What kind of food is your city/town/country known for?

Definitely Pie's and pasties and secondary Fish and chips, in the working class north where I'm from anyway.

I heard a saying once 'The British eat to live the French live to eat' and its totally true. All our foods are practical and designed to give the most calories,cheaply,in a small package to keep you warm on a windy day.

Meat and potato pie,our 'pie' usually means a savoury pie ate ate as main meal,we also have sweet pie's as well.

http://www.hollandspies.co.uk/upload/images/106/big/Meat___Potato_Pie.jpg?1305709523

Pasty,the pasty became popular due to the coal mines,the miners would take them to the coal face and eat them at lunch time holding the crust which they'd throw away,basically so they didn't have to get cleaned up before eating.

Fish,chips and mushy peas obviously:-D

http://ukzambians.co.uk/culture/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/fish.jpg

http://www.gallowaysbakers.co.uk/images/products/pasty-1-1.gif

In a nut shell our food sucks! Really,its heavy,high in calories and blander than matt white emulsion and I don't eat any of it anymore:-D

I'm not the best ad for our country :-D

 

We have 'poutine' now, double fried thickly cut and greasy french fries topped with fresh curd cheese(squeaks when you have really fresh stuff) and a thick beef gravy.:yum I prefer pig's feet(trotters for you Brits) or as we call it 'pates de cochon'.

My favourite still has to be our 'smoked meat brisket'(pastrami in the US).:drool

Have yer Lipitor on hand!:-D

 

Question, How did you paste those pictures???? Yummy.. I am getting hungry looking at them!

 

Stewed Tripe & Onions! you've never lived till you try it

 

AFAIK it's only popular east of here where more French live but I did see a poutine food truck owner from Ontario post in here. I think he has 'google alerts' going.:-D

Gawd, who the hell likes mushy peas? Blend them up with some pork stock and call it a gourmand's sauce delight.:innocent :-D:yum

 

I like tripe(stomach lining).:yum

 

OMG I love Philly Pretzels. Always get one when I got back East!

Our family is from Sicily. So, I love Baked Zita, Chicken Piccata, Fettuccine Alfredo, my grandma made the best homemade Ravioli and crusty Italian bread with a big salad!

I love Tortoni ....
Being in CA, I love Burritos and Tres Leches Cake! Yummy
When I am down south I like Fried Shrimp and 9 layer Coconut Cake...

 

If I go to the 'chippy' maybe once a year I always get a fish and peas hold the chips:cool The best fish is cod which has just been landed bought at the coast and eaten outdoors near the sea air IMO.

I tell you though I would love to try a cheese steak sandwich from America,steak is probably my favourite food.

 

15, eh? You guys should've visited NY for her birthday

 

Sounds like MOM is right there and looking over your shoulder as you type Zack!rolleyes: :-D roflmao

 

Are you sure you and Tim ain't related Zach its like looking at a clone? Do you know who your biological father is? Ever heard your parents mention "The special clinic":-D

You certainly have an 'acute' fondness for Cake :-D

 

Not a big fan of it, but Crawfish are popular here.

http://youtu.be/IcfQGQLQCOA

Red beans and rice, black eyed peas and cornbread... :drool

 

Nothing like fresh black eyed peas and cornbread Laura.... :drool

 

http://www.tasteofcny.com/

Actual list of CNY foods. Things we're "known for" and you can buy them. Dinosaur BBQ and salt potatoes ftw

oh and there is this little Gem at the state fair this year: http://www.nysfair.org/news/detail/285

So gross and bad for you it made national headlines... blech.

 

We have nothing too special here. The highway through town has your choice of any fast food you want. One of the best burgers I've had though is at Dewey's Pub
Steak sandwich special $6.99 every Friday. That and a mug of Fernie First Trax kicks off a weekend.
Oh, I like to drink there too.

 

Lmao! I must sound like this to you, eh? http://theoatmeal.com/pl/minor_differences4/accents

*cold chill*

Lol. That for some reason reminded me of Goldmember. "are you sure you dont have a little clone in you" 'yes I'm sure' "do you want to ?"

 

Cook it yourself Laura! Zatarain's low salt red beans and rice: http://shop.zatarains.com/zatarains®-reduced-sodium-red-beans-rice-p-1596.html

Just add some sausage, and bust off on a few of your favorite seasonings.

My recipe for black eyed peas is wash them, toss them in a pot, and add seasonings so they smell like black eyed peas... (Tabasco, red pepper, fresh garlic, fresh ground pepper, and maybe some Tony's.


Good eating!

 

RAW WITH VINEGAR AND PEPPER :yum

 

Flemish stew or "stoverjes" as it is known here in Brugge.

http://frenchfood.about.com/od/soupsandstews/r/flemishbeefstew.htm

The recipe is accurate in the south of Belgium but here in the north they replace the beef stock with a 100cl bottle of dark beer.

Ingredients
1000 g stew, 100 cl Leffe Brown, 6 onions, 2 slices of brown bread, 1 sprig thyme, 1 bay leaf, 1 / 2 bunches parsley, 15 g flour (wheat flour), 1 tablespoon brown sugar, 1 cl vinegar, 2 tablespoons mustard, 50 g butter (baking butter), olive oil, nutmeg,

Preparation
Cut a pound of stew from the neck of the animal (necklace de boeuf) in not too small pieces of 4-5 cm and allow all sides in olive oil crust nicely. Also rushed six sliced ​​onions and bring together with the meat in an iron casserole (with tightly fitting lid) in the oven. Add a tablespoon of flour and mix thoroughly. Leffe Bruin pour to the edge of the oven contents. Then add thyme, bay leaf, nutmeg, parsley, a dash of vinegar and a tablespoon of brown sugar. After an hour of gentle simmering stew we put the meat in the pot on top of a slice of brown bread, spread with a thick layer of mustard. The total oven time is 1.30 am to 2 pm. Serve with chips or boiled potatoes.

Leffe Brown is about 50% more bitter than Leffe Blonde, but still about as strong in alcohol: 6.5% to 6.6% for Brown and Blonde. The bitterness is balanced by the brown sugary sweetness of the roasted barley as one of the raw materials used. The alcoholic and bitter taste resounding nature is balanced by the rich roasted caramel aroma. These high levels of concentration gentle sweet Leffe Bruin fits well with national stews characterized by a sweet-sour balance.

 

Okay, I'm not a native of this country, but Australia's food kinda depends on your generation to some extent. Older Aussies often have a similar to English diet, (fish&chips, roast meats, etc.). Younger ones have the ubiquitous Mcdonalds, Hungry Jack's, (a.k.a. Burger King); KFC, pizzas, etc).
For some reason, Australians have a hankering for meat pies, (the original Australian take away). Then there's a weird sandwich spread, called Vegemite, which looks and tastes rather like salted bitumen.
I have tasted Kangaroo meat twice, and ya, it sucked! uke I don't think anyone really eats so-called "bush tucker", (food), these days. I think it's just for the occasional stupid tourist and foreign documentaries :-D.

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

 

No food associated with my town, but Chris Brown is rolleyes:-o

 

Black eyed Peas? :-D

 

If you're speaking of the food and not the group - naah - that's all in the south

 

I don't know if Tucson is known for any special dish. Since Tucson is in the
South West there are a lot of very nice Mexican restaurants

 

North India, a few of my favorites.
Sikandri Raan.
http://www.zomato.com/crunch/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/sikandari-raan-1-medium.jpg

Tandoori Chicken.
http://www.targetwoman.com/image/tandoori-chicken.jpg

Mutton seekh kabab.
http://www.chtpta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/seekh-kabab-recipe-23242.jpg

Dall Makhni.
https://desifood2go.com/images/Products/dalmakhani.jpg

Naan.
http://69.89.22.144/~eatingo1/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/chicken_curry_naanplatter-540x367.jpg

Cheers..

 

Lamb neck stew. :yum

@sikvik I love them all esp the Tandoori chicken!:yum

 

Town I live in is famous for Cops. Lotta them. Enough of them as the speed limit is 30? Go 35 and no prob, go 40 or over? If one don't get ya the other one down the road will.

 

If you live in ATL you may have eaten here once or twice...

http://mcla.laxallstars.com/files/2011/02/slideshow_938033_varsity.jpg

 

Swing and a miss Dave:-D

 

You don't know... maybe they free range them there, and harvest them later for bacon?

*runs away*

 

lmfao! :-d

 

I can't imagine they do much business ,I prefer my food to get to me in less than an hour...

And I don't much fancy coffee and doughnut flavoured bacon?

Are there any MG police officers?:-D

"Runs away too! I hear sirens..."

 

This isn't world renowned famous, but my wife made a couple of these salads when we were camping in a national park this summer, to go with the steak. You can just see the potatoes and onions in the foil to the left. I was going to take a pic of the complete meal but it was gone before I remembered.

 

Boston is known for BEANS. Baked, sticky, giant pots of BROWN BEANS.

We can thank the English for that one! :mad

Fortunately, I'm originally from Maui, where the food is much more palatable. Kimchee, pickled squid, half-cooked chicken embryos....

BTW, thank you to Sikvik for posting the first REAL FOOD in this thread! My mouth is watering.

 

Now that's a holiday destination, I've considered for next year.
Cheers..

 

blech, Khai Luk... that's a Pacific/Polynesian thing I will never understand. It just LOOKS so nasty, how does it taste? And who was the first person to look at a half cooked bird fetus in a shell and be all like... mmmm, tasty! *barf* I try to be open minded about cultural cuisine but that one I just can't make sit right for me.

http://www.asianfoodgrocer.com/blog/2009/03/top-ten-most-bizarre-asian-foo.html

 

I love Asian food but that Khai Luk would have me barfing at the table.:*** http://bestsmileys.com/fainting/1.gif

 

I think the weirdest thing Asians eat is dolphin.

Maybe its just my western bias:confused I've never watched any documentary's concerning the complex behaviour of cows,if if cow tried to help or protect me like a dog or a dolphin would maybe I'd feel differently:confused