[Banshee Rider]

This doesn't originate from my area, but I figured it was worth posting. My girlfriend is from Kazakstan, with Russian and Ukrainian parents. A few times a month she cooks traditional dishes from back home, which I refuse to eat.

1. Salads: These aren't normal salads. One of them consists of boiled shredded beats, carrots, cabage, hard boiled eggs, pickled herring from a jar, blended with mayo. Its purple once mixed, and smells what I imagine the underside of an unwashed fupa is like.

2. Dessert: She once made a dessert that I seriously thought was a joke. Prunes stuffed with cream cheese, wrapped in bacon, baked in the oven. You guys cream yourselves over bacon, but these things belonged on fvcking fear factor.

3. Caviar: The biggest, nastiest, translucent orange colored fish eggs you could ever imagine. Slightly smaller than a small marble. Spread on chibatta bread that is generously buttered down. I once tried a bite, to satisfy my own curiousity. You can literally feel the fish eggs bursting in your mouth and shooting liquid as you chomp down. They taste like you think they would. I never knew I had a gag reflex until I tried a bite of this s***.

Needless to say, we dont see eye to eye when grocery shopping.

 

[Ciaran]

What's weird about Mexican joints in the South West ?

Brain tacos

Deep fried sheep heads

Tongue anything

Nopales (Cactus)

Menudo, while good has some pretty nasty meat in it.

Do we need to go on? There is normal mexican food everywhere, but every once in a while you run into a funky mexican food place that has nasty stuff.

 

[jsg04]

I must have one of these before I die even if it kills me.

It is pretty much the most amazing sandwich ever and you have to wash it down with an Iron City.

 

[TheTruth]

This doesn't originate from my area, but I figured it was worth posting. My girlfriend is from Kazakstan, with Russian and Ukrainian parents. A few times a month she cooks traditional dishes from back home, which I refuse to eat.

1. Salads: These aren't normal salads. One of them consists of boiled shredded beats, carrots, cabage, hard boiled eggs, pickled herring from a jar, blended with mayo. Its purple once mixed, and smells what I imagine the underside of an unwashed fupa is like.

2. Dessert: She once made a dessert that I seriously thought was a joke. Prunes stuffed with cream cheese, wrapped in bacon, baked in the oven. You guys cream yourselves over bacon, but these things belonged on fvcking fear factor.

3. Caviar: The biggest, nastiest, translucent orange colored fish eggs you could ever imagine. Slightly smaller than a small marble. Spread on chibatta bread that is generously buttered down. I once tried a bite, to satisfy my own curiousity. You can literally feel the fish eggs bursting in your mouth and shooting liquid as you chomp down. They taste like you think they would. I never knew I had a gag reflex until I tried a bite of this s***.

Needless to say, we dont see eye to eye when grocery shopping.

There is so much funny in here!

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

Brain tacos

Deep fried sheep heads

Tongue anything

Nopales (Cactus)

Menudo, while good has some pretty nasty meat in it.

Do we need to go on? There is normal mexican food everywhere, but every once in a while you run into a funky mexican food place that has nasty stuff.

Sorry, but that's not weird it's just practical. Hispanic cooking typically uses every part of the animal, nothing goes to waste. Fortunately there is a large Hispanic population here and plenty of tiendas that sell all of those ingredients. I don't eat red meat but am not at all weirded out by seeing some cow tongues in the meat cases.

 

[-BB-]

blasphemy! Scrapple, while having shady origins, is DELICIOUS!!!!

I agree!! Scrapple with some syrup on top is da-BOMB.

Another weird (but good) Philly thing is the Stromboli. The ORIGINAL pizza roll.

 

[jsg04]

Here is another local favorite from a hot dog shop called Coney Island.

It is the Sundowner. Grilled cheeseburger topped w/ a fried egg, mustard, chili sauce, and chopped onion.

 

[-BB-]

Brain tacos

Deep fried sheep heads

Tongue anything

Nopales (Cactus)

Menudo, while good has some pretty nasty meat in it.

Do we need to go on? There is normal mexican food everywhere, but every once in a while you run into a funky mexican food place that has nasty stuff.

I agree with AngyMetal... Most of those "nasty" mexican foods are actually really good!! I've lately developed a taste for Birria.. a tasty stewed goat dish. Or there is another place that has Pozole Verde. Sounds innocent enough until you pull a whole pig's foot out of the bowl.

 

[-BB-]

Italian Hero's, bagels (New Jersey + New York) Does anybody here know what an italian hero is that is not from NJ/NY/CT?

Yeah... Because the BEST italian hero (or Sub as we call it) is from Philly!!
Took my wife back east and gave her one. Now it is among her favorites.

The one thing I can't stand about Cali is the lack of real "sub shops". All the ones here are like glorified Subway's. I want a sub shop that knows the difference between Sweets and Hots.

 

[Dox]

I agree with AngyMetal... Most of those "nasty" mexican foods are actually really good!! I've lately developed a taste for Birria.. a tasty stewed goat dish. Or there is another place that has Pozole Verde. Sounds innocent enough until you pull a whole pig's foot out of the bowl.

Ever tyr pickled pork skin?

 

[maddog17]

When I lived near Boston there were fluffernutters.

Fluffernutters rule!!!! especially on soft white bread

 

[conor]

tasty roll - rashers(bacon), chips(fries), melted mozzarella and garlic mayonnaise in a baguette roll. get them from my local chipper, unbelievable. will try and get a pic

 

[boogenman]

Italian Hero's, bagels (New Jersey + New York) Does anybody here know what an italian hero is that is not from NJ/NY/CT?

not a clue but I know what a hungry man breakfast sandwich is

 

[boogenman]

To all the people that posted up the taco joints, WOW! I never knew what a fukkin taco was until today, that is some crazy weird and local food. I don't think there is a single 1st grader in the entire USA and Canada that does not know what a taco is.

Good ones:
Scrapple, i still don't know what the f^ck that is. Don't feel like typing scrapple into google.

Garbage plate- know what it is but it rules and is very very Rochester and no where else.

Sanwich with fries from Pittsburg-saw it on Man vs. Food but still cool and unique.

Not sure what a Italian Hero is but I think the Italian beef from chicago is pretty odd and localized. Along with that freak show green hot dog relish they eat there.

Here is another local WNY food. Webers mustard, the $hit is hot and horseradishy. Never seen anything like it.

Stosh must be busy watching hairy bear porn, I figured he would have posted up that silly drink he enjoys around xmas.

 

[boogenman]

Tacos

 

[Ciaran]

I agree with AngyMetal... Most of those "nasty" mexican foods are actually really good!! I've lately developed a taste for Birria.. a tasty stewed goat dish. Or there is another place that has Pozole Verde. Sounds innocent enough until you pull a whole pig's foot out of the bowl.

Practicality and personal taste aside they are still weird.

And to me they are nasty. When I eat something, it tastes awful and the gag reflex kicks in, well I call that pretty nasty. If you like it, well good for you. I tried them and didn't like them.

That horseradish mustard looks pretty yummy. ^^

 

[Leppah]

There's some weird crap the mormons have come up with out here. There's some stuff they call funeral potatoes. Way good actually. Seems kinda like scallop potatoes with cornflakes sprinkled on top of it sometimes. There are different versions.
They also do some funky jello thing with vegetables in it. I think it might be called frogs eye salad. I haven't tried that though. It could be pretty weird. I'm sure there are others.

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

To all the people that posted up the taco joints, WOW! I never knew what a fukkin taco was until today, that is some crazy weird and local food. I don't think there is a single 1st grader in the entire USA and Canada that does not know what a taco is.

That's like saying you know all there is to know about the sandwich because you've been to Subway.

Until you've eaten every style of taco known to humans, STFU.

Try Ceviche de Pulpo or Tacos de Lengua, if you're so adventurous.

Since you're too lazy for the google button, that's raw octopus and beef tongue tacos.

 

[jdcamb]

That's like saying you know all there is to know about the sandwich because you've been to Subway.

Until you've eaten every style of taco known to humans, STFU.

Try Ceviche de Pulpo or Tacos de Lengua, if you're so adventurous.

Since you're too lazy for the google button, that's raw octopus and beef tongue tacos.

I make Ortega Tacos with Ground Beef. They are OK but my nieces go bonkers over them. For that reason alone they are the best Tacos ever! I will ask them if they want Octopus Tacos. But I am pretty sure they will say no....

 

[Rip]

no one calls it Pork Roll here and nothing comes from Trenton besides crime.

Pork Roll is indeed from Trenton, NJ.

New England: Moxie.

Being partly of Hungarian decent, I've had blood sausage and hurdka.

Hurdka is a sausage made with pork, liver, rice, onion and seasonings stuffed into natural(intestine) casing.

 

[TheTruth]

Yeah... Because the BEST italian hero (or Sub as we call it) is from Philly!!
Took my wife back east and gave her one. Now it is among her favorites.

The one thing I can't stand about Cali is the lack of real "sub shops". All the ones here are like glorified Subway's. I want a sub shop that knows the difference between Sweets and Hots.

Thati s whats good about the east coast. You can get a good sandwich at every minimart/deli. Which are everywhere. Cali sandwiches must be mediocre in comparison. Hot ham and prosciutto are the ultimate sandwich meats

 

[TheTruth]

Yeah... Because the BEST italian hero (or Sub as we call it) is from Philly!!
Took my wife back east and gave her one. Now it is among her favorites.

The one thing I can't stand about Cali is the lack of real "sub shops". All the ones here are like glorified Subway's. I want a sub shop that knows the difference between Sweets and Hots.

Thati s whats good about the east coast. You can get a good sandwich at every minimart/deli. Which are everywhere. Cali sandwiches must be mediocre in comparison. Hot ham and prosciutto are the ultimate sandwich meats. I laugh in the face of subway! Same with Dominos. Why get dominos or pizza hut when you live where the greatest pizza and bagels are in the world.

 

[JRogers]

Thati s whats good about the east coast. You can get a good sandwich at every minimart/deli. Which are everywhere. Cali sandwiches must be mediocre in comparison. Hot ham and prosciutto are the ultimate sandwich meats

I love a good Italian combo (or Italian hero, I guess- ham, capicola, salami, cheese, shredded lettuce, tomato, oil and vinegar...). I am from north Jersey (worked in the same bike shop as IH8Rice in high school...a model employee...haha...), but New Haven does a pretty good job too.

Was near LA last week and ordered an Italian combo at a local shop. It came with a few different ingredients, toasted and with mustard...not a bad sandwich, I guess, but a bit strange and probably not as good as your very average deli in the NJ area.

 

[scrublover]

Whoopie pies made by my wife. Particularly the carrot-cake variety.

I don't care for, but my wife loves: glass of coffee milk paired with a Fluffernutter.

The French style burgers from the Sycamore.

Gobs of various awesome south-american places (and bakeries!) around town, but very little good Mexican food.

The South African, and the Jamaican places by me. Two places near my work where I can get my curried goat and oxtail on? F*** yeah! Ooh, and the Iranian run fish and chip shack on Main St. that has a side menu of home cooked stuff. They have a spicy lamb stew and sesame naan bread that freakin' rocks!

Been slowly dipping my taste buds into more of the local Portuguese stuff too. Tasty, crispy yet tender octopus and squid. Yum!

 

[narlus]

Menudo, while good has some pretty nasty meat in it.

 

[jonKranked]

Scrapple, i still don't know what the f^ck that is. Don't feel like typing scrapple into google.

Ok so you know how hot dogs are made from the leftovers? Scrapple is made from whats leftover after hot dogs.

At this point the best that can be done with it is make a big batch of meat broth, mix in some corn meal and boil it down until its pretty much a paste. From there its pressed into loaf form, sliced, and fried. served with either maple syrup or ketchup.

 

[boogenman]

Ok, I have seen scrapple before on TV. I don't understand all the hate for it, sounds good. Anything is good with real maple syrup on it. Then again I will eat almost anything, the half chicken/duck in the egg is where I draw the line.

 

[eaterofdog]

Ok so you know how hot dogs are made from the leftovers? Scrapple is made from whats leftover after hot dogs.

Rooter + tooter + cornmeal = scrapple

It ain't that bad.

 

[-BB-]

Hot ham and prosciutto are the ultimate sandwich meats.

That Hot ham is called Cappicola. I may be spelling it wrong though.

Cappicola, Prosciuttto and salami with lettuce, tomato, sweets and hot peppers, oil vinegar, pepper and spices... Oh and maybe some pickles.
Now THAT is an italian sub (sorry, refuse to call them hero's or grinders, despite my 5 years in boston).

 

[-BB-]

Rooter + tooter + cornmeal = scrapple

It ain't that bad.

Don't forget the secret spice blend!! It has to have that sweet/spicy taste to it.

 

[profro]

Ramps

http://www.flagpond.com/festival/ramp/fest.htm

 

[-BB-]

Oh, there is another one down here in the OC that is one of my favorites.

Vietnamese Baguette sandwiches!! Fresh baguette that they spread a little lard on (or Asian mayo) with bbq pork, chicken or pate with deli meat. Add some pickled carrots, cucumber, clilantro and jallepenos. Then sell it for $2.50 or less. I could eat three in one sitting. I like to dip mine in fish sauce with siraracha.

 

[buildyourown]

Ok so you know how hot dogs are made from the leftovers? Scrapple is made from whats leftover after hot dogs.

At this point the best that can be done with it is make a big batch of meat broth, mix in some corn meal and boil it down until its pretty much a paste. From there its pressed into loaf form, sliced, and fried. served with either maple syrup or ketchup.

Dude, you way off.
Despite my current location, I grew up in PA dutch country. I know my scrapple and potpie.

Pork "scrap". Yeah, the same stuff as a hot dog but not ground into mush. Think 1/4" chop. Add corn meal as a binder.

 

[BurlyShirley]

Ok so you know how hot dogs are made from the leftovers? Scrapple is made from whats leftover after hot dogs.

At this point the best that can be done with it is make a big batch of meat broth, mix in some corn meal and boil it down until its pretty much a paste. From there its pressed into loaf form, sliced, and fried. served with either maple syrup or ketchup.

Then what is souse?

 

[laura]

Memphis: Peppermint sticks stuck in giant pickles.

 

[X3pilot]

Memphis: Peppermint sticks stuck in giant pickles.

Winner.

That is just f'n gross and weirder than weird.

 

[moff_quigley]

Oh, there is another one down here in the OC that is one of my favorites.

Vietnamese Baguette sandwiches!! Fresh baguette that they spread a little lard on (or Asian mayo) with bbq pork, chicken or pate with deli meat. Add some pickled carrots, cucumber, clilantro and jallepenos. Then sell it for $2.50 or less. I could eat three in one sitting. I like to dip mine in fish sauce with siraracha.

These rule. My mother in law (my wife is vietnamese) gets these from a vietnamese market every now and then. I've never tried dipping them in nuoc cham though. The ones she gets have the pate and basically 2-3 different slices of mystery meat. I like the slice that has the cartilage chunks in it.

 

[-BB-]

These rule. My mother in law (my wife is vietnamese) gets these from a vietnamese market every now and then. I've never tried dipping them in nuoc cham though. The ones she gets have the pate and basically 2-3 different slices of mystery meat. I like the slice that has the cartilage chunks in it.

Ask her to pick up a BBQ pork one for you next time. They are BY FAR the best ones IMO. We have a chain down here called Lee's that makes a decent one, but I always prefer to go up to Garden Grove to a little place called Top Baguette. I'm always the only Mi Trang (pronounced "me-jung", which means "White Guy" in Vietnamese).

My other favorite is the Cha Goi (egg rolls) that you wrap in lettuce, mint and pickled carrot and then dip in the nuoc cham.

Funny story on the Mi Trang thing... I was at a viet resturant with one other caucasian, an aisan/white guy, and a chinese guy. We all were using the chop-sticks but the chinese(american) guy asked for a fork. I turned to the waiter and pointed at the chinese guy and called him a Mi Trang. The waiter took a second to think about it and then busted out laughing. Of all the guys at the table, it was the CHINESE guy asking for a fork. LOL...

 

[laura]

Winner.

That is just f'n gross and weirder than weird.

It's actually and oddly, not that bad. It's not good though, so i don't know why it's so popular.

 

[memnuts]

Wow nobody from NJ mentioned Texas weiners. Oh god so good. A deep fried hotdog with chili, onions, mustard so good. Best place to get them is the Getty Grill in Paterson on the corner of Crooks and Getty Ave. Another thing nobody has mentioned is the medicinal properties of a Tayler ham egg and cheese after a night of heavey drinking. I am pretty sure it is the coating of fat that it provides that prevents a hangover.