What are some great foods that you can only get in your area?

in KY…we have grippo chips ( from cincy)
hot browns – a sandwich with turkey, bacon, maters, and a sauce

We have some many ethic foods all over our land. There is not much that doesnt travel, or has a kind restaurant nearby.

My favorite bbq joint just turned into a cuban restaurant.

What are maters? My favorite Canadian thing is poutine- sooo good. And what is cincy?

@faye Honey, she’s talking about tomatoes. In the south they are maters.

cheese grits with or w/o garlic
okra—fried or cooked with tomatoes
Milo’s burgers
Cornmeal (I find in other parts of the country you can only find cornmeal mix)
Bogue’s sweet rolls
Ranelli’s Italian sausage
Demitri’s Greek Dressing

Northern fried chicken
Tatty hash
Stotty cake
Spam Bap

Eastern North Carolina BBQ, Cheerwine ( a cherry soda )

Goetta from Cincy

Lancashire hotpot
Banwell tart
Chorley cakes

Subs
Great pizza
Frozen custard

Ah – the Jersey Shore!

Wisconsin Favorites:

Cream Puffs
Cheese Curds (the squeekier the better!)
Kringle
Frozen Custard
Bratwurst

@simone54 When I grew up in South Jersey we had submarines that were sometimes called hoagies. What was different about them, from what tries to pass as subs Now, is they put garlic oil on them w/this shaker bottle (now they have it in store deli’s everywhere). You didn’t get turkey or chicken on jersey subs. You got the same thing each time: bologna, lettuce, jersey tomatoes, onions and cotto? salami (salami with black peppercorns) topped off with the garlic oil. The rolls were made in house and fantastic. But to think we have things you can “only get here” would be quite a reach. I’d just guess : salsa and guacomole in big stainless bins in the deli that you buy by the half pound or pound and maybe this huge area in the same store where Hispanic women make flour tortillas. You can get them warm or hot that they’ve placed in an ICE CHEST to keep hot. I need to go back there!!

Jellied eels and pie and mash ( from a pie and mash shop).

@Lightlyseared Although I am in the UK I have never tried jellied eels. Are they tasty?

Everyone here grows strawberries. I can’t turn a corner without a field of strawberries. That isn’t rare or anything, but it screams home to me.

I’m not sure that brand names and food you can get anywhere (pizza, sandwiches) can be qualified a unique to an area. But to follow the trend, if I take a quick jaunt to Buena Park I can get boysenberry pie and jam from the birthplace of the Boysenberry, and while I’m there I can have Knott’s famous fried chicken.

Olympia and Virginicus oysters, Kamilche Sea Farm mussels, and teeny native blackberries the grow low to the ground so that you can’t have any unless you’re already an old lady all bent over by age.
Samphire on the beach. Fiddlehead ferns if you can catch them before they unfurl. Chanterelles.

@susanc Are you from Maine?

How is it that you Jerseyeans completely skipped over Taylor Ham/pork roll? So good.

@poofandmook You are so right. My mother always ate Taylor pork roll but I never tasted it OR Tastycakes! You can buy both on the internet but sugar free Tastycakes are pretty awful. I wonder what is IN T P R? Sounds kinda deadly.

My excuse is that I’m Jewish.

@partyparty they are a bit of an aquired taste.

There is almost nothing better than pork roll, egg, and cheese on a nice NY/NJ bagel after a night of sloppy drinking… or anytime for that matter. I have some in my fridge… I know what I’m having for din din!!

@poofandmook Yes of course, pork roll. I have only named few of our foods…

WTF is a pork roll, because it sounds nasty?

@tinyfaery: Oh no, it isn’t nasty at all. It’s um… wow I didn’t realize how hard it is to describe until I was asked to! So I’ll let wiki do it lol

It’s literally the staple breakfast food of New Jersey. The first time I was told it wasn’t available outside the tri-state area, I was shocked. Why the heck hasn’t the rest of the country discovered this yummy delicious meaty goodness?

Pizza. There are no better pizzas than the ones in NYC. FACT.
haters gonna hate

@poofandmook Just the look of it is horrible. We don’t eat like that in CA.

@Michael_Huntington: you can get pizza equally as good in Jersey.

@tinyfaery: It really isn’t much different than bologna or hot dogs… but it tastes better.

I don’t eat those either. That explains it.

@tinyfaery: heh yeah it pretty much does.

Stuff on a Stick and Deep Friend stuff (it’s even better when it’s deep fried and put on a stick!) at the MN state fair!!! Has anybody here had a deep fried candy bar on a stick? It’s sooo good. And then there’s the huge pickles on sticks. And Spaghetti and Meatballs on a stick.

Chips from under the bridge.

“Sarnia boasts best French fries in world”.

I think so.

I was just in the grocery store just yesterday and they have a small t-shirt rack selling Jersey shirts, and one of them had Wimpie on it and it said something about Jersey being the only place you can get real pork roll. That’s how big it is here.

Maultaschen, Spätzle, Semmelknödel, Dampfnudeln, Sauerbraten, Flädlesuppe, Leberkäs, Obatzda.