Jul 29, 03 05:16 pm — Philly has the cheesesteak. Chicago has deep-dish pizza. Florida has their Stone Crabs. And of course, Wisconsin has cheese. I have heard a few here in MV wax poetic about Cincinnati Chili (which is – for those of you unaware – a type of chili over spaghetti), and some other similar testimonials.
Being the huge foodie that I am (no pun intended), this got me curious. Everybody has their special food, whether from your previous home, or current, that they feel is the absolute best in the world. For example, here in Denver, we are very well known for our Colorado lamb, Buffalo, and lest we forget, the ubiquitous “Denver Omelet”. But, I would have to proudly point to the unique, only-for-true-die-hard foods we are known for……Rocky Mountain Oysters! If you don’t know what these are, let’s just say they do NOT come from the ocean, but rather form the nether regions of a Bull…
…’nuff said.
What is the world’s best where you are? Or, do you have a restaurant or food stand that makes the most heavenly food item you have ever had in your life? What is it you would be willing to travel miles and miles out of your way just to get this particular bowl, plate, slice, slab, of pure culinary bliss?
ROFL! this is some funny stuff. i thought you were a lezbo.
What are those little brown sticky nuggets that manage to hold on for dear life on my ass hair? I don't know, but they sure are delicious sautd.
I dunno if you saw the other one, Tasty. Check it out - http://www.newsgeek.net/go.php?op=goo&lidd=1683
what you can't link it?
What are those little brown sticky nuggets that manage to hold on for dear life on my ass hair? I don't know, but they sure are delicious sautd.
South Carolina is famous for a FUCKING PEACHES..
we have a water tower that is a huge peach.
i will find a pic.
ITS FUNNY.
this state is lame
[Comment was edited by davef62 on July 29, 2003 at 05:39:19 PM]
Been to Atlanta? everything is peach this and peach that.
OOYEA, i use to live about a hour and 30 from ATL..
use to go there all the time
there peach stuff is not like ours.
WE HAVE A HUGE ASS IN THE SKY.
California cuisine is pretty mediocre stuff, but I was born in New Mexico, and there are some great dishes there that can't be had anywhere else in the country.
Sopapillas: A flat, soft dough-based bread pocket. Similar to pita bread, but completely enclosed, and much softer. It is eaten by tearing off a corner of the bread, pouring honey into the inside, and squishing it closed. Some places outside the Southwest serve it as a desert, but it is more along the lines of a biscuit, to be served with a meal. Recipe
Posole: Pronounced "puh-soley", this is a spicy pork stew, often made with pig's feet. You need lots of bread and milk to make your way through an entire bowl of posole without getting tears in your eyes. I never miss out on having some honest-to-God posole when I visit New Mexico. Recipe
Flat enchiladas: The enchiladas in the Southwest are made flat and layered, like lasagne, rather than rolled. Tortillas are usually corn, rather than wheat, and they are also spicy enough to clean out your sinuses in a flash. There is a restaurant in Old Town Albuquerque called The Frontier that makes the best flat enchiladas on the planet, and I always come away from lunch or dinner there with a red face and a burnt tongue. Recipe
All this writing about Southwestern food has me itching to visit there again ... soon. Thanks a lot, spud. 
Heh, all part of my master plan, Genj.....
My wife loves authentic Mexican food. Therefore I can usually make her happy with most Southwestern cusine as well. I love menudo.. the posole is pretty darn close, but without the cow gut (darn).
And how else to end a meal like that than with fresh-fried sopapillas?.....
Menudo is a Sunday ritual for me. Lots of gut. Cilantro and lemon. Fresh tortillas. Blows a hangover right out the window!
Mmmmmmmm... gut.
Ah, another Menudo lover. I knew there was a reason I liked ya, kid......
I take mine with a good dose of chopped onion, and a liberal shake of oregano. My Italian Father-in-law, makes a smokin' menudo, and even uses the pig's feet...
Yumbo..
we used to have the best cod in the world..but thanks to over fishing thats not the case anymore...I think we are best known for our snow crab...seeing we've been supplying red lobster for years..
Really? Interesting, I didn't realize Newfoundland supplied Red Lobster. Too bad they suck as a restaurant....
I actually prefer snow crab over King or Dungeness, etc. I think it's sweeter and cleaner tasting. It figures that a seafood lover like me would be stuck in Colorado.....
::grin::
In Sonora we have:
Sobaquetes - these are huge flour tortillas that are paper thin. They generally have a diameter of about 1/2 meter and are a little chewy.
Machaca - spiced dried beef. It is used as an ingredient in alot of things. It tastes incredible.
Tacos - if you think you have ever had a taco and have never been to Mexico then you are probably wrong. They make incredible tacos here in Sonora. The meat is generally Carne Asada or Ribeye. Pork is used in gringa tacos. I have also seen places that use turkey and ostrich meat.
cacahuates enchilados - these are peanuts covered with chili powder and lime. They are very good. (enchilado(a) means in chili literally)
These are just a few of my favorites
The only big deal foodstuff that I can claim as a local fave would be huckleberries. Huckleberry pancakes, pies, jams, syrups, muffins, dressing and sauces. Huckleberries grow high in the mountains and are very difficult (if not impossible) to grow as a crop. Huckleberry picking areas are guarded secrets (much like our Morrell mushrooms in the spring) and it's not unusual for pickers to run into bees and bears, as well as rival pickers. Huckleberries are similar to blueberries in shape but the berries are a bit smaller and purple. You can buy huckleberries from pickers, we have 2 gallons coming at $22.00 each. While I like the berries and the pancakes, etc. it's the juice I like best. Freezing the berries is the preferred manner of long term storage and on use you are often left with large amounts of berry juice. I take the juice and whip up something I like to call "home made huckleberry vodka." Sipped on ice, yum yum.
Oh well here in Utah The Beehive State, we have honey. The local harvested honey is like cold tar compared to what you buy in the stores. I found out last week that the in store honey is cut with Karo Syrup. My mom has a bottle of the shit the local stores sell, and it has seperated; the honey is at the top and the sugar water is crystalized at the bottom.
We also have Mormon Potatoes. They are basically cheesy cheesy CHEESY CHEESY CHEESY CHEESY CHEESY (cheesy) shredded potatoes with cornflakes and butter crusted on the top. The only reason I ever go to a funeral or a wedding is for these things.
We also have more mormon cuisine, Dutch Oven cooking. OMG have you ever had a Peach Cobbler cooked in a Dutch oven? There hasn't been anything yet that has come from a Dutch oven that I didn't like. I think you could cook a suffle out of rubber bands, cow shit, and an over due library book and it would taste better than anything you've ever eaten if it came from a Dutch oven.
Dutch oven cherry cobbler, yessiree!
Dutch ovens are THE thang. My parents had mucho cast-iron cookware, including a couple dutch ovens. There is something about them that, like you said, can transform average ingredients into pure heaven.
I never heard of Mormon potatoes before. They sound great, especially, the cheese part....
Though, Im not a native of Oregon I am convinced shes got a butt-load of "the best of". This is one of my favorites and is always in our fridge. These are the best Ive eaten and they will shipm.
I'm very aware of Tillamook cheese. They make some damn good stuff up there in the Pacific NW.
And oysters are my weakness. I could eat those every day.....
As Genji said... Southern California isn't exactly well known for cuisine.. although.. after traveling around the country, you can't get good Mexican food anywhere but in the southwest.. Doesn't mean it's the best, but it is definately better than anywhere else I've tried it in the country.
I am one of those people that have touted the virtues of a good Cincinnatti Chili. It really is different there for some reason. And it is chili over spaghetti, but the chili is quite unique.. it isn't what most people think of when they think of chili.
I love pizza from New Jersey/New York and haven't found any better in the country yet. And I've tried.. hard.
Kansas City has Barbecue down pat.. I lived there for a short time, and man, we're talking some GOOOOOOD barbecue. I suspect that you can get good barbecue in a lot of places, but Kansas City really did have the best I've ever eaten.
I was wondering how many barbeque replys would be posted. So far, just you Rexxx!
I have heard KC does great BBQ. Of course, there are those in Texas, Memphis, and, well, pretty much everywhere else that claim they have the best too. I have yet to tyr any of those regions, but would dearly love to.
I have also heard much about NY pizza, although I went to school with a guy from Chicago who swore they had perfected the pizza over what NY had to offer...
I am Originally from Ohio and Cincinnati chili was a favorite of mine.
Cincinnati Chili is sweeter than Texas Chili and tradionally has no beans (unless you go 5 -way). It contains such additions as cinnamon and allspice that you would never find in a Texas Chili.
There are 5 ways to eat Cincinnati Chili
1. Plain
2."Two Way" - Spaghetti & Chili
3."Three Way" - Chili, Spaghetti, and Cheddar Cheese
4."Four Way" - Chili, Spaghetti, Cheddar Cheese, and Onions
5."Five Way" - Chili, Spaghetti, Cheddar Cheese, Onions and Kidney Beans
Maybe Im a traditionalist who cant handle change, but cinnamon and allspice in chili. NO FN WAY 
Don't knock until you have tried it. It is very good. It is also very different tastewise from the chili you are used to having. Almost a completely new dish.
I've noticed as I travel around the country there is stuff that is WAY different or even unknown in other places. I dunno if its the whole midwest but when I went to MO. (visited friends & saw my son get out of Ft. Leonard Wood Boot) they took us to a "frozen yogurt" stand. I was like no way, yougrt? Turns out it's the richest form of ice cream I've ever eaten. But it's made its way west and we actually got one in town this summer.
Another place where I ate something unknown before was Morton's Bay Bugs, a stinkbug looking crablike crustaceon when I was in New Zealand, but they were billed as Australian Bugs. Damn good.
Let's eat.
Yeah, I've heard of those bugs. Love to try them sometime.
I'll grab my fork and come along with ya....
Maryland.. The crab state.. We have some of the best crabs in the world! nuff said!
er...the kind you eat, right?....
J/K.... I love shellfish. I hope I get the chance to get to the East Coast to experience the fresh right-out-of-the-water stuff....
Sad to say, nothing here. I'm close enough to Chicago to get good deep dish pizza, but I prefer NY style. I always love to try the local fare when in a particular city, except Rocky Mountain Oysters. I avoid those like the plague.
Well, maine is known for it's lobster.... And perhaps bluberries,
Lobster, mmmm....
Here in landlocked CO, them buggers go for a pretty penny.....
maine blueberries ROCK!
::grin::
Are they official Maine lobster your refering to? ^-^
I know we ship lobster all over the place..
Actually ANY kind of shellfish is expensive here. If it is Maine Lobster, then you can bet they add more $$$$...
MMMMM..
Imagine waking up at 4 in the morning, driving out to this field for 5/5:30 ish
and bending over with a blueberry rake, and clearing this field of all it's blueberries till 4-6 pm. The life of a blueberry raker..
I've done this, and also worked the factory, and i've lost my taste for blueberries, they make me sick now.. =P
But Maine has an awful lot of em... Yes, ALL that blue is berry, not flowers..
[Comment was edited by Ranma on July 30, 2003 at 07:17:13 PM]
Man, are YOU cruel.....
Looks great. I found out I may be going to Cape Cod this Fall. It's not Maine, but still pretty good I hear....
Iranian food, sabsi polla is lovely, tadic is great too.
Hmm, around here... Well I guess fish and chips is good and Yorkshire puddings are divine.
Where is "around here"? Sounds like perhaps England....
The only Iranian food I ever had was when I was youg, my Mom's freind was "Persian", and gave us some candy from his hometown.
I remember it tasted exactly like dog poo.
But, I would love to try the cuisine some time. I really enjoy trying different foods, especially the authentic, rustic ones.
Yep, sunny ol England It was the Yorkshire pudding that did it, yeah? ;0)
Umm click it. These give nice little descriptions Iranian sweets dont tend to be good, the rice on the other hand, mmm.
Greek food, that is yum. The Varsity restaurant does it ok but nothing beats actually going to a place and eating the food there.
my town, Sheboygan, WI is the brat capital of the world. The Sheboygan Double Brat is absolutely delicious. I love grillin up some Johnsonvilles and having a sampler or two. 
mmm
I cant think of how to spell the gurgling noise Homer makes, but if I could it would go here.
i hear that. my mouth is watering now.
this weekend is Bratwurst Days. can't wait to go pick up a juicy double on the way home from work.
Wow.
Connecticut is uhm... The Nutmeg State? ;) We have New Haven style brick-oven pizza (which, i think, is a take on NY style pizza.. but I like it better). We also have Munson's Chocolate, which is some of the best I've ever had.
Unforutnately we have no good Mexican food here. Celtica and I were spoiled while in Tucson last year by a restaurant called Rosa's ... But now I almost forget what it's like, and I'm used to crappy nor'easter "mexican" food 
Other than that, I'm not sure we're famous for all that much.
This was a cool journal, and unique as well. Did anyone else here notice that the only two pictures posted, one looks like an ass, and the other looks like a package of weiners? Where's the pics of clams?
well, being in virginia, i'm with forecastmantis on crabs from the chesapeake, as well as lots of other seafood that's delicious here. and i LOVE going to this every year: Urbanna Oyster Festival
awww yeah...i love me some oysters.
NOT the rocky mountain kind.
We have peaches and peanuts. Oh yea, and we're known for grits and fried chicken. That's about it though. (I'm from Georgia).
grits! i love grits ::grin::
you have vidalia onions too, lest we forget.
Love grits, especially for breakfast (always reminds me of My Cousin Vinny, though).
carmelized Vidalia onions are to DIE for.....
I'm from San Francisco. Home of the most pretentious crowd of people you will ever meet.
EDIT
Myself included.
[Comment was edited by NobodyFamous on July 30, 2003 at 01:05:33 PM]
My dad makes some mean lasagna, french toast, chicken fingers, and spagetti but not all in the same meal....I always look forward to spending meal times with him. ::grin::
Well the only thing I would say that savannah has that no else does is sandgnats. We have no really good food but now that I think about we do have a few unique restaurants. Lets see theres Barnes and Two Smart Cookies,River Street Sweets and Hueys but that about it and none of them are very good. So like I said before all we have are Snadgnats the most annoying friggin bugs around.
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Sorry I deleted this Rexxx, it was a broken link and I couldn't find it at first. I looked around a little more and found it. Funny stuff though, thanks Rexxx.
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