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Regional and local Food thread.
Matthew
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This thread is for the discussion of your favorite local and regional foods and dishes.
Being from Cincinnati, mine is, of course, Cincinnati chili. Lovely stuff, as far as i'm concerned, and great on a hotdog! We also have Graters ice cream, Oprahs favorite ice cream.
Being from Cincinnati, mine is, of course, Cincinnati chili. Lovely stuff, as far as i'm concerned, and great on a hotdog! We also have Graters ice cream, Oprahs favorite ice cream.
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I just visited Cincinnati for the first time with my fiancée, who is a native, and she introduced me to the glory that is Skyline Chili. Simply calling it "Cincinnati chili" is blasphemy of the highest order
Here in Eugene, we have Sweet Life, a patisserie who manages to do dark and delicious things with vegan recipes. I really don't know how they do it, and I have always proven every single doubter wrong when I tell them that it really is the finest stuff.
This is what people in my office bring instead of donuts.
And thinking of donuts ... today marks the beginning of king cake season!
Hey man! There's more to Cincy chili than just Skyline! There's Empress (the originator of Cincy style chili), Gold Star (which I think is superior to skyline!), not to mention Camp Washington Chili, reportedly the best in town.
I do love living in San Diego
Don't forget goetta.
Did you know Broccoli wasn't even a common vegetable in the US until Italian immigrants brought it with them in the early 20th century? Fucking broccoli.
Northern European cuisine is a blight on the goddamn planet.
See this?
That's right. Chicago, bitches.
LIES! Wurst is the best!
Scrapple.
I do not eat the stuff, I think it is vile and disgusting and ewwwwwwwwww
but almost everybody from around here loves it.
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Spam musubi is the shit and I don't even like spam.
Yes, shave, not shaved. And no, it is not a snow cone. It is not even close even though they look the same. The cut the ice different so it's hard packed, takes forever to melt, and the syrup stays dispersed. And it melts like snow in your mouth. Super fine!
Generally people do condensed milk syrup and maybe add some ice cream and/or adzuki beans (Japanese style)... but one of my fave places goes a step further.
Why, yes, there are two homemade flans on that shave ice. And mochi balls. And condensed milk. On top of ice cream. It sounds bizarre but it is amazing. This little shop (Ice Garden) has been open in Aiea for... forever. And it's run by two tiny little old Chinese women who don't speak English.
This is one of my faves:
Strawberry syrup with condesned milk, mochi balls, and oatmeal. Yes, sweet oatmeal. On top of ice cream.
It's delicious!
OMG BUT IT IS AMAZING. My manager brought some to work once from back home. Like heaven in my mouth.
Snow?
But for the record:
- Fantastic BBQ
- Impossible steaks
- Blue Bell Ice Cream
- Whataburger
- Shiner Bock beer
And the ridiculous cherry on top of all this, the State Fair of Texas, which offered this year (among myriad others):
- Fried s'mores
- Fried beer
- Fried butter
- Fried peaches
- Fried bacon
- Fried Coca-Cola
- Foot-long corn dogs
Maple Taffy. :P
Now that sounds interesting.
Funnel Cake
Tastykakes
Yuengling
Dogfish Head
Also, what is a MochiBall? It looks tasty and oh so bad for me
edit: Hah! I found it! Just type 'mochi' into wikipedia, not 'mochi ball' . Apparently 'mochi ball' is another pronunciation/spelling for a rock formation called Navajo rocks or something....
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You did a pretty good job of representing, but you forgot this.
God's gift to the hot dog joint, Italian Beef.
We are, however, a city of foodies, and have a huge variety of food, including one of the best sandwiches in the country, the best cocktail bar in the country (Murray Stenson, the main attraction at the ZigZag, was also voted the best bartender in America), and an incredible array of every sort of cuisine imaginable, including Louisiana-style fish 'n' chips (I recognize the website is shitty, but you haven't lived until you've tried a crabpuppie, fried cornbread with crab), ridiculously good, super-fresh sushi, or happy hour, a Seattle institution.
Like, outside of France or NYC, I've never been anywhere with such a huge variety of great food, and it's way, way cheaper than NYC will ever be.
Yeah, what's funny is I usually don't care for mochi. The texture is too weird and I'm picky. I've also yet to come around to the traditional sweetened bean pastes and such used so often here (and Asia), but these mochi balls are amazing. The ladies made them fresh and they're just perfect.
And dangerous.
Sometimes you get to Ice Garden and it's even busier than expected and they've run out of mochi balls.
However if you're in Toronto check out a place called Ghandi's and order a Saag Paneer:
Oh and get it medium-mild because anything hotter then that will destroy your digestive system and give you what is best known as "the ring of fire".
I was already pretty hungry walking into this thread, but jeez, I think I'm literally salivating now.
As well, NYC is still the only place I could routinely get arepas, a South American dish that's basically a savory corn pancake filled with cheese and the meat of your choosing.
Of the dozen things I miss about New York, the food is probably missed the most.
The sauce is vinegar based, not that dressed up ketchup they eat in other places. It is one of my favorite foods and we have no problem firing up the smoker and throwing in a Boston butt or two in 20 degree weather.
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It's more than just fries, cheese curds and gravy. I've had it topped with veggies, hot sauce, and all sorts of meats. Over the holidays I had one topped with smoked meat and one topped with ground beef and sausage. But my all-time favourite was one that used three-pepper steak sauce instead of gravy.
Seriously I think the only thing VA/DC/MD has is this is where Five Guys (Hamburgers) started and that's kind'a a specific taste/texture for a standard hamburger and Maryland crabs... Old school we have the VA peanut and ham.
We used to have the greatest burrito ever invented (The Teocali Tamale Thai Burrito... shredded spiced beef, white rice, black beans, juilenne carrots and onions in something that made them awesome and thai style peanut sauce) but that would be cheating since A: it's no longer here and B: it was actually invented in Colorado. But these were the only two places to get it. Accept NO imitations. California Tortilla Factory ripped it off unsuccessfully a few years ago - not sure they still have it on the menu though and they used chicken.
One time, my friend's... acquaintance said he'd take us to an great restaurant with killer food. So half an hour later, we found ourselves in the ghetto part of East LA in the backyard of somebody's house where a cat was sleeping on a still-warm grill. We had some burritos.
Probably the best burritos I ever had. Would not return for another.
And a legend was born...