"Pittsburgh Food"??

[txSleepingBeauty]

I'm the daughter of two natives Pittsburghers, grew up on chipped ham, pop and Klondike bars. Now all I can think about is a fried chipped ham sandwich with Heinz sweet gherkin pickles, yum! Unfortunately neither of those things can be found in Houston

 

[pittsburghmarc]

Hey Pittsburgher's...some of us are planning a meet at Station Square either on a Sunday in February. Speak up if you're interested. Subscribe to this thread to stay informed!

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

wings, pierogies, dogs with saurkraut, hoagies. Did I mention wings?

You guys may have the rings, but WE have the wings. And you will not be taking them away from us! (And I don't even LIKE them.)

Aren't wings famous for being from Buffalo not Pittsburgh?

Without question.

Steak salads (with french fries)

YUM! My favorite!

 

[mbswats]

Sounds great - count me in!

GO STEELERS!!!!!!

Hey Pittsburgher's...some of us are planning a meet at Station Square either on a Sunday in February. Speak up if you're interested. Subscribe to this thread to stay informed!

 

[FlightlessDuck]

I'm from the eastern side of PA, and I would not have considered "periogies" to be a Pittsburgh food.

 

[Mary•Poppins]

Any Pittsburgh people on that are old enough to remember weddings at the fire halls with the standard menu of Halupki, rigatoni and fried chicken? throw in some polkas and you were all set.

Hey ... were you at my wedding? Married 20 years and had the best wedding in the world! Happy people dancing and drinking in the fire hall! Not fancy and didn't cost an arm and a leg ... but so down to earth and carefree, the bartenders and DJ stayed an extra hour just because they were having a blast too!

And for the poster about the Orange drink who grew up on it as a kid ... we grew up on Lemon Blend (The orange drink's sister .)

I LOVE MY TOWN!

 

[Hannathy]

Hey ... were you at my wedding? Married 20 years and had the best wedding in the world! Happy people dancing and drinking in the fire hall! Not fancy and didn't cost an arm and a leg ... but so down to earth and carefree, the bartenders and DJ stayed an extra hour just because they were having a blast too!

And for the poster about the Orange drink who grew up on it as a kid ... we grew up on Lemon Blend (The orange drink's sister .)

I LOVE MY TOWN!

It was me and I meant lemon!!! I can't believe I said Orange, I should have went to bed. an hour before I did.

thanks for catching my mistake!

 

[Tink888]

Any Pittsburgh people on that are old enough to remember weddings at the fire halls with the standard menu of Halupki, rigatoni and fried chicken? throw in some polkas and you were all set.

DH & I had a fire hall wedding, as did several of my friends. 1993....complete with rigatoni, fried chicken. The night wasn't over until until we did the chicken dance, the hoky poky and the money dance.

I'm from the eastern side of PA, and I would not have considered "periogies" to be a Pittsburgh food.

You can still go to quite of few of the local churches around here on Friday mornings and get perogies homemade by the older women from the old country. Yummmm......Mrs. T's has nothing on those!

 

[KellyWasHere]

Pierogies....http://www.pierogiesplus.com/
Need I say more???

I've lived here my whole life and did not know of this place until my coworker brought some in a few months ago. BLISS! It's worth going to the website to see the pictures of the staff. Are they not the coolest group of people???

 

[Kycha]

But, what is chipped ham? Is it just ham, cut up really small??

Chipped(frizzled, shaved)ham is sliced really, really, really thin. You should be able to read a newspaper through it.

And I had no idea that pretzel jello salad was a Pittsburgh thing. I'm from Lancaster and my Mother in law made it one year for a family reunion. I thought she made up the recipe herself.

 

[LaraK]

Any Pittsburgh people on that are old enough to remember weddings at the fire halls with the standard menu of Halupki, rigatoni and fried chicken? throw in some polkas and you were all set.

No only remember it, it was my wedding reception!! We also had 5 kegs of Iron on tap. And this was in 1996- so not too long ago!

Speaking of weddings, don't forget the cookie trays with "to-go" boxes at the end!

I'm told that's a 'burgh thing.

Hey ... were you at my wedding? Married 20 years and had the best wedding in the world! Happy people dancing and drinking in the fire hall! Not fancy and didn't cost an arm and a leg ... but so down to earth and carefree, the bartenders and DJ stayed an extra hour just because they were having a blast too!

My Wedding was at Duquesne's Chapel, the photos were taken on the overlook on Mt. Washington, the pre-reception bar run was on the South Side and the reception was in the Sharpsburg Fire Hall. Had pierogies, Kielbassa, stuffed shells and chicken at the reception. I remember my husband's family asking if it was a family tradition to bring slippers to the reception since ALL of the women in my family changed into slippers so that they could dance the night away.

Oh, and we had green beer (Iron) at the reception...it was St. Patty's weekend. Our families went to the parade in the morning and then our wedding that afternoon. (and yes, they started with Bloodies at the parade and then Guinness at Shale's as it should be)

 

[disneydreamersx4]

OP here - thanks everyone, you've given us alot of great food choices!
DH is planning to go to the Parade when the Steelers get their 7th ring
So we'll have to go to Primanti's. I had pretzel jello salad in the Northeast, yum.

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

DH is planning to go to the Parade when the Steelers get their 7th ring

I'm thinking in twenty years they might not be doing parades anymore
Hehe.


I love that jello pretzel stuff. Yums.

 

[KarenB]

It is not really Pittsburgh food but my son goes to college near there and likes to venture here:

http://www.hofbrauhauspittsburgh.com/

 

[npierce25]

Hey Pittsburgher's...some of us are planning a meet at Station Square either on a Sunday in February. Speak up if you're interested. Subscribe to this thread to stay informed!

If its the 20th im down! I will be in Disney or work the other sundays of the month!!!!

 

[mrodgers]

Salads with fries!

pierogies

I made "pierogie" pizza once - mashed potatos, saurkraut, cheddar cheese on a pizza crust....which was much better than it sounds!

I did an internship for school at Heinz in their chem lab for 6 months. I ate a pierogie pizza nearly every other day in the cafeteria for lunch. The other days it was a trip across the river for lunch.

Pretzel salad is a Pittsburgh thing? Never new that. I started in the Burgh, but move up to Butler in the 80's. Now live way up near I-80 and never had pretzel salad until we were married. My wife makes it for every holiday or family get-together and she is definitely not from the Burgh (they hate the rich Pittsburghers up north because they bring their snobby attitudes up to "hunting camp" up north.)

 

[Hannathy]

Pretzel salad is a Pittsburgh thing? Never new that. I started in the Burgh, but move up to Butler in the 80's. Now live way up near I-80 and never had pretzel salad until we were married. My wife makes it for every holiday or family get-together and she is definitely not from the Burgh (they hate the rich Pittsburghers up north because they bring their snobby attitudes up to "hunting camp" up north.)

I agree with the pretzel salad thing. that isn't old Pittsburgh food. It is a new thing.
I never had pretzel salad until several years ago and my mom never made it and she was born in Millvale(touches Pittsburgh) in 1919 and he family owned a bar there after coming over from Germany so I come from a old Pittsburgh family.

Wow we had a hunting camp up near 80! near Marienville. and I moved away from Butler about when you moved in. what a coincidence.

 

[Kies99]

It is not really Pittsburgh food but my son goes to college near there and likes to venture here:

http://www.hofbrauhauspittsburgh.com/

I love this place!

Only two things wrong with it: they project sports on the wall and if I hear "zicki zacki..hoi, hoi, hoi" one more time I'm going to hit someone!!