Posted on 04/22/2014 7:05:03 AM PDT by Scoutmaster
Been to Star Hotel but not to the Dinnerhouse. I really like the JT Bar and Overland Hotel in Gardnerville.
Good. It reflects the opinions of a complete, gibbering, drooling, cross-eyed sub-moron.
My parents were from PA so we had scrapple every weekend. I don’t know if it is something you need to grow up on or what but I love it. I fry it. I know some people add a bit of maple syrup but I guess I prefer it the natural way. Nothing goes better with eggs or grits (to me) than scrapple. Hugs BW... I found another scrapple lover!
I’ve never been to the place in Gardnerville but I’ve heard good things about it. The Star is the best in Elko except for the sweetbreads are better at the NDH. The soup and salad dressing at the Star were especially good.
No ranking. They're too different to compare. So, in no particular order:
New Mexico: Enchiladas (or anything else) with the green chiles that only grow right in New Mexico.
Maryland: Crab cakes (crab soup close second). Crab cakes do not contain bread crumbs.
Missouri: KC Burnt Ends.
North Carolina: Pulled Pork. (VA does this well also.)
Ohio: Skyline Chili. Not Gold Star. No way.
Louisiana: Gumbo. Or maybe a shrimp po' boy.
California: Sushi. Or fish tacos.
Colorado: STEAK. Seriously: best steaks I have ever had in the United States were at family-owned, one-off places in (mostly) western CO.
Virginia: Salt cured Smithfield ham, and anything derived therefrom.
Wisconsin: Johnsonville ... brats, etc. Cornbread battered walleye.
Some things like BBQ and fried chicken are regional, and can't really be associated with one State.
Oh I have had Chesapeake blue fresh from the water.... and I have had dungeness fresh from the water (and that is the key to both of them).
Dungeness has plenty of flavor but one must eat it in the proper manner which is to say a bath in the pot of water and then to the plate. Blue crab is better in a crab cake of some such mixture ( to my taste). I will take a pan seared soft shell over just she crab any day of the week
I can't go to New Orleans without a debris po'boy from Mother's and Creole bread pudding soufflé from Commander's Palace.
"Ever picked the shavings off a freshly carved roast? When a customer asked Simon Landry to add the bits of roast beef that had fallen into the gravy while he was carving it to his sandwich, he replied “you mean some of the debris?” And just like that, another definitive Mother’s term was coined."
Manchester area. There are still quite a number of old Quebecois here, and they are getting older, but you can still find a few eateries that offer poutine and other French-Canadian specialties..
Most people around here root for the Boston Bruins (including me), but there are still a few holdouts (largely on the West Side) who still root for Les Habitants de Quebec. As for me, I speak French, so I can insult hockey fans in two languages. ;-)
I was on the Seacoast. Certainly some folks of French-Canadian descent, but no poutine on any menus that I recall.
Yes it is rather expensive. Though here we can get Spanish Basque, Woolgrowers, or French Basque, Benji’s. Their menus are slightly different.
That reminds me of going to Fiji and finding Mexican food. Well, it looked Mexican in the pictures. And I'm sure the Indians (as in, descendants from people from India) who made it based their recipes on pictures. It tasted nothing like Mexican food.
Fiji is a completely awesome place to visit, and the lamb sausage is heavenly. But avoid any "Mexican" food there.
I’m surprised they found seven things worse than lutefisk.
I live in upper east Tennessee. I am closer to New York City than to Memphis. We eat ribs but I have no idea about Memphis style. Our best bbq is thin sliced pork from Ridgewood.
http://www.roadfood.com/Restaurant/Overview/446/ridgewood-barbecue
Trust me, the Walleye is a lot better than the Lutefisk.
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