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What are the best regional dishes in your area? This is completely unrelated to me not having eaten lunch yet

Texas:
*Barbeque beef brisket
*Tex-Mex / Mex
*Chicken fried steak (old school)
*Some really good Vietnamese food (Houston)
*regular imports of Boudin, red beans and rice, and other Cajun food.
*Gulf Coast seafood. Oysters, crab, variety of fish.

Where I am.... (Royal Tunbridge Wells, South East England)

Chicken Jalpino Curry, from the Indigo. A little pricey compared to the rest of the menu, but god I love it. Fantastic flavour!

Full Sunday Lunch (one type of Meat, ideally Beef for me, Roast Spuds, Yorkshire Puddings, Sprouts, Carrots, Roast Onion, Roast Parsnip, and of course English Mustard)

Full English Breakfast (Bacon, Sausages, Fried Eggs, Fried Tomato, Fried Bread, Black Pudding, Mushrooms, Baked Beans, and a coronary)

Marmite on Toast. Lovely!

And of course, Beer.

Where I am from (Edinburgh, South East Scotland)

Haggis, Neeps and Tatties

Mince and Tatties

Chippy (proper Chippy you soft southen ponces. Cooked in Lard, not Vegetable oil, with Chippy sauce)

And yeah, that pretty much sums it up for me.

Now I'm hungry. Stupid Frazzled.

St. Louis has a few things of note...

"St. Louis style" BBQ
Thin crust pizza (Imo's is especially unique)
Toasted ravioli

Other area favorites are:
Frozen Custard (kind of like soft serve ice cream... but not)
Gooey Butter Cake.

Personally, I'm not a huge BBQ fan, so no comments on it.
The only think crust pizza I've ever liked is at Pizza hit. "St. Louis style" thin crust is wafer thin.
Imo's, in particular, has a unique flavor because of their cheese. they use Provel exclusively. I don't think anyone else does. Provel is a mix of cheeses. the main one being provelone... I don't know about the rest.

Toasted ravioli is ravioli, lightly breaded, and deep fried. It's serven with marinara sauce to dip in
Frozen custard... Hmm... Dunno HOW it's made. It's kind of rich, though, and the taste isn't for everyone.
Gooey butter cake is heaven beyond compare... as long as you don't eat too much and make yourself sick (also VERY rich).

Eric

MagickalMemories wrote:St. Louis has a few things of note...

"St. Louis style" BBQ
Thin crust pizza (Imo's is especially unique)
Toasted ravioli

Other area favorites are:
Frozen Custard (kind of like soft serve ice cream... but not)
Gooey Butter Cake.

Personally, I'm not a huge BBQ fan, so no comments on it.
The only think crust pizza I've ever liked is at Pizza hit. "St. Louis style" thin crust is wafer thin.
Imo's, in particular, has a unique flavor because of their cheese. they use Provel exclusively. I don't think anyone else does. Provel is a mix of cheeses. the main one being provelone... I don't know about the rest.

Toasted ravioli is ravioli, lightly breaded, and deep fried. It's serven with marinara sauce to dip in
Frozen custard... Hmm... Dunno HOW it's made. It's kind of rich, though, and the taste isn't for everyone.
Gooey butter cake is heaven beyond compare... as long as you don't eat too much and make yourself sick (also VERY rich).

Eric

Brain sandwiches are a St. Louis thing, right? I've always wanted to try one.

Italian beef with provolone cheese, giardiniera...extra juicy

Deep dish pizza

All beef hot dogs, everything but ketchup

And gravy bread.

Of all the things we ate in the US:

Philly Cheesesteak (in Philadelphia): Very heavy, but fills you up (didn't eat for another 12 hours) and tastes superb.

Bagels in NYC: We don't really get these in Australia and I really loved them.

The wife just said to add 'dippin dots' ice cream, she loved them.

Worst:
Popcorn flavoured jelly beans.

Churros: Was expecting doughnut like consistency, not 3 day old bread consistency.

Hmm... I grew up back east and lived in the midwest, so my tastes for regional food are more like Philly-style cheesesteaks, Maryland blue crab, Cajun crayfish etouffe or Chicago deep-dish pizza.

Internationally, I'll eat and enjoy pretty much anything.

But now that I'm in SoCal, I should be big on sushi and Cali-pizza, but really, I'm still more partial to a classic full prime rib dinner with creamed spinach and Yorkshire pudding on the side.


Oh yeah, as far as BBQ goes, I gotta go with sweeter Carolinas-style stuff. Sorry, Eric.

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Worst:
Popcorn flavoured jelly beans.

ah, man. popcorn flavoured jelly beans are soooo nice,...

Smoked bologna sandwich at Quick's BBQ. It's a 1" thick slice of Baloney (Whaat Trayash nomenclature) with extensive smoke damage (The way I like nearly all my food, except for steak, which must be nearly raw.) on bread with pickles.

dogma wrote:Italian beef with provolone cheese, giardiniera...extra juicy

Deep dish pizza

All beef hot dogs, everything but ketchup

And gravy bread.

You live in Chicago?

NYC-style brick-oven pizza. Only a handful of places are still old-school brick-oven pizzerias, but you can really taste the difference. Grimaldi's in Brooklyn is a fine example.

Chinatown Dim-Sum is also quite tasty.

The great thing about New York is that people from everywhere live here, so you can usually sample a bit of everything with some amount of hunting.

As for BBQ discussion: Memphis-style dry rubs all the way. Yum!

Sausages. It's all we get here.

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...

Burgers.

Chili dogs.

my sister makes a traditional scottish dish called coubilliac (I think thats the name of it)

I went to my parents new haus in Leavenworth, WA back in August and they have all German food there in that town. It's like an American Bavaria. after driving 13 hours from Weed, CA to there in a day we ate at this sausage place called Das Munchen Haus. Drank bit burger on tap (best fething beer EVER I don't care who you are if you disagree get the F-out) and a Sausage with brown ale mustard, relish, onions, saurkraut. Best damn meal I've had in forever.

I ate a kangaroo steak, strong taste, more gamey, I guess venison was as close as an approximation as I could make.

Crocodile tasted a bit like chicken.

BBQ wise I just like to cook meat, no add ons, but we do have good meat (mad cow free) here in Australia.

In cleveland our regional specialty is probably a plate of fried walleye (a type of local fish) with pirogies.

Back in Detroit, there was an embaressment of choices:

Some of the best middle eastern food outside of lebanon. Shwarma is basically a food group in Dearborn.

Detroit style pizza. It's rectangular deep dish pizza, best exemplified by Buddy's Pizza.

Coney Island Hot dogs. Not really related to NYC, it's a hot dog with thin chili on top. For a real treat add loose hamburger, mustard and onions. The trick is that the chili has no beans, but is still a thick viscous chili. these places are everywhere, and you can sit down, order, and have your food in about five minutes usually.

Well for upstate NY we have

Buffalo wings
Coney White hot dogs
Salt potatos
Chicken Riggies
Tomato pies
Half-moon Cookies (the cookie of racial harmony)

malfred wrote:
You live in Chicago?

Yep. My whole life, besides a short stint in St. Paul for college.

I'm from Yorkshire, home of the Yorkshire pudding, Wensleydale cheese and Sam Smith's Brewery. Good stuff.

WaaaaghLord wrote:

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Worst:
Popcorn flavoured jelly beans.

ah, man. popcorn flavoured jelly beans are soooo nice,...

You should try jelly bean flavoured popcorn.

Roast partridge with bread sauce, red cabbage and game chips.

Black Pudding - there's a butcher in Barnard Castle that makes his own, its superb.

Pork Pies - from the Celebrated Pork Pie Establishment in Skipton. Melton Mowbray can kiss my shiny metal ass.

Fishcake - and for all those philistines a fishcake is a slab of cod between two thin slices of potato (think sandwich). The whole lot covered in batter and deep fried. Those weird mashed up things in breadcrumbs are Rissoles...

Venison. King of meats.

Smoked salmon I could eat a whole smoked salmon by my self mmmmmmmmmmmmm
not really a local thing but a sub way meatball sub with italian hearb and cheese put on all the veg then toast it sweet onion sause salt pepper oragano parm oil vinager yumm

Orlando has a thriving Little Vietnam, so our Pho is awesome. Though you couldn't pay me to eat kim chee.

Gator meat is either for tourists, or the real "local color".

Kimchee is Korean.

Valhallan42nd wrote:Gator meat is either for tourists, or the real "local color".

What about swamp cabbage. I have a guy at my job that loves the stuff.

keezus wrote:Kimchee is Korean.

Our vietnamese friends are delightfully pan-asian when it comes to restaurant offerings. Thus my confusion. It was on the menu at a Pho place I went to. Mae culpa.

Being Korean still won't get me to eat it.

@V42, you're missing out, my friend. I mean, it's just spicy pickled cabbage, essentially the same as sauerkraut. What's not to like?

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."

Grignard wrote:Brain sandwiches are a St. Louis thing, right? I've always wanted to try one.

Urg.

I sure as heck HOPE not.

I know I've never even heard of them until you just now said it.

What do they serve those with? Squid burgers and Mustard Shakes?


Eric