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Weird regional foods

Just_Mel_
Just_Mel_ Posts: 3,992 Member
edited November 2024 in Chit-Chat
Okay, maybe they're not weird to you, but they might be to someone else.
What's something that's eaten where you live but not necessarily everywhere else?
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  • Just_Mel_
    Just_Mel_ Posts: 3,992 Member
    This is where @JackKopCh needs to post a pic of his yorkshire pudding.
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    I am in the midwest and can't really think of anything "weird". Gross? Yes. Like mountain oysters are popular here. I have never and will never try them.

    We do serve cinnamon rolls with our chili. I am told by other region inhibitors that that is weird. It is amazingly yummy though.
  • 81Katz
    81Katz Posts: 7,074 Member
    edited December 2017
    Chili & cinnamon rolls. BIL from another state never heard of it and thought we were all f-ing with him ... Until it was for dinner one night.
  • NoCookiesBish
    NoCookiesBish Posts: 126 Member
    Speidies!
  • NewlifeinNW
    NewlifeinNW Posts: 3,866 Member
    Oh the grits. Sweet tea is huge here.
  • 81Katz
    81Katz Posts: 7,074 Member
    csbnga wrote: »
    Oh the grits. Sweet tea is huge here.

    I find sweet tea repulsive. It's just brown sugar water. Blech!
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,506 Member
    Arizona Sonoran Dogs

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  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
    Guess in Minnesota we turn lots of stuff in to a "Hotdish" or what other people would maybe call a casserole.

    TatorTot Hotdish is the yummiest of all
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  • Just_Mel_
    Just_Mel_ Posts: 3,992 Member
    I'm not originally from Oklahoma, but when I moved here as a teenager I was disgusted to learn that a lot of people put chopped hardboiled eggs in their thanksgiving stuffing and gravy. Gross.
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  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,506 Member
    Food from New Mexico; it's different from Old Mexico ( really, it is. trust me on this one.).

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  • KyleGrace8
    KyleGrace8 Posts: 2,205 Member
    I'm from South Carolina and our mustard based pulled pork in a highlight. We're also big on shrimp n' grits but I'm not a huge fan of grits. I googled to make sure I wasn't missing something and one site has boiled peanuts on the list. Yall seriously don't eat boiled peanuts???? They're great, I like the ham/cajun variety.
  • toned_thugs_n_harmony
    toned_thugs_n_harmony Posts: 1,001 Member
    pudgy1977 wrote: »
    Guess in Minnesota we turn lots of stuff in to a "Hotdish" or what other people would maybe call a casserole.

    TatorTot Hotdish is the yummiest of all

    mmm hotdish for the win!
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  • toned_thugs_n_harmony
    toned_thugs_n_harmony Posts: 1,001 Member
    lots of people here are Scandinavian...and therefore eat a lot of lutefisk. I've never tried it myself, but based on the smell I wouldn't recommend. Another Scandinavian thing that is fairly popular here, Lefse. My personal favorite. I would (and do) eat that shiz day and night.
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
    lots of people here are Scandinavian...and therefore eat a lot of lutefisk. I've never tried it myself, but based on the smell I wouldn't recommend. Another Scandinavian thing that is fairly popular here, Lefse. My personal favorite. I would (and do) eat that shiz day and night.

    Yesss....Lefse. It's been a grip since I have had that.
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  • toned_thugs_n_harmony
    toned_thugs_n_harmony Posts: 1,001 Member
    edited December 2017
    pudgy1977 wrote: »
    lots of people here are Scandinavian...and therefore eat a lot of lutefisk. I've never tried it myself, but based on the smell I wouldn't recommend. Another Scandinavian thing that is fairly popular here, Lefse. My personal favorite. I would (and do) eat that shiz day and night.

    Yesss....Lefse. It's been a grip since I have had that.

    next time I make it, i'm gonna send ya some! it's kind of a B to make though so it may be a while LOL
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    Food from New Mexico; it's different from Old Mexico ( really, it is. trust me on this one.).

    Alamexo-Cantina-plantain-cakes.-Credit-SLC-Eats.jpg

    @Motorsheen ...yes...yes it is...much different. And much different from Tex Mex as well...
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    lots of people here are Scandinavian...and therefore eat a lot of lutefisk. I've never tried it myself, but based on the smell I wouldn't recommend. Another Scandinavian thing that is fairly popular here, Lefse. My personal favorite. I would (and do) eat that shiz day and night.

    Oh man, I haven't heard about Lefse in so long. My grandparents were Scandinavian, my grandma made the best Lefse. I haven't had it since she passed 18 years ago. I need to make some. I kind of remember her recipe but I am sure my mom has it somewhere!
  • lporter229
    lporter229 Posts: 4,907 Member
    Haluski anyone?
    And I guess putting coleslaw on sandwiches

    Are you from the Pittsburgh area by chance? That is where I grew up and I did not realize then that Haluski and Pirogi were regional things. I also grew up putting fried eggs on all kinds of sandwiches (bologna and egg sandwich?) and French fries on a steak salad was the norm. It wasn't until I moved to Atlanta after college that I realized that French fries were not standard fare on a steak salad.
  • lporter229
    lporter229 Posts: 4,907 Member
    KyleGrace8 wrote: »
    I'm from South Carolina and our mustard based pulled pork in a highlight. We're also big on shrimp n' grits but I'm not a huge fan of grits. I googled to make sure I wasn't missing something and one site has boiled peanuts on the list. Yall seriously don't eat boiled peanuts???? They're great, I like the ham/cajun variety.

    I love Carolina BBQ sauce. So much better than sweet BBQ.
  • ashareem
    ashareem Posts: 47 Member
    edited December 2017
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    Food from New Mexico; it's different from Old Mexico ( really, it is. trust me on this one.).

    Alamexo-Cantina-plantain-cakes.-Credit-SLC-Eats.jpg


    Oh damn it, now you're making me homesick. That and *real* sopapillas, not those stupid fried flour tortilla things.

    Originally from southern New Mexico, where a fried egg on enchiladas was pretty common. Breakfast grits, dinner grits (and gravy), hominy, and my favorite, which I can't have anymore, biscuits and chocolate gravy (almost like a pudding/custard.)

    Stuck in the wasateland of Washington state, where if you don't like salmon you're considered odd. They don't grow fish in deserts...
  • Caporegiem
    Caporegiem Posts: 4,297 Member
    Possum
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