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    I've lived a fwe places so I'll start with Nebraska. Nebraska has this wonderful baked bun stuffed with spiced meat and onion known as a Runza. Damned good eatin'. I haven't had one in decades cuz driving West from Chicago, one usually hits Nebraska at night.

    Speaking of home hometown, Chicago is known for many special foods. First and foremost should come to mind is PIZZA! Chicago has the best pizza in the world, hands down. Chicago also has great hot dogs, french fries, polish sausage and pork chop sandwiches. Chicago used to be a great steak town, but since the packing houses are no longer there, it's nothing really special. Anywhere in the MidWest you can get good beef.

    Especially when compared to where I live now. Florida has the most flavorless beef. :blech: Florida is a great seafood state. The three things I remember most about this state's food are stone crab claws. Best crab in the world, need a hammer to open up their big meaty claws. They have a conservation program, where they only take one claw and throw the crab back. Over the next year, the claw grows back. Severed cold with honey mustard or hot with drawn butter, mmMmmm. Another tasty morsal this tate has special are conch fritters. Big hunks of conk, fried up in batter and served with cocktail sauce. Yumyum. And for desert, who could forget KEY LIME PIE!

    Key lime pie is the food of the gods. Florida Key limes, which are about the size of a walnut, and sort of yellow and green, tarter than normal limes. A real key lime pie is yellow, not green. While a grahm cracker crust is darn tasty, real key lime pies come in a flaky shortbread crust.

    So how about where you live?
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    Knoxville has a kick-ass Mexican restaurant called "Che Guevara" as you very well know.

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    • #3
      Philadelphia - the Almighty Cheesesteak!

      :waits for Speer to come in and yell at me for saying that I'm from philly:
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      • #4
        Dr. Pepper and steaks.
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        • #5
          Maryland: Seafood obviously, especially crabs.

          Pittsburgh: I don't know if we are especially known for anything. THough probably Primanti Brothers Sandwiches are the best sandwiches I have ever had and so I guess that's one thing we do well. The neighberhood I live in you can get really good food from several places at really low prices.
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          • #6
            Caol, I think it's called.

            A clear stew, made with lamb or mutton, and includes a lot of
            leeks.
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            • #7
              When I lived in Memphis, I came to know the true meaning of Bar-B-Q. Yum!!
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              • #8
                I don't think my area is known for any special foods.
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                • #9
                  Chocolate?

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                  • #10
                    Meatballs for you Spotty!
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                    • #11
                      Schweinshax'n (pork knuckles), Schäuferla (ribs), O'bazter (cheese product), Kellerbier (typical Frankonian type of beer), Rauchbier (beer with taste of smoke, bleach!) and many more. Mostly things that make fat. My wife hates me for loving it .

                      I've been in Florida and returned pretty hungry , but I loved your key lime pie, was in a good seafood restaurant and loved various chips and dips. Your beer sucks, though, I spent a fortune on foreign beers there.

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                      • #12
                        Good summary CHE, which I concur with completely.

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                        • #13
                          Geez, East Anglia? Um....pork pies? Some sort of weird chocolate-yet-not-chocolate sweet bread too....
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by rah
                            Waiting for the NY boys to come and refute it.
                            I don't think Imran is logged on at the moment
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                            • #15
                              Mainly, though, lamb.
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