Every corner of our country has a uniqueness in their culinary delights.
A friend of mine’s daughter is having a nervous day. Tonight she is having dinner for the first time at her new boyfriend’s house and she already knows what’s on the menu; cheese grits. Being from the Northwest United States, she has no idea what they are, she just assumes she won’t like them.
It brings up an interesting discussion in my mind. In our community group we have several from other parts of the country who are culturally ignorant to the ways of the South. For example, several in our group have never enjoyed the salty taste of country ham. (In fact they think we eat everything too salty.) Several have never heard of chess pie. (Don’t even mention the term “buttermilk pie” to them.) They think we eat grass when we mention turnip greens.
It makes me wonder. Have they ever really lived? Do their taste buds even like them as people? While they’ve been eating cheese curds and huckleberry pie; we’ve been enjoying real food as God intended food to be eaten. (I kinda feel sorry for them, but at least they are in a location where they can finally learn about the delicacies of life.)
What other food specialties come to your mind that differentiates us geographically in the United States?
One slice of hot, cheesy Brooklyn thin crust pizza would make Yankees out of you all! 🙂
I love Brooklyn thin crust. There's a place under the bridge…don't remember the name…but awesome
OK, even tho this is old (and absolutely funny, I’m sending it up to Deane!), I have to jump in. Southern… poke sallet, hominy, corn cakes, crawfish, fried bolonga sandwich, fried okra and green tomatoes, black-eyed peas, boiled peanuts… Makes my husband’s ND and MN relatives roll their eyes!
Jeremy, keep praying. That’s a serious need.
Amber, I have had the curds. We have a couple from Wisconsin in our group. Good stuff. Just wouldn’t trade them for pork rinds, sweet tea, white beans, country ham, turnip greens or chess pie.
I HAVE to add, I personally don’t think you’ve lived until you’ve had a real Wisconsin cheese curd – and it’s only real if it squeaks….. if God didn’t intend cheese to be served in squeaky Curds, I sure don’t know what he intended
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We we're talking with some friends the other day who had never heard of white beans and cornbread for dinner. I'm still praying for them.
cheese grits are yummy :] and country ham sure is good!!
At our recent community group we had sub sandwich night. I couldn’t believe most people in our group hadn’t ever enjoyed souse and liver cheese. I sure enjoyed mine while they looked on with envy, at least that is what I thought that look was.
Angela, absolutely…cook ’em right or ya’ll leave ’em alone.
Robert, how could I forget sweet tea? Forgive me!
Oh I dunno… is it too much to ask for a sweet tea anywhere north of the Mason Dixon line?
People outside of the South do not know the proper way to cook green beans. Here we cook them to death and season them with onions and some form of pork-country ham perhaps. They should NOT crunch!