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Being in the U.S., us Americans tend to take our food for granted. You can get cheeseburgers and hot dogs left and right here, but they aren't quite the same when you go outside the states. Here are some of the best American foods, chosen by people foreign to the United States.
u/Two_Cigarettes asked: Non US Redditors, what is your favorite US food?
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Waffle House is the restaurant for the gods.
<p>I went to the US for a course once, and then after we closed for the day we went drinking, and after we were rather happy we ended up at a 24/7 place called Waffle House.</p><p>It is my spiritual home. When I die and go to heaven, that is where you will find me.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/hokeyWB/" target="_blank">hokeyWB</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_36" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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I'm stoked about peanut butter, and I'm American.
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The correct answer.
<p>Barbecue, proper low'n slow brisket, beef ribs etc etc. Fried chicken and waffles close second!</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/notmyidealusername/" target="_blank">notmyidealusername</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Canada has some good stuff too.
<p>Anything that Canada doesn't have. Walking into a grocery store in the US gives me so much happiness lol.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kflyyy/" target="_blank">kflyyy</a></p><p>American here, can you give some examples of things we have in grocery stores that you don't? I'm curious.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/littlewandrer/" target="_blank">littlewandrer</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>A lot of health food surprisingly, you can't get in Canada. My wife does keto and when we just go shopping at like Target or Walmart, there are tons of specifically keto foods, where in Canada you have to either go to a specialty store at a higher price, get a limited selection, or buy online.</p><p>In general though, it's mostly variety. Like you guys will have a ton of pop flavours, chip flavours, or cereals that we don't get. Energy drinks too, we mostly only get Monster and Rockstar here, I haven't seen Bawls or Jolt cola in years.</p><p>Not a grocery thing, but fast food is vastly different as well, even for chains we do have. I would say though, that sometimes ours is better, or at least just as good but just different. KFC is probably the biggest example, it tastes vastly different, and there are so many sides available in the States. It actually blew my mind when I realized most KFCs I've been to in the States don't even have fries, it's like biscuits or maybe potato wedges (we don't get either).</p><p>And then the variety of fast food restaurants in general. We get all the major ones, but there are some other franchises we don't have like Shake Shack, Carl's J<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Hardees/" target="_blank">r/Hardees</a>, any Taco franchise except Taco Bell and Chipotle, and there's no such thing as a cheap BBQ joint up here, we have <em>some</em>, but they're always considered like on the same level as craft breweries.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/lemonylol/" target="_blank">lemonylol</a></p>
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Denny's is the best.
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMjQ4NzE0OC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2MDU0NTkxN30.mVU-4iBjAAo6tvmqWG3IkO8q_NtbXB2aPJ4ULbexQWU/img.gif?width=980" id="579c3" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="e5dedcd74574cd4714bfd4089916a4df" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />Giphy<p>When I went on a family holiday to San Francisco (we stayed with some friends of my dad in Oakland), we went to Denny's for every breakfast for 2 weeks.</p><p>Every morning I would have American pancakes stacked up, bacon and sausages, all covered in like a gallon of syrup.</p><p>I put on a stone in those 14 days.</p><p>Edit: Lol quite a response! It was my first ever trip to the US from the UK. I'm 30 now and it was 15 years ago. We went to Denny's every morning because it was just round the corner from our motel. I don't remember where we ate for lunch and dinner but Denny's was only for breakfast and I ate a lot! Just to clarify, the Denny's breakfast was not the sole contributor to me gaining a pound everyday lol, at lunch and dinner I ate loads too.</p><p>But you'll be pleased to know that since then, I have been back to the Bay Area 3 times where I stayed in Berkeley and never had a breakfast in Denny's again or a big chain diner.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ZPM89/" target="_blank">ZPM89</a></p>With great power comes great bacon.
<p>A Wendy's baconator I believe it's called...that's a powerful burger.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/jammyginger/" target="_blank">jammyginger</a></p><p>Anything that sounds like it's gonna travel through time to save the world's beef must be a hell of a burger.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/unnaturalorder/" target="_blank">unnaturalorder</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Great tip!
<p>Honey Buns. Good lord! They're so sweet, but PERFECT. I like them slightly squished. But, I'm not sure if that's because they've always come out of a suitcase, squeezed between clothes. I could eat 6 with a coffee.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Chaaniee/" target="_blank">Chaaniee</a></p><p>Microwave it for like 7 seconds.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Hates_escalators/" target="_blank">Hates_escalators</a></p><p>Really!!! I just had to take a second and steady myself, what have you done? Lol</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Chaaniee/" target="_blank">Chaaniee</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Meatloaf can be amazing.
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMjQ4NzE1Mi9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzNTQ5MTQ4MX0.YqQsSWg3cKf4Hf2EEad4F6SRa_NWuBYRYJuYvNqr6NI/img.gif?width=980" id="a9941" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="fec20ec0b572ac7063919b14a44f40fc" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />Giphy<p>Hamburgers, no doubt. There's tons of foods that I consider even more American that we just don't have where I live, like meatloaf and corndogs. I'm really curious about those.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Caractacutetus/" target="_blank">Caractacutetus</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
Me too, tbh.
<p>Not really a food bit I have a mighty Reese cups habit.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ricky-from-scotland/" target="_blank">ricky-from-scotland</a></p><p>Have you ever had the Big Cup? It is like a bigger Reese's Cup but with a higher peanut butter to chocolate ratio.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/shipguy55/" target="_blank">shipguy55</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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My favorite food!
<p>Grilled Cheese!</p><p>Learned how to properly do one last year and - Oooweee!</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/aufstand/" target="_blank">aufstand</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_9" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Deep fried Oreos are the BEST.
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<p>Reeses, no joke. love those buggers.</p><p>I was in the US when I was 17 and honestly, microwaved pizza is gross, why do you have that? But REESES, God help me, Reeses make me weak.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/keepthekettleon/" target="_blank">keepthekettleon</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_10" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Gotta love Shake Shack.
<p>A Shake Shack burger for sure, the are so good.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/busyredditer/" target="_blank">busyredditer</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_11" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Those burgers are heavenly.
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Chicken makes me cry too.
<p>Fried chicken... idk if it's a US food or not but when I tried KFC for the first time I almost cried.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Sephirate/" target="_blank">Sephirate</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_13" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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People Outside The United States Explain What They Stock In Their 'American' Food Aisle
November 01 | 2019
Grocery stores in the US often have an interesting mix of foods from other countries, but those foods are definitely a limited selection of what is available in the original country. They offer a tiny peek into the cuisine of a particular country.
<p>Reddit user u/GlyohFrost wanted to know which American foods made it into other countries' stores, so they asked:</p><p><em>"<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dn7zt8/nonamericans_of_reddit_whats_in_your_american/" target="_blank">Non-Americans of Reddit, what's in your 'American' Aisles?</a>"</em></p>
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10.
<p>American aisle in Ireland you’ll find lucky charms</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dn7zt8/nonamericans_of_reddit_whats_in_your_american/f59asqu?context=3" target="_blank">delkanzi</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_36" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Peanut butter, exotic candies, hot chocolate with marshmallows.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dn7zt8/nonamericans_of_reddit_whats_in_your_american/f58m46c?context=3" target="_blank">eromeno</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>When I lived in Germany there was a little American food section in my store that had "American cookies" (chocolate chip), "American ice cream" (cookies and cream), and the most expensive Oreos ever. All of the packages had US flags on them. </p><p>Also around July 4th they had packages labeled "American drinking game" and it was several Solo cups and 2 ping pong balls.<br></p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dn7zt8/nonamericans_of_reddit_whats_in_your_american/f59iirb?context=3" target="_blank">phuckettallthedays</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Twinkies, Gatorade, Lucky Charms (ridiculously expensive for some reason) american varieties of Pop Tarts, A1 sauce, Hershey chocolate, Nerds and a few other American sweets. The only thing I ever buy is the pop tarts.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dn7zt8/nonamericans_of_reddit_whats_in_your_american/f58lfyo?context=3" target="_blank">irishmickguard</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Here in the Netherlands, I've seen more and more American products appear in the normal supermarkets, but never in an "American" aisle. We just don't have the space for a dedicated aisle like that. </p><p><span style="background-color: initial;">Used to be (quite some years ago) that oreos weren't sold in the Netherlands, only in special import stores. Now they're pretty much everywhere.</span><br></p><p><span style="background-color: initial;">Jelly beans also have started making it here. Cliff bars are also starting to appear the past couple of years. </span><br></p><p><span style="background-color: initial;">Also interesting note, Doritos Cool Ranch are called Cool American here.</span><br></p><p><span style="background-color: initial;">-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dn7zt8/nonamericans_of_reddit_whats_in_your_american/f597qzj?context=3" target="_blank">chipolthrowaeay</a></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p><a href="https://i.imgur.com/nX5DXGU.jpg" target="_blank">I just took a photo of it (from New Zealand)</a></p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dn7zt8/nonamericans_of_reddit_whats_in_your_american/f5990eu?context=3" target="_blank">GoblinLord69</a></p>4
<p>No American aisle but we do have a chain of American importation stores: https://www.tasteofamerica.es/</p><p><span style="background-color: initial;">We have overpriced cereal (10€ for a box of Froot Loops), beef jerky, Reese's Cups (my personal favorite), doctor pepper, vanilla coke, and for some reason Yankee Candles, among other things.</span><br></p><p><span style="background-color: initial;">I like to buy there occasionally.</span><br></p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dn7zt8/nonamericans_of_reddit_whats_in_your_american/f597agd?context=3" target="_blank">HiganbanaSam</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Donuts, and those cheesies that are in ball form in that giant plastic container with the red lid.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dn7zt8/nonamericans_of_reddit_whats_in_your_american/f592f1u?context=3" target="_blank">LunarToast7</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Candy, candy and more candy. When what I want is Triscuits, which are obscenely expensive over here in the UK. You don't know how lucky you are to be able to get Triscuits so easily. I have a box and a half now ( boyfriend treated me) and allow myself one at a time. How sad is that?</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dn7zt8/nonamericans_of_reddit_whats_in_your_american/f5900zt?context=3" target="_blank">kerill333</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
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<p>We don't have a while aisle, but there is a three-foot section of weird-looking sweets and biscuits that I've seen on US TV. It's next to the Polish section, which is about eight feet of horrible pickled things.</p><p>-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dn7zt8/nonamericans_of_reddit_whats_in_your_american/f59aqle?context=3" target="_blank">Privateer2368</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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