LOL!!

GAYLE - what are King Cakes?

They are cakes that are made from New Years day through out Mardi Gras. Some are filled with different types of filling, they taste something like a cinnimon role. There is a little plastic baby hidden inside and the person that gets the baby has to buy the next cake. I'll try to find you a picture of one.

OHhhhhhhh!!
 

My company's LA sales rep (now retired) sent them to the home office every year, but I didn't know what they were called! We just always called them His Name's Mardi Gras cakes! :p

I don't know how far-spread it is, but the Mrs. Baird's Bread Factory is here in Dallas. It recently was purchased from the Baird family, but when I was a kid, we always went on field trips through the factory and they would give you samples of little white donuts and stuff. I think it is still the best bread you can buy.

I found out something funny in Idaho a few years back, I would order 'ice tea', and they would ask, 'tea, with ice?' I found it rather amusing. Maybe it was the confused look on their faces. :cool:

TEX MEX! Texas has the BEST Tex Mex food in the world!!! :D

LOL Possum pot pie?

I will agree there, TEX-MEX is my all-time favorite! (I also love chicken fried steak, but it gets harder and harder to find somewhere that makes it GREAT!)

Humm in the UP of Michigan I would say the PASTY is a "Yooper" food-
LOL I just went to a local website and it reads they are 'Yooper Soul Food'!!!
The are very good! They even make breakfast ones with eggs, hashbrowns, ham, cheese- they much better than anything from McD's or BK!

For those unfamiliar with this delicious treat, it is pronounced "pass-tee".

This is from a local webiste where you can order the awesome meals from-

"The traditional pasty had beef, potatoes, onion, rutabaga, and turnip, baked inside a golden crust. The Cornish miners, known as "Cousin Jacks" and their wives as "Cousin Jennys", are properly given the credit for bringing the pasty to the Upper Peninsula in the early 1850's when both the copper and iron mines were first being opened.
The version that arrived here in the 1850's was a hearty and hot, hand-held "no dish" meal for miners who had no time to come above ground for lunch. Some miners reheated their pasties underground; others kept them at least body warm in a chest pocket. Others set their pasties on a mining shovel and held them over head-lamp candles until warmed."

from this website--- check it out they are good stuff!
www.dobberspasties.com

:eek: :eek: Bama!!! Do you have any idea where I am drooling?!?!? Grand Junction, CO!!!!! Do you have any idea how far that is from Dreamland?!?!? ;) Oh ... I can definitely vouch for your BBQ recommendation!! :p

I have no idea what it would be for California. Although I love a fresh California Roll (sushi)

I not exactly what Taylor Ham is but make sure it's on a "Hard Roll" my brother moved to Georgia for 2 years and all they ever asked him is why he wanted to eat stale bread. :lol tears :lol tears

Don't forget Jersey Corn. And any food from the Boardwalk down the shore...Zeppolies, Sausage & Peppers and Dirty water dogs. (hot dog cart hotdogs).

Well, if you are in Austin, the best chicken fry is at Hyde Park Grill on Duval street.

I'm surprised he could even get Taylor Ham in Georgia!! My brother from SC was up here and ordered it and was shocked to find it wasn't regular ham!!

Hard roll is a term I never heard until I moved her. I remember the first time my husband ordered a 'hard roll n butter' for breakfast!! :eek:

I also had never had roasted clams until I moved here. Yummmmmmm

Oh but my dear, do not worry. They ship now from their internet site. You get it packaged and all you have to do is put it in the oven for 30 min. And I have had it and it is just as good as if you go to the little original hole-in-the-wall joint in T-town! (By the way, they have a new HUGE Dreamland there now...brand new!)

It's funny this thread was bumped up again!!

I was watching the Food Network this morning, and saw a show called Chicago Classics, about all the food specialties of Chicago.

They had the Chicago style hot dogs and featured a restaurant called Irvings for Red Hot Lovers.

Ever heard of it Kristy?

The other places they mentioned were Connie's for deep dish pizza, Robinson's BBQ, and Cliff and Buster's Maccaroons (sp?).

Of course I instantly thought of this thread! It all comes back to YT, doesn't it! :p

Bumping for Stewies Mom

Here in Northern Illinois it's the corn capital. A lot of towns have corn boils in late summer (about back-to-school time). We also have a lot of pumpkin celebrations along with pumpkin pies, pumpkin breads and cookies.

I'm originally from Trinidad&Tobago in the West indies (just of the coast of Venezuela). My beautiful island home is famous for Spicy foods like curried chicken, roti, and Pelaeau. Mmmmmm, now I'm homesick. LOL

SLT ~ I have heard of Irving's, though I've never been there.
Connie's is my most favorite pizza ever. I go there or order in at least once a month. Robinson's is excellent and I dated a guy who lived like 3blks from one, but I don't go there anymore because it brings back too many memories. lol. I am such a sap.
I had to google cliff and buster's and apparently Oprah loves them:
http://www2.oprah.com/presents/holid..._food_01.jhtml

Great, now I'm starving! :D

Alright, I am now drooling on the new keyboard and will probably have to go get another....

Allentown is famous for Yocco's hot dogs, just your basic dog with their special chili sauce. I was lucky enough to have one of the owners as a girl scout leader, so we had 'em at camp. You gotta eat about 4 and down 'em with chocolate milk. I have to bring them with me when I visit my uncle in FL or the door won't open.
I think I would trade for a Chicago dog in a sec.

Also, white birch beer, lebanon bologna and perogies are standard fare.

Kings Inn - seafood right on the beach at Riviera with secret tartar sauce that people all over the world buy by the qt and gallons and ship home. It has a guest register with people from Hong Kong, Washington D.C. etc., in it - REGULARLY.

It is good.

I like our texmex food too. The best of everything.

Ditto that!
Don't forget the fried chicken and watermelon

ok- Kristie you forgot Garrett's Popcorn!!!!! cheddar cheese, and caramel soooo yummy.

I am from so. indiana/kentucky
So of course there is the mint julip drink and derby pie.

We have another drink- SKI soda. it is citriusy and kinda like mountain dew/mellow yellow/sprite I don't know but it is the best. We also drink RC cola.

We only drink our tea sweet and if you order it at most restaraunts it comes already sweetened.

We always eat corn fritters they are kinda like hush puppies but sweet with corn on the inside and you eat them with honey.

zucchinni bread yum!!!

Apple butter.

Collard greens. fried everything-fried chicken, fried steak, fried pork chops, fried zucchini, fried cucumbers, fried mushrooms-the kind you pick yourself like morels, fried twinkies, fried potatoes and onions, fried green tomatoes, fried potatoe pancakes, fried catfish-eww I don't eat that. everything tastes better fried!!

I think that about does it.

I am a recent transplant to florida and enjoy eating alot of cuban food-like madurros-fried sweet plantains, black beans and rice, chicken milanasa or shredded pork with onions and that like lime juice, yuca, and cafe con leche.

Minnesota:

Wild Rice Soup... A store called Byerly's (sp?) makes the BEST wild rice soup EVER imaginable... YUMMY!!!