Local Foods?

[Floridaman999]

They soon found the SweatBreads on the clearance shelf.

 

[Minnesota!]

Lefse, hotdish, Jucy Lucy

 

[Skippy918]

Lefse, hotdish, Jucy Lucy

I had to google these.

We have regional things but not odd by any stretch. Breakfast tacos come to mind. You can buy them at Mexican restaurants or bbq joints.

 

[Breezy_Carol]

Steamed blue crabs.

 

[low-key]

JoJos

 

[TipsyTraveler]

Mambo sauce.

ETA: Whoops, I missed the part about it needing to be an odd food. There’s nothing odd about mambo sauce, except for maybe the ambiguous spelling.

 

[tallygirl]

Boiled peanuts.

 

[nene0182]

Lefse, hotdish, Jucy Lucy

Same here in North Dakota along with knoephla and kuchen.

 

[kimblebee]

can’t think of any off the top of my head..maybe honey dill sauce? Does anyone even know what it is?

 

[kimblebee]

Saw a can of something called spotted dick in St. Jacobs Ontario a few days ago.

Spotted dick is British. I *think* it’s like a wet cake.

 

[BLAZEY]

Nanaimo Bars. Yum! https://www.foodnetwork.ca/recipe/the-ultimate-nanaimo-bar/16810/

 

[Planogirl]

I think that most Texas foods are now available elsewhere. We do however have a large Czech area and their kolaches are to die for. I haven't seen these anywhere else yet.

 

[Floridaman999]

Spotted dick is British. I *think* it’s like a wet cake.

Spotted Dick/Wet Cake... Same/same? Both sound pretty darn terrible.

 

[Julie's Haircut]

Philadelphia Pepper Pot Soup, which is a hearty stew featuring beef tripe. My great-aunt Gloria used to make it on New Year's Day. I loaaaathe tripe, so I used to just eat around it because the stew itself was actually yummy.

Snapper (turtle) soup was also a thing in the Philly area. You're supposed to pour a little sherry wine over it before eating.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Spotted dick is British. I *think* it’s like a wet cake.

Spotted Dick/Wet Cake... Same/same? Both sound pretty darn terrible.

It looks somewhat like a cake but It's far more dense than a what we would call a cake here in the states. I think they refer to it as a sponge pudding. It's made from suet pastry dough and dried currants or raisins. It's nasty.

 

[amberpi]

Snapper (turtle) soup was also a thing in the Philly area. You're supposed to pour a little sherry wine over it before eating.

I love turtle soup. This sounds like heaven.

Around here, something kinda unusual and I believe to be unique to Appalachia/the south is red eye gravy and chocolate gravy. Red eye gravy is one of life’s simple pleasures. I really need to regain some weight so I may just start making batches and drinking it like a shake.

 

[amberpi]

It looks somewhat like a cake but It's far more dense than a what we would call a cake here in the states. I think they refer to it as a sponge pudding. It's made from suet pastry dough and dried currants or raisins. It's nasty.

I think it’s like the worst version of tres leche. The cake is wet without any of the good parts of tres leche. Yuck.

 

[#1hoosierfan]

We stay at a lodge at a state park in Indiana for a few nights around Christmas every year. They have cornmeal pie that I always look forward to.

 

[amberpi]

We stay at a lodge at a state park in Indiana for a few nights around Christmas every year. They have cornmeal pie that I always look forward to.

Omg! I used to spend a decent amount of time of in Indiana, I loved that pie. So much of the food was bland the deserts made up for it what state park? We might take the kids to a lodge for a quick trip.

 

[#1hoosierfan]

Omg! I used to spend a decent amount of time of in Indiana, I loved that pie. So much of the food was bland the deserts made up for it what state park? We might take the kids to a lodge for a quick trip.

We do Spring Mill State Park in southern Indiana.