Unique local/regional foods?

Cap'n Jack

Cap'n Jack

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Please share your unique cuisine. I thought about this while visiting Madison, WI last week- I don't recall cheese curds being common elsewhere.

In Nebraska (mainly)- runza- ground beef, cabbage, and onion baked into small roll.
 
I'm not sure how unique or special but when I moved to San Diego from Boston no one here had ever heard of steak tips.. which sucks because I love them. Everyone thought I was talking about tri tip which is totally different, and incidentally not something I'd heard of in Boston

PS cheese curds are great, I was told that the squeakier they are when you bite them the better the quality
 
Red or green.??

(the official state question)

Everything comes with red chilies or green chilies. Unfortunately most restaurants buy theirs pre-made from the same supplier. Very few make their own, and the one's that do make their own really do it good.
 
Cap'n Jack said:
Please share your unique cuisine. I thought about this while visiting Madison, WI last week- I don't recall cheese curds being common elsewhere.

In Nebraska (mainly)- runza- ground beef, cabbage, and onion baked into small roll.
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I had to look it up. That sounds (and looks) delicious.

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Conch chowder. Never seen it outside FL, and rarely anywhere besides the Keys.

Nothing like a nice evening at an open air restaurant on Duval street with a bowl of conch chowder followed by a slice of authentic key lime pie.
 
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It’s room temp or cold bakery pizza. We have 3-4 different versions in the small town of Hazleton, PA. I bring a box or two whenever I go somewhere new. Took a box to my PPL checkride and IFR checkride. Have yet to find this anywhere else.
 
Zeldman said:
Red or green.??

(the official state question)

Everything comes with red chilies or green chilies. Unfortunately most restaurants buy theirs pre-made from the same supplier. Very few make their own, and the one's that do make their own really do it good.
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Christmas.
 
Cincinnati Chili

Greek chili over spaghetti noodles with shredded cheddar cheese on top, known as a threeway. Add onions and/or beans for a fourway or a fiveway.

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Grew up with this. Typically after a good night carousing.

Cheers
 
Pork Roll Egg and Cheese - the best of the breakfast sandwiches.
 
Also in WI - have a Brandy Old Fashioned, Sweet, with Brussels Sprout. Good with or without some Curds.
Other thing about WI - The German food I've had there is the closest to the German food I've had in Germany than any other state in CUS.

In South Carolina - Pimento Cheese Sandwich
Northeast - Lobster Roll
PA - Philly Cheese Steak... the right way... with Cheez Whiz
 
Favorites from places I have lived:
Maryland: Stuffed ham - Boiled ham stuffed with kale and collards and onions. Makes awesome sandwiches
Virginia: Smithfield ham - salt-cured ham. Tough as boiled owl and salty beyond belief and I absolutely love it.
St. Louis: Pork steaks. Exactly what they sound like. Grilled, with or without Maul's barbecue sauce

Regionals that I don't like so much but will eat in a pinch:
St. Louis: St. Paul - an egg foo yung patty on bread slathered with mayo. Also snoots-n-brains. More pork, otherwise exactly what it sounds like.
Southern California: Cali burrito. Burrito with french fries

Nauga,
the one man army
 
Ravioli said:
Also in WI - have a Brandy Old Fashioned, Sweet, with Brussels Sprout. Good with or without some Curds.
Other thing about WI - The German food I've had there is the closest to the German food I've had in Germany than any other state in CUS.

In South Carolina - Pimento Cheese Sandwich
Northeast - Lobster Roll
PA - Philly Cheese Steak... the right way... with Cheez Whiz
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Wit wizz...
 
Ravioli's true story time:
I was working with Kraft at the plant that produces the majority of the Cheez Whiz for the planet. (Springfield, MO)
Dumb kid that I was (+/-35) I said how much I like "the wizz" on a good cheese steak.
OMG - I was quickly 'counselled' that "we don't call it that here."
 
Are they better than bald p-nuts?


Saw that on a roadside sign in Mississippi.
 
X3 Skier said:
Cincinnati Chili

Greek chili over spaghetti noodles with shredded cheddar cheese on top, known as a threeway. Add onions and/or beans for a fourway or a fiveway.

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Grew up with this. Typically after a good night carousing.

Cheers
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Last year, I landed in Cincinnati to get to a natural products conference in Kentucky. I made sure to stop at Skylines.
 
I can't think of anything Tucson has that would be considered unique, but I've never had a better breakfast burrito anywhere else.
 
Also in Nebraska. We’ve had kolaches with all kinds of fillings. Sausage, spinach, cheese, various fruit. All pretty good.

About the only thing we miss about Cleveland is the pierogis.
 
Upper MIchigan (and probably N.WI and N.MN too): Pasties - nope not the kind you find at strip clubs
Meat and root vegetables baked inside of a basically a pie crust.
 
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