“Local” foods that international friends don’t understand!
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smithker75 wrote: »springlering62 wrote: »Grits
Hominy
Boiled peanuts
Corn pones
Mud pie
Hummingbird Cake
Icebox pie
Fried okra
Fried green tomatoes (to die for when properly cooked with cornmeal- a pox upon any menu that adds blue cheese or anything else wet and runny)
Fried squash
Fried cauliflower (noticing a trend here?)
Naked dog walking, preferably with a Frosted Orange
Co-Cola 😂😂😂
FYI don't Google 'naked dog walking' on your work computer. Learn from me...
That’s so funny. I did Google it before adding it to the list to make sure no one would get anything sketchy and it came right up as what it was “supposed” to be. Google knows where I live. 😱
A naked dog walking is a plain hotdog from a local fast food joint, which happens to be the largest in the world.
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Quark is awesome for low fat creamy sauces, really good for pasta and chicken. I love it!3
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When I lived in Indiana, I had sugar cream pie for the first time. It was so good! Is that strictly Indiana?
I've read that that's like the # 1 desert there. However, I grew up in Indiana and don't remember ever having it, and certainly my parents (or mom) never made it. I I'm guessing that's because both of my parents are transplants--my mom being from North Carolina, and my dad from Michigan.
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I live in Chicago suburbs, so the ones I think of in Chicago are:
Deep Dish Chicago-style pizza (although there are no chains branching out in the midwest),
Italian beef sandwich
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claireychn074 wrote: »Quark is awesome for low fat creamy sauces, really good for pasta and chicken. I love it!
That's awesome. The world is really changing. 20 years ago there was no chance to get Quark outside of Germany/Austria (not sure about the Netherlands).
Now you have to check out Mettbrötchen too
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claireychn074 wrote: »Quark is awesome for low fat creamy sauces, really good for pasta and chicken. I love it!
That's awesome. The world is really changing. 20 years ago there was no chance to get Quark outside of Germany/Austria (not sure about the Netherlands).
Now you have to check out Mettbrötchen too
I’m in the U.K. and we’ve been able to easily get Quark in the supermarket for as long as I remember (which is a very long time!). I remember using it as low fat dairy for a load of dishes when I first left home in the late 1970’s. It’s something I still buy and use from time to time. Not sure why you think it’s specific to Germany. 🤷♀️0 -
BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »claireychn074 wrote: »Quark is awesome for low fat creamy sauces, really good for pasta and chicken. I love it!
That's awesome. The world is really changing. 20 years ago there was no chance to get Quark outside of Germany/Austria (not sure about the Netherlands).
Now you have to check out Mettbrötchen too
I’m in the U.K. and we’ve been able to easily get Quark in the supermarket for as long as I remember (which is a very long time!). I remember using it as low fat dairy for a load of dishes when I first left home in the late 1970’s. It’s something I still buy and use from time to time. Not sure why you think it’s specific to Germany. 🤷♀️
I am in the US and my aunt has bought quark her whole life from the regular stores here!0 -
BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »I’m in the U.K. and we’ve been able to easily get Quark in the supermarket for as long as I remember (which is a very long time!). I remember using it as low fat dairy for a load of dishes when I first left home in the late 1970’s. It’s something I still buy and use from time to time. Not sure why you think it’s specific to Germany. 🤷♀️
Well, quark is a German product. The word "quark" is actually a German word dating back to the 14th century.
I was never able to get quark on my travels. But I mostly travelled in Southern Europe, Africa and Asia. That must have skewed my perception.Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »I am in the US and my aunt has bought quark her whole life from the regular stores here!
Interesting. Maybe it came to the US with all the German immigrants?
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It's not just in Germany, also the Netherlands, Northern Europe...0
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Two typical German foods:
Mettbrötchen - Raw minced meat (pork) with onion on bread rolls for breakfast
also
Quark - a special form of fresh cheese. Every German that likes to bake has searched for this at least once in a foreign supermarket.
Hate Mettbrötchen. Always did, even when I still was eating meat.
Quark is still elusive in NZ where I now live. My partner's mum fell in love with it while travelling in Europe, so I now keep my eyes out for it just in case.
Things I noticed people where I live now find weird or just don't know:
White asparagus. Asparagus here is basically always green. I do not like green asparagus very much.
Eating potato fritters with apple sauce. There are places that make potato fritters here, but they serve them with tomato sauce (which is near-identical to ketchup. Not the stuff you put on spaghetti.)
They don't cook kale into a weird mush here. But I am ok with that.0 -
AndreaTamira wrote: »Quark is still elusive in NZ where I now live. My partner's mum fell in love with it while travelling in Europe, so I now keep my eyes out for it just in case.
If you want to surprise your partner's mum. It's quite easy to make quark. You just need fresh milk (can be pasteurized but not UHT) and buttermilk. You don't need rennet.
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goal06082021 wrote: »Apple pie and cheddar cheese is definitely not country-wide, I always thought of that as a Vermont thing specifically though? Maybe just the first person to tell me about it was a Vermonter.
Like I said, it was common among my midwestern relatives -- definitely not New England specific.
Grew up on East Coast of US, ended up marrying a native Vermonter who introduced me to apple pie accompanied by the sharpest cheddar you can obtain....OMG why haven't I been doing this all along? (Also, add maple syrup to the pie/cheese matrix.)0 -
Any Dutch people? Hagelslaag (chocolate or candy sprinkles to put on toast) and dropjes (salted black licorice).1
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Haluški!0
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kshama2001 wrote: »I'm not sure someone from Ireland would recognize what we in Massachusetts have for St. Patrick's Day - are there really supposed to be raisins in Irish Soda Bread?
I also make New England Boiled Dinner: corned beef, potatoes, onions, carrots, cabbage.
Never had raisins but I wouldn't be adverse to trying!
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Known as ‘Fairy Bread’ in the U.K. - or parts of the U.K. anyway. Wasn’t something I knew about as a child but learnt about later when I had children of my own. Lots of their friends were given it by parents who had had it as children. Not appealing to me, as a child or an adult!0 -
Here is my weird fried list, that even I don't understand
- Fried Butter (Iowa)
- Fried Pig Ears (Minnesota)
- Fried Beer (Texas)
- Fried Kool Aid (California)
- Fried Ice Cream Cheeseburger (Florida)
- Fried Salsa (Texas)
- Fried Bubblegum (Texas)
- Fried Jelly Beans (Massachusetts)
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BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »
Known as ‘Fairy Bread’ in the U.K. - or parts of the U.K. anyway. Wasn’t something I knew about as a child but learnt about later when I had children of my own. Lots of their friends were given it by parents who had had it as children. Not appealing to me, as a child or an adult!
I googled it, but what I found is white bread with butter and colored sprinkles? Not my thing either.
While hagelslag can be sugary colored sprinkles, the real stuff (in my mind anyway) is chocolate!
I used to put it on bread with, instead of butter which I hate, nutella! Chocolate OD but so yummy 🙂0 -
Some Egyptian well know dishes, local,
Most of tourist luv to try when visit,
1. Koshari, mix of pasta, rice, black lentil, fried onion and u can add pees
2. Molukheya, veggie made with garlic and other species.
3. Falafel, u may heard about
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Any Dutch people? Hagelslaag (chocolate or candy sprinkles to put on toast) and dropjes (salted black licorice).
Not Dutch ... but my kids love Vla
Whenever I visit the Netherlands (usually to go sailing) I bring back some Vanilla Vla or Dubbel Vla.
Also Chocomel ...
Man I miss going to the Netherlands now ...
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goal06082021 wrote: »My best friend's partner J is English - the two of them came to visit me and my husband last year right before The Great Unpleasantness began, and when they got in the first thing we did was go grocery shopping. It was J's first time in the US, and they were really excited when we got to the breakfast aisle and they saw the 30,000 flavors of Pop Tarts. I think they bought three or four boxes, LMAO. They also had a good laugh at the "British Foods" section of the international foods aisle.
Rec for The Great Unpleasantness. I shall have to purloin this locution.
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BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »
Known as ‘Fairy Bread’ in the U.K. - or parts of the U.K. anyway. Wasn’t something I knew about as a child but learnt about later when I had children of my own. Lots of their friends were given it by parents who had had it as children. Not appealing to me, as a child or an adult!
I googled it, but what I found is white bread with butter and colored sprinkles? Not my thing either.
While hagelslag can be sugary colored sprinkles, the real stuff (in my mind anyway) is chocolate!
I used to put it on bread with, instead of butter which I hate, nutella! Chocolate OD but so yummy 🙂
Hagel is as different as can be from American “sprinkles”. It looks like them but the chocolate is really tiny bits of milk or dark chocolate. If you’re a chocoholic you’d go nuts over them.
For a low calorie dessert, I whip a serving of Greek yogurt with 7grams of sugar free white or chocolate pudding mix, chill for an hour and then top with a spritz of canned whipped cream and sprinkle 6grams hagel. Delish!
@am0000r I love falafel! My treat to myself before I got my vaccination a couple of days ago was falafel, pita and baba ganoush.
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The 50 dishes (really, 100, since they all have runner's ups) that best represent each US state.0 -
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The 50 dishes (really, 100, since they all have runner's ups) that best represent each US state.
Hmm. I can buy the pecan pie for Georgia. Although we’re both natives and while we love our biscuits, can’t stand them with gravy.
But what really caught my eye was the last line I happened to see as I scrolled down. Maine’s grilled cheese and apple sandwich just upset my lunch plans. I’m making that!!!!!1 -
Here in Pennsylvania, we have "chipped ham". Its basically super thin sliced deli ham (usually Isaly's brand). I don't know why, but it tastes different than thicker slices. A lot of people make hot chipped ham bbq sandwiches with it.
When I visited another state and tried to get chipped ham at the deli, they looked at me like I was crazy. That's when I realized that it was just a weird PA thing.1 -
This thread w/o pics is kill'n me.
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gsjrgrizzlies wrote: »This thread w/o pics is kill'n me.
I think you want the Happy Pi Day thread. OMG. That one hurt me to my heart.0
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