What food does your home town specialize in?

Let's see, Hawaii, Kona to be more specific. I guess Kona is known for Kona coffee. But that's more in south Kona in the boonies where there are still plantation houses instead of downtown Kona which is like a small town. For the Big Island of Hawaii, I know Kairyu will say Hilo is known for locomoco, and in Hamakua it's Tex Drive inn for their variety of malasadas. Like strawberry malasada or ice cream malasadas.

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Dubuque, Iowa: Home of the Dressing Sandwich. In other words, people will take stale bread in the form of dressing (like for Thanksgiving) and put it between two pieces of bread.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Sheffield specializes in the Pork Sandwich. A sandwich where the inside of the breadbun is rubbed with pork dripping (fat basically). Filled with hot sliced pork, stuffing, apple sauce and crackling (more commonly known as pork rind). This is definately one of the more traditional Yorkshire foods, up there with fish and chips, though probably alot more localised in Sheffield.

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Pittsburgh, home of putting french fries on everything. From steak salad's to the world famous Primanti's Bros. sandwiches. Also, pierogies are pretty tasty, and there's a big Polish population here.

I was speaking idiomatically.

My hometown of Guadalajara, Jalisco in Mexico is actually well known for one delicious junk food delicacy (a fucking Mexican oxymoron, if I ever heard one) that is truly a chore to eat if you’re not akin to spicy foods: Tortas Ahogadas (Loosely translated it means “drowned sandwich”)



If anyone has ever had a “torta” you sort of know the basic construct of the sandwich. The difference with this one is that the bread is purposely hardened because they are made with only the bread, beans and pork “carnitas”. It is then fully dipped into a deathly-spicy tomtato-based sauce and left to soak for about 20 seconds or so. Since the bread needs to be somewhat hard when the sandwich is made, this actually softens it just a bit and is then garnished with tomatoes, ground pepper and lemon. Now, keep in mind that is a sauce so hot and spicy that it has made whimpering pussies out of the most boastful spicy food enthusiasts I’ve ever met. The secret, or course, is always in the sauce and there’s only one place here in the U.S. that I’ve ever been to that has come close to emulate that spice titan of a sauce and it’s in a tiny taco stand in East L.A. I only wish I could remember the name of it. :/

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This place in Philly I forgot to mention called Nifty Fifties has the best shakes in the world. They home make a lot of their ice cream and their shakes are just amazing.

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Jin would be right in saying that Hilo, Hawaii would probably be known for its LocoMoco. Because i have been to some places in the mainland, hell even japan that saidthey served locomoco's HAHAHAHAHAHAHA please!

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Paella. >_>

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

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Miami and Cuban Sandwiches. Shit, I just had a Medianoche, a modified cuban sandwich on dark, sweet bread.

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So this one time a Ballerina came to Perth and so this chef invented a dessert for her. Her name was Anna Pavlova so it's called Pavlova.

It tastes like what you would expect something named after a ballerina to taste like. Heaven


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New Zealanders will probably lie to your face about this, claiming to have invented it themselves. Just remember that these people are fucking idiots, Elixir a prime example.

In 6th grade, there was a world's fair. I had the New Zealand exhibit and after much research I decided to serve pavlova and peanut butter and banana sandwiches. People loved that shit.

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Originally Posted by Sonne

Miami and Cuban Sandwiches. Shit, I just had a Medianoche, a modified cuban sandwich on dark, sweet bread.

Those are Cuban? I was seriously under the impression that they originated from Puerto Rico. I had a friend in high school who was Puerto Rican and her mom used to make those when we'd have study groups at their place. It was lamb on a toasted and honey-sweetened bread, I think and I'm almost positive that they called them "medianoches".

What a trip... =o

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by XSO

Paella. >_>

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

Oh Paellera means in german Paella-Pfanne. I ate in former times already several times, it taste super! *yum*


From my home town:

Munich and Bavaria
Leberkäs' (meat loaf, doesn't contain liver), various dumplings, Käs'spatzen (pasta with cheese and roasted onions), Spanferkel (pigling), Spießbraten (skewered roast), Weißkraut mit Kümmel (white cabbage with caraway seed), Schwammerln (forest mushrooms with dumplings) mit Knödeln (forest mushrooms with dumplings), Leberknödelsuppe (liver dumpling soup), Nürnberger Rostbratwürstchen (roast sausages), Weißwurst mit süßem Senf (white sausages with sweet mustard), Brezn (Pretzel), Obatzder (spread made from camembert, butter and onions), Bayrische Creme (Vanilla cream), Strudel (filled cake made from very tin dough that's rolled), Nürnberger Lebkuchen (ginger bread from Nuremberg), Steckerlfisch (skewered trout, grilled).

The generally wide variety of food and drinks in Germany should include something for everybody. The advantage for diabetics is that they hardly have to limit themselves. In restaurants you'll always find light dishes as an alternative to the typically German meals, which indeed are quite substantial and contain a lot of fat; normally various salads and low-fat meat products are offered. Apart from that you will find international cuisine almost everywhere in Germany. So there's no problem if you need a little taste of home.
German bakeries offer a big choice of bread variety, so a diabetic can always choose between various wholemeal rolls and bread. Many ice cream parlours are also prepared for diabetics and offer ice with sugar substitutions.

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I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles where there exists a huge Taiwanese-Chinese population and because of that, the Chinese and Taiwanese food there was unbelieveably great.

Now this is not your typical Panda Express type Chinese food, this is the real stuff, Shanghai dumplings, Beef Noodle Soup, Cold Chicken Noodle Salad, Pork Chop Rice, Stir-Fried Rice Ovals, I can go on and on. It's tricky because while the shops there are a dime a dozen, you have to really know your stuff because there are great finds within the crowd of good but overall mediocre resturants.

That area is pretty much know for it's amazing Chinese food, Cantonese, Taiwanese and Chinese. In fact, it's hilarious because the food there is just as good if not better than the food I get when I visit Taiwan or China.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Being from Adelaide (SA, Australia), I have to say it would be the 'Pie floater' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_floater), which is essentially a meat pie in a thick pea soup. At a recent tourism convention/expo it was served to delegates and met with mixed reaction (not surprising) along with all the other regional goodies: wine, oysters, seafood etc.

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I'm from a town called Lilo-an in Cebu, Philippines



It's some sort of cookie/biscuit

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Originally Posted by taytsay

Dubuque, Iowa:

Oh wow...I remember reading that town's name in an orchestra presentation about Dvorak XD.

A dressing sandwich doesn't sound too appealing to me, but my parents go on and on about my grandma's stuffing at Thanksgiving...maybe it's a use for all the leftovers....

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Around here, in North Carolina, the big thing is BBQ'd pork. Most of the time, people here just cook a whole pig and slice it off while sitting at the table. In my small town alone there are around 5 places that specialize in the Carolina' style BBQ with the vinegar sauce. Lexington BBQ, only a half hour drive from here, is supposibly the best BBQ you can get...Anywhere. Even Bojangles has brought a BBQ plate to the table, however I am bet they do that elsewhere too.

Another thing my area is kind of known for are the 'carolina' style hamburgers. It's got chilli, slaw, and mustard and it's really good. When you order a hamburger at a local joint around here you get that, not a regular hamburger. Wendy's has even named a burger for us; the carolina classic.

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I live in a beach city, so a lot of our food is stuff that the surfers can get quickly before heading back out. We have a great Mexican restaurant right by the beach. They have some of the best burritos. We've also got a lot of pizza places and old diner style restaurants. People don't really come here for the food, though. they come for the "small beach town" aspect.

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Originally Posted by Capo

Pittsburgh, home of putting french fries on everything. From steak salad's to the world famous Primanti's Bros. sandwiches. Also, pierogies are pretty tasty, and there's a big Polish population here.

I found an awesome picture of this sandwich. Check it:



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Depoe bay seems to have several restruants each offering the "world's finest" clamb chowder.

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Originally Posted by Slash

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lol, it would be funny if you were one of my old friends from taft high...

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never went to taft...im in SoLame so yeah

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Not anything that I know of(I need to get out more -_-). Down here in the south, I often seen biscuits fly off the shelf like no tomorrow. I swear, as soon as we open(I work at a fastfood rest, no, not McD) people order biscuits like no tomorrow. Though i like to make my homemade biscuits from scratch.

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Here in Tucson? It's an Eegee, bar none. Kind of like this...umm...snocone? That's the closest approximation I can come up with. More of a combination of snocone and all-fruit smoothie. They have thing called 'flavor-of-the-month' plus two or three regular flavors.

Not bad, if I do say so myself. Definitely good when you're getting your wisdom teeth pulled (or any other dental surgery, for that matter).

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Here in St. Louis, we're apparently known for our toasted ravioli. I've heard that it's difficult to find anywhere else.

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