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Offline mbailey

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Region specific foods
« on: May 19, 2013, 02:22:34 PM »
So, if you were to move away from home, what food items are known for your area, and near impossible to get anywhere else...What would you miss the most?


My area....South Eastern Pennsylvania (Lehigh County)

My list:

Scrapple..Ahh yes the other gray meat....love the stuff!!!!!

Philadelphia Cheese Steaks (the actual one, from Philadelphia....and Genos to be specific....screw Pats  :D)

Tastycakes  (if you have ever had one, you will know why, if you havent, Google it, and get some!!!)

A real Lancaster County Sho-Fly Pie and or Funny Cake.

Whats yours?



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Offline Motherland

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Re: Region specific foods
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2013, 02:28:31 PM »
Gobs/whoopie pies are a Pennsylvania thing too, aren't they?
Martin's BBQ chips
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Primanti's Sandwiches when I'm in Pittsburgh
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Re: Region specific foods
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2013, 02:47:28 PM »
The staff at HEB in Austin had no idea what a yam was.  They pointed me at the sweet potatoes.  I have to buy overpriced, organic yams from Whole Foods if I want a yam.  In the SF Bay Area the regular supermarkets carried inexpensive yams.

As to region specific foods, the sour dough bread in San Francisco is a much better thing than I've had in Texas or Illinois.

San Francisco, on the other hand, no so good for barbeque.
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Re: Region specific foods
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2013, 03:35:01 PM »
Quote from: mbailey on May 19, 2013, 02:22:34 PM
So, if you were to move away from home, what food items are known for your area, and near impossible to get anywhere else...What would you miss the most?


My area....South Eastern Pennsylvania (Lehigh County)

My list:

Scrapple..Ahh yes the other gray meat....love the stuff!!!!!

Philadelphia Cheese Steaks (the actual one, from Philadelphia....and Genos to be specific....screw Pats  :D)

Tastycakes  (if you have ever had one, you will know why, if you havent, Google it, and get some!!!)

A real Lancaster County Sho-Fly Pie and or Funny Cake.

Whats yours?




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Re: Region specific foods
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2013, 03:52:24 PM »
Mbailey, oz, we have had scrapple here in NH for a bunch of years now, and recently, thanks to the demise of Hostess, we can FINALLY get Tastykakes. Being from just north of Philly, this has made me very happy. Still can't buy pretzels from a guy at an intersection though.
Regionally, we have grinders. You have hoagies. Same damn thing.
My favorite food I can't get here except by UPS is the gift of the Danish American gods that is a kringle. Can't remember the name of them but they are in Racine Wisconsin. Bendtsons or something like that. They have a web site.
Now I'm hungry.
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Re: Region specific foods
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2013, 04:29:25 PM »
syrup :lol here in vermont
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Offline mbailey

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Re: Region specific foods
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2013, 04:39:11 PM »
Quote from: jeep00 on May 19, 2013, 03:52:24 PM
 we can FINALLY get Tastykakes. Being from just north of Philly, this has made me very happy. Still can't buy pretzels from a guy at an intersection though.
 

Where abouts Jeep? Born and raised on Lake Nockamixon in Bucks Cty here.  Thank god!!!!  If you need those intersection pretzels , just shoot me a PM, glad to send them your way, Ill be down near  Roosevelt Blvd and Adams ave Circle tommorow morning!!!  (and yes, im dead serious, be my pleasure  :D )
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Re: Region specific foods
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2013, 05:20:53 PM »
Pepperoni Rolls.
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Re: Region specific foods
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2013, 05:35:49 PM »
The infamous MoonPie......


And if anyone can top this one......

GRITS

and that just may include the female variety!
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Re: Region specific foods
« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2013, 05:46:30 PM »
Quote from: SIM on May 19, 2013, 05:35:49 PM
The infamous MoonPie......


And if anyone can top this one......

GRITS

and that just may include the female variety!

No offense SIM, but id put an Amish SHOEFLY PIE against Grits any day  :lol   :aok
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Re: Region specific foods
« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2013, 07:06:12 PM »
Quote from: mbailey on May 19, 2013, 05:46:30 PM
No offense SIM, but id put an Amish SHOEFLY PIE against Grits any day  :lol   :aok
yeah, i'd rather have grits with bacon and eggs over that...it's a pecan pie with beans in it, only it doesn't taste as good. bleh bleh bleh

i had some buttermilk biscuits in austin once that were friggin awesome.

kimchi - 김치  now that is something you can't get anywhere outside of some little korean restaurant and most of it is polluted with sugar. prefer the hot and spicy over sweet.

oh and bulgogi...makes me drool just thinking about a plate full of that.
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Re: Region specific foods
« Reply #11 on: May 19, 2013, 07:59:54 PM »
Green Chili Chicken Enchilada with fresh pico de gallo.
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Re: Region specific foods
« Reply #12 on: May 19, 2013, 09:07:27 PM »
Ok I live in PA now but I used to live in NH and the things I miss are real.New England clam chowda . steama's from Hampton beach and NH maple syurp.

Btw scrapple tastes like ground snouts toes and a-holes. I can't fight about primante brothers but their corned beef is to die for.

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Re: Region specific foods
« Reply #13 on: May 19, 2013, 09:36:55 PM »
i miss avocados from when I was a kid not that poor excuse for reengineered avocado they sell now.


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Re: Region specific foods
« Reply #14 on: May 19, 2013, 09:37:35 PM »
Quote from: ebfd11 on May 19, 2013, 09:07:27 PM
Ok I live in PA now but I used to live in NH and the things I miss are real.New England clam chowda . steama's from Hampton beach and NH maple syurp.

Btw scrapple tastes like ground snouts toes and a-holes. I can't fight about primante brothers but their corned beef is to die for.

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That's what it is. I recently experimented with Scrapple, we like it.  Pirogi's here, lots of them.  Good beer and average Sourdough.  Irish, German and Polish are the usual, no good Italian available.  

 
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