What's your regional food?

[lazarus]

Here in San Diego, we're proud of the fish taco from Rubio's.

"The formula: beer-battered strips of mild, white fish, wrapped in a soft, corn tortilla with salsa, tangy white sauce and shredded cabbage. It's not complete without a spritz of fresh lime -- a wedge comes tucked inside your paper wrapper."

I also like the fish tacos you can get down at Ocean Beach. We like get some, walk down to the beach, and sit on the sea wall, watching the sunset.

[Ediacara]

1. Barbecue

or if you're a tourist, rocky mountain oysters. If you don't know what they are, you don't want to know

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Regional food

the best food in the area is at King of India restaurant in Springfield MO-best saag pinar in the world!

[Dees]

11. There used to be a place on Glenstone called Casper's

It may be gone...it was in an old metal building. Best chili, soup and ham sandwiches anywhere. It was situated right in front of Aunt Martha's which is an excellent place also. Just down home country comfort food.

[alarcojon]

3. Beer, brats, ribs, steak

Can you guess that I live in Wisconsin?

B-)

[frylock]

4. too funny.. i was gonna say fish tacos.

Checkin in from La Mesa! :hi:

[lazarus]

17. Howdy, frylock!

I'll be in La Mesa Monday for a doc's appointment. Those Lakers are coming on strong, gonna be a heck of a playoffs, eh?

I had never heard of fish tacos before I got out here, now I can't get enough of them.

Before this, it was fajitas (created in San Antonio) or fried catfish and hush puppies back home in Alabama. Actually, fried anything back in Alabama. Green tomatoes, pickles, frog legs, you name it, we'd batter it and fry it. The only folks on the planet who fry more than Southerners are Scots. Those crazy bastards even batter and fry Mars bars. God bless 'em.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

5. Montana

huckleberries, buffalo burgers ( or any wild game ), trout...


Last year berry season was terrible, too dry and I was too busy fleeing the forest fires... so I am really looking forward to a good harvest this summer!

[AspenRose]

43. Buffalo burgers ARE good....

Had one in Ridgway, CO last year at True Grit Cafe and it was mighty tasty.

[DemoTex]

54. Had a buffalo-burger at the Catalina Island airstrip a few years back.

From the island's Wrigley heard. Very good.

[JohnKleeb]

47. mmm buffalo burger

:9:

[StClone]

6. Spinach- Romano Cheese Roll-ups

If you want the recipe send me a note.

[flamingyouth]

7. Seafood - salmon, Dungeness crab, geoducks, oysters

...all kinds of seafood! YUM

And I love fish tacos in San Diego! Now I'm getting really hungry for lunch and it's only 10:20!!

[jus_the_facts]

8. Fried catfish'n'hushpuppies....crawfish....blue crabs...oysters...shrimp..

....etouffee'....Jambalaya....Gumbo....Po'boys...Louisiana cajun cookin' down here in da bayou! :9

[ronzo]

33. Can't beat the food around here.

:toast:

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. I guess I would say pasties here in Michigan.

Mega heavy, mega stuffed pot roast in a crust basically. :hi:

[gula]

10. Poutine and tourtière here in Québec

Poutine: french fries with gravy and curd cheese. The thought of eating fries with gravy kind of turns my stomach.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

12. Pierogies

Potatoes, cheese, onions in a pastry crust. Haven't tried them, myself (have been here for 4 years). Probably never will, either.

[The empressof all]

18. I would kill for a good pierogi

Go for it you won't regret it

[Feanorcurufinwe]

15. Poutine: Quebeçois for "freedom fries"?

I looked, but I couldn't bring myself to eat.

(2000) -- Obviously eager to pick on Mr. Bush’s reputed lack of familiarity with the names of world leaders, Mercer, one of "This Hour"’s four smart-alecky hosts, managed to put a question to the Texas governor during a Michigan primary campaign stop.

"Question from Canada!" shouted Mercer, as Bush was handshaking past. "Prime Minister Jean Poutine says you’re the man to lead the United States into the next millennium," says Mercer, knowing flattery is the most delicious bait. "That so?" says a beaming Bush, striding purposefully into the trap and delivering a well-briefed bite on the importance of free trade with Canada.
http://www.pressrepublican.com/Archive/2000/03_2000/03102000pb.htm

[lazarus]

16. I hear that Prime Minister Poutine

Is doing a hell of a job up there. :hi:

[tishaLA]

19. Back in Philly

we called fries with gravy "wets"

Of course THE food of Philadelphia is the hoagie. Or maybe scrapple, which I would never eat.

[JVS]

64. Poutine is so damn good!

Especially if one is hammered!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

13. Sourdough!!!!!

Food of the gods for San Franciscans!!!!

SF sourdough tastes very different than the "sourdough" I have tasted in other parts of state/country. I think it has to do with the water here. I've heard stories about bakeries who were forced to leave an old location having water trucked in to the new one.

I've also heard stories about how the bread was made "back in the day". Sweaty Italian men would make the dough in tiny, steambath bakeries in North Beath and, as they kneaded the dough, they would slap it against their chests (they would work in tank undershirts). Old-timers swear the bread never tasted the same when health codes were introduced!

Traditionally pizza crust is also made from sourdough, adding an incredible taste to a pizza. When I eat pizza in other places with the regular crust, it just tastes so "flat" to me.

I live near the Parisian bakery (one of the largest), and they bake just about constantly. They have these giant fans that vent out onto the sidewalk and the smell coming from them is beyond heavenly!!!! They also have this cool store that sells bread that has come back from the stores -- it's never more than a morning old. There is nothing like a big hunk of sourdough slathered in fresh butter.

BTW, never EVER buy your sourdough at the airport on the way out of town!!! It is wildly overpriced and delivered in a plastic bag, which ruins the crust. Just stop off at any grocery store and get the sourdough in a paper bag.

After all this talk, I think I may have to go to the store....

[Dees]

14. On the Eastern Shore of Maryland I guess the Blue Crab rules.

Specifically it's the "crab cake". It's kind of a goo thrown together and fried. To me it's a waste of good seafood. I prefer Gulf shrimp anyway. There is some horrible nonsense known as scrapple too. Damn it's bad. Disgraced sausage.

Maryland fried chicken is good. But then again what do I know, I'm from the Midwest.

[mobuto]

22. Not fried, broiled

a good Maryland crab cake can be excellent. The problem is that there's often too much goo or filler. A good crab cake is little more than crab meat and some spices.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

77. And soft crabs...

I've never seen soft crabs anywhere but in the Chesapeake Bay region.

[Cuban_Liberal]

20. Steaks, chops and ribs!

Welcome to central Illinois! If you can't get a good steak or chop here, you can't get one anywhere! :D

[Earth_First]

21. Garbage Plate

Rochester, New York DUers represent!

[lazarus]

23. garbage plate?

Do I want to know what that is, or just avoid Rochester, NY, for the rest of my life?

[Earth_First]

31. Definately NOT Vegetarian Friendly

Absolutely the BEST 3 a.m. drunk college student food you can possibly find in Rochester, Yes you heard me right, you can get a garbage plate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!

[marigold20]

62. Brats, cheese curds

Cheese curds are surprisingly delicious - especially when the rubbery curd squeaks on your teeth. Yum!

[GOPisEvil]

24. How about Threadgill's Chicken Fried Steak?

http://www.threadgills.com/mainframe.htm

Recipes here! (Click on cookbook) :9

[TexasBushwhacker]

40. Threadgill's rocks!

Although it's been a long time since I've been there, I miss Champ Hood and the Threadgill Troubadors.

[Burma Jones]

25. Crabs, Hon.......

[slackmaster]

26. Damn, I was going to say fish tacos

But you beat me to it.

Are you referring to the South Beach Cafe in OB? I went there one day last week, had two Wahoo tacos for $5 plus beans and rice for a dollar extra.

[lazarus]

27. Bahia Don Bravo

The place right down from The Black Bead. We like to go down there so Haele and Cassie can load up on beads and jewelry making stuff, then we get some fish tacos, go watch the sunset, and drive home. Makes for a nice evening.

[MAlibdem]

28. Lobster

Clam bake, cowda, baked beans, fenway franks...

[mobuto]

30. New England Boiled Dinner?

And for the record, its pronounced lobstah.

[MichaelHarris]

29. Mexican food with absolutely no spice. Seems...

the farther I move north mexican food looses its "wham". My moto, if you don't sweat when ya eat it, its not spicey enough. I like to refer to the food here as "air Mexican food"

[Kellanved]

32. quite difficult

I'll try anyway, the place is hardly known for traditional food, as it is a quite young (for European standards) blue-collar city.
Oh, and I'm writing about Berlin.

The "real" Berlin specialty is "Buletten", meatballs. Not quite as traditional, but notable nonetheless is "Currywurst", sausage with considered-to-be-spicy(by my standard it is not even a far cry from spicy) sauce.
For pastries it is the "Pfannkuchen" ("Pancake"), think of a jelly dough nut (this one is the background of the Kennedy-dough-nut urban legend).
Another specialty used to be the "Teltower Rübchen", a spicy beet dish, but that one is almost only found in literature, hardly present in modern times.
A recent addition is the "Döner", Turkish-style spit-roasted meat served with salad and spicy (really spicy, but one has to ask for it) sauce in roasted bread.
Drinkable specialties include "Fassbrause", a apple-lemonade. It's very good and almost exclusive to the city (even Coca-Cola has one, but only sells it here :shrug:). Of course the "Berliner Weisse", a sour low-alcohol wheat beer should not be forgotten, it is served with either pure or fruit syrup or juice and is the best summer-beer ever.


In my Hessian hometown (well, I attended High School there) the specialties are "Handkäs", a vile smelling, fat-free whey cheese served with vinegar and onions (yummy); "Rippchen mit Kraut", cooked rips, no translation needed (IMHO); "Spundekas", spiced white cheese. For drink it's "Ebbelwoi", strong, sour cider.

[Penndems]

34. Virginia ham, Brunswick stew, black-eyed peas, fried chicken

and sweet potatoes - yummy! :9

When we lived in Pennsylvania, we had opportunities galore to enjoy the local cuisine: Whoopee pie, shoofly pie, Philly cheese steaks, potato bread -- all delicious!

There's a sandwich that's indigenous to Pittsburgh that I wanted to sample, but never had the opportunity. Can't think of the name of it, but it has French fries and cole slaw. I'll try it one of these days!

And let's not forget the beers Pennsylvania is famous for: Yuengling, Rolling Rock, Iron City.

[lazarus]

35. what I think of when i think of Pennsylvania

is Philly stuff: the cheesesteaks, those damned fine pretzels, those bread thingies that I can't remember name of with all the stuff in them.

And Amish food.

And Pennsylvania Dutch food. Wow can those folks make dessert!

[Ripley]

39. Yeah, when I lived in Ohio..

the Amish restaurant in Plain City (hee hee) served the best damn buffet of homey food for like 2.00$ Then you could go buy a hot apple pie right out of the oven in the bakery in back for about $1.00. Loved that!

[Penndems]

55. There's a place in either Lebanon or Lancaster County

- can't remember which one - that makes homemade pretzels of all different varieties. They beat the store-bought kind any day.

One other food item we discovered in Pennsylvania that I've been trying to locate in a grocery store here in Virginia is Martin's Potato Chips. They are the best damn potato chips my husband and I have ever tasted, bar none. Not greasy, nice and crisp with a wonderful flavor. They were named by Philadelphia Magazine as "Best Potato Chip" - and they certainly are that.

I know there's gotta be a supermarket in Northern Virginia somewhere that carries Martin's! :)

[Bog Frog]

36. tacos, sonora style

:9 Yummy.

[patricia92243]

37. Can't beat good old southern fried chicken!

[murphymom]

38. Filberts/hazelnuts

I think about 99% of the domestic production of hazelnuts comes from the Willamette Valley in Oregon.

[TexasBushwhacker]

41. Ninfa's Tex Mex .....

even though she was a Republican, I love the Tex-Mex at Ninfas, especially her green sauce.

[RoadRunner]

45. Hi TexasBushwhacker, do they still make ninfaritas down there?

I used to live in Houston way back when. Ninfa's usta' make a knock you down dead Ninfarita.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[AspenRose]

42. TEX-MEX, baby!!!

(Now that I'm over 100 posts, time for something light)

I grew up in San Antonio! Gotta have the cheese enchiladas with onions, refried beans, rice and HOMEMADE tortillas! (Blanco cafe is my supplier of choice) And TAMALES for Christmas!

Now THAT's what I'm talkin' about! Muy sabroso!

Moving to New Mexico, and consuming NEW Mexican food, took a bit of an adjustment!

[beachbum]

69. YUMMMMMMMMMM sorry I missed this thread earlier...

Ninfas is great, HOWEVER, there are so many great restaurants in the H-town area. Take your pick! Pappasitos is great, Melys in Pearland.... mmmmmmmmmmm............... :9 :9 :9 :9

Mely's tamales are my favorite :) You can never go wrong with cheeese enchiladas... or fajitas! Hot and sizzling out of the kitchen!!!!!!! Or quesadillas with mucho cheese! and Extra jalepenos!!!

[solinvictus]

44. Barbecue, barbecue, and more barbecue

I was considering that driving home this afternoon. Many BBQ joints here in the South have little cutesy cartoon pigs as logos serving up their cousins. Weird.

The variances here in the South are many. Around here (Chattanooga, TN), everyone favors a sweet sauce with a mound of coleslaw. Birmingham, AL was much better. There were varieties, including both sweet and vinegar based sauces, and most places would offer you chopped or sliced meat from inside or outside of the roast. There's a couple of notable BBQ joints in Birmingham, the best being Pat James Full Moon, which had a sweet sauce tempered with a mound of vinegar based pickled slaw. These damned Chattanooga Yankees can't make it right. Also, here, they don't serve home made lemon or chocolate ice box pie. It's blasphemy against all that's good about BBQ.

[maveric]

46. Fish Tacos are the "Bomb"!

I'm in SD too and fell in love with fish tacos when Rubios opened its first stang in PB, by misiion Bay golf course in 1981.

But have you noticed that since they went public some years ago the other menu items have become pricey and not as good as before?

lazarus: try "Abertos" on Washington St. in El Cajon for the best fish tacos I have ever had. MMMM!!!

[lazarus]

48. We usually hit

El Compadre's in El Cajon. We also love Mi Cabana up here in Lakeside, they've got the real deal when it comes to authentic food.

We'll have to try Alberto's one day, although I'm sure Haele's eaten there, she used to live in El Cajon.

[Bonhomme Richard]

49. Cheese steaks and soft pretzels..............

I'm originally from Philly so I guess that's it except maybe Scrapple. I love scrapple.

[HEyHEY]

50. WHite spot Triple os

Or Smoked Salmon

[supernova]

51. North Carolina BBQ

Slow-roasted pork, preferably over hardwood such as hickory, until it's falling off the bone. Season with vinegar, salt, and crushed red pepper to taste. :9

Serve sliced or chopped with coleslaw :9 :9 To make it extra special, follow up with either chocolate or lemon meringue pie!! :9 :9 :9

Dang it! I want 'Q now!

[lazarus]

53. me too

I miss good Carolina bbq here in SoCal. I may have to find some that does mail order

[Penndems]

57. King's Barbeque, Kinston, North Carolina

They deliver anywhere. Katie Couric gets their BBQ delivered to her in Manhattan. It's outstanding.

My husband and I ordered from there when we were living in PA. Pennsylvania is a wonderful state, but they don't know Southern barbeque. ;-)

You can order over the Internet or by phone.

Bon Appetit!

http://www.kingsbbq.com/kings.html

[lazarus]

68. You are my hero!

I'll be calling soon, thanks!

[Penndems]

70. My pleasure, neighbor!

Just think of me the next time you bite into a piece of See's Candy. My very favorite chocolates! :9

(Edited for typo)

[BlackVelvetElvis]

63. BBQ too!

You made me want some.
If you go into a "homestyle" place you're liable to order greens seasoned with fatback, fried okra, fried chicken and banana pudding. K&W anyone?

[dolo amber]

66. Heh

You should see the looks I get when I go to Allen & Sons and order mine with no coleslaw, but with onion and pickle. One night one of the older waitresses even winked at shortbus' mom and whispered "Northerner"...:D

[puerco-bellies]

52. O.C. So Cal

Got to be a in-n-out double/triple animal-style w/well done animal-style fries and a neapolitan shake. Mmmm' mmmm! you can taste the angioplasty!!

[LWolf]

56. Anything southwestern, I guess!

In southern california, anything goes. But southwestern stuff probably holds the title.

Interesting; a Rubio's just opened nearby, and work colleagues gave it a :thumbdown:

I haven't been there.

The local favorite is Baja Fresh or Chipotle, and I prefer Sharkey's.

All of those fall behind the little local hut I lived near for 12 years; "El Napalito's" was a walk up, stand at the counter to order take-out place, but had the best tacos I've ever eaten. A couple of mini-tortillas wrapped around some meat with fresh onion, cilantro, and peppers; no lettuce, sour cream, tomato, or cheese. It was owned and operated by a man and his wife who retired to their country of origin a couple of weeks ago.

[BensMom]

58. Runza runza

Runza runza
A meal in a Bunza!

http://www.runza.com/timeline.html

[SarahB]

76. I grew up in Omaha!

Runza's are the only thing I miss about the place. Oh, they had the best fries too! :P

[Steven_S]

59. In New York?

Just about everything.

[bobthedrummer]

60. In Green Bay it's chicken booyah-mmmmmmmm

http://www.uwgb.edu/wisfrench/kitchen/booyah.htm

[Rowdyboy]

61. Catfish, fried chicken, turnip greens, sweet corn

Peas, butterbeans, cornbread and banana pudding.

[arwalden]

65. Crab

[KittyWampus]

67. Seafood(Lobster, Clams, Bluefish, Striped Bass), Potatoes

Used to be also Cranberries and Duck.

[proud patriot]

71. Rice A Roni the San Francisco treat

that and the sour dough bread , ooohh ghiradeli Chocolate
mmmmmmm It's the Cheese california cows are Happy Cows
Fosters Farms chicken Farmmmmmmms In Berkley ?

and a toast of Napa Wine .....

[clyrc]

72. grilled seafood, curry, biryani, shwarma, moutabel, hummus

yum yum yum! I love living in the Middle East!

[MrSlayer]

73. The Philadelphia Cheesesteak.

A classic and for all you tourists the best place to get one is Jim's on 4th and South. South street is also a big part of Philly culture.



http://www.jimssteaks.com/indexb.htm

[TheMightyFavog]

74. Deep Fried Cheese Curds....

It's a Wisconsin thing.

[SuffragetteSal]

75. Portland Oregon

Indeed, the “City of Roses” sits at the apex of a valley as fertile as the Normandy region of France, filled with delicious mushrooms, horseradish, peppermint, berries, cherries, hazelnuts and pears.

Also, Pacific Northwest = salmon.

[FloridaJudy]

78. Ocean fresh

Grilled fresh snapper, gulf shrimp, bay scallops and mahi-mahi. Finish it off with a nice, artery-clogging slice of Key Lime pie.

Florida: the politics sucks, but the sea-food is fantastic.

Pity about the mercury, though.

[lazarus]

79. key lime pie

That's a damned fine pie, right there. Best pie in the world, as far as I'm concerned, except maybe for a good southern pecan pie.

[Wapsie B]

80. Groundcherry Pie.

It's a slice of heaven. Beats anything else by a mile. Key lime is close though.

[Nile]

81. Pizza

Pizza all over the place. Any type of pizza you can imagine.