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Which foods do Americans eat the most? See the top 50, according to the USDA.

There's been a marginal improvement in American eating habits over the past two decades—a June 2024 study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that the percentage of U.S. adults with a ...
Seattle Times

Are traditional meals over? Here’s what Americans are eating instead

According to a February 2026 report from food industry research firm Datassential, more than 7 in 10 consumers skipped at least one traditional meal in the past month. That’s not a small subset of ...
NPR

How force-feeding ourselves hot dogs became a 'sacred American ritual'

On a sunny June weekend on Washington, D.C.'s National Mall, nine contestants sidle up to a table full of paper plates. Each plate is piled high with hot dogs, and in a few moments, these brave people ...
The New York Times

Don’t Call It an ‘Ethnic’ Grocery Store

As Asian groceries like H Mart, Patel Brothers and 99 Ranch expand, they are reshaping American eating habits, and the American grocery market. Once small, mom-and-pop businesses, Asian grocery stores ...
The Washington Post

Miss Manners: The lineage of American fork habits

Dear Miss Manners: If 19th-century “upper crust” Americans thought that aping British aristocracy was the height of sophistication, how is it that the American style of eating (swapping the fork from ...