What's your favorite local/regional dish?

[MaxStout]

It doesn't necessarily have to be from your own locality, just something you really love that's usually found only in a certain region. Pasties, Detroit-style pizza, fish tacos, poutine...whatever floats your boat.

In the Twin Cities we have the "Juicy Lucy," a burger, usually served in dive bars, that has a chunk of cheese buried in the meat prior to cooking. When you bite into it, you get a rush of molten cheese in the middle. Messy, but very tasty. Some versions use bleu cheese or other varieties.

When visiting family in South Dakota, we sometimes go to a bar for a few beers and chislic--chunks of beef or lamb on a stick, deep-fried and served with cocktail sauce.

 

[hunter_le five]

My coonass half says gumbo.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Malaysian Rendang.

 

[Rhetorik]

Poutine; shawarma.

 

[JonM]

Bratwurst and/or kielbasa cooked on a charcoal grill. Milwaukee's finest.

 

[iijakii]

That's a tough question to answer as most foods you can find locally, praise be to immigrants. I guess one thing is in Germany when I visited this past summer there was just stupid amounts of various pork sausages I've never seen before. Absolutely delicious. Bonus points for a schwenker grill. Seriously though, there had to be at least a hundred different cuts of pork at the good markets.

 

[slym2none]

Eastern-NC style pulled pork BBQ. Really, whole-hog pulled pork, but those are rarer & rarer these days...

 

[bacgabe]

^^^ this. Eastern nc bbq is the best!

 

[mikeasu]

Cabeza or Carne Asada street tacos in Tucson - moved from Tucson to MD for almost a year now, and jonesing for some good mexican food...

 

[d3track]

Minneapolis- jucy lucy
WI - cheese curds
MO - fried catfish
New England - crab roll

 

[agrazela]

Fish tacos here in San Diego. And not using cod filet or some such crime against nature, but with just caught rockfish on corn tortillas, the way it was intended.

Blue crab boil back on the Chesapeake where I grew up.

Deep dish with the unmatched midwest sausage and green peppers when we visit the wife's folks in Chicago.

 

[m00ps]

Not my favorite, but I literally had squirrel gumbo the other night (see my location). Never thought id udder that sentence

it was expectedly gamey, but im pretty open to unusual foods

 

[m00ps]

@slym2none
I remember gouging on pounds of that stuff back in charlotte. There's a big BBQ competition where I am which last year had 87 different teams. I was surprised how similar the BBQ was here compated to what was around me in NC vs farther west or SC

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Ok. To the Carolina people. This comes from childhood memories but what southerner is worth their weight in salt if they don't know what a hush puppy is? I know there's a bunch of transplants but I asked a couple of people that claim to be from the south and look at me confused. I know it's just fried cornmeal but I loved those things when I vacationed down there. Are they a thing of the past?

 

[iijakii]

Love hush puppies. Anytime we'd do a big seafood boil we'd make up a batch.

 

[m00ps]

Ok. To the Carolina people. This comes from childhood memories but what southerner is worth their weight in salt if they don't know what a hush puppy is? I know there's a bunch of transplants but I asked a couple of people that claim to be from the south and look at me confused. I know it's just fried cornmeal but I loved those things when I vacationed down there. Are they a thing of the past?

I never encountered them until I moved down from VT but literally every BBQ joint had them. And it wasnt like just on the menu, they came with everything and they would force them into your face

 

[BreezyBrew]

Conch Fritters done right. Mmm.

 

[johngaltsmotor]

The one I get the worst withdrawals for is a nice Doner kebab in Germany. Nothing like some good mystery meat. Some fresh cabbage and onion, a splash of a few different spicy sauces and a whole big pile of meat off the cone... :rockin:

For those of you who haven't had the pleasure, the best analogy I can come up with is... Bud Light is to Pliny the Elder as an American Gyro is to a German Doner.

For all of the ethnic diversity in this part of the country Turkish food seems to be one of the few under-represented genres. I might have to get a leg of lamb to try to fumble together a doner cone while on vacation between Christmas and New Years now...

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Grew up in Chicago. Everyone knows about the deep dish and the hot dogs, but few people have had the Italian Beef sandwich. Heaven on bread!

When I visited Munich, I was introduced to Obatzda. Apparently putting mustard on a pretzel is an American thing. The Germans put Obatzda on their pretzels.

In Taipei, the Beef Noodle Soup (dark broth, I haven't tried the clear broth version) was phenomenal.

I haven't been to the Hunan province in China, but I've had authentic Hunan cuisine a few times. That's great stuff too. Loaded with flavor and spice. And their ribs... Oh, those ribs are amazing.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

In Taipei, the Beef Noodle Soup (dark broth, I haven't tried the clear broth version) was phenomenal.

We never left the airport, but on our last trip to Malaysia we had a short wait in Taipei where we too ordered the Beef Noodle soup.

And we've planned our next trip to stop in Taipei so we can do that again.

It was truely fantastic.

 

[Alpotun]

Grits.
With shrimp or crawfish or fried catfish.
Or just by itself.

 

[JonM]

Mmmm ... Shrimp & grits.

 

[drainbamage]

Local to me? Cincinnati chili or goetta.

Otherwise, this:

The one I get the worst withdrawals for is a nice Doner kebab in Germany. Nothing like some good mystery meat. Some fresh cabbage and onion, a splash of a few different spicy sauces and a whole big pile of meat off the cone... :rockin:

For those of you who haven't had the pleasure, the best analogy I can come up with is... Bud Light is to Pliny the Elder as an American Gyro is to a German Doner.

Drool.

 

[Yooper]

Pierogi.

My family had them often, for celebration type of things, along with golabki.

Labor intensive, and probably not a big thrill for people who didn't grow up with them, but Polish comfort food is the best comfort food around.

The church (near Youngstown Ohio) where I grew up had a pierogi kitchen and every Friday you could pick up a few dozen. They were ubiquitous, and still are in NE Ohio.

 

[jafo28]

Disco Fries, basically cheese fries with gravy on top.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

I loved the wurst (sausages) in Germany; especially the Nurnbergers from the vendors at Christkindlesmarkt in Nurnberg. I also miss the gluhwein from those vendors. There are some fairly close facsimilies here in the US, but they're just not the same.

I love sushi, and even though every US state has at least a couple of sushi bars/restaurants, it's a Japanese dish, so it counts. And apparently, mincemeat pie is a mostly midwestern thing here in the US. In 15 years, I've only encountered 2 people in ID & MT who knew what it was & nobody who actually likes it, except me. I'm originally from the midwest & mincemeat pie was always right next to the pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving & Christmas. My Grandmother always made kieflies at Christmastime, I've never seen them outside of IN.
Regards, GF.

 

[SharonaZamboni]

My mom always made mincemeat pie for Thanksgiving. Maybe it's an old-fashioned kind of pie.

 

[Beesnbeer]

Biscuits and gravy.
Fried bone- in pork chops.
Turnip greens.
Homemade skillet- fried pies.

 

[The10mmKid]

It's a SouthWest Ohio thang:

 

[MaddBaggins]

Cabeza or Carne Asada street tacos in Tucson - moved from Tucson to MD for almost a year now, and jonesing for some good mexican food...

Yep, and don't forget Sonoran Dogs. Sofa King good! Guerro Canelo, BK Taco, Taco Fish and all those other awesome dive joints on south 12th. Yum!
I'll go eat some for you next week.