Taste Testing Global STREET FOOD | 2025

Today the normals are competing in a taste test challenge with street food dishes from around the world! Can they guess the correct countries from taste and some subtle clues?!
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[@Lammington2]

Jamie's faith that us Kiwis give inventive names is very sweet. Not informed by our ways at all, but very sweet.

[@davidthompson2283]

He needs to come and visit us

[@rosie4queen]

Cheese roll, corn fritters, meat on chips…. 😅

[@sandramonk1]

​@@rosie4queenpotato top pie

[@crazyhorse9298]

Jamies faith that they include something from New Zealand or Australia is also very high. Mostly because I feel like our countries popular dishes aren't really too widely known, unless they take off virally like Fairy Bread and such, and some are merely copycats of other dishes around the worldwide like the HSP, Dim Sim (Even tho they are sort of different), Cheese roll (Welsh Rarebit).Then again, they could be avoiding causing a diplomatic row when they claim something the other country (normally Kiwis) think invented it (When they didn't) anyway. Think the Chocolate fish, Chicko Roll, Boil up, Savoury Toast, Maori Bread, Damper, Anzac Biscuit, Lolly Cake, and Dim Sim would be some decent shots at representing the Anzac region. They could also look into Bush Tucker, Kangaroo being obvious but recipes using the various fruits and seeds like Quangdong Cake would also be good.

[@Christine005]

@@crazyhorse9298 OMG I could go a Chiko Roll right now

[@Jay-yr9oi]

Playing off Jamie's logic, you should absolutely do a all-Africa, all-Asia, all-Central America, all-Europe version, but don't tell them until the end

[@CiderDivider]

An episode of UK/Irish/Welsh/IoM/Scotland foods!! So close to home, but surely there are things that would be absolute curveballs. Imagine them not getting the points revealed until the end of the episode... :o

[@Jay-yr9oi]

@@CiderDivider versions of dishes with origins in other countries' dishes, but the version presented is explicitly one made in the UK (comparable to what we call "American Chinese food" here)

[@BlackAssasin]

also all USA but they need to guess state!

[@Tongle07]

Or maybe make the first three ones from one continent and the last ones from somewhere else to throw them for a loop.

[@teahouseofforgottenthings]

@@Tongle07 Brilliant! Or how about first two from the same continent, third one from elsewhere to throw them off the scent, then back to the original place for the last one?

[@taheera8849]

I about cried when I saw the first dish--that dish is my childhood, I have so many memories of seeing my grandma fill and stuff those. Still working on getting the pastry right (would love to know how Kush made his!), but it will be worth it to keep that family legacy alive!

[@aveekbh]

Spoiler below... All we know is it's not a samosa, it's the samosa's African cousin.

[@Shadowreaper5]

I love comments like this. When they make a dish and someone comments "I grew up eating this dish". Really makes it feel like a true international community of fans.

[@KosagiNoLegion]

I guessed Ethiopia because there's a dish exactly like it at our local Ethiopian restaurant. I woulda won by miles, I believe. Bet your grandma made some great ones!

[@blinky297]

I love hearing their logic with some of the guesses. Sometimes you're sitting there thinking "wow that was a stupid guess", but then as you listen you're like "oh ya I could totally see that."

[@shanatakoor7986]

GATEAUX PIMENTS!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤ Genuinely so happy to have Mauritius represented! 😊 I’m so impressed that Jamie got it spot on 😂🇲🇺

[@nickzamudio8894]

I smiled so much seeing that bowl reveal

[@MrMikeKuhn]

Loved a few of these ago where you actually showed the maps. Really helped cement where these things were from.

[@BeaMickeyDoodle]

Yes please include maps again. They are so helpful

[@benjaminrude7698]

Made the suggestion for Lefse so long ago. Finally glad to see it in a video. Lefse is great. Thank you for giving a light to a very great Norwegian food.

[@Divig]

The only one I could guess pretty easy😊 /swede

[@farnagain]

I guessed this one immediately! Bless my mother who taught me how to make this. (American in Minnesota with Scandinavian roots)

[@benjaminrude7698]

@farnagain i have a lefse griddle or pan however you say it in storage. It's not the easiest thing to make in the world that's for sure. It's delicate to make it correctly

[@momma636]

Lefse is soo good! A swede here too and i make them often

[@sonkerieckmann7183]

I think I had m first lefse with rakfisk in a small Village near the randsfjord in norway. It was really delicious

[@ethancooper1056]

I absolutely adore the times when Mike has a joke hes really proud of that doesnt land with the other guys. They always land for me, especially when he keeps it going lol

[@brennab7385]

As a Minnesotan, this was a great episode! We have large Somali and Norwegian communities so knew both of those right away!

[@RyanMPLS]

Same. I'm not sure I would have guessed Norway vs. Sweden correctly for lefse but didn't need the cod hint! As kids we nuked them and smear a pat of butter but used cinnamon sugar. And next day mother and aunt, "Where's all the lefse?"

[@FlnkR]

@@RyanMPLS the holiday tradition of them all being gone so quickly after them being made, we used to just use sugar and butter on ours

[@heatherjb6084]

Same!

[@jordanharris5013]

Jamie guessing Maritius is the best guess ever in this series. Well done sir!

[@serenetiv]

When Ben said the last one was dried and preserved like that, my head instantly went to hardtack (clack clack!) and my head also waited for Max' clip xD It's such a running gag and so conditioning xD Other than that, how about some Labskaus? (either with or without the fish and egg or the beetroot mixed in or not, whatever you fancy x3)

[@brucetidwell7715]

😄😄😄 Yay, Max! I'm sure he had NO idea what he was unleashing when he made that B-roll.

[@Christine005]

My head did the same 😂

[@nelli___night]

Labskaus is a great idea. I love it, and the only thing giving away its origin is the name

[@shevahauser1780]

clack- clack 🤪😆​@@brucetidwell7715

[@erinnyren5564]

SO happy to see lefse on the show!! I grew up in the upper Midwest US in a very Norwegian community, and grew up having lefse at the holiday season. I knew it as soon as the cloche was lifted! Thank you for putting a smile on my face ❤

[@al007italia]

I grew up in Oelwein & have been to Nordic Fest in Decorah where I 1st encountered lefse & immediately recognized it. Of course, I also began singing "Just a Little Lefse" which I 1st learned at Nordic Fest.

[@Tusuratopia]

13:05 The completely separate reactions from Mike and Jamie are hilarious. They both realize how far away they are from the point. You can see elation and anguish respectively. Such a funny result from them both. It's like the masks for Comedy and Tragedy. This has got to be one of my favorite segments that you all do. It's very subtly informative while still giving a laugh. Thank you all for finding a way to teach about global food without it becoming a lecture or a chore. You guys(and gals) are amazing.

[@toni_go96]

Jamie's guess of Oman makes me think they've finished shooting the A-Z challenge for the country. I'm so excited for it ❤

[@samini123]

Yeah true but that's also because all I can think is that I would never think of Oman because of my own inability 😂

[@gracekummerfeldt8905]

Love to see lefse included! I’m from America, and every thanksgiving my Norwegian grandma makes lefse with us. We have lefse paddles and rollers that have been handed down through 4 generations

[@rahmathousee1440]

So happy to have finally seen something from Mauritius on Sorted 🤙🏾 Next time do Dhol Puri 🇲🇺

[@Sammysreadingroom]

Oh 100% they need to do Dhol Puri!!! The superior bread in my opinion (although I have to admit I way prefer my auntie’s to the ones I had on the market when I visited😬) I wish I had the time/patience/skill to make them, instead I stock up every time I visit my family haha

[@gulshanroy2]

Exactly

[@rahmathousee1440]

@@Sammysreadingroom that’s exactly what I do now! The technique to perfect them is quite hard

[@MrV4nd4l]

You would/could absolutely have sugar with your lefse :) Sugar and butter is very traditional. I can also recommend it with smoked salmon and cream cheese, or mustard and cold cuts :D

[@Heydoesanybodywannalaugh]

All of those sound amazing, but we always stuck to butter and sugar.

[@efretheim]

Absolutely! We kids often had them with butter sugar and maybe cinnamon, while the adults would just have them with butter and maybe cinnamon. By my dad was really weird. He preferred them with mashed potato! We were all like, "Dad! They're already mashed potato!".

[@richbuilds_com]

I hope you never run out of new dishes to try for this. Great series, great episode!

[@noddler217]

Ben: 'That is a lovely logic, Jamie.' Me: 'However, it is almost entirely wrong!' CALLED IT! Best laugh I've had all day.

[@TarminiMootoosamy]

Yayy so happy seeing Mauritius represented ❤ Been waiting for this!

[@michael90cr86]

Exactly and what a dish to start with! 😋

[@valap2]

My son makes us cook one country's food for a week. Last week was Turkey. Definitely watching this for ideas.

[@sandramonk1]

We did something similar. Once a week we have dinner with friends. We would look up a country that had a national holiday/significant day that day and cook a meal from that country. If possible we would do 3 courses and have wine or beer from there as well. We learned a lot.

[@LizzieBeezie]

Ohhh never thought would've heard from my home country Mauritius. Gateaux Piments is so good in the morning, piping hot, in a hot buttered bun, with your cup of tea or coffee. Really good. Btw the Lefse looks a loooot like the Roti we eat there too.

[@NavnUkjent]

The taste of lefse is quite a bit different from the roti and other flatbreads that I have tried, due to the potatoes.

[@LizzieBeezie]

@@NavnUkjent Does it taste like "aloo paratha" then? Coz it looks really similar tbh.

[@DonOblivious]

@@LizzieBeezie No, it's not spiced and the potatoes are part of the dough rather than a filling like aloo paratha. I've eaten many potato flatbreads and lefse is the only one that tastes like lefse IMO because of the way it's prepared. The cooking is somewhere in-between a roti and dosa, but there's a specific rolling pin and tongs and pan if you want to make it traditionally, but if you know how to make roti you could make a reasonable lefse by switching from atta to white flour and the right level of starchiness of mashed potatoes. That's basically what these guys did in the video. Lefse making equipment costs around $200 if you buy it new.

[@LizzieBeezie]

@ Oh i see. Yeah i was looking online for the recipe and they use mostly All purpose flour for Lefse instead of wheat flour for roti/paratha.

[@dddaaannnn]

So happy to see Mauritian food on here too 🇲🇺 it would be fun for them to try Napolitaines or Dhal Puri

[@IronGin201]

Lefse is more of the sweeter variety, meanwhile the one thing you served looks more like a lompe, which is excellent with a hotdog or other savioury food.

[@bjrgfjran312]

Yeah. This is lompe, not lefse.

[@NavnUkjent]

Lefse can be both sweet and savory, it depends on what you are planning to use if for. The name also changes quite a bit depending on the region. In Rogaland I rarely hear anyone call it "lompe".

[@bjrgfjran312]

@@NavnUkjent I am from Rogaland

[@galeris]

Yeah, seems like they mixed lefse and lompe here. Never had lefse without sugar in the cinnamon/ butter mix (or lompe with cinnamon at all). Also looks more like lompe than lefse

[@pskatoy]

Hard to say, that could be lefse, but usually when íthink of Lefse I picture something more ala Vestlandslfse. What they had in this video looked more like what we around my town call poteteskake

[@gigiroelant7299]

Perhaps, maybe not a normal episode but an event, you guys could play "Thank goodness you're here." You guys are some of my favorite Brits, and I'd love to see your reaction.

[@justforyoualwayz]

As someone who has never been to Norway, astonishingly I knew that was Lefse. When I was a teenager, the Disney Channel did a concert with a band from Norway called M2M. I remember watching it during which they ate Lefse at Epcot. I was so fascinated by it, I tried it shortly thereafter on my family vacation to Disney World. It was so good and so excited to see it on here.

[@NavnUkjent]

If you want to try it again, it's fairly easy to make. You can find plenty of good recipes online.

[@iwillruletheworldyay]

i knew cause i got alot of online friends from swedan and norway and such

[@virtually_dysfunctional6492]

I got the first dish bang on! 😃 The berebere and the variety of meats (originally nomadic people) gave it away for me. I’ve spent some time in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul), which have a large Somali community. I love learning cultural and historical facts through this series along with the yummy food, and I’m finding myself getting more and more correct answers. Please keep them coming! I enjoy all the formats, including the A-Z series, and it would be great to see the Menus that Made History format return sometime. Sorted’s become an important part of daily life since I found you guys in 2021. Thanks for all you do! ❤️

[@kit6024]

I'd love if you did an episode talking to a chef with either a visual impairment or a different mobility issue discussing some of the tools and techniques they might use! As a blind man I for one know there are some very cool low-vision kitchen gadgets which you can pick up from the RNIB - my personal favourite being the liquid level indicator (though if it's not hot liquid, I'd typically just use my thumb :D)

[@carmeldebreuil6204]

There is a chef with mobility issues who has a stand on a track and whizzes around his kitchen! The company is called standing ovation. Very cool!

[@aejlindvall]

Great suggestion!

[@ArielK1987]

To me street food cooks are the unsung heroes of the food industry.

[@ttoctam3]

I'm not sure if unsung is quite apt. Historically and anthropologically speaking, street food is essentially the center of cultural food evolution.

[@katherinebooth647]

Fellow Bahamian here, the second I herd goat pepper I was floored! I still do not know why we call habano that!

[@MrNathansdad]

As soon as I saw it I yelled "Fire engine!" 🇧🇸😂

[@erikforsell6605]

Becase "habanero" literally means "from Havanna", and Bahamians wouldn't ever have thought of that pepper as being "Havannan" since it was native to the Bahamas as well. So goat pepper is most likely a much older term than Habanero.

[@Twilit777]

yaaaaaaaaaa bey!!!

[@rutheglinton1117]

Great video guys :) Just a tiny little thing, seeing Ben's reflection behind the lads was very distracting, took me ages to work out it was Ben, then I couldn't stop waiting for it lol

[@Bazza-Bazza]

Given how long they spent filming in East London, I'm surprised no Bangladeshi food has cropped up yet. I would put beguni, Aloo chop, or handesh forward to give to the lads.

[@OneOnDruryLane]

Loving Ebber's salt and pepper hair!

[@JoMad53]

and Jamie…. we are all growing old together!

[@violetskies14]

I think it looks nice when men let their natural salt grow in. My grandad has been dying his hair for 20 years and we call him Lego head because it looks literally like Lego hair. My dad is letting his salt grow in and it looks great (and mum loves it).

[@soles_by_b3218]

Im from Norway and ive never heard of eating lefse with just butter and cinnamon. We usually eat it with butter and cinnamon-sugar or we eat it savory with cured meats

[@TorIverWilhelmsen]

Yes, it seems up there with when Good Muthical Morning claimed Norway drank coffee with egg added...

[@sondremonge3312]

Feel like theyve sort of mixed up lefse and flattbrød here, and instead made/described some sort of hybrid

[@Swagg23Kid]

Might be a North American thing then because there are multiple stores over here which have butter and cinnamon as the base for it. A place I really fancy in Toronto has this apple butter topping that goes with it as a desert that is just to die for. Ive almost never had it savory so something to definitely try.

[@sonkerieckmann7183]

Just wrote IT in a comment before. i are my First lefse in a Village near Randsfjord. I ate it with rakfisk and sour cream If I remember well. I am from Germany

[@NavnUkjent]

I agree that it's probably more common to have them with butter, cinnamon and sugar, but isn't too strange. Personally I liked to eat my grandmothers lefse (or potetkake) with cinnamon and sugar, as I wasn't a fan of butter.

[@sndsilence5504]

My faaavorite series from yall. Mike and Jamie’s banter is great.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

19:12 THE CORNISH PASTYZZA

[@leslieherring381]

I had to laugh at Jamie's guess of New Zealand for the Fire Engine dish. I’m an American living in NZ, and I was raised by Texans, so I love my grits. I’ve never found a source to buy them here in NZ, so every time I visit the US, I bring a couple packets back with me. Every time, I’ve had to explain what grits are to the Biosecurity/Customs agent, and in 16 years here I’ve never met a Kiwi that knew what they are or had ever tasted them. Based on the corned beef and goat peppers, my guess was Dominica, so I was at least in the right region.

[@brazilianseac]

Minneapolis has the highest population of Somalis outside of Somalia, so Sambusa is fairly common here. Historically, Minnesota was settled by Scandinavian populations, so lefse is also very common and easy to find. It felt like half this episode was just going through Minneapolis restaurant options. 😂

[@veridico84]

As far as I'm aware, the highest population of Somalis outside of Somalia is in Ethiopia and then Kenya. Maybe the highest population of Somali people in the USA is Minneapolis... but the USA is not the world despite what American think. Edit: I just did some research, the uk and Sweden both have higher populations of Somali people than Minnesota.

[@ericswann1417]

A Minneapolis resident, I recognized the lefse immediately.

[@richmondvand147]

and its just a thin potato pancake so you have some germanic influence in there too ie northern europe

[@Thennix]

@@veridico84 Indeed Somalis all over the place even in the north part of sweden.

[@ObscuraDeCapra]

@@veridico84 And if you weren't in a hurry to be a dick, you could actually have provided some better information. The United States has the highest number of Somali immigrants outside of neighboring countries, ~220,000. The Twin Cities area has the largest number of Somali immigrants in the United States. There's around 65,000 Somalis living in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, which is more than a lot of countries total. Minnesota is the 8th largest population of Somalis outside of Somalia, and that's including the nearby countries of Kenya, Ethiopia, and Yemen. It's also the second largest population that isn't on the African continent. But you were too busy being a LOLMURICA dick to actually provide the correct context.

[@natashabeachy5159]

One of my favorite formats! I love learning all the facts/clues along with the dish. So so good!!!

[@lpchaon]

I’m a Norwegian-American in South Dakota and have had lefse my whole life. I’ve never heard of only using butter and cinnamon. For my family, it’s always been butter and sugar with optional cinnamon.

[@jeffhall2411]

i only know what that is because my x-wife's family was from north Dakota and ate them... I would kill for some of those.. So good ...

[@hellandharvester]

My Norwegian family being from North Dakota also always ate Lefsa with butter and sugar..

[@michellepetersen5121]

Same from Minnesota here and always with butter and sugar/cinnamon.

[@michaelweaklend]

The Norwegian heritage shines bright in Minnesota. Lefse was always a big deal for the lutheran church ladies. I remember sneaking into the big church kitchen to swipe hot lefse and smothering it in butter and sugar.

[@ShakerPro72]

My Minnesota family always ate lefse with butter and brown sugar, sometimes white sugar. Love it!

[@SamanthaDavis-d3v]

I live in the US and lefse is a family tradition in my home around Christmas time. Love it!!

[@WarriorHeart2024]

I almost choked when Mike asked why Ben had drawn a Tetris Willy.

[@tlhod3409]

Ben's reflection over Jamie's shoulder drove me nuts...I kept thinking we were looking into a classroom. The Norwegian lefse look really yummy!

[@krisonmission]

That drove me nuts too!

[@scropionmaximus]

love to see you try some south african street foods like, Boerie Roll, Walkie Talkies (guys will love this one :P ) Vetkoek en Mince, or Bunny Chows

[@marlenestander944]

As a fellow saffa, def a boerie roll! Maybe use the walkie talkies for a poker face challenge hahaha

[@numrii]

The last one threw me for a loop, even as a swede I thought for sure I've had this and guessed Sweden with the boys. I even had the first syllable on the tip of my tongue. And then when it was revealed I remembered where I'd had it :D

[@advocatusdiaboli5344]

I think Mike jinxed it at the start 😂

[@benboocock8662]

I’d love to have a second channel or episode where Kush and the team talk through the research and making of this stuff. Would love to make Lefse now 😍

[@qv81]

Literally i am watching this episode eating lefse with cinnamon!

[@undisclosedperson3871]

I was in the Bahamas recently after a food tour of the US south, and heading down to Venezuela. Fire Engine was on the top of my list of foods to try - yours looked much better than the takeaway versions from local restaurants. Big fan of them though!

[@charlesrovira5707]

@19:52 _Where else?_ Try *American Indian Cooking.* You can literally go from *Pole* (Nunavut) to *Pole* (Tiera del Fuego) with stops in *Mexico* and *Bolivia.* Nunavut -> Caribou steak (with northern grasses, flowers and lichen fried in seal blubber.) Mexico -> Barracuda (with Agave plant frond _salata, tomatl_ and maize.) Bolivia -> _Llama picaña_ steak (go wild with the pampas herbs.) _Tierra del Fuego_ -> Trout steaks (with seaweed salad.)

[@emilyschrader23]

Lefse was so interesting! Minnesota has a huge Norse/Swedish culture and we eat lefse mostly as a dessert with butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

4:04 My first guess was actually Kenya because they make Masala Chips and Beef Keema Samosa well known in their gas stations.

[@Tusuratopia]

I feel like the Commonwealth of the Mariana Islands would be a great place to use in this type of format. CMNI is in the pacific ocean and influenced by Japan and the Philippines and many other East Asian countries. The islands are out at sea and were used during WW2 as American naval stations. Used for sending bombers to Japan. There is so much recent history (50-100 years) at these islands that you could make multiple segments and videos about them. You could do an entire series about the CMNI.

[@jonah64]

I grew up eating lefse during the holidays. We ate them both savory and sweet. Eating them with smoked salmon or just butter and sugar.

[@NavnUkjent]

Try using it with hot dogs and plenty of condiments. It's less of a mess, as everything is wrapped into one package, and it also has less carbs if that is something you worry about.

[@amyhill3669]

These videos are some of my faves!!! I do have a suggestion for a future video(s) - batch cooking/meal prep. I don't cook from scratch every evening. I make it all Sunday eve for the week to come. Inspo and hacks and tricks for this style of cooking would be ace! Likely it has already been suggested somewhere along the line already 😅

[@PokhrajRoy.]

11:50 Jamie’s logic? FLAWLESS

[@maxineb9598]

The most stupid choices of countries ever.

[@vlvtgoldmine]

it was cute but terrible lmfao

[@Thermalions]

I'm no international traveler, so maybe grits is more widespread that America, but it is way off base with Australia/New Zealand.

[@ContinentalCooking69]

12:49 was too proud I have no clue on this 😂😂😂

[@TheMooseFromTheRoom]

"Pandekager" or "Æbleskiver with jam and icing suger, or even "Risalamande" from Denmark could also throw them off in the next duel 😁 Especially the last, as it was i ventede by a french chef, in Copenhagen. And now we basically all eat it at Christmas time 😁

[@Wishbone1977]

If any of them read the comments, it probably won't throw them off now 😉

[@HweeTengLee]

I love hearing the logic behind the guesses. I'd never think of these reasons!

[@someonesnemesis]

One of my best results thanks to..well fighting over who makes the best 'somosa', Ben's clues and then KZbins own Beryl..3/4 ain't bad

[@SweetHopeCookies]

I make 20 pounds of potatoes worth of lefse every December to share sparingly with friends and family. I’ve always been a butter and jam lefse eater but this year discovered the perfect pairing of lefse with Biscoff Spread.

[@SamSphinx]

I would like to politely let Mike know that Mexico is a North American country :P To be fair, I don't know if a massive portion of Americans know this. Signed, a Canadian.

[@melindacohea127]

Thus the argument for "The Gulf of America". Canadians and the US get to be part of it too.

[@michaelu3055]

​@@melindacohea127 And therefore the Indian ocean needs to be renamed South asian ocean

[@yadiracamacho499]

@@melindacohea127 are they trying to say it's not America meaning the US? Now "America" only for North America, or us in South America get part of the gulf too? They should call it Gulf of North America then

[@seanspurrell7514]

They barely know we're north of them!

[@melindacohea127]

@ I agree with you. I like the idea of North America better.

[@skivy5116]

Love seeing Norway in these videos

[@asgeirsoe]

I want to see their take on smalahove😂

[@skivy5116]

@ OH me too

[@Serenity_Dee]

… who wants to tell Jamie that "fire engine" and "firetruck" are both used interchangeably in the US. 19:09 That history cannot be correct because the Romans had flatbread long before they were in Britain.

[@rainzerdesu]

Fire truck and fire engine are technically different. The engine is the one that carries water and hoses, the truck carries the ladders

[@telebubba5527]

It's not about the flatbread, but about the dressing on top and the way it is cooked. That said, there is an early depiction of a pizza on a wall in Pompeii. Without the South American ingredients, of course. I think 'Tasting History' made a video on it, if I remember well.

[@Serenity_Dee]

@telebubba5527 Yes, Max talked about it an episode and made something very close to it. I had that in mind when I made the above comment.

[@telebubba5527]

@ I love his show too. Really interesting about the history of dishes.

[@jwessel1969]

Not to mention the fact that the Vikings were around much later than the Romans.

[@melindacohea127]

Definitely trying Lefse with all that mashed potato leftover in my fridge. I would love for Ben and Kush to do a segment on "Flatbreads". It is so global, with so many varieties to try!

[@BB-n0p3]

Oooh, love these! Would also love to see Estonian food get some love. For street food, lägaburger must be tried!

[@HectiXGaming]

Great episode guys! Was really hoping at the end Jamie would of handed Mike a whisk saying "Here's that whisk you were looking for. I whipped your ass instead!" xD

[@Blondie42]

5:07 Have the gents ever tried hush puppies? The food not the shoe

[@lilaoceane]

For all the times they’ve visited southern US states I’d find it hard to believe that they haven’t tried them at least once

[@demonicbunny3po]

They should also try the shoe. I’m sure Ben will love them.

[@WarriorHeart2024]

Hush puppies are a whole food group down here in NC

[@Blondie42]

@WarriorHeart2024 Wonderful then you can eat one, wear one, and shop in the 3rd.

[@AudriaOdom-fr2zs]

You guys are like sunshine, I swear, you really brighten my day, thank you👏👏👏💯🔥🕊💙✨

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Suggestion guys: please try Colombian food! We here have amazing options! 🇨🇴🇨🇴

[@heatherjb6084]

As a Minnesotan, I pegged it as lefse immediately! Central north USA has a LOT of Scandinavian heritage and lefse was a common snack my grandma had around when I was younger.

[@Corsair721]

Whoever told you that potet lefse is a common street food in Norway, definitly fooled you. The most common street food in Norway is either a kebab or a hotdog. yours sincerly a Norwegian

[@anderslefebure-henriksen9842]

Although to be fair it is the second most common thing to serve around a hot dog here.

[@NavnUkjent]

Variations of lefse is quite common in places like petrol stations, kiosks and on ferries. I would say that it qualifies as street food. Remember that this is just one variant, and that it extremely common to have it wrapped around a hot dog.

[@Corsair721]

@ I know all these things, the point I was attempting to make, was that a lefse, or spessfic a potet lefse on its own, is not a very common thing to just much on. You have the other variants, mentioned by a person above you. that are sweeter and served with sugar, cinnemon and butter mixed togetter

[@Corsair721]

@ Ja akkurat det veit jo alle, men det var ikke det poenget jeg ville fram til. når du kombinerer det med ei pølse vil jeg våge og påstå at det ikke er en enkeltstående matrett

[@alibell88]

Nashville has a PHENOMENAL spot for sambusa’s and chai called The Horn! Brought my mom to tears when I took her there, it’s so delicious!

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Spaff looks so amazed! This is gonna be a great one

[@Tbehartoo]

Those flatbreads look so much like flour tortillas that I had trouble believing they weren't. Another wonderful video! Thanks for sharing it with me

[@sunidesus-8670]

Yelled "It's lefse!" at my TV as soon as the cloche raised. It's part of Thanksgiving & Christmas for me. (I'm not of Scandinavian descent, but I'm surrounded by them in WI/MN so lefse is pretty normal here)

[@P3ppar]

Just want everyone to know that Jamie spilled quite a lot of food at 13:48

[@WillieHardmeatOfficial2024]

Ebbers will be full blown grey by Christmas

[@WarriorHeart2024]

@@WillieHardmeatOfficial2024 and will look great. I think the salt in with the pepper suits him. I am glad I wasn't alone in noticing it. (My dad went Grey early, but also had male pattern baldness....hope ben doesn't head that direction. Daddy went Grey by 36.)

[@lilykep]

Natchitoches Meat Pie would be a great entry for this! It's a Louisiana dish but as one of many "ground meat in pastry" types of dishes with flavors that might not immediately make you think of America it would be a fun guessing game.

[@riturajsinghbais]

Little fun fact: Samosa isn't originally indian. Its a veg variant of an Irani meat dish called Sambuseh which was introduced to india by the central Asian Mughal Dynasty. Potatoes were introduced to india by the portugese in the 17th century through the Western Region that's why in the Western indian sea cities its called Batata. So yeah, your presumtions about samosa being an Indian dish will never be correct.

[@CreachterZ]

Interesting. I know I love them!

[@riturajsinghbais]

@CreachterZ who doesn't?

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love learning more about global food with You guys! You always make for great notes For the next foodie vacation❤

[@eyeofthechandra563]

Jamie just keeps proving week after week that he should have been chosen the sous chef.

[@SortedFood]

THANK YOU! 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

[@msbeckiejean]

As an American in the Midwest where there are lots of Scandinavian roots, I knew lefse as soon as I saw it. My college roommate's mother used to send her lefse every year after all the ladies got together to make it. So so good.

[@LA6NPA]

Lefse: Uuuuh. Usually, lefse is made from wheat. Potetlefse is made from potato, and usually goes by the name "lompe". As for the butter/cinnamon spread, I've never ever heard of not using sugar if you're using cinnamon. In fact, every supermarket and petrol station sell wheat based lefse with butter, cinnamon and sugar. It's a common snack! (In the form of products like Lefsegodt/Vestlandslefse and a related snack called Turklenning) I'm making it sound like wheat based lefse is all we eat, but lompe is quite popular too, but not usually for the sweet stuff. The absolutely most common way to enjoy potetlefse/lompe, is as a substitute for a hot dog bun, or even as an addition. Boiled wieners in lompe is most commonly given to little children, as it makes less of a mess in clumsy hands. Added around the bun is more of an extra treat for grownups. But if you're doing rakfisk (salted and autolyzed char or trout), that's wrapped it (wheat) lefse. Modern use of lefse and lompe, includes substituting tortillas. Or with anything you'd put on a sandwich.

[@NavnUkjent]

I think it's due to regional differences, as it's not that uncommon to call it "lefse" or "potetkake" on the west coast. I agree that it's more common to use sugar together with the cinnamon, but this isn't a strange variation.

[@LA6NPA]

@@NavnUkjent Lots of regional variations in names for traditional foods here, but I think most define lefse as being made from wheat and when it's made from potato, it's usually lompe, and to a lesser extent potetlefse or potetkake. But yes, I agree, some people do, in fact, just call it lefse. I wonder what these people cale lefse made from wheat? Do you know? Maybe they call it "finlefse" or something. I think I remember that back in they day, there would be a difference between "finlefse" and "grovlefse", where the latter probably was a mixed flour that made an every day lefse rather than a holiday lefse. I do remember a story about some fat, spoiled eldest son on a farm who would only eat "finlefse med raume" or something. (Kaksejævel! 😄)

[@violetskies14]

It's quite hard to get a good translation of Norwegian recipes in English (I've tried before because I saw some cool food I wanted to try making in a video) so I think what happened here is they kind of ended up smushing American with Norwegian/Scandinavian ancestry and actual Norwegian lefse together. I've seen a bunch of American comments talking about how they've had them with butter and cinnamon and they're common in their area so it seems to me like that's what's happened. Likely some American blogs calling it a Norwegian recipe without mentioning they're from a Norwegian descended diaspora not Norway itself.

[@LA6NPA]

@@violetskies14 Didn't think of that! That's quite possible! Maybe the sugar got dropped in the 70's by a fifth generation cookbook writer? "100 Traditional Norske Mat for The Dieting Hussmor" (Butchering both English and Norwegian here, but you get the gist!) 😄 If the Sorted boys read this: I'm happy to help (freelance) with research and translation for everything Scandinavian. ❤

[@marykober2194]

Finally got one right! Clues did it! Ghost Peppers and Fire truck! Only took me years! If you're ever in Western MA, this old lady would love to buy you all a beer!

[@breezytuesdays]

honestly mike gets a point for sambusa its very much a Ramadan essential in Saudi Arabia

[@nataliewareham2630]

As someone who lives in Minnesota, I was yelling so hard at the screen for both sambusa and lefse!! I love living in an area with so many different people and cultures

[@andymorgans4115]

"its a very complex game" meanwhile Ben hosting the "gameshows" on the live events which are 100X more complex

[@chellethebard]

I knew two of those very well! Teaching Somali students, they would bring in Sambusa for the class after making large batches over the weekend! And my family makes lefse for every holiday! Just got my mom a new lefse griddle last Christmas!

[@Terrelli9]

The US is so huge and has so many regions, it boggles my mind when people from the UK think we all call things by the exact same names across the country. Fire truck, fire engine; just having lived in three states on the east coast I’ve regularly heard both.

[@LiqdPT]

I hadn't heard of that dish, but it seemed like it might be from Louisiana or something.

[@LeeSki-i6j]

I'm shocked that I knew the last one but that's just becuase it's common to have this in Northern Wisconsin in the winter. Gas stations even sell them but we eat them a bit differently as we go more towards the sweet route. We do jams or jellies or even just slather with butter with a sprinkle of sugar or sugar & cinnamon. We even made these in Home Economics class in high school.

[@ForkOfDestruction]

Why did KZbin keep this from me for 28 seconds.. smh

[@אוריוייל]

Cringe

[@cksp1d]

As soon as Ben mentioned the dried fish in the last one my mind went "Norway!" XD

[@19greenlady]

From someone who has a Polish great granny and ate Lefsa my entire life, I've always had it with only butter and sugar. But that's just the way my granny taught me it's supposed to be done.

[@crisisgear]

Ebbers should give bonus points for best logic, just to throw a spanner in the works and annoy/cheer up one of the lads. 😁

[@the0other]

I have started playing along with those, using google maps :) I can proudly say, even with the disadvantage of not tasting the dishes, I have accumulated enough food knowledge (also through sorted) that I'm still pretty close to all of those - guessed right for Somalia, then pulled a mike and switched from Mauritius to Madagascar last second lol - but I am amazed by myself!^^ needless to say, I love this format

[@mb4451]

My guesses were Oman - Seychelles - Jamaica - Norway, so always close(-ish), and bullseye for the last one

[@crystaldesjardin4321]

❤really love learning about different dishes global street foods its the best❤

[@tothearbitraryworld]

The lefse was hilarious! Being from the Midwest (US), it was so obvious - I have also had it wrapped around a bratwurst like a hot dog

[@scrollcaps]

Lefse is also big in the U.S. Dakotas due to its Norwegian population. In the words of my second mom, just use boxed potato flakes. The taste is very similar especially once you slather it in butter and sugar. If they haven't tried it before Lutefisk is an...experience.

[@robertbuth]

Man with this game Jamie has Mike's number. Dang. He needs another rematch hahaha Great video boys!

[@fah06]

Amazing to come home to a video after a 2,5 hour exam! ❤❤