Regional Delicacies / Specialties Of Your Area

[ssjones]

Taylor Ham (Pork Roll to the dirty south Jersey residents). I buy it as a 6 or 7 pound full log and slice it myself. The pre boxed stuff is not as good, but suitable in a pinch. I have tried to eat it at deli’s outside NJ who try to make it and I have yet to find a place outside the state that knows what to do with it correctly. If you find yourself NJ, you owe it to yourself to go to a good deli and get a sandwich.

Pork roll - Wikipedia

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Working in Jersey for nearly 20 years, I got an education on Taylor Ham. I found most places buy a sub-quality no-name pork-roll vs the real deal Taylor brand (which is about $6/pound!).


In Maryland, we worship at the alter of the Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab - steamed of course (who in the hell boils seafood????), with plenty of Old Bay (Louisiana: you can keep your Zatarans)

 

[FurCoat]

Let's do it. I've got ten acres and access to a BBQ trailer. ?

That's a hell of a rig.

 

[yohanan]

Im going to keep this list goin
Brunswick stew
Muscadine grapes
Red eye gravy
Pulled pork and slaw
Texas Pete
Sun Drop soda
Pepsi and salted Lance peanuts
Fried corn bread
Sweet iced tea
Shrimp n Grits
Gizzards
Collard/ Mustard/ Turnip greens
Fat back
Chittlins
Chicken bog
Hush puppies

Damn!!! You read my mind.

 

[mikethompson]

Yeah, some nice eats in here and all, but do you guys have bagged milk?

 

[warren]

King Crab, Copper River Reds, and maybe muktuk which is an acquired taste. Geoduck pronounced (goo-ey duck), which is a Pacific Northwest clam, the best ones are Alaskan of course. Geoduck makes a great fritter.

 

[rajangan]

What if I told you that about 2 years ago I discovered these existed and was very curious to see how they tasted. You can find them anywhere here. Something like a raspberry blueberry taste?

I think it's close to blueberry with a bit of black currant

 

[Jaylotw]

Stadium Mustard, Polish Boys (polish sausage, slaw, hot sauce and fries), and the best maple syrup produced anywhere. Canadians got nothing on NE Ohio syrup. I'll fight about it.

 

[Winterreise]

Poutine , yes it come from Québec! Canada try to appropriate this dishe
Pet de soeur (sister fart) delicious dessert
And my favorite desserts Grand père dans le sirop (granddaddy in syrup)

 

[Merton]

White barbeque sauce, started at Big Bob Gibson's in Decatur, Alabama, in the 1940's, but you can now buy it in any Alabama grocers. It is a vinegar and mayonaise barbeque sauce used on barbeque'd chicken, mmmm mmm good.
Boiled peanuts... the caviar of the South. Don't knock it, till you've tried it.
Fried Okra... if you have never tried okra, then you have no idea what you are missing.
Fried Green tomatoes... people down here love them, but they give me the runs, so...
Grits, I love when friends from up North or abroad tell me that they think grits is gross, but then go on and on about polenta... it's the same thing!!! We use lye to turn the corn to hominy, and then grind that into cornmeal, and the larger particles are filtered out to make grits/polenta.

I am as yankee as you can get and I really love grits (polenta too). I'm sure that there are southern cooks who knock it out of the park in a way that few cooks in the north can. But, still love it and order grits any chance I get and make it at home frequently. Real comfort food.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Yeah, some nice eats in here and all, but do you guys have bagged milk?

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Not for many, many years but yes, for several weeks after the birth of each of our daughters we had a steady supply in the refrigerator - not from a cow! As wonderful as all the miracles of nature are, it just wasn't what I wanted to see when I opened up the refrigerator though I did my share of warming it up in the middle of the night, lol. Oh the many mammaries of those days . . . .

 

[SBC]

Yeah, some nice eats in here and all, but do you guys have bagged milk?

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I had forgotten about bagged milk! Memories of mom snipping the corner off to pour into our Trix come flooding back...

 

[mikethompson]

Just recently introduced, just for Canada - timbiebs, a special limited edition of Timbits™ produced in collaboration with Stratford's favorite son.

There is also a line of merchandise as well:

 

[mso489]

N.C. seafood specialties that make it inland, but are best sampled at the coast, include shrimp, flounder, soft-shell crab (which is a seasonal form of regular crab), mullet, bluefish, sea bass, etc. One distinct delicacy is Spanish mackerel, that come in runs. They have a recognizable flavor, not everyone's favorite, but delicious to me. When I'm at the coast around Moorhead City, I like Bogue Sound clam chowder at The Sanitary Fish Market.

 

[mikefu]

King Crab, Copper River Reds, and maybe muktuk which is an acquired taste. Geoduck pronounced (goo-ey duck), which is a Pacific Northwest clam, the best ones are Alaskan of course. Geoduck makes a great fritter.

Not a Muktuk fan, but the King Crab, the Reds, and almost any wild caught salmon, and the Geoduck are among my all-time short list favorite things to eat!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Ohhh, biscuits with chocolate gravy. Actually, I HATE them, ha ha. As a kid I would stay with other friends whose mom would make them for us for breakfast, and I remember going hungry tioll I would get home to get real food.
But, I cannot eat sweets for breakfast at all. I can't even stomach waffles or pancakes. But. my wife, when the mood hits her, I have to make it for her. But, I never eat it.
The gravy is actually a pudding... which is double blech from me, as I can't stomach chocolate pudding or even chocolate pie (which is essentially a pudding also) at all either.

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

Yeah, some nice eats in here and all, but do you guys have bagged milk?

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We did in High School. Top tip, don't blow air in the bag through your straw. Makes quite a mess.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

We did in High School. Top tip, don't blow air in the bag through your straw. Makes quite a mess.

So like... you just jam a straw into a bag of milk... like a Capri Sun? WTF

 

[mikethompson]

We did in High School. Top tip, don't blow air in the bag through your straw. Makes quite a mess.

So like... you just jam a straw into a bag of milk... like a Capri Sun? WTF

 

[FLDRD]

White barbeque sauce, started at Big Bob Gibson's in Decatur, Alabama, in the 1940's, but you can now buy it in any Alabama grocers. It is a vinegar and mayonaise barbeque sauce used on barbeque'd chicken, mmmm mmm good.
Boiled peanuts... the caviar of the South. Don't knock it, till you've tried it.
Fried Okra... if you have never tried okra, then you have no idea what you are missing.
Fried Green tomatoes... people down here love them, but they give me the runs, so...
Grits, I love when friends from up North or abroad tell me that they think grits is gross, but then go on and on about polenta... it's the same thing!!! We use lye to turn the corn to hominy, and then grind that into cornmeal, and the larger particles are filtered out to make grits/polenta.

Love fried okra. But it's horrid when boiled. Yeah, some people actually do that. Comes out a slimy green gob of nastiness.

 

[Egg Shen]

Where about?

Please put your location in your Profile, as people are forgetful.
Why:
That will save questions in the future as to where you live when you later mention local stores, weather, tobacco prices, availability, regulations, location of photos, wildfires, air quality, etc. In many instances that saves time for those who read your posts. It cuts down on posts or PMs asking where you are.
How:
Under your avatar, (top right, left most of three symbols) you choose "Account Details", which brings up "My Account". "My Location" is halfway down. Whatever you're comfortable with- town, city, county, state. province, etc.

Done! I agree it is useful to know when reading people’s posts. My friend in the city (Philly) seems to always have Vernor’s on deck for mixing whiskey gingers. But I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it in various grocers north of the city, up my way. I don’t honestly pay it much mind because I prefer my ginger ales to be really hot/spicy. Plus I usually drink my brown neat, and I don’t drink soda alone much …sugar doesn’t agree with my body chemistry unfortunately.