Kids Try

Kids try 100 years of pies from the 1920s to the present starting with the Polenta Pies of the 1920s up to the Piecaken of the present day.

Kids react to trying English meals like steak and kidney pie, to fish and chips with a side of mushy peas. Does English food deserve its bad reputation? They taste some classic UK dishes to find out.

Kids react to 100 Years of Cheese. This history of cheese tracks the evolution of the versatile dairy product. Velveeta cheese fudge and peanut butter pickle sandwich dominated the 1920s... Hot Pockets heated up the '90s.

Kids taste test and react to pastry foods like whoopie pies, butterhorns, banana dumplings, cream horns, magic marshmallow crescent puffs, croquignoles (similar to beignets), death by chocolate, croquembouche, bacon sticky buns, and cronuts. This chapter in the history of food breaks down the evolution of pastries from the 1920s to the 2010s.

Kids react to eating 100 years of egg dishes. The history of eggs tracks the evolution of egg meals from sardine-egg canapés, egg lemonade, baked egg nests, and eggs benedict to stuffed eggs, tamago nigiri (egg sushi), egg and spinach, and avocado toast.

Kids react to eating seafood, including gumbo, paella, clam chowder, molded salmon mousse, McDonald's Filet-o-Fish, popcorn shrimp, blackened redfish, scallops, tropical shrimp salad, fried calamari, Stargazy pie, a sushi burrito, and so much more!

Kids react to 8 treasure rice pudding from China, horchata from Mexico, dosas from India, pulut hitam from Malaysia, dolmas (stuffed grape leaves) from Greece, risotto from Italy, tahdig from Iran, jambalaya from the US, paella from Spain and mochi from Japan.

Kids try hot dogs from around the country including the Reindeer Dog from Alaska, a Corn dog from Minnesota, Half Smoke from Ben's Chili Bowl in Washington D.C., Texas Tommy from Pennsylvania, Sonoran from Arizona, Seattle Dog from Washington, Chicago Dog from Illinois, Scrambled Dog from Georgia, and the Cheese Coney from Ohio.

Kids react to everyone's competively-favorite regional take on the classic crowd pleaser: pizza!

Kids try flattened beauties (pancakes) from Yemen, Vietnam, Malaysia, Ethiopia, Brazil, Japan, Russia, and France.

Kids try uncommon, exotic, and unusual meats from different regions of America like fried alligator balls from Louisiana, fried rattlesnake from Oklahoma, chislic from South Dakota, caribou chili from Alaska, southern fried quail from Georgia, fried squirrel from West Virginia, quail poppers from Texas, Burgoo stew, Brunswick stew, pemmican (bison jerky) and more.

Kids react to exotic potato dishes from all over the world, including sui-to-poteto from Japan, poutine from Canada and more! Everybody likes potatoes and every country has their own way of preparing them!

Kids try and react to some of the most famous foods from cartoons, including krabby patties from Spongebob Squarepants, d'oh-nuts from The Simpsons, canned spinach from Popeye, and more!

Kids try and react to some of the most famous foods from cartoons, including Butterbeer from Harry Potter, dessert pasta from Elf, steamed buns from Kung Fu Panda, ratatouille from Ratatouille and more.

Kids try and react to 100 years of school lunches! Which decade featured boiled steak in school lunches? When were kids routinely served liver loaf?