http://www.weather.com/health/americas-50-worst-foods-state-20130722
You always hear me complain I can't find a good Cuban sammich up North.
Oh, and what is this shit calling a gagger a Rhode Island hot dog? No, you fucking morons, it's a hot weiner or gagger! They're even shown on the wrong buns! :argh!: They're disgusting anyway. It takes a special palette to appreciate that local delicacy.
Other than that, all this stuff looks delicious!
Apparently that cinnamon chili monstrosity is Ohio's fault.
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on August 22, 2013, 06:30:50 PM
Apparently that cinnamon chili monstrosity is Ohio's fault.
Properly made Cincinnati chili is a masterpiece, but you're going to want someone from Cinci to make it for you. I have a few recipes (neighbors in FL were from Cinci) but I can't get it right.
I just remember there was some chili thread in the recipe section where cinnamon was discussed like it's a thing that goes in there.
Texas,New Hampshire,and Maine are fighting for my love.
The first time I was served Cinci chili, I was given a plate with spaghetti and so much cheese I didn't SEE the chili. I was not expecting cinnamon and chocolate, either, and I think I had a freak out because it caught me so off guard. After a while us kids were begging the neighbors for it, though. You also need to know which way you want it, like 4-way or 5-way. It's an absolute delicacy to Cincinnatans, yet so freaking weird!
Quote from: Reverend What's His Bear on August 22, 2013, 06:40:46 PM
Texas,New Hampshire,and Maine are fighting for my love.
I wonder if I could find a way to ship you proper New England cider.
Ahhh, they didn't forget the old Hawaiian standby: Spam. :lulz:
Our bus to the senior prom had to take a detour to the venue... because the local Spam Festival was in the way.
Alty needs to come in here and tell us about that Eskimo ice cream crap. I'm both horrified and totally intrigued.
I should also mention that RI hot wieners are not classified as a food product by the FDA and cannot be sold outside of state lines. This is why I refuse to eat them. That, and how they are properly garnished. This is called the "New York System."
The order is as thus and cannot be changed: bun-wiener-mustard-meat sauce-onions-celery salt. Some people love them, I've had my "3 all the way" and felt like death warmed over.
(http://s3.amazonaws.com/foodspotting-ec2/reviews/1915909/thumb_600.jpg?1339984706?1377193816)
OH LORD CONEY ISLAND IN WORCESTER DOES THE MEAT SAUCE THING AND THEY'RE BOTH THE BEST AND THE WORST THINGS IVE EVER EATEN
Quote from: Suu on August 22, 2013, 06:45:11 PM
The first time I was served Cinci chili, I was given a plate with spaghetti and so much cheese I didn't SEE the chili. I was not expecting cinnamon and chocolate, either, and I think I had a freak out because it caught me so off guard. After a while us kids were begging the neighbors for it, though. You also need to know which way you want it, like 4-way or 5-way. It's an absolute delicacy to Cincinnatans, yet so freaking weird!
Chili should always have cinnamon and cocoa in it.
I like the brisket charred ends. As long as the cider doesn't taste like a god damn salty pear I'm good.
Mole is not fucking Chili.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 22, 2013, 06:56:38 PM
OH LORD CONEY ISLAND IN WORCESTER DOES THE MEAT SAUCE THING AND THEY'RE BOTH THE BEST AND THE WORST THINGS IVE EVER EATEN
Wait...they let these fucking things out of the state?!
By the by...Rhode Island wieners have nothing to do with anything New York or Coney Island ever. I had a Coney Island hot dog, from fucking Nathans, AT Coney Island last Friday, and aside from making me want to cry in both rapture and in cheating on my diet, it was fucking glorious. Hot wieners are just...no. Same with coffee milk.
Wait, how did Autocrat NOT make this list?!
Quote from: Cainad on August 22, 2013, 06:45:28 PM
Ahhh, they didn't forget the old Hawaiian standby: Spam. :lulz:
Our bus to the senior prom had to take a detour to the venue... because the local Spam Festival was in the way.
Today I learned that they have "hot" and "garlic". In this age of "everything has to have 50 different varieties", I don't know why that is so surprising, but it was.
While both versions sound terrifying and intriguing, the "Alaskan Ice Cream" with reindeer fat somehow sounds much more appetizing than the Crisco version.
I am mildly confused about why "Low-Country Boil" was so awful (yea there were sausages in there, but compared to everything else on that list that sounds like a plate of celery sticks) when they spent the blurb saying that it usually wasn't that bad. I can only assume that it's because once things are removed from the boil, they are topped with pounds of butter and sauces.
While I have virtually no sweet-tooth anymore, and am pretty good about rarely indulging in fried foods (and chowdahs...Manhattan Chowder is blasphemy), cheese will forever be my downfall, especially cheddar. All I want to do is go to Alchemist Brewery, all the beer, then onto Cabot for all the cheese (better yet a chunk off a cheese
wheel from one of those country stores).
(http://pugwash.cat5.org/articles/munchy/images/munchy-640-2.jpg)
Fuck you guys. Now I'm hungry again.
I had some Cincinnati chili from a can that I found at a Kroger once.
That was cinnamon? I thought it was cloves.
Quote from: Emo Howard on August 22, 2013, 07:33:16 PM
I had some Cincinnati chili from a can that I found at a Kroger once.
That was cinnamon? I thought it was cloves.
Cloves are common, too. Each chili stand has it's own proprietary blend. Skyline does cinnamon and cocoa, and that's the chain I'm most familiar with since they have a place not far from my parents' house in Clearwater. (Lots of Ohioans in the area.) My sister and I occasionally go there to become wicked fat kids.
I believe it was skyline. I think it was a blue can.
Also, I've started referring to chili as "brown curry".
I'm a funny guy.
Adding curry powder to chili could work...
THAT IS A LIE ABOUT THE GRITS
A BALD-FACED LIE.
Quote from: FOCUS GROUP RAGEMONKEY OF HATE HATE HATE on August 23, 2013, 12:38:30 AM
THAT IS A LIE ABOUT THE GRITS
A BALD-FACED LIE.
I fucking love grits, damnit. I won't deny.
So, Nigel, tell us about this huckleberry pie Oregon has...
I do not understand why the corn dog is credited to Iowa when that particular monstrosity was born in Portland, Oregon, where they are still INEXPLICABLY POPULAR, UGHBARF.
Quote from: Suu on August 23, 2013, 12:42:09 AM
Quote from: FOCUS GROUP RAGEMONKEY OF HATE HATE HATE on August 23, 2013, 12:38:30 AM
THAT IS A LIE ABOUT THE GRITS
A BALD-FACED LIE.
I fucking love grits, damnit. I won't deny.
So, Nigel, tell us about this huckleberry pie Oregon has...
It's a fucking straight-up lie.
I was wondering what they were going to assign to Oregon, but that was just LOL
Not that huckleberry pie doesn't exist, but... yeah, nope. It's totally in no way a thing here. While I have heard of huckleberry pie in theory, I've never even seen one, ever in my entire life. Huckleberries aren't available commercially, they don't store for shit, and they're only available for about a month (from now until mid-September) and it takes approximately seven million years to pick enough to make a pie.
If they had said "Marionberry" I would have been oh, yeah, sure. But HUCKLEBERRY
NOPE
Plus all the really good picking areas belong to the Warm Springs, and they WILL shoot you.
That reminds me, it's time to go berrypicking.
Huckleberries seem to be a thing in Montana. And they're gooooooood.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 23, 2013, 01:01:07 AM
Huckleberries seem to be a thing in Montana. And they're gooooooood.
They are tasty. But I am WAY too lazy to spend what's left of my forties on a mountainside in the sun picking enough of the little fuckers to make a pie. And so, apparently, is just about everyone else.
We just picked a ton of elderberries, and it's STILL not enough for a pie. They're smaller than blueberries, and are holyfucktart.
Quote from: Suu on August 23, 2013, 01:27:43 AM
We just picked a ton of elderberries, and it's STILL not enough for a pie. They're smaller than blueberries, and are holyfucktart.
Ugh, elderberries! Those little fucking twigs. My mom used to make me separate the twigs from the berries, and I hate them to this day.
Quote from: FOCUS GROUP RAGEMONKEY OF HATE HATE HATE on August 23, 2013, 01:50:28 AM
Quote from: Suu on August 23, 2013, 01:27:43 AM
We just picked a ton of elderberries, and it's STILL not enough for a pie. They're smaller than blueberries, and are holyfucktart.
Ugh, elderberries! Those little fucking twigs. My mom used to make me separate the twigs from the berries, and I hate them to this day.
They're little balls of hate, they are.
I have a large ziploc baggie of them in the freezer with wild blueberries the BF found when he was pillaging one of our local swamps for bog myrtle and yarrow to brew a Saxon beer with. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them. There's definitely not enough for a pie, so maybe a cordial or small batch of mead or wine.
Elderberries are assholes.
Those little fucking stems...and your hands are purple for days...