Your State's Signature Food

[Fallowfox]

Damn it this thread is making me hungry.

OT i guess one from the UK is crumpets

I want crumpets now.

 

[Dreaming]

"Hot pot"... and cheese. Contrary to popular belief, the cuisine of this country does vary depending on region and isn't all terribad crap =P Though my parents make these weird foreign dishes all the time, I don't know what the names are... lapskaus?

 

[Kangamutt]

The french dip sandwich.

 

[Kosdu]

http://oklahoma-guide.info/food/

So, with ze help of this.......

Maize, biscuits and gravy, chicken fried steak, okra, pecan pie, and green beans. I guess.

We just eat good stuff. Nothin' fancy.

 

[Zydala]

Chicago Deep Dish Pizza. Chicago-style hot dogs. Corn on the cob. Okay corn on the cob is like a Midwest thing but my girlfriend from England had no idea that corn could be that good because she was so used to the canned kind. My old roommate from VA also didn't know what the hub-bub was about with midwest grilled corn until she had some at a festival and now she's converted and will never look back.

Gyros are a pretty big thing in the city too thanks to big greek neighborhoods.

 

[M. LeRenard]

I don't know what Ohio's signature food is. Probably varies by city. But in Nebraska the signature food is supposedly beef, mostly in the form of steaks. Granted, the good steaks you buy there are actually from Argentina, because Nebraska-raised beef is pretty awful given that all the ranches are out in the middle of Sand and Brown Grass Land, so instead of getting good grass-fed beef you get hormone-treatments and Vitalix.
Nebraska food is terrible, is what I'm trying to say. Maybe Ohio is just an amalgamation of everything nearby, because we've got hot dog places, pizza places, sub sandwich places, and so on and so forth, all of which are fairly good.

 

[Zydala]

Nebraska food is terrible, is what I'm trying to say.

My stepfather went to college in Nebraska and always talks about runzas from there that he apparently can't find around here. He even tried making some at home last night.

 

[benignBiotic]

New York City pizza. We defiantly have other things too but pizza is the most important thing you need to know about.

Fuck yes. NYC pizza is the stuff. So good.

Massachusetts is known for clam chowder (pronounced 'CHOWDAH') I think? I'm told it's excellent, but I've never had it.

 

[BigwiggingAround]

Diabetes and colon cancer- I mean, mexican and barbeque.

 

[Caden_The_Dingo]

Deep fried scorpion... We have weird stuff at our state fairs.

 

[M. LeRenard]

My stepfather went to college in Nebraska and always talks about runzas from there that he apparently can't find around here. He even tried making some at home last night.

You know... come to think of it, I haven't seen a Runza around here either. It's nothing too special, honestly. Ground beef and onions stuffed into a bread pocket. Sort of like a meat pastry. But you can find those all over the Western US.

 

[RadioactiveRedFox]

Deep fried scorpion... We have weird stuff at our state fairs.

Its better than deep fried butter, I don't remember what state fair that's from but I'd imagine just looking at could give someone a heart attack.

 

[Tigercougar]

Well according to Wiki my official state fruit is the Norton grape and state dessert is the ice cream cone.

 

[Percy]

Its better than deep fried butter, I don't remember what state fair that's from but I'd imagine just looking at could give someone a heart attack.

I'm sure you can find it in multiple. I just don't know why it even exists.

 

[RadioactiveRedFox]

I'm sure you can find it in multiple. I just don't know why it even exists.

I wonder that about most state fair foods.

 

[Sar]

Alcohol and painkillers.

 

[lol]

Pork roll is from NJ?

 

[Caden_The_Dingo]

Its better than deep fried butter, I don't remember what state fair that's from but I'd imagine just looking at could give someone a heart attack.

Could have been us as well... We sure do love ourselves some deep fried Twinkies.... Well used to anyways.

 

[KatmanDu]

Georgia (in the US, not the former Soviet republic): Fried anything. fried chicken, okra, squash, butter beans, black-eyed peas, cornbread... Grits, can't forget grits... Pecans and peaches... Brunswick stew for those near the coast... and barbeque, pork, with vinegar based sauce. Nothing very healthy, but damn tasty. Traditional new years meal is black-eyed peas, collard greens, and cornbread. Sweet tea to drink (and what you call "sweet" in other locations would be unsweet here), moonshine if you want alcoholic, distilled by a neighbor (yup, that still goes on).

 

[Taralack]

Dim Sims. I'm not even kidding, the bloody things were created in Melbourne.

 

[Cairn]

Sweet tea to drink (and what you call "sweet" in other locations would be unsweet here).

This is so true. Here in Georgia, there's sweet tea, and there's sweeter tea.

Oh, and you forgot chicken fried steak and gravy.

 

[CynicalCirno]

Supposedly Falafel, but it isn't widely consumed at all.
This country's national diversity(and therefore, many different cuisines) is so big that I can't say there's any kind of food that could be a "signature food".

 

[CaptainCool]

My gut takes evassive action whenever I read something beginning with 'sauer'.

I'm with you on that, just the word makes my gut ache.

Oh yes, I totally agree. XP
Another german dish that I don't get is the salt roast... You like, take a perfectly fine piece of meat, completely cover it with salt (and other spices of course, salt alone would be insane even by crazy cooking standards) and then you roast it. I have never eaten something so dry before XD

Chicago Deep Dish Pizza.

Holy fucking shit I need to make some deep dish pizza again... How did I forget about deep dish pizza? O_O