I’m not a fan of cheese or cheese curds but all those other items sound great to me.
They are, but you know, this barely scratches the surface of the gastronomy of this multi-diverse area.
One of the greatest contributions was from the tables of the huge Polish community of Buffalo. Back in the 1840's, when the Erie Canal was being built, and Buffalo became the western port to Lake Erie and the Great Lakes, a Polish Catholic priest came there, and invited so many of his "tired and poor, the wretched refuse of Eastern Europe's reeming shores (Gdansk, etc.)" that it became the third largest center of Polish culture in the world, next to the immigrants who went further along to Chicago, and their largest home city, Warsaw.
In fact, they became so populous that when the ten-year United States Census had been in place for some time, and intermediate counts had to be published due to short term growth effects on demographics (click here) and construction needs, a very accurate short-term algorithm was devised to estimate Buffalo's Polish constituents. Have you heard of it?
You'd love poutin, lol. Cheese curds with gravy on french fries. That's further north, though.