I prefer unsweet. Honestly, you can do whichever you prefer. Don’t let those with rabid pro-sweetener agendas sway you from the true course, though. Just brew hot tea like you normally do. Tetley’s is fine. Then pour it over ice. Since the ice will probably melt, you’ll have to do it again. Gotta have ice in the glass. Oh yeah, you serve it in a glass, not a mug.
Lemonade. Get some lemons. Or lemon juice. NOT FROM CONCENTRATE. Get some sugar. Get some water. Mix the whole mess together until you get something that is both tart and sweet. It should be cloudy. Again, serve with ice in a glass.
Coffee: Americans like their coffee the way I like my women: Hot, black, and bitter. HA! Just kidding. It should be hot though.
Coke: Preferably from a glass bottle. For some reason, I think it tastes better that way.
Kool-Aid: Packets of powder you mix with water and sugar.
Alcohol:
You’d know better than I what would be considered typically American. Everything I drink is Mexican is some form or another.
Cooks.com has a lot of recipes for various things suggested here. I get the impression that most of the recipe submittals are from 'Merkins so you’d get a sense of some typically american stuff.
Oh, just to add a bit to the breakfast discussion: A breakfast generally consists of two eggs cooked in any of a variety of ways. 1 meat (ham, bacon, sausage are the basics, but a cheap cut of steak can be used if you want to be high-falutin’.) A bread (toast [wheat, white or rye] biscuits [American biscuits, mind], bagels, English muffin) a starch (generally fried potatos called hash browns or grits or hominy). And juice (Apple or orange or cranberry) and coffee.
You can then add pancakes or waffles to it all. Generally the above is all served on one plate. The pancakes/waffles are never served on the same plate.
Hmmmm. Do you have hominy in the UK? If not, that might be pretty 'Merkin.
Ground up and stored in the freezer?
A good friend of mine from London visited the US many years ago and was quite taken with French Toast for breakfast:
Beat an egg with some milk, add a dash of cinnamon
Dip whole slices of bread into egg/milk mixture, fry in pan until lightly browned on both sides
Serve with maple syrup and optional powdered sugar
(side note - he got back to England and thought he’d try and figure out how to make it by himself…ended up cracking an egg over a piece of toast, frying it, and then dumping syrup over it, and could not understand why it was so disgusting. Heheh.)
I’d suggest this as the most American of foods. But to make a three course meal I’d go with a potato salad then Freedom fries, if you call them French fries people might get confused, of course the cheese burger must be cooked over charcoal and made with American cheese. Of course while less traditional bacon can be used as a topper. For dessert may I suggest Jello with fruit in it preferably in a star mold.
For breakfast I’d suggest a sausage patty and an egg fried so as to be circular combined together with American cheese on a Mcmuffin, again if you call it a English muffin people might get confused.
Now this will make traditional American food but I can defiantly make tastier recommendations. How about a steak sandwich – take a grilled rib eye with a garlic salt rub and on a sourdough roll preferably the size of the rib eye, top with tomatoes, lettuce, and grilled Anaheim chilies, of course you have to use steak fries with a steak sandwich and a Caesar salad. Dessert could be a New York style cheesecake and as for something to drink I suggest a Paso Robles Pinot Noir from California. For a good ol’ American breakfast that tastes good I can’t beet either the chicken fried steak or biscuits and gravy except to combine them into one meal with scrambled eggs and slather the whole plate with the gravy and Tabasco sauce. By the way the dinner is a common one in the Digger household.
Cheese steak sandwiches are great tasting, really bad for you American food. Don’t forget the fried onions! I’m pretty sure soft pretzels with salt are American, too.
Americans love steaks of all types, but you have to cook it outside on a grill or it doesn’t count.
I think popcorn is American, too. That’s a pretty good treat with lots of butter and a little salt.
Clam chowder is pretty popular in some parts of America, but I personally don’t like it.
I can’t think of an American drink, really. Maybe some whiskey?
The Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia. The birthplace of the United States.
What better for American food than an authentic Philly Cheese Steak?
Get your butcher to shave as thinly as possible (paper thin) 1lb of bottom round roast.
Brown meat with S&P and drain grease.
Chop onions, green peppers and mushrooms, add to meat and saute until the onions are tender.
Add 2 cups pizza sauce to mix, simmer.
Add meat mixture to a hoagie roll (sub roll, grinder roll, etc), wrap the whole thing in foil and bake at 350 (F) for 20 minutes to crisp the roll.
Heaven.