What unique food comes from where you live? (pancakes, mild, homemade)

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by saramarie56

Yes, the infamous and very delicious Yooper pasties, from the Upper Peninsula of Northern Michigan. They are still a staple in that area and pastie shops can be found on every street corner up there. But, yes they were made for the Iron Miners to take down into the mines. A full meal rolled into a meat pie that stayed hot all day in their lunch buckets. So very simple and delicious. Easy to make once you get the crust mastered, and many variations are possible. But my favorite are simply gr. beef, potatoes, onions and carrots.

https://theyoopergirl.com/2015/02/tr...ooper-pasties/

In PA they were made for the coal miners. Sadly, there are no pasty shops. Mom used to buy them when the Welsh church was having a fund raiser.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by NW4me

Rice-A-Roni

I'm old enough to remember this.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzOR_Fal_SY

[pikabike]

Originally Posted by NW4me

Rice-A-Roni

I listened to an interview with a descendent of the guy who invented Rice-A-Roni, so, yes, it did originate in SF.

[pikabike]

From MA: Indian pudding, Grapenut custard, codfish cakes (savory, not sweet).

From SE MA, coffee ice cream and coffee milk (in half-pint cartons like chocolate milk), decades before the rest of the US had it.

Possibly switchel, though other regions might know it also.

From the Four Corners area, Indian frybread. Variants exist elsewhere—the recipes are different. Mutton stew?

[silibran]

In my present neck of the words, hazelnuts are grown, along with marionberries, which are supersized blackberries. Both of these are local produce.

[NW4me]

Originally Posted by Gerania

I'm old enough to remember this.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzOR_Fal_SY

Thanks... I recall that jingle now (it's odd what stuff sticks in our memory),
though I didn't live up here back then.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by NW4me

Thanks... I recall that jingle now (it's odd what stuff sticks in our memory),
though I didn't live up here back then.

I lived in Pennsylvania. I wanted to eat the treat from the exotic California. Mom served it once or twice.

We vacationed at the New Jersey shore in a town named Surf City. That only made it worse.

[Robinwomb]

wild rice is cultivated in the wild lakes and rivers of NE Minnesota, mostly by the Native Americans

blueberries and raspberries grow all over in the forests up here

Lake trout, rainbow trout, walleye, Lake Superior salmon, herring, perch, smallmouth and largemouth bass are abundant in the local lakes here

sunflower seeds/sunflowers are grown a lot in NW Minnesota

[GeoffD]

Here on the Massachusetts South Coast, it's Portuguese-Azores food. Linguica. A pork wet sausage with garlic, paprika, oregano, and a bit of vinegar that has been smoked. The default pizza topping is linguica. Azores chourico is the same but with cayenne pepper and in beef casing instead of pork casing so it's bigger. Malasadas. An eggy yeast dough hand pulled, fried, and tossed in granulated sugar. "Mal-shapen". Kale soup (Caldo Verde). Onion. Pork shoulder stock base. Beans. Linguica. Potato. Some cubes of the very tender cooked pork shoulder.

[magicshark]

Originally Posted by saramarie56

Yes, the infamous and very delicious Yooper pasties, from the Upper Peninsula of Northern Michigan. They are still a staple in that area and pastie shops can be found on every street corner up there. But, yes they were made for the Iron Miners to take down into the mines. A full meal rolled into a meat pie that stayed hot all day in their lunch buckets. So very simple and delicious. Easy to make once you get the crust mastered, and many variations are possible. But my favorite are simply gr. beef, potatoes, onions and carrots.

https://theyoopergirl.com/2015/02/tr...ooper-pasties/

We visited the UP for the first time last summer. We tried pasties and loved them with a little gravy. I tried whitefish for the first time too. That I also liked, well I liked it fried up in a sandwich. I wasn't too fond of the smoked whitefish.