Regional food

Dimples0101 · June 2014

I'm from VT and I *think* the name creemee (soft serve) is specific to this area. I've met so many people that aren't from here that have no idea what a creemee is. But as soon as the snow melts, you can find a creemee stand just about every 5 miles or less.

A lot of people also take their maple syrup seriously. If a restaurant here doesn't serve VT maple syrup, I know people who will not eat there. Personally, I'm not as picky about my syrup.

Dimples0101 · June 2014

@jessa1228‌ - we just started carrying Tastykakes in VT maybe 6 months ago and they are out of this world good.

FirstBabyDoyle · June 2014

ClrkKntismyAE said:
I live in Louisiana, so we have the best regional foods. There are foods from the area that are heard off elsewhere like gumbo or jambalaya. You can almost never find cracklins (bite sized fried and seasoned pieces of pork skin and fat) and boudin (a sausage made with liver and rice dressing). There are also Zapps brand chips that are amazing, but hard to find anywhere out of state.

This. It's the best. Boudin, dirty rice, red beans, creole tomatoes, crawfish, etc.

@ClrkKntismyAE‌ where in LA are you? I just moved from Nola. I miss if like crazy, especially the food. I'm on the MS coast now they try to do similar dishes but it's not the same.

jessa1228 · June 2014

kyliedaniellexx said:

Scrapple looks disgustingly delicious, @jessa1228‌

I'm not a fan of it but my family loves it.

jessa1228 · June 2014

Dimples0101 said:

@jessa1228‌ - we just started carrying Tastykakes in VT maybe 6 months ago and they are out of this world good.

Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes are one of the most delicious things on this planet.

FirstBabyDoyle · June 2014

@ClrkKntismyAE‌ DH has a lot of family there and in abbeville. Lafonda margaritas are the best

pearlsgalore · June 2014

sweetbabyrahe said:
I live in Cincinnati, Ohio. One of my favorite regional foods is goetta. it is a mixtures of sausage and steel cut oats and also a Skyline 3-way which is spaghetti noodles, chili, and cheese.

Mmm Skyline! It is the main thing I've been craving! But I HATE goetta... I'm the only person I know that doesn't love it!

dbgwife · June 2014

I'm from Southern California and I'd have to say Mexican food?? We lived in Virginia for six years... What you all have there is NOT Mexican food!! I'm so happy to be home! Mmmmm carne asada!!

MindyAndRyan · June 2014

Kristy774 said:

I'm in Maryland and like PP said CRABS!!! We also love crab cakes!!! Youngest DS and I have been going here https://www.woodyscrabhouse.com/menu.html for lunch once a week lately for a crab cake sandwich. Sooooo good.

@Kristy774 Ryan and I passed a sign for Woody's on Rt 40 on the way to the beach this past weekend, and I told him we're going there because I heard it is awesome and I neeeeeeed crabs. Have you been to The Real McCoy in Chesapeake City? That is the halfway point between Lancaster and Rehoboth, and we always stop for chocolate peanut butter milkshakes. They are the best! Also, I was sad ever that Sanling on 40 closed. I will miss seeing the big Buddha along the way!

abbyful · June 2014

@AeandJb‌ - Yep, I live in KC now, nobody around here knows what bierocks are! They are so standard in Northwestern to Central Kansas that they are even served for school lunches.

dbgwife · June 2014

NinerGirl52 said:

dbgwife said:
I'm from Southern California and I'd have to say Mexican food?? We lived in Virginia for six years... What you all have there is NOT Mexican food!! I'm so happy to be home! Mmmmm carne asada!!
Mmm carne asada!! Nobody does fish tacos like Southern Cal either!! I'm thinking I'm convincing DH we're going out for Mexican tonight!!

Mmmm and yes! Fish tacos!!!

tinkerbell1658 · June 2014

@Celticlass6‌ LOVE Wawa!!! And cheesesteaks from Philly! I love the italian one with rabe from tony lukes. I like the other 2 biggies but cant remember their names or which i liked better. Oops!

RI we have dels frozen lemonade, and coffee milk (think choc syrup in milk but coffee flavor), and weiners which are like thoses mini hot dogs with the meat on top with mustard and onion. The actual hot dog is different though.

Edited to add: new england clam chowder. Its white but then ri has their own which is clear broth. Ive had it once.

missnacholover · June 2014

MindyAndRyan said:

Kristy774 said:

I'm in Maryland and like PP said CRABS!!! We also love crab cakes!!! Youngest DS and I have been going here https://www.woodyscrabhouse.com/menu.html for lunch once a week lately for a crab cake sandwich. Sooooo good.

@Kristy774 Ryan and I passed a sign for Woody's on Rt 40 on the way to the beach this past weekend, and I told him we're going there because I heard it is awesome and I neeeeeeed crabs. Have you been to The Real McCoy in Chesapeake City? That is the halfway point between Lancaster and Rehoboth, and we always stop for chocolate peanut butter milkshakes. They are the best! Also, I was sad ever that Sanling on 40 closed. I will miss seeing the big Buddha along the way!

Woody's is Amazeballs.

MindyAndRyan · June 2014

I live in Lancaster County, PA, which is the heart of Amish country. We have a large PA Dutch (German, Amish and Mennonite) population here. Our regional foods include:

Scrapple (as previously mentioned and pictured), most people eat it with ketchup or syrup. I love to drown it in syrup.

Chicken corn soup with rivels (this is my picture, I made corn muffins to go with it, not traditional)

https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t1.0-9/58147_1643898421834_6419496_n.jpg

Chicken bot boi, aka chicken pot pie, which is NOT a chicken pie, as most of the country calls chicken pot pie. Seriously, people, it is just a chicken pie! THIS is pot pie! (Ok, rant over, this is also my picture, made with homemade noodles.)

https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/t1.0-9/17266_1341238735531_1916824_n.jpg

Chicken and waffles (also my picture, homemade waffles, and I had roasted beets on the side)

https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/t1.0-9/282172_2314447385139_1957630_n.jpg

Other PA Dutch foods that I don't have pictures of:

Red beet eggs
Shoofly pie
Chow-Chow
Fastnachts
Hog maw
Cup cheese

Here is a really lengthy, but good, article about PA Dutch/Lancaster County food.

jessa1228 · June 2014

MindyAndRyan said:

I live in Lancaster County, PA, which is the heart of Amish country. We have a large PA Dutch (German, Amish and Mennonite) population here. Our regional foods include:

Scrapple (as previously mentioned and pictured), most people eat it with ketchup or syrup. I love to drown it in syrup.

Chicken corn soup with rivels (this is my picture, I made corn muffins to go with it, not traditional)

Chicken bot boi, aka chicken pot pie, which is NOT a chicken pie, as most of the country calls chicken pot pie. Seriously, people, it is just a chicken pie! THIS is pot pie! (Ok, rant over, this is also my picture, made with homemade noodles.)

Chicken and waffles (also my picture, homemade waffles, and I had roasted beets on the side)

Other PA Dutch foods that I don't have pictures of:

Red beet eggs
Shoofly pie
Chow-Chow
Fastnachts
Hog maw
Cup cheese

Here is a really lengthy, but good, article about PA Dutch/Lancaster County food.

I live in Central PA now and there's a big Amish/Mennonite community here. OMG shoofly pie, I could eat it every day. I actually made my own a few months ago and while it wasn't as good as what I used to get at the Amish farmer's markets, it turned out pretty well.

jlove253 · June 2014

One food that is NOT regional to my area that I really want to try is lemon ice or water ice. I think it's an east coast thing. They talk about it on reality tv (cake boss, parking wars, ...) and it sounds great this time of year.

I'm trying to think of other PNW specific foods. Super pumped for salmon season! DH is a teacher so he's able to fish most of August. I am richly blessed.

hiketheworld · June 2014

I'm from Minnesota and we have lefse. It is like a crepe but made from potato instead of flour. I always had it spread with butter and brown sugar. Its a scandinavian dessert. I live in New York City now and haven't found lefse in any store though I always look!

Let's see, we also have good ol jello salad which was always green and looked like this:

NunyaBennis · June 2014

Skyline, yes, but don't forget to mention what makes Cinci Chili super Cinci Chili... cinnamon!
No one from Pitt? Primantis? Beuller?
Everyone's heard of beans n cornbread, but that's probably our best known regional comfort food. Cornbread covered with pintos smothered with onions (ick) or chowchow (aka pepper relish), with a side of greens (with or without vinegar).

MindyAndRyan · June 2014

jessa1228 said:

I live in Central PA now and there's a big Amish/Mennonite community here. OMG shoofly pie, I could eat it every day. I actually made my own a few months ago and while it wasn't as good as what I used to get at the Amish farmer's markets, it turned out pretty well.

I have always hated shoofly pie. I'm a bad Lancastrian, I know. But I think I should try it again, maybe I won't hate it. (But I probably will.) I will, however, eat all the whoopie pies! (Which are from Lancaster, NOT Maine!)

Kristy774 · June 2014

MindyAndRyan said:

Kristy774 said:

I'm in Maryland and like PP said CRABS!!! We also love crab cakes!!!

Youngest DS and I have been going here https://www.woodyscrabhouse.com/menu.html for lunch once a week lately for a crab cake sandwich. Sooooo good.

@Kristy774 Ryan and I passed a sign for Woody's on Rt 40 on the way to the beach this past weekend, and I told him we're going there because I heard it is awesome and I neeeeeeed crabs. Have you been to The Real McCoy in Chesapeake City? That is the halfway point between Lancaster and Rehoboth, and we always stop for chocolate peanut butter milkshakes. They are the best! Also, I was sad ever that Sanling on 40 closed. I will miss seeing the big Buddha along the way!

I know! It was so sad when they closed Sanling!! The owners retired! I live about 15 minutes from Chesapeake city but I've never been to the Real McCoy, I'll have to try it!

abbyful · June 2014

AeandJb said:
tinkerbell1658 thanks for mentioning milk!

We have Shatto Milk which is organic. They make: white, chocolate, root beet, cotton candy, banana, strawberry, and orange creme flavored milks. I haven't ever tried them, but when I was a teenager and working in a grocery store, people bought them all the time. Thye come in a glass bottle and first timers would be pissed about the glass deposit. Which they got back when they returned the bottles.

Try the Shatto coffee milk! It's soooo good!

MrsAdventure · June 2014

@NinerGirl52 and @Ineedmorecoffee, Voodoo Doughnuts were my first thought too. You can't visit Portland not go there. Also, New Seasons Banana cake, seriously awesome and amazing, cannot find anything as good. Oh, and Hazelnuts (Filberts), I love visiting Hazelnut farms on my way to the coast and picking up a ton of these still in the shell. Oregon grows 90 something percent of the US's hazelnuts, so they are easy to find around here. Super expensive out of state though.

And you all will probably think I am disgusting for this, but in Montana, every good bar serves deep-fried Rocky Mountain Oysters. DH and I had this favorite little spot way out in the sticks that served them with a mildly spicy raspberry sauce. Can't find those suckers around here though. DH makes them extremely well. But it's such a hassle and takes a couple of days to do right. Oh, and the Testical Festival, I miss that!!

A lot of restaurants serve wild game in their menus as well. Which isn't terribly common elsewhere.

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