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View Poll Results: What "Minnesota foods" have you tried at some point in your lifetime?
Lutefisk 19 24.36%
Sylta 6 7.69%
Lefse 53 67.95%
Cheese curds 63 80.77%
"On a stick" meals at the State Fair 52 66.67%
Potica 2 2.56%
Hotdish 63 80.77%
Juicy Lucy 22 28.21%
Wild Rice 68 87.18%
Chow Champagne (Chinese dish probably invented in Duluth) 2 2.56%
Porketta 13 16.67%
Pasties 37 47.44%
Walleye (any kind) 64 82.05%
Walleye (beer battered) 55 70.51%
Sarma 2 2.56%
Sandwich Loaf 18 23.08%
Honeycrisp apple 48 61.54%
Vietnamese food 29 37.18%
Somali / East African food 15 19.23%
Hmong food 16 20.51%
None of the above 4 5.13%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 78. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 12-04-2011, 11:32 PM
 
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Pickled herring (which I personally detest) is my "okay I am going to spoil you rotten honey" treat for my husband. In all the years we have been married, no matter how broke we might have been, a small jar of pickled herring is an I love you and thought of you today gift.
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Old 12-05-2011, 08:40 AM
 
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I have tried some of them and I liked them.

Lutefisk is a no-no for me. I can't imagine putting a piece of jellied-like fish into my mouth and to possibly taste the lye (although the fillet was being rinsed out with water plenty of times). I don't know which I'm more scared of: the texture of the fish or the taste.

My grandpa loves pasties - he can't cook as much as he likes now due to macular degeneration. He would buy store-ready pasties in bunches so he can have mealy meals any time he want. He told me it was the biggest thing up in the Ranges back in the old times.
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Old 12-05-2011, 09:08 AM
 
Location: Home in NOMI
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Lutefisk comes from the Good Old Days before refrigeration, when your choices were either (a) fish that tastes like smoke and chews like leather, (b) fish that tastes like soap and chews like jello, or (c) starvation. Some choice!
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Old 12-05-2011, 06:59 PM
 
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Now that I'm in Pittsburgh, I miss a lot of these things. Coworker has a friend (somehow) who is a Swede (from Sweden) and knows lefse well. My family is Norwegian, although not very, and we always had it.

Mom used to make Turkey Wildrice hotdish. Best stuff in the world-- creamy and gooey and yummy.

Now that I've looked up Porketta on google, I realize she made that, too. Also looked up Potica...we have it at Christmas. I wonder how many of these I have had, never knowing they were a Minnesota thing, and never knowing their proper names???

I would nominate for the list: Puppy Chow, Booyah, Banh Mi sandwich, and the Hot ****.

Also-- and a final note-- Pittsburgh thinks itself the City of Pierogis (and it sorta is...) but the best I'd ever had were at Ukrainian Brunch on Sundays in a little Orthodox church in Nordeast. Several years ago, there was a Strib write-up on an artist who wanted to put a Pierogi sculpture on Central or University...wonder what happened to that...
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