Great American Menu

[Jalapeñomel]

Here are the best regional foods as ranked by Dead Spin.

Do you agree?

deadspin.com/the-great-american-menu-foods-of-the-states-ranked-an-1349137024

[nadasteph]

LOL.... tree snot reduction.

[Muddled]

Memphis-style ribs are Missouri's best food? Say what now?



eta-Never mind. I read wrong. They gave it to the appropriate state. The double listing confused me.

eta again- They are not the same. Nope, nope, nope.

[cuddlyevil]

There was some serious anger here over the description of Cincinnati chili. I was amused.

[gozf]

I hate scrapple. They should have picked shoo fly pie.

[mrsjuleshs]

Not surprised ours is Brisket. Done correctly, it is pretty great.

[Deleted]

How could he hate on the lobster roll? Poor Maine.

Has anyone had Cincinatti Chili? Poor Ohio, lol!

[Deleted]

I have never had scrapple. I live in Philly. Shame.

[katfco]

In my 7 years in Ohio, I've never heard of Cincinnati chili. And New England boiled dinner is awesome (and not from New Hampshire).

[rupertpenny]

I don't really agree with Key Lime Pie (I would have gone with some kind of fried seafood), but I do agree with his assessment of Tampa lol.

[gozf]

Oct 21, 2013 14:05:16 GMT -5 @iamsnazzy said:

Oct 21, 2013 14:00:55 GMT -5 gozf said:

I hate scrapple. They should have picked shoo fly pie.

Or whoopie pies!

I do love scrapple though. I'm actually in the process of ordering 5 pounds of wheat-free scrapple from Seattle. I realize that probably makes me disgusting. lol

omg, whoopie pies!  yummmmmm

[Deleted]

I love burritos.

[Bernadine]

I would have done steamed crabs instead, but crabcakes work too.

[katfco]

Oct 21, 2013 14:07:23 GMT -5 @booby said:

Oct 21, 2013 14:05:45 GMT -5 katfco said:

In my 7 years in Ohio, I've never heard of Cincinnati chili. And New England boiled dinner is awesome (and not from New Hampshire).

i live in another country and even i know what cincinatti chili is.  how's that rock you're living under? 

Pretty cozy.  

[shostakovich]

This guy has a lot of food hate, and it is hilarious.

I live in Chicago, and hate Chicago-style pizza. It is terrible, and NY style (the huge, huge sliced kind that you literally have to fold just to jam it in your mouth) is the best.

Also, pasties (MI) are awesome - the key is hot sauce, and plenty of it!

And I agree 1,000% with his assessment of Cincinnati chili. Blech blech blech.

[FrozenSunshine]

Lol at aqutak for Alaska. Try finding that in a major city.

I'd say Alaska would be a seafood dish with king crab, salmon or halibut or game meat. Reindeer dogs are awesome!

[Deleted]

Pasties are awesome. The author can suck it. It's debatable whether they are better with ketchup (my preference) or gravy though.

[penelope]

Pasties are huge in the Northern Upper Peninsula, but in the Lower half of the state? Not even a little bit. They aren't even all that popular once you leave the Keweenaw. I find it odd that's what they chose for Michigan.

[penelope]

Oct 21, 2013 14:13:10 GMT -5 @mjmksb04 said:

Pasties are awesome. The author can suck it. It's debatable whether they are better with ketchup (my preference) or gravy though.

Without a doubt, ketchup is the way to go.  Although my oldest uses ranch....  ^o)

[lightbulbsun]

Oct 21, 2013 14:00:55 GMT -5 gozf said:

I hate scrapple. They should have picked shoo fly pie.

Mm, I love shoo fly pie. 

I lived in PA for 24 years and never tried scrapple. 

[CurlyQ284]

The descriptions made me LOL in my silent cube farm office

[Deleted]

We will forever be stuck being known for green jello. I can't even argue. We have nothing else of our own. Unless you count fry sauce, but that's a condiment, not a food.

[nomad100]

41. Michigan pasty (Michigan)

Michigan's signature foodstuff—meat and potatoes served in a portable bread-purse—goes by the name pasty as a means of associating itself with the pasty of England, as though the culinary traditions of that pallid, inbred, rain-soaked island shithole will vindicate what is essentially a calzone for people who hate and fear things that are good.

Yeah, I have lived in MI for a total of 30+ years and just had my first pasty this summer. Only in Northern MI is the Pasty a thing.

Why couldn't they pick the cherry pie? So much better.

[CurlyQ284]

Also scrapple is revolting and VA only has a sad ham to claim. Womp wommmmp.

[JLV]

Oct 21, 2013 14:04:06 GMT -5 @silver said:

I have never had scrapple. I live in Philly. Shame.

Haha you are not missing anything!

[dukesilver]

I cannot stop laughing over the Cincinnati chili. I pretty much knew that was going to be at the very bottom as soon as I opened the list. I personally like it, but it certainly is an acquired taste.

[JLV]

Am I the only Pennsylvanian who detests shoo-fly pie? Yuck.

[lexxasaurus]

Oct 21, 2013 14:10:52 GMT -5 FrozenSunshine said:

Lol at aqutak for Alaska. Try finding that in a major city.

I'd say Alaska would be a seafood dish with king crab, salmon or halibut or game meat. Reindeer dogs are awesome!

Mmm. I grew up in Ketchikan, as a kid I was so excited during every festival we had for those reindeer sausages! Sooo good.

[JLV]

Woah woah. I also don't agree with the author that Philadelphia is the worst place on earth and that w don't have good cheesesteaks here.

Pats and Genos are overrated crap but thee are plenty of other great options.

[lulu13]

I knew CA would be burritos. Burritos are my go to comfort food. Yummmmmmmmmmy!