American food's greatest dishes

If life gives you limes, prepare Key lime pie instead of limeade.

Key lime pie

The mixture of key lime juice, sweetened condensed milk, and egg yolks, which could be "cooked" (by a thickening chemical reaction of the ingredients) at sea.

Tater tots

American food twist on the potato theme, consider the Tater Tot, which is popular at Sonic drive-ins and school cafeterias across the country.

 If you were one of the Grigg brothers who founded Ore-Ida, you, too, would have wanted to do something with leftover slivers of cut-up potatoes. 

Cobb salad, which was originally cooked with leftovers, is now one of America's favorite appetizers.

Cobb salad

Cobb salad, which was originally cooked with leftovers, is now one of America's favorite appetizers. 

It may not appear appetizing, but the flavor speaks for itself.

 Jerky

Jerky is a high-protein favorite of travelers, road trippers, and snackers everywhere, and it's an unusual source of so much gustatory pleasure.

Take some range vaqueros and the cattle butchered to feed them.

Fajitas

Include the discarded cuts of meat in the hands' take-home pay, and let cowboy ingenuity do the rest.

Like the banana, it's good for you. Nonetheless, kudos to whoever devised the banana split sundae version.

Banana split

Popular assortment of toppings - grilled onions and green pepper, pico de gallo, shredded cheese, and sour cream. Don't forget to bring the Altoids.

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