"Do You Actually Eat Pumpkin Pie?": People Are Sharing Which "Disgusting" American Foods They Actually Love

Food that's mean to you mightiness not beryllium rather truthful mean to idiosyncratic else. For myself, I grew up eating jam and food sandwiches, grilled wrong a cast-iron sandwich property implicit an unfastened campfire. As a kid, you could not archer maine that was not the tallness of culinary delicacies. For different people, it was a spot of a harder sell.

1. "When I lived successful Ireland, the archetypal question radical would inquire me, upon proceeding I was American, was, 'Do you really devour pumpkin pie?' They thought it sounded awful, but it's my favourite dessert, by far."

2. "I retrieve going to a market store connected the Big Island successful Hawaii and being blown distant by however galore varieties of Spam determination were. I mean, determination was an full aisle of Spam products."

—u/uhmerikin

3. "Squirrel. Lots of radical deliberation it's strange, but I've had it respective times, and I emotion it. Lightly breaded, pan-fried, and smothered successful mushroom gravy is the mode to spell with squirrel meat."

—u/101bees

"Squirrel is large due to the fact that you don’t truly person to play it. The spirit is people beardown successful a decent way. Just fry it successful immoderate lipid and enactment it successful immoderate you please. I ever made spaghetti condiment with it."

—u/Hatweed

"I soak squirrel successful buttermilk earlier cooking it, and it's ever good. I'm not wholly definite wherefore I'm expected to bash that, but connected my large grandma's look cards, that's what it says to do."

—u/Thel_Odan

4. "Meatloaf would beryllium my entry. It gets a batch of flak, but done well, it’s amazing."

5. "Boiled peanuts are perfectly delicious erstwhile made right."

6. "People successful the UK find it unusual and deliberation it's astir apt disgusting, adjacent though it's phenomenal. The classical PB&J. A peanut food and jelly sandwich, typically made with jam oregon preserves alternatively than jelly, is simply a 10/10."

7. "Rocky Mountain oysters (bull testicles). My ma had a heavy fryer she’d propulsion retired whenever we were castrating calves. She’d lavation them, rotation them successful egg, propulsion them successful a flour substance with seasoning, and past flip them consecutive into the heavy fryer. So good."

—u/Altril2010

8. "In PA, we person what we telephone scrapple, which is pork trimmings mixed with a binder similar flour oregon cornmeal and immoderate spices, past formed into a loaf. Good for frying up and eating with immoderate eggs and toast."

9. "Biscuits and gravy. It is unthinkable successful Europe, due to the fact that you guys deliberation cookies are biscuits, and you don't usually marque sausage gravy. I deliberation it's delicious."

10. "I grew up connected banana and mayonnaise sandwiches. I haven't had 1 successful years, but that mightiness conscionable beryllium luncheon tomorrow."

—u/agentfantabulous

"In Central Kentucky, we person banana croquettes. Chunks of banana rolled successful mayo, past successful crushed oregon chopped peanuts. Everyone thinks they dependable horrible, but I’ve ne'er met anyone who has tried them and doesn’t find them delicious."

—u/jmontavon

11. "It's not truly that fashionable anymore, but I inactive similar tuna noodle casserole. Also, greenish legume casserole."

12. "Alligator process isn't hard to find astatine restaurants present successful Florida, particularly astatine seafood places that cater to tourists. It's often served fried with immoderate benignant of dipping sauce. While it's not thing I'd person each day, it's not bad. It's flaky similar food but tastes a batch similar chicken."

13. "Turtle crockery is delicious, depending connected what meats you’ve been exposed to."

—u/OpeningChipmunk1700

"Why ruin perfectly bully turtle nutrient by putting it into soup? Roast that up with brackish and pepper, and you’ve got Sunday dinner!"

—u/joshbudde

14. "Garbage sheet successful Rochester, NY. Maceroni salad, location fries, 2 cheeseburger patties, nutrient sauce, ketchup, mustard, onions — delish."

15. "Chicken and waffles is weird successful the consciousness that you'd ne'er deliberation to harvester those foods, but chickenhearted and waffles are damn bully erstwhile they're done right, particularly with maple syrup."

16. "So portion tostilocos were technically created conscionable crossed the borderline successful Tijuana, Mexico, it's a staple successful Chicano culture, particularly successful Southern California. It's mostly considered beauteous gross-sounding to astir radical erstwhile they archetypal perceive astir it. The database of the classic/typical ingredients is: a container of chips, pickled pork rinds, jicama, cucumber, fried peanuts, candy made from tamarind covered successful chili powder, and blistery sauce."

17. "Fried pickles. Whenever they're connected the paper erstwhile I spell retired to devour with my family, I bid them."

18. "Where I'm from, we person Sh*t connected a Shingle (creamed chipped beef connected toast) and Shoo-fly pastry (molasses pie)."

19. "Pickled kelp is truly fashionable successful Southeast Alaska."

20. "Peaches and cottage food arsenic a snack. F—ing delicious, but it’s mostly a Southern thing."

21. "Chitlins: fried pigs' intestines. Gizzards: fried chickenhearted stomachs. Pickled pigs' feet: self-explanatory."

—u/infotechderp

22. "In Minnesota, we person lutefisk. It's jellified food soaked successful lye. You devour it by dipping it successful copious amounts of melted butter."

23. "A fluffernutter sandwich. The sandwich is simple: 2 slices of bread, marshmallow fluff connected 1 broadside and peanut food connected the other."

24. "Chicken-fried steak ever sounded similar a bosom onslaught connected a sheet to me, but it is delicious."

25. "Livermush is fashionable wherever I live. I truly similar liver, but I don’t similar livermush. My hubby doesn’t similar liver, but helium loves livermush. 🤷🏻‍♀️"

—u/mst3k_42

26. "We person what we telephone 'tiger meat,' which is minced beef eaten raw. It's fashionable successful the precocious Midwest states."

27. "When I was learning German, my teacher said that putting ice cream successful basal brew and past drinking it is the astir repulsive happening she’s ever heard of, and that you conscionable don’t bash it."

28. And finally, "Calf oregon pig brains mixed successful scrambled eggs."

—u/lisasimpsonfan

Are determination immoderate American dishes you deliberation are delicious, but different radical (especially successful different countries) deliberation are disgusting? Let maine cognize which dishes you emotion and wherefore successful the comments, oregon usage the anonymous signifier below. Your effect mightiness beryllium featured successful an upcoming BuzzFeed article!

Note: Responses person been edited for length/clarity.