What food is your area known for?

RadishRose said:
What, no cheese?

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Wisconsin, as a whole, is known for its cheese, but dairy farming is quite rare up our way due to the short seasons. There is a fishery by Lake Superior that supplies quality non-farmed fish, however. Sometimes, I stop at the little gas station near the lake on the way home from fishing and buy some fresh lake trout filets if I don’t catch any myself.

But there are plenty of Cheeseheads around!
 
dilettante said:
Coney dogs (originated here, not on the East coast). Both kinds: Detroit and Flint style... thugh both harken back to the original from Jackson.

Pasties (the Cornish type). Some swear by gravy, heathens insist on ketchup.

Detroit style pizza.

Wet burritos. Best still come from the originator: Beltline Bar in Grand Rapids.

Superman ice cream, which uses Blue Moon ice cream.

Paczki. Polish, sort of like a filled fried risen donut.
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Coneys or snappy grillers are a Central New York staple too.

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Cornish Pasty

Due to the history dating back to 1860 when 6.000 men immigrated to Australia 🇦🇺 from Cornwall on the 10 pound
POM immigration scheme ( not my words ) those words are still displayed on a huge poster in the museum dedicated to the Cornish .
Men traveled here first to build a home for families ,homes were made from limestone and mud and very hard breaking work .

Many city dwellers travel up here to stock up on authentic traditional Cornish pasties

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againstthegrain said:
I sold fresh ID pots for 30 years.
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Every night the lab would sit out 5 selected gal cans of potato meal from the production lines. They would sample & test for quality stamp the can as OK or not, which were dumped, then me or the janitors would take the OK cans or disperse them to the night crew. When I moved back to Utah I had 3X5 = 15 gal of the meal to hand out to friends and family. The meal mixed with water expanded 9 times & made mashed potato servings. I don't think there were many bad cans. Normally the cans were sold & shipped to restaurant supply firms nationwide.

ADDED: I bought a few acres outside of Freedom, WY which happens to be less than 20 miles from the ID/WY border. Closest large (?) city is Blackfoot, ID. Right in the potato belt. It's still cold in the winters and only something like 80 miles from Idaho Falls. I guess you could say I've come home, And, they have one of the best 18 hole golf courses, them playing days are now behind me. We're thinking of selling out, moving to the west coast, Yellowstone is making making it harder to sit back and enjoy life.
 
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When I lived and worked in Detroit, it would be the American Coney Island or the Lafayette Coney Island. Any restaurant outside Michigan that claims to sell "genuine" Detroit coney islands is lying through its teeth. It's not an authentic Detroit coney island unless you're getting a wizened little dog smothered in greyish gravy and topped with onions and someone is screaming at someone else behind the counter. Don't want the onions? Tough! Scrape them off when you get to your table but don't let them see you do it. Detroit coney island restaurants aren't Burger King.....you either get the s.o.b. their way or you don't get it at all.
 
Aunt Bea said:
Salt potatoes.


Boil four pounds of small new potatoes in one pound of salt with water to cover until tender, drain and serve with melted butter.
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@Aunt Bea, I just posted a response to @katlupe in which I said I grew up in Syracuse. I love, love, love salt potatoes. We have them shipped out here from time to time because, as I'm sure you know, a particular type of potato is needed.

My area is known for a lot of foods that I personally can't stand, which is good because several of them are heavy and loaded with calories: kuchen, lefse, lutefisk, knoephla soup, and a host of other foods with complicated German names that I'm forgetting. Most of them are deep fried. I've never been a fan of German food.
 
Lots of Asian restaurants (Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese)
East Indian
Pizza
The non-chain restaurants will all include a variety of the above on their menus. You can get some very nice wine too.
 

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