I don’t mean even state wide food. I mean wholly localized stuff. Things that only exist in the corner of your state.
To give you an example, my favorite is brier hill pizza, in northeastern Ohio. It is in my opinion the greatest form of pizza in the US, and would be a national phenomenon if spread properly. To be honest this post was an excuse to share this…
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>It is in my opinion the greatest form of pizza in the US
Oh we’re gonna fight? NY get in here, CT you can come too
Garbage plate in upstate ny. More specifically Monroe county
California burrito in San Diego.
For those of you who don’t know, brier hill pizza was invented in youngstown, Ohio. It’s very heavy on sauce, has bell peppers, Romano cheese, and usually pepperoni. It’s also a thicker crust circular pizza, and is usually pretty heavy
She crab soup or shrimp and grits for the Charleston area. Tasted the former and it’s amazing, but a shrimp allergy has kept me from the other. Sometimes I feel like I’ve failed as a Charlestonian on a genetic level
You have Jimmy’s Italian Specialty and your blabbing on about Brier Hill?
Appalachian Seafood Pizza
Mission-style burrito 🤤
Cincinnati chili
Chicken Riggies from Utica, NY.
The only other thing native to the area is a small potato, boiled in salt. Hardly a claim to fame.
Shoo fly pie and scrapple ❤️❤️
All creole food
Creole
Specific dishes. Stuffed mirlitons, shrimp and grits, etouffee.
Tex Mex/New Mexican
New Mexican food. A awesome blend of Mexican food, indigenous food and some American mixed in.
I am not sure that I am aware of anything that location specific for my hometown.
Detroit style pizza or just a big whole lobster ready to crack open and drown in butter.
I’ll let you figure out the locations.
I’ve never had from there, but Primanti’s sandwiches look delicious.
Philadelphia’s because of the philly cheesesteak.
Teaberry Ice Cream
Mustard based BBQ. It’s mainly found in the Midlands of SC and is the best BBQ.
Colorado doesn’t really have much notable, especially here in the Springs, as unique to the area.
From back home, I find myself most missing being able to get a high quality dipped Italian beef on nearly any block in the city. I can barely even find Italian beef outside of Chicago
Seattle style teriyaki, tex mex, creole
South of Boston exists a bar pizza style understood locally as South Shore Bar Pizza and it’s greasy with cheddar and thinner crust and is amazing.
Sonoran hot dogs are good. And it’s not specific to AZ per-say, but Indian tacos are amazing. Fry bread is super common here.
In Florida I like the seafood.
All-Star waffle. eggs scrambled w/ cheese. bacon. hashbrown scattered, covered, and chunked. Toast.
Joking, sorta (that is my order at waho)
Best bbq I’ve ever had was a hole in the wall in Charleston. No idea the name of the place, but it had a bar in the center and they didn’t serve it on plates, only metal trays for the table. Think about it everyday. Maybe someone else can name it.
New England Greek pizza is a guilty pleasure of mine.
Northern New Jersey, taylor ham on Kaiser roll. A good snack at dinner, late at night when going home from NYC.
We’ve claimed the pimento cheese sandwich and tbh pimento cheese can be amazing when done right
Scali bread, and CT Greek pizza (specifically from the Willimantic/Willington area).