Best City or State Specific Foods
Flagg Taylor ·
December 31, 2011 at 12:52am
I had some family in town from Pittsburgh. They brought me nutroll, for which that city is known.
My wife is from Columbus, OH and she introduced me to Cincinnati chili which is now a staple in our house.
My own family is from Chicago, so when I go back I make sure to partake of this light lunch: polish sausage, which Chicago style fixings.
What are the city or state specific foods that one simply has to try?
Oh, I would also really appreciate more pie recipes. I'm finding thinking about food all of the time has given my brain a nice respite from Newt/Mitt, Newt/Mitt, Newt/Mitt....AHHHHHHHH!
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Aug '11
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I love this idea!!!
Dec '10
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Flagg - a suggestion for your next topic: Favorite microbreweries/brewpubs in your region. Followed up by wines.
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Apr '11
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The next time you're near Clinton, Montana check out the yearly Testicle Festival. Serving over 2 1/2 tons of Rocky Mountain Oysters in a typical festival.
You won't see me there. I've done the cutting and de-horning in my time and I'm not eating them.
Dec '10
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Douglas
Speaking of regional foods, I love barbecue in general, but I've found that it's often wildly different from state to state. Texas BBQ is what most people usually think of when you say BBQ... usually beef (but sometimes pork) soaking in a vat of BBQ sauce on the fire for hours at a time, to the point where every fiber of meat has absorbed the sauce.
You've never had real Texas BBQ then. Sauce is a condiment. It's slow cooking over wood (mesquite!) that makes it Texas BBQ.
Jun '11
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Moving to the Binghamton area a few years ago I was puzzled by their fair food: spiedies ("Do they have eight legs?") and salt potatoes, which are just new potatoes boiled in an unconscionable amount of salt. Supposedly originated from the salt mines of Syracuse.
For me, Pennsylvania Dutch/ Southeastern Pennsylvania soul food includes shoofly pie (you could call it molasses crumb pie) and chicken corn soup, which has to contain sliced hardboiled egg.
Dec '10
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Hahahahahahaha!
When Moët & Chandon decided in the 1970s to open their first California winery, Domaine Chandon, they included a French restaurant in the winery design. At first, they offered magnificent Sunday buffet brunches, but after a number of years, they got an ultimatum from the Napa County health department: the only way they could continue to offer a cold buffet would be to put the food in bowls on a bed of crushed ice. They felt such an inelegant presentation was not in keeping with their image, so now the brunch is strictly ordered from the menu.
Dec '10
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Dave Carter
I can't get beyond the name... · Dec 30 at 6:39pm
They're just the raw material that goes into the press molds to form cheddar.
May '10
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My sfreshman roommate was from Racine, WI, and when his folks came down to visit they'd bring a local pastry called a Kringle. They came with various fruit or nut fillings. In our dorm room a Kringle had a life expectancy of somewhere under four minutes.
Aug '10
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BeaverTails - A "must eat" for visitors to Ottawa, Canuckistan, especially during the winter.
Shawarma - Originally Lebanese, it has become an Ottawa fast-food staple thanks to massive immigration of Lebanese Christians during the 1980s civil war. A particularly popular apres-clubbing meal, the shawarma joints are always packed as soon as the bars close. Supposedly, more shawarma is eaten in Ottawa than anywhere else in the world other than Lebanon itself.
Poutine - Quebec fast food staple.
Maple Sugar Pie - Quebec pastries will rot your teeth from a distance!
Maudite - Canuckistan has many fine microbrews, but I chose Maudite because of its alcohol content (8%), it's funny name (it means "damned" in French), and the awesome label which represents and old Quebecois legend about fur trappers who make a deal with the devil for a flying canoe so they can get home for Christmas.
Aug '10
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I've never been to Halifax, but thanks to the inordinate number of Nova Scotia ex-pats in Ottawa, a few restaurants here now sell the Halifax Donair. The sauce is, indeed, awesome.
May '11
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Glenn the Iconoclast
Albert Arthur: MOXIE! It makes Mainers Mighty.
Moxie?! I thought it was defunct. I haven't seen that since the early 60's, when Pepsi started pushing it aside as a national brand. (Haven't seen Rondo or Nehi recently either, far as that goes.) · Dec 31 at 2:33am
Galco's Market in LA, near Eagle Rock, has one of the largest selections of soda in the country. They stock Moxie, Red Nehi as well as the more common orange and grape, and hundreds more. Plus they make great subs.
Apr '11
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Findlay, O.: firecrackers (cream cheese spread across Hormel/Armour/whatever dried beef slices, then wrapped around green onions) Traditional for the Fourth of July. Be warned: if you have more than half a dozen, they make you kind of gassy.
May '11
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Croghan Bologna
Dec '10
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It was just a brisket tip, but it was tasty!
Jul '10
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There is more to Philadelphia & the rest of PA east of Pittsburgh. Cheese steaks are too common but the cheese whiz has its own tradition & charm that provolone snobs should learn to enjoy. The Pennsylvania Dutch should take credit for funnel cakes although these have become too common. And the delights of good scrapple cannot be described although the taste for it might best be acquired as a child before you are that curious about what is in something that everyone else in the family is eating & enjoying. The PA Dutch put maple syrup on it but Philadelphians enjoy it with ketchup. One more item: chicken salad served with fried oysters.
Jul '10
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You left off the signature Old Bay seasoning! And the side of shrimp with same.
Apr '11
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Mole-eye
Galco's Market in LA, near Eagle Rock, has one of the largest selections of soda in the country. They stock Moxie, Red Nehi as well as the more common orange and grape, and hundreds more. Plus they make great subs.
Thanks!
I was fixing to write earlier about Eegies, and this gives me occasion. They are not as great as they were, but I'll still give them a plug.
Aug '11
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The King Prawn: It was just a brisket tip, but it was tasty! · Dec 31 at 11:35pm
I am fainting with envy. So much to love about Tennessee but hard to get good brisket unless I make it myself.