What Classic American Comfort Food Do You Wish Was Easier to Find Here?

We went to a diner, biscuits and gravy were labelled as that but were scones and soup. Quite disappointing, as I’d often wondered what they were.

CrazyH
The steak is cooked leftover barbecued steak from the night before and sliced thinly like bacon then fried with a fried egg
I went on a horseback trek in the rockies.
Myself and a friend we had a wrangler who looked after our horses and the pack horses and erecting the tents etc.
We also had a cook and the first morning he asked if we wanted the leftover steak or did we want the wrangler to have it, being 2 women we just thought no thanks we don’t want steak for breakfast.
Anyway when it was cooked it was lovely like beef bacon!
We envisaged 2 steaks on a plate!

So it's what we might call white sauce, but made with bacon fat instead of butter.

My American friend tells me that the gravy that they always had with biscuits was made with the fat from cooked bacon, thickened with flour and then they added milk. Never tried it, but I might have a go now, just to see what it tastes like!

My mother used to make that, Jaycee, light and delicious!

Now I fancy those American pancakes 😀

On my arrival in America my grandson ran up to me, gave me a big hug and asked if I could make golden syrup suet pudding for him. When he was last visiting me in England he loved it. My daughter couldn't find the main ingredients in the local supermarkets and to buy online was extortionate. Each country has its special dishes.

I’m not a fan of American food. I remember ordering a grilled cheese sandwich which came dusted with icing sugar. Also brown gravy with everything including salmon.

About sixty years ago I was in Montreal and New York living with American people and the food was amazing to me. But I only really knew Scottish food which was very traditional at the time. The steaks. The corn on the cob. The quality of what they could grow in Canada was amazing. I ate a lot of things for the first time. Not southern American cooking. But Jewish, Chinese, French, I realized how much wealth and diversity there was in America. Of course I didn't come from a rich family in Scotland.

My one experience of USA was 5 days in NY celebrating a special birthday, and nothing I ate was particularly memorable. It all seemed steeped in far too much sugar, even the savoury things. I was desperate for fruit and fresh veg when we got back.

BlessedArt

Smileless2012

I miss American pancakes with maple syrup and their milk shakes.

Ditto.

I also miss American barbecue. It’s unmatched.

We're vegan for several years, but I miss pulled pork barbecue.

We do cook it and the delicious Memphis sauce for our family.

BlessedArt

Smileless2012

I miss American pancakes with maple syrup and their milk shakes.

Ditto.

I also miss American barbecue. It’s unmatched.

What would constitute an American barbecue?

How does it differ from a British barbecue, or an Australian one?

welbeck

Maybe our bland British food lacks that unique residue of cattle growth hormone ?

Indeed. You tell em wellbeck.

I find it hard to get Monterey Jack cheese here, also clam chowder. I had it in Monterey California and in New Zealand, amazing!!! oooh and proper sourdough bread.

Biscuits in the US are called cookies.

A US biscuit is a type of bread.

We now have a Wendy's and I do love their US food, but the portions are HUGE! I can eat for England, but their breakfast baconator was enough for 3

Mollynew Don't know about Lidl having English ingredients, I do know ingredients from all over the UK indeed the world are available in Lidl stores near me. If OP is directed to only English ingredients, she may
struggle.

Having lived in the US I don't miss any of their food at all, when I did live there I missed quite a few UK foods.

JamesandJon33

We don ‘t eat biscuits and gravy. Biscuits are sweet and go with a cup of tea. Perhaps that is why you are having difficulty .

Their biscuits are not like ours, they call ours cookies and biscuits are more like a dry savoury UK scone.

As for gravy they make what goes with this with milk!

Smileless2012

I miss American pancakes with maple syrup and their milk shakes.

Ditto.

I also miss American barbecue. It’s unmatched.

Cabbie21

I have a bottle of maple syrup if anyone wants one?
It’s about six years old, unopened, came in a Christmas hamper.

Maple syrup is lovely with pancakes!

I’ve never tried American ‘biscuits’. The only thing I can think of is clam chowder, but a couple of those on our last visit weren’t the best I’ve ever had, Visits are mostly to Cape Cod, New England, where CC is very much a Thing.

Gfplux

Neve ever and none. America is now our enemy

Very true, sadly.

The problem is the terminology. What are biscuits in the UK are cookies in the US. The Betty Crocker online cookbooks will have recipes for baking powder biscuits. And the gravy is simply made with sausage and milk added to the roux.

Slow cooked pulled pork you make in a slow cooker/crockpot. Make your own sauce.

The first time we went to Florida in the late seventies and stayed with my aunt who had a holiday home there, we couldn’t believe that any bread we bought from supermarkets contained huge amounts of sugar, and eating out if you didn’t want anything deep fried you were unlucky. We were all desperate for some fresh vegetables and fruit when eating out. Maybe things have changed now, but we’ve certainly inherited the obesity now which at the time wasn’t often seen in the uk.

Neve ever and none. America is now our enemy