The Great American Menu: Foods Of The States, Ranked And Mapped

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What are the United States' best regional foodstuffs? Its worst? These are the questions that bedevil the mind of man—but no longer! For here, we have ranked them. Rigorously scientific (not), ardently researched (nope), and scrupulously fair (not even a little bit): this is the Great American Menu!
Each state (plus the District of Columbia) gets one, and only one, signature foodstuff. And we selected actual food preparations; no state gets credit merely for being the geographic location where a certain edible flora or fauna happens to grow or swim or graze. But enough of that bullshit. On to the rankings! (For a full-size version of Jim Cooke's map, click here (http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/193i6vu0pph9ejpg/original.jpg).)
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The Greats

1. Chicago-style deep-dish pizza (Illinois)
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Man is mortal. He frolics upon the grass of life for but a short season, and then is snatched back to the inanimate dirt of his origin. The Chicago-style deep-dish pizza, America's greatest regional foodstuff—all those toppings, good God so much cheese and meat, I can hear my heartbeat, this can't be right, it sounds like a goddamn chainsaw, can that be right?—will greatly hasten that day's arrival, but it will also fill at least a little part of at least one of those days with a transcendent, mind-boggling, outrageously indulgent sensory experience. This is the best thing any food can do, and certainly far beyond the capabilities of [stares daggers at New York] a sheet of soggy cardboard with a flap of waxy melted cheese stretched across it.
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2. Shrimp and grits (South Carolina)
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Shrimp. Grits. Tasty, satisfying, authentically South Carolinian. Perfect.
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3. Mission-style burrito (California)
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The Mission-style burrito is especially great because, nowadays, you don't have to go all the way to California to get a good one. In fact, you can even leave California at 125 miles per hour, screaming and crying because your organ systems are rightly rejecting the state of California like a grafted-on walrus tail because California is awful, and still get a tasty Mission-style burrito pretty much wherever you end up! This is because a Mission-style burrito is just a really fuggin' large burrito with extra rice and (figurative) shit in it. Mmmmmmmm.
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4. Crab cake (Maryland)
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As we've established (here (http://deadspin.com/how-to-cook-lobster-tails-a-guide-for-people-who-dont-5979160), here (http://deadspin.com/how-to-make-crab-cakes-that-actually-taste-like-crab-490509621), and here (http://deadspin.com/how-to-deep-fry-soft-shell-crabs-yes-dammit-deep-fry-679097367)), blue crab—particularly the Chesapeake blue crab—is the best of all ingestibles. However, the Maryland crab cake ranks fourth on this list, simply because so many of the various foodstuffs calling themselves crab cakes are really just mildly crab-flavored bread wads for ninnies, which are nonetheless priced as though they contain some quantity of actual by-God crabmeat measurable in units larger than the zeptogram. This means that the best way to obtain a genuine crabcake, rather than an OldBayseasoningandcrushedcrackerscake, is to make one at home—and, so long as you can find yourself a tub of crabmeat to work with, you don't have to be anywhere near Maryland to do that. (That's a good thing. Maryland drivers. Holy shit.)
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5. Peach pie/cobbler (Georgia)
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Peaches are good. Pie crust and/or biscuit dough are/is good. Good on ya, Georgia.
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6. Gumbo (Louisiana)
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Yeah, yeah, Louisiana also has the po' boy and the beignet, but really, those are New Orleans foods, and New Orleans already thinks more than highly enough of itself. Besides, neither of those is as tasty as Creole gumbo, which, factually, is the sole credible argument for not sinking that state into the Gulf of Mexico.
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7. Key lime pie (Florida)
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But what about the Cuban sandwich?!?!?!?! First of all, there's some controversy about the Cuban sandwich's origins: Either it is from Cuba, in which case it is Cuba's sandwich and not Florida's, or it is from Tampa, in which case it is not a Cuban sandwich and has a dumb name, in which case it sucks because things from Tampa suck because Tampa sucks. In any case it is not as definitively Floridian as Key lime pie, which originated in Florida and is made with ingredients—Key limes—that are native to Florida and nowhere else. (It also doesn't taste as good as Key lime pie. So there.) Anyway Key lime pie is very good and I don't know how we wound up talking about the Cuban sandwich this whole time so let's just move on.
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8. Fried green tomatoes (Alabama)
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... at the Whistle Stop Cafe, yawl! There is nothing to say about fried green tomatoes. They taste very good and you should eat some.
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The Goods

9. Stacked enchilada with green chile (New Mexico)
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This is really, really ****ing tasty. It loses some nonexistent points, though, for the notion that you can just leave the tortillas unrolled and pretend you've created a new foodstuff. That's horseshit, New Mexico. Horse. Shit.
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10. Marionberry pie (Oregon)
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Mmmmmmm, pie. Oh man. Nobody tell any Oregonians how high their state food is ranked, though. They can't fit any more self-congratulation into their busy schedules.
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11. Hot wieners (Rhode Island)
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I'm not gonna lie here. The name is a big reason Rhode Island's signature food is ranked so high. It's a tasty hot dog, too.
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12. Burgoo (Kentucky)
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Kentucky's signature food, a whatever-you-got stew that never tastes the same twice, gets a million imaginary bonus points for its wonderful communal nature: People just bring whatever ingredients they can, and everybody puts what they've got into the stew, and out comes burgoo, and that is just ****ing beautiful, even though in reality probably 78 percent of its ingredients were scraped off I-64 with a snow shovel.
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13. Pulled pork barbecue (North Carolina)
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Pulled pork is more reliably tasty than burgoo—that is to say, there's virtually zero chance of it containing a fistful of raccoon fur—but a lot less wonderful. Science.
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14. New England clam chowder (Massachusetts)
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Demerits for New England.
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T-15. Kansas City-style ribs (Missouri)
T-15. Memphis-style ribs (Tennessee)
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For real, they're the same shit. But hey, let's fight about it!
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17. West Virginia slaw dog (West Virginia)
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This is a hot dog with a chili-like meat sauce, mustard, and coleslaw on it. (Sometimes it has chopped onions on it, too.) Which, yeah, you can get variations of that pretty much anywhere, but West Virginians are serious about the coleslaw part. It's tasty. Like so much else in its home state, it is also low-grade, disreputable, and makes you feel kinda sad and gross if you think about it for too long.
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18. Chimichanga (Arizona)
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Somebody dropped a burrito into a deep-fryer and out came Arizona's signature food, which no one in Arizona eats, because half the people in Arizona are too old for solid foods, and the rest are on the run from white-supremacist paramilitary border militias.
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19. Frozen custard (Delaware)
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Suggested advertising language for your frozen custard shop: Frozen custard! It's just like ice cream, only not particularly significantly unlike it, and only preferable if you grew up with it! Bonus points for the fact that ice cream is yummy; demerits for just being ice cream with some egg in it.
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20. Texas-style barbecue brisket (Texas)
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Beyond the smoky tastiness of all barbecue, the virtues of the Texas-style barbecue brisket are as follows: It is very large. The end.
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21. Fried okra (Oklahoma)
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They both start with O-K, and they are both never better than that.
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22. New York-style pizza (New York)
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By rough estimate, there are 900 trillion pizza joints per person in New York City. Somehow, within this competitive environment, not a one of the purveyors of "New York Pizza" has yet considered the wild and crazy idea of maybe trying to do something—anything!—interesting with its pizza. Here is a comically large, thin wedge of dough with some indifferent, rubbery cheese smeared across it, and maybe a few greasy F-grade variants of the same bullshit toppings you can get on your lousy DiGiorno back in friggin' Topeka. Oooh, it's so New Yorky! In that it is overpriced and happy to coast along on a long-since-hollowed-out myth of Big Apple authenticity, just like everything else in this giant, bad-smelling amusement park for rich white people! New York pizza isn't even a genuine pizza genre. It's just lousy, half-assed pizza. Papa John's with a chip on its shoulder.
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23. Hot Hawaiian breakfast (Hawaii)
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This is Spam, eggs, and rice. Tastes like authentic cargo cult!
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24. Lobster roll (Maine)
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Here is a list of accoutrements cooked lobster meat does not need:
1) Bread
2) Anything else
Only Maine could turn lobster into a goddamn hot dog.
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25. Bull testicles (Montana)
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Oddly, bull testicles come in so low on the list not because of ew, cow nads!!1! (seriously, the weirdest thing about eating bull testicles is the bizarre interspecies gay panic—"I don't put no balls in this-a-here mouth!"—they arouse in the food-scared weenie population), but because, eh, they're just not all that exciting. What else you got, Montana? Come back with, like, eyeball pie or something. Cow-snot poppers. Braised asshole. Something really challenging. Welcome to Jeb's Montana Steakhouse! Try the heifer surprise: She gives birth right into your open mouth!
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26. Fried catfish (Arkansas)
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Fried catfish is pretty tasty, which is no small triumph, since catfish are pretty fuggin' grody. Still: Would you order the fried catfish off the Great American Menu? No. You would not. It would sit there on the menu forever, and you'd pass it over a million times—sometimes even in favor of certainly less pleasant-tasting but more adventurous stuff—and then you'd hear somebody at an adjacent table order it, and you'd go, "Oh, they have fried catfish here? Huh. I never noticed. Maybe I'll try that next time." And then you'd go right back to forgetting it existed, just like you do with Arkansas.
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27. Maple syrup (Vermont)
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Maple syrup is plenty tasty, but, c'mon. It's tree-snot reduction. Try harder, Vermont.
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28. Scrapple (Pennsylvania)
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But the cheesesteak mer m'mer Phiwwy cheesesteak mer! Shut it. The famous grease-and-garbage sandwich belongs to the city of Philadelphia, which A) is the worst place on Earth, and B) doesn't come close to representing the entire state of Pennsylvania. In a given day, 500 times as many Pennsylvanians are scraping possums off the motorway to add volume to their scrapple as are standing in line with the tourists in the Junior Varsity Metropolis to have a bucket of Cheez Whiz dumped onto a fistful of thinly sliced sewer rat. Your state food is this salty, greasy, gray, abjectly horrifying pig-rectum-mash, and, **** you, it is delicious.
(Also, a 9-year-old in her parents' kitchen could make a tastier cheesesteak in 10 minutes than any to be found in Philadelphia. Thhhppbbpbpbppbbp.)
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29. Corndog (Iowa)
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Who doesn't love a corndog? Nobody, that's who, and also idiots. On the other hand, when a region's entire concept of cuisine is to take ordinary foodstuffs (hot dogs, brownies, ****ing honey (http://www.iowastatefair.org/fair-attractions/food/on-a-stick/)), dunk them in batter, mount them on a stick, and deep-fry them, the successes (corndogs) tend to be shadowed somewhat by the excesses (deep-fried Snickers bars), the horrors (chocolate-covered deep-fried cheesecake), the oh-****-this-has-to-be-some-kind-of-goofy-Iowa-troll-job jobs (****ing deep-fried honey), and the lingering suspicion that Midwesterners suffer from a congenital lack of tastebuds.

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30. Cedar-plank salmon (Washington)
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I mean, it's salmon. Whoop-de-fuckin'-do. I like mine with extra board.
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31. Cowboy cookies (Colorado)
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The cowboy cookie is a chocolate-chip cookie to which someone wisely added rolled oats and shredded coconut, and to which someone else very stupidly added chopped pecans even though pecans are shitty. Neither pecans nor coconuts nor oats come from Colorado. Nor does chocolate. Nor do cowboys, really. You know what does come from Colorado? Confused looks and shrugged shoulders when you ask people what their state's signature foodstuff is. This is because, at any given time, 102 percent of the people in Colorado are vacationing Californians in bubble-vests and hiking boots. Real Colorado-types (Coloradans? Coloroadies? Colorectal cancers?) eat snow, and don't exist.
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32. Mud pie (Mississippi)
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This is essentially a pile of brownie dough floating in a gallon of chocolate syrup. It is delicious. Let's take this moment to remember that Mississippi leads the nation (http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/pdf/diabetesreportcard.pdf) in adult diabetes.
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33. Bratwurst (Wisconsin)
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The bratwurst is among the more boring and dumb tube meats, even before you penalize it for being a pillar of the beers, brats, and bros! triad of meathead tailgating culture. The authentic-replica-Bryan-Bulaga-jersey set like bratwurst because they're less interested in tasty food than in a large meat comma they can use to divide alcohol-abuse clauses. Be honest: Would you rather have another boring bratwurst, or a hot Italian sausage with sautéed peppers and onions? Or a grilled kielbasa with a pickle spear, sauerkraut, and grainy mustard? Exactly. Shut up.
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34. Virginia ham (Virginia)
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Truthfully, nobody in Virginia gives a shit about Virginia ham, which is just another friggin' ham, only with 900 times as much salt as all the other hams, which are already pretty fuggin' salty. It's not like Virginia is any hammier than any other state, really. In fact, it's probably less into ham than most of its Southern brethren. The favorite foodstuff of Northern Virginia is the gluten-free white-soy-chocolate-macadamia-nut biscotti at every insufferable chain coffee joint in the world; in southern Virginia, the most popular thing to cook, by far, is a large wooden cross.
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The Better-Than-A-Finger-In-The-Eyes

35. Fried pork tenderloin sandwich (Indiana)
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This is a crispy chicken sandwich, only with a big, chewy sheaf of salty pig in place of the juicy, marinated chicken breast. It is neither particularly interesting nor particularly original. It is the signature food of Indiana, which, of course it is.
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36. Half-smoke (District of Columbia)
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For those not familiar with the culture of our nation's capital, the half-smoke is a hot dog. Yes, it is. Sometimes it can be half beef and half pork; sometimes it can be smoked. Most often it is a steamed beef frank with some very lousy chili slopped over it. Always it is a hot dog. Never is it anything special. Yoda this paragraph wrote.
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37. Chicken-fried steak (Wyoming)
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Because, y'know, when you're having a steak, you definitely need some heavy breading and thick, greasy gravy to make sure you don't come away with an empty stomach.
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38. Finger steaks (Idaho)
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"For starters, we'd like the deep-fried steak poppers, please, and a pair of defibrillator paddles."
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39. Hamburger casserole (Kansas)
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The hamburger that you serve with a fucking ladle. Christ.
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40. Hotdish (Minnesota)
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This (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dish) is basically the same thing as Kansas's hamburger casserole—some meat, some starch, some mushy overcooked vegetables, and some canned soup, dumped into a deep pan and baked for a while—only with a name that makes it sound like Rod Stewart should be humping its leg in a London disco in 1974.
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41. Michigan pasty (Michigan)
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Michigan's signature foodstuff—meat and potatoes served in a portable bread-purse—goes by the name pasty as a means of associating itself with the pasty of England, as though the culinary traditions of that pallid, inbred, rain-soaked island shithole will vindicate what is essentially a calzone for people who hate and fear things that are good.
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42. Chislic (South Dakota)
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Picture a kebab (http://deadsp.in/17KoGDo). Can you picture a kebab? Meat, veggies, skewer, maybe some cucumber dressing and tasty pita bread or naan on the side? Fresh and flavorful and varied and exciting? Got it? OK. Now, eradicate that appetizing image from your mind, and replace it with a bunch of small cubes of greasy, chewy beef on toothpicks, sitting on a sad plate next to some plastic-wrapped packets of saltines. Congratulations. You have now pictured chislic, as well as everything you need to know about the culture of the upper Midwest.
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43. Green Jell-O with goddamn carrots in it (Utah)
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Come on, Mormons. Goddammit.
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44. Lutefisk (North Dakota)
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Lutefisk (Norwegian for "lye-fish") is a traditional Nordic preparation whereby dried whitefish is soaked in fucking oven cleaner for no goddamn reason for a long time until it is no longer dry, salty, and disgusting, but gelatinous and pungent and five trillion times as disgusting. There is no reason to eat it ever. There is no reason for it to exist. What the fuck is wrong with Nordic people.
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45. Salt water taffy (New Jersey)
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New Jersey's signature foodstuff is, quite literally (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_water_taffy#Origins), the result of a sarcastic asshole offering flood-damaged candy to a small child. It is chewy misery to consume, tastes terrible, and contains virtually nothing that any intellectually honest use of the language would permit to be described as food. Salt water taffy is an unhappy accident consecrated to history by the Garden State's lack of literally anything else to claim as its own.
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46. Handheld meat pies (Nebraska)
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These are homemade Hot Pockets. They are homemade Hot Pockets, and they are what pass for regional culture in Nebraska, the other other other corn state.
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47. Akutaq (Alaska)
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Say this for akutaq, Alaska's putrid mixture of whipped fat (usually vegetable shortening; traditionally blubber) and berries: What it lacks in, um, not being fucking disgusting, it more than makes up for in the rich lipids and antioxidants the hardy people of the Last Frontier need to get through their pitch-dark "days" of drilling for oil, hunting kidnapped prostitutes across the tundra, and starving to death in abandoned buses.
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48. Boiled dinner (New Hampshire)
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This is pretty much what it sounds like: You put a big wad of meat and some bland tuberous growths into a pot, cover them with water, clamp on a lid, and then parade around smugly barking about the importance of your dipshit state's presidential primary until the water has successfully annihilated any traces of flavor or character from your food, so that it can more closely resemble the people who will be eating it.
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49. Not having any authentic local culture to speak of (Nevada)
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Sorry, but "one's retirement savings" does not count as a foodstuff.
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50. A fucking steamed fucking cheeseburger (Connecticut)
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No foodstuff could more quintessentially embody Connecticut's rigorous commitment to blandness than a mushy wad of pulverized cow cooked in water vapor. You don't need a degree in American history to conjure up the almost certainly accurate image of some buckle-hatted Puritan twerp's Eureka! moment, when he discovered a cheeseburger preparation that promised all of the Caloryes of a Common Cheese-and-Burger, but None of the Curfed Pleafure, which Verily rots the fpirit and faps the Vigour of Man.
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Ohio

52. Cincinnati chili (Ohio)
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For the mercifully unacquainted, "Cincinnati chili," the worst regional foodstuff in America or anywhere else, is a horrifying diarrhea sludge (most commonly encountered in the guise of the "Skyline" brand) that Ohioans slop across plain spaghetti noodles and hot dogs as a way to make the rest of us feel grateful that our own shit-eating is (mostly) figurative. The only thing "chili" about it is the shiver that goes down your spine when you watch Ohio sports fans shoveling it into their maws on television and are forced to reckon with the cold reality that, for as desperately as you might cling to faltering notions of community and universality, ultimately your fellow human beings are as foreign and unknowable to you as the surface of Pluto, and you are alone and always have been and will die alone, a world unto yourself unmarked and unmapped and totally, hopelessly isolated.
But wait! This abominable garbage-gravy isn't just sensorily and spiritually disgusting—it's culturally grotesque, too! What began as an ethnic curio born of immigrant make-do—a Greek-owned chili parlor that took its "Skyline" name from its view of the city of Cincinnati—is now a hulking private-equity-owned corporate monolith that gins up interest in its unmistakably abhorrent product by engineering phony groups of "chili fanatics" to camp out in advance of the opening of new chains, in locations whose residents would otherwise see this shit-broth for what it is and take up torches and truncheons to drive it back into the wilderness.
Whatever virtue this bad-tasting Z-grade atrocity once contained derived from its exemplification of a set of certain cherished American fables—immigrant ingenuity, the cultural melting pot, old things combining into new things—and has now been totally swamped and consumed by different and infinitely uglier American realities: the commodification of culture; the transmutation of authentic artifacts of human life into hollow corporate brand divisions; the willingness of Americans to slop any horrible goddamn thing into their fucking mouths if it claims to contain some byproduct of a cow and comes buried beneath a pyramid of shredded, waxy, safety-cone-orange "cheese."
Cincinnati chili is the worst, saddest, most depressing goddamn thing in the world. If it came out of the end of your digestive system, you would turn the color of chalk and call an ambulance, but at least it'd make some sense. The people of Ohio see nothing wrong with inserting it into their mouths, which perhaps tells you everything you need to know about the Buckeye State. Don't eat it. Don't let your loved ones eat it. Turn away from the darkness, and toward the deep-dish pizza.

[notorious]

I have no idea what hamburger casserole is.


List Fail. Besides, Kansas and Nebraska have the best beef on Earth.

[Bugeater]

The fuck is a handheld meat pie? Are they talking about Runzas?

[cdcox]

If you are going to write about food you should at least like to eat.

[vailpass]

Chimicanga the food of Arizona? Oh hell no.

[listopencil]

Hell if I know. Some guy named Albert Burneko made this:

http://deadspin.com/the-great-american-menu-foods-of-the-states-ranked-an-1349137024

[notorious]

That guy is a dipshit on some of them.


Others are spot on.

[Aries Walker]

Maryland, people.

Maryland.

:rockon:

[Bearcat]

By rough estimate, there are 900 trillion pizza joints per person in New York City. Somehow, within this competitive environment, not a one of the purveyors of "New York Pizza" has yet considered the wild and crazy idea of maybe trying to do something—anything!—interesting with its pizza. Here is a comically large, thin wedge of dough with some indifferent, rubbery cheese smeared across it, and maybe a few greasy F-grade variants of the same bullshit toppings you can get on your lousy DiGiorno back in friggin' Topeka. Oooh, it's so New Yorky! In that it is overpriced and happy to coast along on a long-since-hollowed-out myth of Big Apple authenticity, just like everything else in this giant, bad-smelling amusement park for rich white people! New York pizza isn't even a genuine pizza genre. It's just lousy, half-assed pizza. Papa John's with a chip on its shoulder.

Heh, I've always wondered why there's hype around cutting a pizza into 3rds and being all "omg, you have to fold it!" Chicago style FTW.

[SPchief]

The fuck is a handheld meat pie? Are they talking about Runzas?

I don't think he is. If he was he surely would have mentioned the cabbage. Mmmm Runzas

[Cannibal]

Heh, I've always wondered why there's hype around cutting a pizza into 3rds and being all "omg, you have to fold it!" Chicago style FTW.

I prefer a thin crust with relatively modest toppings that you fold. But certainly understand if someone prefers their pizza 2" thick.

[Bugeater]

I don't think he is. If he was he surely would have mentioned the cabbage. Mmmm Runzas
Runzas are fucking awesome. They are one of a very few things I would miss if I moved away from NE.

I am curious as to where the hell he got that from because I have lived here for 45 friggin' years and have never seen anyone make anything like what he is describing.

[Cannibal]

I had no idea KS signature dish was hamburger casserole and like others above, I have no idea what the fuck it is.

[SPchief]

Runzas are fucking awesome. They are one of a very few things I would miss if I moved away from NE.

I am curious as to where the hell he got that from because I have lived here for 45 friggin' years and have never seen anyone make anything like what he is describing.

They opened a chain down here about 20 minutes from me and it's not even close to what they taste like up there. Strange

[Bugeater]

I'm thinking the hamburger casserole is like Sheppard's Pie, where you layer ground beef, green beans or corn, and top it with mashed potatoes and bake it. Great winter time dish.

[SPchief]

And homemade runza's are awesome.

[Fritz88]

I couldn't like the deep dish pizza.
I tried.
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[a pp roach]

43. Green Jell-O with goddamn carrots in it (Utah)
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/193i0qqm6yu4ipng/original.png
Come on, Mormons. Goddammit.


LMAO

[MOhillbilly]

My granddaddy loved goin back home for the family feeds especially the burgoo. Surprised it made the list tbh. Not something many people have ever heard about.

[Bearcat]

I prefer a thin crust with relatively modest toppings that you fold. But certainly understand if someone prefers their pizza 2" thick.

Sure, but I don't really get the "New York style" hype... it's just pizza. A really big slice of pizza. There's nothing unique about it.

[MagicHef]

He did a great job mapping them. Put 'em right on the states.

[Bugeater]

And homemade runza's are awesome.
We did them one time and they weren't good enough to justify all the work. Nzoner's wife made some a couple weeks ago that were pretty good, so maybe they're only awesome when I don't make them.

[MOhillbilly]

We did them one time and they weren't good enough to justify all the work. Nzoner's wife made some a couple weeks ago that were pretty good, so maybe they're only awesome when I don't make them.

My wife makes em and they are hard core good.

[Cannibal]

Sure, but I don't really get the "New York style" hype... it's just pizza. A really big slice of pizza. There's nothing unique about it.

I've never been to NY and tried it. But if I was betting, I'd have to assume its totally ****ing awesome.

[a pp roach]

He did a great job mapping them. Put 'em right on the states.

yeah. great job especially fitting that chili in ohio. makes perfect sense that he couldn't fit that one for oregon. oregon is so small.

[vailpass]

I've never been to NY and tried it. But if I was betting, I'd have to assume its totally ****ing awesome.

4 in the morning, you walk up and get a slice. Oh yes.

[Strongside]

Grew up in Kansas. Never even heard of a fucking hamburger casserole.

[bevischief]

I'm thinking the hamburger casserole is like Sheppard's Pie, where you layer ground beef, green beans or corn, and top it with mashed potatoes and bake it. Great winter time dish.

They love it up here.

[Bugeater]

Grew up in Kansas. Never even heard of a fucking hamburger casserole.
Well goddamnit I will take it then. You can have the fucking meat pies.

[SPchief]

We did them one time and they weren't good enough to justify all the work. Nzoner's wife made some a couple weeks ago that were pretty good, so maybe they're only awesome when I don't make them.

They are a pain in the ass to make

[NewChief]

Much better depiction of Arkansas that some bullshit 50 states, 50 sandwiches thing I saw earlier today that had us with a fried bologna sandwich, something I've never eaten in my life. Catfish is actually a major culutural touchstone in much of the state.

[Cannibal]

I'm thinking the hamburger casserole is like Sheppard's Pie, where you layer ground beef, green beans or corn, and top it with mashed potatoes and bake it. Great winter time dish.

I assumed the ground beef was layered over elbow macaroni.

[Simply Red]

Funny - Georgia peaches suck - I think Florida have much better.

[vailpass]

Funny - Georgia peaches suck - I think Florida have much better.

I've been to Athens. Certainly liked the Georgia peaches I saw walking around there...

[listopencil]

I will say that if you are from Virginia then you are going to really like ham, or there is something very wrong with you. Other than being from Virginia.

[Bugeater]

I assumed the ground beef was layered over elbow macaroni.
Nope, there are a lot of variations of it but no pasta.

http://img.foodnetwork.com/FOOD/2008/04/07/RB0104_Mummy-Boomes-Traditional-Shepherds-Pie_lg.jpg

[Simply Red]

I've been to Athens. Certainly liked the Georgia peaches I saw walking around there...

It's pussy heaven there. Surprisingly not lacking in the milf arena either.

[Cannibal]

Nope, there are a lot of variations of it but no pasta.

http://img.foodnetwork.com/FOOD/2008/04/07/RB0104_Mummy-Boomes-Traditional-Shepherds-Pie_lg.jpg

So that is KS's "sig" dish? I mean, it looks fucking tasty to me, but I had no idea that was our dish.

[Simply Red]

Nope, there are a lot of variations of it but no pasta.

http://img.foodnetwork.com/FOOD/2008/04/07/RB0104_Mummy-Boomes-Traditional-Shepherds-Pie_lg.jpg

Made in numerous times. It's a great dish. Tippins used to sell a Shepherds Pie entree offering.

[Simply Red]

So that is KS's "sig" dish? I mean, it looks ****ing tasty to me, but I had no idea that was our dish.

it's really a great winter treat, nothing nasty about it.

[Cannibal]

it's really a great winter treat, nothing nasty about it.

I said it looks "t a s t y", not nasty.

[vailpass]

It's pussy heaven there. Surprisingly not lacking in the milf arena either.

I was 21 at the time and...omg.
Unexpected.

[vailpass]

So that is KS's "sig" dish? I mean, it looks ****ing tasty to me, but I had no idea that was our dish.

I'm sure I'm missing something but how is it not bbq?

[Simply Red]

I said it looks "t a s t y", not nasty.

:#

My fault bud.

[Simply Red]

I was 21 at the time and...omg.
Unexpected.

wow so you're younger than me? I assume this because it was forever ago when I was 21. Always figured you to be fortyish.

[Bugeater]

So that is KS's "sig" dish? I mean, it looks fucking tasty to me, but I had no idea that was our dish.
The guy was obviously pulling stuff out of his ass on some of these.

[vailpass]

wow so you're younger than me? I assume this because it was forever ago when I was 21. Always figured you to be fortyish.

Oh yeah, I'm 47. This was a long time ago but the girls were hot, and willing...

[Cannibal]

I'm sure I'm missing something but how is it not bbq?


You're right, whether KS or MO, BBQ is the order of the day.

[Rain Man]

How can they claim that Nevada doesn't have a state dish? Nevada is the world capital of $5.95 prime rib.

[listopencil]

Nope, there are a lot of variations of it but no pasta.

http://img.foodnetwork.com/FOOD/2008/04/07/RB0104_Mummy-Boomes-Traditional-Shepherds-Pie_lg.jpg

We called that Shepherd's Pie. And it was good.

[prhom]

How can they claim that Nevada doesn't have a state dish? Nevada is the world capital of $5.95 prime rib.

Having lived in northern NV for a while, it's obvious the author never actually went there. The Basque food is great and is mostly steak based. Far better than the cheap buffets.

[Simply Red]

it's very easy to make, the art is in the assembly.

[In58men]

What the fuck is a California burrito? Never had one in my 27 years living in Cali.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

It's pussy heaven there. Surprisingly not lacking in the milf arena either.

How are the bangmaids?

[Fish]

Kansas native here. The fuck is Hamburger Casserole?

[demonhero]

What the **** is a California burrito? Never had one in my 27 years living in Cali.

?

2+ years in Cali and all I ate was Roberto's cali burrito.

[GloucesterChief]

I am from Virginia and country ham is a big deal. Smithfield ham is an ever bigger deal. I am guessing the creator had no idea how to soak the ham. You don't eat it right after you scrap the mold off. The flavor of the very best is very close to serrano and prosciutto. Country ham is fantastic, put in on a biscuit and it is heaven. That or eat it with some grits and redeye gravy.

[Frosty]

Salmon again. It really isn't that big of a deal.

My grandma used to make that green jello with shredded carrots in it that is mentioned for Utah. IIRC it also had pineapple. I never liked it.

I'm surprised Idaho's isn't potato based.

[listopencil]

What the **** is a California burrito? Never had one in my 27 years living in Cali.

You're missing out. Check it out on wikipedia.

[listopencil]

I am from Virginia and country ham is a big deal. Smithfield ham is an ever bigger deal. I am guessing the creator had no idea how to soak the ham. You don't eat it right after you scrap the mold off. The flavor of the very best is very close to serrano and prosciutto. Country ham is fantastic, put in on a biscuit and it is heaven. That or eat it with some grits and redeye gravy.

Yup. I was born in Newport News myself.

[Strongside]

I'm calling a revote. I think Kansas should be the Baconator.

[Bugeater]

Kansas native here. The fuck is Hamburger Casserole?
It's been covered in this thread.

[Bugeater]

I'm calling a revote. I think Kansas should be the Baconator.
Hell if Kansas gets that all to theirselves. That's America's burger.

[JohnnyHammersticks]

Colorado is Cowboy Cookies? WTF are Cowboy Cookies? The only cookies most Coloradans eat are the medicated kind.

The state food for Colorado is definitely Pork Green Chili. If you haven't had it, the next time you come to Colorado for some skiing and/or weed, you have to try it. Nothing better after skiing than a big bowl of Colorado Green Chili over a folded tortilla.

http://blog.pe.com/food-and-drink/2013/09/10/recipe-colorado-green-chili/

[GloucesterChief]

Salmon again. It really isn't that big of a deal.

My grandma used to make that green jello with shredded carrots in it that is mentioned for Utah. IIRC it also had pineapple. I never liked it.

I'm surprised Idaho's isn't potato based.

I lived in Washington for a couple years. Yes, the salmon was good. But the berry pies were even better. Blueberries, blackberries, and salmonberries grew all over the place in western Washington. You could just go out and pick them.

[Frosty]

I lived in Washington for a couple years. Yes, the salmon was good. But the berry pies were even better. Blueberries, blackberries, and salmonberries grew all over the place in western Washington. You could just go out and pick them.

I would think apples, cherries and/or huckleberries are more of a Washington thing than salmon.

[Frosty]

Ohio

52. Cincinnati chili (Ohio)
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For the mercifully unacquainted, "Cincinnati chili," the worst regional foodstuff in America or anywhere else, is a horrifying diarrhea sludge (most commonly encountered in the guise of the "Skyline" brand) that Ohioans slop across plain spaghetti noodles and hot dogs as a way to make the rest of us feel grateful that our own shit-eating is (mostly) figurative.

I have "talked" to quite a few people on-line that say they put chili over spaghetti noodle and I don't think they were from Ohio. Is that an East Coast thing or something. The idea makes me shudder but it seems a lot of people do it.

[Bugeater]

I have "talked" to quite a few people on-line that say they put chili over spaghetti noodle and I don't think they were from Ohio. Is that an East Coast thing or something. The idea makes me shudder but it seems a lot of people do it.
It's also called Spaghetti Red.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_Red

There used to be a place in Joplin, MO that was famous for it.

[GloucesterChief]

Its a Cincinnati thing. Its called chili but it is more akin to spaghetti sauce. The funny thing is I guess the creator didn't realize that the same chili that is put over spaghetti noodles in Cincinnati is the same thing that is on DCs half smoke.

[Frosty]

It's also called Spaghetti Red.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_Red

There used to be a place in Joplin, MO that was famous for it.

Ah - so it's a weird Midwest thing then. :)

[Bugeater]

Ah - so it's a weird Midwest thing then. :)
I dunno, it's certainly not popular here.

[Saccopoo]

Green Jello with carrots is awesome.

Fuck you philistines.

[NJChiefsFan]

Heh, I've always wondered why there's hype around cutting a pizza into 3rds and being all "omg, you have to fold it!" Chicago style FTW.

It's the taste. Chains and mid west( thin slice) pizza is a joke compared to nj/ ny pizza IMO. I'm biased but i thought that one was just anger about ny attitude instead of a legit breakdown of the regions pizza. I know some ex ny/nj people now in Midwest that crave real pizza. Maybe they are just biased too.

[Simply Red]

It's also called Spaghetti Red.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_Red

There used to be a place in Joplin, MO that was famous for it.

I duplicated Fred N Reds Chili Mac again.

[Simply Red]

like two weeks ago.

[Simply Red]

Green Jello with carrots is awesome.

**** you philistines.

Dat's Racial.

[listopencil]

Green Jello with carrots is awesome.

**** you philistines.


Sounds horrible and I like Jello.

[Simply Red]

Sounds horrible and I like Jello.

how do you feel about carrots?

[listopencil]

how do you feel about carrots?

I like carrot juice mixed with orange juice. Other than that I have no use for carrots other than as a filler in stews, soups, salads, etc. I am fairly sure that carrot would ruin the flavor of green Jello.

[Simply Red]

I like carrot juice mixed with orange juice. Other than that I have no use for carrots other than as a filler in stews, soups, salads, etc. I am fairly sure that carrot would ruin the flavor of green Jello.

Look I'm fine with all of that - I said nothing about it in relation to Jello.

Just chill out.

Do you like Shephards Pie?

[listopencil]

Look I'm fine with all of that - I said nothing about it in relation to Jello.

Just chill out.

Do you like Shephards Pie?

I am OK with Shepherd's Pie. I don't go out of my way to eat it. If you cooked some, and it was cooked well, and I were visiting you, I'd join you for dinner.

[Simply Red]

I am OK with Shepherd's Pie. I don't go out of my way to eat it. If you cooked some, and it was cooked well, and I were visiting you, I'd join you for dinner.

that's cool - i could throw one down too.

[listopencil]

that's cool - i could throw one down too.

Oddly enough it was the only thing one of my sisters could cook well as a teen.

[Simply Red]

Oddly enough it was the only thing one of my sisters could cook well as a teen.

LOL. Not really that odd. That's cool though, I know it sounds far fetched but my sister cooked it too - but I think she was in her thirties the first time.

[Iconic]

http://i.imgur.com/3oZbXF4.gif
Maryland we eatin'

[Strongside]

Hell if Kansas gets that all to theirselves. That's America's burger.

Well then I'm making my hamburger casserole with a Baconator.

[Aries Walker]

Maryland we eatin'
That's right.

Maryland.

:rockon:

[lewdog]

Yup, Testicles.

That does seem about right.

[chiefzilla1501]

It's the taste. Chains and mid west( thin slice) pizza is a joke compared to nj/ ny pizza IMO. I'm biased but i thought that one was just anger about ny attitude instead of a legit breakdown of the regions pizza. I know some ex ny/nj people now in Midwest that crave real pizza. Maybe they are just biased too.

I hate midwest pizza. Either thin crust or far too doughy. This guy's an idiot. New York Pizza is phenomenal.

Just because the guy doesn't like Philly, doesn't mean that the Philly isn't the obvious choice for Pennsylvania food. Is he fucking serious? I don't know if I've ever seen a sandwich shop outside of that area serve Phillys on that delicious bread with toppings like cheese wiz.

[FD]

I thought this was pretty terrible until I got to the rant on Cincinatti chili, then I loved it. Spot on.

[vailpass]

I hate midwest pizza. Either thin crust or far too doughy. This guy's an idiot. New York Pizza is phenomenal.

Just because the guy doesn't like Philly, doesn't mean that the Philly isn't the obvious choice for Pennsylvania food. Is he ****ing serious? I don't know if I've ever seen a sandwich shop outside of that area serve Phillys on that delicious bread with toppings like cheese wiz.

Genos. Without.

[frozenchief]

Agudaq in Alaska is disgusting when made with lard. I cannot imagine it with whale fat, although whale meat is pretty good. Seal and walrus are disgusting. The meat is tough and stringy and it tastes like rotten fish. Cincinnati chili is better than Agudaq*

Washington got salmon, which is bogus. Washington should get oysters and Alaska get salmon. You can say 'whoop-de-do', but nothing tastes better than fresh real salmon pulled from the river, still bright and silver from the ocean. With flesh a deep orange from eating shrimp rather than a neon orange from due pellets, fresh salmon grilled over a fire by a riverside while drinking a good Alaska beer (we have a ton of breweries up here) is hard to beat. It should be in the top 10. Sure beats some damn pizza.


Pronounced 'ah-goo-duck'. Pronounce quickly and in the back of your throw. For a isthe tic pronunciation, do not move your low jaw when saying the word.

[listopencil]

Is Cheez Whiz really such a great sandwich topping?

[vailpass]

Is Cheez Whiz really such a great sandwich topping?

Not to me but to many it is.
When you order a cheese steak in Philly you simply say "with" or "without". They know what you mean...

[listopencil]

Not to me but to many it is.
When you order a cheese steak in Philly you simply say "with" or "without". They know what you mean...

Ah, OK. I would put pepper jack on mine. Even mozzarella, or a sharp cheddar.

[The Franchise]

13 years in SD and I've never heard of or seen any chislic.

[vailpass]

13 years in SD and I've never heard of or seen any chislic.

Wtf is that?

[The Franchise]

Wtf is that?

No clue. Apparently it's beef cubes on a stick. I've never heard of it.

And I can vouch that chimichangas are not AZ's food.

[listopencil]

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A serving of beef chislic at a restaurant in Sioux Falls, SD.


Chislic (or sometimes chislick) is a traditional dish of cubed red meat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_meat) most commonly localized to the state of South Dakota (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota) in the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States). The term, while non-specific to any particular meat or seasoning, generally describes wild game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_%28food%29), mutton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutton), or beef (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef) which is deep-fried (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-frying) or grilled (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grilling), and served hot on a skewer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skewer) or toothpick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothpick).
Traditional chislic is mutton. Other meat are variations due to unavailability or lack of knowledge.

Etymology

The word chislic is likely derived from the Russian word of shashlik (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashlik) or shashlyk, which is cubed meat or liver grilled on a skewer with tomatoes, peppers, and onions. The origin of the word shashlyk is rooted in shish kebab (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kebab#Shish), the Turkish and Arabic words for skewered meats.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference">[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chislic#cite_note-1)</sup> According to some sources, chislic was introduced into the United States by John Hoellwarth, who immigrated from Crimea to Hutchinson County, South Dakota in the 1870s.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference">[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chislic#cite_note-2)</sup>
It can be made from a variety of red meats such as venison, bison, elk, lamb and beef. Originally, chislic may have been made from lamb or sheep, rather than the currently popular beef sirloin.
Preparation

Chislic is typically a simple preparation. Cubes of cut lamb, beef or venison, generally no bigger than a half-inch, are cooked in a deep-fryer. Generally, chislic is served medium rare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_rare) to medium—i.e. warm pink inside. After cooking, while the meat cools on a paper towel, it is seasoned with seasoned or garlic salt. The cubes are eaten hot using toothpicks.
Regional differences

Chislic may vary slightly in preparation from region to region.
In the Pierre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre,_South_Dakota) area, chislic is a marinated meat, dipped in batter and deep-fat fried. It has been offered as an alternative to Rocky Mountain oysters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_oyster). The marinades vary and are often family secrets.
In the Sioux Falls area, chislic, usually deep fried mutton, is a popular bar food to accompany cold beer. It is often served with salt, soda crackers and hot sauce.
In the southeastern South Dakota communities of Menno (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menno,_South_Dakota) and Freeman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman,_South_Dakota), chislic is generally prepared deep-fried in restaurants. The meat is almost invariably lamb, but wild game chislic, such as venison, may appear when in season. It is traditionally seasoned with garlic salt and eaten with soda crackers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_cracker). The small, blunt skewer - or sometimes a toothpick – usually holds five or six cubes of meat. The same dish is also served grilled when prepared for large groups, such as gatherings at community organization fund-raisers or baseball games during the Fourth of July. The grilled variety is sometimes cooked with a brushing of barbecue sauce (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbecue_sauce).
Annually in Freeman, SD, a chislic feast is held. Chislic can be found in Scotland, SD as well as other southeastern South Dakota towns. The local bars sometimes hold chislic feasts where more than 1200 sticks of chislic may be consumed.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;"></sup>

[vailpass]

No clue. Apparently it's beef cubes on a stick. I've never heard of it.

And I can vouch that chimichangas are not AZ's food.

Shish kebab?

And yeah, chimichangas? I can think of many before that fried thing...

[listopencil]

Shish kebab?

And yeah, chimichangas? I can think of many before that fried thing...

Looks like it is pretty much shish kebab with just the meat, served on toothpicks, traditionally using lamb, but other red meats are often (if not typically) substituted in the modern dish.

[The Franchise]

Looks like it is pretty much shish kebab with just the meat, served on toothpicks, traditionally using lamb, but other red meats are often (if not typically) substituted in the modern dish.

And in 13 years I've never seen or heard about it. My Mom's side of the family are all from there and still live there....and I've never heard them talk about it.

Sofa King would be a good one to ask....he's from there.

[vailpass]

Looks like it is pretty much shish kebab with just the meat, served on toothpicks, traditionally using lamb, but other red meats are often (if not typically) substituted in the modern dish.

I would the whole thing...

[Fish]

It's been covered in this thread.

Then it's fail for the wrong name. Not to mention the fact that Shepard's Pie hasn't been any kind of staple food anywhere in Kansas that I've ever known.

[Bugeater]

Then it's fail for the wrong name. Not to mention the fact that Shepard's Pie hasn't been any kind of staple food anywhere in Kansas that I've ever known.
Yeah I don't know where the author got that from, although I have heard it referred to as Hamburger Pie before.

[Raiderhater]

You're right, whether KS or MO, BBQ is the order of the day.

Or at least a fucking steak. Beef casserole? Has this guy even been to all fifty states? I mean saying that MO BBQ is the same as Memphis BBQ tells me this guy just did a (poor) Google search for most of this.

[listopencil]

And in 13 years I've never seen or heard about it. My Mom's side of the family are all from there and still live there....and I've never heard them talk about it.

Sofa King would be a good one to ask....he's from there.

I've never heard of it myself. I have lived in VA, TX, CO and CA.

[Bwana]

Yup, Testicles.

That does seem about right.

:D

http://www.gourmet.com/images/gmtlive/2012/051612/Rocky-Mountain-Oysters_608.jpg

[BlackHelicopters]

Ribs. Nice.

[ClevelandBronco]

Being Hit By A Car

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51. Being hit by a car
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Ohio

52. Cincinnati chili (Ohio)
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For the mercifully unacquainted, "Cincinnati chili," the worst regional foodstuff in America or anywhere else, is a horrifying diarrhea sludge (most commonly encountered in the guise of the "Skyline" brand) that Ohioans slop across plain spaghetti noodles and hot dogs as a way to make the rest of us feel grateful that our own shit-eating is (mostly) figurative. The only thing "chili" about it is the shiver that goes down your spine when you watch Ohio sports fans shoveling it into their maws on television and are forced to reckon with the cold reality that, for as desperately as you might cling to faltering notions of community and universality, ultimately your fellow human beings are as foreign and unknowable to you as the surface of Pluto, and you are alone and always have been and will die alone, a world unto yourself unmarked and unmapped and totally, hopelessly isolated.
But wait! This abominable garbage-gravy isn't just sensorily and spiritually disgusting—it's culturally grotesque, too! What began as an ethnic curio born of immigrant make-do—a Greek-owned chili parlor that took its "Skyline" name from its view of the city of Cincinnati—is now a hulking private-equity-owned corporate monolith that gins up interest in its unmistakably abhorrent product by engineering phony groups of "chili fanatics" to camp out in advance of the opening of new chains, in locations whose residents would otherwise see this shit-broth for what it is and take up torches and truncheons to drive it back into the wilderness.
Whatever virtue this bad-tasting Z-grade atrocity once contained derived from its exemplification of a set of certain cherished American fables—immigrant ingenuity, the cultural melting pot, old things combining into new things—and has now been totally swamped and consumed by different and infinitely uglier American realities: the commodification of culture; the transmutation of authentic artifacts of human life into hollow corporate brand divisions; the willingness of Americans to slop any horrible goddamn thing into their ****ing mouths if it claims to contain some byproduct of a cow and comes buried beneath a pyramid of shredded, waxy, safety-cone-orange "cheese."
Cincinnati chili is the worst, saddest, most depressing goddamn thing in the world. If it came out of the end of your digestive system, you would turn the color of chalk and call an ambulance, but at least it'd make some sense. The people of Ohio see nothing wrong with inserting it into their mouths, which perhaps tells you everything you need to know about the Buckeye State. Don't eat it. Don't let your loved ones eat it. Turn away from the darkness, and toward the deep-dish pizza.

Got that right. That shit is inedible.

[whoman69]

Best they could find for Iowa was a corndog? Did Michelle Bachmann write this article? The fried food craze only started the last few years. I think even those who started it know its stupid. They obviously never have been to Amana.

[vailpass]

Best they could find for Iowa was a corndog? Did Michelle Bachmann write this article? The fried food craze only started the last few years. I think even those who started it know its stupid. They obviously never have been to Amana.

The Amanas rock. I also could see pork tenderloin sandwich up there...

[Just Passin' By]

Then it's fail for the wrong name. Not to mention the fact that Shepard's Pie hasn't been any kind of staple food anywhere in Kansas that I've ever known.

Also, and admittedly being picky, what a lot of people in the U.S. call shepherd's pie is actually cowherd's pie, since it's made with beef. True shepherd's pie is made with lamb.

[Fish]

Also, and admittedly being picky, what a lot of people in the U.S. call shepherd's pie is actually cowherd's pie, since it's made with beef. True shepherd's pie is made with lamb.

Burn this bitch down.

[Psyko Tek]

I don't think he is. If he was he surely would have mentioned the cabbage. Mmmm Runzas

gawd damn it now I have to call mom and get her recipe, and fail at making them right
again

[chiefzilla1501]

Got that right. That shit is inedible.

You'd be amazed at how good Skyline chili is on a hot dog coney after a few (preferably many) beers.

[In58men]

Cali should be known for their wine.

[beach tribe]

You'd be amazed at how good Skyline chili is on a hot dog coney after a few (preferably many) beers.
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[scho63]

New Jersey has one of the GREATEST breakfast meats ever created! From Trenton NJ. Having a fried taylor ham and melted cheese on a hard roll with ketchup is a Jersey institution and tastes 1000s' better than Philly's Scrapple or Hawaii's Spam.


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[SDChiefs]

As poll

[Raiderhater]

You'd be amazed at how good Skyline chili is on a hot dog coney after a few (preferably many) beers.


NSFW

http://grooveshark.com/#!/now-playing

[listopencil]

NSFW



When I click on that it just brings me to a person's Groove Shark page. Is that a bad link or am I internetting incorrectly?

[DaneMcCloud]

It's the taste. Chains and mid west( thin slice) pizza is a joke compared to nj/ ny pizza IMO. I'm biased but i thought that one was just anger about ny attitude instead of a legit breakdown of the regions pizza. I know some ex ny/nj people now in Midwest that crave real pizza. Maybe they are just biased too.

We have dozens of excellent NY Style pizza joints in Los Angeles and I couldn't agree more. Unless I'm at a place like Mozza, I'll pass on any non-NY style pizza.

[DaneMcCloud]

Sure, but I don't really get the "New York style" hype... it's just pizza. A really big slice of pizza. There's nothing unique about it.

Have you had NY style pizza in NY?

[listopencil]

I'm not really picky about how my pizza is done but I do like a thin crispy crust. And I like large slices. That's not necessarily NY style, but NY style would certainly be fine by me.

[laughsatyou907]

Lived in Alaska for 15 years, never heard of that shit. Whale blubber eaten by natives is known as Muk Tuk (also a slur toward Native Alaskan Indians).

If it isn't a Salmon or Halibut dish, it's BS.

[Raiderhater]

When I click on that it just brings me to a person's Groove Shark page. Is that a bad link or am I internetting incorrectly?

Working fine for me. :shrug: I tried looking for it on youtube but no one seemed to have it. It's Ron White's bit on Cincinnati chili from hid Drunk In Public album.

[listopencil]

Working fine for me. :shrug: I tried looking for it on youtube but no one seemed to have it. It's Ron White's bit on Cincinnati chili from hid Drunk In Public album.

Ah, OK. I'll go look for it. He's a funny guy.

[Raiderhater]

Ah, OK. I'll go look for it. He's a funny guy.

He's one of my favorites.

[R8RFAN]

I've never been to NY and tried it. But if I was betting, I'd have to assume its totally ****ing awesome.

Me either but the best I ever had was a place called Ginos Real New York Pizza in Myrtle Beach SC

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[frozenchief]

Lived in Alaska for 15 years, never heard of that shit. Whale blubber eaten by natives is known as Muk Tuk (also a slur toward Native Alaskan Indians).

If it isn't a Salmon or Halibut dish, it's BS.

They eat Aguduq in the bush. It's as nasty as it sounds. Or as nasty as Muktuk. And I agree. We should get salmon not WA.

[R8RFAN]

2. Shrimp and grits (South Carolina) sucks
8. Fried green tomatoes (Alabama) good

[NewChief]

2. Shrimp and grits (South Carolina) sucks

WTF? Srsly? :spock:

[R8RFAN]

WTF? Srsly? :spock:

Yes... I have ate them in SC and they are not good to me... Thing is I love Grits and I love Shrimp but not together

[NewChief]

Yes... I have ate them in SC and they are not good to me... Thing is I love Grits and I love Shrimp but not together

It's one of my favorite dishes, but I will say that I prefer my recipe (which is just off tabasco.com) to a lot of the ones I've tried at restaurants.


http://www.tabasco.com/tabasco-recipes/recipe/379/shrimp-and-grits/

[R8RFAN]

Fried Grits are good

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[NewChief]

Best grits recipe, imo, involves making the grits with cheese like normal, then tempering with eggs/milk and pouring into a casserole dish. Then you bake it. It turns the "runny" grits into a more substantial casserole. When you put it in the fridge then reheat the next day, it's almost like a grit cake or something.

[NewChief]

Looks like this:
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[lewdog]

So what about those testicles. Anyone?

[listopencil]

Best grits recipe, imo, involves making the grits with cheese like normal, then tempering with eggs/milk and pouring into a casserole dish. Then you bake it. It turns the "runny" grits into a more substantial casserole. When you put it in the fridge then reheat the next day, it's almost like a grit cake or something.

I prefer corn mush, or polenta as it is called sometimes. It's a nice side dish fresh and solidifies quickly for leftovers. You can cut up the "cake" and pan fry it or bake it.

[vailpass]

So what about those testicles. Anyone?

Rocky Mountain oysters?

[listopencil]

Looks like this:
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I'm not sure of the consistency there. With polenta you can get any shape/size you want to fry or bake. Even polenta fries.

[NewChief]

I prefer corn mush, or polenta as it is called sometimes. It's a nice side dish fresh and solidifies quickly for leftovers. You can cut up the "cake" and pan fry it or bake it.

Yeah. I used to bring my grits to potlucks when we've lived in places other than the South and call it garlic cheese polenta because people seemed to have an aversion to grits there.

[R8RFAN]

I prefer corn mush, or polenta as it is called sometimes. It's a nice side dish fresh and solidifies quickly for leftovers. You can cut up the "cake" and pan fry it or bake it.

I bet you drink those International Coffees with your pinky stuck out too.

[listopencil]

Yeah. I used to bring my grits to potlucks when we've lived in places other than the South and call it garlic cheese polenta because people seemed to have an aversion to grits there.

I prefer regular old corn meal over hominy but I'd eat it.

[listopencil]

I bet you drink those International Coffees with your pinky stuck out too.

Yeah. Because corn mush is so high class. You're not really this dumb are you?

[listopencil]

Someone did this again:


http://sploid.gizmodo.com/the-delicious-map-of-the-dishes-that-best-represents-ea-1638008671

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[Rain Man]

That Maine lobster roll sounds really good.

[Mennonite]

Marionberry pie (Oregon)

As opposed to the Marion Barry pie (D.C) which, as everyone knows, is a hooker smuggling crack in her vajayjay.

[listopencil]

Funny thing, I had never had fried ravioli until my wife made it for me. I had always loved ravioli boiled with red sauce. I would even Chef Boyardee straight from the can. Now I prefer it pan fried in olive oil. I'll buy a bag of it (frozen) and just season it however I feel at the moment. My teenaged kids love it to, they cook it for themselves quite a bit. Is fried ravioli a Missouri thing? My wife was from Saint Louis, MO.

[rolltide2014]

Someone did this again:


http://sploid.gizmodo.com/the-delicious-map-of-the-dishes-that-best-represents-ea-1638008671

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And they apparently don't know the difference between Kansas and Nebraska...

[Rain Man]

And they apparently don't know the difference between Kansas and Nebraska...

no wonder I was having trouble finding the list for Kansas.

[Rain Man]

Funny thing, I had never had fried ravioli until my wife made it for me. I had always loved ravioli boiled with red sauce. I would even Chef Boyardee straight from the can. Now I prefer it pan fried in olive oil. I'll buy a bag of it (frozen) and just season it however I feel at the moment. My teenaged kids love it to, they cook it for themselves quite a bit. Is fried ravioli a Missouri thing? My wife was from Saint Louis, MO.

It's a St. Louis thing, but not a Missouri thing.

[GloucesterChief]

New Haven white clam style pizza (known as apizza locally) is wonderful. Garlicky,salty, and crunchy.

[listopencil]

It's a St. Louis thing, but not a Missouri thing.

Well it is delicious. Spinach and beef ravioli, pan fried to crispiness in olive oil, sprinkle on some Parmesan cheese and crushed red pepper (like you would put on a pizza) and salt to taste.

[BurtGummer44Magnum]

I would think apples, cherries and/or huckleberries are more of a Washington thing than salmon.

Salmon is more Alaskan, as is Moose and Caribou. The dish they listed is only eaten in the very north in few native villages where whale hunting is done.

[Rain Man]

Well it is delicious. Spinach and beef ravioli, pan fried to crispiness in olive oil, sprinkle on some Parmesan cheese and crushed red pepper (like you would put on a pizza) and salt to taste.

It's definitely something that St. Louisans are proud of. Oddly, I think I only had it a couple of times during my few years living in St. Louis, and I don't really remember it. But put the word 'fried' in front of almost anything and it's going to be good.

[listopencil]

It's definitely something that St. Louisans are proud of. Oddly, I think I only had it a couple of times during my few years living in St. Louis, and I don't really remember it. But put the word 'fried' in front of almost anything and it's going to be good.

Unfortunately for me, my mother was a horrible cook. My grandmothers were incredible though. On one side old school Southern farm cooking, on the other side Tejano ranch cuisine. Not one bit of pan fried pasta though as I recall.

[Frosty]

Salmon is more Alaskan, as is Moose and Caribou. The dish they listed is only eaten in the very north in few native villages where whale hunting is done.

It's just that people tend to think of fish with Seattle and also think Seattle = Washington, so therefore, we are all eating salmon, I guess. :rolleyes: Nevermind that we produce 70% of the nation's apples and are also #1 in pears. We also rank in the top 10% for milk production and wheat. Apple pie ala mode would have made more sense.

[Frosty]

It's just that people tend to think of fish with Seattle and also think Seattle = Washington, so therefore, we are all eating salmon, I guess. :rolleyes: Nevermind that we produce 70% of the nation's apples and are also #1 in pears. We also rank in the top 10% for milk production and wheat. Apple pie ala mode would have made more sense.

Also, we're the #1 producer of hops, so throw a beer in.

[BucEyedPea]

Hey! Demerits for New England? What's that all about?

They forgot it's also the home of the Fluffernutter and the Toll House cookie. That should raise the area a few more notches.

[BucEyedPea]

Marionberry pie (Oregon)

As opposed to the Marion Barry pie (D.C) which, as everyone knows, is a hooker smuggling crack in her vajayjay.

Geezaz! I had to look up marionberry. It's just a blackberry for gosh sakes!

[The Franchise]

Again with the chislic for SD? WTF....

[Frosty]

Geezaz! I had to look up marionberry. It's just a blackberry for gosh sakes!

Hardly

[BucEyedPea]

Also a New England Boiled dinner is just as much Bostonian, which is Mass as it is New Hampshire.

[GloucesterChief]

Rhode Island should be Coffee Milk.

[BucEyedPea]

Yes and Johnnycakes.

[BucEyedPea]

RI could be clam cakes too.

[TimBone]

So, I have a question about corndogs that's not worth starting a new thread, so I'm putting it here.

I've purchased two corn dogs in the last month, and both times the sales person asked me if I wanted any mustard or mayo with it. Mustard I understand. Mayo is where I have the problem. Is this a thing? Which of you disgusting fucks is putting mayo on a corndog? Am I missing out?

[listopencil]

So, I have a question about corndogs that's not worth starting a new thread, so I'm putting it here.

I've purchased two corn dogs in the last month, and both times the sales person asked me if I wanted any mustard or mayo with it. Mustard I understand. Mayo is where I have the problem. Is this a thing? Which of you disgusting ****s is putting mayo on a corndog? Am I missing out?

Mayo is gross. Use ranch if you have to.