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Trillionare Life
Explore America's Best Foods
Here’s our roundup of popular American foods that you will find across the country.
1. Breakfast Sausage
Love waking up to the smell of sausages in the morning? Hands down, it's the best way to kickstart the day. Calling all pork lovers, this American staple goes well with apples, onion, mustard, cabbage and tomatoes. It originated as a way for farmers to make use of as much of their livestock as possible, with dried sage as the key ingredient along with an assortment of spices. Low effort yet luxurious, it’s perfect for a hearty breakfast or a Sunday brunch.
Watch out for: Fruity Sausages, Scrapple, Sausage with Crumbled Eggs or Gravy(Barbecued Sausages).
2. Chocolate Chip Cookies
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A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. So let’s take a moment to thank Ruth Wakefield of Massachusetts, who came up with the brilliant idea of adding chocolate to her butter cookies sometime in the 1930s. If you’re crazy about cookies just like us, bake a batch of chewy and crunchy cookies to get your dose of chocolate, and take this comfort treat to a whole new level.
3. S’mores
Gooey, melty, warm and sweet -- nothing evokes family vacations and carefree camping under the stars quite like this classic American food. S’mores are basically roasted marshmallows and a layer of chocolate sandwiched between 2 pieces of graham cracker. It’s the simplest of the desserts, messy and mouth-watering. S’more please! (We bet you can’t get enough.) So get those marshmallow sticks sharpened and celebrate America’s birthday.
4. Chicken and Waffles
Many years ago, some unknown genius decided to combine all the greatest parts of a fried chicken dinner with all the greatest parts of a waffle stack to create this ultimate sweet-savory breakfast staple. Their brainchild continues to delight stomachs all over the world. Originated in America, fried chicken is the crispiest, most delicious thing you'll ever put on top of waffles. A sinful delight you surely can’t miss!
5. Tacos
Los Angeles is a city with a taqueria on every street corner, basically. With so many Spanish-speakers it's possible to find anything from greasy nachos on Venice Beach to exquisite Michoacan-style goat stews. For a good sampler, forget the chain stuff and try El Huarache Azteca, a tiny, no-fuss eatery in the neighbourhood of Highland Park, where menus run the full gamut from fajitas to mole verde and "flautas" – fried crisp taquitos stuffed with chicken. (Guacamole is a no-brainer.) Keep in mind that Mexican food and Tex-Mex are two very different things.
6. Po' boy
The muffaletta might be the signature sandwich of Crescent City, but the po' boy is the "shotgun house of New Orleans cuisine."
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The traditional Louisiana sub is said to have originated in 1929, when Bennie and Clovis Martin -- both of whom had been streetcar conductors and union members before opening the coffee shop that legend says became the birthplace of the po' boy -- supported striking streetcar motormen and conductors with food.
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"We fed those men free of charge until the strike ended," Bennie was quoted. "Whenever we saw one of the striking men coming, one of us would say, 'Here comes another poor boy.'"
Enjoy the beloved everyman sandwich in its seemingly infinite variety (the traditional fried oyster and shrimp can't be beat) and fight the encroachment of chain sub shops at the annual Oak Street Po-Boy Festival each Fall.
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Po boy sandwiches are typically either seafood or roast beef, and the best ones use remoulade, a Cajun version of the classic French mayo-mustard sauce.
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But the bread is the real star in a po boy. Do your utmost to find really good bread, with a crackling crust and soft interior. Ideally you would use a French sandwich loaf, like a baguette, but wider and about a foot long. Without good bread, a po boy is pretty po'.
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