30 ‘American’ Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans

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When it comes to food, it seems like pretty much everyone has a strong opinion. It’s difficult not to be picky about what goes in your mouth and stomach. And when it comes to other countries' cuisines and the quality of ingredients, you’ll find that many folks are incredibly vocal about their likes and dislikes. Mainly the latter.

Redditor u/ergoegthatis asked non-Americans to share what American foods, in their opinion, are the ‘nastiest.’ We’ve collected some of their posts to show you the range of opinions others have about US food. Scroll down and be sure to voice your own thoughts in the comments, Pandas. What American food do you love the most? What do you absolutely hate? There are a lot of options to choose from.

Oh, and just to be completely open and honest with you, Pandas: we absolutely looove having a cheeky American meal… from time to time. Pretty much every country has its culinary stars and kitchen disasters—and a lot depends on personal taste and the lifestyle you enjoy leading. So take everyone’s opinion with a grain of salt. Usually, the issue isn’t with the food item or dish itself, so much as the low quality of the ingredients, the portion size, and whether you gobble everything up or eat slowly. Enjoying. Every. Single. Bite.

Bored Panda reached out to redditor u/ergoegthatis, and we had a friendly chat about the wide range of American food, what dishes they did and didn't enjoy at home and abroad, and why they definitely recommend traveling and broadening one's horizons.

"I was traveling outside the US and tried the cheeses there and they were a world of difference from the cheese-like substitutes we have in the US, which look and taste disgusting now compared to authentic cheeses. I look at them and think, 'Am I the only one grossed out by these fake cheeses?' A few days later, I came across an old news story about a famous donut company that turned its signature glazed donut into a drink, which also sounds nasty and not just because of how horribly unhealthy it is," they explained what drove them to create the thread in the first place. (We have to agree, cheese elsewhere is far better!)

Remember: everything in moderation; even food critiques!

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans That bright orange plastic that you call "cheese".

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In redditor u/ergoegthatis' experience, American cuisine is "radically different" from what they've seen around the world.

"The emphasis in American food is on taste and speed. This doesn't mean all of American food is like this," they pointed out.

"The US is huge with a lot of different foods such as jambalaya, chili, gumbo, Kentucky burgoo, shrimp and grits, Brunswick stew, and many other dishes with history. But there is definitely a characteristic that has been influencing a lot of American food which is speed and taste," the author of the thread shared with us.

"This also affected how we eat: quickly, in massive portions. In other countries I traveled to, I noticed many eat slowly and enjoy the food while making conversation. They also have much healthier food, more plant ingredients, and less sugar/flour/additives."

30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans Those Midwestern "fruit salads" where half of the ingredients is marshmallow fluff or mini marshmallows, Jello, whipped cream... I have a high tolerance for American food, but I cannot handle these, or even comprehend why and how they exist.

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans Spray on "cheese"

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However, it's not like everything is automatically delicious abroad. "Dishes I didn't like abroad were some super pungent cheeses in Europe, sheep tripe in the Middle East, and excessive use of coconut in Asian countries," they opened up to Bored Panda. "I'm used to this being part of desserts but there it's added to even savory dishes."

The redditor has a lot of favorite American dishes, too, and it's going to be very relatable to most of you Pandas. "My mom's cooking of course! Nothing greater in the whole world. Brown rice and seasoned chicken/lamb is her specialty. Other American dishes I love are Philly cheesesteak (with real cheese only), grits with butter, and Texas barbecue." There's absolutely nothing like a homemade meal, prepared with love.

"I'd like to add some advice to everyone, especially Americans: travel! Get a passport and travel. There's a whole world out there of culture, art, history, relaxation, and of course, food. The US is large and diverse but that is not enough. If you don't travel to many other countries, you have not lived," the OP urged.

30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans Those cakes that have large amounts of fondant on them. The time and talent it would take to make one of these cakes is unreal but fondant is just nasty tasting in my opinion. That was not meant to offend anyone.

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans The prevalence of high fructose corn syrup in EVERYTHING. Unfortunately, being in Canada, it's bleeding over the border as a lot of products here are manufactured in the USA.

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans American bread. I'm sure you can get good bread somewhere in the US, but the generally available, sugary, long-shelf-life bread is so appalling.
Now, of course, your export of fast-food restaurants has nothing to do with haute cuisine, but any burger would be so much better if at least you used acceptable bread.

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Be honest, Pandas, are we the only ones craving artisanal cheeses with a side of junk food? It’s perfectly fine to have a cheat meal once in a while. But if your entire diet consists of sugary snacks, meals dripping with saturated fat, with no fiber to be seen anywhere, you’re probably wrecking your health.

Unfortunately, the cold hard truth is that the people living in the United States have pretty awful dietary habits. Far from everyone; but most. The CDC found that 73.6% of all American adults over the age of 20 were either overweight or obese. Meanwhile, 41.9% of adults are considered to be obese. Nobody deserves to be body-shamed. However, obesity shouldn’t be celebrated, considering the health risks it poses.

Obesity leads to a far lower-quality life and increases one’s health risks. It can lead to serious health conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer, clinical depression, and others.

Though there are various other factors to consider when it comes to health and obesity (e.g. genetics, eating disorders), the general tendency is that Americans eat poorly, live more sedentary lives, and simply don’t exercise enough. However, this health crisis isn’t a purely American one. For example, the NHS reports that in the UK, two-thirds of adults are overweight or obese.

30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans That Thanksgiving dish Americans love with marshmallows on top of sweet potatoes — it sounds and looks disgusting.

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans Some of the savoury Jello recipes from the 50s and 60s look grim.

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans the chocolate out there is FOUL

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In the US, the FDA has a reactive approach to food standards inspections. What this means is that food additives are allowed, unless they’re proven to be harmful. Meanwhile, in Europe, the exact opposite happens: regulations are stricter. Additives must be proven to be unharmful before they’re allowed to be used in food items.

According to Politico, the FDA is pretty much a hot mess. “Food is not a high priority at the Food and Drug Administration. [...] Over the years, the food side of FDA has been so ignored and grown so dysfunctional that even former FDA commissioners readily acknowledged problems. There’s a long running joke among officials: The ‘F’ in FDA is silent,” writes Helena Bottemiller Evich.

Overall, this means that food grown and manufactured in the US is more likely to have growth hormones and chemical preservatives in them. This isn’t good news for someone who wants to lead a healthy and happy lifestyle! Compare the food that the US is known for with that from, say, Italy, Spain, or Japan. The cultural difference, when it comes to the culinary arts, is massive: quality local ingredients and smaller portion sizes (among other important factors!) result in a higher quality of life. And the life expectancy speaks for itself.

In the US, the average life expectancy is 74.5 years. Compare that to 81.6 years in Japan, 80.1 years in Italy, and 79.7 years in Spain. The difference is staggering. However much we might like that fake orange cheese, it really isn’t good for us.

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans I once had a pizza in America and it had ranch dressing on it. Ranch dressing doesn't really exist in Europe and it's this weird salty fatty mayo-like sauce and it certainly does not belong on a pizza. Or inside a human body for that matter.

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans Canned whole chicken

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans Boiled peanuts. My wife loves them and every time we drove through South Carolina we had to stop and buy them. The stench was so bad I would have to roll the windows down. Those peanuts and Lindsey Graham are on my top two hate list for that state.

Uglycanadianindc , assortedeats Report

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans Chinese Canadian. I'm going to provoke a lot of proud Southerners with this. Sweet tea is sugar water with a hint of tea.

My first experience of sweet tea was at a Floridian McDonald's. I ordered iced tea and I got the question of "sweet or unsweet?" I'm dying of the heat and humidity (Canadians don't do well in hot weather) and I wanted slightly sweetened tea and I didn't know the history of sweet tea (sugar was expensive so people showed off by mixing diabetes inducing amounts of the stuff into their tea) so I was expecting anything but a sugar syrup in a cup.

I went back and bought a bottle of water. If a 12 year old with no easy access to sugar thinks it's too sweet to drink, it is.

Also, any mayo based salad! Ewww.

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans Fake smoked bacon sprinkles in a bottle

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans Candy corn.

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans I had a deep-fried Mars bar at a festival in America the first time I ever visited and I'm reasonably sure it's going to give a few of my ancestors diabetes

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans Twinkies. Not food though lol.

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans Twizzlers, I found some in a shop in London and decided to buy some, they were the nastiest things I'd ever tasted and for the price I paid for them, I'm disappointed

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans When they introduce me chicago pizza something in me died, that should not be called pizza is just a devil fat pie.

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans Their dessert. I lived there for 3 years and the amount of sugar they dump into their desserts are mindblowing. Beautiful to look at but holy s**t were they sweet as hell.

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans Poptarts or whatever they’re called. And twinkies.

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans The felt obsession with anything deep-fried is unnerving to me. There's a good few things that are excellent deep-fried, don't get me wrong, but putting literally anything in batter and frying it seems... self-destructive at best.

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I tried a big-name American chocolate brand once but couldn’t eat it due to the vomit smell and taste.

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans I find biscuits and gravy to be absolutely disgusting. But I'd like to counter-balance that by adding how crazy delicious corn bread is and why on earth hasn't it become a staple here in Europe? It's SO yummy!

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans I hate scrapple. There's a reason the word 'crap' is in the middle of it.

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans Pig feet.

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American here, absolutely DESPISE pre-packaged frosting. It’s either as hard as a rock or a liquid. Don’t know what they put in that stuff but it’s just awful.

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans Cincinnati "chili"

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Ghirardelli, Guittard, Dove, Scharffen Berger, and hundreds of smaller companies are fine. Pretty much just avoid anything you would find near the register at a grocery store

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans Corn dog

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans I am American, but I would have to say the sugary icing they put on grocery store cakes

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans Blue cheese dressing sounds appalling. The thought of peanut butter and jam (I think you call it jelly there?) together also seems terrible

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30 'American' Foods That Are Nasty According To Non-Americans Pancakes! I don't understand the point of drowning a stack of those in syrup and calling it breakfast.

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Agfox 2 years ago

At the risk of having Americans, & perhaps others, grab tar, feathers & pitchforks, oreos are highly overrated!

46points

Aisling Raye 2 years ago

I'm an American and fully agree that they're nasty.

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Noel Bovae 2 years ago

The frosting is waaay too sweet for me. I can only eat regular stuffed (not doubled stuffed,) and they HAVE to be dipped in a glass of nice, cold milk, until they're nearly falling apart. Now that's good stuff!

5points

Chancey 2 years ago

Yes they are overrated unless they are deep fried! Deep fried Oreos from the New Jersey boardwalk are one of the best things I have ever eaten!!!

2points

tuzdayschild 2 years ago

Do what I do and scrape out the cream. The cookie is pretty good.

1point

Hyde and Seek 2 years ago

They make a fine pie crust though!

1point

Saturn Rings 2 years ago

I kind of agree, yet with milk they are delicious.

1point

Mario Strada 2 years ago

Agree. They are passable, but nothing to write home about IMHO. In Italy we have cookies that are 1000 times better. We also have Oreos, but people are not that crazy about them.

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love u 2 years ago

Im an American and j think the only thing I've had on this list is pancakes, pop tarts, and maybe one more i forgot lol, ive never met a sane American whos touched one of the more vile items on thjs list (canned whole chicken)

21points

censorshipsucks 2 years ago

we've had a lot of these here in south africa due to watching americans eat it on TV. we always regret it. lol.

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RandomHumanBean 2 years ago

30 ‘American’ Foods That Are Nasty According To Americans

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Aisling Raye 2 years ago

For people calling out the "America bashing" on BP. I love these posts. I don't think the inability to take a step back and laugh at the country as a whole (or even regionally) is a healthy way to go about life. Overblown "patriotism" or the whole "America is the best" concept doesn't make you cool or edgy, it just furthers the stereotype that Americans are stupid and self obsessed. Personally, these types of posts are a humorous little escape from the current state of the country. Also, of all the posts to complain about, why are you choosing to complain about the one based on food? SMH.

13points

similarly 2 years ago

I loved reading this topic, and it doesn't irk me personally, but I think what gets some people, maybe, judging by the comments, is that BP frequently celebrates this country or that country, but when it comes to bashing what's bad about a country, it always seems to be The US. While this isn't really always true (I've seen other countries get bashed), it's not completely untrue either (since, yeah, it's usually the US).

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tom oconnor 2 years ago (edited)

So true will never live there again

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tom oconnor 2 years ago

Was born in Atlanta and grew up there, the South has more than it's fair share of right wing rednecks, pro gun, pro Trump religious nuts who are so arrogant it's dangerous, I was visiting family there years ago and old friend came by to visit, his car had completely bald tyres broken out windscreens, door hanging, told him not allowed on road in UK, his answer was the MOT test was banned because your rights were being violated and waiting 24 hours to be checked before gun purchasing was a real hardship. I suppose fear of invasion. Anyway I've been here in UK for over 45 years and no matter what the economy or whatever will never live there again. Another world dies exist outside USA, having said all this I could murder a Pancake House plate of Blueberry Pancakes, ice cream, maple syrup, bacon ect... Hahaha unless I'm murdered first.

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Well, SMH, why does anyoen feel a need to bash the US for its foods? Just got back from a country where eating spiced *ants* in deep-fried flatbread atop animal intestines is... normal. They love it. (I tried the ants, sans animal intestines, being a vegetarian.) They think it's ridiculous we don't eat insects on intestines and that Belgian chocoaltes are horrible. It's all what you're used to and prefer. Everyone needs to relax, IMHO.

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Trillian 2 years ago

Does root beer count? Wow that stuff is NASTY.

9points

Christos Arvanitis 2 years ago

Good root beer is amazing but I grew up on it. Good root beer float (root beer + vanilla ice cream) is amazing. But to me Vegamite is foul while Aussies love it. It's what you're used to.

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Ruth Hempsey 2 years ago

Dandelion wine, ginger beer in Tyneside in the 50s. Red pop called Tizer. Sunday only, one glass as a treat. Every place has something people from elsewhere don't like.

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Hyde and Seek 2 years ago

Good root beer is fantastic but the shite that comes in a plastic bottle is disgusting. If you're in the U.S. get sodas labeled old fashioned because it's actually made with sugar and not corn syrup.

0points

Auntriarch 2 years ago

I would like to downvote this entire post. I'm bloody fed up with US bashing.

9points

Remi Flynne 2 years ago

It would be far more effective to not comment altogether. if we all stopped commenting and completely ignored these lists then Bored Panda would get the message far more quickly. They rely on comments and clicks to sell the advertising. The problem is that it generates a LOT of attention and comments normally and it doesn't matter very much from the advertising point of view if they're all condemning the article. Even my writing this comment adds to it all.

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Tams21 2 years ago (edited)

At least this one is just bashing the food and not the people but yeah, you're absolutely right. And if they do insist on bashing US food, they should do the same to other countries. The food from the UK for instance, can also be odd at times.

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Lou Cam 2 years ago

Don't worry, most Amercian Food like burgers, fries, fried chicken and the like is the most popular fast food and "treat" food everywhere in the world. I remember when McDonalds first opened in my city in the UK....it was like we'd been blessed with a luxury unheard of. Everyone in my friend group at school wanted their birthday party there. Now, my kids go there for a treat every now and again. More upmarket versions like TGI Fridays are really popular too. People here do love American food and culture (TV is 50% US shows) so you don't need to feel hated. Just when you're popular people will make fun a little.

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OmBoyGanesh 2 years ago (edited)

It’s pervasive in the comments on BP. It’s some sort of twisted envy that’s morphed into resentment. - I was born in San Francisco, spent my first 7 years in India, have lived between my Dutch father in Utrecht & my mother in Hawaii and SF, have travelled to 45 different countries and have the legal option to live in either the US or the EU. All of these places have equal pros & cons. If it wasn’t clear, as 50+ year old, I’ve chose SF & Hawaii - America - over Europe. And I’ve got great taste!!!

0points

Ali Kovach 2 years ago

Why does bored panda continue to call out Americans on different subjects? I’m British and there are some gross foods eaten in our country.

8points

censorshipsucks 2 years ago

yes, you do have haggis and blood pudding, but that's the scots.

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atlas 95 2 years ago

what the f**k is your guys problem with Americans? I get that some of the stuff we do can be seen as strange by others but you dont ever see people dunking on other nationalities like the Chinese or Russians.

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Edgar 2 years ago

From an European point of view, none of the American food is considered as food.

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censorshipsucks 2 years ago

supported, it's more like... plastic?

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Fred L. 2 years ago

And some are not legal for related reasons.

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Ingrid Smith 2 years ago

that's not at all elitist

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

You do know that a lot of these are sold outside the US, right? And that some things in Europe are seen as not-food by others in the world?

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Emie N. 2 years ago

Yet another post on problems with the US. We get it BP.

5points

atlas 95 2 years ago

what the f**k is your guys problem with Americans? I get that some of our stuff is weird to other people but you dont see entire articles dedicated to dunking on other nationalities like the Chinese or Brazilians or anyone else!

5points

Marie Dahme 2 years ago

And let’s not forget the Chinese have a festival where they eat DOGS!!!! You can watch the whole process on YouTube if you can stomach it.

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Grace X 2 years ago

American colon cancer survivor here. Pretty sure the food here caused my cancer. 5 years in remission. Just had my 5th reconstructive abdominal surgery (I'm literally stuck in bed on my back healing rn) Planning to move out of the US asap. I'd like to survive to old age thanks. Eff the FDA.

5points

censorshipsucks 2 years ago

try france. They smoke and don't get as much cancer.

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meh 2 years ago

I’m American, and I agree with this list, except for 32, 33, and whatever number ranch was. There’s too much c**p in our food that shouldn’t be there in the first place, and nearly everything has added sugar. This is a decent chunk why the majority of the population is overweight.

5points

Kiwii Stone 2 years ago

A lot of this stuff is a matter of taste. The main exception is the savoury jello

5points

XenoMurph 2 years ago

No one is saying that no-one likes them. It's just the rest of the world is disbelieving that ANYONE likes them. But we all like things that we grew up with no matter how terrible. People in the US do seem to like sweet things more than most, or at least their palates have been normalised to more sugar/sweetness.

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Liz 2 years ago

The issue with lists like these is that they ignore the deeper sociopolitical factors that contribute to the existence and creation of these foods; namely poverty and ignorance. It’s sad to make fun of these foods while making sweeping generalizations about Americans, ignoring that a lot of these are eaten out of necessity, accessibility, and lack of education—factors that are out of many people’s control. High quality foods exist throughout America, especially in big cities where you can get pretty much any kind of food from any cuisine around the world.

4points

Marie Dahme 2 years ago

Let’s not also forget some people live in food deserts and fresh produce for a family of four is wildly expensive with inflation.

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DAVE 2 years ago

The straw man is strong in this one. Most Americans think this stuff is trash too, with a few exceptions that require cultural context. Stop conflating novelties, generic knockoffs, carnival confections and cheap c**p foisted upon Americans with stuff we actually want or value.

4points

Christos Arvanitis 2 years ago

Good grief... again. Some American stuff is gross. This just in- there is gross stuff from around the world! Also, there is lost of amazing food in the US just as there is in... Every. Country. On. Earth. Most of us American don't like most of the stuff on this list. Some of this items are just not true, some are extremely uncommon while others are subjective. My wife loves biscuits and gravy while I don't care for it. Why not have this list for I dunno, every country on earth. FFS BP...

4points

Anony Mouse 2 years ago

I wouldn't exactly call this an interview with "the writer", unless you're using buzzfeed standards (writer is someone who can copy and paste). Also, you've published this same article dozens of times - why again?

4points

Bob La Capra 2 years ago

I think there is really just one post of things non-Americans think are gross and they just rearrange the order

4points

LapCat 2 years ago

What’s sad is that a lot of these are inexpensive “foods” that impoverished Americans practically have no choice but to buy.

4points

Mimi M 2 years ago

And to think I had the impression that BP was done with US bashing posts. Oh well.

4points

XenoMurph 2 years ago

Most people in the US are great. But then SOME people say "The US is number one! We are the greatest!" and we have had US tv show propaganda, all the way from the black and white Lone Ranger telling us how great the US is. So occasionally we push back.

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SAF saf 2 years ago

As an American i agree with all but one of these. Most of these things are gross.

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Brooklyn 2 years ago

I'm an American myself and I hate all of these, and many more😂

3points

Jacqueline Pie Francis Premium 2 years ago

Yeah, most of us don’t eat this stuff either. Except biscuits & gravy, I love biscuits & gravy. But look, every country has foods that foreigners think are gross.

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Ruth Hempsey 2 years ago

Is it funny that biscuits and gravy are great but poutine isn't? It's almost the same thing, gravy on a carb, but instead of biscuits it's fries.

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CatScratch Beaver 2 years ago

It was a trip to Germany that I discovered this myself. Thank goodness for Aldi!

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

While I agree many "American foods" are "nasty", I can say the same of foods I've had on other continents. And that counts Europe. Examples just from Europe: Nutella; liverwurst; any blood soup; eels (jellied or otherwise). (Examples from USA: orange-colored anything that isn't in the produce section; some hate peanut butter; breakfast cereals that are designed to create a market for insulin). From outside my native US, also poutine (sorry, Quebec, but no); and queen ants. ( I did try those. Oh. My. No.) The idea, however, that the US is the only center of c**p food is silly. Plenty of high-fat/sugar/etc. all around, and often as "snacks". So, please, relax and stop the judging.

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Rens 2 years ago

I can't understand why Americans take perfectly good food and absolutely ruin it for example cheese, chocolate, coffee, bread and meat to name a few

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Christos Arvanitis 2 years ago

Rens, I've never cooked for you. I can assure you that I serve good cheese, chocolate coffee and bread. You would be happy with what I served you. You are making sweeping generalizations. I'm Greek American and while I love Greek food, in Greece they put instant coffee and sugar on cold water, stir it up and call it a frappe... and people love it while to me it tastes like bad instant coffee from the 1960s! But I would never try to pin "disgusting coffee" on the Greeks... because they also have amazing coffee just like we have amazing, cheese, chocolate, bread, etc.

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Anony Mouse 2 years ago

What a wild generalization. I hope they do this same list with other countries instead of just posting this one once a week.

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

I think you'll find that there's some food ruined in any given location. Travel has shown me that over the decades. Every location has something that someone thinks is "better at home/rotten here/etc".!

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Emie N. 2 years ago

We regular American citizens are not the ones who decided that.

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Chris Osborn 1 year ago

I can't understand why you think all Americans do this? I take perfectly good food every day, cook it & eat it, & it's not ruined. Not every American does this. I'm not a flag-waving, stomping my country is better than yours patriot, just an everyday gal. There's good & bad everywhere, not just America.

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BeepBeepBoopBoop 2 years ago

I think towards the end it's more of "you haven't had the right one". Like the sweet tea. Who f*****g judges all sweet tea from McDonald's??? Someone who doesn't understand sweet tea I'd say.

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Fuxxy89 1 year ago

A message to BP from America... Eh hem. Go f*** yourselves. That will be all. Thank you.

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Fuxxy89 1 year ago

Oh and mass produced British chocolate 🤮🤮🤮

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Widget 2 years ago

These I hate America posts are getting old. Most of these on the list I wouldn't/never eat but damn we are not all horrible. There are so many of these kinds of post. Jesus cool it please.

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Mystery Egg 2 years ago

I have noticed that in American recipes for savoury dishes, there is sugar in EVERYTHING! A tiny pinch a tomato dish to cut through the acidity, sure. But 4 tablespoons in a curry? (legit recipe I made a couple of weeks ago from the Food Network site) WHY!?! NO!

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pico diablo 2 years ago (edited)

Bookmarking Rannveig Ess's (don't / care) Reply: Yes, Andrew...wouldn't that be interesting? I'd love to hear what everyone ELSE in the world also finds disguting in their countries. Wouldn't it be great if this was just put out there as a topic for everyone to contribute to, instead of the usual US bashing? There are entire YT sites showing people from other countries eating the foods from other countries and the wild disgust of it. But nooooo. BP has to cut and paste it about food now? How about : Shirako in Japan. Dried pig blood tofu in China. Kangaroo in Australia. Tuna eyeballs in Japan. Balut, developing duck embryo boiled in its shell, in the Philippines. Fried tarantulas in Cambodia.White ant eggs soup in Laos. Jellied moose nose in Canada. Boshintang in Korea.Gummy salmiak candy flavored with ammonium chloride in Finland (lived there..this stuff is horrible) Mimolette cheese in France that has cheese mites on it. How about Goose Blood Soup (Juka) from Lithuania? but no ... it's Americans.

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Wayne Lee 2 years ago

The longer the shelf life, the shorter your life.

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Deanna Crichley 2 years ago

These things are available, but no one I know eats them. I cook every single day. Make my own sauces. Make my own stocks. Of course I'm an American, so I must eat disgusting things because I simply have no class.

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firecrackershrimp 2 years ago

Didn't see chipped beef on toast on the list. Grew up watching my parents eat that. Nicknamed it sh!t on a shingle.

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Chris Osborn 1 year ago

Me too!

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OmBoyGanesh 2 years ago

The only thing I’ve had on this list is pancakes. I know of less than half of them. These aren’t staples of American food anymore than Haggis is if the UK. TBH, as someone who’s 1/2 Dutch & 1/2 American, having lived in both places, I’m equally as appalled by both nations’ unique dishes. Having lived in Hawai’i for the better part of 30 years, I’m even more grossed out by some of the traditional food here no matter how much o respect it’s history.

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Chris Jones 2 years ago

Haggis is definitely not UK, that is Scottish. A considerable amount of traditional food came about because of people being poor.

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kalle1724 1 year ago

So different parts of the world have different tastes... Check. There are many international foods that people not from that region get repulsed by. Side note, i make great homemade B&G in a cast iron and as long as my family likes it, I'm happy.

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Dodo 1 year ago

As a Brit: deep fried Mars bars are Scottish. And a PB&J is absolutely delicious.

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Caryn Zent 2 years ago

So don't eat what you don't like.

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Jay Kethley 2 years ago

you can buy canned creamed possum in gravy in the US... MEGA-REVOLTING!!! canned-pos...b149ef.jpg

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Chris Osborn 1 year ago

You can also buy jelly belly jelly beans that taste like skunk - again a gag gift.

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Justin Trouble 2 years ago

American here, I agree with you about this horrendous garbage.

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Mariele Scherzinger 2 years ago

I lived in the USA for a year as an exchange student. Some things I could not stomach: American chocolate. Ice cream. Yoghurt. Frosted cakes. Bread. Most fast food places. Some things I loved: donuts, bagels (a good alternative to bread!), Chai tea (perhaps it was a fad in those years...), diner food, and lots of regional New Mexican cuisine.

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similarly 2 years ago

I'm really glad I have low standards. I love most of this stuff ... though, I don't know, maybe it's because I haven't lived in the US for over 20 years and most of it has changed? Or maybe it's because I grew up poor, and we didn't always have a lot of food, or a lot of choice, so we learned to like what we got. Either way, I think I'd much rather have low standards and be happy with what I eat.

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Ian B 2 years ago

I'm an American and apart from sliced bread and corn dogs, the rest of the food ok this list is truly disgusting.

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Kevin Ber 2 years ago

In all honesty, chicken nuggets and breakfast sausage patties. And those hashbrown sticks. Basically anything but a pancake or waffle served at a cheap breakfast place.

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Ingrid Smith 2 years ago

as an American I agree with most of these, except biscuits and gravy, which is amazing when made well, with lots of pepper and butter, and the sweet potatoes with marshmallows has to have pecans on top. Or no marshmallows and just pecans. Pancakes with just butter are fine

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XenoMurph 2 years ago

You have the marshmallows and sweet potatoes, as part of the meal, not as a dessert?

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Jay Kethley 2 years ago

you can buy cooked canned possum in the US.... mega-revolting!!!! canned-pos...29abcb.jpg

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Agfox 2 years ago

At the risk of having Americans, & perhaps others, grab tar, feathers & pitchforks, oreos are highly overrated!

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Aisling Raye 2 years ago

I'm an American and fully agree that they're nasty.

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Noel Bovae 2 years ago

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Chancey 2 years ago

Yes they are overrated unless they are deep fried! Deep fried Oreos from the New Jersey boardwalk are one of the best things I have ever eaten!!!

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tuzdayschild 2 years ago

Do what I do and scrape out the cream. The cookie is pretty good.

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Hyde and Seek 2 years ago

They make a fine pie crust though!

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Saturn Rings 2 years ago

I kind of agree, yet with milk they are delicious.

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Mario Strada 2 years ago

Agree. They are passable, but nothing to write home about IMHO. In Italy we have cookies that are 1000 times better. We also have Oreos, but people are not that crazy about them.

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love u 2 years ago

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censorshipsucks 2 years ago

we've had a lot of these here in south africa due to watching americans eat it on TV. we always regret it. lol.

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RandomHumanBean 2 years ago

30 ‘American’ Foods That Are Nasty According To Americans

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Aisling Raye 2 years ago

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similarly 2 years ago

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tom oconnor 2 years ago (edited)

So true will never live there again

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tom oconnor 2 years ago

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

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Trillian 2 years ago

Does root beer count? Wow that stuff is NASTY.

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Christos Arvanitis 2 years ago

Good root beer is amazing but I grew up on it. Good root beer float (root beer + vanilla ice cream) is amazing. But to me Vegamite is foul while Aussies love it. It's what you're used to.

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Ruth Hempsey 2 years ago

Dandelion wine, ginger beer in Tyneside in the 50s. Red pop called Tizer. Sunday only, one glass as a treat. Every place has something people from elsewhere don't like.

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Hyde and Seek 2 years ago

Good root beer is fantastic but the shite that comes in a plastic bottle is disgusting. If you're in the U.S. get sodas labeled old fashioned because it's actually made with sugar and not corn syrup.

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Auntriarch 2 years ago

I would like to downvote this entire post. I'm bloody fed up with US bashing.

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Remi Flynne 2 years ago

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Tams21 2 years ago (edited)

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Lou Cam 2 years ago

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OmBoyGanesh 2 years ago (edited)

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Ali Kovach 2 years ago

Why does bored panda continue to call out Americans on different subjects? I’m British and there are some gross foods eaten in our country.

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censorshipsucks 2 years ago

yes, you do have haggis and blood pudding, but that's the scots.

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atlas 95 2 years ago

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Edgar 2 years ago

From an European point of view, none of the American food is considered as food.

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censorshipsucks 2 years ago

supported, it's more like... plastic?

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Fred L. 2 years ago

And some are not legal for related reasons.

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Ingrid Smith 2 years ago

that's not at all elitist

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

You do know that a lot of these are sold outside the US, right? And that some things in Europe are seen as not-food by others in the world?

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Emie N. 2 years ago

Yet another post on problems with the US. We get it BP.

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atlas 95 2 years ago

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Marie Dahme 2 years ago

And let’s not forget the Chinese have a festival where they eat DOGS!!!! You can watch the whole process on YouTube if you can stomach it.

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Grace X 2 years ago

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censorshipsucks 2 years ago

try france. They smoke and don't get as much cancer.

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meh 2 years ago

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Kiwii Stone 2 years ago

A lot of this stuff is a matter of taste. The main exception is the savoury jello

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XenoMurph 2 years ago

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Liz 2 years ago

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Marie Dahme 2 years ago

Let’s not also forget some people live in food deserts and fresh produce for a family of four is wildly expensive with inflation.

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DAVE 2 years ago

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Christos Arvanitis 2 years ago

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Anony Mouse 2 years ago

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Bob La Capra 2 years ago

I think there is really just one post of things non-Americans think are gross and they just rearrange the order

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LapCat 2 years ago

What’s sad is that a lot of these are inexpensive “foods” that impoverished Americans practically have no choice but to buy.

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Mimi M 2 years ago

And to think I had the impression that BP was done with US bashing posts. Oh well.

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XenoMurph 2 years ago

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SAF saf 2 years ago

As an American i agree with all but one of these. Most of these things are gross.

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Brooklyn 2 years ago

I'm an American myself and I hate all of these, and many more😂

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Jacqueline Pie Francis Premium 2 years ago

Yeah, most of us don’t eat this stuff either. Except biscuits & gravy, I love biscuits & gravy. But look, every country has foods that foreigners think are gross.

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Ruth Hempsey 2 years ago

Is it funny that biscuits and gravy are great but poutine isn't? It's almost the same thing, gravy on a carb, but instead of biscuits it's fries.

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CatScratch Beaver 2 years ago

It was a trip to Germany that I discovered this myself. Thank goodness for Aldi!

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

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Rens 2 years ago

I can't understand why Americans take perfectly good food and absolutely ruin it for example cheese, chocolate, coffee, bread and meat to name a few

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Christos Arvanitis 2 years ago

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Anony Mouse 2 years ago

What a wild generalization. I hope they do this same list with other countries instead of just posting this one once a week.

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

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Emie N. 2 years ago

We regular American citizens are not the ones who decided that.

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Chris Osborn 1 year ago

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BeepBeepBoopBoop 2 years ago

I think towards the end it's more of "you haven't had the right one". Like the sweet tea. Who f*****g judges all sweet tea from McDonald's??? Someone who doesn't understand sweet tea I'd say.

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Fuxxy89 1 year ago

A message to BP from America... Eh hem. Go f*** yourselves. That will be all. Thank you.

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Fuxxy89 1 year ago

Oh and mass produced British chocolate 🤮🤮🤮

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Widget 2 years ago

These I hate America posts are getting old. Most of these on the list I wouldn't/never eat but damn we are not all horrible. There are so many of these kinds of post. Jesus cool it please.

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Mystery Egg 2 years ago

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pico diablo 2 years ago (edited)

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Wayne Lee 2 years ago

The longer the shelf life, the shorter your life.

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Deanna Crichley 2 years ago

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firecrackershrimp 2 years ago

Didn't see chipped beef on toast on the list. Grew up watching my parents eat that. Nicknamed it sh!t on a shingle.

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Chris Osborn 1 year ago

Me too!

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OmBoyGanesh 2 years ago

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Chris Jones 2 years ago

Haggis is definitely not UK, that is Scottish. A considerable amount of traditional food came about because of people being poor.

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kalle1724 1 year ago

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Dodo 1 year ago

As a Brit: deep fried Mars bars are Scottish. And a PB&J is absolutely delicious.

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Caryn Zent 2 years ago

So don't eat what you don't like.

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Jay Kethley 2 years ago

you can buy canned creamed possum in gravy in the US... MEGA-REVOLTING!!! canned-pos...b149ef.jpg

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Chris Osborn 1 year ago

You can also buy jelly belly jelly beans that taste like skunk - again a gag gift.

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Justin Trouble 2 years ago

American here, I agree with you about this horrendous garbage.

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Mariele Scherzinger 2 years ago

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similarly 2 years ago

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Ian B 2 years ago

I'm an American and apart from sliced bread and corn dogs, the rest of the food ok this list is truly disgusting.

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Kevin Ber 2 years ago

In all honesty, chicken nuggets and breakfast sausage patties. And those hashbrown sticks. Basically anything but a pancake or waffle served at a cheap breakfast place.

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Ingrid Smith 2 years ago

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XenoMurph 2 years ago

You have the marshmallows and sweet potatoes, as part of the meal, not as a dessert?

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you can buy cooked canned possum in the US.... mega-revolting!!!! canned-pos...29abcb.jpg

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