Region specific foods

[Masherbrum]

Faygo Root Beer, Cream Soda or Vernor's.   

[shotgunneeley]

If I moved out of the country:
1) Cobblers (blackberry and peach)
2) Cheeseburgers
3) fried chicken and fish

If I moved out of southern Arkansas:
1) Purple hull peas with homemade "chili sauce" (nothing spicy like the name suggests, pretty much a sweet tomato-based relish).
2) Fried deer steak
3) grilled duck and turkey

[ebfd11]

Scrapple, also known by the Pennsylvania Dutchname pon haus,[1][2] is traditionally a mush of porkscraps and trimmings combined with cornmealand wheat flour, often buckwheat flour, and spices. The mush is formed into a semi-solid congealed loaf, and slices of the scrapple are then panfried before serving. Scraps of meat left over from butchering, not used or sold elsewhere, were made into scrapple to avoid waste. Scrapple is best known as a rural American food of the Mid-Atlantic states (Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey,Pennsylvania. Virginia and West Virginia). Scrapple and pon haus are commonly considered an ethnic food of the Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Mennonites and Amish.

Eww I was right

LawnDart

[Curval]

Fresh Rockfish:

This:



Becomes this:

[VonMessa]

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.

That is a 100% incorrect statement.

[VonMessa]

Scrapple, also known by the Pennsylvania Dutchname pon haus,[1][2] is traditionally a mush of porkscraps and trimmings combined with cornmealand wheat flour, often buckwheat flour, and spices. The mush is formed into a semi-solid congealed loaf, and slices of the scrapple are then panfried before serving. Scraps of meat left over from butchering, not used or sold elsewhere, were made into scrapple to avoid waste. Scrapple is best known as a rural American food of the Mid-Atlantic states (Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey,Pennsylvania. Virginia and West Virginia). Scrapple and pon haus are commonly considered an ethnic food of the Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Mennonites and Amish.

Eww I was right

LawnDart

Pon haus is usually a term for an inferior form of scrapple, usually due to the use of more flour and/or cheap fillers.

Pon haus is usually lighter in color and doesn't crisp-up as well when fried.

Don't completely trust Wikipedia 

[TheBug]

Garbage Plates and Zweigle Hotdogs. 

[Gooss]

From St. Louis now in Cali:

Toasted Ravioli
Gooey Butter Cake
Chili parlor restaurants (bigger in Cinci I think)
Backyard cookout pork steaks

Man, I miss White Castle. 

HONK!
Gooss

[Lab Rat 3947]

The machaca and chorizo from Carolina's on Mohave Street in Phoenix 

There is Mexican food and there is Mexican food; but Carolina's is like the way my mother cooked. And their tortillas are are perfect.

My mother's maiden name is Contreras, so I do know about Mexican Cuisine.

LtngRydr

[KgB]

Food in USA is just terrible

[Saxman]

Toasted Ravioli

Man, if I ever left St. Louis (don't plan on it if I can help it, you'd have to drag me kicking and screaming) I would DIE if I couldn't get toasted ravioli.

[DubiousKB]

Saskatoon Berries for pie.... Apparrently the little berry only grows 'round the prairies...

That's a tough one, I eat generic white farmer food. It's everywhere and not special.
 
I guess I would miss the ability to grab a hand full of grain that's just been harvested and gnaw on it until the grain become a gluten chunk of gum.  Soar jaw, but tasty treat!

[tmetal]

1. Blue bell coffee ice cream
2. Garrison Brothers bourbon

Dublin Dr. Pepper use to be on the list but that no longer exists.

[VonMessa]

The machaca and chorizo from Carolina's on Mohave Street in Phoenix 

There is Mexican food and there is Mexican food; but Carolina's is like the way my mother cooked. And their tortillas are are perfect.

My mother's maiden name is Contreras, so I do know about Mexican Cuisine.

LtngRydr

They were the first place that I ever had chorizo.   

I badgered my local grocery store so eagerly and often for chorizo that they finally started getting small orders of it in.  They sold out quickly and now the small orders have become larger orders.   

[jeep00]

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   )

Ah man, you mean they still sell them? Thanks for the thought though. That intersection surely rings a bell, haven't been down since about 85 or 86 though I think so the memories are faded.
From Langhorne here, also in Bucks Cty. lived on Old Lincoln Hwy, just where it dead ended after Neshaminy high. We were a little country house and land in the middle of urban sprawl. That lake sounds familiar, have to do some googling cuz I know I had to be there.