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and other regional foods.

I love - Bananas Foster, southern fried chicken and biscuits 'n' gravy.
I hate - okra, crawfish and black-eyed peas
I'm indifferent to grits.

I love New England clam chowder - I hate Manhattan clam chowder.

What regional foods do you love, hate or find just meh?

What's bananas foster?

As for grits - hate it, hate it, hate it.

This ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananas_Foster

That sounds delicious.

I'm not a fan of Boston Baked Beans...mostly because I don't like beans in general. Anything else out of New England, I was pretty much raised on, and love.

Love southern biscuits, fried chicken, etc.

What regional foods do you loveEver had Low Country Boil, before?

(And you, young lady, seem to start a lot of these topics! :p)

I love Southern food in general. BBQ, biscuits and gravy, chicken-fried steak with mashed potatoes, ham hocks and red-eye gravy, collard greens, chitlins, catfish, all that stuff. Grits are also on the list, as is chili(do NOT put beans in it)

Ever had Low Country Boil, before?

(And you, young lady, seem to start a lot of these topics! :p)

No, I can't say that I have. Does it have something to do with seafood?

(Yes, I do start a lot of food topics, because everyone likes to talk about food and can do it without rancor. And, no, I'm not young - not old, but not young).

I love Southern food in general. BBQ, biscuits and gravy, chicken-fried steak with mashed potatoes, ham hocks and red-eye gravy, collard greens, chitlins, catfish, all that stuff. Grits are also on the list, as is chili(do NOT put beans in it)

My mother-in-law taught me a lot of Southern cooking, being, as she was, from Texas. She taught me how to make Tex-Mex chili - with beans!

My mother-in-law taught me a lot of Southern cooking, being, as she was, from Texas. She taught me how to make Tex-Mex chili - with beans!

Anything Mexican-influenced is going to have beans in it, because for the longest time, that was damn near all they had to eat. I learned to make chili in OK and points southeast, you put beans in it there, and someone's going to get cut.

Ever had Low Country Boil, before?


I thought with modern antibiotics it had more or less been eradicated

I thought with modern antibiotics it had more or less been eradicated

*rimshot (http://www.instantrimshot.com)* :p

I love Southern food in general. BBQ, biscuits and gravy, chicken-fried steak with mashed potatoes, ham hocks and red-eye gravy, collard greens, chitlins, catfish, all that stuff. Grits are also on the list, as is chili(do NOT put beans in it)

Amen brother Robert! Ya'll're making me down right HUNGRY!

My mother-in-law taught me a lot of Southern cooking, being, as she was, from Texas. She taught me how to make Tex-Mex chili - with beans!

Was she a transplant? Seriously, no beans in chili is as near a religious article of faith as Friday night HS football where I grew up in SE Texas...

Anything Mexican-influenced is going to have beans in it, because for the longest time, that was damn near all they had to eat. I learned to make chili in OK and points southeast, you put beans in it there, and someone's going to get cut.

Indeed.

As for local regional cuisine where I live now, okonomiyaki (savory Osaka style "pancakes") and takoyaki (octopus dumplings) are quite yummy.

Oh, and okra (fried up in cornmeal or put in gumbo) & black eyed peas are delish!

Regional food? Himmel un Ääd (sp?)! (Mashed potatoes, stewed apples and blood pudding)

Or what region are you talking about?

chili(do NOT put beans in it)

I am SaintB, and I endorse this message.

Ground beef, onions, green/yellow/whatever peppers, garlic, but not beans, please not beans.

Thanks to this thread I am now eating fried okra at 10:15 AM.

I am SaintB, and I endorse this message.

Ground beef, onions, green/yellow/whatever peppers, garlic, but not beans, please not beans.

*gasp* Ground beef??? Sacrilege! You never put ground beef in chili. You only put in chunks of real meat. You feed ground beef to the toddlers.

Though personally, as a born and bred Texan, I like it with ground beef, and I like it with beans. I even like vegetarian chili. There is no wrong way to make chili. It's all good.

My God I want some Crawfish, lol...Cant wait for the Crawfish Festival...

I love Grits as well, and fried Okra...



I thought it was interesting to note within the past two years or so, Ive picked up a taste for Sushi cause we've recently gotten a large influx of Sushi Bars...

And theyve put together a Crawfish Roll thats awesome, lol....I just thought it was odd, cause Crawfish isnt usually a food used with Sushi, at least to my knowledge...

*gasp* Ground beef??? Sacrilege! You never put ground beef in chili. You only put in chunks of real meat. You feed ground beef to the toddlers.

Yeah, ground beef is kind of cheating. At one point or another I've put in chicken, beef, pork, rattlesnake, alligator, groundhog, venison, buffalo, rabbit, and bear, but it's all been in chunks or pieces, not ground up.

I am SaintB, and I endorse this message.

Ground beef, onions, green/yellow/whatever peppers, garlic, but not beans, please not beans.

Yankees knowing how to make Chili I never thought I would see the day.

Never tried Okra or Grits.

but the rest are good...

except for the crayfish... after getting a couple for pets, i kinda lost my appitite for them. (creative little buggers they are...)

regional food?

Poi, Lomi Salmon, Lau Lau, Pipikaula, Kalua Pig... *Drool*

My God I want some Crawfish, lol...Cant wait for the Crawfish Festival...

I love Grits as well, and fried Okra...



I thought it was interesting to note within the past two years or so, Ive picked up a taste for Sushi cause we've recently gotten a large influx of Sushi Bars...

And theyve put together a Crawfish Roll thats awesome, lol....I just thought it was odd, cause Crawfish isnt usually a food used with Sushi, at least to my knowledge...

Crawfish sushi... definately not a standard.

Yankees knowing how to make Chili I never thought I would see the day.

Indeed.

Never tried Okra or Grits.

but the rest are good...

except for the crayfish... after getting a couple for pets, i kinda lost my appitite for them. (creative little buggers they are...)

regional food?

Poi, Lomi Salmon, Lau Lau, Pipikaula, Kalua Pig... *Drool*

Don't forget that poke.

Don't forget that poke.
I didn't. My mouth filled up with drool... Needed to take care of that first.

heck, everything that can fit in the catagory Pupus... (That would include poke.)

I'm a very picky person. I only like certain foods from every region. For example, I'm a downright sucker for chicken quesadilla, but I hate yellow rice and beans, and both foods are Tex-Mex.

This ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananas_Foster

OH.... I had that before! But I never could remember the name of it. Although, instead of vanilla ice cream, I had it with whipped cream.

Southern food is the best. Maybe not the best for the heart, but damned good otherwise. Fried okra is killer. Fried green tomatoes with a spicy sauce or ranch - I could eat a bucketful. Fried corn on the cob. Corn dogs. (Anyone noticing the pattern? :p) Fish fry. Short ribs. Pecan pie. Boiled peanuts. Rhubarb pie (this may be nationwide). Sweet tea with almost anything. The list goes on and on.

My mother-in-law taught me a lot of Southern cooking, being, as she was, from Texas. She taught me how to make Tex-Mex chili - with beans!

...as is chili(do NOT put beans in it)

I am SaintB, and I endorse this message.

Ground beef, onions, green/yellow/whatever peppers, garlic, but not beans, please not beans.

*gasp* Ground beef??? Sacrilege! You never put ground beef in chili. You only put in chunks of real meat. You feed ground beef to the toddlers.

Though personally, as a born and bred Texan, I like it with ground beef, and I like it with beans. I even like vegetarian chili. There is no wrong way to make chili. It's all good.

Yeah, ground beef is kind of cheating. At one point or another I've put in chicken, beef, pork, rattlesnake, alligator, groundhog, venison, buffalo, rabbit, and bear, but it's all been in chunks or pieces, not ground up.

Yankees knowing how to make Chili I never thought I would see the day.

So.... I put mushrooms in chilli....

My mother-in-law taught me a lot of Southern cooking, being, as she was, from Texas. She taught me how to make Tex-Mex chili - with beans!

There's Southern and then there's Southern.

I like chicken fried steak and cream gravy, fried okra, fried cabbage, collard greens, BBQ, fried chicken, etc.

I do NOT like ham hock soup, pigs feet, pickled giblets, lamb fries, rocky mountain oysters, chitlins, etc.

In Oklahoma our meat loaf comes with ketchup. (apparently in other places it comes with mushroom gravy?! wth?)

We make our cornbread in a cast iron skillet in the oven (we don't eat muffins unless they have fruit in them)

If it's not got grease in it, it's pretentious. :p

So.... I put mushrooms in chilli....

In Cincinnati they put spaghetti noodles. I'm a big proponent of "put whatever the hell you want in your chili, just don't expect me to eat it if it looks weird".

Oh, and I put kidney beans in mine, they have a good texture and it's one of the only ways the kids will eat them.

I am addicted to rommegrot. It's basically Scandanivian milk pudding.

New England clam chowder is, by far, the best regional food I've tried in the US. Oh, and those New Orleans's fried bananas. To die for. Rice pudding with tapioca kicks ass and, damn the English for the meat puddings and gravy! Now, I am hungry.

Thanks to this thread I am now eating fried okra at 10:15 AM.

Fried okra?

Fried okra?

It's an American southern dish.

It's an American southern dish.

I know what Okra is, it was one of the few food I could manage in Ghana when I had food poisoning, but I just can't imagine it fried.

I know what Okra is, it was one of the few food I could manage in Ghana when I had food poisoning, but I just can't imagine it fried.

It's the only way I that okra is tolerable. My mother-in-law cut it in chunks, then dipped it in an egg and milk mixture then in seasoned corn meal. It made it, barely, edible. I also like gumbo, though I eat around the okra (which is ironic, since gumbo means okra).

What's bananas foster?

It was the best ever flavor of Hagen Daz. But of course, being a great flavor, they stopped making it.

It's a really good desert on its own too, and learning to make it also taught me how to make chocolate pancakes and banana custard with brown sugar.

I know what Okra is, it was one of the few food I could manage in Ghana when I had food poisoning, but I just can't imagine it fried.

But fry it they do. It's actually quite good.

I know what Okra is, it was one of the few food I could manage in Ghana when I had food poisoning, but I just can't imagine it fried.

It's the only way I that okra is tolerable. My mother-in-law cut it in chunks, then dipped it in an egg and milk mixture then in seasoned corn meal. It made it, barely, edible. I also like gumbo, though I eat around the okra (which is ironic, since gumbo means okra).

Heheh. Fried or in gumbo is the only way I'll eat it. Over here in Japan it's often served raw, just sliced up in a bowl, or slightly boiled. http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/smilies/icon_kopfschuettel.gif

Fried okra?

I find it to be incredibly slimy and inedible when it's boiled. Fried hard though, with a little hot sauce? Delicious.

Cheese on toast.

Yankees knowing how to make Chili I never thought I would see the day.

I like cookin'!

So.... I put mushrooms in chilli....

I've done that too.

I put macaroni noodles in left over chili before.

Where are the recipes to go along with all these regional dishes?

You've got my mouth watering NSG and all I have available to me at the moment is chocolate

i love southern fried chicken, jambalaya, seafood gumbo from the US' South. i'd probably like more if i tried it... though i'm not sure about grits (if they're Souther USian)

Southern food? Ohh you mean like cakes that are not Eccles?

Southern-style gravy terrifies me.

Where I come from, gravy is made with seasonings and the juices from the meat in question. It is not opaque, and it is definitely not WHITE. What the crap.

This (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding) (people come from countries around the world to see Bury's version. There are always coaches outside the market filled with tourists.)

In my country, basil kidney beans are a delicacy. Any beans will do, but the kidneys must be from a south korean prostitute.

All dishes are more flavorful when spices are "found" in hijacked freighters.

Okra fried or in gumbo is heavenly, anything else is just sliiime!
Fried Green Tomatoes, skillet cornbread, corn casserole, baked sweet potatoes with just a dab of butter, grits with cheese, ham studded with cloves,...
Chilli, no beans - and chunks of beef, never ground.
Crawfish boiled and steaming as you 'bout burn your fingers peeling and sucking.

King Ranch Casserole...darn it now you all have made me want to go on a cooking spree, and that I can't do while I'm in this darn wheelchair

and other regional foods.

I love - Bananas Foster, southern fried chicken and biscuits 'n' gravy.
I hate - okra, crawfish and black-eyed peas
I'm indifferent to grits.

Southern: I love fried chicken, also real BBQ (made with pork). I got to liking greens when I was living in Georgia. Now I'm growing mustard greens, turnip greens and collards in the back yard. Sorry, I also like okra and crawfish--how can you not like crawfish?! Black-eyed peas, so-so, depends on what they're cooked with. As for grits, I never did acquire a tase for them, to me they're just a big mouthful of blah. Maybe the times I had them they weren't cooked properly.

One Southern item I never did like is boiled peanuts. Who the hell ever thought of boiling a peanut anyway?

Oh, and pretty much everything at Shoney's buffet.


I love New England clam chowder - I hate Manhattan clam chowder.

Pretty much the same. I also liked shakes, but I just called it chocolate milk 'cause that's what it is. Frappes too, but those are what the rest of the world calls "shakes".

I also liked scrod. Can't get much of that in SoCal :(

Where are the recipes to go along with all these regional dishes?

http://www.olsouthrecipes.com Knock yourself out. I'm in no way responsible though if you end up weighing 400 pounds. ;)

Southern-style gravy terrifies me. Where I come from, gravy is made with seasonings and the juices from the meat in question. It is not opaque, and it is definitely not WHITE.

Sausage gravy(also known as sawmill gravy)is white because it has flour in it. Red-eye gravy looks the way it does because it's made from ham drippings and black coffee.

Sausage gravy(also known as sawmill gravy)is white because it has flour in it. Red-eye gravy looks the way it does because it's made from ham drippings and black coffee.

When I was living in Georgia I was warned never to ask how red-eye gravy was made. :eek: