Two Brits Try Real Midwestern Comfort Food for the First Time
G’day guys 🎥 In this video, I react to Two Brits diving headfirst into real Midwestern comfort food — and their reactions are priceless! From casseroles and cornbread to biscuits and gravy, it’s a full-on flavor journey through the heart of America.
As an Aussie who’s fallen in love with American culture (and especially the food!), I couldn’t resist watching this one. The Midwest doesn’t always get the spotlight it deserves, but after seeing this… I reckon it should!
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Meatloaf with sauce is the best u can just ur ketchup it u want
As someone who’s lived in the Midwest for 25 years I only like the vegetable tray, scotcheroos, and puppy chow. Everything else is weird asf
In New England, I learned to make meatloaf in a loaf pan and cover the top with strips of bacon.
The raw onions are a wonderful contrast to the chili. Texture and the bright taste.
There definitely are some ranches that are gross, the best big brand ranch is Hidden Valley. Try adding a little pesto.
That guy literally offering the flannel shirt off his back was so midwestern lol
I'm originally from St. Louis and a big NO to the ranch on meatloaf! That's probably tomato sauce on top.
When my grandmother made meatloaf, she would brush catsup over the top halfway through the cooking. You could also make a sauce of catsup and W sauce for a little extra spiciness.
Hidden Valley Ranch, regular or buttermilk, do not bother with Light or knockoff types. Ramen got here in 1971. My Chili Mac has actual chili. Meatloaf is typically glazed with tomato sauce or ketchup. Something missing was lasagna, it is eaten everywhere ,including The Midwest, but typically is Neapolitan Style, cheese filling, not Béchamel.
Meatloaf sandwiches on a hard or Kaiser roll with ketchup is my ultimate comfort sandwich
The MIdwest gets C-O-L-D cold. A lot of our food is 'stick-to-your-ribs' filling. Loaded with fat and protein to help you survive the winter. In the summer it moves to eating out of the garden and grilling but as soon as fall kicks in we are back to thick stews and casseroles.
Ramen noodles hit the Midwest in the late eighties or early nineties, courtesy of two main brands, Top Ramen and Maruchan. And once they were available in stores, it didn't take very long for the locals to start working them into recipes. I've had half a dozen different kinds of ramen-noodle salad, the most common being the kind with the broccoli slaw, small bits of purple cabbage, and vinegar-and-sugar dressing. Sometimes it has sunflower seeds as well. Ramen also show up in pasta salads sometimes, but in that case they're usually cooked; in the slaw-type salads, the noodles are crunchy (if the salad is recently made; if it's left over from the day before, they go soft).
The sauce on meatloaf is mostly ketchup and brown sugar, possibly with little a bit of something mixed in for extra flavor (lemon juice, worcestershire sauce, honey, butter, garlic, cayenne pepper sauce, whatever; the trace ingredients vary from family to family).
Desserts are definitely the best and most important part of Midwestern cuisine. Every family recipe collection I've ever seen here, is more than half dessert recipes. A travel writer once famously wrote that to eat well in England, the thing to do is have breakfast three meals a day; but I say, that in the Midwest, the thing to do is have dessert at every meal.
I never liked meatloaf until I started cooking them in my smoker. Theirs looked better than what I grew up with, but I guarantee it would only get better smoked. Muddy buddies are great and that ramen salad is surprisingly good. It’s one of the few salads I truly enjoy.
Northern food is not good, Josh and Ollie were being very nice.
This is might be some midwest food but, as a life-long midwesterner, most of this I've never heard of.
We'd call it a veggie platter. I also love Ginger Ale. Vernor's is awful. I tried it and couldn't even finish it. I threw it out. Disgusting.
I know meatloaf, but I don't like it. Puppy chow I'm familiar with, but not really a fan. Every single other item, I've never seen or heard of.
We often put chopped onion on chili and chili dogs
You tried the right one. Ranch sucks.
"how long have they had ramen noodles for?" The better part of a century.
If you can find buttermilk, sour cream and some fresh herbs you can make your own ranch dressing. In the states we have the shelf stable variety that's full of preservatives, and then ranch that's sold in the vegetable cooler in the produce section because it contains actual dairy. The refrigerated ones always taste better. Home made is even better than those.
Ranch is meant to be made fresh, the bottled kind is not quite the same thing. In America you can buy dry ranch packets to mix with fresh mayonnaise and buttermilk. You can also fine tune the recipe to your own taste if you like. If you don't like bottled ranch, you may not like it fresh, but you will notice the difference.
Hated meatloaf as a kid… tried making a Cracker Barrel meatloaf recipe I found on Pinterest and it is sooo good.