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Post by anonrefugee on Feb 20, 2015 18:08:28 GMT
I like southern grits- if "dun rite"!
My Midwest mom made Mush, which was sort of like polenta.
But I cannot wrap my brain around Scrapple. I can't explain the reason.
Are there any regional foods you resist?
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Post by lisacharlotte on Feb 20, 2015 18:13:00 GMT
When we lived in Augusta GA we used to go to Sconyer's BBQ. They served hash over rice. It looks like something that came back up. However, after the first bite it was a favorite.
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Post by anxiousmom on Feb 20, 2015 18:21:40 GMT
Mmmm, I love most what is considered typical "southern" foods...but not greens. I grew up with my mom making collard greens and I just can't get behind that. They do not smell good at all, and the idea of eating them makes my stomach squirmy.  |
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Post by Zee on Feb 20, 2015 18:24:02 GMT
I'm not from here, so it's pretty easy to resist these things as I didn't grow up on them  Shoofly pie Hardtack candy Scrapple Tomato pie "Irish potatoes" (it's a coconut candy) Almost everything that's traditionally PA Dutch |
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Post by MorningPerson on Feb 20, 2015 18:25:23 GMT
I'm not from here, so it's pretty easy to resist these things as I didn't grow up on them Shoofly pie Hardtack candy Scrapple Tomato pie "Irish potatoes" (it's a coconut candy) Almost everything that's traditionally PA Dutch Ditto.  |
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Post by Zee on Feb 20, 2015 18:28:55 GMT
Midwest things I grew up with (not in our house, but at potlucks, friend's houses, etc) but have no trouble passing on:
Any casserole or dish that requires potato chips, liquid cheese, crumbled Ritz, a packet of jello or instant pudding, Cool Whip, ketchup,a can of coke, a packet of soup flavoring, or chow mein noodles
Casseroles requiring cream soups or French fried onions are taken on a case-by-case basis
Otherwise, it's game on.
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Post by cindyupnorth on Feb 20, 2015 18:29:33 GMT
Lutefisk and lefsa. ick.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Feb 20, 2015 18:34:18 GMT
geoduck
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Post by akathy on Feb 20, 2015 18:39:16 GMT
Lutefisk, sauerkraut, anything jello
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Post by lbp on Feb 20, 2015 18:42:14 GMT
Mine is grits. I don't hate them, but don't love them either. We had them growing up and Mom's rule was you had to take 2 small bites just to make sure you still didn't like something. I never acquired the taste for them.
About the 2 bites rule: I always said I HATED shrimp, somewhere along the line and the taking of the 2 bites I began to really like shrimp. Tastes change.
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Post by ~Susan~ on Feb 20, 2015 18:43:51 GMT
When we lived in Augusta GA we used to go to Sconyer's BBQ. They served hash over rice. It looks like something that came back up. However, after the first bite it was a favorite. Hash and rice is definitely a GA dish. My father is from there and I remember him and my uncle eating it. It is yucky to look at, but it is so good. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2015 18:48:19 GMT
I'm with you on the lutefisk, much to the chagrin of my primarily Scandinavian family, but lefse? What's to hate about lefse?!?! (Just the mention of lutefisk is giving me flashbacks to the annual lutefisk dinner in college when the whole damn student center would smell like it all day ) |
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Post by NoWomanNoCry on Feb 20, 2015 18:50:13 GMT
When I moved here DH wanted me to try something called Flitch. It's instant potato flakes with powdered sugar and peanut butter. It was awful! It's suppose to be a cookie type thing...I don't like sweets but even if I did I would still dislike this.
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Post by wellway on Feb 20, 2015 18:50:55 GMT
Well, if any of these dishes taste/look anything like their names, Scrapple, geoduck, Mush, Shoofly pie etc, then I won't be rushing to try them the next time I'm in the States! |
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Post by ~Susan~ on Feb 20, 2015 18:50:48 GMT
I love grits and have learned that they can be prepared a million different ways. I prefer mine with just butter, salt and scrambled eggs on the side. They are also good with cheese and bacon. The people who eat them with sugar and cinnamon...I just don't understand Turnip greens and collard greens are also something I never developed a taste for and pickled beets....those are just nasty. Believe it or not, I don't eat a lot of fried foods. Being from the south, that is almost unheard of, but I really don't care for most fried foods. |
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Post by Sam on Feb 20, 2015 18:51:28 GMT
Over here, haggis - OH loves the stuff, but he is Scottish so it's in his breeding or was somehow implanted in his psyche from an early age. I am English and clearly don't have the palette for it!
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Post by kamper on Feb 20, 2015 18:56:01 GMT
Chicken fried steak
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Post by Zee on Feb 20, 2015 19:10:10 GMT
When I moved here DH wanted me to try something called Flitch. It's instant potato flakes with powdered sugar and peanut butter. It was awful! It's suppose to be a cookie type thing...I don't like sweets but even if I did I would still dislike this. OMG I can only imagine! Blecccch! Is that another PA thing I've somehow missed? I made a layered taco dip for a block party here and the natives were afraid to try it, Lolol. I was stunned. That was usually one of the first things to go at parties back home! |
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Post by padresfan619 on Feb 20, 2015 19:12:46 GMT
Not food, a drink. I don't care for horchata from taco shops.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2015 19:13:48 GMT
Smoked mullet. Yuck
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2015 19:14:57 GMT
I definitely cannot do shoofly pie. It's the name...the name completely turns me off. The texture and color look like mushed up flies. I grew up in Amish Country here in Pennsylvania and I have never even tried shoofly pie. I hear it's delicious, but I wouldn't know.
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Post by NoWomanNoCry on Feb 20, 2015 19:16:00 GMT
When I moved here DH wanted me to try something called Flitch. It's instant potato flakes with powdered sugar and peanut butter. It was awful! It's suppose to be a cookie type thing...I don't like sweets but even if I did I would still dislike this. OMG I can only imagine! Blecccch! Is that another PA thing I've somehow missed? I made a layered taco dip for a block party here and the natives were afraid to try it, Lolol. I was stunned. That was usually one of the first things to go at parties back home! From what Im told from people here its a Northeast/Coal Region Pa thing. I'm a fish out of water here because everyone here loves it and I don't lol |
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Post by wellway on Feb 20, 2015 19:17:53 GMT
I've just remembered a food my DH got me to try, so nice he said. Never, never again will I eat it.... an Arbroath Smokie. A Scottish smoked Haddock.
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Post by Zee on Feb 20, 2015 19:18:18 GMT
I just googled it and found "coal region" recipes...makes me think perhaps ketchup and potato chip recipes aren't the worst thing ever after all!
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Post by anonrefugee on Feb 20, 2015 19:19:32 GMT
When I moved here DH wanted me to try something called Flitch. It's instant potato flakes with powdered sugar and peanut butter. It was awful! It's suppose to be a cookie type thing...I don't like sweets but even if I did I would still dislike this. That sounds like someone snowed-!in and desperate dreams up! |
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Post by grammyj64 on Feb 20, 2015 19:19:30 GMT
I am not fond of Cajun food.
I like grits.
I have tasted haggis and it wasn't bad, but I wouldn't want to eat it regularly.
I've never tasted lutefisk and have no plans to, but you never know.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Feb 20, 2015 19:21:01 GMT
I just realized after reading this thread that there ARE Midwestern regional things-- casseroles and jello salads, lol!! I grew up on two jello 'salads' (I use the term salad loosely) that I will not ever willingly eat again (unless my Mom makes them, and then I would probably have to eat them): strawberry jello with banana slices, and lime jello with shredded carrots.
Casseroles aren't too bad depending on what kind they are, but I would never make- or eat- one that used French-fried onions or tater tots (I don't think, anyway).
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Post by Anita on Feb 20, 2015 19:21:34 GMT
KC BBQ. Ick.
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Post by anonrefugee on Feb 20, 2015 19:22:19 GMT
@z*G someone doesn't like later taco dip? Like the guacamole-bean-sour cream-cheese seven layers kind? What's wrong with them?  I guess it would be a frightening look if you'd never seen it before though. |
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Post by bethany102399 on Feb 20, 2015 19:22:52 GMT
I had to google shoofly pie, as I love Molasses it looks great to me! DH loves grits, he developed a taste for them with butter when he was in the army and did basic training in the south. I make them for him on special occasions, no one else in the family will eat them. to me, our only regional food here is BBQ and I could eat that all day. No gizzards though.  |
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