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Old 10-18-2013, 05:52 PM  
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The Great American Menu: Foods Of The States, Ranked And Mapped



What are the United States' best regional foodstuffs? Its worst? These are the questions that bedevil the mind of man—but no longer! For here, we have ranked them. Rigorously scientific (not), ardently researched (nope), and scrupulously fair (not even a little bit): this is the Great American Menu!
Each state (plus the District of Columbia) gets one, and only one, signature foodstuff. And we selected actual food preparations; no state gets credit merely for being the geographic location where a certain edible flora or fauna happens to grow or swim or graze. But enough of that bullshit. On to the rankings! (For a full-size version of Jim Cooke's map, click here.)

The Greats

1. Chicago-style deep-dish pizza (Illinois)

Man is mortal. He frolics upon the grass of life for but a short season, and then is snatched back to the inanimate dirt of his origin. The Chicago-style deep-dish pizza, America's greatest regional foodstuff—all those toppings, good God so much cheese and meat, I can hear my heartbeat, this can't be right, it sounds like a goddamn chainsaw, can that be right?—will greatly hasten that day's arrival, but it will also fill at least a little part of at least one of those days with a transcendent, mind-boggling, outrageously indulgent sensory experience. This is the best thing any food can do, and certainly far beyond the capabilities of [stares daggers at New York] a sheet of soggy cardboard with a flap of waxy melted cheese stretched across it.

2. Shrimp and grits (South Carolina)

Shrimp. Grits. Tasty, satisfying, authentically South Carolinian. Perfect.

3. Mission-style burrito (California)

The Mission-style burrito is especially great because, nowadays, you don't have to go all the way to California to get a good one. In fact, you can even leave California at 125 miles per hour, screaming and crying because your organ systems are rightly rejecting the state of California like a grafted-on walrus tail because California is awful, and still get a tasty Mission-style burrito pretty much wherever you end up! This is because a Mission-style burrito is just a really fuggin' large burrito with extra rice and (figurative) shit in it. Mmmmmmmm.

4. Crab cake (Maryland)

As we've established (here, here, and here), blue crab—particularly the Chesapeake blue crab—is the best of all ingestibles. However, the Maryland crab cake ranks fourth on this list, simply because so many of the various foodstuffs calling themselves crab cakes are really just mildly crab-flavored bread wads for ninnies, which are nonetheless priced as though they contain some quantity of actual by-God crabmeat measurable in units larger than the zeptogram. This means that the best way to obtain a genuine crabcake, rather than an OldBayseasoningandcrushedcrackerscake, is to make one at home—and, so long as you can find yourself a tub of crabmeat to work with, you don't have to be anywhere near Maryland to do that. (That's a good thing. Maryland drivers. Holy shit.)

5. Peach pie/cobbler (Georgia)

Peaches are good. Pie crust and/or biscuit dough are/is good. Good on ya, Georgia.

6. Gumbo (Louisiana)

Yeah, yeah, Louisiana also has the po' boy and the beignet, but really, those are New Orleans foods, and New Orleans already thinks more than highly enough of itself. Besides, neither of those is as tasty as Creole gumbo, which, factually, is the sole credible argument for not sinking that state into the Gulf of Mexico.

7. Key lime pie (Florida)
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But what about the Cuban sandwich?!?!?!?! First of all, there's some controversy about the Cuban sandwich's origins: Either it is from Cuba, in which case it is Cuba's sandwich and not Florida's, or it is from Tampa, in which case it is not a Cuban sandwich and has a dumb name, in which case it sucks because things from Tampa suck because Tampa sucks. In any case it is not as definitively Floridian as Key lime pie, which originated in Florida and is made with ingredients—Key limes—that are native to Florida and nowhere else. (It also doesn't taste as good as Key lime pie. So there.) Anyway Key lime pie is very good and I don't know how we wound up talking about the Cuban sandwich this whole time so let's just move on.

8. Fried green tomatoes (Alabama)

... at the Whistle Stop Cafe, yawl! There is nothing to say about fried green tomatoes. They taste very good and you should eat some.
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Old 10-18-2013, 10:43 PM   #76
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Heh, I've always wondered why there's hype around cutting a pizza into 3rds and being all "omg, you have to fold it!" Chicago style FTW.
It's the taste. Chains and mid west( thin slice) pizza is a joke compared to nj/ ny pizza IMO. I'm biased but i thought that one was just anger about ny attitude instead of a legit breakdown of the regions pizza. I know some ex ny/nj people now in Midwest that crave real pizza. Maybe they are just biased too.
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It's also called Spaghetti Red.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_Red

There used to be a place in Joplin, MO that was famous for it.
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Green Jello with carrots is awesome.

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Green Jello with carrots is awesome.

**** you philistines.

Sounds horrible and I like Jello.
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Sounds horrible and I like Jello.
how do you feel about carrots?
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how do you feel about carrots?
I like carrot juice mixed with orange juice. Other than that I have no use for carrots other than as a filler in stews, soups, salads, etc. I am fairly sure that carrot would ruin the flavor of green Jello.
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I like carrot juice mixed with orange juice. Other than that I have no use for carrots other than as a filler in stews, soups, salads, etc. I am fairly sure that carrot would ruin the flavor of green Jello.
Look I'm fine with all of that - I said nothing about it in relation to Jello.

Just chill out.

Do you like Shephards Pie?
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Look I'm fine with all of that - I said nothing about it in relation to Jello.

Just chill out.

Do you like Shephards Pie?
I am OK with Shepherd's Pie. I don't go out of my way to eat it. If you cooked some, and it was cooked well, and I were visiting you, I'd join you for dinner.
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I am OK with Shepherd's Pie. I don't go out of my way to eat it. If you cooked some, and it was cooked well, and I were visiting you, I'd join you for dinner.
that's cool - i could throw one down too.
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that's cool - i could throw one down too.
Oddly enough it was the only thing one of my sisters could cook well as a teen.
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Oddly enough it was the only thing one of my sisters could cook well as a teen.
LOL. Not really that odd. That's cool though, I know it sounds far fetched but my sister cooked it too - but I think she was in her thirties the first time.
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