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May 2018 Moms
tincupchalice
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Weird Regional Foods
tincupchalice
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I need entertainment, so here we go.
I just learned that apparently there is a part of the country where people eat chili with cinnamon rolls. So, what weird and bizarre food thing goes on where you live?
I just learned that apparently there is a part of the country where people eat chili with cinnamon rolls. So, what weird and bizarre food thing goes on where you live?
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Re: Weird Regional Foods
I'm in central TX and can't think of anything that specific. I do keep seeing posts on Pinterest about soup since the weather is turning cold, but when I think of cold weather I crave homemade tamales!
Love having "fruit" with supper, especially with biscuits and gravy - YUMMM. Essentially, it's warm sweet applesauce. The first time I heard of it, I was expecting a bowl of assorted fresh fruits lol!
DH's granny also makes homemade pork cakes for everyone at Christmas. I don't care for them, but apparently it's an acquired/family taste. Pork fat rendered down with coffee, then flour, spices, raisin, etc. added and cooked in a bundt pan.
BFP 2/25/14 EDD 11/5/14 BD 11/4/14
BFP 8/26/17 EDD 5/5/18
In my hometown, we have a delicious sandwich called Taverns. They are kind of like a drier version of sloppy joe and they are amazeballs. They have mustard and dill weed in them, and far less ketchup than a sloppy joe. But I rarely see or hear of them outside my little Northwestern corner of Iowa. Even when I lived in different parts of the state, no one knew what they were.
people in AZ think beef and noodles on mashed potatoes is weird... totally a normal iowa thing too! Yum!
i live in Tennessee (just moved here 2 years ago) and people fry everything. But that's not weird I guess.
BFP 10/2/13, EDD 6/3/14
Gave birth to my beautiful son, Owen Robert on 6/4/14!
BFP #2 8/28/15, EDD 5/5/16
Also, Ive heard scotcharoos are an iowa regional thing?
Im in the south...my parents own a restaurant that serves just catfish and chicken. That's pretty strange other places.
Idk if we have anything weird. I guess in CA we put avocado on everything.
ETA: I could eat my weight in ham and beans with cornbread! My mom always put mayonnaise in her beans and I started doing the same. I think that was just something her family did because my grandma was visiting and she did the same thing when we had ham and beans a couple weeks ago. It's really good with the mayo but everyone always thinks I'm crazy or disgusting.
I love crawfish, especially in etouffe, but they are a crazy lot of work for what you get.
Mayo in beans??!
When I lived in Alaska I had akutaq, sometimes called "eskimo ice cream" which was essentially some sort of lard or other fat mixed with berries and sometimes fish.
@tincupchalice I don't know why it includes the word loaf but it's actually meat. Like ham slices with olive bits/pimento/pickle bits. Just deli meat.
I'm in Maryland, other than a whole lot of crab stuff I guess scrapple is our weird regional. Even here though, it's very divided- you either love it or hate it (I love it with scrambled eggs!)
Now, my family is from North Carolina, I'm pretty sure this is very Smokey Mountains area, but- stay with me here for a second- pinto bean pie. I know how it sounds! I fought it for years and refused to try it. It's a dessert pie and it tastes very similar to pecan pie. The main difference is, instead of having the super sweet gelatinous filling of pecan pie, you cook pintos ahead of time (no seasoning just straight beans) and then you mash them and add them as a filler to the filling. (Think of it like black beans in chocolate cake) It cut the sugar down to a point where you can actually taste something and your teeth don't hurt! It even looks basically like pecan pie. My grandmother always made them for church gatherings and family holidays, now she's passed it on and it's become my signature
We also do corn pone pie (savory).... it's kind of like chili without the heat and you add corn to it, then pour corn bread batter over the top and bake it. Kind of like a "chili" cornbread casserole. I think I might make this for dinner.....
DS born 3/11
Angel Baby 3 6/28/11 9/5/17 BFP!!
divorced October 2014 9/6/17 hCG 88 progesterone 9.1 (prometrium started)
Married DH 10/15 DH's DS born 6/09 9/8/17 hCG 242!!!
Not preventing since 11/15 EDD 5/8/18 Adjusted 5/15/18
TTC since 1/1/16 9/27/17 we have a heart beat!
I don't really know how to tell what is a weird regional food. I often find out things I thought were totally normal are a weird Nova Scotia thing :P We do have plenty of regional foods though, I just don't know if they're weird.
We have donairs here, which are like gyros but with slightly different toppings/spices and a sweet sauce on them. And related basically all pizza shops sell garlic fingers (a pizza with just garlic and cheese, cut into strips) with donair sauce. I'm not crazy about donairs but I missed those sooo much when living in Ontario.
It's common in the farming areas here in the summer to cook potatoes, beans, and carrots all together with cream and butter and call it "hodge podge". Veggies, but unhealthy! I love Solomon gundy, which is pickled herring basically. I didn't realize until recently that dulse (dried seaweed) is not that common elsewhere.
I am having a hard time imagining what cinnamon rolls and chili would be like! Do you just eat the cinnamon roll on the side like a bun?
DS born 3/11
Angel Baby 3 6/28/11 9/5/17 BFP!!
divorced October 2014 9/6/17 hCG 88 progesterone 9.1 (prometrium started)
Married DH 10/15 DH's DS born 6/09 9/8/17 hCG 242!!!
Not preventing since 11/15 EDD 5/8/18 Adjusted 5/15/18
TTC since 1/1/16 9/27/17 we have a heart beat!
But to add to the horror of weird regional food, my lovely corner of the Midwest is known for brain sandwiches. That's not some strange freak out name, it really is a brain. Used to be cow brains, then everyone got freaked out over mad cow disease, so now they use pig brains. I have no other details on how they are cooked because I've never ordered one, but you can get them at one very old local tavern and at the huge fall festival that just wrapped up.
Edit to change the number of places you can get said sandwich. I really think it's only year round, thank goodness
Married: 11/2013
M: 6/2016 E: 5/2018
B, I don't know how weird this is and didn't really see it as regional until recently a friend in GA said she'd never heard of them. Cheese curds. Deep fried balls of cheese. They're delicious. You can get them at a ton of restaurants around here.
There is also a festival in DH's hometown where they serve them and the line is ridiculous to get them. Like 30, 40, 60 minute waits.
I don't really know what's regional to Philly that hasn't been widely adopted everywhere else. It is weird to me coming from North Jersey that they put everything on a hoagie roll here. Like, if you order a buttered roll or an egg and cheese, it's a hoagie roll, not a kaiser one. Also, that I now call things hoagies instead of heros or subs.