Best regional dishes

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**MagickalMemories**

JohnHwangDD wrote:
Cheese Elemental wrote:Sausages. It's all we get here.

*sputter*

There are so many off-color smart-ass comments that came to mind, but then I figured you deliberately teed it up high, so I'm going to let someone else take the first swing...

What? You near-comment on "sausages," but ignore the fact that HFJor lies to "dry rub" bis BBQ?

You're slipping, John.

Oh, and no worries on the St. Louis BBQ.

...just don't talk bad about our gooey butter cake or frozen custard. Them's fightin' words. : )

Eric

**Kilkrazy**

Valhallan42nd wrote:I'm a german that hates sauerkraut. Go figure.

And I just imagine the conversation that preceeded the first consumption of Kim chee.

"Hey, Hoc!"

"Yeah, Pin?"

"Do you remember those heads of cabbage we buried in the backyard when those bandits rode through a few months ago?"

"The ones in the pepper jars? Yeah, what about them?"

"Do you think they're still good?"

"No way in hell."

***several rounds of rotgut later

"Dude, I'm hungry, get me a shovel."

I've often wondered how people started eating foods like natto (fermenting soya beans,) cheese generally, rotten herring and so on.

**JohnHwangDD**

@KK, I imagine, mid-famine, you'll eat pretty much anything food-like...

**Kilkrazy**

But imagine, to eat cheese someone had to collect a load of milk, then let it go off, then let it get infected by yeasts or something, then when it's gone really hard, blue and stinky, they decide it's about time to try it.

I mean I love cheese, but it really is one of those way out foods when you think about it.

**JohnHwangDD**

As I said, given the choice between starving to death and stale rotten milk, you take the milk every time.

**99MDeery**

a good old fashioned English roast dinner, roast beef, Yorkshire puddings, seasonal vegetables, mashed potato, roast potato, stuffing, gravy, those weird mini cocktail sausages wrapped in bacon, damn good stuff

**JohnHwangDD**

If we're talking about bacon-wrapped appetizers, I want scallops!

Yum!

**Kilkrazy**

Uuuum. Now that's a good concept.

Prunes wrapped in bacon.
Sausages wrapped in bacon.
Scallops wrapped in bacon.

How many other bacon-wrapped snacks can we think of?

Cheese plus pineapple cubes wrapped in bacon.
Asparagus wrapped in bacon.
King Prawns wrapped in bacon.
Slices of black pudding wrapped in bacon.

**Belphegor**

Flash-fried balls of cream cheese wrapped in bacon

edit: for precision

**Tacobake**

Cheese and Potato Perogies, wrapped in bacon. Cooked with bacon and with bacon and onions on the side.

Dipped in Sour Cream.

With a Roast Beef sandwhich. Wrapped in bacon.

While playing 40k and drinking beer. Premium beer.

No bacon on the beer.

**Kilkrazy**

Chips wrapped in bacon. (That's British chips, mind you.)

**dogma**

I'll nominate the weirdest food I've ever seen.

At the Blue Door in St. Paul, MN they have these things called spam bites. Chunks of spam, wrapped in pickles, and coated in cream cheese then deep fried.

**wight_widow**

Butter tarts.

**VermGho5t**

Valhallan42nd wrote:I'm a german that hates sauerkraut. Go figure.

And you're a damn heathen because of it!

**Valhallan42nd**

But I love Schwartzwald Cake. Doesn't that make up for a bit of it?

**JohnHwangDD**

Everybody loves Blackforest Cake. Along with marzipan (assuming they have chance to try it). Ist Wunderbar.

But a German not liking sauerkraut is tantamount to heresy.

Next, you'll be saying you don' t eat liverwurst und blutwurst? Or spatzle? Or lard sandwiches?

**Ghost in the Darkness**

Let's see Maryland Blue Crab, Soft Crab, Crabcakes, Crab Dip, Rockfish, Ducks, Geese, Goose BBQ, Shrimp, and pretty much anything cooked with Old Bay Seasoning

**M_Stress**

Poutine!

Just the best thing ever.

[edit starts]
For those who never went to Québec, its french fries in gravy with chunck of cheeze
Around here, a restaurant MUST serve poutine or face a mob of angry people with pitchfork and torches.
So Mc-Do, PFK, even some french restaurant altered their menu to include it.

Poutine =

**Valhallan42nd**

JohnHwangDD wrote:Everybody loves Blackforest Cake. Along with marzipan (assuming they have chance to try it). Ist Wunderbar.

But a German not liking sauerkraut is tantamount to heresy.

Next, you'll be saying you don' t eat liverwurst und blutwurst? Or spatzle? Or lard sandwiches?

Spatzle, yes, liverwurst and blutwurst I haven't tried, but I'm not opposed to. Lard sandwiches, just by name, seem to belong in the same category as kim chee.

I can second the crab cakes. Crabs and/or shrimp steamed in cheap beer are also a plus of MD (my former home state).

**JohnHwangDD**

@M_Stress: I'll second your Poutine recommendation! Yum!

@V42, IMO, you ought to try them. If you like buttered bread, lard sandwiches are the same, but moreso.

**warpcrafter**

Lard andwiches? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! That sounds worse than deep-fried pickles.

**JohnHwangDD**

Man, what's with you people?

The next time you fry up some bacon, just save the grease and put it in the fridge.

Then spread it on a little warm toast later.

It's quite tasty.

**Valhallan42nd**

Pancakes fried in bacon grease FTW.