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[@henryqu19]

This channel has been helping me a lot , especially in english , either american or british , thank you ladies 🇺🇸🇬🇧

[@justpassingby3409]

Yeah, you definitely learn a lot from here 💯 I love this channel

[@Laurenade]

Lauren here 🇬🇧 I loved learning about these things/words that don’t exist in the U.K.! Obviously I’m fairly clued up on vocabulary but these ones were really interesting to guess and learn💚

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

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[@knoa9813]

We Japanese say "making ears like Dumbo" as to describing to listen quite intentionally. 🐘 (Dumbo is Disney's elephant character with huge ears)

[@bowviolin]

@@knoa9813 Dumbo is my FAVORITE disney character!

[@StalKalle]

Here in Sweden, Elephant Ear (Elefantöra) is a large really thin cut steak so that's what I thought it would be in the US too. There is also a plant called that.

[@karenahammond2613]

Hush puppies actually got their name because slaves would use the when escaping to quite any guard dogs in the area.

[@JohnSmith-ys4nl]

American from the south here. Grits aren't oatmeal, but are a porridge made from boiled cornmeal. Also, I have never heard the term "elephant ear." Where I am from, they are "funnel cakes" (super duper tasty, but bad for you). Finally, I will quote the Food Network on what Hush Puppies are (another southern food): "Hush puppies are golden fritters made from a thick cornmeal-based batter that are fried until crisp outside and tender-chewy inside. "

[@henryqu19]

Some of these words are more popular in some States from US , but just like Callie said some parts may be use these words and other States not , especially in Big and Small Cities there're differences

[@johnalden5821]

I'm from the East Coast -- I had never heard of muddy buddies/puppy chow before. The elephant ear would be better known to me as a "funnel cake" or maybe a beignet.

[@justinyoung9055]

@@johnalden5821 An elephant ear is closer to sweet fry bread dusted with cinnamon sugar. It's not thinly piped into oil like a funnel cake.

[@selene6.238]

John Alden thats weird bc my grandma from mass literally always makes "puppy chow" when i visit

[@cahinton.]

​@@johnalden5821 You don't have Chex cereal on the East Coast? The recipe is printed on the back of the box and has been for decades.

[@anndeecosita3586]

@@cahinton. I just call all that Chex mix. When I hear puppy chow I think the brand of dog food.

[@henryqu19]

I am used to watch videos with Lauren and Christina , but lately i've been watching Lauren and Callie and the videos are really good , i already like Callie and she is a good addition

[@Arnrayz]

Where are you from, what your native language?

[@culossegwen3710]

@@Arnrayz Henri with an "i", I'm guessing France ;-)

[@Maggiebird72]

Hush puppies are traditionally balls made from the leftover cornmeal batter when frying fish (mostly catfish in the south).. The name originates from tossing the dogs bits of fried batter to hush them during fish fries (thereby hushing the puppies)..

[@80sGamerLady]

Yay! Now I dont have to write this myself 😂

[@jessicadelrosario2185]

I've always wondered about that. thanks for the answer

[@_Y.Not_]

interesting

[@sbrykeddie]

I thoght hush puppies was a shoe brand from uk

[@davidbraun6209]

"Elephant ear" can also refer to a large-leafed plant that likes wet soil and has large leaves, somewhat soft (not tough like magnolias).

[@rguz333]

I'm an American from California and I've never heard of some of the food items like elephant ear, mud buddies/ puppy chow. I've heard of hush puppies but I had no idea that it was also a kind of food, goes to show how big the United States truely is and how english in the U.S. can vary a bit from place to place.

[@breezyischeezy8634]

You've never heard of elephant ears?? I'm from Washington state and there's always elephant ears at fairs

[@rguz333]

@@breezyischeezy8634 to be honest, no. I thought elephant ears were the same as funnel cakes, but they're not, so that's that

[@jaminwaite3867]

From Kentucky, never heard of elephant ears either

[@trishaagz]

@@breezyischeezy8634 yep the elephant ears and funnel cakes from the WA state fairs were essential to my childhood lol

[@seanphayre380]

I've never heard of elephant ear! In New England we say "doughboy"

[@jjoyce46]

I am from Pennsylvania and lots of people eat grits from up North also. It’s made from hominy- like mashed cornmeal. A lot of African-Americans eat it. Northern people eat it with butter, salt and pepper ( and sometimes with cheese or hot sauce mixed in). I heard Southern people eat it with sugar or jam mixed in it. I’ve eaten it since I was a child. Usually you eat it with bacon, sausage or fish in the mornings for breakfast.

[@MaryKJones12]

As a southerner sometimes these really hurt my feelings 😅 savory grits are the only way to go do not trust someone who puts sugar in their grits

[@anndeecosita3586]

Amen

[@jaminwaite3867]

Lies and slander. Sugar butter and milk only

[@kenthefley2226]

Oklahoma Cheese grits are the way to go.

[@r3d5ive87]

Southerner here sugar and butter

[@eauhomme]

As a Pacific Northwesterner who was raised in the South, I never cared what anybody put in their grits, so long as they were never put in my mouth. Sorry, but they are definitely an acquired taste, and I have yet to taste any variety of them that I find remotely palatable.

[@glstka5710]

I'm from Calif. USA. Low Riders as I understood them was indeed the car in the picture. What I heard is that they were actually to low to be legal, against safety regulations so they put in powerful hydraulics so that if the police came around they could quickly raise them up to legal height, and it could be done so fast that the car cold actually jump. By extension, since most of the people who owned them were Mexican-Americans the term was applied to the ethnic group also.

[@jessicadelrosario2185]

I never realized that is how hydraulics came into play. that totally makes sense. But yes, i didnt think the description in this video was very good, because old cars were not usually low riders, they only became low riders after they were dropped, which i dont think was really a thing until the 70s or 80s i believe.

[@AmaliaRizki]

In Indonesia, there is a snack called "Kuping Gajah" (kuping is ear in Javanese - one of Indonesian local language -; and gajah is an elephant). It's not a huge one actually, just a tiny sweet chip with a white and coco layer but, the shape is like the elephant's ear.

[@moonlitegram]

I'm from the States and I gotta say some of these stumped even me. I've eaten something similar to an elephant ear before at fairs, but I had never heard that term before. Those are usually just called funnel cakes at the fairs by me. And the muddy buddy/puppy chow was completely foreign to me. I never heard of it and never had it either. I guess maybe those things are more popular in the mid west? I'm from the north east part of the US.

[@weirdogirl1275]

Actually funnel cakes were shaped a bit differently. Elephant ears are a flat piece of dough that is fried and covered in sugar or whatever. Funnel cakes are actually streams of batter streamed into the fryer in random patterns that they fry into, then covered in sugar and the like. Elephant ears are a bit more bowl-like and funnel cakes look a bit more like nests. I like how fun it is to pull funnel cakes apart with your fingers!

[@moonlitegram]

@@weirdogirl1275 I've had both of what you're describing and they were both just called funnel cakes by me

[@weirdogirl1275]

@@moonlitegram Interesting

[@KT-1429]

As a fellow Midwesterner, let me clarify some elephant ear confusion. At least in Indiana we have both elephant ears AND funnel cakes! They’re pretty much the same thing, the difference is the shape! It’s also common to use cinnamon sugar on elephant ears which I’m not sure is as common with funnel cakes. Both use powdered sugar though!

[@jessicadelrosario2185]

In Alaska, we also have both elephant ears and funnel cakes. I love funnel cakes!!! i think its the shape that makes it more fun

[@nekrataali]

We also eat elephant ears with ice cream where I'm from. You basically go into a coma from all the sugar and fat.

[@todd8237]

Fellow Hoosier. The shape of a funnel cake makes it fluffier and usually I see powdered sugar. Now let's see if anyone knows what a Hoosier is. ;)

[@erikawilliams9558]

@@todd8237 I'm a buckeye so we're neighbors lol

[@stardog62]

The way we describe a hush puppy is a deep-fried corn fritter. As for grits, it's corn meal mush, a lot like Italian polenta.

[@thegingergyrl455]

Grits is ground hominy, a variant of corn. It is fantastic. I prefer it savory with butter and bacon bits and cheddar cheese. I’m from the south and this is a staple.

[@jaminwaite3867]

Sugar butter & milk for me

[@troyboi7662]

Super good with breakfast. My favorite is bacon eggs and grits (sometimes cheese if it’s there, I don’t rly look for it lol) and then buttered toast to wipe the play clean.

[@jwb52z9]

There are hominy grits and regular grits, FYI.

[@jennyhill7190]

I’m in Oklahoma in the US and hush puppies are a staple with fried fish. Also I never knew there was a food called elephant ears. However, I know of a plant called elephant ears since my parents have grown them.

[@jerry2357]

In Britain, Hush Puppies are a brand of shoe (they tend to be at the comfortable end of the market, or at least they used to be).

[@danielleporter1829]

They are also a shoe brand in. The US

[@johnleake5657]

I think the shoes are an American company. My guess is the name came from the food. In the UK we just have the shoes - famously our old Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1990's, Ken Clarke, used to wear them. Comfy, not smart!

[@trenetyherrera9979]

Hush puppies come from when fisherman wanted to stop their dogs from barking and scaring the fish away. They brought water and cornmeal to the boat to make dog treats and called them "hush puppies" Now we eat them with seafood

[@TheSeaTack]

Hush Puppies are called that because when you were preparing the catfish in the cornmeal batter the dogs would smell this and be under you foot in the kitchen begging and whining for some of it. To hush them up so you could get back to cooking the person would drop a few spoonfuls of batter into the hot grease/oil for a minute to create these tasty fried items to give give to the dogos.

[@blakmastadon]

I do agree with the hush puppies comment. I'm originally from North Carolina. Hush puppies is basically fried cornbread. (As opposed to baking it.)

[@utha2665]

I always relate Hush Puppies with the shoe brand, coincidently founded in Callie's home state in 1958, but are in over 150 countries world wide.

[@becks3688]

I'm from the midwest and elephant ear is a plant with these huge leaves too. But yeah for carnival food, I think same or similar batter as funnel cake just one big piece instead of piped into the oil like a funnel cake. And yes! Puppy chow was a staple for kids parties when you had to bring something with! I think hush puppies has a corn meal or some sort of corn product bc I couldn't eat them.

[@todd8237]

Your Midwestern came out when you said "bring with" 😄

[@anashiedler6926]

in Austria when you say "Hush Puppies", my generation (~40) thinks about shoes. Because this was the name of a shoe factory, that had something in their slogan like soft as a puppies ear. (Which is kinda strange, since the name is in english, and we speak german here, and 30 years ago english was not that widespread as it is now)

[@kaybrann]

Yes, Hush Puppies are an old English brand of shoes. I haven't seen them for years!

[@jessicadelrosario2185]

we had those in the US too when i was a kid. totally forgot about that

[@jessicadelrosario2185]

We often make puppy chow for the holidays. Love it! We call it either puppy chow or muddy buddies, but i think puppy chow is more common

[@alexzainderasaga1609]

Now i love these two 😄 lauren also coming back! 🎉

[@Hwan.421]

Is called puppy chow here in Minnesota too! I love that stuff 😃

[@vuuugle]

Lauren is right the word dungaree comes from Hindi word dangri(दंगरी) means a thick piece of cloth used to cover chest supported by two stripes of cloth.

[@emily_gross1990]

Dungarees is a brand. In America it is a brand of denim jeans. Same as how Hoover is a brand and vacuum is the actual cleaning item.

[@silky0439]

Grits is a rougher, more granular hot cereal similar to cereal of wheat, only grits are made from corn instead of wheat.

[@leonardodamiansosa6580]

Here in Mexico we name the elephant ear as buñuelos but they are thinner and crunchier and hush puppies is a shoe brand of school shoes for kids and teens

[@katherinegarlock2249]

Hushpuppies were sailor food. While eating, they would give small bits to the rowdy dogs and say, "Hush, puppy."

[@gregoriancatmonk6904]

Southerners have been eating tasty balls of fried cornmeal batter for quite some time, though they didn't call them hushpuppies at first. At least two decades before "hushpuppy" appeared in print, South Carolinians were enjoying what they called "red horse bread." It wasn't red in color, and it had nothing to do with horses. Red horse was one of the common species of fish (along with bream, catfish, and trout) that were caught in South Carolina rivers and served at fish frys along the banks. Red horse bread was part of the repertoire of Romeo Govan, whom the Augusta Chronicle described in 1903 as "a famous cook of the old regime." Govan lived on the banks of the Edisto River near Cannon's Bridge, about five miles from the town of Bamberg. There he operated his "club house," a frame structure with a neatly swept yard where guests came almost every day during fishing season to feast on "fish of every kind, prepared in every way...and the once eaten, never-to-be-forgotten 'red horse bread.'" That red horse bread, one newspaper captured, was made by "simply mixing cornmeal with water, salt, and egg, and dropped by spoonfuls in the hot lard in which fish have been fried." Govans may well have originated the name "red horse bread," since its earliest appearances in print are almost always in descriptions of a fish fry that he cooked.

[@robteech5973]

Hush Puppy's came about from fish frys. The dogs would be looking for scrapes. The cook would throw a peace of mix into the fish fryer then give it to the dogs to make them be quite.

[@gregmuon]

Grits is cornmeal porridge usually made with nixtamalized corn AKA hominy.

[@gioking99]

I missed Lauren ❤️ bring her back . She was the brightest part of videos

[@MightyFineMan]

This hush puppies definition as a food is new to me. I’ve only ever heard of it as a particular Smith and Wesson pistol with a suppressor.

[@paololupo4327]

Elephant ears are very very very similar to Galician "orellas" or "chaolas", a tipycal dessert in Galicia (Spain) at Carnival time .

[@thebatmanwhoposts9600]

I'm American, from NJ and I've never heard of elephant ear.

[@raynemichelle2996]

In Canada, what Americans call elephant ears, we call beaver tails

[@Moetastic]

Yeah I was about to say. Ive had deep fried dough like that in Ottawa. Theres a shop called Beaver tails that sells them.

[@johncagnettajr344]

In the northeast it’s just called fried doe. In NYC is known as zeppoli which is an Italian word. Also grits is slow cooked white corn meal (or white hominy grits). In Italian American homes it’s polenta (yellow corn meal)

[@anndeecosita3586]

Grits can be be yellow

[@johncagnettajr344]

@@anndeecosita3586 not typical

[@weirdogirl1275]

Oh hey! A fellow michigander! Oh I miss puppy chow! I used to have this all the time as a kid in the latchkey room after school as a snack that they handed out to the kids. It was a treat! Everyone loved it except the staff. They had to clean up afterwards, and that powdered sugar can get messy!

[@calliejo2829]

Hi all! I’m reading through the comments and it’s so interesting how even within the US so many different terms are used for different things! If you haven’t tried muddy buddies/puppy chow- highly recommend it! It’s a Midwest delicacy 😉

[@fanofallaroundaudreyandjus544]

It’s weird that I’m living in Minnesota and I’ve NEVER heard of muddy buddies/puppy chow even though Minnesota is part of the Midwest. It’s not something that is sold in my county at all. But it’s weird because my county is in the bottom left corner of Minnesota. I don’t know why my county doesn’t have it and why I’ve never heard of it weird.

[@calliejo2829]

@@fanofallaroundaudreyandjus544 Wow that is so strange! I think most people in Michigan know it. It was a popular snack/dessert to make at home and then Chex Mix even start selling it but they call it Muddy Buddies which is actually how I first heard of it called by that term. I only always knew it as Puppy Chow growing up :)

[@vickithompson3039]

I'm from Texas and have been making puppy chow for over 30yrs and had no idea people think its from the Midwest I honestly thought it was southern

[@calliejo2829]

@@vickithompson3039 Wow in Texas too? I heard that it was a Midwest thing, but I could be totally wrong! Do most people in Texas make this/know what it is?

[@vickithompson3039]

@@calliejo2829 as far as I know and I've lived a lot of places in Texas and everyone I knew always made them

[@robfau]

I never heard of that "puppy chow" item, and I'm 3rd generation American. I'm from FL and it's great we can even learn about our own country from these videos. Great job!

[@jwb52z9]

They're sold commercially as a Chex cereal product in a number of flavors in stores.

[@robfau]

@@jwb52z9 My son once made me buy a Birthday Day cake version of a Chex product, not so great.

[@nekrataali]

Yeah I've never heard of puppy chow as anything other than a brand of dog food. Maybe it's a New England/Midwest thing?

[@todd8237]

@@ang4588 I could be wrong, but I think Muddy Buddy comes from Chex wanting to capitalize on the popularity of Puppy Chow. They couldn't call their version puppy chow because it's a branded name, so they came up with Muddy Buddy

[@Ir0nIII]

In italy we have Elephant Ear too (it's a veal breaded cutlet)

[@msdanielle2005]

I've lived in the north and south of the United States. Chicago, Florida, and Georgia and I can tell you that grits is common everywhere. Now it's possible that it is maybe more widespread among certain cultures, but it's definitely something I've eaten outside of the South. It is nothing like oatmeal. I've never used the term elephant ears, but I do know funnel cakes, which is similar. I didn't know there were parts of the United States where people didn't know what hush puppies are, so that's interesting to learn from reading the comments. Muddy Buddies is not really a common snack where I'm from, so I had to see a picture to be reminded what it was.

[@dietrevich]

IDK, where I'm from we call them funnel cakes, and elephant ears are a pastry shaped like an ear that's light and crunchy. I also always thought that jaywalking was crossing the street at a place other than at the crosswalks where you are supposed to.

[@CHARLIEGIRL775]

Grits are from hominy a type of corn .. usually savory very similar to polenta if you’ve ever had that, hush puppies are fried corn bread balls… usually at a fish fry they are tasty got the name from something they’d throw to the dogs who were begging for fish and other food while people were cooking … to make them hush… it’s also a brand of shoe

[@jwb52z9]

Hominy grits and grits are similar, but different foods.

[@gregmuon]

Elephant ears in California when I was growing up refer to a giant palmier type pastry. Sold in bakeries and donut shops. We don't or at least did not have the midwest/east fair type of elephant ear.

[@anndeecosita3586]

I’ve lived West Coast and South and only ever heard elephant ears to be a type of plant.

[@gregmuon]

@@anndeecosita3586 Maybe it was a norcal thing; that's where I'm from. I haven't seen one ever where I live now in Los Angeles. Perhaps just out of fashion. I don't even know of an old school "American" type bakery here -- the kind that sells 'snails', bearclaws, elephant ears, donuts, strudel etc.

[@anndeecosita3586]

@@gregmuon Maybe. I’m socal.

[@jballam58]

Yes, I also know the elephant ear as a palmier, which I believe is the French term for the pastry.

[@mileycyrusfan197]

Oooh, "Elephant Ear"! I'm in (Ontario) Canada and apparently we do use this word as well. We say "Elephant Ear" as well as "Beaver Tail". lol

[@Margar02]

Beaver tail, how Canadian 😁

[@mileycyrusfan197]

@@Margar02 😆😆 yeah lol

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

L'oreille de l'éléphant 🐘

[@mileycyrusfan197]

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 is that "Elephant Ear" in French?

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

@@mileycyrusfan197 You got it right. It means Elephant ear. Don't like very much World Friends. Always the US and UK hosts. We French are so underrated 🇨🇵

[@erinshearouse9705]

I’m from the low country of South Carolina basically where grits are from and we ONLY eat them savory if u eat them sweet ur usually from the north.

[@emily_gross1990]

MICHIGAN REPRESENT! We do sometimes have grits in Michigan but mainly from anyone who is a southern transplant. It's like cream of wheat, that's a good comparison. A gritty, usually savory, version of oatmeal. I think it's made of cornmeal. I've always had it with syrup but it's tradition to eat it with butter and salt&pepper. Shrimp and grits is a super common southern American food. Hush puppies are NOT sweet at all. It's southern again, but served a lot at Long John Silver's and some other restaurants. It's a fried ball of onion and something else. It's savory and delicious. But it's an acquired taste.

[@cakebunny3790]

Because of the corn base, hushpuppies do often taste a bit sweet to people not accustomed to eating them, even though they are overall savory.

[@kenthefley2226]

Hush Puppies originated in the American South during the Civil war. Confederate soldiers in their camps would throw these to their barking dogs when they heard Union soldiers approaching. The term was probably coined by a soldier saying "hush puppy' as he gave them the treats. They are seasoned and fried bread balls that resemble a donut hole. They are primarily eaten with fish and chips or other seafood dishes. They are made from a cornmeal batter that usually has onion, buttermilk and eggs. They have a similar taste and texture to fritters.

[@Revgal]

I'm from the South, but I have lived in Michigan when I went to school and for 3 yrs in New England states later for work. I didn't go to the fair while I was in MI, so I hadn't heard of the elephant ears before. What we have in the South is funnel cakes which is similar (you can tell from the other comments.) New England states also had something similar, but a little different, they just call it fried dough. Grits are made from crushed hominy, corn-like plant. It is similar to a porriage or a palenta. It can be sweet or savory. I wouldn't recommwnd eating it without either adding butter, sugar, and/or cheese. It has no favor by itself. It will taste like you are eating saw dust. I see multiple explanations of Hushpuppies. Essentially, you take your cornbread mix and drop spoonfuls into the deep fryer. For the Canadians, we have a separate fritter, that we call a corn fritter here, similar to a corn tortilla--almost a pancake--sometimes we call it Hoe Cakes or Johnny Cakes, too. For those who think hushpuppies are corn nuggets, we have separate corn nuggets that are gooey in the middle (cream style corn gooey,) instead of bread-y. Since I have lived in the Great Lakes Region, New England, and in the South, all 3 had Chex's Muddy Buddies/Puppy Chow... The Americans saying they hadn't heard of it before, are ya'll all West of the MS River, just curious? I've been to AR & OK, but it isn't like I went looking for Muddy Buddies while I visited there. OKC, OK is the farthest West I have been. @Laurenade If you read this, I have seen a few videos with the dungarees. New England also calls their denium pants dungarees. Also, I seen a few videos where the Americane talk about the Sweaters. Ya'll call them jumpers. There is a reason we don't call them jumpers, though. I hadn't seen anyone bring it up, and I wonder if it's regional. Our jumpers are similar to what you are wearing in the video. Although, since yours is pants, yours would more likely to be called (c)overalls. Dresses with similar top straps, at least in the South, would be called a jumper. For instance, a corduroy or denium jumpers were popular for girls, when I was growing up. Occasionally, I may see some, still.

[@joepops727]

Grits is just a coarser version of cornmeal. Usually made with white corn. Has native american origins. Southerners usually put a lot of cheese, butter, and black pepper in their grits.

[@KevlarX2]

I have never heard of the fair food. To me Elephant Ear is a plant that has very large leaves that resemble an Elephants ear. Lots of people have these in their yard.

[@khadijahwilliams497]

I’m from Michigan and grits are my favorite breakfast food they are so good but my that’s because my family is from down south

[@adri_makeup]

Hush puppies I’ve always had a dennys n some come wit a sweet filling n some don’t n u dip them in syrup lol. N for puppy chow where I’m from we call it reindeer food cuz it’s usually only sold around Christmas time lol

[@anndeecosita3586]

I’ve never heard of sweet hush puppies. Denny’s must be doing it’s own thing because hush puppies are made with cornmeal.

[@adri_makeup]

@@anndeecosita3586 ig so lol, I think tht dennys calls them hush puppies but Thts not what they r at all cuz they do not taste like cornmeal

[@amandaterry2513]

Y’all need to get some southerners in on this! Hush puppies: When our grandmothers were frying up cornbread for dinner and the dogs were barking they would make little balls to throw to the dogs and then they would say “hush puppy!”

[@GregTurismo]

I was born in the US and have lived here for 28 years and I’ve never heard of elephant ears before. I thinking the US, and the Midwest are completely different places. Midwest has fun weird names for everything.

[@jamesalexander5559]

I can tell you that Elephant ears are eaten in the south too but only at fairs.

[@GregTurismo]

@@jamesalexander5559 I thought they were funnel cakes until I saw the picture. What is funny for me, I have always wanted to travel so taking an interest in other countries feels more normal than other states. I knew what candy floss was which we never call it that in the US from my experience.

[@juangomez4713]

@@jamesalexander5559 I think it depends on where in the south bc I'm from south Texas and I've never heard of them but they do resemble funnel cakes

[@jamesalexander5559]

@@juangomez4713 Southeast for me so I guess it does depend. Funnel cakes for us is fried dough covered in powdered sugar. The real thing that differentiates it from an elephant ear is the fact that funnel cakes are "segmented" (I can't think of a better word) like a web of fried dough so you can break it apart much more easily than you could an elephant ear.

[@cahinton.]

@@jamesalexander5559 Here in Minnesota you used to be able to buy huge elephant ears from the grocery store bakery, decades ago. Even as a kid I thought of them as a very boring, bland snack, which I think is why they sort of fell out of fashion.

[@XLC-zd8dn]

I am Canadian and I hadn’t heard “hush puppy” as a food. I remember that is a shoe brand. But what you displayed we call corn fritters out in western Canada.

[@alboyer6]

I'm surprised she didn't think of both versions. The shoes are from her home state Michigan.

[@krisstrehlow-cooper8364]

Corn fritters & hush puppies are different foods in the Midwest.

[@jwb52z9]

Hush puppies are basically corn bread balls. Fritters are different.

[@anndeecosita3586]

Hush puppy the food predates the shoe.

[@user-ji1ks3vd9g]

I’ve heard dungarees so much but mostly people would say overalls

[@oldnorthstatefishing3912]

As an American I have never heard a funnel cake called an Elephant Ear. Elephant Ears are plants with really large leaves though!

[@jamesalexander5559]

In my experience down south, funnel cakes are for fried dough that's covered with powdered sugar. The dough would also be segmented bites that you rip off and eat. Elephant ears look like what was shown in the video.

[@anndeecosita3586]

@@jamesalexander5559 Must depend on the part of the South because I eat funnel cakes at fairs and carnivals. I had never heard of elephant ears as a food, just a plant.

[@justinyoung9055]

@@anndeecosita3586 Funnel cakes have a different dough and shape than elephant ears. Elephant ears are similar to Mexican buñuelos in that they are a disc of fried dough. Funnel cakes are more simular to churros in that they are piped into frying oil. Think of elephant ears as a sweet version of Native American frybread.

[@anndeecosita3586]

@@justinyoung9055 I’ve had buñuelos and churros so that makes sense. Thanks. It looks in the picture like elephant ears are shape similar to buñuelos but more dense and softer like funnel cakes and churros. I probably won’t like EEs unless freshly made because I don’t churros and funnel cakes once they get “old”.

[@Hallfreakyzoid]

People say that hush puppies got their name from being the fried left overs at restaurants that would be given to stray dogs at the end of the night. The chefs would yell “hush puppies!” before distributing them. Also, we don’t have elephant ears where I’m from. In Texas, we serve “funnel cake” at fairs which is also fried dough with powdered sugar, but it’s a bit more inelegantly waffled in design.

[@justinyoung9055]

It's much older. Unfortunately it comes from the days of American slavery where escapees would throw fried cornmeal to bloodhounds in hopes of evading patrols.

[@breezyischeezy8634]

Here in Washington we have both funnel cake and elephant ears. Other than the difference in shape, elephant ears will have Cinnamon sugar on them but funnel cakes only have powdered sugar.

[@zakr72]

In the southern US, I think an elephant ear is called a sopapilla. Also grits are ground corn and every American should know that.

[@otakubancho6655]

If you've had polenta,then you've had grits Italian style.

[@diggity1039]

That elephants ears thing looks like funnel cake, funnel cake is awesome, I've only ever heard of the elephants ear on videos like this.

[@brionyhall4250]

Yes grit is also crushed shells or bones, given to chickens

[@Fenchrisw0lf]

In Germany we also call a jumbo version of a Wiener Schnitzel "Elefantenohr" (= Elephant ear)

[@gracexcon]

I'm from the US (east coast) and I have NEVER heard the term elephant ears describing food. We just call that fried dough over here, or funnel cake if it's made a certain way

[@cheman579]

I think she recognised Hush Puppy cos “Hush Puppies” is a british budges shoe brand, usually used for school shoes. They’re slightly better than Clarks but still budget.

[@JM-mi8qc]

In the southern US, elephant ear refers to a plant that has one big broad leaf per stem (apparently it's an invasive species from asia) and you don't eat it so I was shocked at first when Callie said you eat it (before I realized she wasn't talking about the plant lol). We have funnel cake, which is similar, but instead of a fried dough, it's made from a batter that's poured through a funnel directly into the deep fryer, usually in a random-ish grid/swirl pattern so there's tons of holes and surface area to coat with powdered sugar. Also, FYI, grits is a porridge made with roughly ground corn, but even after eating grits many times it wasn't obvious to me that it was corn, so I can't fault Callie for not knowing that. It's usually a breakfast food, and I've heard it can be sweet but that seems odd to me. In my experience there are 2 types of grits - butter and cheese, and both are savory. If you're feeling adventurous, melt some smoked gouda in your grits and serve it with some blackened shrimp (sauteed or grilled are good too). And in case you're not familiar, blackened means you use blackening seasoning (spicy mix of cayenne, paprika, garlic, onion powder etc) and usually pan sear it although grilling is acceptable too imo.

[@shatinetachdjian5865]

Elephant ears are called Beaver tails in Canada :)

[@erinshearouse9705]

And hush puppies are definitely sweet they are full of sugar and sweet onions but def more savory than sweet

[@GoodNewsEveryone2999]

Elephant ears are also a type of plant.... that you cannot eat. We didn't have the food version in the part of the US I grew up in but we did have the plant. The first time I heard someone from another part of the US talking about eating Elephant ears I was so confused.

[@erikawilliams9558]

In ohio funnel cakes and elephant ears are def 2 separate things. But I've never had grits. Hushpuppies I've only had at restaurants. And the first time i heard the term "puppy chow" i was totally confused but it's common now.

[@Pellefication]

In Sweden we call really big cube staeks 'elephant ears'.

[@AveryFa]

it's really interesting that there are really significant differences in most of these terms even in the U.S. Everyone living in the American southeast automatically knows that grits are coarsely ground corn, much like polenta. My immediate response to the term "elephant ear" was a generic term for a plant such as a caladium. And I've never heard the term "muddy buddies" and "puppy chow" is a brand of dog food. Interesting.......

[@sonishajordan9091]

I thought she was talking about the plant.

[@johnalden5821]

Exactly the same for me, from the Mid-Atlantic. We have funnel cakes instead of "elephant ears" and never hear of muddy buddies. But then, people in the Midwest would know nothing about softshells or scrapple, either.

[@AveryFa]

@@johnalden5821 I've at least heard of scrapple but never had the opportunity to try it. I was always under the impression that it was similar to livermush, which we often had at breakfast when I was growing up in rural South Carolina.

[@johnalden5821]

@@AveryFa As somebody who has tried scrapple, I will not defend it. My impression of it was something like rendered meat goo, put on a skillet and fried. Not going there again. But quite a few people in this region apparently like it.

[@jessicadelrosario2185]

@@johnalden5821 I have never heard of scrapple. I think most mid-west states have both elephant ears and funnel cakes.

[@genethrowe8205]

Hush puppies are fried cornmeal and got their name because you could toss one to your hound to hush him up

[@pixelated_dream4732]

Imma be completly honest, ive never heard of elephant ear before. I always called fried bread or pop over. But elephant ear is a first

[@jessicadelrosario2185]

i think of fry bread as being more savory whereas elephant ears are always sweet, but very similar in how they are made. I dont know what a pop-over is but ive heard that term before

[@zaynes5094]

I don’t know about everyone else, but that carnival food is just caked Fried Dough. I’ve never heard it called Elephant Ears. Although I can understand the meaning of the words.

[@johnalden5821]

I live just above the "grit line" in a mid-Atlantic state, but I used to live in South Carolina and Georgia. Grits are a corn-based porridge with a lot of texture to them (hence the name). They are really good with butter, salt and pepper, but people do go on wild tangents with them (I have even heard of mixing peanut butter and jelly into grits). And yeah, they are one of the things that define Southern food folkways.

[@davidbraun6209]

I've had grits with garlic and sharp cheddar, and also even grits with a spaghetti sauce with ground beef (which, by the way, is downright tasty). I'm from North Florida, which is in the Deep South.

[@dontknow8548]

Puppy Chow is so good bro

[@kjeracarroll450]

Grits is hot corn cereal. We call elephant ears, fry bread. Hushpuppies= fried bread made with a corn bread base.

[@clrobinson1776]

Grits are made from corn similar to Italian polenta. Never had sweet grits. That would be interesting. Have had polenta made with champagne & strawberries when I lived in Italy. Hush puppies are made from corn as well. Think fried cornbread. Usually have onion in them. In the South & parts of the Midwest, elephant ears are called funnel cakes. It is very interesting how different parts of the United States have different foods or even different names for the same type of food. Love this channel.

[@poptartsbox]

I’m from the U.S. and I haven’t heard of elephant ear until now

[@guillermorosalesgonzalez1308]

Looking at the pictures, we have something very similar to elephant's ears in my region of Spain; it's called "orejas" (literally "ears") and we usually eat it for Carnival, around February.

[@mramisuzuki6962]

It’s an old food probably an old Indo-European one that was repopularize during the Reconquista and simultaneous de-Arabization of Persia in the 15th and 16th century. It got its way to the Americas by the Amorites and Catholics immigrants in the 18th century.

[@embodythejotun]

An interesting thing about these is practically every time the USA person doesn't know some of their own words or terms very well. Shows how large and regional the USA is. Each region can be very different.

[@JM-mi8qc]

Hushpuppies are fried cornbread batter, so they're usually moist, and in my experience more often savory than sweet (unlike cornbread). Some people like to make them with jalapeno pepper bits in them as well. And like Callie said they're most commonly eaten with seafood, for some reason. But they're nothing like a donut IMO. Most corn-based foods tend to have originated in the Americas (since corn did) and so are probably less common elsewhere.

[@georgesakellaropoulos8162]

Hushpuppies. Fried cornbread dough with onion powder and other spices. They're bite sized and the name comes from feeding them to the dog to keep it quiet.

[@seanphayre380]

In New England we don't call it an elephant ear, I've never heard of that in my life. We call it doughboy

[@mariangelarizzi9403]

In Italy elephant ear is Milanese cutlet, still fried but definitely meat XD

[@krzysztofmalesinski7294]

Another good video !

[@jimfritz9503]

The old joke. A couple goes down south to visit. They stop for breakfast , place their order and the waitress asks if they want grits. They're unsure but say "yes". Waitress says " Hominy?". And the guy says , " I don't know. Maybe 3 or 4?"

[@abrad6901]

It looks like one of the producers watches Lost in the Pond KZbin channel because he does a series on this.

[@sharonwilliams8552]

Grits is just ground corn

[@DennisSullivan-om3oo]

Elephant ear must be a regional thing. Midwest? I've lived in the northeast, and the south, and never heard of it.

[@Leoniqua]

Proud Southerner here, and I just want to say that grits do not compare to oatmeal. If you eat sweet grits, then you're better off with eating oatmeal. Grits are boiled cornmeal , commonly made with a ton of salt and butter and sometimes with cheese. Shrimp and grits are definitely a thing. Grits is mainly a breakfast food item, but you can have it with fried fish as well, "fish and grits". Hush Puppies are another southern thing; served with seafood. Mainly fried seafood. Oftentimes, it's pretty bland, not sweet like Cornbread. Sometimes, it has peppers and onions in it.

[@diggity1039]

Puppy Cow is so yummy! Now I want some.

[@WittyVictory]

The jaywalking explanation is not exactly accurate. Jaywalking is when you cross the street in a location that you’re not supposed to cross the street at.