Posted on 04/22/2014 7:05:03 AM PDT by Scoutmaster
Wow, Ted’s steamed cheeseburgers are really freakin good, and it’s ranked last?
Obviously the author has never tried them.
Pretty good steak restaurants in Chicago. Lawry’s, the original Morton’s.
King's Hawaiian Bread.
I figured Chicago would be “Four Fried Chickens and a Coke”.
"Rigorously scientific (not), ardently researched (nope), and scrupulously fair (not even a little bit)."
I shall pray for you.
Woooooow. That sounds really good.
Mustard based BBQ sauce on a pit roasted pig. That’s got to come close to beating either the crab cake or the lobster roll.
For WA state, they brought up Cedar planked salmon, which is great, but the Copper River Cedar planked salmon is a different kind of wow. Best in class food for sure.
They could have listed beer or Dungeness crab cakes for WA state as well and done OK. More delicate taste than the blue crabs back east.
Try a dungeness crab with sour dough bread..... much better
The Maine meal is not the lobster roll but instead the Boiled Lobsta Dinna’ which includes drawn butta, roll, and chowda and corn on the cob. Steamers are also included. Tasty and top of the list.
I notice a lack of California signature foods
At least in northern California you can go with abalone, artichoke, dungeness crab, sour dough bread (unlike any other in the world), ollalie berry pie, any great Napa or Sonoma wine, Humboldt Fog cheese
to name a few GREAT dishes
Scrapple is disgusting.
Actually I love to eat in Chicago. My son in law loves the steak places. I like the ethnic places and he has recently introduced me to Arabic food. Love Greek town also. I just couldn't let facts get in the way of a good rant.
as is mustard based BBQ - YUCK!
Italian Beef from Portillo’s is off the chart #1.
I make the best chili on the planet, bar none.
INCOMING!
Yes, I've posted the receipt [and many FReepers have eaten it...and lived].
5.56mm
You may reassign a different food as a state's signature food (fried chicken v. burdoo, Dungeness crab v. cedar-planked salmon, boiled lobster dinna' v. lobster roll, black and blue steak v. cowboy cookies, etc.). You may certainly change rankings.
New Mexico has better Mexican than Arizona, says this resident of Arizona. Putting the rice filled burrito wannabees from California above either Arizona or New Mexico is obscene, as is most Mexican food in California. I’d piss on Californian Mexican food, but the cooker - they aren’t chefs there - probably did so already.
I concur, in my part of WV pepperoni rolls are much more popular than slaw dogs. Ramps are native from South Carolina to Canada. I hope to go digging some soon.
There's really nothing on the list in the original post that I'd rather eat, that's for sure... but it's gotta be "all the way" for me.
I agree, Italian Beef is much better than a Philly Cheese steak.
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