American & British Food

Posted by Happy Homemaker UK

Some tasty, some not so much

Some very local or seasonal

And most are not winning any health awards :)

Grilled Cheese Sandwich with Tomato Soup
is classic American comfort food
( image via Nation's Restaurant News)

I've jotted down a list of foods that are rarely found in the other country

See if any of these are your comfort food, trigger a memory, or just make you want to hurl :)

AMERICAN 
FOOD, SNACKS, ETC

Velveeta Cheese
Cracker Jack (baseball food)
Tater Tots
Grits
Cinnamon Rolls

Biscuits & Gravy

Loaded Potato Skins

Buffalo Wings

Indian Taco

Sloppy Joe
Corn Dogs

Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches (PB&J)
Mac & Cheese

Grilled Cheese

Philadelphia Cheesesteak
Buffalo Burger

Frito Chili Pie

Chicken Fried Steak

Jambalaya

Tex-Mex


PB&J, mac & cheese, and quesadillas
are staples for many American kids


Mexican food still is on our dinner menu 
at least once a week at home - yum!

Yep, that's 'cheese' in an aerosol can
(image via Toccata)

U.S. DRINKS

Eggnog

Tang

Kool Aid

Minute Maid Lemonade

Root Beer

Light Beers

AMERICAN SWEETS

Molasses
Chocolate Chips
Cool Whip
Bubble Gum
Candy Corn
Milk Duds

Junior Mints

Nutter Butter
Twinkies
S'mores

Funnel Cake

Ice Cream Cake

Fried Ice Cream

Banana Split

Pecan Pie

Pumpkin Pie

Key Lime Pie

S'mores are an American tradition on every camping trip
(image via Wikipedia)

AMERICAN ESTABLISHMENTS

Diners
Hamburger Joints

Doughnut Shops

Frozen Yogurt Shops

Mix-In Ice Cream Parlors

Drive Thru Fast Food (drive thru laundry, banks too)

COMMON US INGREDIENTS

Cilantro

Cinnamon

Peanut Butter

Melted Cheese

Often made in the UK with leftovers: Bubble & Squeak
(image via BBC)

BRITISH
FOOD, SNACKS, ETC

Coleman's Mustard
HP Steak Sauce
Hula Hoops
Walker's Crisps in chicken, bacon, and steak flavors
Welsh Cakes
Hot Cross Buns
Haggis
Scotch Egg
Jellied Eels
Wide variety of potatoes
Pancakes with lemon and sugar (yum!)
Marmite on toast

Beans on toast
Yorkshire Pudding

Chip Butty

Jacket Potato with Tuna

Fish & Chips

Bubble & Squeak

Plowman's Lunch

Bangers & Mash

Cornish Pasty

Toad In The Hole

Meat Pies

Sunday Roast

Scotch Egg
(image via BBC)

DRINKS IN THE UK

Large variety of tea
Tizer
Ribena

Pimms

Hot Toddy

Alcoholic Apple Cider
Shandy

Mulled Wine

(personal photo)

UK DESSERT

Treacle
Yorkies
Digestive Biscuits
Jaffa Cakes
Millionaire Shortbread (love!)
Fairy Cakes
Sticky Toffee Pudding
Christmas Pudding

Bread Pudding

Spotted Dick

Victoria Sponge Cake
Banoffee Pie

Cream Tea (scones, clotted cream served with tea)

Spotted Dick
'Spotted' refers to the currents and 'Dick' is slang for pudding
(via RecipeWise)

BRITISH ESTABLISHMENTS

Pubs

Gastropubs

MORE COMMON IN UK

Curry/Indian Food

Lamb
Use of root vegetables

What would you add to the list?


Any thing you couldn't live without in a foreign country?