Do you have a favorite regional food? (Spin-off)

[Mike Honcho 3,544]

40 of Founders

[Masshole 642]

9 hours ago, Cdub100 said:

Probably Pasties (Michigan UP food) and Paczki (do other places celebrate fat tuesday?)

My wife is from Michigan, I tried Pasties for the first time while visiting MI many years ago.     Very good, I liked them.    Good luck finding them anywhere else.   

pasties from michigan - Bing images

 

[Chronic Fockster 106]

4 minutes ago, Masshole said:

My wife is from Michigan, I tried Pasties for the first time while visiting MI many years ago.     Very good, I liked them.    Good luck finding them anywhere else.   

pasties from michigan - Bing images

 

Looks like an empanada.

[Cdub100 3,007]

Just now, Chronic Fockster said:

Looks like an empanada.

It is kind of like an empanada. The bread around the meat is very different though

[Hawkeye21 1,755]

Sweet corn and huge pork tenderloin sandwiches.  Fried bull testicles.

[Engorgeous George 711]

8 hours ago, DonS said:

Spiedies from my hometown:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiedie

 

Sounds tasty right off the skewer.  I think I would try them straight up instead of on the roll, but maybe I should simply trust the locals and go with how they prefer it.

[MTSkiBum 1,569]

Green chili is my favorite.

 

I would not call brisket a regional food, you can get it almost all over the country right now. Those bbq shows made bbq no longer a regional food.

[Nomad99 256]

Biscuits & sausage gravy. 

[Herbivore 850]

Clams - fried or steamed

[MTSkiBum 1,569]

27 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

Sweet corn and huge pork tenderloin sandwiches.  Fried bull testicles.

Rocky mountain oysters are a regional food in Iowa?

[patweisers44 661]

Michigan version of the coney island hot dog.  A Koegel's vienna (for the snap in the dog) , chili sauce, onions and mustard.  If you are ever on Fremont street in Vegas, they have American Coney Island at The D (by the outdoor escalator). Great 3 am food, with an order of chili cheese fries.

[edjr 5,046]

Fried Clams. Haddock Chowder. Boiled Dinner. Baked Beans. Sheppards Pie

[Hawkeye21 1,755]

18 minutes ago, MTSkiBum said:

Rocky mountain oysters are a regional food in Iowa?

Pretty popular with farmers.  My father-in-law and I just fried some up on Sunday.

[MTSkiBum 1,569]

Just now, Hawkeye21 said:

Pretty popular with farmers.  My father-in-law and I just fried some up on Sunday.

But they are semi famous in a different part of the country. I don't think they are a regional food.

There are quite a few examples in this thread though of people not naming regional foods, not just you.

[Engorgeous George 711]

1 minute ago, Hawkeye21 said:

Pretty popular with farmers.  My father-in-law and I just fried some up on Sunday.

I've tried them on a few occassions to be polite.  They did very little for me.  I would not order them from a menu, but if served by my host I would politely accept, in a small amount.

[Engorgeous George 711]

2 minutes ago, MTSkiBum said:

But they are semi famous in a different part of the country. I don't think they are a regional food.

There are quite a few examples in this thread though of people not naming regional foods, not just you.

The swath of the country from Iowa to the Rockies is, in my mind, a region.  It holds very few more folks than New York City.

[Hawkeye21 1,755]

Just now, Engorgeous George said:

I've tried them on a few occassions to be polite.  They did very little for me.  I would not order them from a menu, but if served by my host I would politely accept, in a small amount.

I love them.  We make them when we fry fish.

 

3 minutes ago, MTSkiBum said:

But they are semi famous in a different part of the country. I don't think they are a regional food.

There are quite a few examples in this thread though of people not naming regional foods, not just you.

I know they are more famous in Colorado but I was trying to think of something we like to eat around here that most places don't.

[MTSkiBum 1,569]

9 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

I love them.  We make them when we fry fish.

 

I know they are more famous in Colorado but I was trying to think of something we like to eat around here that most places don't.

 

I am not sure many places have regional foods anymore, Texas might have kolaches as its regional food. But they suck and this is supposed to be "favorite" regional foods. What cdub named, and pork rolls, and a few other people have named regional foods.

You cannot get those in the rest of the country for the most part.

 

It is difficult to think of regional foods.

 

[Engorgeous George 711]

2 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

I love them.  We make them when we fry fish.

 

 

Lots of foods that taste of childhood memories, of family gatherings, of fishing or hunting with Grandpa or poker nights with uncles, cousins and neighbors taste good.  An acquired taste, acquired because of the nostalgic associations to good times fondly remembered.  When I smell walleye and perch frying, and rhubarb pie baking away it reminds me of opening day fishing with grandpa, an uncle, my cousins and my brothers.  Good food, no doubt, but as great as it is to me when others try it, probably not as they lack the fond associations I have for that meal.  Same thing for me with the meals we served at deer camp on poker night.  Venison stew and cranberry/apple cobbler is good, but great, who knows, but I love it for the memories it brings back.

[Engorgeous George 711]

1 minute ago, MTSkiBum said:

 

I am not sure many places have regional foods anymore, Texas might have kolaches as its regional food. But they suck and this is supposed to be "favorite" regional foods. What cdub named, and pork rolls, and a few other people have named regional foods.

You cannot get those in the rest of the country for the most part.

 

It is difficult to think of regional foods.

 

Deep fried cheese curds never really got much traction outside of Wisconsin

[Hawkeye21 1,755]

1 minute ago, Engorgeous George said:

Lots of foods that taste of childhood memories, of family gatherings, of fishing or hunting with Grandpa or poker nights with uncles, cousins and neighbors taste good.  An acquired taste, acquired because of the nostalgic associations to good times fondly remembered.  When I smell walleye and perch frying, and rhubarb pie baking away it reminds me of opening day fishing with grandpa, an uncle, my cousins and my brothers.  Good food, no doubt, but as great as it is to me when others try it, probably not as they lack the fond associations I have for that meal.  Same thing for me with the meals we served at deer camp on poker night.  Venison stew and cranberry/apple cobbler is good, but great, who knows, but I love it for the memories it brings back.

Venison is very popular here but that's the same in any state that has high deer populations.  I'm close to Wisconsin so I guess I could say cheese curds are a favorite regional food.

[Hardcore troubadour 10,945]

Pizza. 

[Masshole 642]

44 minutes ago, Herbivore said:

Clams - fried or steamed

 

29 minutes ago, edjr said:

Fried Clams. Haddock Chowder. Boiled Dinner. Baked Beans. Sheppards Pie

I was going to say clams but not fried.   You can get fried clams anywhere, although they are a lot more common in the northeast.  

But I am not sure there are any places other than the northeast and mostly New England where you'll go out with a rake, dig a bunch of clams out of a muddy/smelly low tide flat, and then bring them back, open them and eat them raw.    That's gotta be a "regional cuisine" kind of thing, right?     And I love raking for clams and then having cherrystones with some cocktail sauce.    When I was younger we used to eat so many of them when we got them that the next day I'd sh!t green because of all the raw bivalves I ate the night before.     

[TommyGavin 616]

3 hours ago, Chronic Fockster said:

Pork roll, Trenton pie

Must be a Jersey guy

[-Vyse- 65]

Kansas City bbq. Absolutely love it and demolish it any time I get a chance to 

[TommyGavin 616]

18 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Pizza. 

Bagels 

[Engorgeous George 711]

I never saw cinnamon crabapples in the store outside of southeastern Wisconsin, but maybe those got traction elsewhere. Grandma made her own with crabapples, cinnamon, sugar and a few hot peppers.  She would fill twenty or so pint-sized ball jars with those and have them all winter.  She also made the best bread and butter pickles and dill pickles ever.  Shes dead now for decades.  it may have been the crabapples, who knows.

[jerryskids 4,605]

14 hours ago, Cdub100 said:

Probably Pasties (Michigan UP food) and Paczki (do other places celebrate fat tuesday?)

I'm Polish and NE PA where I grew up was fairly Polish, so we had both growing up.

 

[jerryskids 4,605]

In Arizona I would say Sonoran-style Mexican food.

https://rovingdecanter.com/2014/10/22/what-is-sonoran-style-mexican-food/

[BunnysBastatrds 1,631]

Beignets 

Crawfish

King Cake

Alligator Sauce Pican 

Broiled Oyster Bienville

 

[Bier Meister 1,414]

33 minutes ago, BunnysBastatrds said:

Beignets 

Crawfish

King Cake

Alligator Sauce Pican 

Broiled Oyster Bienville

 

 

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[Engorgeous George 711]

32 minutes ago, BunnysBastatrds said:

Beignets 

Crawfish

King Cake

Alligator Sauce Pican 

Broiled Oyster Bienville

 

I wish some of that cuisine would have worked its way up the Mississippi to Wisconsin and to the headwaters of the Mississippi in Minnesota.  Those Norkis have even more boring cuisine than us Cheeseheads, though in my case I transplanted out decades ago.  Thats right, I'm a tranny.

[wiffleball 4,507]

12 hours ago, BunnysBastatrds said:

Gumbos-all

Jambyla-all

Red Beans&Rice-all

Yer Mom

Agree

[supermike80 1,118]

Since I'm in the Detroit area, we have a lot of Arabs.  And their chicken shawarma is the absolute bomb.  So frickin good.

[Alias Detective 1,047]

17 hours ago, MDC said:

Mine is tomato pie. It’s Pennsylvania Dutch. I’d describe it as a rectangular pizza, with a slightly thicker crust but not quit Aixilian pizza style. No cheese and the sauce is spiced like a marinara with some shaved basil and parm on top, served cold. 

Sounds odd but it’s f’ing delicious.  

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[MDC 5,174]

2 minutes ago, Alias Detective said:

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Weird. Meant Sicilian. 

[Alias Detective 1,047]

9 minutes ago, MDC said:

Weird. Meant Sicilian. 

[Hardcore troubadour 10,945]

I liked Iron City beer when I was in Pittsburgh. Didn’t like Old Style in Chicago.  

[mobb_deep 916]

I’ve been trying to figure out what So Cal is famous for.

We have the best Mexican food in the country, so I want to say Fish Tacos, but that’s something we obviously imported from south of the border. 
 

 

[TommyGavin 616]

4 hours ago, MDC said:

Weird. Meant Sicilian. 

And quite not quit