The 94 greatest, quirkiest things about America
A new Yahoo Finance survey confirmed that Americans are split about the direction of the country. Similarly, a recent Gallup poll found that only 47% of Americans are extremely proud to be an American — a record low.
Although Americans may not be feeling particularly patriotic this Fourth of July, they nevertheless can identify lots of things that make the country unique and desirable. With additional contributions from the editorial team at Yahoo Finance, below is a list of things that make America both great and one-of-a-kind.
The greatest and quirkiest things about America
American cheese
American Cornhole League
Backyard gardens
American barbecue sauce competition
Black and white cookies
Breakfast buffets
Chicago deep dish pizza
Cookie cake
Cream soda
Domino’s filling your potholes
Double cheeseburger
Electric scooters
Girl Scout cookies
Krispy Kreme Challenge
Lacrosse
Las Vegas food buffets
Mad River Glen ski mountain in Vermont (owned by skiers and still has a single chairlift)
March Madness
Pro-wrestling
Red cream soda
Rent Is Too Damn High Political Party
Shark Week
Summertime cookouts
Super Soakers
Triple cheeseburger
TV show reboots
Waffle House that never closes
World Cup 2026
American music and movies
Amazon
Apple’s iPhone
Baseball
Beyoncé
Broadway theatres
Bruce Springsteen
Capitalism
Cheesesteaks
Endless appeals system
Entrepreneurs, especially immigrant ones
First Amendment
Foodies
Ford F150 pickup truck
Ford Mustang
Freedom of speech
Freedom to pursue your dreams
French quarter in New Orleans
‘Friends‘ (TV show)
Gay marriage
Hot dogs and cheeseburgers
Inverse and leveraged ETFs
Kid sports (when the parents aren’t shouting)
Kids helping each other out
Levi’s
Long Island
Marvel Movies (Black Panther, Spiderman, Wonder Woman, X-Men)
Monster trucks
NASA and SpaceX
National parks
NBA games
New Jersey beaches
New York City
On-demand apps (food delivery, wine, laundry – you name it!)
Oprah Winfrey
Regional foods (Maine lobster, Maryland crab cakes, North Carolina biscuits and gravy)
Resiliency
Road trips
Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
San Francisco restaurants
‘Saturday Night Live’
Serena Williams
Silicon Valley
Snoop Dogg
Sparklers
‘Star Trek’
‘Star Wars’
Statue of Liberty
Streaming services for “cutting the cord”
Super Bowl
Tina Fey
That anyone can become an American no matter where they’re from
The Atlantic Ocean
The chance for anybody to become somebody
The Grand Canyon
The great American comeback story
The Mooch
The Pacific Ocean
The Phillie Phanatic
The Rio Grande
Voting rights
Warren Buffett
Whoopi Goldberg
William Faulkner
Young women with big plans
YouTube stars who rose from obscurity on their merit
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