I'm basically omnivorous

Sep 06, 2008 13:21

Stolen from lotsa folks on my flist, created by dorkphoenyx :

The American Platinum: 75 regional American foods

1. Bold any you've eaten
2. Italicize any you've never heard of
3. Strike out any you'd never eat


1. Fiddlehead ferns
2. Purslane
3. Pawpaw
4. Moxie
5. Rhubarb pie
6. Pure maple syrup
7. Lobster roll
8. Corn pudding
9. Boston crème pie/ donuts
10. Scrapple
11. Pickled eggs
12. Birch beer
13. Apple butter
14. Shoofly pie
15. Whoopie pies
16. Fastnachts
17. Chow-chow
18. Black cherry wishniak
19. Pork roll (disgusting)
20. Cheese Wiz
21. Grits
22. Chicken fried steak
23. Red eye gravy
24. Tabasco sauce
25. Gumbo
26. Modjeskas (I've had these, I just didn't know what they were called until I looked them up.)
27. Spam
28. Poi
29. Poke
30. Cioppino
31. Muffaletta (I made this at home from a recipe I found.  I've never had the N'Awlins version.  Or the David Matheson version.)
32. Cincinnati chili
33. Buckeyes
34. Cheese curds
35. Ramps
36. Deep-dish pizza
37. Fortune cookies
38. Fry bread
39. Succotash (ugh)
40. Salt water taffy (Fralinger's was the only one worth eating, back when it was made with sugar not HFCS. now none of them are worth eating. :P  )
41. New England clam chowder
42. Hoagies
43. Manhattan clam chowder
44. Brown bread
45. Bagels and lox
46. Egg cream
47. Soft pretzels
48. Chitlins
49. Hoppin’ John
50. Key lime pie
51. Crawfish    I'd probably love them, but I can't get past the buggy look. 
52. Bread-and-butter pickles
53. Collard greens
54. Sweet potato pie
55. Fried green tomatoes
56. Boiled peanuts  (not that I'd ever eat them AGAIN.)
57. Bread pudding
58. Sorghum
59. Blackstrap molasses
60. Coffee with chicory
61. Burgoo
62. Maque choux
63. Hushpuppies
64. Red velvet cake
65. Sun tea
66. Jambalaya
67. Dirty rice
68. Étouffée
69. Boudin
70. Andouille
71. Turducken
72. Chimichanga
73. Lebanon bologna
74. Chicken and waffles
75. Butterscotch Krimpets (mmmmmmm Tastykakes)

ETA:  And now for my own additions to the list, because I'm a compulsive list-making freak:

76. Spiedies
77. Barley toys
78. Pecan pie
79. Pepper Pot
80. Brunswick stew
81. Coca Cola cake
82. Biscuits and gravy
83. Kipfels
84. Cornish pasty
85. Shad roe
86. She-crab soup
87. Hominy or posole
88. Snapper soup
89. Pickled peaches
90. Conch fritters or cracked conch
91. Navajo taco

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