Hometown Delights
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The famous Berger Cookie from my hometown Baltimore, Maryland. A shortbread cookie coated in the most ridiculous amount of dark chocolate fudge you've ever seen. Many thanks to our German roots!
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Fries with the works were invented in my Town in the '40's. Fries with homemade gravy, canned peas and hamburger. OMG....So good!!!
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Not necessarily local to me only, but we never met a vegetable we couldn't bread and fry.
Also, chicken fried steaks as big as your head and covered in cream gravy.
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Here in FL famous for our fresh seafood of course..!
I love it fried with some tartar sauce, hush puppies, Cole slaw and a side of fruit2 -
Fitnessgirl0913 wrote: »Hello everyone!
I thought it would be fun to start a thread of weird dishes from your hometown (wherever that may be) that seem odd to an outsider but locals love them!
I am from Rochester NY and here we have "Garbage Plates". Garbage plates were invented by Nick Tahou at his burger place but are now sold pretty much everywhere in Rochester you can buy a hamburger or hotdog.
A garbage plate traditionally has a base of Macaroni Salad and home fries, although you can customize them to pretty much anything including baked beans, tater tots, etc. Then you either get 2 hamburgers, cheeseburgers, or hotdogs on top. To top it all off there is a spicy meat sauce and onions plus your choice of ketchup, mustard, and/or relish.
Everyone thinks they sound gross until you try one and they are amazing! There is also great debate in Rochester over who makes the best Garbage plate and it can be quite the hot button topic. Everyone has a favorite place to get one and will defend it until the end. My personal favorite place is called Jimmy Z's in the Village of Brockport, where I went to college.
Here is a picture of one for your drooling pleasure:
Tell us your hometown dish!
They taste the best at 3am after a few drinks.....
I used to go to Empire Hots every single weekend.... hahaha3 -
midlomel1971 wrote: »I'm in Richmond, VA and we have good Hanover tomatoes, salty ham (the saltier the better) and yummy shrimp and grits. Richmond has an amazing restaurant scene.'
edited: How could I forget our amazing oysters from the "rivah" and my favorite, Brunswick stew, preferably cooked all day outside over a fire and stirred by someone's grandpa with his big paddle.
Agree! I'm on the Peninsula and make frequent trips to RVA, but the seafood here is fresh off the boat or if you are fortunate enough and have the patience you catch it in your back yard or boat.0 -
Idaho - while you would think potatoes, it's actually fingersteaks and fry sauce. Fry sauce is just ketchup and mayo mixed.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/145060/idaho-style-finger-steaks/2 -
@Dee_D33 omg!!!! We were just talking about cornbread in milk!!!! My sister is 17 years my junior and somehow she never managed to have cornbread in milk. My grandmother always had day old cornbread like that so I thought it was the norm.
My father used to eat it and it always grossed me out. He's from West Texas.1 -
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jenna_nicolo wrote: »
The famous Berger Cookie from my hometown Baltimore, Maryland. A shortbread cookie coated in the most ridiculous amount of dark chocolate fudge you've ever seen. Many thanks to our German roots!
Those look amazing. I must plan a trip to Baltimore.1 -
I live in a melting pot town of the Chesapeake Bay, so we have a lot of cuisine from all over the world but I would say we are known for our seafood as we are located right off a bay. Crabs, oysters, clams, sea bass are big here.
We’re also in the south so we’re also known for southern and soul food. Va ham, collard and turnip greens, fried chicken, all forms of grits (I prefer cheesy grits with red-eye gravy but also like shrimps and grits), and I make the best dang cornbread you ever did eat. I could go on but now I’m getting hungry.
If you can’t find what you’re looking for here, you ain’t looking!
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We have kolaches here, also Czech, made in our bakeries and recipe handed down by my grandmother. But they look nothing like yours! Ours are more of an open faced, baked pastry with a fruit, mince meat, poppyseed, or other filling on top. Yours look amazing![/quote]
True Czech kolaches are the open faced fruit filled pastries you describe. I'm not sure when things took a left turn and what we now think of as kolaches around here became kolaches.1 -
Wicked Whoopies!
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This post is killing me.1
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Burritos smothered in green chili (either hot, mild or half’n half) and topped with lettuce, tomato and cheese, and guacamole and sour cream. This image is from google but it’s Santiago’s my favorite place in Northern Colorado! Mmmmm....when I go back to visit now I have to get mild and even then my stomach has issues, lol. I used to be able to eat the hot any and every day of the week.
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When I was younger I would travel and people had no idea what 'chicken wings' were!Fitnessgirl0913 wrote: »I thought it would be fun to start a thread of weird dishes from your hometown (wherever that may be) that seem odd to an outsider but locals love them!
Chicken Riggies, Utica Greens, and Tomato Pie are my hometown's local favorites.
I am not overly crazy about the first two, there are many times I wish I could have found a piece of tomato pie. (high crabs)
I never liked BBQ until I had Carolina BBQ. I don't care for ketchup and molasses BBQ sauce, too sweet, St. Louis, a dry rub BBQ is decent but nothing beats Carolina BBQ.midlomel1971 wrote: »Vinegar-based BBQ (with slaw natch) and hush puppies = my favorite meal EVER!2 -
jenna_nicolo wrote: »
The famous Berger Cookie from my hometown Baltimore, Maryland. A shortbread cookie coated in the most ridiculous amount of dark chocolate fudge you've ever seen. Many thanks to our German roots!
Those look delicious.
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mom23mangos wrote: »
We have kolaches here, also Czech, made in our bakeries and recipe handed down by my grandmother. But they look nothing like yours! Ours are more of an open faced, baked pastry with a fruit, mince meat, poppyseed, or other filling on top. Yours look amazing![/quote]
True Czech kolaches are the open faced fruit filled pastries you describe. I'm not sure when things took a left turn and what we now think of as kolaches around here became kolaches.[/quote]
We have a couple of kolache places here, the fruit ones are open faced, the savory are like the ones pictured. I won't turn down either. The one places occasionally will sell some with Pappy's BBQ in them. Pappy's is probably my favorite BBQ in St. Louis.1 -
mountainmare wrote: »Scrapple and Shoo fly pie
And pierogies.0 -
BruinsGal_91 wrote: »ruqayyahsmum wrote: »I'm from Grimsby UK
It's all about the fish and chips with scraps (little bits of fried batter)
@ruqayyahsmum as a Yorkshirewoman, I approve of this post.
I now live in Boston MA, so it's all about the clam chowdah and Sam Adams' Boston Lager.
I love Yorkshire curd tart and parkin, I'm over in Sheffield now2 -
DoubleUbea wrote: »
When I was younger I would travel and people had no idea what 'chicken wings' were!Fitnessgirl0913 wrote: »I thought it would be fun to start a thread of weird dishes from your hometown (wherever that may be) that seem odd to an outsider but locals love them!
Chicken Riggies, Utica Greens, and Tomato Pie are my hometown's local favorites.
I am not overly crazy about the first two, there are many times I wish I could have found a piece of tomato pie. (high crabs)
I never liked BBQ until I had Carolina BBQ. I don't care for ketchup and molasses BBQ sauce, too sweet, St. Louis, a dry rub BBQ is decent but nothing beats Carolina BBQ.midlomel1971 wrote: »Vinegar-based BBQ (with slaw natch) and hush puppies = my favorite meal EVER!
And here I am right in the middle of NC BBQ hash country and even back when I ate mammals, I was not a fan. I still eat chicken and much prefer the hot and sweet tomato based sauce; a leg quarter whole is my favorite.0 -
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Huevos Rancheros in New Mexico...
Two eggs (usually fried), potato, pinto beans over a tortilla and smothered with red or green chile and cheese...I prefer red for Huevos.
I usually have this for Sunday brunch at Casa de Benevidez once every couple of months.5 -
They're spreading across North America now, but deep fried cheese curds are a favorite here in the dairy state of Wisconsin:
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I don't really have a hometown as in a single place I grew up as a kid, but where I am now in San Antonio, TX, I think the most iconic dish that could be considered odd by outsiders is breakfast tacos. Flour (sometimes corn) tortillas filled with an assortment of things - refried beans, bacon, cheese, onion, chorizo, sausage, egg, potato, etc. They're quite tasty.
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Hahahaha! @mom23mangos that's how my sister is about it. But then, she is grossed out by pies as well 😂0
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BruinsGal_91 wrote: »ruqayyahsmum wrote: »I'm from Grimsby UK
It's all about the fish and chips with scraps (little bits of fried batter)
@ruqayyahsmum as a Yorkshirewoman, I approve of this post.
I now live in Boston MA, so it's all about the clam chowdah and Sam Adams' Boston Lager.
I'm south of Boston and couldn't think of anything, cuz I hate clams. Another thing we have is New England Seafood Dinners and lobster rolls, which I don't eat either.
Frankly, I prefer other people's cuisines. If I could only eat one, it would be Thai.0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »BruinsGal_91 wrote: »ruqayyahsmum wrote: »I'm from Grimsby UK
It's all about the fish and chips with scraps (little bits of fried batter)
@ruqayyahsmum as a Yorkshirewoman, I approve of this post.
I now live in Boston MA, so it's all about the clam chowdah and Sam Adams' Boston Lager.
I'm south of Boston and couldn't think of anything, cuz I hate clams. Another thing we have is New England Seafood Dinners and lobster rolls, which I don't eat either.
Frankly, I prefer other people's cuisines. If I could only eat one, it would be Thai.
Does a Dunkin Donuts Boston Krème Donut count as a local delicacy?5
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