Regional cuisine

The Tenderloin sandwich. It is amazing and delicious.

Handel's Ice Cream. It's been consistently voted as some of the best ice cream in the country. Perhaps more infamous though - and I'm sure they would rather downplay it these days - Bill Cosby loved it so much he would have it shipped to him.

We're also home of the Klondike Bar.

Fried eggplant with honey (and sometimes goat cheese as well)

Tailgate food: burgers, brats, and beer.

Mexican Food. Street Tacos. The Beef Dip Sandwich. Avocado on everything. Sushi everywhere.

Carvel-yum

Chicken wings

Flies.

Dirt.

Mission style burritos. Wine. Tri-tip sandwiches are also pretty popular. Mexican food trucks.

In and around Morgantown, where I went to school, Pepperoni Rolls are quite popular, and very much a regional item. It's more a West Virginia thing than in anywhere else. Also: hotdogs with hot chili, yellow mustard, onion, and coleslaw, are referred to as "West Virginia Style" hotdogs.

Anyone can make a Pepperoni roll or Pepperoni bread in the oven. Just need store bought pizza dough (or even pillsbury), pepperoni, and mozzarella cheese....Then roll it up, do an egg wash (just scrambled egg brushed on to give it that brown outside) and bake

what makes it awesome is that the oils from the cheese and the pepperoni bake into the bread. Can dip in marinara sauce

yes, i type fat.

Irish Potatoes are a philly candy that are distributed only around St Patricks Day.

Shredded coconut and cream cheese/sugar with a cinnamon dust

Brunswick stew, they even sell cans of it at 7-11.

R1 - are you in Des Moines?

Fried chicken with mumbo sauce Lox bagels Regional vegan soul food Banh mi

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Fried chicken with mumbo sauce

Lox bagels

Regional vegan soul food

Banh mi

R11, mustard chili onions slaw is known as Carolina style, either on a hot dog or hamburger.

SW Florida is such a transplant hodgepodge that the only "unique" culinary item I can think of is featuring grouper in fish items?

The freshest salmon, apples, Brown and Hailey candies (Almond Roca, Mountain Bar), Dungeness crab, 650 wineries (second largest wine-producing area in the country). Oysters, clams and geoduck.

Pizza strips, clam cakes, coffee milk and hot weiners

Faygo and Blue Moon ice cream

Steamed cheeseburgers.

raspberry creemees

maple syrup on snow

ben and jerrie's ice cream

fiddleheads

Poutine and Whoopie pies

I want that green soft ice cream cone. NOW!

R26 I did too, but vegan ice cream just seems wrong to me.

Mountain Dew soft serve sounds dreadful.

Italian Beef sandwiches

Deep dish pizza

Hot dogs with at least 7 toppings - but NEVER ketchup

Mixed caramel corn and cheese corn

Guess where I live.

r10 here. I forgot Gravenstein apples which make great pies, but they don't travel/keep well for long so it's definitely a regional thing.

r29 I am going there in 2 weeks! Can't wait to have some deep dish pizza.

I grew up in Southeast Michigan and never had heard of that ice cream before @ OP. We do have Superman ice cream though.

Coney Island hot dogs, Hani sandwich, Vernors Ginger ale, Saunders hot fudge, bumpy cake, better made potato chips, Detroit style pizza.

How could I forget my mothers favorite drink/dessert? The hummer!

Sydney rock oysters

R18 that may be what they call it in Carolina, but the WV hot dog goes back about 100 years, that's the way I had it as a kid and I haven't been a kid for 60 years. My pick for WV would be biscuits and sausage gravy, WV and NC are the few states that have restaurants dedicated to the biscuit.

r32 That Hani sandwich sounds delicious. I'm fond of most things in a pita though!

R12 Purists make their own dough. A lot of folks use frozen bread dough. Few use canned biscuits, because the flavor and texture are completely different. My personal favorite is the hot pepper cheese, and pepperoni version fresh from the oven.

The two are more or less the same, R18. Although it seems that the mustard is sometimes eliminated, or used as a substitute for the slaw in the Carolina style. Not so in West Virginia. All four ingredients must be present.

So, North & South Carolinians have the same great taste in hotdogs as West Virginians. But only where hotdogs are concerned. West Virginia doesn't treat their burgers in the same manner. BUT...there are many tiny little places to find great burgers within the state.

Where are 'loose meat sandwiches' popular? I've heard of them but have no idea where they started.

Loose meat:

Carroll Dietz of Missoula, Montana, created the precursor to the tavern sandwich in 1920, referred to as a "steamed hamburger."[3] In 1926, Fred Angell began selling his version of the sandwich at the first Maid-Rite restaurant in Muscatine, Iowa, under the name "loose meat sandwich."[4][5] The name "tavern" for the sandwich is credited to David Heglin. Heglin sold the sandwiches at his Sioux City, Iowa, restaurant in 1924. After Heglin died, Abe Kaled bought the business in 1934 and renamed the restaurant Ye Olde Tavern after the sandwich. Kaled perfected the recipe for the ground beef, and the tavern sandwich spread to restaurants and bars across the Sioux City area.[6][7]

The sandwich is now well known throughout the Midwestern United States, and is served not only in small, local establishments but also in franchise restaurant locations such as Dairy Queen and Maid-Rite. The Wichita, Kansas-based chain Nu Way Cafe serves a version of the tavern/loose meat sandwich called a "Nu Way".[8] In Illinois, the sandwich is also known as a "loose hamburger sandwich".[9] In Iowa, it is sometimes referred to as a Maid-Rite

Thanks, R39. I live in the Great Lakes region and thought I knew all about midwest favorites. That one slipped under my radar.

Breakfast tacos

BBQ Brisket

Migas

Chicken Fried Steak

Are loose meat sandwiches basically a dry Sloppy Joe?

Northern California - Cioppino, sourdough bread, street tacos, carnitas.

Cioppino is a tomato-based fisherman's stew featured in restaurants during dungeness crab season usually and contains shellfish mainly. Jars of the sauce start appearing in the seafood sections of stores in November.

R42 That's what it sounds like. The perfect sandwich if you want a hamburger but are too lazy to form the ground beef into patties.

Connecticut - the best pizza, including clam pizza and scamorza pizza.

r43 Other NorCal specialties: Joe's Special, Hangtown Fry, It's-It.

I totally forgot about Joe's Special! They served it in my dorm cafeteria back in the day. It looked gross. Boy, was I wrong.

R29. Hi, neighbor. I'll add flaming cheese (saganaki) which was invented in Chicago and pepper & egg sandwiches.

At the risk of losing my Chicago credentials, I really dislike deep-dish pizza. Luckily, we have decent pizza of every variety.

The Mexican food here is really good, too--from taquerias to Michelin-starred Topolobampo.

Ontario and other than peameal bacon we don't have anything. Lots of other region'/countries' food though.

R49, what about maple syrup? Smoked meats in Montreal? Beaver tails? Poutine?

Ontario. That's all French Canadian stuff and maple syrup is more like a product than "cuisine".

Montreal has Montreal bagels, Montreal steak seasoning, and smoked meat (like pastrami.) But I'm not from there.

[quote] Northern California - Cioppino ...

R43, I lived in SF and, except at Fisherman's Wharf, didn't see cioppino on many menus. Same with sourdough bread. Lots at Fisherman's Wharf, elsewhere, not so much.

I do love cioppino, though.

Yorkshire pudding

A Manhattan, Waldorf Salad, Oysters Rockefeller, Pizza, "regular" coffee.

^and cheesecake for dessert.

French Dip sandwich

Fortune cookies

Cobb salad

Orange Julius

Chinese chicken salad

In-n-Out Burger

Toasted ravioli

Cashew Chicken

KC barbeque

St. Louis style pizza

Gooey butter cake

Green River soda.

R57 well hello other Angeleno!

My state in the US is swimming with Dunkin Donuts shops. Also, Carvel in the eighties used to be a big deal around here - yes, I'm practically geriatric in gay years. My father, who rarely if ever smiled, only smiled when he was eating ice-cream.

Cafe con leche

Cuban sandwiches

Pastillitos

I could go on. I'm lucky enough to live in the shadow of Miami, so there is delicious Cuban food all over the place.

'Thanks, [R39]. I live in the Great Lakes region and thought I knew all about midwest favorites. That one slipped under my radar.'

It's not popular in the Great Lakes region. More in the central states.

Mountain Dew soft serve is a trashy enough concept. Add the fact that it has no dairy content whatsoever and it's monstrous.

I doubt very much that "vegan" means it's Tofutti.

Garlic fingers, donairs, Pictou county pizza (the tomato sauce is spicy and cooked longer so it is brown). The pizza is one of the few things I miss about Pictou.

R53 - Biba's in Sacramento always had seasonal cioppino. Unfortunately, they closed.

It is kind of an old timey dish, so I wonder if restaurant patrons aren't familiar with it. It also requires fairly expensive ingredients, so it's likely one of the highest priced dishes.

R66, as someone who has seafood restaurant, I can say that Cioppino and other stews or pan roasts are often put on the menu to use up pieces of fish that are on the cusp of getting old, thereby saving on food costs bigly. So while the price is usually high because consumers think it warrants it, the recipe/product itself often gets a mixed bag of old pieces of fish.

Calabash shrimp!

r21 Those pizza strips are known as tomato pie in NY and Philadelphia. They're cut into squares tho.

R67 do you make calabash shrimp at your restaurant?

Coddle. I haven't had it in years, but it's one of the few dishes associated with Dublin.

Cheers, R6, here's a pic. Wish I had some now.

Seafood, chowder, baked beans.