What dish do you think is just eatten in your region?

[SwedishMeatball]

We've only been in NC for not quite 5 years, but this is some info I found googling.

North Carolina is probably most well known for its Moravian food heritage. The Moravians, a pious Germanic people, founded the Winston-Salem area of North Carolina in 1766. They brought with them many cookies & cakes, which are still made and sold today.

Barbeque sauce in North Carolina is divided into two types: Eastern with no tomatoes; and Western with a tomato base. There is constant bickering back and forth over which is the true Carolina barbeque. Barbeque in Eastern North Carolina originated in colonial times when it was thought that tomatoes were poisonous. So there should never be tomatoes in Eastern barbeque sauce.

North Carolina hot dogs are served with chili and cole slaw, mustard, and onions. Most vendors use cole slaw, but some places use a tomato-based variation called BBQ slaw, which may be a western North Carolina variant. This style is called all the way. Carolina Packers, a small company in Johnston County produces locally-famous skinless red-hot dogs.

 

[DisneyfeverTN]

Cheese crisps. When I lived in Arizona, we got them all of the time. I can't find them where I live now. (They are large flour tortillas, cooked so that it is crispy, and cheese melted on top of it.)

 

[SillyMe]

I think red velvet cake is mainly in the South, or am I wrong?

My best friend's mom used to make red velvet cake all the time when I was going up....mmmm.

 

[Iluvthemouse]

Scrapple---everything left on the butchers floor formed into a brick and usually fried until crispy.

 

[jbmom]

Cheese crisps. When I lived in Arizona, we got them all of the time. I can't find them where I live now. (They are large flour tortillas, cooked so that it is crispy, and cheese melted on top of it.)

When I was a kid we went to visit relatives in New Mexico. They made these for us. When we got home my mom would take a tortilla spread some butter on it then put the cheese on and bake it till crispy. Not quite the same, still good though and I make them for my kids now.

 

[Kae]

Nelsons Port-a-pit chicken- www.nelsonsbbq.com

Kae

 

[Disneyaunt4]

Paczki. It's THE most delicious filled donut you'll ever have. You can only get them just before Lent. In fact, I'm stopping at the store to bring them in to work tomorrow. Each one weighs about a pound. Okay, I'm exaggerating here. I wait all year for this! I've lived other places and Michigan is the only place I've ever seen them.

There's a lot of food in New Mexico that isn't available elsewhere. Mainly green chile. EVERYTHING in New Mexico comes with green chile. You can even get it on your burger at McDonald's.

My sister just bought some Paczki's at the store today. I have already mooched a bowl of chili from her and next I going to beg for a donut

 

[JVL1018]

Poutine...

French Fries topped with cheese curd and brown gravy.... really yummy! Started in Quebec but has migrated out from there to other parts of Canada.

Some use mozza cheese instead of cheese curds.

Of course, most people think this is gross when they first hear of it or see it but you have to try it if you ever get the chance

Ohhh every diner I have ever been to in NJ has fries with cheese and gravy on their menu--I have had more plates of fries with cheese and gravy than I care to think about. LOL

We have pierogies here--and for the first time I saw those pacski things--at my Stop & Shop in NJ just yesterday.

I dont think we have anything that no one else has--I do know that Taylor ham egg and cheese is big here(though I hate Taylor ham aka pork roll), but I am sure you can vuy it around the country as well.

 

[Disneyaunt4]

My other sister makes pierogies every Christmas,one of my favorite polish foods. Every Christmas Eve was spent at our polish relatives house and they made all the good stuff. Even though most of them are gone now, we still celebrate just like they did with some of the old customs.

 

[rie'smom]

gumbo
crawfish fried,stewed,bisque,boiled
jambalaya
courtbuillon
choupic
mirliton

 

[meeskamouska]

Cream gravy....I am from NM and grew up eating cream gravy!! My DH had NEVER heard of it....he is from San Francisco!!!
(and i miss chile season, when all you smell in town is roasting chiles)
Also my favorite drink form back home is a Double Cream Pepsi....pepsi with shots of soft serve mix...delicious!!!!

 

[tiggersmom2]

boiled peanuts and chitterlings (chitlins).....it is definitely a southern thing and yes, I do eat them and love them....but then again, I'll eat just about anything.

 

[Tess]

One of my favorite dishes as a child in Ohio was "pot pie" and not the type that one knows as pot pie. This pot pie is made with beef or chicken that is cooked in a pressure cooker. After the meat is cooked, you add a very doughy square (think really thick, square noodles) into the meat/broth and boil. Oh my, it is so great. You serve it on top of mashed potatoes. . .very heavy, fattening (the great kind is made with real lard, flour, and water), and delicious! The mashed potatoes with the pot pie on top. . .mmmmm mmmmm good.

I really can't believe that eating this stuff and the other great farm food (milk from the cow, loads of beef, pork, chicken, eggs every day, etc.) that my cholesterol is well within normal limits. I guess I gave most of that up once I grew up. I still love it though--except the milk from the cow part--never did care much for that. . .too heavy.

I have heard of everything else listed above--and eaten it as well.

 

[Lisa AF]

kolaches--they're for breakfast, the most popular is ham and cheese or sausage and cheese (the meat and cheese are wrappped in a dough and baked). but you can get all sorts of flavors, including fruit and cream cheese....yumm!

We don't have these in OHio, but when we visit my DH's grandparents in Nebraska we always have these filled with fruit, YUM!!! They live in a mostly Czech settled area. They also have duck and potato dumplings!

At my family (Ohio) every event has homemade egg noodles on mashed potatoes. My dh thought we were strange for not having gravy. He now loves his potatoes and noodles too.

 

[NC State]

We've only been in NC for not quite 5 years, but this is some info I found googling.

North Carolina is probably most well known for its Moravian food heritage. The Moravians, a pious Germanic people, founded the Winston-Salem area of North Carolina in 1766. They brought with them many cookies & cakes, which are still made and sold today.

Barbeque sauce in North Carolina is divided into two types: Eastern with no tomatoes; and Western with a tomato base. There is constant bickering back and forth over which is the true Carolina barbeque. Barbeque in Eastern North Carolina originated in colonial times when it was thought that tomatoes were poisonous. So there should never be tomatoes in Eastern barbeque sauce.

North Carolina hot dogs are served with chili and cole slaw, mustard, and onions. Most vendors use cole slaw, but some places use a tomato-based variation called BBQ slaw, which may be a western North Carolina variant. This style is called all the way. Carolina Packers, a small company in Johnston County produces locally-famous skinless red-hot dogs.

Good job on your research, I was born and raised in NC never been out of the county, that is to live. It seems like we have a BBQ and fried chicken (with very sweet tea) place on very corner, if not it's a hot dog stand. Yes, Carolina Packers is the only brand, I don't know of anyother brand. Plus, they're only 4 miles from the house.

 

[yeartolate]

Poutine...

French Fries topped with cheese curd and brown gravy.... really yummy! Started in Quebec but has migrated out from there to other parts of Canada.

That is just plain nasty. For this reason more than others, we need to seal our borders

 

[joshsmom]

My friend from New York had NEVER had a barbequed Pork Steak until she came to the Midwest. I grew up eating them so I thought it was odd.

St. Louis is also famous for our Toasted Ravioli, but I think that many people know about it and that it is now in other parts of the country.

 

[lucyanna girl]

Fried bull frog legs, fried alligator, fried most anything you can drag out of the bayou!

Penny

 

[almburr]

We have the pretzel dessert like OP stated.

Stuffed sopapillas- didnt know they were made any other way
Cheese crisps
Beirocks
Rocky mtn. oysters - if cooked right
German potato salad
Cantaloupe halved cleaned out and a scoop of vanilla ice cream YUM! YUM!

 

[arminnie]

Beignets
Central Grocery Muffuletta
Olive Salad (for the Muffuletta)
Gulf Shrimp
Louisiana Oysters
Poorboys - fried shrimp, fried oyster, or debris

Fried pickles in MS and AR