The Grossest Food From Every Single US State

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#23 is Michigan. Grossest food here is the pasty in the Upper Peninsula, not made to any known standard.
 
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It’s so nice to see that someone from Britain with its haute cuisine can speak so descriptively about ‘gross food’ from the U.S.

Look I’m part Scots so yes, I will eat haggis. I even appreciate beer that is not iced, and I got used to having canned tomato-flavored beans at breakfast (which is why the snark at Massachusetts baked beans dripped with irony).

But the whole tone reeked of adolescent ‘wit’ along with the usual virtue-shaming and political correctness of the trendy foodie. Even college age writers have outgrown the kind of 'we’ll just use the words ‘gross’ a lot and ‘really’ and talk about how the Midwest is ‘flyover’ and how the Northeast is dreary and the South is hickville; you know, use cliches from some novel back in the 1960s so that most people will think we’ve actually thought these up all by ourselves and are ‘mature’ and worldly wise.

Plus these sound like they were written about foods from the turn of the 21st century. Seriously, "raw milk’ from Vermont? That’s the grossest you can get? When Great Britain has raw milk distributors itself except for Scotland?

It would be eye opening (and potentially vomit-inducing, another cute little idiom from the article) to show these Brits some of the REALLY gross foods from each state. They haven’t even scratched the surface.
 
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Plus these sound like they were written about foods from the turn of the 21st century. Seriously, "raw milk’ from Vermont? That’s the grossest you can get? When Great Britain has raw milk distributors itself except for Scotland?

It would be eye opening (and potentially vomit-inducing, another cute little idiom from the article) to show these Brits some of the REALLY gross foods from each state. They haven’t even scratched the surface.
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A third of these is basically the author going “Ewww, calories!”

Calorie isn’t a flavor.
 
Wow, whoever wrote that article is a real literary and culinary expert. :roll_eyes:

Sounds like a middle schooler wrote it, full of dated expressions and faulty logic. So bad I only got through about 8 states.

P.S. Shredded wheat is great compared to Wheetabix, (in the UK) as far as I am concerned.
 
I only made it to Arizona and I stopped. I don’t have patience with slideshows.
 
Clearly, the author of that article is a complete fool. for instance, the " Idaho — Ice Cream Potato" is not an actual potato with ice cream on it. it is a desert made to look like a potato.
 
That was my thought as well. Middle school amateur hour.

And if you think Shredded Wheat is great, try it frosted!
 
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It’s so nice to see that someone from Britain with its haute cuisine can speak so descriptively about ‘gross food’ from the U.S.
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Ah yes, a hilarious joke about the quality of food in Britain. It wasn’t even funny when they were doing it on Frasier 20 years ago. I sometimes wonder whether this is a Catholic forum or just a place for people to be snarky. Seriously, you should come to London and try some of the fantastic restaurants we have here. If the food is so bad, why are London’s 5-star hotels full of Americans having afternoon tea?
 
I think you are missing the point, Londoner.
Did you read the link? Your answer is that you are insulted? You didn’t find the article insulting to Americans?
 
This coming from one of the only two countries where I got sick on the food after an extended stay. The other such country was Ireland which serves much the same menu.

I quit reading after they whined about fried fruit pie when they serve all kinds of fried fish and baked or fried pasties. Then they whined about Shredded Wheat…HELLO, they eat Weetabix over there which is worse.
 
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You know as well as I do that 5 star restaurants in UK are not serving normal everyday food, any more than 5 star restaurants in USA are serving hamburgers and fried pies and the other stuff in the article.

Anyway, articles like this are just clickbait set up to get a rise out of people. I don’t feel like playing that game today, so I will mute the thread.
 
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@strita @stpurl @Irishmom2 @Tis_Bearself

Are you even sure that Herald Weekly is a British newspaper? I live in the UK and I had never heard of it before. Looking at some of the legal text on the website it mentions being under the legal jurisdiction in Manhattan. It also mentions DMCA, which is an American law. Googling Samyo it gets even more complicated because it looks like it is based in Israel. Looking up Erika Salen (also spelled Sallen), the author, there is no suggestion that she is British. It’s not as if Erika Salen is an obviously British sounding name. Most of her articles are on American topics. She also uses American spellings.
 
LOL, although it’s been 40 years since I’ve been in London I have fond memories. . .but as you see from your instinctive wince and response, and if you’d read the article through, you’d have seen that it was even worse snark directed at the US. Since you felt defensive about a perception of joking about British food, perhaps you understand now how people in the US felt about very specific (I never used the term ‘gross’ myself) disparaging of US food.
 
The Title of the thread seemed to indicate the article was from the UK. It seems to be online and possibly is one of those hodgepodge places set up in somebody’s mother’s basement (which would explain the humour or lack thereof) so apologies to Londoner for assuming from the title that this was from the UK when it probably was not.

Besides, London and the UK have some seriously great food.
Afternoon tea? To die for. High tea (which is not afternoon tea but rather a workingman’s dinner – so much nicer a concept than ‘supper’). British candies, especially liquorice allsorts? MY favorites! The incredible history behind just about everything we love today, from the Earl of Sandwich to cakes and above all to coffee and tea? Marvelous!
 
Edit: I see from above that it has already been established that Erika Salen is not British.

Again, do you have any evidence that Erika Salen, who wrote the article is British?

She even says: “For those coming from the mainland (i.e. most of us in the country) they call it mystery meat.” This would suggest that she lives in mainland USA.

Says says: “Idaho, we know that you have no claim to fame other than potatoes. We are truly grateful that you supply us with so many potatoes …” Again, in the UK we do not import potatoes from Idaho!

Again: “I mean we’re talking about a state that gave us Mike Pence.” Mike Pence is not the vice-president of the UK! “… gave us Mike Pence”, i.e. gave the people of the United States Mike Pence.

“The ham has a particularly spicy flavor thanks to the added seasoning.” No British writer would write “flavor”. It’s “flavour” over here. She also writes “savory”.

“4. Throw it to the trash (I wouldn’t even give it to the dogs).” Again British people don’t say “trash”.

“It’s kind of like when you come home from college …” British people don’t talk about “college”. We would say “come home from university”.

I could go on. I think it is perfectly clear that the writer here is not British. She is clearly American. I don’t know where the idea came from that she is British or that it is a British website.

Maybe it is all an attack on American culture. It all seems quite harmless to me. But if it is an attack on American culture then it’s an attack from within.
 
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Are you even sure that Herald Weekly is a British newspaper?
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Now that you mention it, no. Good call.

@strita, since it’s doubtful that it’s from the UK, I’ve taken the liberty of changing the title (to the exact title of the article). Now we can discuss the food and not the people of the UK.
 
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Who puts rolls and fried cherry pie on a gross food list? This person needs to be slapped and sent home. We take our pie seriously here.
 
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