What Foodstuffs Best Define the Place Where You Live?

[mawnansmiff]

I am British through & through and if I had to define where I live in terms of victuals it would look something like this....

Coleman's Mustard (powder, NOT the ready made pap)
Fuller's London Pride (ale)
Cheddar Cheese
Cornish Pasties
Branston Pickle
Stilton Cheese
Timothy Taylor's Landlord (ale)
H. P. Sauce
Wensleydale Cheese
P.G. Tips Tea
Walker's Crisps
Parkin (a sort of strong ginger & treacle cake made this time of year in the northern counties)
Hovis Bread
McVities Hobnobs
Theakston's Old Peculiar (ale)
Robertson's Marmalade

So folks, what delicacies do you think would define the place where you live?

Jay.

 

[bobomatic]

Down here it's arepas, frijoles, rice, all the fresh fruit you could want and of course coffee.

 

[fireground_piper]

Taylor Ham

 

[Bengel]

In Idaho specifically Finger steaks and Spuds
US of A : Hamburgers and Apple pie of course

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

Kansas City is a recognized BBQ region. Burnt ends is probably what people associate with KC Q the most.

 

[Kobold]

Crabs, natty boh beer and utz potato chips, Berger cookies, smith island cake. I’m probably missing a few more but that’s all I got off the top of my head.

 

[K.E. Powell]

It's funny you mention this, because I met someone recently who is working on creating a regional "Wheeling Cookbook," with an emphasis on regional and homemade recipes. One of my mom's concoctions will be featured in the book once they have it finished. Pretty neat stuff.

Anyway, in West by God Virginia, I'd say a lot of the foodstuffs that define us are holdovers from our Italian and Polish immigrants that came over during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and regional twists on classic American staples. Examples of the former would be things like pepperoni rolls and soup beans, and examples of the latter would be things like slaw dogs and Dicarlos style pizza (it's pizza where the mozzarella is piled on the pizza cold).
There is also a surprisingly small but vibrant Catholic community in Wheeling and especially Steubenville, so you can already guess that Coleman fish sandwiches are a big deal.

 

[username]

Sonoran hot dogs, chimichanga

 

[PA Piper Mike]

Cheesesteaks

 

[proteus]

Connecticut

Sally's New Haven Apizza, Pepe's or Modern or Bar also count but I'm a Sally's guy

Ted's steamed cheeseburgers

Louis Lunch - oldest hamburger joint in America

Foxon Soda

Munson's Chocolate - best in the state

Ferris Acres Ice Cream - slow churned on the farm with their own cows milks. There's Rich Farms and few others too

Cricket Hot Dogs MRKS mustard relish kraut sauce and it's their own hot sauce

Seven Seas' hot lobster rolls in Milford

And we make some great cider. Some even sell unpasteurized for a little extra kick after a week in the fridge.

BF Clyde in Mystic CT is the only steam engine powered cider and hard cider mill left in America.

There's more I'm sure but it's all I can think of now.

Knew id forgot some

Two Roads Brewery and Litchfield Distillery, Thimble Island Brewery, Counterweight Brewery (Headway) and City Steam Hartford breweries - we have probably 250 local breweries.

 

[ashdigger]

All You Can Eat Buffet.

Vegas Baby!!

 

[Buffalo]

Nebraska/Midwest USofA:

Chili and cinnamon rolls (expert level if you put the chili on the cinnamon roll)
Bierrocks (meat and cabbage mix baked in a bread roll)
Runzas (fast food chain equivalent of bierrocks)
Fairbury Franks (the only hotdog served at Cornhusker games)
Switzel or Haymaker's Punch (gatorade before there was gatorade)

 

[Buffalo]

All You Can Eat Buffet.

Vegas Baby!!

It's all you can eat Clark, we only need one plate.

 

[The Amish Tyrant]

Detroit:

Coney dogs - chili with mustard & onions
Potato chips - Better Made
Pop/soda - Vernors, Faygo, Town Club
Pizza - square style and the chain stores (Domino's, Little Caesars, Hungry Howies, Jets)

Shawarma
Superman ice cream
Corned beef (with double baked rye bread)

Boston cooler (ginger ale float)
Paczkis - filled doughnuts
Pickled bologna
Bumpy cake
Almond boneless chicken
Zip sauce for steaks
Yardbird Sandwich - our contribution to bbq (smoked chicken, grainy honey mustard bbq sauce, mushrooms, and crispy bacon)

Michigan:

Bacon cheeseburger
Olive burger
Cherries
Fudge
Pasties
Wet burrito - topped with red chili sauce and cheese

Craft beer
Whitefish
Frankenmuth chicken - different type of fried chicken

Kelloggs cereal
Vlasic pickles

 

[Buffalo]

Detroit:


Pop/soda - Vernors, Faygo, Town Club

Vernor's Ginger Ale is the absolute best ginger ale. I wish they distributed it to other regions!

 

[MattRVA]

Richmond Virginia:
Brunswick Stew
Peanuts
BBQ
Blue Crabs and Oysters on the coast

 

[canucklehead]

Caesar (the cocktail), chocolate puffed wheat squares, green onion cakes, butter tarts, cabbage rolls, perogies (not pierogies), donair pizza, Hawaiian pizza, and a huge assortment of cheap rye whiskey.

 

[The Amish Tyrant]

Vernor's Ginger Ale is the absolute best ginger ale. I wish they distributed it to other regions!

When I did the PM Secret Santa last year, I threw in a can of Vernors and a small bag of Better Made chips. Had to spread the Michigan love.

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[proteus]

Another one I forgot is maple syrup. In May. Best time of year. Sweet Wind Farm if you can get up there. They have tours and festival music.

 

[mawnansmiff]

Another one I forgot is maple syrup

Oddly enough, I tasted maple syrup for the first time ever only about 6 years ago!

Up to that point my go to was honey but Maple syrup tops honey in the flavour department.

Jay.