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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: mbailey on May 19, 2013, 02:22:34 PM
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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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Gobs/whoopie pies are a Pennsylvania thing too, aren't they?
Martin's BBQ chips
Sheetz
Primanti's Sandwiches when I'm in Pittsburgh
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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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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?
Same AND the hottest news/weather chicks in the business on every Philly channel :devil :aok
:cheers: Oz
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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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syrup :lol here in vermont
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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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Pepperoni Rolls.
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The infamous MoonPie......
And if anyone can top this one......
GRITS
and that just may include the female variety!
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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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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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Green Chili Chicken Enchilada with fresh pico de gallo.
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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.
LawnDart
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i miss avocados from when I was a kid not that poor excuse for reengineered avocado they sell now.
semp
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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.
LawnDart
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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Faygo Root Beer, Cream Soda or Vernor's.
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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
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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
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Fresh Rockfish:
This:
(http://spearfishingmagazine.com/gallery/categories/Photo_Gallery/media/bermuda_rockfish.jpg)
Becomes this:
(http://www.pompanobeachclub.com/gfx/Rockfish.jpg)
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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.
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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 :noid
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Garbage Plates and Zweigle Hotdogs. :aok
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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
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The machaca and chorizo from Carolina's on Mohave Street in Phoenix :aok
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
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Food in USA is just terrible :rofl
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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.
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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.
:old:
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!
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1. Blue bell coffee ice cream
2. Garrison Brothers bourbon
Dublin Dr. Pepper use to be on the list but that no longer exists.
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The machaca and chorizo from Carolina's on Mohave Street in Phoenix :aok
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. :x
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. :rock
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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 )
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.
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did somebody say pecan pie???? :O :O gotta suck up to the wifey now, I got the urge for one :lol
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If you like ribs and you ever land in Charleston, WV (Yeager Airport - CRW), you'll find an ex-NFL player cooking up the best ribs you've ever eaten on 5-Corners.
http://www.wvgazette.com/Life/201205080095
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Fiddle heads (baby ferns)
Maine maple syrup
Maine blueberries
Maine lobster
Brook trout
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If you like ribs and you ever land in Charleston, WV (Yeager Airport - CRW), you'll find an ex-NFL player cooking up the best ribs you've ever eaten on 5-Corners.
http://www.wvgazette.com/Life/201205080095
Another West Virginian? <S> Clarksburg here, hence the Pepperoni rolls... Fresh Tomaro's are the best, Saturday or Sunday morning when thy are still warm.
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NZ Whitebait fritter.
If you ever come here you must try them, the taste is very unique (closest I ever tasted is a coral trout in Fiji:
(http://www.planitnz.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Whitebait-Fritter.png)
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Another West Virginian? <S> Clarksburg here, hence the Pepperoni rolls... Fresh Tomaro's are the best, Saturday or Sunday morning when thy are still warm.
Aye... born, raised and still living in the sticks in Elkview <S>