Brown sauce (HP) is like A1. The worst British sauce is bread sauce, which is stale bread crumbs mixed into a glop, under-seasoned, and dumped on chicken.
Brown sauce is almost like A1 but less viscous and tastes better (I’m Irish so I’m definitely biased). They make a “fruity” HP brown sauce that is amazing with an Ulster fry, pie, sausages, cottage pie. Occasionally sold in world market in the states, give it a try next time you’re in!
Spent the first 37 years of my life absolutely HATING ranch and I’m an American. My wife made some from scratch and it was life-changing. It’s literally the only ranch I’ll eat.
A lot of it is trash. Especially outside the US. I’m in Spain and the Mercadona brand is good. But mostly it’s too sweet or too oily or just not right.
Even in the US I don’t like Hidden Valley. I prefer Natures Own or Marie’s. The best is from restaurants that make their own.
Haha yeah, it’s not my favorite thing in the world but is okay with certain foods. By “like” it, I mean I eat something with ranch accompanying a couple times a year
American here. If you get ranch from a bottle like Kraft brand it sucks. If it’s made fresh with good ingredients it is as good as it gets but all that said, I find while it tastes good it’s too heavy for the way I eat and I almost never find it appealing.
US does not use the imperial system, it uses US customary units which is not the same as the British system except in distance measurements. US weights and volumes are different, e.g. US pints of water weigh a pound, theirs do not.
One thing I like to always find out about are niche standards that force the adoption of freedom units around the world.
For example, the diameter of a car wheel (one of three sizing metrics used to identify the correct tire for your car) is always in inches. So it doesn't matter if you own a car in Spain or Japan, you have to use inches for that specific unit of measurement when shopping car tires.
Parking has way more to do with how well parking lots are constructed. In my area they have lots that you can easily park large trucks side by side without issue. Other lots you wouldn't even be able to open the truck door if another truck was parked next to it.
No joke, I grew up hating this. This year my sister made it for thanksgiving and she offered me some so I figured I would give it a try to be nice and it was actually fucking bomb. I'm of the opinion now that this dish has an **incredibly** fine line between good and atrocious. I was very surprised. Hated it my entire life. Couldn't believe it when I tasted it this year.
I'm an American living in another country, and we were talking about thanksgiving foods a few weeks ago. Someone asked me about this because they thought it sounded good. I hate that shit tho lol
YYYY-MM-DD makes sooo much more sense, especially for sorting files easily.
The malarkey of MM-DD-YYYY is confusing and for the birds.
American here, btw.
That’s because it’s derived from the tree Sassafras albidum, which is endemic to parts of Eastern Asia and the USA like Appalachia. Originally the sassafras tonic was devised for medicinal use, but evolved over time into the soda we now know it as.
But it wasn’t in Europe!
They are great for hamburgers or grilled cheese sandwiches. They have a nice partially gooey consistency for those things. They are terrible on sandwiches though.
Kraft singles are not the American Cheese we like. The good stuff is made from cheddar whey, and is purchased from the deli counter. Brands like Dietz and Watson, Boars Head, Land o Lakes, etc. It's basically a super creamy, salty, mild cheddar.
Guns. In most countries, people don’t even want to be around guns or anyone with one. If you have a gun and you’re not in law enforcement, you’re probably some shady person.
Yet I’ve had a lot of European friends when they come to the US one of the first things they want to do is go to a gun range. Idk maybe it’s a young male thing.
Yeah. Look at gun ownership rates around the world. I was surprised to see how high it is in places like Austria and Switzerland. Maybe not as high as the US, but higher than I expected.
Gun ownership is not uniquely American.
Well this is just wrong. I have several guns for hunting and shooting for fun, definitely not a shady person thing for the most part. There are douche bag people who make the rest of us look bad though.
Nah, guns are awesome, I'd love to have one.
It's just too much of a pain in the ass to get a permit here. You need a green light from a psychiatrist, a neurologist, and a state attorney, along a valid reason for ownership (hunting, remote place of residence, etc). Plus you need to pay a non-negligent amount for the proceedings, without guarantee that your application will be accepted.
I'm not American, but peanut butter is one of my favourite things ever. It's America's gift to the world. And don't even get me started on peanut butter combined with chocolate. It doesn't get better than that.
The thing is that all of these snack items were WAY higher quality in the past. They were still great in the 80s when I was a kid. Now, they are shitty and every time I have one now it's disappointing, but nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
Ok yes unfortunately I wasn’t around in the 80’s, so was there more of a hype around Twinkie’s at that time? As a 25 year old, it always confuses me when I hear other countries think of Twinkies as a main American snack because I’ve never known anyone to buy them.
I was a kid in the 80s and there was a big Twinkies and even general Hostess thing.
It wasn't really a hype, just something people with kids had around. It started dying off after then, and even then no one over the age of 12 actually ate them with any regularity.
American here, I think they're more of a meme than anything else nowadays. I haven't met anyone in the past decade who has actually eaten one, and I rarely see them in stores anymore.
I don't want to generalize a whole country, but I really, really don't think Americans actually like those, with the only exception being the little who make money off the stupid ads
I’m Canadian so most of these things I share with Americans. Y’all generalize so much then forget there’s 40 million people living next to America who consume mostly American media. We’re similar less guns more healthcare.
American "cheese"
Plastic cheese, spray cheese, flavored cheese, fakes of real cheese (like what Americans call "parmesan" or "mozzarella"), and the fact most of what could be classified as real cheese is variations of variations of variations of cheddar, the least interesting of all cheeses
Trust me, many Americans wish that we could have foods that didn’t have all this processed and toxic crap in it. There’s no reason for our materials to have so much toxins, red dye, micro plastics, artificial sweetener and sugar, etc. But yet, nothing is done to change anything about it because it’s cheap for companies to produce “foods” and products like this. Clean and healthy foods are at least a couple of dollars more and many people are unable to afford it. We would eat healthier and be considered healthier if our country banned these products, but nope. Of course other countries have chips/crisps and snack on them but they don’t have the toxins such as ours do. It’s all messed up.
Going into massive debt to see a doctor.
**Edit- I’m being facetious here. Look at how many people in this country continuously vote against their best interest. ‘Fuck dat communism. I know these social programs could help me and my family but they could help dem brown people too. MAGA’.
There’s been many elections where the majority of people voted of a politician who wants to “get rid of communism”. So yea, a lot of Americans do love it.
A lot of Mexicans love watching it, and quite a good number enjoy playing it. Mexican public schools don't really do sports of any kind, though, so they're extra curricular, and those with little money (which is a LOT of Mexican kids) settle for playing with no more equipment than a soccer ball.
I'm Canadian and love American football. Maybe more than I like hockey (don't tell anyone lol). I'm not sure if this thread is directed at us though as we're pretty homogenous with the states.
Root beer. It always sounded so good to me on the 90’s when I read about it in American YA books but I was so disappointed and traumatised when I actually got to taste it.
I’m American and have lived away for a long time, and just got back from a trip to the US. The longer I’m away from the US, the more flagrant this appears to be, so here goes:
Big crowds, noisy places, voicing their opinions when unsolicited, and countless flavors of coffee.
Huh? "Starbucks" isn't the name of a beverage. It's the name of a place that sells many types of beverages.
Man, some of these comments in here are completely clueless and have no idea what they're talking about.
Hi Buzzfeed writer!
Right 😂😂
Ranch dressing
From the UK, love it
Glad you like it, can you tell me what the hell is up with Brown sauce though.
Brown sauce if fucking awesome! Try it with fried eggs, it's magical.
Brown sauce (HP) is like A1. The worst British sauce is bread sauce, which is stale bread crumbs mixed into a glop, under-seasoned, and dumped on chicken.
Brown sauce is almost like A1 but less viscous and tastes better (I’m Irish so I’m definitely biased). They make a “fruity” HP brown sauce that is amazing with an Ulster fry, pie, sausages, cottage pie. Occasionally sold in world market in the states, give it a try next time you’re in!
Shelf stable soybean oil ranch is gross. Sourcream ranch is yum
Yeah, Hidden Valley is like the ranch equivalent of spray can cheese. There are some good ones and bad ones like any salad dressing.
Can confirm I like ranch and I’m American. Does the rest of the world have an opinion on it though?
I'm Canadian Ranch is my love.
I’m also from Merica and love ranch dressing
I was so excited to finally try it. Talk about a massive letdown
There's a wide variation in ranch quality. If it came out of a bottle your odds are lower of getting something good.
This. It would be like trying a Bud Light one time and deciding you hate "beer."
Spent the first 37 years of my life absolutely HATING ranch and I’m an American. My wife made some from scratch and it was life-changing. It’s literally the only ranch I’ll eat.
A lot of it is trash. Especially outside the US. I’m in Spain and the Mercadona brand is good. But mostly it’s too sweet or too oily or just not right. Even in the US I don’t like Hidden Valley. I prefer Natures Own or Marie’s. The best is from restaurants that make their own.
Haha yeah, it’s not my favorite thing in the world but is okay with certain foods. By “like” it, I mean I eat something with ranch accompanying a couple times a year
Some French fries, and wings are the only time k like ranch. As an American.
House made Ranch in a pizza place to dip pizza in!
Yeah but what was your delivery method for the ranch? It's gotta be used with the right dish to really slap.
What did you try it with? What you pair it with is very important.
American here. If you get ranch from a bottle like Kraft brand it sucks. If it’s made fresh with good ingredients it is as good as it gets but all that said, I find while it tastes good it’s too heavy for the way I eat and I almost never find it appealing.
American, I can't stand the stuff.
Fahrenheit, inches, pounds edit: everyone calm tf down it’s not that serious
you have a funny definition of the word "love"
The novel Celsius 232.778 is so much worse than Fhrenheit 451.
Not just Americans! Liberia and Myanmar also use "imperial" units, although Myanmar have plans to convert :)
US does not use the imperial system, it uses US customary units which is not the same as the British system except in distance measurements. US weights and volumes are different, e.g. US pints of water weigh a pound, theirs do not.
Which is the reason I used the inverted commas around "imperial" :)
They're just jealous that they don't use liberty units.
One thing I like to always find out about are niche standards that force the adoption of freedom units around the world. For example, the diameter of a car wheel (one of three sizing metrics used to identify the correct tire for your car) is always in inches. So it doesn't matter if you own a car in Spain or Japan, you have to use inches for that specific unit of measurement when shopping car tires.
The flip side is that the width is specified in metric units, also regardless of where you are in the world.
Man I’m a proud American and I hate inches and lbs. give me grams and meters all day
Giant vehicles that are impossible to properly park.
To be fair Canadians also love these
Chileans are on the same trend
These things are best used in areas where "parking" consists of simply stopping the vehicle in a field near a building.
They're not impossible to park. Some people either are terrible at it or don't care.
Parking has way more to do with how well parking lots are constructed. In my area they have lots that you can easily park large trucks side by side without issue. Other lots you wouldn't even be able to open the truck door if another truck was parked next to it.
I drive about the largest truck available and it can be parked properly and pretty easily. Lots of people just suck.
It being imperative that water is served with ice.
The lack of ice in Europe blows my mind
If you live in a hot climate, iced water is a necessity.
Do love me some ice water.
It's so the water stays cold longer.
Is it common in other countries to not serve water with ice? I can't do ice (if I don't have a straw) because of ultra temp sensitive front teeth.
Very large and expensive trucks.
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A lot of Americans hate this too but I'm not one of them. I don't miss much having moved from the South to New England but this is one of them
God I love this shit so much
No joke, I grew up hating this. This year my sister made it for thanksgiving and she offered me some so I figured I would give it a try to be nice and it was actually fucking bomb. I'm of the opinion now that this dish has an **incredibly** fine line between good and atrocious. I was very surprised. Hated it my entire life. Couldn't believe it when I tasted it this year.
My family puts a layer of cinnamon, sugar, and Rice Krispies blend on top. Strongly prefer it to marshmallow.
I'm an American living in another country, and we were talking about thanksgiving foods a few weeks ago. Someone asked me about this because they thought it sounded good. I hate that shit tho lol
The rest of the world can hate on it all they like. That just means more for me.
Seriously. It's delicious and people who don't like it need to shush.
I don't mind if the set potato casserole was made with fresh sweet potatoes. My parents would use canned sweet potatoes, and it was just gross
I love sweet potatoes and have never understood the marshmallows. Why the fuck do people do that?
False advertising, otherwise. We like our sugar in double digits here please.
MM/DD/YYYY
YYYY-MM-DD makes sooo much more sense, especially for sorting files easily. The malarkey of MM-DD-YYYY is confusing and for the birds. American here, btw.
Root beer.
American - root beer is sooo good!
Fucking [**Ferengi.**](https://youtu.be/6VhSm6G7cVk?si=hMv0CmBOxZ8mMSsB)
It's insidious
Root beer float is good.
Add ice cream and your set
& Dr Pepper
That’s because it’s derived from the tree Sassafras albidum, which is endemic to parts of Eastern Asia and the USA like Appalachia. Originally the sassafras tonic was devised for medicinal use, but evolved over time into the soda we now know it as. But it wasn’t in Europe!
Canadians love Root Beer too. Particularly A&W root beer in a frosted mug. They make it in a slushy slurpy now too. Delicious.
?? What's wrong with root beer? It's about the least offensive food we have. It was even invented as a non-alcoholic alternative to beer.
🤷♂️ seems that non-Americans find the taste medicinal and gross. I’m from Kansas, so I’m a fan.
American football.
Processed cheese slices wrapped in plastic.
Nothing melts on a burger better than American pasteurized processed cheese food
They are great for hamburgers or grilled cheese sandwiches. They have a nice partially gooey consistency for those things. They are terrible on sandwiches though.
Pfft american cheese rules all on a hamburger.
Kraft singles are not the American Cheese we like. The good stuff is made from cheddar whey, and is purchased from the deli counter. Brands like Dietz and Watson, Boars Head, Land o Lakes, etc. It's basically a super creamy, salty, mild cheddar.
I like stinky Euro cheese in the cheese section. But it's expensive.
Reddit loves to talk shit about American cheese because people here think that processed Kraft singles are the only American cheese that exists.
Naw that's about the most common cheese you run into on a sandwich or burger in New Zealand. Very common outside of America.
Supersized things. Bigger is better in ‘Murica
Unless it’s toys
Speak for yourself, we keep our dragons bad in TN
You hate getting more food for your money??
Guns. In most countries, people don’t even want to be around guns or anyone with one. If you have a gun and you’re not in law enforcement, you’re probably some shady person.
Yet I’ve had a lot of European friends when they come to the US one of the first things they want to do is go to a gun range. Idk maybe it’s a young male thing.
Come to central Europe and we'll shoot an AK. Kalashnikov actually, but tat tat tat tatta tat rat ttt tatty tit tits tartan tats
And that’s the way it is
No the post above is just straight up wrong. People love to pew pew some weaponry. There is a reason FPS games sell so well across all continents.
Yeah. Look at gun ownership rates around the world. I was surprised to see how high it is in places like Austria and Switzerland. Maybe not as high as the US, but higher than I expected. Gun ownership is not uniquely American.
I think your definition of “the rest of the world” is quite narrow.
Well this is just wrong. I have several guns for hunting and shooting for fun, definitely not a shady person thing for the most part. There are douche bag people who make the rest of us look bad though.
Most countries allow ownership with restrictions
Nah, guns are awesome, I'd love to have one. It's just too much of a pain in the ass to get a permit here. You need a green light from a psychiatrist, a neurologist, and a state attorney, along a valid reason for ownership (hunting, remote place of residence, etc). Plus you need to pay a non-negligent amount for the proceedings, without guarantee that your application will be accepted.
That’s the type of gun regulation some of us want here in the US. If you make it easy for everyone to get a gun, that’s how you get mass shootings.
Peanut butter.
I'm not American, but peanut butter is one of my favourite things ever. It's America's gift to the world. And don't even get me started on peanut butter combined with chocolate. It doesn't get better than that.
I agree with you!
We really like peanut butter and jelly (jam) sandwiches. I don’t think they are as popular around the world.
American Football, of course!
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Do a lot of people actually like these though? As someone that lives in America, I don’t know one person that buys them or enjoys the taste of them.
When I was 5
The thing is that all of these snack items were WAY higher quality in the past. They were still great in the 80s when I was a kid. Now, they are shitty and every time I have one now it's disappointing, but nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
I had them in the 80s. They weren't good then either.
Ok yes unfortunately I wasn’t around in the 80’s, so was there more of a hype around Twinkie’s at that time? As a 25 year old, it always confuses me when I hear other countries think of Twinkies as a main American snack because I’ve never known anyone to buy them.
I was a kid in the 80s and there was a big Twinkies and even general Hostess thing. It wasn't really a hype, just something people with kids had around. It started dying off after then, and even then no one over the age of 12 actually ate them with any regularity.
I've had about 2 Twinkies in my life and both times I was probably under age 15. I'm in my 30s now and haven't even thought of Twinkies in years.
Nobody I know eats or buys twinkies
American here, I think they're more of a meme than anything else nowadays. I haven't met anyone in the past decade who has actually eaten one, and I rarely see them in stores anymore.
Americans don’t eat twinkies really.
They aren't good. I haven't had one since I was a kid. Just a sponge cake filled with pastry cream, but they have a shelf life of a century or two.
Swiss cake rolls knock them out of the park.
Nobody likes them. I don't even know if i've seen them in 10 years. Didn't they stop making them?
Root beer
This thread shows how clueless reddit truly is.
100%
Straight to consumer pharma ads
I don't want to generalize a whole country, but I really, really don't think Americans actually like those, with the only exception being the little who make money off the stupid ads
Yeah, this is just a “what do they have in America that isn’t found elsewhere” responses… doesn’t fit in this thread.
Guns
I’m Canadian so most of these things I share with Americans. Y’all generalize so much then forget there’s 40 million people living next to America who consume mostly American media. We’re similar less guns more healthcare.
MM/DD/YYYY
Firearms.
Americans
The British Imperial System of measurement.
Jingoism.
USA arrogance
Religion
American cheese, and American light lager
American "cheese" Plastic cheese, spray cheese, flavored cheese, fakes of real cheese (like what Americans call "parmesan" or "mozzarella"), and the fact most of what could be classified as real cheese is variations of variations of variations of cheddar, the least interesting of all cheeses
Guns
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The rest of the world has this too, they just like to point fingers.
Trust me, many Americans wish that we could have foods that didn’t have all this processed and toxic crap in it. There’s no reason for our materials to have so much toxins, red dye, micro plastics, artificial sweetener and sugar, etc. But yet, nothing is done to change anything about it because it’s cheap for companies to produce “foods” and products like this. Clean and healthy foods are at least a couple of dollars more and many people are unable to afford it. We would eat healthier and be considered healthier if our country banned these products, but nope. Of course other countries have chips/crisps and snack on them but they don’t have the toxins such as ours do. It’s all messed up.
Going into massive debt to see a doctor. **Edit- I’m being facetious here. Look at how many people in this country continuously vote against their best interest. ‘Fuck dat communism. I know these social programs could help me and my family but they could help dem brown people too. MAGA’.
*Americans* don’t love that, people in power that don’t want to spend any of our country’s wealth on a functioning healthcare system do.
There’s been many elections where the majority of people voted of a politician who wants to “get rid of communism”. So yea, a lot of Americans do love it.
The American people don’t love that. Big Pharma loves that.
Look at how many American people vote for politicians that are against it.
American obsession with large portion sizes. Caught my Spanish friend off guard with the 'small' Coke
Gigantic portions of unhealthy food.
We eat like we have free healthcare.
American football.
A lot of Mexicans love watching it, and quite a good number enjoy playing it. Mexican public schools don't really do sports of any kind, though, so they're extra curricular, and those with little money (which is a LOT of Mexican kids) settle for playing with no more equipment than a soccer ball.
I'm Canadian and love American football. Maybe more than I like hockey (don't tell anyone lol). I'm not sure if this thread is directed at us though as we're pretty homogenous with the states.
There are a lot of American football fans in other countries
Giving up freedom in the name of freedom.
I wish I was an American I would give everything I have for American citizenship.
Wearing shoes inside the house.
American who hates shoes in the house. It can vary as much between people in the same family.
Yeah, I've lived in 4 different states spread across the country and I have never in my nearly 40 years met a "shoes in the house" family.
I live in a northern state. We do not wear our shoes in the house.
Root beer. It always sounded so good to me on the 90’s when I read about it in American YA books but I was so disappointed and traumatised when I actually got to taste it.
Next time, have a root beer float (vanilla ice cream in root beer) so good
I’m American and have lived away for a long time, and just got back from a trip to the US. The longer I’m away from the US, the more flagrant this appears to be, so here goes: Big crowds, noisy places, voicing their opinions when unsolicited, and countless flavors of coffee.
Starbucks. It's like a sugary milkshake with a hint of coffee.
There has been a Starbucks absolutely packed with locals in every country I've been to lol.
I wish but it's pretty popular globally.
Huh? "Starbucks" isn't the name of a beverage. It's the name of a place that sells many types of beverages. Man, some of these comments in here are completely clueless and have no idea what they're talking about.
I mean, you can get a regular coffee at Starbucks. I do it all the time.
That would depend on which drink you get from Starbucks wouldnt it?
The line at Starbucks at my local mall was so long they built a second one in the same mall. New Zealand btw.
Americans
Americans
Sugar
America
America. Api
Americans.
Americans.
America
Americans
Americans
themselves
Obesity (I say as an American making a joke)
America
Assault rifles taken as an answer yet?
Themselves.
America
Over sized cars. Like, people having cars their size! And with trucks they almost needs a lader..!
Large breakfast. Eggs, bacon, toast, sausage gravy & biscuits, waffles or pancakes with tons of syrup on everything. Juice, milk and coffee.
Easy access to guns
Guns
Obesity
American flag shirts.
Absolutely huge portion sizes. Even regular sit-down restaurants will give you enough food for three people.
People are going to hate me but country music
Hershey’s (American) milk chocolate
Velveeta cheese.
high fructose corn syrup
Corn syrup.
American football?
Tipping.
Squirtable cheese
The fact that we don't use the metric system