If you had guests visiting you/staying with you, what would you feed them to give them an American experience? I’m talking, breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts. Also, for some influential context, what region are you from?

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  2. I would serve them only the luckiest of charms and uncork a bottle of my ‘07 Mountain Dew (Yes, the Halo 3 special vintage.)

  4. Breakfasts are usually eggs and toast or oatmeal. I would do a bigger spread with biscuits and gravy or pancakes on the weekend.

    Lunch is either leftovers or sandwiches and soup. I always have homemade soup in the freezer to pull out for lunch. We would have to have Isaly’s Chipped Chopped Ham BBQ sandwiches for lunch one day.

    Dinners would be our normal things like tacos, baked fish and perogies, BBQ ribs, pasta, meatloaf, etc…

    We don’t eat a lot of desserts but I would whip up some Buckeyes and rice crispy treats for them to snack on. We also always have a couple kinds of fruit plus bananas for sweet snacks. And veggies, pitas and hummus too.

  5. After finding out any dietary preferences/restrictions the first night would be Pizza. It’s versatile.

    Breakfast would be Biscuits and Gravy with Bacon, Sausage, and Hash Browns done Waffle House style on a Blackstone Griddle.

    Lunches would be burgers hot dogs, chicken fingers, salads, a variety of easy things like that.

    The nightly dinners would be where the most focus is. Assuming they arrived at my house on Sunday afternoon and leave the next Monday morning.

    Seasonality would also be at play. This would be a warm weather menu. More soups and hearty dishes for winter weather.

    1st Night/Sunday – Pizza

    2nd Night/Monday – Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya

    3rd Night/Tuesday – Street Taco Bar with various fillings, toppings, and sides

    4th Night Wednesday – Stuffed Chicken Breast (Bacon, Spinach, Grueye, and Mozzarella), Grilled Zucchini, Garlic Smashes Potatoes

    5th Night Thursday – BBQ Night – Ribs, Smoked Chicken, Sausages, Beans, Slaw, Potato Salad, Corn on the Cob, Various Sauces

    6th Night Friday – Fish Fry with Bream, Crappie, Catfish, Chicken Fingers, Fries, Slaw, Hushpuppies

    7th Night Saturday – Ribeyes on the grill, Roasted Baby Red Potatoes, Roasted Brussel Sprouts, BBQ Bread

    Sunday Lunch before send off – Fried Chicken, Mashed Potatoes/Gravy, Green Beans, Fried Okra, Macaroni and Cheese, Rolls, Dessert

  7. Breakfast (varying)

    Omelettes, with varying vegetables, cheese and meat
    Fried eggs over a wood fire (egg spoon) with wheat toast and bacon
    Biscuits and gravy on one day
    Ample quantities of very good coffee

    Lunch (light options, mostly sandwiches or wraps)

    Dinners
    Thick cut steaks with sage butter
    Probably a pan seared chicken of some sort
    A good pot roast
    All with varying vegetables and ample wine

    Cocktails and cigars after dinner by the fire

    And I’d definitely take them out to local spots at a couple of nights.

    I take care of guests.

  8. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, I would’ve shared Poke, Filipino, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese fusion. But all my family friends from Germany wanted to eat was burgers, smoothies, cupcakes, Philly cheese steak, and Hard Rock Cafe.

  9. Chili (made with beans and vegetables, no meat) served with cheese, sour cream, lime, cilantro, and tortilla chips

    Spicy chicken teriyaki (from a restaurant)

    Their choice of curry from a Thai restaurant

    Spaghetti with marinara sauce and green salad

    Fry bread tacos

    Burrito bar

    Waffles with strawberries and whipped cream

    Root beer floats

    Ice cream sundaes

    Cinnamon rolls

    Broccoli cheese soup served in a bread bowl

    Denver omelette

    Funeral potatoes

    Spinach salad with craisins and nuts and poppyseed dressing etc.

    And then when I ran out of ideas we’d go out for Chinese or pizza or Korean or Peruvian food or whatever, like normal Americans.

  10. I’m American born and raised, but reading some of these replies I can understand why obesity and heart disease is such an issue in this country

  11. Sloppy joes.

    Hot dish. Mine is excellent. Yes, I am from Wisconsin.

    Chili.

    Tacos and nachos.

    Cap’n Crunch for breakfast.

    Spaghetti with meat sauce and garlic bread.

    Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches served with potato chips.

    A typical garden salad with either Italian or French dressing.

    Potato chips with French onion dip, Chex Mix and celery and peanut butter for snacks.

    Pulled pork.

    Hot dogs.

    Red velvet cake, s’mores, bundt cake and Boston cream pie as desserts.

  12. Depends on what they like. But let’s just go with some favorites.

    Breakfast I would do waffles and fruit, biscuits and gravy, eggs and bacon with toast.

    Lunch would be some grilled cheese melts like ham and cheese paninis type of thing and a Philly cheese steak one day. Maybe go out for lunch a couple days.

    For dinner I would go full ham. Rotisserie chicken mashed potato and vegetable, shakshuka, chicken stir fry, pork loin with pan sauce, green vegetable, sautéed shiitake mushrooms, fried breaded pork chops with succotash, good old fashioned chicken roll ups with salad on the side, burgers on the grill (two layer smash burgers with the special ground beef from our local butcher) with some grill sides like potato salad and a casserole with corn on the cob for sure.

    I would definitely do at least a couple dinners out. I’m thinking one day fine dining and one day chicken wings and fries.

    Desert would absolutely be warm apple pie and ice cream and another day my wife’s oatmeal chocolate chip “cowboy cookies.”

  13. Reading the first few posts I decide to put what is common here in New England –. It’s not biscuits and gravy. So for context this is Massachusetts.

    Typical breakfasts that I make at least every week (that is not run out the door to work kind of breakfast) here… I am stay at home and make all the meals:

    Two eggs, toast, a bowl of fruit and orange juice. The fruit is typically mango sliced with blueberries, or kiwis and strawberries. If fruits I have aren’t ripe we always have bananas and apples and oranges. I will slice them up and just put them on their plates.

    I make a “toad in a hole” a lot. Take a big piece of white/sour dough bread (not regular store stuff) put a hole in it with a glass. Butter each side and put in the pan. Break an egg in each hole. Flip and serve.

    Sundays here are french toast, maybe make blueberry pancakes or raspberry pancakes. Bacon.

    Because I send my husband pics of his breakfast when I am trying to get his attention but he is wrapped up in a meeting (he works from home)[I have pics!](https://imgur.com/a/VG2txRs)

    If special guests were in town there would be additions like this[: scones and baked good](https://imgur.com/a/lXHIFci)s and making stuff look pretty.

    Lunches typically are a homemade soup or a sandwich. Sometimes a little of both. Clam chowder, lobster roll, are always on the menu when people are in town. My husband typically gets a Ham and cheese, roast beef, maybe soup, something crunchy like a potato chip and more fruit. [Here’s a lobster roll I served him for lunch.](https://imgur.com/a/D99FlN9) Not many lunch pics.

    Dinner? I really like to try to spend time with guests so I don’t make elaborate meals. typical? Steak, potatoes, salad and corn on the cob. Chili but pretty elaborate on the fixings- nice fresh corn bread, homemade butter maybe with honey, sour cream, cheese, etc. Burgers with homemade pickled onions and cukes. Maybe [tacos](https://imgur.com/a/dWVGPDr)

    Parties or guests – I almost always put out a cheese board – [here’s a couple of mine.](https://imgur.com/a/BqYzAPo) The second one is instead of a dinner one weekend night (why it has 2 cannabis edibles)

    And[here’s a few other random food shots](https://imgur.com/a/jCqiQbH). The salads are 3 I made and sent to my girl friend to let her know what I made for camping — I would only normally make one at home, but a few salads for a party.

  15. Assuming they weren’t say Muslim or had Celiac or something else I’d do gumbo, red beans and rice, fried fish, maybe boiled crawfish/crabs/shrimp depending on season, waffle house for sure.

  17. Since it’s Christmas time I’d serve quite a lot of roasted and baked food. Squash, especially roasted sweet potatoes, pot pies, egg & veggie quiche, ham, and greens would be food I would serve a guest. As I’m from California I put an emphasis on fresh and/or local food.

    Sunday: Ham, roasted veggies, bread or rolls with butter

    Monday breakfast: Coffee or tea with eggs

    Monday Dinner: Pasta with salad, garlic bread and wine

    Tuesday breakfast: Coffee/tea with oatmeal

    Tuesday dinner: Kielbasa w/ sauerkraut, greens, and potato salad

    Wednesday breakfast: Coffee/tea with Quiche

    Wednesday Dinner: Pizza and salad

    Thursday dinner: Roasted veggies with either lamb, steak, or pork chops

    Thursday dessert: Sweet potato or apple pie

    Friday breakfast: Eggs, bacon and toast

    Friday dinner: Fish, roasted asparagus, kale salad and wine

    Saturday breakfast: Fruit and toast

    Saturday Dinner: BBQ

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