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8 Regional Foods You Might Not Know
Mental Floss ^ | 2/3/11 | Miss Cellania

Posted on 02/03/2011 8:52:25 AM PST by MissTed

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#3 pretty please!
1 posted on 02/03/2011 8:52:27 AM PST by MissTed
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#5

I don’t know about South Carolina, but, I do know they grow some really fine Benne Wafers here in Savannah.

You can get them from the Byrd Cookie company.


2 posted on 02/03/2011 9:08:28 AM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: MissTed

As a 28 year naturalized Texan, I can unequivocally state #1 is a spaghetti dish, not “chili” of any sort.

Might taste good, but it ain’t chili.


3 posted on 02/03/2011 9:11:49 AM PST by jimt
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To: MissTed

I made ‘em two nights ago!


4 posted on 02/03/2011 9:12:53 AM PST by smalltownslick
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To: MissTed

We don’t call them loose meat sandwiches in Iowa, we call them maidrites, after the chain. Never heard of the Sioux City Ye Olde Tavern, everyone has always attributed them to Maid-Rite.

Don’t know their recipe, and they are made a number of ways. How we make them.

1 lb quality hamburger

Add ketchup, mustard, and real mayonnaise to taste. Onions and relish if you like.

Serve on buns, I like kaisers myself.


5 posted on 02/03/2011 9:17:38 AM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: smalltownslick

Which one?? :)


6 posted on 02/03/2011 9:17:47 AM PST by MissTed ( Since beginning the gin and tonic diet, I've already lost two days!)
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To: Free Vulcan
And if you can get them, serve them with these:


7 posted on 02/03/2011 9:19:19 AM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: Conan the Librarian

Benne wafers are very much a South Carolina Lowcountry/coastal Georgia thing. I’d never heard of them before I moved to Columbia and only then saw them at a craft show, being sold by an excellent little bakery out of Charleston. They are AMAZING.

Reading that article’s made me hungry!

}:-)4


8 posted on 02/03/2011 9:25:09 AM PST by Moose4 ("By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!")
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To: MissTed

I was hoping to see WV pepperoni rolls!


9 posted on 02/03/2011 9:27:45 AM PST by samanella ((I may not always be right, but I will never be left))
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To: Free Vulcan

That is a Sloppy Joe in Maryland.


10 posted on 02/03/2011 9:30:30 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (V for Vendetta.)
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That’s pretty much what they are. Maidrite just has their own secret sauce.


11 posted on 02/03/2011 9:39:53 AM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: MissTed

The one you said - #3! Some of those others sound really gross!


12 posted on 02/03/2011 9:43:40 AM PST by smalltownslick
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To: MissTed

I know #1 and eat 3, 4, 6, & 7 fairly regularly. Mm-Mm good!


13 posted on 02/03/2011 9:46:20 AM PST by vpintheak (Democrats: Robbing humans of their dignity 1 law at a time)
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To: MissTed

#1 is not chili...it’s a pasta meat dish. Especially if it has beans in it, it isn’t chili. Chili is served in a bowl by itself topped with cheese, or not, with perhaps pico de gallo or onions, and tortillas, corn or flour with butter and/or picante sauce. Or in crispy taco shells with lettuce tomatoes, onions, avocado and sour cream.

The maidrite is just a sloppy joe, looks good. The toasted ravioli looks interesting, but the crisplic doesn’t do a thing for me, the chicken and dumplings stand alone...no potatoes, thanks. Mom used to make the meat pies and put grilled potatoes and onions in there with them, we could even dip them in brown gravy...or fruit pies, with pineapple, lemon, or chocolate stuffing.

Now I’m hungry, think I’ll go across the street and get some Haberneros chicken nachos, with lettuce, tomatoes, avocado, onion, refried beans and fajita chicken, with the best red picante in Texas...mmmm...mmmm...mmm..


14 posted on 02/03/2011 9:55:17 AM PST by RowdyFFC (.)
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It’s the kind of chili you would expect from a state that voted for 0bama.


15 posted on 02/03/2011 9:57:13 AM PST by reg45
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To: Free Vulcan
We don’t call them loose meat sandwiches in Iowa, we call them maidrites

Maybe it's a regional thing. The local IA Alumni group folks call them loose meat sandwiches with a very occasional reference to taverns. I'd never heard them called anything but maidrites before that.

Not sure why they went with maidrites, though. Maybe they're more centralized. I would have chosen that sandwich you can get anywhere in the Tenderloin Belt without even looking at a menu.

16 posted on 02/03/2011 10:00:41 AM PST by Darth Reardon (No offense to drunken sailors)
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To No. 1: Four-way chili is also topped with oyster crackers

A Four Way is topped with onions, not oyster crackers. Those are served on the side. A Four Way is delicious. And is definitely chili.

17 posted on 02/03/2011 10:01:40 AM PST by Publius Valerius
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#1 is not chili...it’s a pasta meat dish.

You got that right. The only chili dish I make contains no beans, no tomatoes, no onions, just meat and about 3 types of chilies, in a beer and beef broth. Then there is the pint of tequila, which goes into the cook while making the chili, but that's another story.

Being Super Bowl weekend, we should be making it tomorrow night, but family issues have intervened this year, unfortunately.

18 posted on 02/03/2011 10:01:55 AM PST by ssaftler (Is "Audacity of Hope" English for "Mein Kampf"?)
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Now I’m hungry, think I’ll go across the street and get some Haberneros chicken nachos, with lettuce, tomatoes, avocado, onion, refried beans and fajita chicken, with the best red picante in Texas...mmmm...mmmm...mmm..

That seriously just made my mouth water. YUM!!!!

19 posted on 02/03/2011 10:09:23 AM PST by MissTed ( Since beginning the gin and tonic diet, I've already lost two days!)
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Four-way chili is also topped with oyster crackers, and five-way chili sees the addition of kidney beans -which are not in the chili recipe itself.

Yes, yes, I know, the Texans will be shouting "That's not chili" from their icy candlelit houses. The four-way is with either beans or onions and the five-way adds the other. Oyster crackers are never counted.

Cincinnati - just about the only place you can ask your waitress for a three-way and not get slapped.

20 posted on 02/03/2011 10:28:31 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Washington is finally rid of the Kennedies. Free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.)
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