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The Most Iconic Food in Every State
Eat This, Not That ^ | 12/25/23 | Eat This, Not That

Posted on 01/17/2025 1:47:12 PM PST by DallasBiff

COLORADO: Rocky Mountain Oysters

Rocky mountain oysters aren't a type of seafood—they're actually fried bull testicles. Whether or not that sounds appetizing, these are a delicacy in Colorado.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: colorado; favoritefoods; food; rockymountainoysters
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To: DallasBiff
There's a national food chain called KENTUCKY Fried Chicken (and yes, it originated in Kentucky) and they pick bread pudding as the state's most iconic food? Even the Hot Brown is far better known than the bourbon bread pudding.

This list is absurd.

21 posted on 01/17/2025 3:25:55 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli

Utah = chocolate.

A food that Mormons couldn’t even eat until a few years ago.

Many still don’t.


22 posted on 01/17/2025 3:41:27 PM PST by DarrellZero
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To: DallasBiff

i live in colorado and have never seen a bull testicle on a menu, though i suppose a few hard core places might serve them as a conversation piece, but does that REALLY make the bull testicle THE “iconic” food in colorado?

however, we locals are very well aware of outstanding seasonal foods like Rocky Ford cantelopes and watermelons, Pueblo chiles, Olathe sweet corn, and Palisade peaches ...

YUM!


23 posted on 01/17/2025 3:50:19 PM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: GaltAdonis

Sorry but NJ’s iconic food is a pork roll, egg and cheese sandwich on a hard roll.


24 posted on 01/17/2025 4:28:40 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: heavy metal

the first person to eat a crab was a hungry individual...

the first person to eat an oyster was a hungry individual...

the first person to eat a clam started a movement...

All dope smokers


25 posted on 01/17/2025 5:02:47 PM PST by Bob434
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To: heavy metal

I’m kidding by the way


26 posted on 01/17/2025 5:03:06 PM PST by Bob434
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To: DallasBiff

They’re called calf fries in Texas and are delicious.


27 posted on 01/17/2025 5:07:11 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Tommy Revolts

Bruce’s Bar out in Severance. They do them up right, there.


28 posted on 01/17/2025 5:11:39 PM PST by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: jmacusa
Pork roll sandwiches may be iconic, however I, personally, don’t really
care for pork roll. Too salty for me.
29 posted on 01/17/2025 5:29:47 PM PST by GaltAdonis ( )
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To: Kenny500c
I get my Philly cheese steaks at the Yellow Submarine in Maple Shade, New Jersey.

Actually I get the cheese steak HOAGIE -
that has sliced tomatoes, onions and shredded lettuce on it in addition to
steak & cheese on an Amoroso’s roll. And YES, it must be an Amoroso’s torpedo roll.

30 posted on 01/17/2025 5:42:00 PM PST by GaltAdonis ( )
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To: DallasBiff

California Fish Tacos? Yuk. I was born and raised in California, been 74 years now and I only heard of Fish Tacos for the first time maybe a decade ago. Tried a bite once, never again. If anything French Dip Sandwiches are more Californian, they were invented at Philippe’s in Los Angeles.


31 posted on 01/17/2025 6:08:10 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: Dr. Sivana
I very occasionally taste a bit of Mac and cheese and then… no!

My wife made some this evening for the grandkids with sharp cheddar cheese, Colby-Jack, Jarlsberg, and Parmesan-Romano. I had seconds… and thirds.

32 posted on 01/17/2025 6:10:25 PM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free ( )
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To: Inyo-Mono

Fish tacos can be yummy if prepared properly.

Often, like most things, they are not.


33 posted on 01/17/2025 6:11:45 PM PST by Fuzz
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To: GaltAdonis

Too each his own.

But yeah, pork roll is way salty. Not good for the bp.


34 posted on 01/17/2025 6:22:47 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: nd76

Oh my, I LOVE Vernor’s Ginger ale!! Grew up on it. lolol...We used to buy it in glass bottles though... none of the canned junk!


35 posted on 01/17/2025 6:27:16 PM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: nd76
...also notice you mentioned scrapple. My mother came from Sharon, Penn and we grew up on scrapple. She would make it with sausage , corn meal, refrigerate it and then slice and fry it. We would pour lots of real maple syrup over it. I preferred pancakes myself! lol..

now, at 83 I think I would like to try that again.

36 posted on 01/17/2025 6:31:28 PM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: DallasBiff

A lot of these dishes sounded really good but the one that I’m going to make a point of trying is the maple cream pie.


37 posted on 01/17/2025 6:32:59 PM PST by CommerceComet (Re-elect Donald Trump - AGAIN)
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To: DallasBiff

I lived in Maryland for twelve years. Crab cakes and Philly cheese steaks were everywhere.

However, the best Philly Cheese Steak I can remember eating was from a food truck at a rural pistol and rifle range in Oregon, during their annual machine-gun shoot.


38 posted on 01/17/2025 7:35:45 PM PST by jimtorr
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To: DallasBiff

Alabama - fried green tomatoes? Under the assumption that you can bread and deep-fry most anything and it will be edible, I would have gone with fried okra.


39 posted on 01/17/2025 10:03:09 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: DallasBiff
Much to our dismay, Idaho's most iconic food isn't the nutritious potato. Finger steaks began as a means to repurpose leftover tenderloin and are made by cutting the meat into half-inch-wide strips, battering them in flour, and deep-frying them.

I've never had that problem, leftover tenderloin. It sounds tasty but if I ever eat it, it will be on purpose and involve no leftovers.

40 posted on 01/18/2025 3:39:24 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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