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Experience<br />

Doughnuts<br />

Did you know there is a National Doughnut Day? It's<br />

celebrated on the first Friday of June each year, primarily<br />

by Americans who love eating their sugary and jam-filled<br />

treats to the extent that the country consumes over 10<br />

billion doughnuts each year. The city that has the most<br />

doughnut shops in America? Boston.<br />

Oreo<br />

Twist it. Lick it. Dunk it. Eat it. That's the way to consume an<br />

Oreo cookie alongside a cold glass of milk. These cookies<br />

have been around since 1912 and naturally, there's bound to<br />

be odd flavours such as watermelon, root beer float and of<br />

course, there's a pumpkin spice Oreo.<br />

Twinkies or Twiggies<br />

Americans are more familiar with Hostess' Twinkies while Malaysians are familiar<br />

with a similar vanilla cream-filled sponge cake known as Twiggies from Gardenia<br />

Bakeries. But did you know that the iconic vanilla cream inside a Twinkie was initially<br />

banana cream? Due to food rationing during World War II, the change was made<br />

to vanilla and for a very long time, it stayed that way due to popularity. However,<br />

in 2007, the banana cream version was reintroduced to shelves. As for the Malaysian<br />

version, apart from vanilla, there're also chocolate, raspberry and tiramisu flavours.<br />

French Fries<br />

Now, this is a classic. If you<br />

haven't eaten one, you should.<br />

Because you'll eat another one<br />

and another one and another one<br />

and who's counting? Because<br />

have you heard of the story of the<br />

guy who only ate one fry? No?<br />

Neither have we. Fun French Fry<br />

Fact: French Fries are not called<br />

that in France. They are known as<br />

frites, patates frites or pommes<br />

frites in French.<br />

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