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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.

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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!)