Thought I’d ask this because I want to discover more foods from across the world
(Also I shouldn’t have to say this to americans, please state where you are from and state where you are from without acronyms or shortened names because I’ve seen US Defaultism on lemmy and not all of us are going to know your acronyms considering we’re global users)
Australia.
Nutrigrain with Vegemite instead of milk
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I love Gooey butter cake but I think toasted ravioli is our best food. (Hi fellow Missourian! I’m from O’Fallon though.)
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With potatoes and mettwurst! Yum!!! Now I need to make Grünkohl before it’s too warm outside to eat kale.
A few kg of meat, traditionally (in the rhine-area) from horse, nowadays more beef, marinated for 1+ month in a few litres of wine and vinegar, with some vegetables. Slowly cooked so it disintegrates on your fork.
The sauce you get from Sauerbraten is sooooo good, too - goes well with any veggies and/or pasta to eat alongside it.
Yep, we always save a lot of sauce for later in the year, as we (my family) only makes it one time a year, for christmas (on the 25th and 26th). With dumplings on the 25th and noodles on the 26th.
Thailand - gaeng tai pla, som tam, mango sticky rice. First 2 are really spicy, so probably not for everyone.
gaeng tai pla
Is it the same as “Kaeng tai pla”?
Yes, just different transliteration. A Croatian magazine actually ranked it as the worst food in the world, which we Thai took offense for hahaha. https://www.nationthailand.com/life/food/40036968
Add to that jungle curry, gaeng pa!!! Also very spicy.
Mission style burritos are tasty.
I also like California style pizza so long as the toppings aren’t too weird.
Hell yeah!
The picture in the Wikipedia article for california style Pizza doesn’t look very appealing
Too much veg on that one. Scroll down for an egg pizza from Chez Panisse.
Do you mean local like within my own city or regionally/by country?
Countrywide: Hotdogs are the first thing I think of when I think “American food.”
Statewide (California): The sour dough bread bowls at the San Francisco wharf are amazing as fuck.
In my city: The best thing here are taco trucks. There’s even a whole dedicated parking area for a bunch of them to gather downtown called “Grub Hubs.”
I almost mentioned the sourdough bread bowls because SF is known for their sourdough and those are tasty.
It’s really tourist food though. The local soup is Cioppino but I never see it served in a bread bowl.
There’s not a lot of things I’m envious about when it comes to the US
But good and cheap tacos are one of them
I’m Belgian so only one answer is allowed
Belgian fries with mayonnaise and Flemish stew
I pick vol au vent. 😁
This interaction is basically me at a restaurant
Very admirable, it’s a good choice
If you take it with fries, of course 😁
Allez, een Américain Frites alsteblief !
Weirdly the replies to your comment won’t load on the lemmy instance I’m on, don’t know about other instances
They do seem to load on your instance so I’m thinking it’s some sort of federation issue
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As neighbor Dutchy, I can agree! Delicious.
Burritos. Like most burritos.
Belgium: vol au vent with Fries
Norwegian, here. Lutefisk is incredible if done right, but it’s easy to fuck up severely. So if someone were to try and cook something based on my recommendation, I’d suggest Fårikål or Pinnekjøtt instead, as they’re both incredibly easy to make.
My ex’s mum would make this at Christmas and it was horrifying.
Now I’m curious to try “good” lutefisk. I grew up hearing about how exceptionally awful it is.
Same. Didn’t try it until I was in my 30’s and it was kinda meh at best… until I tried a well made one later.
Visited my norwegian family over the new year, and got to try pinnekjøtt. Very tasty, if a bit annoying to get the meat off of the bones.
In my opinion, that means it’s not done yet. Since it’s mostly a steaming process, you can leave it in as long as you want to. I usually put it on in the morning, and just add a little water throughout the day to make sure it does not dry out. Then 20 minutes in the oven before serving.
That way it usually falls off the bone easily.
From Bulgaria, banitsa, it’s a bit difficult to describe, but it’s sorta like layered dough with cheese and eggs, though this description really doesn’t do it justice…
My wife spent 18 months in Bulgaria. When she talks about the food banitsa invariably comes up as something she desperately misses.
Looks a lot like the moldovian Vertuta. I bet they taste similar.
I am from the southeast US. I don’t necessarily believe any of these dishes are unique to my area, but I really enjoy them.
- Grits. Sort of like oatmeal but corn. There are plenty of ways to make it, some make it sweet, some make it savory, some do a little of both. Shrimp and grits is a popular dish, but I think it’s more associated with Louisiana specifically.
- Divinity. A very rich, sugary treat. I haven’t had many chances to have this, but it’s very good. It’s the sort of treat I associate with big family dinners on Thanksgiving from family members who “haven’t seen [me] since [I] was this big” who have long since passed away.
- Reindeer Mix and Diddly Doos. These are two winter treats my family makes. I don’t believe they’re local dishes or anything, but because my mom makes them I do consider them cultural. Reindeer Mix is essentially home made Chex Mix you mix a few forms of Chex cereals with other ingredients and drizzle a savory sauce over it and bake it. Tastes best warm. Diddly Doos are basically cheese biscuit/crackers. Think “cheese straw” but shaped in a disk. I think some people call them cheese doodles.
Grits were my first thought. I can’t believe how many people don’t like them, but then I remember the glue they serve at diners like Waffle House. It just needs to be prepared right. I spent two years on the west coast and I couldn’t stand how hard they were to find! A southern friend I met there even had a care package sent from their mother that had grits in it; just a testament to how much of a comfort food they can be… when made correctly. South Carolinian here.
Pimento cheese dip is another southern classic.
True, but I hate it lol.
Well there’s no accounting for taste, I suppose. Hmm.
How about pecan pie?
I didn’t think it was uniquely southern, I thought they had it in the north too.
I grew up in interior Alaska. The hometown food I miss the most is saltine crusted Northern Pike. Very bony but so tasty. Though to be honest a lot of that may be nostalgia as it was something we’d eat camping as an extended family when the fishers in the group had a good haul. Pan fried moose heart and tongue is a simular situation.
If we do the United States instead of my home state I’d say key lime pie for sweet and shrimp and grits for savory.
Moose heart (or reindeer heart is delicious) usually cooked on an open fire after the “moose fall” in Norway
We always camped on some mostly permafrost supported island in the middle of a wetland when we hunted so we avoided open fires. I’ve got lots of memories of that place. Spiders pelting me as they were knocked off the tall grass by our airboats we rode in, the one black bear my father shot that had been eating so many blueberries that the smell hit you in the face when we cleaned it, or my cousin and I being chewed out for sinking part of ‘our’ island when we attempted to build a log cabin. That’s why I think nostalgia is playing a big part in why I miss the dishes so much.
