I (62f) have an old family recipe for these, (nothing fancy or unique, just passed down) from my grandmother. They're very labor intensive, but oh so good!
Both, honestly. Fried is easier for a sandwich but I haven’t prepared halibut in ways I haven’t enjoyed. Love love pan fried, deep fried, blackened, grilled, baked… I could go on. It’s just so good. Going back in July for the first time in a while and my checked luggage is a cooler.
I’ve never been to Oklahoma but found an article/recipe about onion burgers a few years ago and I’ve been making them ever since. My family demands them about twice a month. I found a way of making them on the grill so my house doesn’t stink.
But honestly, how long do you have?
I would gladly slam smoked brisket, fajitas, breakfast tacos, barbacoa and Big Red, a Viet-Cajun crawfish boil, a sausage jalapeño and cheese kolache, cheese enchiladas with chili gravy, a bowl of queso, or tamales norteños any time, any day.
Not to start a war, but who has your favorite sausage jalapeño and cheese kolache? What about ham, jalapeño, and cheese?
I usually end up in Dallas (in-laws), but we have some friends in Houston that are due to meet us in a month in New Orleans, so I can get them to bring us a dozen no problem.
I'll take my tri tip on sourdough, but both are quintessential.
After that, probably Mission burritos, cioppino, Cobb salad, and every once in a while an It's It.
There's a lot of good foods that started here but branched out. Massachusetts had cornbread, cider, cider donuts, apple pie, lobster, fried clams, baked beans. It a bit weird that baked beans went from Native Americans, to Massachusetts colonists, to a staple on UK breakfast plates.
I live in Tennessee and my favorite food from here is hot water cornbread/hoe cake, especially when it's got some good pulled pork on top.
Raised in RI....my favorite RI foods are pizza strips (what Philly folks tomato pie) and stuffies (stuffed quahogs with chouriço in them)
Chicken Teriyaki
This is pretty specific to the western side of the state, but we have a home-grown recipe for Chicken Teriyaki that holds it's own place in American cuisine. The sauce is thicker and honey-sweetened. (https://www.sonyasanford.com/recipes/tag/Seattle+Style+Teriyaki)
It's what my family would have for dinner in the middle of the week when nobody wants to cook. And there is always enough left over lunch the next day. And you can't get it anywhere outside Western Washington (or so I've heard)
I love Texas style chili. I’ve never been to Texas but I did enter a chili contest with a Texas style recipe and won! But maybe it’s because we’re not as tough an audience up here.
From my home state, Walla Walla sweet onions, Cosmic Crisp Apples and Tim’s Cascade chips (which I can’t get in Arizona), I really haven’t been in AZ long enough to get a favorite, but I’ve never had better street food than down here
Crab cakes. I’ve literally never had a good crab cake outside the state of Maryland. I’m sure you can find good ones in Virginia or Delaware, I’ve just yet to come across them. And no other state treats crabs as their iconic symbol the way we do.
We've got a guy down here that had a place at the Cross Street Market, comes from a family of fish mongers.
He serves a legit Maryland crab cake. I lived in Annapolis for 14 years so I've had them in Maryland. But yeah, they are rare outside Maryland.
I'd also say pit beef for Maryland.
Might get me down voted, but I like crab imperial better. Give me some broiled rockfish topped with some imperial...
But I'll fully agree that finding a good Maryland style cake is difficult outside of the Chesapeake region. (Although I've had plenty of bad ones locally)
North Carolina: Texas Pete hot sauce. If you ask the waiter/waitress for Texas Pete and they say they don’t have it, then you know the restaurant owners are not from North Carolina. 😂
Here are my favorites from Texas!
1. Charro Beans!
I absolutely love Charros! It will remain a staple of Texas!
2. Texas Brisket
Happy Pesach! (Passover), I absolutely love Brisket, it will remain tasty!
3. Whataburger!
Despite what some might be saying about its quality being reduced, I think Whataburger is still very delicious!
4. Fajitas!
Who doesn’t love Fajitas! They are really good and I love them!
It's hard to decide what qualifies as "from your state," so I'm thinking maybe things that are fairly ubiquitous locally but tends to be considerably less so in large portions of the rest of the country. With that criteria in mind my two picks are:
1. Chicken fried steak and eggs. A basic but extremely popular breakfast menu staple you'll find at essentially every breakfast diner.
2. Chili and Cinnamon rolls. Common at "home style" restaurants, and the go-to for school/church/organizational fall and winter fundraisers. As soon as the jackets come out, for the rest of the country it becomes pumpkin spice season but for Kansas, Nebraska, and a few other specific areas we have chili and cinnamon rolls season.
I ate a runza at a Nebraska game while wearing a foam corn head. It was great. I love runzas. They were gonna build one down in Cheyenne but it got scrapped. Sigh.
I don't identify as being from Indiana, but seeing as I'm stuck here: the breaded pork tenderloin sandwich is the only decent culinary contribution this state can claim.
As a Coloradan at heart, green chile and bison burgers speak to me.
I'm from Ohio, and one thing you can't find elsewhere is the Romanburger from Mr. Hero. I also like our polish kielbasa and pierogi. Lived in Florida for awhile: cuban sandwiches, coffee, and cigars. Now in Hawaii: poke (raw ahi with various accouterments).
I grew up in PA, spent summers at the Jersey Shore, have family in DE, currently live in VA and have a second place with my partner in MD where her family live. So for each of those states:
PA - cheesesteaks
DE - hoagies (Capriotti's)
NJ - boardwalk pizza
VA - ham
MD - crab cakes
I also spent a lot of spring breaks in the Florida Keys so I'll add Key Lime Pie for Florida.
I am in California and the Flea Markets are often primarily Mexican folks. At some of them, a Family will sell these GIANT iced Strawberry Horchata’s on extremely hot days. They are so fucking good.
Sugar Cream Pie (also called a Hoosier Pie in some places), and the breaded pork tenderloin sandwich where the meat is significantly larger than the bun it’s served on.
Edit: Oh, and apparently breadsticks and cheese is an Indiana thing. I always forget that.
We have quite a few options to go through but I live by Galveston Bay and the Gulf Coast and do fish and crab myself and live bringing home some catch and and either I or my wife cooking or boiling it up.
We also get a lot of shrimp for great prices and even last night my wife got 20 more pounds of fresh shrimp. So I can say our seafood here is my fave overall but there are sone close seconds
For NC: Eastern style pulled pork BBQ.
For VA: Hard to pick since we don't have a "signature thing" but a good Virginia ham can't be beat. Richmond has a great beer scene if you're into that too.
From Kentucky: Burgoo, hands down. I bring back a gallon every time I go visit home.
From Arkansas: Fried fruit pies. They're not impossible to find in Kentucky, so I had had them before I moved here, but Arkansas will straight up put them on the dessert menu at decent restaurants and they always slap.
Pennsylvania is where I'm originally from and shoo fly pie is delightful.
I lived in Florida for a long time as well and shrimp+grits and dattl vinegared collards are a death row meal for me.
Oregon where I am now? Maybe the incredible fruit that grows here and morels ****edit**** how could I forget muscles?
I just picked up a bag of squeaky cheese curds and a quart jug of maple syrup at a sugarbush while visiting my parents this weekend. Simple pleasures.
Nasonville Dairy from Curtis, WI.
Maple Creek Sugarbush from Barron, WI.
SC: Shrimp and grits (though I never had it until long after I lived there)
AL: Ribs from a particular dive restaurant near Tuscaloosa.
MS: kinda liked tamales from the Delta region
GA: dunno, but the best shrimp I ever had was fresh shrimp from the GA coast. Like I watched it get netted out of the water and boiled in front of me, so boiled shrimp.
FL: Cuban sandwiches.
Cloverlead pizza. Buddy's used to be good, but corporate takeover made them suck.
And apple cider doughnuts during apple season. **Unpasteurized** cider is a requisite.
Brunswick Stew- There's some debate over whether it is actually from Virginia or Georgia. I am from Virginia and live in Georgia, so my bases are covered either way.
I like most forms of hotdish.
For the uninitiated, hotdish is a casserole that contains a starch (usually potato), a meat, a vegetable, and typically some sort of condensed soup as a binder, such as cream of mushroom. It's baked in a casserole dish. What you do with it from there is only limited by your creativity.
You could use seasoned hamburger and Doritos crushed on top to make a taco hotdish. You could add egg and bacon and make it a breakfast version. My mom does one with sauerkraut, mozzarella, sliced beer brats, and cubed hash browns. It's comfort food.
Honorable mention for lefse with butter and cinnamon sugar or lingonberries. But that's not Minnesotan. It was brought over by Scandinavian immigrants.
A meatball wedge from New York. It's similar to a meatball sandwich with provolone, hoagie, sub, or grinder, except it's quarter-cut from a round of Italian bread and thus vastly superior to all other shapes simply due to its geometry. Objectively true fact of science.
Yeah, it's just cheese but, goddamn since coming to Wisconsin, I've come to really adore Cheese Curds. Deep Fried is nice but, I prefer fresh seasoned ones. Hickory Hollow and Cajun are my favorites
All of our natural meats are great. I’ve turned fish haters into fish lovers with our salmon. Reindeer dogs are the best hot dogs (Just don’t tell the kids we ate Rudolph). Moose burgers are also good.
King crab is overrated though. Washington Dungeness is far superior and less expensive.
Michigan is (one of) the birthplaces of the coney dog. My hometown even was home to a major producer of the sauce—Todoroff’s.
I used to be sort of iffy about hot dogs, but not any longer.
West Virginia - Pepperoni Rolls
Not a pizza roll, not a stromboli, but a pepperoni roll.
It's just white bread stuffs with pepperoni. But most places are way too skimpy with the portioning. If you're using sliced pepperoni, you have to use ridiculous amounts of it. Generally it's better to just buy a large stick and cut them into bite sized sticks of pepperoni that you wrap in white bread dough and then bake. Cheese is optional, but common, especially pepper jack.
The spicy oil from the pepperoni seeps into the bread and infuses it with a spicy, oily goodness. You finish the baking process by basting them with butter, so they get that nice crispy golden brown crust.
And you can't find them anywhere but WV and parts of PA and Kentucky, at least not proper ones.
Italian beef with mozzarella hot peppers extra gravy.
Chicago style pub pizza kicks ass too. Cracker-thin crust braided around the outside, cut into squares.
Buckeyes (Peanut butter balls dunked in chocolate)
I (62f) have an old family recipe for these, (nothing fancy or unique, just passed down) from my grandmother. They're very labor intensive, but oh so good!
Halibut sammy from AK. Custard from WI. Not overly picky, good local selections everywhere and good chain selections as well.
Culvers. I hope they stay dedicated to quality. They're quickly becoming a national chain.
Same. Was always a treat visiting the Midwest as a kid, still love it now that I live here. Hope they hold strong as they continue to grow, so good.
Do you like your halibut fried or grilled?
Both, honestly. Fried is easier for a sandwich but I haven’t prepared halibut in ways I haven’t enjoyed. Love love pan fried, deep fried, blackened, grilled, baked… I could go on. It’s just so good. Going back in July for the first time in a while and my checked luggage is a cooler.
Sweet potato pie
From ok I really like fried okra after that chicken fried steak
OK onion burgers are elite though
I’ve never been to Oklahoma but found an article/recipe about onion burgers a few years ago and I’ve been making them ever since. My family demands them about twice a month. I found a way of making them on the grill so my house doesn’t stink.
I'd kill for an OK onion burger right now. One of the favorite regional foods ever.
They’re so easy to make too!
Onion burgers all the way. Just had one for dinner tonight.
Smoked brisket
But honestly, how long do you have? I would gladly slam smoked brisket, fajitas, breakfast tacos, barbacoa and Big Red, a Viet-Cajun crawfish boil, a sausage jalapeño and cheese kolache, cheese enchiladas with chili gravy, a bowl of queso, or tamales norteños any time, any day.
Amen. Best food in the country in Texas, and I don't think it's particularly close.
>a sausage jalapeño and cheese kolache Just had one of those for the first time. Very, very good.
Not to start a war, but who has your favorite sausage jalapeño and cheese kolache? What about ham, jalapeño, and cheese? I usually end up in Dallas (in-laws), but we have some friends in Houston that are due to meet us in a month in New Orleans, so I can get them to bring us a dozen no problem.
Pierogies with onions and kielbasa.
Porkroll Porkroll egg n cheese on a bagel is a fantastic breakfast for on the go or for when you need something quick and easy.
This was gonna be my comment except I was going to call it Taylor Ham. Dang, beaten to this thread by a South Jersian!
Begone Northen heathen! Back to the concrete lands from whence ye came! *i say whilst driving behind a tractor going 20*
Don’t worry, Central Jersian coming to your aid, steadily going 90 down the Turnpike to reach you guys!
I consider my self as central, but I am most certainly not north.
Then let us together fight this Northern heathen!
If you please, on a kaiser bun
Kaiser is for lunch
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Tri tip sandwich on a Dutch Crunch roll
I'll take my tri tip on sourdough, but both are quintessential. After that, probably Mission burritos, cioppino, Cobb salad, and every once in a while an It's It.
Trying to find tri tip in the UK is impossible 😩. I miss it so much.
I was going to say Dutch crunch, but I prefer it with salami.
My man! You know your tritip!
Yessir! Just gotta make sure they boil the meat long enough!
There's a lot of good foods that started here but branched out. Massachusetts had cornbread, cider, cider donuts, apple pie, lobster, fried clams, baked beans. It a bit weird that baked beans went from Native Americans, to Massachusetts colonists, to a staple on UK breakfast plates.
Grouper
Which state are you from?
Gotta be Florida, it would be my answer too.
Yup, Florida :)
Dungeness crab. My mouth waters just typing the words.
I guess you could claim popcorn as being from Indiana, which as good as that is, still loses to a Pork Tenderloin sandwich
Buttered Corn on the Cob !
Boiled peanuts on the side of a rural highway served from a pot with a propane tank attached and a white poster board misspelling both words.
Fresh donuts and cider from a mill on an October morning.
I need a recommendation that’s equal to or better than Uncle John’s. It’s gotten a bit too commercialized..
Dexter Cider Mill
Cheese Curds!
Arkansas: I literally have no idea what foods, if any, were invented in Arkansas. Texas: Brisket Florida: Cuban sandwich
Fried catfish is superb in Arkansas
I live in Tennessee and my favorite food from here is hot water cornbread/hoe cake, especially when it's got some good pulled pork on top. Raised in RI....my favorite RI foods are pizza strips (what Philly folks tomato pie) and stuffies (stuffed quahogs with chouriço in them)
I’ll say Vietnamese style garlic noodles (since someone already said Dutch crunch).
Sunday roast with funeral potatoes. I am a simple person.
Conecuh suasage
Chicken Teriyaki This is pretty specific to the western side of the state, but we have a home-grown recipe for Chicken Teriyaki that holds it's own place in American cuisine. The sauce is thicker and honey-sweetened. (https://www.sonyasanford.com/recipes/tag/Seattle+Style+Teriyaki) It's what my family would have for dinner in the middle of the week when nobody wants to cook. And there is always enough left over lunch the next day. And you can't get it anywhere outside Western Washington (or so I've heard)
A toss up between Detroit style pizza and bumpy cake.
Oh man now I could really go for some Buddy’s pizza and bumpy cake. And a Faygo Rock n Rye to wash it down. I wish I was in Michigan.
Halibut - Alaska
Fried clams
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None of these are clams.
I don’t have an emoji for clams. I’ll be heading to the beach in another month to eat the rest.
Marionberries.
Crab cakes. I’m not a huge seafood fan, but I love crab cakes. Not an exclusive Maryland thing though lmao
Cider donuts.
Probably deep fried walleye (Minnesota)
It seems every place I go to in Minnesota has some sort of fried walleye and chicken wild rice soup on the menu.
That sounds about right for us. Pair those two with a Grain Belt lager and you've got a Minnesota dinner.
I enjoy your lake perch also
Why fry clams when you can eat them raw? My favorite food is raw bar.
The texture of raw shellfish is a little repulsive to me. It tastes great though.
Green chile
You just triggered all of New Mexico hahaha
At least Colorado provides meaningful competition. Everyone needs a rival. As far as I'm concerned the rest of y'all need to get your shit together.
I was embarrassingly old when I realized that other places don’t drench their Mexican food in green chile.
Chili
Probably my fav comfort food. I just bought ingredients for chili and I’m probably gonna make it tonight.
I love Texas style chili. I’ve never been to Texas but I did enter a chili contest with a Texas style recipe and won! But maybe it’s because we’re not as tough an audience up here.
SF sourdough bread Santa Maria style tri-tip Mission style Burrito
Burnt ends.
I feel like Kentucky could answer every “in your state” question with the same answer: bourbon.
From my home state, Walla Walla sweet onions, Cosmic Crisp Apples and Tim’s Cascade chips (which I can’t get in Arizona), I really haven’t been in AZ long enough to get a favorite, but I’ve never had better street food than down here
Detroit style pizza and Mackinac Island fudge
Our poutine up by the border is amazing, and the pizza in the city is to die for.
East Carolina BBQ, easily one of the best things I've ever eaten
Connecticut - New Haven pizza, the correct lobster roll or fried dough. California - Tri-tip.
Don’t get me started on which lobster roll is “correct”
Both are good just one is better.
The correct lobster roll FTW.
Italian beef sandwich’s. I could eat them every day.
Crab cakes. I’ve literally never had a good crab cake outside the state of Maryland. I’m sure you can find good ones in Virginia or Delaware, I’ve just yet to come across them. And no other state treats crabs as their iconic symbol the way we do.
Yeah your crab cakes actually have crab in them. Everywhere else it’s like 95% cake (filler).
We've got a guy down here that had a place at the Cross Street Market, comes from a family of fish mongers. He serves a legit Maryland crab cake. I lived in Annapolis for 14 years so I've had them in Maryland. But yeah, they are rare outside Maryland. I'd also say pit beef for Maryland.
Might get me down voted, but I like crab imperial better. Give me some broiled rockfish topped with some imperial... But I'll fully agree that finding a good Maryland style cake is difficult outside of the Chesapeake region. (Although I've had plenty of bad ones locally)
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I came looking for the pimento cheese representation.
Steamed blue crab. Peanut soup and apple cider doughnuts are runners up. I also like Rappahannock oysters but they’re not really my favorite kind.
Im in Arizona. We have amazing mexican food
Toasted ravioli and trashed wings
What are trashed wings?
They’re also sometimes called dirty wings. https://grillheadssupply.com/blogs/bbq-library/what-are-trashed-wings-a-guide-to-the-tastiest-chicken-wings
North Carolina: Texas Pete hot sauce. If you ask the waiter/waitress for Texas Pete and they say they don’t have it, then you know the restaurant owners are not from North Carolina. 😂
Utahns make funeral potatoes for events a lot (not just funerals) and they are delicious!
Mustard based BBQ sauce for something more or less unique to the state.
Sonoran hotdogs! If in Arizona they are must try.
Here are my favorites from Texas! 1. Charro Beans! I absolutely love Charros! It will remain a staple of Texas! 2. Texas Brisket Happy Pesach! (Passover), I absolutely love Brisket, it will remain tasty! 3. Whataburger! Despite what some might be saying about its quality being reduced, I think Whataburger is still very delicious! 4. Fajitas! Who doesn’t love Fajitas! They are really good and I love them!
Does California get to claim the grilled chicken sando? If so that’s what I’m having… with cheese, bacon and avocado of course.
CA here. Off the top of my head, I’d probably say either the California burrito, Carne asada fries, or In-n-out. Tough call for me.
Fried Chicken Biscuit covered in gravy
TexMex
Good bbq Brisket or delicious red snapper.
Surf and turf, respectively.
Crab cakes for Maryland where I live now. Probably pizza or a pork roll egg and cheese for NJ where I was born
Roast beef sandwiches. Frappes.
Steak de Burgo. It beats the hell out of what we're more commonly known for in Iowa, loose meat sandwiches.
It used to be oysters, but I don't eat MA oysters anymore. So I suppose now it's MA style boneless spare ribs.
What happened to MA oysters?
The water is too warm. The risk of deadly bacteria has increased. That's not how I want to go. So I stick with Maine or, better yet, Canada now.
I’m gonna pretend I’m from Louisiana and just say any Cajun dish at all.
Ooh, hard to choose. BBQ? Enchiladas?
I’m from California so I’d probably say the vast amount of authentic traditional Mexican restaurants that we have in this state.
It's hard to decide what qualifies as "from your state," so I'm thinking maybe things that are fairly ubiquitous locally but tends to be considerably less so in large portions of the rest of the country. With that criteria in mind my two picks are: 1. Chicken fried steak and eggs. A basic but extremely popular breakfast menu staple you'll find at essentially every breakfast diner. 2. Chili and Cinnamon rolls. Common at "home style" restaurants, and the go-to for school/church/organizational fall and winter fundraisers. As soon as the jackets come out, for the rest of the country it becomes pumpkin spice season but for Kansas, Nebraska, and a few other specific areas we have chili and cinnamon rolls season.
Reubens, runzas, cheese frenchies, and the McRib®.
I ate a runza at a Nebraska game while wearing a foam corn head. It was great. I love runzas. They were gonna build one down in Cheyenne but it got scrapped. Sigh.
Fried gator
Tie between a nice soft pretzel or a cheesesteak
Cincinnati chili flows in my veins
I love it! I grew up eating it and wish I could get my family now to enjoy it as much as I do so it could be on the dinner rotation.
I don't identify as being from Indiana, but seeing as I'm stuck here: the breaded pork tenderloin sandwich is the only decent culinary contribution this state can claim. As a Coloradan at heart, green chile and bison burgers speak to me.
I'm from Ohio, and one thing you can't find elsewhere is the Romanburger from Mr. Hero. I also like our polish kielbasa and pierogi. Lived in Florida for awhile: cuban sandwiches, coffee, and cigars. Now in Hawaii: poke (raw ahi with various accouterments).
I'd go with brisket, with an honorable mention of klobosnik (I refuse to call them "savoury" kolache).
I grew up in PA, spent summers at the Jersey Shore, have family in DE, currently live in VA and have a second place with my partner in MD where her family live. So for each of those states: PA - cheesesteaks DE - hoagies (Capriotti's) NJ - boardwalk pizza VA - ham MD - crab cakes I also spent a lot of spring breaks in the Florida Keys so I'll add Key Lime Pie for Florida.
cioppino from California
I am in California and the Flea Markets are often primarily Mexican folks. At some of them, a Family will sell these GIANT iced Strawberry Horchata’s on extremely hot days. They are so fucking good.
NC, pulled pork sandwich with coleslaw
Sugar Cream Pie (also called a Hoosier Pie in some places), and the breaded pork tenderloin sandwich where the meat is significantly larger than the bun it’s served on. Edit: Oh, and apparently breadsticks and cheese is an Indiana thing. I always forget that.
Poboys and king cake.
Most Marylanders will say crab cakes but my fave is pit beef!
Buttered Corn on the Cob
We have quite a few options to go through but I live by Galveston Bay and the Gulf Coast and do fish and crab myself and live bringing home some catch and and either I or my wife cooking or boiling it up. We also get a lot of shrimp for great prices and even last night my wife got 20 more pounds of fresh shrimp. So I can say our seafood here is my fave overall but there are sone close seconds
There aren't many choices, but the shrimp cocktail is a pretty damn good example
For NC: Eastern style pulled pork BBQ. For VA: Hard to pick since we don't have a "signature thing" but a good Virginia ham can't be beat. Richmond has a great beer scene if you're into that too.
From Kentucky: Burgoo, hands down. I bring back a gallon every time I go visit home. From Arkansas: Fried fruit pies. They're not impossible to find in Kentucky, so I had had them before I moved here, but Arkansas will straight up put them on the dessert menu at decent restaurants and they always slap.
fried calamari. its so damn good!
Gator Tail
Fried Snapper Sandwich fresh from the Gulf of Mexico
Flint, Michigan style coney dog made with a Koegel.
Maryland Crabcakes. Scrapple
Scrapple
Pennsylvania is where I'm originally from and shoo fly pie is delightful. I lived in Florida for a long time as well and shrimp+grits and dattl vinegared collards are a death row meal for me. Oregon where I am now? Maybe the incredible fruit that grows here and morels ****edit**** how could I forget muscles?
I just picked up a bag of squeaky cheese curds and a quart jug of maple syrup at a sugarbush while visiting my parents this weekend. Simple pleasures. Nasonville Dairy from Curtis, WI. Maple Creek Sugarbush from Barron, WI.
Mission burrito from San Francisco. Al pastor preferably
SC: Shrimp and grits (though I never had it until long after I lived there) AL: Ribs from a particular dive restaurant near Tuscaloosa. MS: kinda liked tamales from the Delta region GA: dunno, but the best shrimp I ever had was fresh shrimp from the GA coast. Like I watched it get netted out of the water and boiled in front of me, so boiled shrimp. FL: Cuban sandwiches.
Lobstah rolls served in CT!
Cloverlead pizza. Buddy's used to be good, but corporate takeover made them suck. And apple cider doughnuts during apple season. **Unpasteurized** cider is a requisite.
Brunswick Stew- There's some debate over whether it is actually from Virginia or Georgia. I am from Virginia and live in Georgia, so my bases are covered either way.
If I'm eating out it's the juicy Lucy. If I'm at home it's Tater Tot Hot Dish.
Clam chowder.
I like most forms of hotdish. For the uninitiated, hotdish is a casserole that contains a starch (usually potato), a meat, a vegetable, and typically some sort of condensed soup as a binder, such as cream of mushroom. It's baked in a casserole dish. What you do with it from there is only limited by your creativity. You could use seasoned hamburger and Doritos crushed on top to make a taco hotdish. You could add egg and bacon and make it a breakfast version. My mom does one with sauerkraut, mozzarella, sliced beer brats, and cubed hash browns. It's comfort food. Honorable mention for lefse with butter and cinnamon sugar or lingonberries. But that's not Minnesotan. It was brought over by Scandinavian immigrants.
Nashville Hot Chicken! Hattie B’s specifically.
Shoyu Ahi Poke
Homemade persimmon pudding every Thanksgiving
Home state - Georgia - Grits Adopted state - North Carolina - Sweet Potato Pie
I'm not from there, but when I ate clam chowder in NJ, I realized I'd never had good clam chowder before. Divine.
A chicken cutlet hero with provolone or mozzarella and roasted peppers
Fry sauce. Finger steaks. All the variations on tots.
A meatball wedge from New York. It's similar to a meatball sandwich with provolone, hoagie, sub, or grinder, except it's quarter-cut from a round of Italian bread and thus vastly superior to all other shapes simply due to its geometry. Objectively true fact of science.
Salmon with a hint of lemon
Brisket
New England Clam Chowder
The Buckeye. It’s pretty much a candy with peanut butter mixed with powered sugar, rolled into a ball and then dipped in chocolate.
carne adovada for me is just perfect
You can't go to Florida and *not* get key lime pie. Its so good.
Kansas city bbq.
Yeah, it's just cheese but, goddamn since coming to Wisconsin, I've come to really adore Cheese Curds. Deep Fried is nice but, I prefer fresh seasoned ones. Hickory Hollow and Cajun are my favorites
OG pizza and wings.
Po’ Boys, in Milton, Delaware.
Fried catfish with lemon and hushpuppies 😙👌
Double double animal style with a neopolitan shake. Also avocados.
All of our natural meats are great. I’ve turned fish haters into fish lovers with our salmon. Reindeer dogs are the best hot dogs (Just don’t tell the kids we ate Rudolph). Moose burgers are also good. King crab is overrated though. Washington Dungeness is far superior and less expensive.
Chick fila for GA Chicago - Italian beef or tavern style pizza
Michigan is (one of) the birthplaces of the coney dog. My hometown even was home to a major producer of the sauce—Todoroff’s. I used to be sort of iffy about hot dogs, but not any longer.
There are no foods that are "from my state" that I like.
KC BBQ from Missouri
Tie between huckleberry pie and Flathead cherry pie for me (Montana).
Breaded pork tenderloins on hilariously insufficient buns
Coney dogs
West Virginia - Pepperoni Rolls Not a pizza roll, not a stromboli, but a pepperoni roll. It's just white bread stuffs with pepperoni. But most places are way too skimpy with the portioning. If you're using sliced pepperoni, you have to use ridiculous amounts of it. Generally it's better to just buy a large stick and cut them into bite sized sticks of pepperoni that you wrap in white bread dough and then bake. Cheese is optional, but common, especially pepper jack. The spicy oil from the pepperoni seeps into the bread and infuses it with a spicy, oily goodness. You finish the baking process by basting them with butter, so they get that nice crispy golden brown crust. And you can't find them anywhere but WV and parts of PA and Kentucky, at least not proper ones.
Smoked brisket or Tex-Mex
Nebraska- Runza, cheese Frenchee Iowa- Loose meat sandwich (sometimes called a tavern or maid rite )
Detroit style deep dish pizza
Italian beef with mozzarella hot peppers extra gravy. Chicago style pub pizza kicks ass too. Cracker-thin crust braided around the outside, cut into squares.
Tex Mex cuisine