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Specialties

Posted : 2/1/2007 2:27:45 PM

The wierd food combos thread got me thinking about foods that are common to your area. Maybe origionated there or are only available where you are.

I live in Thunder Bay Ontario Canada, and there are 3 specialties that come to mind.

Persians- a cinnamon bun like donut thingy with pink frosting. They make them with chocolate frosting now but the pink is traditional. It is slowly becoming available in other places but until a few years ago, no one outside of TBay had even heard of them.

SallyAnns- another cakelike thing. It looks like those little angelfoodcakes that you buy for individual strawberry shortcakes at the grocery store, but the hole is filled with some white icing stuff and then the whole thing is coated in a chocolate frosting. Very very rich but oh so good.

And lastly are the BonBons. You can get them at any Chinese restaurant but apparently they are not really chinese food. They are like a dry sparerib and you squirt lemon juice on them. They are really big here but I don't really care for them.

Coney Dogs are also big here, but I think it was a recipe that was brought from somewhere else.

So do you have anything where you live like that?

sharismom

Posted : 2/1/2007 2:31:08 PM

pickled bologna - I think I've only seen it in Michigan.

I don't even like regular bologna...

houndlove

Posted : 2/1/2007 2:37:07 PM

They don't call Pittsburgh Fat City for nothing. All of our specialties are totally horrendous health-wise.

There's the Primanti Bros. sandwich that I talked about in the other thread: a sandwhich with cole slaw and fries inside it as well as whatever sandwich filling you normally get. Closely related is the ever-popular french fry salad (a plate of french fries with a salad on top). I'm a fan, especially if there's ranch dressing involved.

Not unique to Pittsburgh but indicative of our ethnic heritage is a little bit of an obsession with pierogies. There are several pierogie take-out joints in the city.

There's also "chip-chop ham" which is one of those totally digusting processed "ham" loaf things sliced super super super thin.

And the entire world has Pittsburgh to thank for the Klondike Bar. It originated here.

huskymom

Posted : 2/1/2007 2:50:28 PM

Thank you Pittsburgh!

espencer

Posted : 2/1/2007 2:52:08 PM

Here in St Louis they have fried Ravioli

Benedict

Posted : 2/1/2007 2:55:15 PM

I would give my left eyeball to live in a place that has perogie take-out joints. [

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Nothing very special about here, we only have pork pies, which I hate, and red leicester cheese, which is not as good as some other cheeses. There are better places to live, food-wise.

Kate

mrstjohnson

Posted : 2/1/2007 3:03:44 PM

I am originally from Detroit and we have the Coney Dog and Vernors Ginger Ale (I think you can get it other places now).

huskymom

Posted : 2/1/2007 3:06:47 PM

is that where the coney dog came from? with the spaghetti sauce gravy type stuff on it, with the steamed bun?

Scout in Canada

Posted : 2/1/2007 3:22:17 PM

Here in Southwestern Ontario we have New York Fries, Taco Bell, Philly Cheese Steaks.... yeah, can't think of anything that belongs to us!!

labcrab

Posted : 2/1/2007 3:27:28 PM

What are "New York" fries? Here in NYC, I don't think we have anything uniquely ours. Everything is a rip off from some other place, ethnicity, culture, etc. Oh! maybe bagels, did bagels come from NY?

ksags411

Posted : 2/1/2007 3:29:45 PM

Cincinnati, Ohio has 2 that I can think of off the top of my head.

1. Skyline Chili. What's different about this is it's made with cocoa and cinnamon and we eat it over a bed of noodles and with cheese and onions on top. YUM.
2. Goetta. This is b/c Cincy is the sister city to Munich, Germany and we have a big German population here. Goetta is a breakfast sausage made with oats. Double YUM.

Scout in Canada

Posted : 2/1/2007 3:30:19 PM

ORIGINAL: labcrab

What are "New York" fries? Here in NYC, I don't think we have anything uniquely ours. Everything is a rip off from some other place, ethnicity, culture, etc. Oh! maybe bagels, did bagels come from NY?

New York Fries is a popular fast food chain here - they sell really tasty fries, the skin-on, greasy, spicy kind (with malt vinegar!! [

]). I wonder where the name came from?

sharismom

Posted : 2/1/2007 3:41:11 PM

ORIGINAL: huskymom

is that where the coney dog came from? with the spaghetti sauce gravy type stuff on it, with the steamed bun?

Coney dogs, to me, are hot dogs covered with chili and onions. Mustard optional

Oh! maybe bagels, did bagels come from NY?

There is nothing like a New York bagel, but I'm pretty sure they originated in Israel. I was there many years ago with the Navy and bagels in Israel are nothing like American bagels - they're huge and not so dense, don't look quite as much like a doughnut as ours.

gayle

Posted : 2/1/2007 3:54:12 PM

i thought coney dogs were from coney island.

the big thing in the upper peninsula of michigan is pasties, i dont like the real ones, they have rutabegas in them. i believe they are so popular because it is something you could just stick in your pocket and go off to work back in the day, which then it was all mining and logging.

huskymom

Posted : 2/1/2007 3:56:44 PM

ORIGINAL: sharismom
Coney dogs, to me, are hot dogs covered with chili and onions. Mustard optional

What!!! Thats just a chili dog... They must have come from somewhere else... On with my search then... Here the sauce is a coveted secret. No two places have the same taste exactly, but almost all of the locally owned diners have a version. Maybe it did come from here.