Fried Okra!

Bread pudding is a British dish. I'm guessing it made it on here because it's popular in the south and they added bourbon. Lol. :) Biscuits and gravy is extremely easy to make and SOOO good. Definitely one of my favorites along with Chicken and Dumplings. Dumplings really aren't that hard to make, so if you want to try it just go for it. Honestly, you need to try them both. ;)

@dylnfstr

8 ай бұрын

Bread pudding likely came through the colonies. Many of our dishes in the south are derived from early colonial days and slave/african cuisine. The south took everything from different cultures and melded them together and throw a touch of southern specialty in them. I no longer live in the south, but I'll always be a southern boy and my kids will be raised as if they were born and raised too.

Chicken pot pie is one of the few savory pies we do. (Does deep dish pizza count?) But, sweet pies are huge -- key lime pie, pecan pie, pumpkin pie, shoofly pie....

Im from the Pacific Northwest Washington State and we eat 99 percent of these, most states have some form of these, not all but most

I am actually a yankee, (from the North) I moved south around 35 years ago. As someone not used to Southern Food a lot was culture shock, but the one thing I fell in love with right away and remains a comfort food to this day is biscuits and gravy.

The reason you are seeing so many stews that remind you of home is becasue the Scotch-irish settled in the area. for Highlanders escaping the English pogrom, after the Bonnie Prince's failed rebellion, the mountains in the south looked a lot like home.

There is actually quite a bit of crossover between Southern traditions and foods with those of the more rural parts of the UK. Calling cooked pig entrails 'chitlins' comes from Cornwall, for instance. We all fled our British friends at one time or another.

One of my favorite breakfasts on Thanksgiving week was fried squirrel with biscuits and gravy. My Dad and brothers often went squirrel hunting. We also raised rabbits for meat.

@starparodier91

8 ай бұрын

I frowned for a moment when I read this, but that’s because I’m next to my pet squirrel, so I could never! 😂

In America, we typically have three or more different hot sauces on hand at any given time since different hot sauces have different qualities and heat levels that pair better with eggs than stews for instance. My go to hot sauces include the following: Louisiana Hot Sauce, Texas Pete, Crystals, Tabasco (Red), Tabasco (Green), Sriracha, Tapatio, Frank's Red Hot as well as habanero sauce, ground red chili powder, cayenne pepper ans chili powder.

@Notsosweetstevia

8 ай бұрын

3 or 4? Those are rookie numbers. Or is that just me?😂

@NerdyNanaSimulations

7 ай бұрын

Right now we have tabasco, Louisiana Hot Sauce, and Franks Red Hot in our fridge.....LMBO

Squirrel is a great stewing meat, add a few of them in your crock pot with potatoes, onions and spices, etc.

They just showed a clip from the movie ’Fried Green Tomatoes’ based on the book ‘ Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe’.

@lartisteautravail

8 ай бұрын

I hope he sees this! It’s a good watch and feels like a nice snippet of southern culture

Southern comfort food was born from poor rural country families, like biscuits and gravy. You fry your bacon in a cast iron skillet, then fry your eggs in the rendered bacon fat, when you take your eggs out and still have a bunch of grease in the pan you add flour, cream/milk, salt, pepper and some of the bacon crushed up into little pieces and poor it over buttermilk biscuits.....it'll make a bishop kick out a stained glass window! Check Jolly's video on Biscuits and Gravy.

I love your positivity towards American cuisine. Many British reactors act disgusted or confused by our food. Don’t lose your curiosity. ❤

If you eat something & it makes you feel like you just got a big warm hug from your grandmother,, Then you probably just ate a southern comfort dish/meal.

Bread pudding is British, but what makes it southern is making a BOURBON bread pudding. Bourbon makes everything better ;)

Regarding hot sauces: the four most common styles/brands I notice in American homes are Tabasco (Louisiana style, very vinegar forward), Sriracha (Asian, garlic forward), Frank's Red Hot (Louisiana style, primary ingredient for Buffalo sauce), and Cholula (Mexican style salsa picante).

@Plasmacore_V

8 ай бұрын

Valentina is the best.

Canadians: "What? Mac 'n' cheese doesn't come out of a box?"

You'll find Scots-Irish food influences all over the US. There have been many waves of immigrants over the centuries. For instance, northern Michigan has copper mines. Workers from the UK with mining experience found jobs there. They brought their recipes with them when they settled here with their families. Hand held meat pies that could be easily packed in a miners lunch pail and hearty stews for supper in cold weather are a good example.

I bake a lot, so I find beignets easy to make. If you are new at it, take your time. Gravy in the US comes in many varieties. It depends on what you are preparing. There is au jus, brown gravy, mushroom, red gravy, several different white sauces, turkey gravy, the list is endless.

I don't live in New Orleans, and I've never tried a beignet, but "Fried Dough" can be traced all the way back to ancient Rome. Variations on "Fried Dough" can be found all over the US and Canada. There are many, many local versions with more names for the product than I can possibly list. Where I live, the local version is known as "Dough Boys".

I’m from Memphis TN. Don’t worry no squirrels are hurt in the making of Brunswick Stew. Most restaurants put chicken, sausage and ham. I guess in small towns back in 1898 when it originated if chickens were harder to come by someone probably used squirrels. We do have a bunch of squirrels here. 😅

A lot of these Southern dishes came out of necessity of using what you had and using it until it's gone

I’m from Tennessee, sometimes we make our pot pies with biscuits on top instead of pie crust. It’s fantastic. Also, pepper sauce on collard greens is a must.

the reason why its similar to scotland is after the jacobite uprising with bonny prince charlie, a lot of scottish people either were transported to north america, or ran away before or during the clearances. a lot of them ended up down south, so you are looking at the grandkids of scottish food mixed with french and african influences.

A big favorite here is creamed chipped beef which is variation on sausage gravy. You have dried thinly sliced beef cooked with butter, flour and milk. Usually served over toast or other warm breakfast breads/biscuits. I think its less fussy than sausage gravy. Good but it can be really salty.

@toodlescae

8 ай бұрын

I love chipped beef gravy.

All of it 😂😂😋😋 I'm from Alabama USA. I eat what doesn't bite back. Lol

I LOVE biscuits and gravy, Shepard's pie.. just a couple things.

Yes, we eat meat/savory pies. It's just not shown that much in videos, etc................................

@JustMe-dc6ks

8 ай бұрын

Also if you just say “pie”, a sweet dessert type is the default assumption.

"The South" covers a lot of area and different cuisines, but along the East Coast there was a lot of Scottish influence.

Yes I have eaten squirrel once. Tastes like chicken. Also have eaten frog's legs and alligator

The thing with squirrel as food is, there are a ton of them in the woods so you have plenty of stock lol.

Sausage gravy is absurdly easy to make. Just takes a bit of practice to know how much flour to add.

Cafe du Mond 😋 😋 A friend brought me a box of beignet mix from New Orleans. The back of the box said it was sopapilla mix from San Antonio, Tx. 😮 yes!😊

My favorite southern comfort food is country fried steak, mashed potatoes both smothered in white country gravy and green beans. We do have beef gravy and many other gravy’s here in the south but country gravy is served on certain foods. Country fried steak, country fried chicken “steak”, fried tomatoes and biscuits.

My dad was a huge squirrel fan, especially the brain.

Yooper here, we have pasties. Beef,Potato,ruddabaga and onion. Pot pies are common and shepards pie

While i am a native southerner & love our southern foods,, i DON'T eat any kind of innards,, liver,, gizzards,, kidneys,, etc.

Beignets are actually very easy to make. The box kit you are talking about should make it very easy. You guys need to have American cup measuring instruments so that's probably what went wrong. A lot of people think a teaspoon or tablespoon are actual spoons to measure with but it's not, it's a measurement that is very precise. Same with cups. Cups are volume measures that requires a specific measuring cup.

I live in the south, and have been eating boiled peanuts for 50 years! I have never seen anyone eat the shells!!

I make the best chicken a dumplins. I make drop dumplins. Big pot boil chicken fir 3 hours on kow heat. Salt pepper ...shread chicken add parcley and white pepper...2 sticks of butter. Dumplins. Flour parcley garlic salt baking powder mix milk..till doughy. Take a spoon fill, dump in the boiling pot with the chicken, simper for 5 minutes, turn off let sit for 15 minutes ..serve

Our food in the South is damn good. I love mac'n'cheese, pimento cheese & home made chicken pot pie

I love savory pies! Chicken pot pie has a creamier filling and beef pot pie has more of a gold or brown gravy in it. I’ve made Cornish pasties before and apart from the crust I can’t tell much difference.

Pinto beans with cornbread crumbled up in it. Wash it down with sweet tea.

Many cultures make bread pudding, not just the British. My Portuguese grandmother made it often as a way to use leftover Portuguese bread... Waste not, want not.

In the south, if it moves someone has tried to eat it at some point 😆 Squirrel, raccoon, possum, snake, gator.

Savory pies and pasties are popular in the South and upper Mid-West

Lol, Church's chicken has decent biscuits in the US for a fast food joint, and yeah, you can eat biscuits with jam, just butter, both, or with sausage gravy (although the ones in the video here didn't look as good that they do in real life). From my experience with British friends here, biscuits are the #1 thing they don' understand about US food.

No, Pillsbury pop-open biscuits do not work just fine. They have a grocery store taste. Biscuits are similar to scones, but much lighter and flakier, when made properly. That gravy at the beginning looked a little sick. When I was a kid (in South Carolina) there was a small stand that sold boiled peanuts outside the Belk's store in the winter. My dad would bring home a bag of them, but I didn't try them till I was an adult. I was missing something great. A small store in the town I live in now would keep them boiling in a crock pot - regular and some made with hot peppers. Now, you can buy a can of them in the grocery store.

fried green tomatoes - its akin to fried aubergine in texture. its easy to grow tomatoes and they tend to come in all at one time so you have to have lots of things to do other than marinara sauce. FGT with some steamed blue crabs - yum.

Love jambalaya, comfort food full of meat and seasoning...my recipe from jazz master Louis Armstrong. Amazing!

There was a book/movie called Fried Green Tomatoes.

i'm from "the south"... the north end of the camino del diablo in the sonoran desert (the state of arizona) and american thanksgiving is not thanksgiving without some tamales...

Since you're doing food videos you need to react to British Students trying biscuits and gravy. So funny.

I need to find some catfish out here in Arizona. It's been so long since I've had a fish fry. With some good coleslaw and fried okra and tartar sauce. OOOOOOOO BABY

A large and I mean LARGE population of native Southerners, particularly in the southeast can trace their ancestry to the British Isles. Hence Southern takes on older British recipes.

100% chicken pot pie is a go to for the colder months here in the south

My favorite hot sauces are Crystal, Franks Red Hot and Valentina's. Spicey but will not hurt you. US foods have origins from many cultures. We have had immigrant invasions from all over the world. Then we mix the cultures and add spice. Much of our food is very flavorful. For instance...the white gravy is just bechamel sauce. Make it a bit salty and lots of pepper to make country gravy. Add spicey minced pork sausage for biscuits and gravy. Add an over easy egg and yumm. I think our biscuits are closer to Irish Soda Bread but with more butter. But try a scone. The sausage gravy should overpower any sweetness. Sausage gravy is good on just about everything. Potatoes, Toast, Noodles, corn bread, rice, use your imagination.

Crawfish etouffee, please! I gotta try it in any place that offers it on the menu.

Jambalaya imo is one of the best foods anywhere. Apparently it just like a spicy paella.

Pecan Pie is amazing! Im from Louisiana, and i hate to say this because they are so cute and sweet. But fried squirrel meat is some of the best tasting meat there is. Ive had a pet one before so i wouldn't eat them anymore.😢

PAH. we likes our PAH. also milk gravy. cornbread dressing. banana pudding. caramel pie. peach cobbler. or blackberry cobbler, but the berries need to be very fresh, and picked on a sunny afternoon (the sun -- or the heat -- makes the sugar in the berries rise; short of that, add more sugar to the cobbler, although the fresh, sweet berries, just picked, are... ...:::chef's kiss:::...). now i miss my nama. 😮‍💨

we do chicken pot pie and shepards pie

Squirrel meat is the most nutritious game meat. Super high in protein and B vits. Makes great stew and squirrel and dumplings is the best.

I don't believe I would call it a comfort food necessarily, but Royal Reds shrimp are amazing, if a bit expensive

Large portions of the Southern United States were settled by Scottish and Irish immigrants. That's why you see so many similarities in the types of foods that we consider comfort foods. The big exception to this is the state of Louisiana which was colonized by the French. I think the influence of so much spice and hot sauce in some of the southern states comes from native tribes and immigrants from the native tribes immigrants from the Caribbean and other spice islands. I'm born and raised in Tennessee in the south. 95% of my DNA is from the uk. Of that 70% is a combination of Scottish and Irish. A lot of the foods my grandparents and prepare the family dinners or from old recipes that came To America with their family members in the 1800s. I am no longer able to eat really spicy foods. Some of my favorite comfort foods are beef stew which is just beef with potatoes carrots peas and just about what other vegetables onions and anything else you want to throw in a good southern breakfast with scrambled eggs, biscuits and gravy, crispy bacon, and some sliced tomatoes, and some good Southern banana. Oh and I do love cheese grits!

IMO Crystal Louisiana Hot Sauce is the best. But the whole establishment is subjective by the consumer.

yes my mom cooks them all the time

12FEB24: Beignets are pretty easy but is may take a few ries to get it right. Oil temperature is the big thing. Dumplings same thing.

A lot of this food does come from the British isles via colonization.

Ooh I love Natchitoches meat pies soo 😋

There are sweet and savory pies in the US

Fried green tomatoes are not as universal dish but is best in the South!

I'm not a southerner, but bread pudding isn't just a southern comfort food. Whether in the Midwest or on the West Coast, bread pudding is not uncommon. I don't particularly like raisins in bread pudding, but dates and bourbon? Oh, yes! Chicken and dumplings are also not just a southern comfort food. That was a staple in our family and in our community in the upper Midwest. Oh, and we do eat savory pies. I always preferred my mother's beef pie to the more common chicken pot pie. Fruit salad with marshmallows?? NO. Never. I didn't mind fruit salad as long as it was made with fresh fruit and whipped cream. If it had canned fruit, marshmallows, and strange things like that, no. I never ate it.

KFC has Pot Pie in America that's pretty good.

The chitlins and gizzards ,go ahead and take my part because that stuff has a weird taste ..

Louisiana or texas Pete hot sauce are two of the best

Chicken and sausage gumbo,

You need to remember that there is still many things here that are associated with the British colonies.

Squirrel is very tasty

Americans love savory pies. There isnt really much we dont eat to be honest lol, we are fat for a reason.

No instant gravy. That sounds gross. But Pillsbury knows what theyre doing.

Do yourself a favor and add pimento cheese to a BLT. You’re welcome

We stole bread pudding from the Brits!

American food looks British?? Of course it does! The Brits settled this country, afterall, way back in the 1600s. It was a collection of British colonies for over 100 years. With westward expansion, British culture spread all over the US and blended with native and immigrant cultures after that. Recipes and ingredients changed but the basic British influence is still there.

The USA used to be a British colony, so why are American savory pies a surprise to you? When people immigrate to America, they bring their recipes. When they can't acquire original ingredients, they substitute and create an "American" version of their traditional dish. No chicken? Make squirrel pot pie instead. 😋

Ambrosia is NOT made with mayonnaise, it's made with whipped cream. Apparently the people who made this video think everything white is a dairy product.

@jishani1

8 ай бұрын

you realize whipped cream is also a dairy product, right?

@bob_._.

8 ай бұрын

You realize mayo isn't a dairy product, right?

Southern food is food of the poor. You take what little you have and pep it up.

Ok who the *hades* puts cheese on their biscuits and gravy? That looks nasty. We do the "slippery" dumplings un our chicken and dumplings. Breakfast: Biscuits & Gravy Dinner: Chicken Fried Steak

The Southern United States is heavily populated by descendants of Scots-Irish ancestry with a little English and Welsh thrown in. Never discount the contributions from African countries due to the enslaved people who helped build this region. That’s Southern American cuisine!

I’ve lived in the south my whole life and I’ve never met anyone who eats peanuts with the shell, especially boiled. Idk why she acts like that’s a thing

@jishani1

8 ай бұрын

people that have never been to the south compiling a list based on information they found on google. but given the channel makes all sorts of list videos, the script was probably written by someone else and just voiced over by that person.

No and double NO on chitlins

Remember, America is a nation of immigrants and our food is influenced by all cuisines.

Be aware that that abomination they're calling biscuits and gravy is nothing like what we make. The gravy is creamy with only some sausage in it. That glop in the video is just horrifying. Squirrel isn't my go-to. I've eaten it. Didn't care for it. Plus it's a nightmare to clean them.

You have to realize everyone in America comes from some other country. Native Americans are the only true Americans. Everyone else is European or something else.. so diversity is not an issue with food

You forget that the first immigrants were British. So, many traditional American food has roots in UK

While i am a native southerner & love our southern foods,, i DON'T eat any kind of innards,, liver,, gizzards,, kidneys,, etc.

Chicken and sausage gumbo,

The Southern United States is heavily populated by descendants of Scots-Irish ancestry with a little English and Welsh thrown in. Never discount the contributions from African countries due to the enslaved people who helped build this region. That’s Southern American cuisine!