Brain Sandwich. Preferably from a calf but most of the time a pork brain. Battered, fried and served on a bun. Crunchy, pillowy, meaty awesomeness. If they're cooked properly, in that narrow window between mushy, undercooked and rubbery, overcooked, the sandwich should have the texture of really fluffy scrambled eggs with a crispy crust. I top mine with onion and spicy mustard but most people like disgusting pickles on theirs. Sure you can get these 1,000 mg of cholesterol bad boys in St. Louis, but most taverns and dive bars in Evansville have these on the menu or have been on Food Network/Travel Channel for 'em. Love these fuckers. Addendum: This shit is so local that you can only find it in the old German side of town, nothing on the east side of town. Just west. Also the best tavern in town was voted as the Manliest Restaurant in USA last year for the brain sandwich.
These things are rampant on the east coast of Canada, specifically Halifax. Its called a donair, everyone will say ohhh but we have those, but not with this white sauce with the consistency of man spunk. I personally like them just the sauce makes me gag.Seriously here is the recipe for the sauce to go over these things: 2/3 cup canned evaporated milk 2/3 cup sugar 1/4 cup white vinegar 1/2 tsp garlic powder eastern OR you can turn it into a pizza ( much better in my opinion).
Lutefisk! It tastes like shit, I can only stomach it while drunk or I'll projectile vomit. It reminds me of a clear jelly. I don't know much about how it's made but I know lye is used. If you have watched the movie Fight Club, the part where Edward Norton gets the chemical burn on his hand...that's lye. As told by author Garrison Keillor: "Lutefisk is cod that has been dried in a lye solution. It looks like the desiccated cadavers of squirrels run over by trucks, but after it is soaked and reconstituted and the lye is washed out and it's cooked, it looks more fish-related, though with lutefisk, the window of success is small. It can be tasty, but the statistics aren’t on your side. It is the hereditary delicacy of Swedes and Norwegians who serve it around the holidays, in memory of their ancestors, who ate it because they were poor. Most lutefisk is not edible by normal people. It is reminiscent of the afterbirth of a dog or the world's largest chunk of phlegm."
My hometown of Hazleton, PA has something similar. Senapes Cold Pitza is basically pizza that's eaten cold. Unlike tomato pie it has crust, tomato sauce and cheese. I'm not sure how it's made but it's cooked to a point then boxed. It's not refrigerated and somehow lasts about 2 days without going bad. Best picture I can find of it. There's 3 pieces of it along with a pizza boat (like a pizza danish) in a box. Spoiler
Seriously, fuck L&L. Any dirty little local deli will make a much superior plate than that shit. If you are ever in Lahaina on Maui, go to Nagasako's general store in the old Lahaina center. Probably my favorite lunch spot out of any island in Hawaii. Get the Shoyu chicken, or Kalua Pork, or whatever really. Cheap, excellent local food. End of story.
Hot Wing Hoagies. I've been to 20 US states, and Northeastern Pennsylvania is the only place that has them. When I say hot wing hoagie, I DO NOT mean a buffalo chicken sub. They are different. A buffalo wing sub is sloppy and makes you choke on your own breathing. A hot wing hoagie has the appropriated amount of wing sauce and has bleu cheese on the side for dipping. NOT FUCKING RANCH DRESSING Please do not argue with me about this, I'm very passionate about hot wing hoagies.
Kolaches. Yeah, I've had them other places, but nothing beats the ones at the Czech Stop in West, TX. My mom's family is Czech, and this is the only place they will eat a kolache. There's actually a pretty substantial Czech community in central Texas, so it's the real deal. It's heavenly, and this pic doesn't do it justice. I don't even really like sweet stuff, but on the way back from Austin we usually stop and get about a dozen. Yum.
Are you fucking kidding? Your best example of awesome regional Cincinnati cuisine is CANNED CHILI? Wow, you guys put it on spaghetti. That's SO CRAZY that just maybe no one will ever give a shit about anything you ever say about food again.
Schwartz's Montreal Hebrew Delicatessen, right on the Main. The best smoked meat in the world. Poutine varies too much from place to place, and frankly, it's a ton of salt and calories for the "goodness" it offers and most people only have a poutine every two or three months. Schwartz's on the other hand is a non-kosher work of art and practically melts in your mouth.
It unsettling how few people know that buffalo sauce is made with blue cheese dressing instead of ranch. You've earned some serious respect points here. FOCUS: Haggis, in all of its glory. Sheep's heart, liver and lungs mixed with mutton fat, onion and oatmeal, liberally seasoned with pepper and other like spices, baked in the sheep's stomach for several hours. Served with mashed potatoes and turnips, and a glass of scotch whiskey. Sounds like shit, looks like shit, but fuck me running it's a meal that can hold it's own. Best served after a couple drinks, during cold weather (January 25th is a good date, being the birthday of Robbie Burns), and prefaced by reciting Address to a Haggis. It's one of my favorite dishes, and can get you through a night of heavy drinking and celebrating.
This can be found in many cities in S.A. if you look around a bit, but it originated herem so it counts... The Bunny Chow. Basically, a hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with the curry of your choice. Pretty kickass. Just don't order the extra hot, or it might just blow your head clean off.
How retarded are you people? I had to bring canned chili to shanghai because I couldn't fly a whole restaurant over here could I? If you can't get the real thing or the frozen stuff from the store cans are the best back up. They have Cincinnati chili packets you can cook with meat yourself but it's not skyline's recipe so it's never as good. I'm willing to bet Skyline has more locations than 99% of the usual local diner grease on here.
This only goes to show that people from Ohio are idiots. Skyline isn't recognized as even real "chili" by the rest of the country, and for good reason.
Since when does chili have spaghetti underneath it? That's not chili, that's spicy spaghetti. Steak and Shake's canned chili is more authentic than that shit. Texans would consider that blasphemy, and for good reason. Do yourself a favor, fly to Texas or somewhere south of Lebron's bitch. Order up a bowl and put some hair on your ass.
I visited Ecuador last summer and they served their ceviche with popcorn and either plantain or banana chips (my guide said banana, but they tasted like plantain to me). I'm guessing it's a poverty food tradition, adding cheap ingredients to stretch out the food. I ended up eating most of the popcorn and chips on their own though... A few months earlier in the US, the girl who ended up being my guide in Ecuador freaked out over American brunch. She couldn't comprehend drinking a Bloody Mary or dipping sausage and bacon in syrup. I had a hard time explaining to her later that hominy (which they eat a lot of in Ecuador) is what we use to make grits. Apparently they haven't discovered that use for hominy yet.
I think your signature is very appropriate right now, because the fact that you 1. Think that chicken finger subs are made with ranch dressing and 2. Think that NE Pennsylvania is "the place" to get "hot wing hoagies" make your argument TOTALLY INVALID GO SABRES GO BILLS WOOOOOOO
Dude, try a little skyline without a pound of cheese on top. There is a reason they put that much on the chili, because it tastes like shit. You can put a pound of cheese on anything and make it good. Vegetarians even know this.
There is a reason that Memphis is one of the fattest cities in America... Excellent fried chicken (Gus's, and go to the original in Mason, about 40 miles northeast of Memphis- you'll thank me) plus the best barbecue on Earth (although Corky's is an abomination unto God and mankind), not to mention having families that cook like heroes equals deliciousness and a need to put Lipitor in the water supply. One word of advice: If any establishment offers "Memphis-style barbecue" outside of Memphis, ask to speak to the proprietor and bitchslap them senseless.
Ah yes, the only thing people from Memphis could be proud of enough to get up from their fat asses: their salty, fatty foods.