Does Your Region Have A Particular Delicacy Or Meal Associated With It?

[lelik]

Fried Goby Fish Odessa,Ukraine

 

[sumusfumus]

Here in NJ we enjoy a traditional dish called Meadowlands Surprise. It’s a puff pastry shell filled with chopped onion, peeled green apple, delicata squash, russet potato, garlic, ginger, curry powder, chicken broth, soy sauce, cornstarch, kosher salt, skinless/boneless Jimmy Hoffa chicken thighs, and a beaten egg.

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Jimmy Hoffa....pee-funny!

 

[jpmcwjr]

Monterey Jack cheese; Irish Coffee; Dungeness crab (though available in the hinterlands such as Washington state).

 

[mawnansmiff]

John, that's twice I've read of Dungeness crab on this thread and I was thinking how on earth did crabs from Dungeness in Kent become a delicacy in America.

A quick Google of 'Dungeness Crab' put me right ?

Regards,

Jay.

 

[Duke of Erinmore]

One of my favorite meals when I was in Munich (2008) was a meat and cheese platter.
I could eat this all day long.
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Ah, I know this place, across the street from the Viktualienmarkt. It has been closed since 2012, I'm afraid. Bit of a tourist joint, but did serve proper food...

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Some say this is about national dish in south west Texasland, differs somewhat from that one of Mexican chili con carnes

 

[tbradsim1]

Pigs Stomach, cleaned and stuffed with spicy meat, baked till outer skin is crispy. Called Shodan, or Ponce, Cajun all the way

 

[tbradsim1]

Out the oven before slicing.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Countrybladesmith mentioned boudin in an earlier post for Louisiana food. The blood sausage and black pudding may be related to what is called boudin rouge which was a blood sausage made with pig's blood. If I remember correctly, the state outlawed it at one time so it's normally only found made by home cooks.

Yeah, I think you’re right. I’ve heard it called boudin rouge and boudin noir. You pretty much are only going to find it now at a big cochon de lait party.

 

[tbradsim1]

Board of Health stopped the Blood Boudin, used to be a Cajun Race track called Clem’s that sold it on the QT, it was my Fathers favorite, I didn’t like it as Inwayched it made as a small boy.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

I still can't get my head around 'head cheese'!

Had many a hog head cheese sandwich forced on me when I was young. I’ll eat it, but it’s an acquired taste for most.

 

[danimalia]

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Pigs Stomach, cleaned and stuffed with spicy meat, baked till outer skin is crispy. Called Shodan, or Ponce, Cajun all the way

One of these days, I am going to fly down to New Orleans and just eat my way across the city, state and any other good places in the region!

 

[hawky454]

I would say Austin, TX is known for their breakfast tacos. Not really our own thing of course but we’ve stolen the idear and made it hip.

 

[tobefrank]

Back in the 1980's, me and a pal rode out to Assen for the Dutch TT races. We were both working as chefs at the time so we were interested in trying local dishes.

One such dish was of thinly sliced smoked ham, eggs (poached?) and bread. I seem to recall it was called 'brutji' or something very like it. Whatever it was called it was a great breakfast dish or ideal for a quick snack.

Any Dutch here who can put me right?

Regards,

Jay.?

Hi Jay,

You probably had a 'broodje gezond' (a 'healthy roll').

It's a very typical Dutch roll that you would buy for breakfast or lunch.

 

[danimalia]

John, that's twice I've read of Dungeness crab on this thread and I was thinking how on earth did crabs from Dungeness in Kent become a delicacy in America.

A quick Google of 'Dungeness Crab' put me right ?

Regards,

Jay

I'd never heard of Dungeness, Kent until your mention if it and google set me right! In my admittedly biased opinion, Dungeness Crab is the best-tasting of all the crabs I've tried. I know folks in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States (Baltimore, Washington DC) love their blue crabs, which I will have to try at some point. The only blue crabs I have had were in a place called Puerto Barrios in Guatemala. It was over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, with unbelievable humidity. I could not drink beer fast enough to get drunk, though I tried valiantly. I was just sweating it out faster than I could absorb it. The crabs were fine, but they took so much work for so little meat that I left the restaurant hungrier than when I arrived! The Dungeness Crabs are big enough to provide some nice chunks of meat for your effort, though they pale in size compared to the big Alaskan King Crabs.

 

[sablebrush52]

Here in Southern California we have pretty much everything from everywhere, so it's hard to point to any singular dish. The only one that comes to mind is the French Dip sandwich, which was invented in Los Angeles either by Cole's or Phillipe's, both of which have feuded over who created it for the last 100+ years. And, of course, the supermarket was invented in Los Angeles as well, in the mid 1920's. And there's Trader Joes, which originated here as well.
While hardly a regional dish, we do have Langer's which is acknowledged worldwide as making the best Pastrami sandwich in the US. The Five Boroughs can go suck air on that one.
To our everlasting shame, LA is the home of the gourmet pizza movement. You can keep your goat cheese apple sauce pizza. I'll take pepperoni, please. And Northern California spearheaded the whole fresh seasonal cooking movement back in the 1970's. Simple fresh as can be locally sourced food at an ungodly mark up.

 

[sablebrush52]

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Out the oven before slicing.

Cajun haggis?

 

[paulfg]

British food is gross.. I would have starved on my trip to the UK without McDonalds.

Here we have:

boiled peanuts
fried cornbread
fried green tomatoes
iced cane juice
and many other peanut oil fried foods.

you must have a very strange pallet if you hate English food but eat SH*t like macdonalds

 

[sablebrush52]

Menudo. Primarily in the southwestern US. Cows stomach in a broth with a red chili base. ?

I cannot abide menudo. It smells like a chili infused bowel movement.

 

[sablebrush52]

Hands down the best pizza joint in the world.

Try Zachary's in Oakland.