Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 11:57     Subject: What's your favorite "american" dish?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The floatie thing, ice cream with coke… never seen it anywhere else i visited.


This is called an ice cream float
root beer float
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 11:26     Subject: What's your favorite "american" dish?
Ew. This whole thread is disgusting food. Is there nothing good that’s American?
How about rice and bean burritos? Goulash? Chop suey? Our mayo based potato salad and macaroni salad? Cincinatti chili spaghetti? Reubens? Deep dish Chicago style pizza? Philadelphia turtle soup?
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 11:20     Subject: What's your favorite "american" dish?
Check out illustrated American cookbooks from library. That's proof. Yes meat loaf is classic, along with mac n cheese and tuna noodle casserole.
Your student needs to learn that classic American food is not necessarily what's on TikTok.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 10:35     Subject: What's your favorite "american" dish?
Take him to Cracker Barrel. Or Denny's.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 10:26     Subject: What's your favorite "american" dish?
You need to nip this kid in the bud, but to respond to your question: White chicken chili, Steak Caesar salad, chicken parm, cheese quesadillas with guacamole, BLTs, sweet potatoes. I imagine he'll get a lot of "American" foods for the Super Bowl. You could do a spread with fried pickles or mozzarella sticks, pigs in the blanket, buffalo chicken dip, etc.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 09:55     Subject: Re:What's your favorite "american" dish?
Op, you’re already doing a lot! I’m from Minnesota, so I tend to think wild rice soup with chicken and tater tot hot dish. Both are hits with my east coast kids, and don’t have to be prepared in a way that plays into “gross” stereotypes.
I just used Food and Wines recipe for the soup (Byerlys would be another one and very authentic MN) and NYT has a tater tot hot dish recipe where you make the base (doesn’t rely on canned soup). I also buy my wild rice online from the Red Lake Nation, which is a nice way to support traditional growing methods and native traditions. Both aren’t quick, but they’re good and to me taste very much like home.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 08:41     Subject: What's your favorite "american" dish?
Philly cheesesteak or Italian hoagie.

I've never tried to replicate a cheesesteak at home, but if you want to try, Steak-Umms are the way to go.

Or maybe try Goldbelly . . . although I'm not sure how they travel.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 08:37     Subject: Re:What's your favorite "american" dish?
Oh and to add, I put together a welcome box of all sorts of american snack foods and candies (stuff I would never even typically buy, like twinkies, but felt was stereotypical american snacks) and he hasn't even touched them, like not even out of curiosity!
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 08:35     Subject: What's your favorite "american" dish?
Find a Golden Corral and let him loose.

We drove past one once with DS's friend whose parents are from Mexico and he said "that's white people food."
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 08:32     Subject: Re:What's your favorite "american" dish?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:you have a lot of good ideas one here-
pb & j, tator tots with Heinz ketchup and just serve hime the food,part of the experience is basically destroying the stereotypes and I also cant believe this rude kid said that meatloaf (!!!) is NOT american food.
I am Pakistani american and grew up eating desi food at home until we were teens when my mom started experimenting and cooking foods from all over like most americans. look up recipes for hot dish and tuna noodle casserole, biscuits and gravy etc. id also add in Frito pie, enchiladas, hard shell tacos with ground beef (gringo tacos). Root beer float is also a good one.

Yes! Get the Old El Paso hardshell taco kit with the seasoning and salsa packets. Make sure you melt some cheese into the meat and serve with chopped iceberg lettuce, chopped tomatoes, and sour cream. Of all the meals on standard rotation in my 70s household, this was my favorite, and it’s a hit with my family still, as are the pigs in blankets with Pillsbury crescent rolls and lil’ smokies.

Did anyone else mention fluffernutter sandwiches?
Are baked potatoes with butter, bacon bits or actual pieces, sour cream, and chopped scallions popular in other countries?
We also may have different breakfast cereals.


See I'd never make this kind of tacos (though they are what my mother made growing up), I make "real" tacos ever since living in southern CA for a few years. But I should add that I pay for school lunch everyday, and our school lunch menu is a rotation of a lotttttt of this kind of stuff, and so that is another opportunity he has for stuff like this, plus other things like corn dogs, they do frito pie, etc. that I might not be interested in providing at home. But then when I ask what did he buy for lunch today at school, it's always the hamburger because the other stuff "didn't look good."
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 08:30     Subject: What's your favorite "american" dish?
Anthony Bourdain said New Orleans was the greatest Americas city for food. What about some Cajun mains? It’s a mix of French, African, Spanish, etc that sums up the diversity of the US.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 08:28     Subject: What's your favorite "american" dish?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Don't play this game. He wants you to serve something that he can send pictures to his friends and laugh about "gross American food." You're not providing him material so he's bored.
Have some pride. He chose to come here so he shouldn't be mocking everything. It would be extremely rude in any country.


Yes, I suspect this, and I don't want to participate. It's like tiktok has taught the outside world everyday americans eat like they're at a county fair, that's why they're all so fat. But I figure it is my duty i signed up for to show him the "real" america, too. So while I am not really going to deviate from how I cook typically, I'm happy to include a few more squarely american dishes into rotation for a chance to be like hey what you see online is fake click bait so you can laugh at americans; this is real.

But honestly, besides BBQ/cornbread and the desserts (which he doesn't eat) most of this stuff listed here is not at all in my go-to list of foods because I, personally, don't find it to be as appealing as other stuff I make, which is why I am here asking others' insight.


There's a YouTube channel of two British guys going around trying American food (sometimes they have British teenagers try American food too) and they actually tend to be quite positive.

https://youtu.be/0cxA_gkhRyo?si=ANZL99Sli72JSx7d
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 08:26     Subject: What's your favorite "american" dish?
Anonymous wrote:Turkey! Green bean casserole. Stuffing. Pretty much thanksgiving food. Open face sandwich with turkey and mashed potatoes and gravy. Chipped beef and gravy. Big T-bone steaks.


Yes i was thinking of having a mini thanksgiving dinner with some stuff I froze during that season.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 08:21     Subject: What's your favorite "american" dish?
Turkey! Green bean casserole. Stuffing. Pretty much thanksgiving food. Open face sandwich with turkey and mashed potatoes and gravy. Chipped beef and gravy. Big T-bone steaks.
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2026 08:20     Subject: What's your favorite "american" dish?
Anonymous wrote:Don't play this game. He wants you to serve something that he can send pictures to his friends and laugh about "gross American food." You're not providing him material so he's bored.
Have some pride. He chose to come here so he shouldn't be mocking everything. It would be extremely rude in any country.


Yes, I suspect this, and I don't want to participate. It's like tiktok has taught the outside world everyday americans eat like they're at a county fair, that's why they're all so fat. But I figure it is my duty i signed up for to show him the "real" america, too. So while I am not really going to deviate from how I cook typically, I'm happy to include a few more squarely american dishes into rotation for a chance to be like hey what you see online is fake click bait so you can laugh at americans; this is real.

But honestly, besides BBQ/cornbread and the desserts (which he doesn't eat) most of this stuff listed here is not at all in my go-to list of foods because I, personally, don't find it to be as appealing as other stuff I make, which is why I am here asking others' insight.