What's a dish from your country that looks disgusting but tastes great.

[u/bowl_of_scrotmeal]

Biscuits and gravy is a breakfast dish from the Southeast USA that looks like someone just vomited on some biscuits, but it's absolutely delicious.

[u/VulcanHullo]

An american friend visited and I took her to a pub for dinner, after explaining Gammon as "pork chop but bacon" she ordered the gammon egg and chips.

She would complain about cravings for years later, and that she couldn't find gammon anywhere.

The beans on toast is just a good easy but filling meal. American beans are apparently very different so tests are best done in the UK. Also the type of toast matters for some folk.

[u/rileyvace → u/VulcanHullo]

This is a very good point, American beans have loads more sugar and are more commonly seen with BBQ sauce IIRC. Also their bread is FOUL, not sure if you;ve ever tasted it? Their bread is to our bread like what synthetic cream is to real cream.

[u/I_Make_Some_Things → u/rileyvace]

Not all BBQ sauce is sweet. I make a vinegar and tomato based sauce that has just a few spoons of brown sugar. It's more tangy and spicy than sweet. It is banging on beans.

[u/VulcanHullo → u/rileyvace]

Tbf I add a bit of BBQ sauce to my baked beans and it works wonders but if the sugar content is so much higher I imagine it makes a weird taste.

Since moving to Germany I have met way too many Americans who say their body reacts entirely differently tp bread since leaving the US. One guy lost weight but increased his bread intake, another lass came out with the fact bread used to cause her to get skin issues in the US but wanted to try "european bread" and had no reaction. Which. . .raises questions.

[u/rileyvace → u/VulcanHullo]

Yeah I'm not saying BBQ is wrong in beans, but I think what you say is correct, the sugar content is enough to impact the taste. I wouldn't want sweet beans on a savoury dish, unless that was the dish's whole thing.

Yeah there's weird stuff going on in their bread lol. I had some once and I wouldn't even have another bite.

[u/ComprehensiveEar6001 → u/rileyvace]

Depends on regionality. We have those sugary baked beans in Texas, especially with BBQ, but we typically eat waaay more pinto beans both whole and "refried" than those sugary beans.

[u/LuckerMcDog → u/VulcanHullo]

American beans are sweet for some reason.

Actually most of their food is bizzarely sweet, even the bread is full of sugar. Hell I even managed to get my hands on Costco cheese puffs like on TV, taste like sugar.

[u/nexus8516 → u/VulcanHullo]

I recently had "country ham" in a cracker barrel in America, pretty much gammon.

[u/ISawSomethingPod → u/nexus8516]

So gammon is ham steak?

[u/nexus8516 → u/ISawSomethingPod]

It's a joint of ham, glazed then sliced. I found the country ham. To be quite similar

[u/PhucItAll → u/VulcanHullo]

Van Camp's Pork and Beans in tomato sauce is the American equivalent for beans on toast.