What food is your area known for?

jujube said:
DO NOT get involved in an argument between two Tarheels from opposite ends of the state concerning barbecue. It won't be pretty.

Stay away from Texans "discussing" the merits of different ingredients for chili, also. You'll make enemies. "Y'know, I used to like Bob there until I found out he puts beans in his chili. Just can't be friends with someone who does that!"
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Yeah, chili can get political and so can cornbread, but no call for defriending, blocking, or ignoring over a hill of beans.
 

jujube said:
Oh my heavens....CORNBREAD WARS.

"Now, Honey, you don't wanna marry into a family like that.....they put sugar in their cornbread!"
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My father would say to my aunt, "This isn't cornbread, this is cake and it isn't my birthday." I still like both sweet and bitter cornbread. With chili, unsweetened and for desert, sweetened with lots of butter. I have sweet cornbread for my birthday every year, iced with a honey butter blend.

Another discussion is sweet iced tea. One reason I cannot ever go back to Texas is I HATE sweet tea. Take a hot humid day and then dump that toxic concoction on an otherwise happy tummy, and I was puking something fierce. In fact, I don't drink tea in any form. It reminds me of the tap water at one of my East Texas backwoods relatives, back in the day. The reason the English lost the war, was their drinking tea.

I suspect that the Texans lost at the Alamo because they were drinking sweet tea. Sam Houston won at San Jacinto, because he was drinking black coffee. You won't find this little tidbit of history in Texas history classes. It would offend too many Texans. :ROFLMAO:
 
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Deya said:
My father would say to my aunt, "This isn't cornbread, this is cake and it isn't my birthday." I still like both sweet and bitter cornbread. With chili, unsweetened and for desert, sweetened with lots of butter. I have sweet cornbread for my birthday every year, iced with a honey butter blend.

Another discussion is sweet iced tea. One reason I cannot ever go back to Texas is I HATE sweet tea. Take a hot humid day and then dump that toxic concoction on an otherwise happy tummy, and I was puking something fierce. In fact, I don't drink tea in any form. It reminds me of the tap water at one of my East Texas backwoods relatives, back in the day.
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Odd thing is....I have to have a little sugar in my hot tea, but I loathe sweetened iced tea. I'll die of thirst before I'll drink it, LOL.

I do love sugary colas, though.

I grew up drinking heavily-sugared iced tea as that was how my Southern-raised mama served it. It was hard to get used to unsweetened iced tea but I did and never went back.
 
OldFeller said:
I live in Pennsylvania where they have scrapple which is all the stuff they were going to throw away* but instead ground up and formed into a green brick with spices of some kind. Its then sliced and fried up and served for breakfast.

I loved it as a kid but as an adult, it gives me terrible indigestion. The taste isn't all that appealing to me anymore either.

*Scrapple is made from a mixture of pork scraps and offal, such as liver and heart, combined with cornmeal and buckwheat flour, along with various spices.
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Yes. Scrapple. I had to quote you so I could give my real thoughts on scrapple —————🤢🤢🤢🤢

I was raised in NE Ohio, close enough to the PA border to know what scrapple is. My area also had a strong population of Amish who were eaters of scrapple.

My parents were “waste not want not” and we had our own smoke house on the farm. Thank goodness scrapple was not on the menu.

It was bad enough dad thought I should eat the fat on a piece of meat. He made mom sit with me at the dinner table when he went to the barn to milk. She finely chopped the fat and fed it to the barn cats lined up at the kitchen door. Nothing got wasted and I lived another day without 🤮 up😇😇.
 
In SW Ohio, Preble Co. would be known for the Pork Festival. Their pork chops are wonderful.

Several years ago they stopped having the all you can eat buffet which consisted of the following: grilled 1" pork chops, smoked sausage, sliced ham, potato salad, 3-bean salad, cole slaw, applesauce, rolls/butter, orange drink, water, white & chocolate milk, coffee and for dessert no less than four different fruit pies.

Yes you walked in, but you rolled out & our days of doing a buffet are over with. We always ate first & then walked it off by going through all of the barns set up with all kinds of vendors. It's been several years since we been there, but I always enjoyed the fresh apple butter they made & sold.
 
Lilac said:
In SW Ohio, Preble Co. would be known for the Pork Festival. Their pork chops are wonderful.

Several years ago they stopped having the all you can eat buffet which consisted of the following: grilled 1" pork chops, smoked sausage, sliced ham, potato salad, 3-bean salad, cole slaw, applesauce, rolls/butter, orange drink, water, white & chocolate milk, coffee and for dessert no less than four different fruit pies.

Yes you walked in, but you rolled out & our days of doing a buffet are over with. We always ate first & then walked it off by going through all of the barns set up with all kinds of vendors. It's been several years since we been there, but I always enjoyed the fresh apple butter they made & sold.
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Why ever did they stop? I was all set to go!
 
gilead said:
I like all the above except what the heck is Apizza, is that a misspell. Coming from the NW, apples are a given. Honestly, never had lobster.
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You must go out and eat lobster immediately! I was 24 when I had my first, and it was a memorable meal. Still love it like crazy, it's my favorite food (I have champagne tastes on a beer budget!).
 
Deya said:
Not even a Georgia peach? :D
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Well, we have some of the finest peaches in NJ as well. When I was a child, I was blessed with having a peach tree right outside my bedroom window. Come the season, and I'd reach out and pluck a delicious peach off that tree. I might add, our corn is some of the finest in the nation.

Surprisingly, while my state gets a bad rap due to the major highways traversing the most unpleasant cities, most of New Jersey is indeed a truly beautiful state.
 
I tried boiled peanuts when we first moved to Georgia but never had them again. I have never had biscuits and gravy. I like collards and turnip greens. Most of the food around Atlanta is pretty standard
 
it's Cheese, thus Cheeseheads, bratwurst with or without sauerkraut, frozen custard which is somewhat like ice cream but smoother, brandy old-fashioneds with sprite or 7 up, friday night fish fries.
 
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