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I am talking about foods that were very common and easy to find where you used to live, but cannot easily find in your new state.
For me, moving to Wisconsin from Colorado, it is Green Chile, which can almost be considered Colorado's "state food"! The only place we can find it here is at Costco.
And when we moved to Maine, all the packaged hot dog rolls were like folded sandwich bread. Could not find the "regular" hot dog buns anywhere!
I moved from Vermont and I miss creemees! Soft serve ice cream is still around, but it's not quite the same consitency and harder to find, I've found. And maple candy. Maple products, in general, seem to be much rarer and more costly outside Vermont.
Also whoopie pies, though those are more easily found.
I moved from Vermont and I miss creemees! Soft serve ice cream is still around, but it's not quite the same consitency and harder to find, I've found. And maple candy. Maple products, in general, seem to be much rarer and more costly outside Vermont.
Also whoopie pies, though those are more easily found.
Yep. I'll second that on the creemees. I never could figure out why Ben & Jerry's took off, when up the street was the UVM Dairy Science building with great ice cream, and a few miles down the road was the CreeMee stand in Williston.
Mince Pie is also a rarity in the south. UVM ice cream and mince pie? Oh, yeah.
We moved from NJ to FL, and found the pizza we missed at a pizzeria owned by other NJ transplants. Then we moved to Atlanta metro, where we found pizza made by another family of transplants, and bagels made by yet another. What I can't find here are Thumann's hotdogs, and I miss them. Boar's Head owns the southern market apparently. They aren't bad, nothing like average supermarket brands like Ballpark, but they don't quite measure up to Thumann's.
If you move from New York, you miss all food. They just do food better than anywhere. The melting pot melted and meshed and the results are incredible. Yes, there are the standards: pizza and bagels.
But it is everything: the hot dogs from the street vendors to the couture & ethnic restaurants.
I couldn't find good flour tortillas in the Midwest. They were all too thick and soft. The sourdough bread, also, was not as good as sourdough bread in California.
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Originally Posted by MerryDay
If you move from New York, you miss all food. They just do food better than anywhere. The melting pot melted and meshed and the results are incredible. Yes, there are the standards: pizza and bagels.
But it is everything: the hot dogs from the street vendors to the couture & ethnic restaurants.
If you move from New York, you miss all food. They just do food better than anywhere. The melting pot melted and meshed and the results are incredible. Yes, there are the standards: pizza and bagels.
But it is everything: the hot dogs from the street vendors to the couture & ethnic restaurants.
So true! Plus the "real" hot veggie subs and made to order salads at some deli's. And the real Thia, Chinese, etc. food. My HS had pretzel, bagel and veggie knish carts in the hallways. Cafeteria had everything you could imagine. I really miss my nyc food! Plus almost everywhere had a really good cheap coffee. Also the once a week farmers market had the best veggies and fruit. Way better than a food store, cheaper too.
Omg, how could I forget the 11PM softie ice cream truck?! Also had the best ice's!
Last edited by vabeachgirlNYC; 08-11-2021 at 07:33 PM..
I will have to look up creemees when I have more time - never heard that term.
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