German Husband Reacts to My Childhood Meals! (American Wife)

[@DeanaandPhil]

Do you make any of the meals we mentioned? Let us know what type of dishes you make at home and where you're from! 😍

[@jacobbailey-lawton1086]

I don't cook but my parents make most of these. But I don't like quiche and meatloaf really isn't a big thing in UK.

[@janpracht6662]

When I was a kid we never had peanut butter in the house, but I like the crunchy version. In the Netherlands peanut butter is a big thing, my sister worked there for some years. The Dutch love this stuff (their eating habits are fairly weird for Germans, they love colored sugar sprinkles on their bread and fry everything in oil that walks, swims or flies... The Belgians are just like that).

[@linzyjensen7271]

My mom used to make a very American variation of Shepard's pie with tater tots instead of mashed potatoes, and it was one of my favorite dishes. It was her go-to for a quick easy meal- frozen mixed vegetables, ground beef, cream of mushroom soup, and top it all with tater tots. She had a philosophy that there is no such thing as too much cheese either. We never ate a lot of hamburgers or hot dogs, but my parents were convinced that a dinner was not complete without meat. We had a big garden, so we tended to eat a lot of seasonal vegetables and fruit or homemade jarred goods.

[@telfairf1102]

Meatloaf and various pasta dishes were common for us as well as homemade potpies, taco Tuesday, potroast with potatoes, carrots, and onions. We also had homemade pizza. My mom believed there should always be some kind of dessert after dinner every day - she loved sweets and loved to bake 😁

[@nadine8742]

Ich bin aus Deutschland und unsere typischen Gerichte waren: Gemüsesuppe Nudeln mit Tomatensoße/Nudelauflauf Pellkartoffeln mit Quark/sour creme Bratkartoffeln Kartoffelbrei/Salzkartoffeln mit Fleisch(zb Frikadellen)/Fisch und Kohlrabi/Karotten in weißer Soße Verschiedenes Gemüse in Tomatensoße und Reis Kohl-Hack-Kartoffeleintopf

[@LionsGateCorp]

Deana's hair is luxurious and I adore how Phil is German, two countries adds much to the mix. Thanks for this film, I learned something plus thinking on simpler times was fun!

[@tranurse]

I grew up in the South, so we ate a lot of southern food. My mom’s paternal relatives were from Louisiana, so lots of rice. My Mom’s maternal relatives were of German descent… and from up north. So I have an appreciation for sauerkraut, and sauer brat. My kids and husband won’t touch the stuff. My dad left when I was 5, but his mom was Cuban, and he taught my mom how to make black beans and picadillo. So I grew up with a lot of different things that we ate.

[@latebloomerabroad]

I'm from California, and we ate a lot of the same meals as Deana's family, but we ALWAYS had some form of potato dish on the side. Meatloaf without mashed potatoes is almost sacrilegious! LOL

[@robfriedrich2822]

So it's compatible to people with tooth problems

[@ashleycruz3]

Growing up Hispanic in America we also very rarely ate out, maybe on Sundays after church. But I mostly had traditional Mexican food growing up; tacos, menudo, ceviche etc.

[@ella5911]

Crazy! In Germany that is rare...😅 Cevapcici Game from slavia.... Jugoslawia, my husband is from this Lokation... so i knew about it later.....

[@Strongpoint100]

I'm from Switzerland and when we were young we also only had the warm meal at lunchtime and usually cold food at dinner but nowadays not anymore

[@smashsamson1819]

Same here.

[@_tronicum]

I had peanut-butter-jelly sandwich when i was 25 (in the USA!) and it was a revolution to my taste buds!

[@keepinitkawaii]

Did you like it or was it gross?

[@Psychphuq]

Try adding bacon also... ☺

[@svenparczany8967]

I am from northern Germany. As a child we ate a lot of East Prussian dishes, like Königsberger Klopse, because my grandparents were from East Prussia. Today I try to cook the dishes, my children love them

[@sophiasolyom]

i‘m from switzerland and i would say our lunches were the most important meal. We would often eat bread or just some cold dishes for dinner

[@mnossy11]

As an American, we ate exactly the same things! And we never went out to eat either. The only time I remember going to a fast food restaurant was when we were on a road trip and a sit down restaurant was only for birthdays haha!

[@bobbyhood101]

Im from Tennessee pretty much same foods as Deana but we ate pinto beans, potatoes ,and cornbread usually with fresh garden raised sliced tomatoes and onions pretty much whatever vegetables were in season

[@starthomasYoung]

Bobby Hood Tennessee here too! We never had most of those, but meat loaf, never with pork in it. Lol we had tons of tons potatoes, pintos, and garden vegetables! Special occasions we did have homemade pizzas! And never tuna! Yuck sorry. And homemade ice cream in the summer once in a while! We eat out on sundays after church maybe once a month.

[@r4x2]

I grew up eating lots of grilled bratwurst, BBQ (I'm from Kansas City), apple cake, meatloaf, crockpot chili, American goulash, mac and cheese, pizza, blackened chicken, red beans & rice, biscuits & gravy, and cabbage rolls. Also, the only times I really like potato chips is with a PB&J, just a weird meal given to me as a child in the USA. Stuff like that.

[@PhotogNT]

Shepard's pie precooked ground lamb with veg topped with potato mash and done in the oven. We had that every week in Australia growing up in the 60's and 70's.

[@forkless]

Yep, cottage pie is made with ground beef.

[@christophercampos-samitsch8516]

I'm American and my Austrian husband introduced me to pizza with tuna. It is so good!

[@DeanaandPhil]

😍🍕

[@jerrihadding2534]

Growing up we also never had deserts, except at Easter and Thanksgiving. BUT! My mother baked all the time. There was always cake, cookies or pies in the kitchen. I had two favorite Saturday morning cartoons breakfasts. Either Saltine crackers with a massive dollop of peanut butter, layered at least four high or cold, leftover apple pie. Yum! We too shared Sunday breakfasts as a family at the table. My father was always in charge of the eggs and pancakes. My mother was in charge of the fried ham or sausages and the fried potatoes- often with onions. We kids were in charge of preparing fruit. Quite often cantaloupe (all year round - this was Southern California), which we would slice into thin pieces and then cut off the rind. Mouth watering breakfasts!

[@irian42]

My TOP German Childhood Meals Spaghetti Bolognese (Miracoli!) Frikadellen with some vegetable (like cauliflower or creamed kohlrabi) and potatoes Chili con Carne (of course with kidney beans and corn from the can) with rice Fridays always Fish: As a small child fish fingers with mashed potatoes and peas, later fried whitefish with a vegetable and potatoes (mashed, fried, cooked or as salad) and even later pasta with salmon and spinach Sundays: Something that takes along time - like Rouladen with red cabbage

[@raphaelmaack5693]

Meine Eltern leben wirklich nach dem deutschen Sprichwort: Esse Morgens wie ein Kaiser, Mittags wie ein König, Abends wie ein Bettler.

[@elisabethrebstein3493]

Ich dachte immer: Morgens wie ein König, Mittags wie ein Bauer/Bürger und Abends wie ein Bettler. Aber eigentlich ist es ja der gleiche Spruch😂🤣

[@s______f8015]

english please

[@benjamingiercke]

Sven Fleitmann in English it means: eat in the morning like a Emperor, midday like a king and in the evening like a beggar.

[@mariesophie7547]

I do the opposite.. upsi

[@Bella_Splatoon]

ich auch :D

[@lucin9443]

Bei uns gab es meistens auch Abends erst das warme Essen. Aber oft ganz verschieden.

[@deniskramer3562]

Bei uns gab es mittags warmes Essen... bis meine Mutter einen Volltagsjob bekam, dann wurde auch erst abends gekocht.

[@wandilismus8726]

Mein Vadder war bei der StOV und es gab Essen wenn er nach Hause kam, spät nachmittags oder Abends

[@cariettamei8036]

Bei uns gab es in meiner Kindheit mittags warmes Essen. Hab dann mit meiner Mama gegessen und Papa hat es sich abends aufgewärmt. Aber jetzt, wo ich arbeite, koche ich logischerweise erst abends und hätte ich eine Familie, würde ich das auch so beibehalten.

[@robfriedrich2822]

Bei uns werktags abends. Schulspeisung war billig und schlecht. Da aß ich mittags lieber ein belegtes Brot

[@lw9837]

A special Sunday dinner was roast chicken stuffed with apple slices and prunes (we kids would fight for the last prunes!) rather than a bread stuffing; there was always gravy. Sometimes we’d have red cabbage and potato dumplings (from the Panni mix). Other times it was whatever vegetable was on sale that week with mashed potatoes, or very rarely rice. We never made the chicken with veg and potatoes baked in one pan as pictured when Deana described their roast dinners.

[@miriammontenbruck8022]

I am from central Germany (Hessen) and we had shepherds pie because we went to Ireland since I was little. I actually recently found out that it can only be called Shepherds pie if it is made with lamb meat. Otherwise it should be called Cottage pie (with pork/beef) .....also recently my parents took DNA heritage tests and we found out that my dad was 84% British/Scottish and my mum 34%...well, also they don't have any German percentage......that was so surprising. I always said I don't feel German...and it's true :O

[@DeanaandPhil]

Ahhh interesting! Yeah we want to take a DNA test. It would be interesting to see. We know some people who took them thinking they're be one thing and it didn't turn out as they expected. 😅

[@janpracht6662]

@@DeanaandPhil Pies are more common on the American continent than in Europe (I had a fantastic meat pie in the market-hall of Ottawa/Canada, also my host family in Sao Paulo/Brasil made a delicious chicken pie. In the USA you see them often also sweet or with fruits inside.

[@sydneyrica1802]

Jan Pracht (from Texas) We would eat a lot of meat pies in my home growing up.

[@pinkythechihuahua3156]

I'm a SHEPHERD. Does that make me a pie?

[@miriammontenbruck8022]

@staircase2 we did, too :D

[@easein]

I'm a bit older than you two, but my favorite school lunch was a peanut butter and honey sandwich. Something about a brown paper bag and a few of hours in a locker, The honey would crystalize into the bread. An apple and a carton of milk. Perfection. Deana's other meals sound extremely familiar, but we did a lot of salads, carrot and celery sticks and olives.

[@gilwa]

Quiche is a breakfast thing in my household. Also I’m German and when I was a child in Heidelberg we would have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches...

[@martinkasper197]

Deanna turned into Super Mario when talking about homemade Pizza 🍕

[@gailpeczkis5292]

I come from the USA near Chicago, IL and fast food was only eaten very occasionally. We had homemade meals the majority of the time. Breakfast was eggs, toast or cereal. Lunch sandwiches either PBJ or deli meat and sometimes with a bowl of soup. Dinners were the main meal as Deanna said. Meat loaf, steak, pork chops, chicken and the sides were potatoes and a vegetable or salad. Also a lot of casseroles and pasta dishes especially spaghetti or frozen pizza. Your channel is so much fun thanks.

[@melindar.fischer5106]

My childhood meals are almost identical to what you listed! I grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, with a St. Louis parent and a Missouri-farmer-moved-to-St.-Louis parent.😃

[@judith1111]

I am from Germany and as a child I loved to eat peanut butter and jam on a slice of bread. It is still one of my favorites especially the crunchy peanut butter.

[@DrGlynnWix]

I'm from GA/AL, and a lot of what Deana had was similar to what we ate. We had a lot of the Italian dishes often (lasagna, pasta, etc.), but we also had a lot of stuff that she didn't list. We at Beef Stroganoff, mashed potatoes and some meat and veggies, and chili really often. My dad was a single father working two jobs for most of our growing up years, so we had to have stuff that could be cooked with little attention and was good for leftovers. Breakfast wasn't really anything special. We did whatever we wanted during school weeks, and sometimes on weekends my dad would do fried spam and egg sandwiches. At my grandparents' house we at a lot more stuff from the garden or "traditional" foods like black eyed peas and cornbread, raw onions, tomato and cucumber.

[@lorialderman4518]

I grew up eating a lot of these dishes with the addition of soups and stews in the winter time...chili, vegetable beef stew, ham and beans, etc.

[@Teresa-dg7rl]

I am from Austria and I cook and eat Quiche quite often because it‘s very easy and good! I love it ☺️

[@MichelleJonesKralka]

I grew up in Northern Canada and in a hunting and farming family. I honestly don’t remember eating any meat that was bought at the grocery store until I moved out and went to college. As a kid I ate ptarmigan, partridge, pheasant, deer, moose, bear, elk, and caribou as meat. We raised chickens and ducks so we never bought those meats at the grocery store. We also grew strawberries, raspberries, and corn. My cousin’s family had a pig farm so we ate a lot of pork chops. We always had veggies and potatoes on the side. It was a real treat when my mom would make homemade mac’n’cheese. My one grandfather was a butcher and would do an amazing lamb roast with olive oil, rosemary, and garlic. My other grandpa loved to make bread and he made these amazing soft dinner rolls. I grew up in a very small town that had two fast food restaurants - McDonald’s and KFC. So eating out was not a thing we did a lot - although McDonald’s would be like a really awesome treat every once and a while. Now I live in California and I stopped eating meat because it just doesn’t taste right to me - the chicken is so dry and bland. I miss wild meat and fish!

[@Leenapanther]

I'm from Switzerland. Breakfast was and still is just plain bread for me (without butter or jam). When I still went to school I ate lunch at home. We cooked "Spätzle", Omeletten and Toast Hawaii" every week for lunch. Once a week I ate at the school (so expensive). Our main meal was in the evening. We often made homemade Pizza or Raclette for dinner on Saturday. Sundays we made the classic "Sonntagsbraten" with mashed potatoes. We also made filled tomatoes and other greek dishes (greek father). I had Lasagne, Cheesecake quiche (salty), Risotto with Piccata, Bratwurst with Pasta, Chicken with Spaghetti, or Chicken with potatoes and carrots. We had a "Schrebergarten" (a garden you can rent), so we had our own potatoes and made french fries out of them. We had so many berries, so my mother made a lot of jam for herself.

[@danielchin4091]

Lol I love watching you guys, I've been subscribed since 8k followers, really hope your channel continue to grow ♥️🙌🏽

[@DeanaandPhil]

Ahhh glad you're still here! Thanks for sticking with us for so long! 🤗💜

[@ncoppens]

In The Netherlands about every kid is raised on peanut butter sandwiches either on white or dark bread. But not peanut butter and jelly though. We actually have been living in Austria for almost 10 years, and still buy our Dutch peanut butter (Pindakaas) so we can eat it here....LOL.

[@nielsdebakker3283]

Indeed, sandwiches with peanut butter OR jam. Never ate those two mixed on one sandwich. (dutch)

[@yoyo-ka7029]

My personal all time favorite: potatoes with spinach and scrambled eggs. Even today I mix it all together, build a "wall" and then tear it down with the fork... Typically German? I don't know. But typically my family, I'd say xD

[@ropeburn6684]

It's one of the best "basic meals" indeed. And mashing is a must!

[@bayangannaga]

Peanut butter is actually really popular in the Netherlands. But as a far as i know, we don't really combine it with jelly/jam, we do sometimes combine it with hotsauce, chocolate sprinkles or banana slices. I'm from an International household, my mom is Indonesian. I grew up on Indonesian food like Nasi Goreng and Satay, Dutch food like Stampot and ofcourse the ocasional pasta or pizza. When i cook i mostly cook Korean, Tex-Mex, Indonesian or pasta. While i do like pasta with carbonara sauce, nothing beats a spicy tomato sauce (though i mostly make pasta with boursin cuisine, spinach and tuna or salmon).

[@silkedavid8876]

In my family we never cooked fresh Lasagne (or even frozen, if I think of it). Then we found this recipe for Zucchini, courgettes as we had so many in our vegetable garden, and it took me years to find out it was basically Lasagne, just sliced courgette instead of pasta.

[@olafkunert3714]

"it took me years to find out it was basically Lasagne, just sliced courgette instead of pasta." It is more a Moussaka :-))

[@Rosanna1978able]

that's an interesting topic. I´m from the western of germany an we had a lot of varieties of dishes during my childhood. in our Family was the lunchtime the most improtant meal, because my Dad worked as a chef in a Restaurant and to got to work after lunch. We ate pasta in different ways (with Ragu, or Carbonara), Soup (Vegetable Soup, or stew with lentils or white beans), Sunday roast, roasted Chicken with Salad, Porkchops with Potatoes, Grünkohl (sorry, I don't know the englisch name of this) with Potatoes and Sausages.. for Dinner we usually had Bread with Ham, Jam or Cheese (German Abendbrot)or leftovers.

[@Gelli722]

I don’t remember a whole lot of the meals but my favorite was a bastardized version of stroganoff. Both my parents were midwestern and weren’t the best of cooks so I remember a lot of canned veggies, ground beef, and boxed Mac and cheese.

[@karamayer581]

From new jersey, USA we ate all the foods Deana mentioned. We are an American German family so we would have schnitzel, sauerbraten or brats, and we definitely were influenced by living so close to new York that there were lots of Italian cuisine like chicken parm, eggplant rollatini and pizza of course. We had lots of grilled chicken with corn on the cob and we had cheeseburgers in the summer a couple times definitely not all the time though.

[@eezepeeze]

We had everything she mentioned, but we also had a lot of soups and baked casseroles like chicken and stuffing. We also LOVED tacos!

[@dom_from_86]

About 2 years ago I ate peanut butter with strawberry jam for the first time. Toasted bread, of course. Really tasty

[@melindar.fischer5106]

I switched from grape jelly to strawberry jam in my adult life. So good! Now I prefer raspberry or blueberry jam. (I'm from USA, in the Midwest.)

[@OceanluvOC]

I’m born and raised in California. My meals growing up was chicken with mashed potatoes, salads, homemade tacos, Mexican rice & beans, pasta, pizza, meatloaf, homemade chicken vegetable soup, other Mexican food, steamed or sautéed vegetables. In the summer my dad would grill on the barbecue, steak, chicken, hamburgers and hotdogs and we would have homemade potato or pasta salad. Never had dessert much, only planned dessert for Thanksgiving and Christmas. We would have Chinese takeout on Friday evenings.

[@Leenapanther]

I don't like steamed vegetables. I grew up in Switzerland with a greek father. So we used a lot of olive oil (broccoli for example). Hot dogs are very different here, they aren't sliced in half. It's just a slim sausage (called "Wienerli") in a baguette. People would make a hole with a strowel handle and then you put mustard, ketchup and the sausage in to the hole. It was very popular for children's birthdays or as a breakfast at school before the holidays.

[@xar1234]

Carbonara or Bolognese? I like both, but it depends on the time I have. Carbonara is made really quick where Ragu Bolognese takes about 4 hours to cook.

[@divarachelenvy]

As I was born in Melbourne in Australia I was lucky to have food at home from many different cuisines... traditional , asian and italian...

[@eddiehagler6127]

Meatloaf was a common meal usually with mashed potatoes. Stuffed peppers was another meal I remember from my youth (bell peppers hollowed out and baked with a mix of rice and ground beef. Chuck wagons were ground beef balls wrapped with a slice of bacon and baked.

[@kristiwyckoff1636]

Also, my mom grew up on a farm and for her family the biggest meal was in the middle of the day because everyone was hungry from doing hard labor. They called that meal dinner and the evening meal (leftovers) supper.

[@h.h.7550]

Haha I feel so french here 😂 We kinda always had a big lunch AND a big dinner ! (Fun fact : growing up I tend to eat smaller lunches, no dessert,...

[@kristiwyckoff1636]

From US here. We had a lot you mentioned except Shepard’s pie. We had chicken pot pie which I think is similar. Some other main dishes we had were ham, pork chops, salmon cakes, oyster soup, oyster casserole, SOS (s*&# on a shingle) - lay bread in a casserole dish top with cheese, ham and pour milk over, then bake. My mom would take leftover rice and add milk and sugar in the morning and warm it up for breakfast. For dessert sometimes tapioca pudding. Not a meal, but almost always had popcorn in the evenings.

[@phillyblaze777]

I'm from New York and our family meals growing up were very similar to Deana's. We RARELY ate out unless it was a very special occasion, also desserts and junk food in general were limited and only allowed in small quantity on occasion. Of course, we had hamburgers and hot dogs but those were really only summertime foods that you would have at a family party or celebration because they could be grilled outside - more of a seasonal thing.

[@luciealie]

Czech girl here. I am from small town near to German border so we ate lots of potato, sauerkraut, pork meat and goulash with dumplings when I was little. Roasted chicken was celebration! :-D Everybody favorites were Schnitzel with potato salad, except me. My favorite was and still is Dill sauce with beef or egg and dumplings. :-) I bet you might love it!

[@glenncarr2508]

Coming from Texas, I had some of the same dishes, but I really remember the TexMex dishes we made at home frequently. Stuffed jalapenos', fajita's, tacos, green chili enchilada's. Definitely had our meatloafs and pasta's as well. More beef then pork (coming from Texas), but we did have pork chops on occasion. Sides depended on the meal, but almost always a green vegetable and/or a potato. Enjoying your channel very much. Keep up the good work! My wife and I are moving to Germany in a few weeks.... things are going to be interesting!

[@joyvictory6852]

There is nothing better than a country breakfast, lunch or dinner. All meals had biscuits or cornbread. Lunch and dinner you usually had several vegetables, meat, potatoes or some kind of pasta. Peas and butter beans. Collard, turnips or mustard greens and you used cornbread form the liquor of the greens. Amazing food.

[@kroyffej]

Yep, native of Charlotte,NC. We ate PBJ or grilled cheese (usually in the winter) every day It was great. Evening dinner was the family dinner. Family conversation and discussion.

[@KeriInOkinawa]

The talk about hamburgers and hot dogs reminded me that we typically would only eat those for like Memorial Day or 4th of July if we had a cookout... and *that* made me wonder about the different typical meals between Germany and America for their respective (and sometimes in-common) holidays. That might be a fun video! Apologies if there already is one...haha

[@michira70]

I'm from Saarland and we had mostly typical regional home cooked meals (Hausmannskost). Very much potato stuff, like filled dumplings, with cream sauce and bacon bits and Sauerkraut, potato soup, potato pancakes, something called 'Geheirate' ('Marrieds', potato slices with dumplings mixed and cream sauce with bacon bits), potato salad with bacon bits and so on. Meat mostly on sundays, like pot roast, either beef or pork, with of course potatoes or dumplings some beans or carrots. In summer we had lots of bbq, meat (Schwenkbraten, weil Saarländer grillen nicht, sie schwenken!!😆) and sausages. Breakfast was usually bread or rolls with marmelade. For dessert we had pudding or fruit salad, on holidays ice cream.

[@jejwood]

"NO CEREAL IS HEALTH!" Keep dropping these truth bombs! I love it

[@Teuronium]

@Graham, King of the Britons! 1 Bowl Muesli (100g) with low fat milk: ca 500 kcal. Same like 2 bake rolls.

[@highwinds2c]

Growing up we had a mix of things...my mom wasn't really the best cook in the world but she did make simple dinners almost every night. we moved around a lot since my dad was military so there was influence from local foods as well that my mom often included. mostly she liked to make tacos/burritos, asian inspired stir fry dishes, meat/potato dishes with onions, salmon patties, meatloaf, goulash, pastas and southern style things like beans and cornbread. as I got older I started cooking more and brought in some newer ideas and recipes mostly Asian inspired since i've always loved Asian foods then fancier items as learned more about culinary arts. desserts weren't a thing in our house we had snacks sometimes like ice cream or crackers and i'd do a lot of baking but as a family we didn't have it.

[@laurakrahl7991]

Ich hab Erdnussbutter mit Marmelade IMMER gegessen als Kind, war mein Lieblingsessen

[@DeanaandPhil]

Yum!! 😍

[@MickeyKnox]

Wie alt bist du denn? Seit 15-20 Jahren ist das in Deutschland nun ja auch bekannt, aber damals in den 90'ern wusste keine Sau damit was anzufangen.

[@luenu]

Mit Aprikosenmarmelade😍 besteee

[@LovelyFaith88]

@@MickeyKnox Das wüsste ich auch gerne. Peanutbutter war gar nicht bekannt bei uns 🤷‍♀️

[@Miristzuheiss]

Ich bin sechzig und Erdnussbutter kannte ich als Berliner Kind auch schon, aber nicht mit Marmelade

[@irenee3062]

Hi growing up in Aussie meals very similar to Deana family, Spaghetti , Meat loaf, Shepard's pie, Stews lots of vegetables, Friday night takeaway, Saturday BBQ or take care of yourself and Sunday was a roast. For me getting the ingredients and preparing a meal at home is a win.

[@eileenhildreth8355]

Growing up in the 60s in New Zealand we had pretty basic meals, roast lamb or chicken, shepherd's pie, steak and kidney pie, lamb chops. Always with some form of potatoes and usually carrots and a green vegetables. We also had ' pudding' most nights.....steamed puddings with custard, or fruit pies or rice pudding

[@paulj9801]

i loved my schools meatloaf they put marinara sauce and cheese on top was awesome. At home we also had sauerkraut and spare ribs often as well hamburgers covered in gravy .

[@bisleyblackhawk1288]

Being raised in the rural South...My grandmother’s cooking was always a treat 😊😊😊...when I would visit her (often) during the summer when school was out...for breakfast she usually fixed grits, meat (locally made sausage, bacon or “streak O’ lean”) and made from scratch biscuits 😋😋😋. For lunch (if she could get wrangle me in from playing) she would make some sort of sandwich from cold cuts and cheese or my all time favorite, tuna salad on toasted white bread 👍... Dinner or “supper” was usually something from the garden such as collard or mustard greens, okra (both fried and boiled), cabbage, fried yellow squash, etc. always with ripe tomatoes and sliced cucumbers (soaked in vinegar with sliced onions...another favorite of mine was fried green tomatoes and coleslaw from the cabbage fresh from the garden ☺️😋☺️😋. Often we would forgo meat but she made a killer meat loaf which she served with coleslaw, pinto beans and fried cornbread...she also did perfect fried chicken and fried salmon patties 😋🥰😋🥰 For dessert she often made banana pudding 🍌😋👍 She loved to cook and it showed...it wasn’t unusual to have the neighborhood kids I played with join in for lunch and dinner which always made her happy. If we had leftovers she would “make a plate” for me to carry to neighbors... Times have changed 😞😞😞

[@jeromemckenna7102]

I am considerably older than Deana, but our breakfasts were similar. Unlike Deana, I liked shreded wheat. Our main meal was the evening meal, even if we called it 'supper' rather than dinner.

[@BearStar1]

American Meat Loaf is made with ground beef and served in most restaurants with mashed potatoes & gravy and green beans on the side , sometimes buttered sweet corn, or glazed carrots.

[@estrelladoradomarin8543]

I'm from Colorado, but my grandparents and father are from Mexico. So for dinner I would have enfrijoladas, tortas (with chorizo, eggs, and beans), burritos, fideo, caldo de pollo (chicken noodle soup), papas (fried patatos), etc. We also had eggs and beans, macoroni and cheese, pasta, pizza at times, tacos, etc. I think hamburgers and hot dogs were for some "special" occasions, like parties, 4th of July, etc. Depending on the meal, for the sides we would have rice, vegetables, fruit, cottage cheese with pineapple, mashed potatoes and corn, toasted bolio bread with butter. For dessert we would have arroz con leche, popsicles, takis, doritos with valentina, pastries from the panadería, fresas con crema (strawberries with cream, coconut, raisins, and pecans), and that's all I can remember.

[@Mephistokles333]

I grew up in Mecklenburg. Depending in where we ate ( At Home ort At my grandparents place) we had a Lot of diffrent, but typical german meals. Nearly all the Times we had potato-based meals, for example cooked peas and carrots (mischgemüse) and Schnitzel or Kotelett. Senfei (mustard egg) was and still is one of my favourites. We offen had the east-germany (and truly right) Version of jägerschnitzel ( thick panned jagdwurst slices) withe noodels and tomatosauce. On sundays or at my grandparents we always had the fency meals. Braten ( roasted duck, rabbit or wild meat) withe Knödel and Rotkohl (cooked red cabbage) We also had fish, nearly once or twice a week ( we live near a lake, a professional fisherman was our neighbour and Half of my Family where Hobby fisherman) we also ate very healthy. (Most of the time) we lived in a farm, my grandparents, Who also lived Therese had a gute garden with lotsen of vegetables and fruit trees. Basicly we normal gad german meals. Later that changed a bit (After the "Mauerfall") we ate nice and noodles Moore often but that where the fancy food optional. Today, when I cool for myself I cool the nostalgic meals from my childhood as well as various dishes from diffrent cultures. I really like to Experiment in the kitchen but I am glad I learnt to cook from my mum and my grandma (because grandmas coocking is the best) ^.^

[@sw6428]

We only had meat on Sunday ...roasted chicken or fish or schnitzel or rouladen or sauerbraten or kohlrouladen or hackbraten or koenigsberger klopse or gulash or rinderbraten...was always a special meal...with a set table (tablecloth and plates and cutlery layed out perfectly).coldcuts and cheese during the week for dinner and broetchen on Saturday with cheese and gekochtem schinken 🙂

[@jeanjohnson8492]

Meatloaf, Spaghetti and meat sauce, beef roast and pork loin with veggies, beef stroganoff, bbq chicken, fried chicken, roast cornish hens, baked ham, pork chops, and steak. All served with veggies and some type of potatoes like scalloped or mashed, and a green salad. No dessert except on Sundays. We also had fruit. My parents also to take out their 6 children to the Dairy Queen for ice cream a lot in the summer. Sometimes on the weekends, my mom would make hamburgers and hotdogs for dinner, along with baked beans and potato salad. Sunday dinner was a big meal we ate after coming home from church. Fried Chicken and baked ham, along with all kinds of side dishes and of course, dessert. We purchased our lunch at school except for in elementary school. We took ham sandwiches, 2 cookies, an apple, and carrot and celery sticks. My mother made our breakfast during the week. She usually made bacon or sausage and we had cereal like Raisin Bran or Cheerios and orange juice and toast. But both of my parents worked, so she was very organized. We also lived across the street from the elementary school and 3 blocks to the junior high school. High school we rode a bus and lunch was a selection from a hot lunch, pizza, burgers, etc. Weekend breakfasts were made by my dad and were usually scrambled eggs, home fries or grits, country ham or scrapple, fried applies and corn bread. We rarely went out to eat (there were six kids and my two parents). Trips to McDonalds were a very rare treat.

[@gloriastone3211]

Growing up in Canada (living in US now) it was cereal for breakfast, weekend breakfast would be bacon or sausages, eggs, pancakes. Took sandwiches for school lunch. Supper could be chili, meat and potatoes, pork chops, pasta, meatloaf. Also being of Ukrainian descent, we would often have perogies too and Ukrainian food food holidays.

[@LydiaKnudsen]

I am an American with a German mother. Shepards pie would go over soooo big in Germany.

[@alexmaran1987]

Since I married my American wife and we moved to Austria I tried a lot of American dishes. We cooked together Brunswick Stew, Gumbo or Fried Chicken. All of my wife’s favorite foods. A PBJ ( peanut butter jelly sandwich) is a snack I take very often to lunch ! We also cook lots of Italian, German and Austrian dishes together.

[@Fenchrisw0lf]

In Southwest Germany we have a dish which is very simular to Quiche, Zwiebelkuchen (onion cake). I love it. Traditional we combine it with drinking a glass of Federweisser.

[@shadowlink3339]

It depends on what time period. Young child: cereal, eggs and bacon, toast with cheese, oatmeal, spaghetti O's, Mac and cheese, grilled cheese, beefaroni, chicken, hotdogs, PB & J, frozen or canned veggies on the side or in the dish. Usually a couple nights a week I'd get fast food, cuz my mom was a single mom and didn't always want to cook. Preteen/teen: I did some of the cooking: a lot of meats usually grilled, lamb, steaks, BBQ chicken, BBQ ribs, shake n bake pork chops (baked), shrimp, fish, goulash, meatloaf with tomatoes, spaghetti with homemade meatballs and Italian sausage and garlic bread, casseroles, chicken wings, hamburgers, hotdogs, potato salad, homemade macaroni salad, mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, rice, bean soup, garlic noodles, homemade fries, veggies. For dessert there were cookies, ice cream, or pies. On holidays we had leg of lamb, ham, turkey, steaks (not all at the same time). With "yams" from a can, corn, mashed potatoes, homemade pickles, cranberry sauce, rolls, veggies. For dessert some apple or cherry pie, or a homemade chocolate pudding layer pie, pumpkin pie (sometimes all at the same time) Now I'm a vegetarian, so mostly veggies. But most of the above menu I ate for 33 years and of course the stuff I ate as a kid was also eaten as a teen. I'm 36 and feel better with my current lifestyle of eating.

[@duvidel_3743]

I am from Switzerland and the roasted chicken is pretty common here as well, only we call it 'poulet im ofä' (=Hähnchen im Ofen). It was and still is one of my favorite dishes.

[@blissfuldw]

My stepfather didn't have the most extensive palette. My mom rarely branched out, and pretty much kept to the same 10ish meals on rotation (same meat/veg every time it was made). The only time I ate something different was when I either ate at a friends house, or when I went away to boarding school for high school. We rarely ate fast food (maybe 1x a month) or went out to eat (well I didn't but my parents did). We ordered pizza 1x a month probably, and that was when we had my older step siblings over. I left home at 18 and pretty much became a foodie and started to have an extensive palette (and my kids have been exposed to foods of all sorts - especially international foods).

[@stephaniejawara2021]

I‘m 55 years old and we ate peanutbutter Sandwiches for breakfast a lot at home in Germany . Our main meal was also the dinner , for lunch we just had salads or fruits.

[@thomaswolf2896]

Erdnußbutter? In den 70ern? War bei uns vollkommen unbekannt. Vielleicht in Regionen mit amerikanischen Soldaten, aber anderswo gab's das schlicht nicht.

[@stephaniejawara2021]

@@thomaswolf2896 doch gab es, auch ohne amerikanische Soldaten in unserer Umgebung. Allerdings ohne Marmelade drauf, wir nahmen die Erdnussbutter, als Nutella Ersatz.

[@joanneburg4159]

Being from a very German area in Wisconsin and having a very German family heritage. We had a lot of Dinner items that had German influence. Pork shanks with cabbage, pork chops, neck bones and sauerkraut. Dinner was our big meal of the day. Breakfast was cereal and fruit. Lunch was a sandwich with chips, a pickle and fruit. Weekend we did have bigger breakfast like bacon and fried eggs or pancakes. You can't go wrong with food as a topic. I think things have changed. it would be interesting to show ages and regions with your meal choices. Thanks from a 60 year old.

[@timriehl1500]

My family is from Pennsylvania but we grew up in Mississippi. Some things my mother would make for dinner or Sunday lunch: fried chicken; tuna casserole (yuck); meatloaf (yum) and mashed potatoes; pork chops, sauerkraut and mashed potatoes with gravy (yum); hamburgers with baked beans and homemade chili with grilled cheese. We rarely ate Italian food because my father didn't like it, but we loved it. He ruled what we ate.

[@gregmuon]

For lunch, PB&J sandwich was most common, but not every day. Other options were tuna, or baloney or other lunch meat, maybe egg salad. But yeah, sandwiches. California here. Hamburgers and hot dogs are special food for summer weekends and holidays.

[@wheelbarrowingforever]

Breakfast: Scrambled Eggs, Grits, and Bacon Shrimp and Grits The Cereals you had Lunch: School Lunch: If I bring it, Uncrustables, Caprisuns, chips, celery and carrots. Maybe an apple. (I mainly brought a lunch in kindergarten and 1st grade. In preschool I got school food.) Now I get school food. Home Lunch: a ham sandwich. Supper (Dinner)(we have a lot more food than this, we usually have something with rice.): Usually something with collards and rice, Something with vegetables as the side such as peas, carrots, corn, lima beans, green beans, Beef tips and rice, Fried Chicken, Pizza, Pasta (any kind, we usually have spaghetti or alfredo), Hamburger Helper, Tacos, Hamburgers, Steak, Hotdogs, and More :D Dessert: We don't usually have desert, but we normally have a bowl of ice cream. Also, I love shepherd's pie, we normally have it on special occasions. I'm from South Carolina.

[@kaitlynneastwood6711]

Deana definitely grew up in a healthier US household lol. A veggie for my family was canned green beans lol. For dinner - we did a lot of corn & potatoes as sides. We had meatloaf a lot, served always with mashed potatoes & probs corn. Spaghetti (red sauce), lasagna, roast beef with potatoes, occasionally we'd have hot dogs (sometimes boiled and sometimes grilled). We had taco night often. A treat was when dad grilled pork chops or STEAK served with potatoes that we made by making aluminum foil pouches, chopping the potatoes with onions & bell peppers & putting a big slab of butter in the foil pouch. then grilling that pouch with the steaks. so good but so fat. We weren't a family that ordered pizza, but i think lots of families do that. For lunches, yeah we'd make a pb&j sandwich with CHIPS, no veggie or fruit slices lol. for lunches we'd also make a lot of frozen pizzas & those frozen kids cuisines & single serving Velveeta mac n cheese microwave cups lol. oh & ramen noodles! Breakfast (healthy) was cereal lol. but we hated cheerios. we liked cocoa puffs, fruity pebbles, cinnamon toast crunch. Other breakfast items were pop-tarts & sometimes toast with butter & cinnamon & sugar sprinkled on it.. omg it's a miracle we weren't fat kids! We loved toaster strudels & toaster scrambles. Our weekend breakfasts were the same as yours - pancakes, bacon/sausage patties, & eggs. I'm hungry now.

[@bartolo498]

Phil at 11:38 This can hardly be stressed too much: Kaffee und Kuchen IS ANOTHER MEAL, NOT DESSERT :D But leave it for the weekend. Although as a kid we had it almost everyday as my father was a teacher, so usually at home in the afternoons and he had sweet tooth. Not with big cream pies etc. but with simple homemade cake, though. The big Torten were reserved for birthdays and similar occasions.

[@stevekrause1556]

Breakfast growing up was eggs or pancakes with fried liver sausage. When we visit our friends in Bingen, they think it is crazy that we fry it. Also, dinner at Grandma's was always summer sausage, cheese and strawberry jam sandwiches.

[@savannahwatson5180]

I definitely grew up on all of the meals you mentioned but I have to say the Shepherd's Pie is my number one favorite!!

[@DeanaandPhil]

🤤💜🤤💜

[@jankrohn2352]

Ich bin aus Norddeutschland und ich liebe es im Frühjahr Grünkohl mit Bauchspeck, Bregenwurst, Kasseler und (karamellisieren) Kartoffeln zu essen

"Healthy" food. All food is healthy. Because without food you die. I love quiche, actually.

[@dennism4508]

German here. I had peanutbutter in my childhood. We mostly mixed it with honey which makes it the stickiest thing I know. However, most times we did not eat it for lunch but breakfast. Today I still buy it from time to time, mostly the one with chunks. For anyone buying it I recommend checking the label. Many "Erdnussbutter"s have sugar added to them and as far as I know only the "Erdnussmus" does only contain peanuts.

[@FleaChristenson]

I grew up in the 70’s and early 80’s. Similar foods to Deana. Lots of hot dogs for supper, as well and Mac n cheese. Lots of salad as well. For breakfast my favorite was cinnamon toast. Often we’d have a hamburger stroganoff for supper. Rice as our starch, being from Louisiana. Red beans and rice on mondays. For snacks we ate a lot of fruit. Apples, raisins, melon, whatever was in season. Plenty of citrus.

[@jamespagdon2998]

We made pies and cakes mostly for special days birthdays anniversaries, holidays etc, i make a great carrot cake with cream cheese icing that people are always asking me to call them when i am making one. I also make apple pies, pumpkin pies, cherry pies, lemon meringue and rhubarb strawberry pies. i used to make 20 different cookies for gifts at Christmas, about three dozen of each kind and more for the favorites people asked for like chocolate chip, rum cherry slices, almond spritz cookies and chocolate cream cheese cookies. to name a few. I think Deana would love the chocolate cream cheese cookies with bittersweet chocolate and chocolate sprinkles because the texture is not crunchy.

[@ann_ig_staticseconds]

3:44 What a cute illustration!😄😊💛

[@TheRetroGuy2000]

American, here. For dinner, we would typically have some sort of pork dish with mashed potatoes and a green vegetable. On the weekends, though, we might order pizza.

[@Freundinnen100]

I grow up with bread with cheese and jam as breakfast. My mum ate this and made me some, too. I love this combination since today. Some other German know this?

[@trexation]

I still to this day eat peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches and bacon for breakfast; with scrambled eggs and coffee or hot cholocate. But only on the weekends. At school my mum always made me some sort of sandwich and added either veg or fruit and some sort of cereal bar. Since both my parents were working I was in charge of lunch during the week. It mostly consisted of either pre cooked dishes I heated up or microwave dishes from BoFrost. Dinner was the big event where my parents cooked and stuff.

[@GoliathAngelus]

In the Netherlands peanutbutter and or jam sandwich is very common. Some go a step further and put chocolate sprinklers on top with the peanutbutter or with out the peanutbutter

[@maryoom0087]

We had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches all the time when I was a kid - I’m from Saudi Arabia

[@SpeakUpWorld]

I thought that was an American thing ONLY

[@DennisfromMunich]

I grew up in the west of Germany. Our main meal as a family would also always be dinner. It was the only time everyone came together to eat. Lots of meat dishes like cutlets were served, often with potatoes. Apart from that we had a lot of pasta, both creamy sauces and Bolognese and I am still a sucker for both! I still to the day cannot start my day without bread for breakfast, usually two slices. What I can really recommend is widening your die with Influences from other countries. Those American dishes sound amazing. I cooked a few recipes from the US already and since my wife is Brazilian we have some Brazilian spicing included in our cuisine as well.

[@akiahara]

The only thing we have often in my house in California that Deana mentioned was pasta, but it's almost never alfredo. Meatloaf is rare, but I make it with turkey, we hardly ever eat pork or beef. Never ever roast chickens. Definitely all over the place as far as international foods though. We eat a lot of Japanese, Chinese, and Italian inspired dishes (as adults with our own children). Sometimes we might have burgers or hot dogs if we want a really easy dinner. I ate completely different as a kid though, super picky. Going to restaurants happens around once a week or so for us now.

[@forkless]

I'm Dutch and grew up on PBJ -- and PBS, peanutbutter and sambal bajak (I have Indonesian heritage) or PBA peanutbutter and appelstroop (Apfelkraut/Apple syrup) -- in the early 70's. Also, pancakes here are more of a lunch and dinner time thing and unlike American pancakes they are not fluffy and roughly the size a medium-sized pizza, so no stacks of those!

[@DeanaandPhil]

sounds interesting! I have to try a PBS! :D

[@forkless]

@@DeanaandPhil They are actually really good! I must say the PB here (Calve brand) is far less sweet so that may help the taste. But it's somewhat reminiscent of Indonesian/Malaysian peanut satay sauce.

[@rlmaiden5722]

This going to be REALLY long. My father grew up in the US on both the east and west coasts, my mother is southern. They lived in England for a few years. We lived for three years in the southwest, then we were raised in Hawai'i. My dad was a foodie before the term existed. So, regular, weekday, dinner dishes: *Slumgullion, a.k.a. Johnny Marzetti (browned ground beef, then add chopped: onion, green bell pepper, celery; add cooked macaroni, tomato sauce, canned tomatoes), served with cornbread. *Chop steak (stir fry steak, vegetables) with rice, salad *Swiss Steak (onions, mushroom sauce), mashed potatoes, peas, salad *Creamed chicken, rice, corn, broccoli, cheese sauce, salad *Sauerkraut and spareribs (county style ribs, not actual spare ribs), mashed potatoes, peas *Pork chops, fried potatoes with onions, beans, spinach, corn bread, sometimes scrambled eggs, applesauce *Shoyu chicken, rice, salad *Fried round steak, boiled potatoes w/au jus, vegetables, bread and butter *Fried chicken gizzards, hearts, and livers, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, salad *SOS (creamed minced beef on toast) *Fried rice, vegetables, kim chee *Tempura shrimp, vegetables, Japanese pickles *Chow fun (Hawaiian style, Sun Noodles) *Tacos, fixings, Mexican rice *Lasagne, bread, salad *Chili, rice, crackers *BELT sandwiches (bacon, egg, lettuce and tomato) *Luau pork, rice, vegetables, etc. *Ham, scalloped potatoes, spinach, sliced onion, rye bread, salad *Adobo, rice, salad If in a hurry: *Boiled hotdogs (yuck) *Cream of asparagus on toast *Scrambled egg sandwiches *Denver Omelette *Saimin, fried SPAM *Breakfast foods (cooked) Weekends, Sundays, seasonal, occasional: *Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, gravy, potatoes, green beans...sometimes homemade ice cream *Pork roast, scalopped potatoes, green vegetables, rolls, applesauce *Spaghetti Bolognese, garlic bread *New England Clam Chowder *Fried chicken, cold potato salad or hot German potato salad, deviled eggs, watermelon *Grilled steak, sometimes lobster (my dad had a diving business), salad *Teriyaki, fried wonton, rice, vegetables *Rainbow Trout, lemon, potatoes, frenched green beans, salad *Catfish, hushpuppies, french fries, frenched green beans, salad, watermelon *Veal cutlets, potatoes, vegetables, salad *Ahi poke, rice *Goose, turkey, duck, squab--feast/holidays *Huli-huli chicken *Luau: Kalua pig, luau leaf, rice, fresh pineapple, poi, long rice, more... English Tea (after Sunday's nap 😁). Lunches (besides school lunch): *Grilled cheese, tomato soup *PB&J (peanut butter & jam, usually blackberry) *Tuna salad sandwiches *egg salad sandwiches *Tomato sandwiches Weekday Breakfast: *Cold cereals *Oatmeal *Cream of Wheat *Rice Weekend/Sunday Breakfasts; Any combination of the following: *Pancakes *Waffles *French toast *English muffins *Fried potatoes and onion *Hash browns *Rice *Linguica *Bacon *Fried SPAM *Sausage, link or patty *Eggs: *soft boiled *poached on toast *over easy *scrambled *Denver omelette *Fried rice omelette *Corned beef hash and eggs * Fresh fruit (could be any time): grapefruit, bananas (apple banana for preference), guava, strawberry guava, pineapple, leitchi nut, lilikoi, orange, loquat, black fig, kumquat, mango, papaya--whatever was in season or grew in the yard, ours or neighbor's (we all shared). I really miss this. And juice--POG (passiofruit-orange-guava). When, on the mainland, kids had milk time and maybe cookies (schools used to offer a mid-morning snack), we had guava juice and poi. Yum. If I could have, I would have traded poi for cookies, though. Me, when I lived in Hawai'i, for/at any meal: kim chee, rice, linguica (Portuguese sausage), tomatoes at lunch or dinner, eggs at breakfast. Also, a good potato-mac salad goes with any lunch or dinner. Desserts: special occasions *Devil's Food cake *Angelfood cake *Fried hand pies *PIES!--cherry, apple, peach, pecan, custard, blackberry, chocolate, banana cream *cheesecake (with graham cracker/chopped macadamia nut crust. Anytime (store bought): *Chocolate dobosh cake, or ANY dobosh cake *Dream Cake Snacks/hors d'oeuvres: fried wonton, raw beef, mochi crunch (mixed arare), crack seed (li hing mui--seasoned dried/wet plums, lemon peel

[@michaelvonfriedrich3924]

RL MAIDEN you were not lying it was really long 🤣👍

[@pinkythechihuahua3156]

OMG someone who knows what Johnny Mazetti is!!!! It's like lasagna but not with lasagna pasta. We used elbow pasta. The cheese was cheddar, longhorn and lots of it. Its kinda like chili but not spicy.

[@jgarland3581]

I think this might be the longest comment EVER😹

[@DeanaandPhil]

Wowww!! 😍🤤 So dinner at your place?? 😋 Sounds like an delicious childhood!

[@smashsamson1819]

Jep, the longest post i've ever seen.

[@ttapioca5]

I would say Italian, Mexican & Chinese foods were always extremely popular choices growing up here in the US. I would say Vietnamese food is now becoming very popular here as well thanks to Pho especially. I come from a multicultural background, so I ate a combo of stereotypical American foods, German food and Armenian & other Middle Eastern foods (from Lebanon especially) growing up. I definitely ate the culturally specific foods more when I was at my grandparents houses though, so I loaded up on traditional German and Armenian food during my visits to my grandparents on either side of my family. Like Deana, my family was also all about the “health” food cereal & no soda was allowed at home, so I drank water & juice. We didn’t really have dessert unless we randomly had ice cream for a treat. I really feel like the only stereotypical American foods I ate were things I didn’t previously identify as such, like peanut butter. I can’t live without my various nut butters! Almond, cashew, peanut, etc. Bacon and fried eggs or scrambled eggs are always delicious but I certainly don’t eat them daily.

[@gregoryannunziato7698]

We had all different types of Cuisine Italian, Chinese Mexican, German growing up in NYC

[@marenbrekke]

Didn't you eat any kind of hotdishes or casseroles? That's what we ate at least three times a week. We also ate school lunches and rarely brought lunch from home. There was a lot of pizza and macaroni and cheese consumed on our house as well. Breakfast on the weekend was usually a big meal as well as Sunday dinner. That usually was a roast of some kind with potatoes and two kinds of vegetables or salad.