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American Sandwich Series: Classic and Timeless American Sandwiches (Part 1)
“Oh God, but remember how we all lost our minds the last time?” ~AFFotD Editor-in-Chief, Johnny Roosevelt In the beginning of 2014, our staff undertook a daunting enterprise. We decided to write...
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American Sandwich Series: Classic and Timeless American Sandwiches (Part 2)
“Why are there so many sandwiches? Why are you making us do this, Johnny?” ~AFFotD’s Research Department Earlier this week, we set some ground rules on what will be a record-breaking (what record?...
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American Sandwich Series: Open faced Sandwiches of America
“There can’t be that many distinct open faced sandwiches out there, right? Right? Why are you guys so mad, Research Department?” ~AFFotD Editor-in-Chief Johnny Roosevelt We’ve started on a journey...
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American Sandwich Series: Lesser-Known Regional Sandwiches of America (East...
“No, seriously, if you want the best Pit Beef in the city, look no farther than outside a strip club. I’m not joking, actually.” ~Baltimore Residents Welcome to part four of our eight-part American...
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American Sandwich Series: Lesser-Known Regional Sandwiches of America...
How do Midwesterners ever live past 40? Are their hearts made out of Adamantium?” ~Non-Midwesterners Reading About Popular Midwestern Sandwiches Another day, another discussion of sandwiches coming...
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American Sandwich Series: Lesser-Known Regional Sandwiches of America...
“No, we’re not going to do EVERY Southern barbecue sandwich, we’re not insane.” ~AFFotD Editor-in-Chief Johnny Roosevelt So, we’ve been writing about sandwiches a lot lately, and we’re going to keep...
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American Sandwich Series: Sandwiches Oddities of America (Sweet Division)
“What? You don’t think that’s a sweet-flavored sandwich? It’s got fruit in it, for God’s sake. Yes, cranberry counts as a fruit, I don’t give a shit if it’s tart!” ~Inter-Office Debate Among AFFotD...
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American Sandwich Series: Sandwiches Oddities of America (Savory Division)
“What’s that? This is the last one? The no more sandwich articles? FREEDOM! FREEDOM!” ~AFFotD’s Recently Over-Taxed Research Department Several weeks ago we embarked on a dangerous mission—to write...
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St. Louis: America’s Weirdest Culinary City
“…The hell is wrong with your taste buds?” ~AFFotD’s Resident Food Critic St. Louis. We don’t ever really know how to talk about the second largest city in the state of Missouri. For a time in the...
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Pizza Puff: Your New Favorite Fried Pizza Product
“I don’t care how it came to be, just gimme gimme gimme!” ~The Average American’s First Response to Hearing of the Existence of Pizza Puffs America is a pretty big country, all things considered, and...
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The Best (And Weirdest) New Fried Foods At the 2015 Iowa and Minnesota State...
“My…heart…tell my family…I died happy…” ~Iowa and Minnesota State Fair Food Critic Here at America Fun Fact of the Day, we take great pride in the American practice of taking a (usually unhealthy) food...
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The Six Most Expensive Cheeses in the World
“Oh wow, I’m sure that is very delicious. *continues eating a string cheese*” ~AFFotD Editor-in-Chief Johnny Roosevelt Money is a weird thing. People slave for it, they kill for it, they fight wars...
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The Grossest Marshmallow Peeps Flavors
“I said put down the Peeps, for God’s sake!” ~Wiford Brimley There are three kinds of people in America. Children, people who still love Peeps because they remember their childhood fondly, and people...
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More of the Grossest Marshmallow Peeps Flavors
“Why are we still doing this?” ~AFFotD’s Candy Taste Testers A few weeks ago, we talked about marshmallow Peeps. Specifically, the fact that marshmallow Peeps, which exist only to taste like sugar...
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Wherein AFFotD Uses a Glib and Fluffy Metro Article as an Excuse to Rage...
“I’m insufferable already.” ~Metro Writer Mandy Mazliah Apparently, for some god awful reason, October 1st is considered World Vegetarian Day, and the month of October is Vegetarian Awareness Month,...
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The World’s Saddest Cuisines: Latvia
“This is what you guys eat for dinner? Great, now I’m hungry AND sad.” ~Tourists in Latvia America, in case you didn’t get the memo, is better than all the rest of you wannabe country motherfuckers...
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Otto Frederick Rohwedder and the Invention of Sliced Bread
“It’s the greatest invention since sliced bread.” ~Literally every single salesperson you have ever met, every goddamn one We take a lot of the simple things in our lives for granted. That’s just...
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The American History of Clam Chowder
“It’s chowdah! CHOWDAH! I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you all!” ~Freddy Quimby The existence of what we generally refer to as a clam is a simple one. They are small little mollusks that spend their...
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The World’s Saddest Cuisines: Botswana
“…Huh, so bugs and guts, huh? And…you…like this?” ~Traditional Tourist at a Botswanan Restaurant When we write about other cultures, we tend to focus on the negative. Part of that is because USA!...
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American Sausage Series Part 1: Typical American Sausages
“Wait, we’re doing sausages enough? But we’ve already done hot dogs! And sandwiches! When will the madness end?” ~AFFotD’s Research Staffers About once a year, the staff of America Fun Fact of the...
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