Weird Foods Americans Ate That'll RUIN Your Appetite

Hamburgers, Mac ‘n’ cheese, and Pot Roast. For good or worse, America has created its cuisine which is both appetizing and affordable for most people. However, the same cuisine had its Precambrian expanse when the cooks did too many experiments with the food and most of them were quite long, wide swings.

Today at Nutty History let's go back to the 18th century to find out what crazy, nutty dishes formed up the American food. We're going to be looking at Disgusting and weird foods that Americans ate in history!

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Chapter Timestamps
0.00 Intro to mid-roll ads
0:28 Ham, Bacon, or Scraps?
1:35 Rodents!
3:00 A Shocking Flavor of Pie
3:28 What was wrong with Apples?
4:06 Ketchup? Catch up? Or Katchup?
4:49 A Soup to Ruin Childhood
5:36 Russian Doll Bird
6:23 The Frankenstein Dish!
7:36 Desserts were a Mouthful!

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[NuttyProductionsOfficial]

Top 3 weirdest foods you’ve eaten… go! 🤮

[erikamoore]

The first "weird" food you mention is pork scraps, yet Europeans have been eating them for hundreds of years. We call it "sausage".

[anthony_mundane]

I think the only weird thing is how restricted modern diets are…

[efcsscfe]

Uh, in Louisiana, most of this is called Lunch

[valmarsiglia]

Turtle soup is still a staple of Creole and Cajun cuisine in Louisiana. I swear, this must've been written by someone who was raised in a mall food court.

[TemplarTrejore]

Im not going to lie, squirrel pie with duck sauce sounds pretty damn good.

[valeriechelate]

The rich wouldn’t eat a lobster, but whale vomit was ok? 🤦‍♀️

[robgrabowski]

None of these things are particularly unusual or disgusting, and pretty much all of these are still eaten around the world... except the ambergris, let hope that stays off the menu for good!

[AngryRobot]

"not considered edible like organs, tails, feet, they will gobble it all"
meanwhile asians be like, whats the big deal?

[barbaramars]

3:15 Not all eels are electric. And the electric "eel" is actually a knifefish, more related to freshwater catfish and carp than true eels, which are saltwater fish. Anyway, the practice of eating eel came from England, where it is considered a delicacy to this day.
4:06 Evidence supports that todays catsup/ketchup traces its roots all the way to the ancient Roman sauce Garum.

[okimahitt]

My Appalachian mother breaking out her recipes for everything you mentioned.

[censusgary]

Some of these things are very good … eels, for example, are delicious. The main reason Americans don’t eat eels much anymore is that our rivers are no longer full of them. For several reasons, eels have disappeared from many waterways.

[Kingcj]

"Tonight I dine on turtle soup." ~ Shredder

[lolbored]

I remember when I was a kid we had some guy who claimed to be a mountain man that came to our school to talk about the history and lifestyle of a mountain man. He told everyone that a beaver tail was better than a hershey candy bar. I still don't believe that. lol

[zeusathena]

My father was born, & raised in Louisiana. He also loved to hunt, & fish. He brought home nearly every critter to eat at some point. He had to do that for his mother as a kid. She had 8 kids, & he was the eldest boy, & the 2nd oldest kid. So he felt a lot of responsibility, especially because his mom did an unbelievable amount of work taking care of them.

[javierruiz]

I've tried eel in London as well as turtle meat in the Caribbean. They both good! We just aren't used to eating those animals. I've also tried alligator in Florida and it was amazing.

[daniwells]

I love how it talks about how eel may repulse you and it's literally one of my favorite foods

[clemdane]

"The traditional eel [pie] is from , when the Thames was full of eels, and they were cheap, " says Ruth Phillips, owner of Cockney's Pie and Mash Shop, one of the few remaining eel pie shops in London.

[tibeTibs]

I eat eel sushi once and it was surprisingly nice with a hint of sweetness

[brianlanning]

Eel is awesome. You can order it at a sushi place. But there's also a dish with the same eel served in a bowl over rice. Both have teriyaki sauce on them. Eel can be either "anago" or "unagi". One is salt water eel. The other is fresh water eel. They look and taste identical. So if you get stuck at a Japanese restaurant, hate raw fish, and don't know what to order, eel is a good choice. It's served cooked, even as sushi. It's basically teriyaki fish.

Turtle soup is supposed to be amazing, which is part of why sea turtles were nearly hunted to extinction.