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

[powellrj]

they tell me that breaded brain sandwiches and mutton is popular in Indiana, but I can tell you I have lived here my whole life and only had one brain sandwich and I have never had mutton.

Breaded tenderloins are really popular and I have heard you can't get them in other parts of the country. I love the places that advertise "tenderloins as big as your head" Just what my hips need!!!

 

[monorailsilver]

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.

I saw them in the Stop & Shop circular in CT a few weeks ago. I thought about buying them to try them but luckily I forgot when I got to the store.

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A Hot buttered lobster roll-much different then the RI version & they use mayo. These are on a toasted hot dog style bun, with hot buttered lobster meat & let me say yummy in the tummy. Oh & Red Lobster does not compair to real seafood.

Rainbow shots that are waxy vs the icky crunchy kind I have had in the south.

Drakes & Entemeins (not the correct spelling).

 

[LadyAmongTramps]

double post

 

[LadyAmongTramps]

I can't believe I forgot gator. I just had it last night for dinner. There's also a place down here that serves kangaroo, but obviously that's not only eaten in Florida.

 

[Kimmielee]

Wilted lettuce?

Leaf lettuce with green onions and crumbled up fresh bacon... and the dressing is HOT BACON GREASE - hence... it "wilts" the lettuce?

OH MY... talk about something so not good for you. I only allow myself to have it once a year... when my Dad's garden is harvested. My birthday menu:

Wilted Lettuce
Fried Green Tomatoes
Fresh Red Tomatoes
Fried Cabbage
Fresh Green Beans
Cornbread
Buttermilk
Sweet Tea (of course)

 

[It's A Happy Day]

OKAY I am in New England and anything and everything with FISH!!

LOBSTERS

SHRIMP

CLAMS

Melt in your mouth fish dishes!!!!!!.

Howdy neighbor! Another Central MA diser here and the seafood is soooooo true. WDW did a great job in Epcot with the fish & chips but you just cannot get good seafood like you get around here....Ronnie's opens soon!!!

 

[Robinrs]

I grew up in a mostly Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn so I grew up on bagels, lox, gefilte fish and LOTS of deli food. I still only eat kosher franks, which everyone calls "hot dogs" in the south, where I live now.

I remember mentioning how much I miss knishes with pastrami and reubens and got the strangest looks from my co workers.

I also grew up with lots of first generation Italians so LOVED their foods, too, but was disgusted by the so called Italian food served in Atlanta. It was a joke. It's why I make my own. I once gave some of my linguini with clam sauce to my second generation Italian boss and she asked if I could bring it to her Mom. She told me it was so authentic she couldn't believe it came from me!!!!

 

[Figment22]

Unique to this area of the South Carolina Lowcountry is Frogmore Stew. The basic recipe calls for smoked sausage (like kielbasa), shrimp, corn on the cob, potatoes and Old Bay Seasoning but depending on who's cooking it, you can also see crab, butter and/or onions added into it.

She-crab soup is another Lowcountry staple that's pretty unique to the area. It's my favorite.

 

[VirtuallyMe]

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

Add ettoufe, mayhaw jelly, oyster/shrimp poboys, pistolettes (stuffed bread that is deep fried), cracklins, boudin, hog head cheese, dirty rice, etc etc etc...

there are lots of foods in Louisiana that you can really only get here.

 

[zagafi]

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.

Yup, pork steaks and t-ravs are definitely St. Louis staples. When my brother moved away from here and asked for pork steaks in the grocery store in Nashville, TN they looked at him like he was insane!

 

[Figment22]

I grew up in a mostly Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn so I grew up on bagels, lox, gefilte fish and LOTS of deli food. I still only eat kosher franks, which everyone calls "hot dogs" in the south, where I live now.

I remember mentioning how much I miss knishes with pastrami and reubens and got the strangest looks from my co workers.

Robin,
I've been going to Gruby's New York Deli on Hilton Head Island for many years and they opened an Atlanta branch a couple of years ago. Check it out. Their Atlanta location is:
Glenridge Point
860 Johnson Ferry Road
Atlanta, Georgia, 30342
404-236-0060
http://www.grubysnydelionline.com/GrubysDeliLocations04.htm

I love their latkes (potato pancakes)!

Edited to add: Plus, they have egg creams!

 

[Liberty Belle]

Kentucky is known for its Hotbrowns and Burgoo. They're probably served all over, though.

 

[pearlieq]

I've never been able to get a decent beef outside of Chicago. Also, the pizza can be imitated, but never duplicated!

DH is from Sandusky, OH and apparently they have something called a New Year's pretzel there. I'd never heard of it.

 

[denisenh]

Creamed chipped beef on toast? Is that a New England thing? I like it.

 

[joshsmom]

Kentucky is known for its Hotbrowns and Burgoo. They're probably served all over, though.

I'm not "all over", but I have NEVER heard of either of those--and Kentucky is just a State away!!!

 

[Niagara2]

Western New York has a very high incident of Heart disease......Our Foods 0
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-Well the ORIGINAL Buffalo Wings of course. I have tried them in many areas of the country and have not found any that are as good as those around here. Secret - Franks Hot Sauce and Butter and a bit crispy.
-Then the Beef on Wick - I find many people who have never tasted a wick roll with the salt on top. The AuJu must be added!
-And our Friday Fish Frys.....Lent will be here and all the local places will have lines out the door.

Fried and salted........not good for you but oh so good!

 

[MrsPete]

On a recent cooking show on our local PBS station, the hosts, who are not native to Pittsburgh said they never heard of Strawberry Pretzel Salad before moving here. It is my mother's signature dish, we can't go to a gathering at my sister's house without it. The base is crushed pretzels mixed with sugar and melted butter and baked in the oven. Then you mix cream cheese, sugar and Cool Whip for the middle and the top is strawberry Jello and frozen strawberries. Yummy yummy.

What is distinct to your area that you can't imagine not having around?

We eat this in the South too.

Things unique to the South: Barbeque -- well, GOOD barbeque -- and barbeque means slow-cooked pulled pork, not hot dogs and hamburgers (that's a cookout). RC Cola, Cheerwine, Sundrop -- wow, we have a lot of our own soft drinks, and they are really better than Coke or Pepsi; there was just a Superbowl commercial about Northerners trying to smuggle Cheerwine out of the area. Grits. Shrimp and Grits. Catfish -- okay, some of the rest of you cook it, but not like we do.

 

[Kimmielee]

Kentucky is known for its Hotbrowns and Burgoo. They're probably served all over, though.

My Dad was born and raised in KY and lives there again now... I've never heard of this either!

 

[DisneyfeverTN]

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.

That's exactly how we would make our own too! Finally, my sisters went to a Mexican restaurant in AZ and asked them how they made them. I think they spread some kind of crisco (or something like that) cook them until they are crispy and then put cheese on them to melt them. I need to find out the exact recipe.

 

[pyrxtc]

surprised it has not been mentioned, fluffernutters. Peanut butter and fluff sandwhiches. I knwo it's a New England thing.

For those that don't know, fluff is just like melted marshmallows in a jar that you spread with a knife. My kids can't eat enough of them.