Local foods

[Diddy_Mao]

I live in Utah, we're disturbingly notorious for being a bunch of bland fucks when it comes to our local cuisine.

#1 offender is "funeral potatoes." It's a potato casserole made with boiled potato, canned soup, cheese and crumbled corn flakes.

Also, "Fry Sauce." This is what happens when the locals decide "Ketchup is just too darn spicy, better cool it down with some mayonnaise." To be fair, I've seen it mixed with a dab of relish or make a shake of paprika...but it still tastes like a cup of hot sick.

 

[Barbas]

I can only assume that the USA has a ruined version of the pasty. That description doesn't match the (good) ones I've had, which have usually been awesome.

In Wales we got

Spoiler: Welsh Cakes

These usually have sultanas or raisins in but I prefer mine without.

Yes. Delicious.

Devon scones, with strawberry jam. Use them well, padawan, and beware the dark side.[footnote]Battenburg. Battenburg is the dark side.[/footnote]

In Wales we got

Spoiler: Welsh Cakes

These usually have sultanas or raisins in but I prefer mine without.

Spoiler: Cawl

This is a broth and I often have this at my local rugby club when watching the six nations. Best served with bread and cheese.

Spoiler: Laverbread

This stuff, I do not like. It's boiled seaweed. Ew...

You know what, I take some of the things I said about Welsh food back. That stew looks hearty. Reminds me of Cullen skink soup, a popular dish here in Scotland. From Cullen in Moray, it is a thick soup made of smoked haddock (preferably finnan haddie), potatoes and onions. Finger. Lickin'. Great.

Spoiler

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

As a resident of Cornwall, I will have to go with the pasty. They're great, traditional pasties, chicken, steak and ale, lamb and mint, pork & apple, steak & Stilton, bacon egg & sausage meat ...drool... Clearly you have been given an inferior American knock off

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

**SNIP**

For some reason I love pastys... don't know why.

Odd colloquial foods I've encountered:

Shit on a shingle - Chipped beef and white sauce on a piece of bread. Fairly decent. Not sure where it is from but it is common in American military families.

Cracked Conch - Hands down my favorite food and so damn hard to find done correctly. Its also difficult to find outside of tropical areas, and honestly I'd recommend outside of Florida or the Caribbean its probably best if you don't try it.

Potato pancakes are also cool but I don't know how common they are.

 

[Folksoul]

Live in the Okanagan valley, it's almost made entirely of orchard. Apples, cherries, plums, peaches, apricots, and grapes. (Ice)Wine, cider, and coolers for obvious reasons.

 

[TheSYLOH]

Singapore here.
Most of the "local" food is either Malay, Indian or some Variety of Chinese.
Malaysia and Singapore bicker over who invented dishes such as
Chilli Crab or Bak kut teh

But I'm fairly confident that Roti John is from Singapore.

Spoiler: Roti John

Its the kind of fusion cooking that occurs spontaneously, when you shove 4 extremely different cultures on an island and let it cook for a century.

Basically you take a Baguette layer it with minced meat (usually spiced Malay style) and cheese, then you grill it and then criss cross it with tomato sauce, chilli sauce and mayo.
It is exceptionally bad for you.

 

[ccggenius12]

If I remember my elementary school Wisconsin heritage lessons, a pasty is a flaky crust (roughly calzone shaped), filled with meat, vegetables, and the third ingredient, (differentiating it from pot pies) it uses lard instead of gravy. I'm sorry, but lard is what you use to make the crust flaky, not to add flavor and as the base for your filling.
Also, my mom's Filipino, so you guys have to top raw duck embryos. Good luck with that. It was featured on Fear Factor for crap's sake.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I live in Georgia in the US, so here we have...I dunno, boiled peanuts? I've only been here for a year so maybe I'm missing something.

I USED to live in Maryland where our big thing was Crab specifically Crabcakes and, crab soup.

Spoiler: a little bit of food porn