Your Favorite Regional Dish

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Posted by sugarpies • 9/18/09
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The folks here at HHM are such a diverse group! We come from all over the world.

Many of us grew up in one place and ended up in another. As a person interested in food history and its social aspects, I'm always fascinated to hear about the favorite traditional dishes of different regions.

So, what is your favorite traditional dish from the geographic area where you grew up?

Then, what is your favorite traditional dish from the geographic area where you live now (or a place you have visited)?

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Penny (9/18/09)

Great question! Favorite dish from where I grew up (Pennsylvania) is Chicken Corn Soup, followed closely by Shoo-Fly-Pie. Favorite dish from where I live now is Carolina BBQ and hush puppies!!

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  sugarpies (9/19/09)
  
  If you have a chance to travel down to South Carolina, Penny you might enjoy a little Mennonite bakery and a restaurant near McCormick, SC. The restaurant is called Yoder's and I can't recall the name of the bakery but ask anyone in town and they can tell you. Both are fabulous and they have some of the best Shoo-Fly Pie you could want!
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  Anniepooh (9/20/09)
  
  I make shoo-fly for hubby - he loves the stuff and I could live without lol
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amybyrd21 (9/18/09)

Fried deer and beans, tates, and corn bread. I am from the south. Born in Tampa, raised in Decatur alabama and now living in Iron city Tn. I keepoving north but I am still very southern.

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Anniepooh (9/18/09)

Well, I was born in Michigan, but raised in Pennsylvania (for 37 years now). That didn't figure in to the way I ate or cooked until I was married, because mom was from central Indiana and dad was from Michigan - his mom raised in Canada. When my parents divorced and mom remarried I was 7 and mom married an English man.

SO - after that long and drawn-out offering - my favorite regional dish would have to be pork and sauerkraut, salads with hot bacon dressing, Pasta e Fagioli (or, Pastafazool as the Philly folks call it) and whoopie pies. As I've been here since I was 4, where I grew up and where I am are one and the same, but what I was raised *on* is completely different than the standard regional fare.

We had down-home hearty fare with a big 'meat & potatoes' focus because of my step-father. I spent summers between Michigan and Indiana, so we ate wonderful things like pork tenderloin sandwiches (NOT real tenderloin- something all together different), fried green tomatoes and Grandma's buttermilk pie. My other Grandma (paternal) made roast rabbit and chocolate chiffon cake for everyone's birthday and the best Nanaimo's ever.

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  sugarpies (9/19/09)
  
  OK, what are "whoopie pies"? Got to know!
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  Anniepooh (9/20/09)
  
  I just posted some - pumpkin version. Whoopie pies are usually 2 small chocolate cakes with cream filling between them. The Amish here make some darn good ones.
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  sugarpies (9/20/09)
  
  Ahh, OK, similar to what we call "moon pies" except the filling is usually a flavored marshmallow base.
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Theresa111 (9/18/09)

Fried chicken, crab, oysters, shrimp and spaghetti. For dessert apple pie and ice cream.

Maryland and her eastern shores.

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trishag (9/19/09)

I was born in South Africa and one of my favorite foods growing up there was babotie. It's a beef pie, that reflects the real diversity of South Africa with spices from Malaysia and Indonesia and the influence of the vegetables from the Cape.

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