The Foods of Detroit

[filkertom]

Yeah. I still get Better Made chips, Vernors, Kowalski meats (just got a pound of their corned beef -- the only one I love as much as Zingerman's). I have to get out to the Guernsey Dairy for ice cream at some point, and I love going to Coney Island restaurants and devouring a Coney special (hot dog, seasoned ground beef, chili on a bun) and

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[hbruton]

There's a frozen custard place on Telegraph the Steins take me to that I"m compeletly addicted to. It's so rich and creamy and completely wonderful!

[solarbird]

Four Five from Cascadia:

Tim's Chips. So good, so bad for you.
Barrel nr. 51 BBQ sauce.
Siegel's Bagels. omg so good.
Dilettante Chocolates. Best chocolate sauces I've found in a store, setting aside everything else.
I forgot! Mighty O Donuts, the only cake doughnut I've ever genuinely liked. (I prefer the traditional kind, best exemplified in Seattle by Top Pot, but I'm trying to stick to 'available in stores.') They're goooood.

[banjoplayinnerd]

All of these, plus:

Aplets & Cotlets -- an Americanized version of rahat locum, or Turkish delight (and this company, founded by two Armenian brothers at the beginning of the last century, also sells rahat locum at least once in a while).

[dan_ad_nauseam]

And now, number one, the marionberry. The marionberry.

[solarbird]

...wait, what, they don't have those other places?

[laurensa]

When I lived in PA, visiting family and friends knew to bring us Vernor's and Pinconning cheese. Now that we are back in the A2 area, the only PA thing I really miss is Tom Sturgis pretzels.

Only been back four months, so Ihave not yet made it to Zingerman's, but it's on the list of things that must be done SOON!

[filkertom]

There's an Ann Arbor thing you should know about, and fortunately it's sold at Zing's and at Monaghan's Fish Market: Clancy's Fancy hot sauce. Like Tabasco, but with a lot more flavor. For that matter, wherever Tios has moved to is the hot sauce capital of the universe.

[banjoplayinnerd]

Tastykakes -- when my sister visited from south Jersey over Christmas one year several decades ago, I asked for a case of apple Tastykakes pies for Christmas. (She came through!)

[laurensa]

Nope. Hostess is better, Hostess owns my heart. We used to take the foil wrappers from DingDongs and make little tiny golf balls and clubs, and play golf on the breakfast bar.

[bayushisan]

It's Better Maid chips for me. :) They taste way better than Lays.

[alverant]

I'm in Chicagoland and there's a small brand of soda that makes a product called "Green River". It's a lime flavored soda that is VERY green (as in so much food dye your crap changes color for a few days) and is good. There's also a local brewery called Two Brothers. I don't like all their beers, but even the kinds I don't like I can tell are well made. It's not that watered down crap that's manufactured that dominate the market. And if you try a kind and don't like it, it's still good for cooking.

[jcw_da_dmg]

It's available at Wolfy's near California & Peterson.