Gavrill
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This title is vague and so is the thread kind of. In areas that you are familiar with, are there things that are unique to those areas that you like?
From living around a few different places in the southeast, I've found that there are a few things that are impossible or difficult to find anywhere else. Such as boiled peanuts. They are so good (kind of an acquired taste, though) and the spicy ones especially ffff. I crave them a lot. In rural Georgia you'll often drive by these roadside stands with huge metal barrels with steam pouring out. Those are filled with delicious boiling peanuts, and they're usually cheap (maybe $1-$2 for a Styrofoam cup full). They're popular fair food too.
Another thing there I haven't seen anywhere else is "Polk salad", which includes some wild lettuce cooked with scrambled eggs in oil. It's...interesting, tastes kinda funky to me depending on if you use butter or oil. (Butter, y'all!)
Another thing unique to the southeast is the wildlife, like gar, alligators, cottonmouth snakes, tons of brown recluse (they're over other areas, but there's literally nests and nests and nests of those fuckers in south GA/north FL). Also "snipe hunting", which is a huge in-joke where you tell someone not familiar with the joke to go hunt a snipe, which does not exist. Hunting the snipe usually includes you making a lot of noise and making a fool of yourself.
In south Florida, there are a lot of things unique to there that are common in other countries but may come as a culture shock to most Americans, like the vast amount of Cuban food. Cafe Cubano is fucking delicious, by the way. (It involves making a paste out of espresso and sugar and then immediately adding more espresso so it makes this really sweet espresso with a slight foam over it.) Also there are these pastries that I ate a lot there I don't remember the name of and haven't been able to find since that are flaky and biscuit-like shaped into triangles usually and filled with either fruit filling (strawberry, especially) or cheese. My mom calls them "Mexican toaster strudels" but they are not made in toasters and also not Mexican as far as I'm aware.
One more distinctly Florida thing is naming everything "sawgrass". Sawgrass is a type of grass found in swamps that have curved spikes on them and will fuck your shit up depending on how you hold them. Sawgrass is also edible.
okay now talk more than me.
From living around a few different places in the southeast, I've found that there are a few things that are impossible or difficult to find anywhere else. Such as boiled peanuts. They are so good (kind of an acquired taste, though) and the spicy ones especially ffff. I crave them a lot. In rural Georgia you'll often drive by these roadside stands with huge metal barrels with steam pouring out. Those are filled with delicious boiling peanuts, and they're usually cheap (maybe $1-$2 for a Styrofoam cup full). They're popular fair food too.
Another thing there I haven't seen anywhere else is "Polk salad", which includes some wild lettuce cooked with scrambled eggs in oil. It's...interesting, tastes kinda funky to me depending on if you use butter or oil. (Butter, y'all!)
Another thing unique to the southeast is the wildlife, like gar, alligators, cottonmouth snakes, tons of brown recluse (they're over other areas, but there's literally nests and nests and nests of those fuckers in south GA/north FL). Also "snipe hunting", which is a huge in-joke where you tell someone not familiar with the joke to go hunt a snipe, which does not exist. Hunting the snipe usually includes you making a lot of noise and making a fool of yourself.
In south Florida, there are a lot of things unique to there that are common in other countries but may come as a culture shock to most Americans, like the vast amount of Cuban food. Cafe Cubano is fucking delicious, by the way. (It involves making a paste out of espresso and sugar and then immediately adding more espresso so it makes this really sweet espresso with a slight foam over it.) Also there are these pastries that I ate a lot there I don't remember the name of and haven't been able to find since that are flaky and biscuit-like shaped into triangles usually and filled with either fruit filling (strawberry, especially) or cheese. My mom calls them "Mexican toaster strudels" but they are not made in toasters and also not Mexican as far as I'm aware.
One more distinctly Florida thing is naming everything "sawgrass". Sawgrass is a type of grass found in swamps that have curved spikes on them and will fuck your shit up depending on how you hold them. Sawgrass is also edible.
okay now talk more than me.
