What are the regional food specialities of your local area?

[Sarah_Jayne]

I'm on my last full day in the Philly area for this trip and decided today is home comfort food day. I am actually from the Philly burbs and am of Pennsylvania Dutch stock. The Dutchies (which are actually German in ancestry..german=deutsche=dutch) from this area have their own regional food specialities.

On my shopping list today, I have - red beet eggs, pepper cabbage, whoopie pies (trendy now but very much a Pa Dutch item) and shoofly pie.

What are the regional food treasures of your local area? The stuff that you can't guarantee you will find in other parts when you travel.

[Sarah_Jayne]

bumpers....

[Jack Sparrow]

Kroketten en frikandellen

[After Shock Media]

CA has its own version of BBQ that is right over a flame (yes grilling), Mostly famous for the tri-tip steak.

[Arnox]

Kangaroo? I guess, I eat it because it's protein rich and cheaper than beef.

[Jakke PNG]

Dunno about specialities, however Terry Pratchett mentioned Drunken nighttime helsinki street fast food in one of the "science of Discworld" books.

[JD]

anything seafood Gotta love the pacific northwest

[ECG]

Netherlands:


Frikandel
Kroket

Great junkfood

Asia (Philippines/Vietnam):


Balut

That's what the locals eat here

[After Shock Media]

Damn sweep all of Asia under one rug.

['mo]

CA has its own version of BBQ that is right over a flame (yes grilling), Mostly famous for the tri-tip steak.

OHHHHHHH how I miss the tri-tip steak! I lived in CA for a few years, and we don't have it here! I will never understand why that isn't served all over the place, it is just SO good!

[Jack Sparrow]

btw, dutch should be the netherlands right, did the pensylvanians get it wrong ;)?

[PiffStenis]

Fish & Chips

Chips & Gravy

Curry & Chips

Chips.....

[MK Ultra]

CA has its own version of BBQ that is right over a flame (yes grilling), Mostly famous for the tri-tip steak.

We used to call that Santa Maria Style, you could go to Santa Maria on any weekend the weather was good and nearly every parking lot would have some club or organization raising money by cooking tri-tip, beef ribs and chicken over oak wood.
For a few bucks you got a big plate of meat, salad, bbq beans and a roll, it was hard to eat it all.
I haven't had tri-tip since I left, you don't see it in the stores here

[Sarah_Jayne]

Damn sweep all of Asia under one rug.

I need to not do threads like this when you are in hospital or they just don't go as well.

[Sarah_Jayne]

Fish & Chips

Chips & Gravy

Curry & Chips

Chips.....

If you are saying chips and gravy I am guessing you are from 'up north'? Then, what about chips and mushy peas.

[Sarah_Jayne]

btw, dutch should be the netherlands right, did the pensylvanians get it wrong ;)?

Read my post..I explained.

The word for German is Deutsche . That somehow got paired down to Dutch. So, it is actually PA German but it was shortened down to that so long ago that PA Dutch stuck. Though, there certainly are people that say PA German these days and even some that clear out say Pennsylvania Deutsche.

Want to confuse things more? The old PA Dutch people and even the people that are super PA Dutch (like the Amish) call non-PA Dutch people that live in the area 'The English'.

[Twistys Tim]

I am not sure there are any 100% Toronto specific foods....?????

I am not sure there are any 100% Canadian foods, with the exception of 'perhaps' the Butter Tart??????

[Sarah_Jayne]

The PNW:

Salmon, Salmon, and might I add, Salmon. Seriously, the dungeness crab here is incredible, huge clean oysters, coffee, wines, cold smoked apple bacon, real 100% blackberry honey, and this is the true organic mecca of the world.

Sarah, are you going to hit Pat's or Geno's on the way out?

Neither this time because I didn't have a whole lot of time to go around the actual city because I was looking after my mom down here in Bucks County. Plus, I am controversial in thinking the best steaks are outside of the city anyway. That said, given the choice of those two Pat's but I think Pat's son Rick's is better. Either way..wizz is evil.

[After Shock Media]

We used to call that Santa Maria Style, you could go to Santa Maria on any weekend the weather was good and nearly every parking lot would have some club or organization raising money by cooking tri-tip, beef ribs and chicken over oak wood.
For a few bucks you got a big plate of meat, salad, bbq beans and a roll, it was hard to eat it all.
I haven't had tri-tip since I left, you don't see it in the stores here

It still goes on and most stores also carry pre cooked tri tip. It is a combination of the marinade as well as the wood fire that gives it the taste. Some places use oak, some use oak and mesquite or straight mesquite.

A BBQ plate would often have 3-6 slices of tri tip, a piece of chicken, 2 ribs, (sometimes a piece of kielbasa), BBQ beans that had a kick, salad or piece of corn, and some sourdough rolls or sliced sourdough bread. Typically it would be like 5 to 10 bucks and at 10 you got a soda. Most often it was 5 bucks though. Not sure how they made the money lol.

They also cook it rain or shine. I can find the tri tip trailers (or santa maria style trailers) in parking lots almost year round. No sandwich place worth a grain of salt would not be caught dead without having that BBQ at least 1 day a week rain or shine.

Speaking of that another regional thing here is sourdough bread, bread bowl soups, artichoke soup (we produce almost all of the artichokes), cioppino soup - especially in SF, dungeness crab, grilled or roasted asparagus (again we produce most of it), California sushi, California pizza types (we did change pizza everywhere), and you must say guacamole - even though it is Mexican in nature; without the Haas avocado it would not be the same.
I suppose some could add sprouts and stuff to us. Same could be said of use with the skirt steak and strip steak.

[After Shock Media]

I am not sure there are any 100% Toronto specific foods....?????

I am not sure there are any 100% Canadian foods, with the exception of 'perhaps' the Butter Tart??????

What about that poutine or whatever it is stuff? Plus besides a few in WI and a couple small places I think you all have a lock on cheese curds.

Neither this time because I didn't have a whole lot of time to go around the actual city because I was looking after my mom down here in Bucks County. Plus, I am controversial in thinking the best steaks are outside of the city anyway. That said, given the choice of those two Pat's but I think Pat's son Rick's is better. Either way..wizz is evil.

Whats wrong with Tony Lukes? I liked his a lot more than Pats or Genes. I had the one with provolone, broccoli rabe with grilled onions and sweet peppers.

[EvilFubAr]

McDonalds

[M0nk]

Asado (BBQ) all different tipes of meat, susages and vegetables like potatos and stuffed peppers. we put them all on the grate and babrbaque them. its fucking tasty!

[GrouchyAdmin]

Meth, Boones, and Coors.

[Twistys Tim]

What about that poutine or whatever it is stuff? Plus besides a few in WI and a couple small places I think you all have a lock on cheese curds.

I am unconvinced that the French Canadians were the first to combine chips, gravy, and cheese.

[Agent 488]

booze, mental breakdowns, crack.

[Tom_PM]

Sarah, my fathers family from germany settled near Hanover Pa. in York county. Lots of great foods.

In the southern tier of new york they have Spiedies. Great marinated meat sandwiches you could say. You can order marinades and everything from spiedies dot com (not my site).

[Sarah_Jayne]

What about that poutine or whatever it is stuff? Plus besides a few in WI and a couple small places I think you all have a lock on cheese curds.



Whats wrong with Tony Lukes? I liked his a lot more than Pats or Genes. I had the one with provolone, broccoli rabe with grilled onions and sweet peppers.

First of all..there is hard for anything to be out and out wrong with the general concept of the cheesesteak. However, anything that involves broccoli isn't a philly cheesesteak. It could very well be very tasty but it is its own thing not a Philly cheesesteak. Like a chicken cheesesteak is good but not really a Philly cheesesteak.

Like I said, I like the stuffs on the city outskirts the best anyway but Pat vs Genos is about tradition and in particular about if you are a whizz head or not. Whizz = bad.

[After Shock Media]

First of all..there is hard for anything to be out and out wrong with the general concept of the cheesesteak. However, anything that involves broccoli isn't a philly cheesesteak. It could very well be very tasty but it is its own thing not a Philly cheesesteak. Like a chicken cheesesteak is good but not really a Philly cheesesteak.

Like I said, I like the stuffs on the city outskirts the best anyway but Pat vs Genos is about tradition and in particular about if you are a whizz head or not. Whizz = bad.

Yeah I know broccoli would make it not "real". They have the regular steaks too. I just mentioned the sandwich that I liked best while there. I did try a few normal steaks at different locations. Then again most would have guessed that I would try several anyways. I am way to much of a food person not to.

I actually think Lukes calls that sandwich an "Italian" and it is not listed under steaks.

Oh and yeah I did the Pats and Gino's thing too. Had too if you know what I mean.

[Sarah_Jayne]

In the airport I had a lobster cheeseteak..which turned out really just to be a cheesesteak with a white cheese sort of sauce (dangerously close to a whizz) with lobster on top. Strange concept.

[After Shock Media]

In the airport I had a lobster cheeseteak..which turned out really just to be a cheesesteak with a white cheese sort of sauce (dangerously close to a whizz) with lobster on top. Strange concept.

Sounds like it was a poorly done bechamel sauce. If done right they can be pretty tasty like most mother sauces. Like most mother sauces that are real simple, they of course can be done very poorly and if they are - EW!

[Sly]

The only thing I can really think of is turkey and dressing sandwiches. Which are good, but it's kind of sad that it's the only thing we really have.

[Mutt]

i dunno - other than poutine and butter tarts i can't think of any foods that are specifically Canadian. Kraft Dinner is just the name Kraft used in Canada for their Mac and Cheese mix.

Cajuns originally came from Nova Scotia.

Macaroni and cheese loaf sandwich meat? never seen it anywhere else.

[gornyhuy]

blue crabs baby!!!

[Sarah_Jayne]

Sounds like it was a poorly done bechamel sauce. If done right they can be pretty tasty like most mother sauces. Like most mother sauces that are real simple, they of course can be done very poorly and if they are - EW!

I think they were trying to evoke that concept and the sauce worked pretty well on the sandwich on its own. It was just that the lobster didn't actually add much other than the 'hey I put lobster on my steak sandwich' thing. It is from a branch of a very well known Philly sports bar and all their other stuff is good. So, I will give them the pass.

[DebsDeep]

tuff skin hotdogs, they are amazin

[cherrylula]

Everybody knows and loves New Orleans seafood, it cant be beat, often imitated but never duplicated. Alll the shrimp, oysters, fish everything is local and fresh, not farm raised and frozen...

One of the best reasons to live down here is the daily great seafood.

[Sarah_Jayne]

Yeah but what about individual dishes? Though, for New Orleans there are some obvious ones, I agree.

[cherrylula]

Yeah but what about individual dishes? Though, for New Orleans there are some obvious ones, I agree.

Jambalaya, Crawfish Etouffe, Local grown stuffed shrimp mirliton, Boiled Crabs and Shrimp, good old fashioned Fried Shrimp Po Boy on local made french bread (something about the water used down here for bread)

[Dirty Lord]

feijoada

[punkpred]

Fish n Chips

[escorpio]

Sonoran Hot Dogs

[digifan]

I'm hungry now...

[Sarah_Jayne]

feijoada

From Brazil then? I have had it and liked it even if some of the stuff that goes into it made me wish I was blind while eating.

Actually though, I like a lot of Brazilian/Portuguese food a great deal.

[will76]

Boild Crawfish


Raw Oysters


BBQ Shrimp


Jambalaya


Gumbo


Blackened Redfish


Shrimp Poboy


and for dessert

Beignets


Hope I made you all hungry

[CaptainHowdy]

[tranza]

feijoada

Feijoada, of course..usually the restaurants cook it on Wednesday and Saturday...

[thundergasm]

In Wisconsin of course we have beer and brats, but my favorite is real cheese curds when they are just made. There are still a bunch of small cheese making companies in the smaller towns that you can visit and grab them right out of the vat. They squeek when you chew them. Delicious!

I'm living in Cancun now and have tried some foods here that I really like. I can't pronounce any of them yet, but when I do I'll make sure to share

[Jimmy Rock]

CA-

[Davidstinator]

CA has its own version of BBQ that is right over a flame (yes grilling), Mostly famous for the tri-tip steak.

Yep, out here it's Santa Maria Style BBQ - grilled tri-tip and baked beans, served with garlic bread.

That, and the Santa Barbara County wines.

[aimeesweet]

I grew up in Rhode Island and there are so many tasty things that are not available anywhere else...Obviously the seafood is amazing and so is the Italian food... but these things are strictly RI...

Coffee milk... which is milk made with a sweetened, coffee flavored syrup

Stuffies or Stuffed Quahogs which are big clams filled with a bread-clam stuffing and baked...

Clam Cakes and Chowdah... deep fried balls of dough dipped in clam chowdah(RI chowdah has a clear broth, but any kind will do)

Pizza strips... bakery pizza that just has tomato sauce and the are served cold or at room temperature...

Hot wieners... a hot dog served with a meat sauce that is seasoned with celery salt and topped with onions...