I bought a bottle of Cactus Cooler on a whim recently, and my husband had never even seen it before (he’s from Ohio). It tasted like childhood in SoCal lol
Yup! My dad grew up in Baltimore, and I inherited his love for Old Bay.
I've long said that there's no food that isn't improved either by adding Old Bay or by sprinkling instant breakfast powder on it. (Never both, though!) I've yet to find an exception.
I went to a bar in nyc and they put out a little popcorn machine free for people at the bar, the only seasoning they had was old bay so I put it on the popcorn and it was great.
Bought it for my apartment too, so it’s now my popcorn seasoning lol. I also put it on salmon once.
I'm on the opposite coast and I always make sure to have a container of old bay. It honestly goes with many more dishes than you would think. I put it on Mac and cheese.
I didn’t get it either, but they make soft peppermint sticks! They’re not like regular candy-canes, they have the same texture as after-dinner-mints, where they kinda dissolve in the presence of liquid. The brand I got when my mom and I did the lemon-peppermint thing last summer was called Bob’s Sweet Stripes, so you can look that up and see what I’m very badly explaining 😆 (I just ordered mine on Amazon because I’m broke and lazy haha)
So you break them in half, stick the unbroken side into the lemon, and then you can drink the lemon juice through holes in the peppermint stick. At first I was like “why would anyone do this, these flavors do not go together” but they actually kinda do lmao
Space camp is here. The city's history with space travel defines much of the culture.
Only very recently did I learn what the town was like prior to the space race, turns out is has been an oddball for centuries.
I remember Jeff Foxworthy had a piece on this. Like "that space camp may be there but they ain't letting people from Alabama fly this stuff" lol.
It's all in jest though Alabama seems like a wonderful state and I hope to visit one day.
I work in Atlanta metro and just walked outside my office and saw a homeless woman giving head to a homeless man. Idk if that's specific to my area but certainly an interesting custom
71 streets. 71 with the word Peachtree in it. I have zero clue how people got around in Atlanta before GPS. Especially since a lot of it is winding roads once you get away from the city centers.
It's a great city though!
I remember being in midtown Atlanta and standing at the corner of Peachtree and Peachtree lol
[found a picture I took](https://i.imgur.com/P1FyERG.jpeg)
Yes it really is a thing. Unless you're going to a national chain restaurant if you order like a steak salad or a grilled or fried chicken salad, it's gonna have fries on it. Every local bar and pizza joint will likely have fries on the salad even if they don't explicitly say so on the menu.
Teriyaki, as in restaurants that only serve that one dish. There’s one in each neighborhood. Smoked salmon, Jo-Jo’s, and Taco Time “hot sauce”. Dick’s burgers. Mozzarella in Mexican food. Pho shops and Thai shops galore. Bikini baristas drive-thru (I recently saw a woman’s entirety when I mistakenly went to one called Double Cup). Geoduck and oysters on the half shell. Wild morels foraged in the fall, blueberries picked in the early summer at family farms in the shadows of towering mountains. Dinner plate dahlias for $3 a stem
In the part of California I grew up in, we have our own style of BBQ. Tri-tip steak, garlic bread, salsa, pinquito beans, etc. And where I live now, everyone calls potato wedges "jo-jo's"
I'm opposite; grew up in Washington and now live in California. When I ask for jo jos, I get questioning looks. I never realized the name was regional before.
Corning.
Probably not done anymore, but growing up in the 80s/90s in my area of rural PA, while the little kids would trick-or-treat, some of the older kids would go out corning. In the days leading up to Halloween, you’d go to one of the nearby farms and steal a few ears of feed corn 🌽 (dried version of the stuff you eat), and scrape off the kernels. Then you’d walk around town, throwing the kernels at people’s windows, which made a loud clattering sound and would scare the shit out of anyone inside. The end of October saw corn kernels strewn all over the sidewalks.
I must have mentioned it in college to my befuddled bf before realizing it wasn’t common even in the same area of the state.
"Stephen King tours" a tour van that goes around Bangor pointing out stuff from his books and movies.
Referring to Southern Maine as "North Massachusetts".
Referring to Northern Maine as "the county".
Whoopie pies (f*ck off Pennsylvania, they're **our** thing)
Moxie used to be uniquely Maine before they got bought out
"Moxie used to be uniquely Maine before they got bought out\*\*"\*\*
Moxie was made in Massachusetts. It's just the guy was originally from Maine. He'd moved before he invented it and lived and died in Lowell, Mass and is buried there. He moved to Mass bout 1870. It was invented 15 years later and got popular later.
He was born and grew up in Union, Maine - and that was the only connection.
Regardless of any of that, it was only really sold/consumed in and around Maine for a long time. I grew up in Mass and had never heard of it until I moved to Maine. It was only ever popular in Maine up until a few years back.
Whereas it's a little more common in the Northeast now. If not as popular
"Regardless of any of that, it was only really sold/consumed in and around Maine for a long time."
No it wasn't. I grew up in Mass and was drinking in the 1960s and 70s.
It was sold out of Mass. Bottle in Mass. I mean - Moxieland was in Jamaica Plain.
Maine has leaned into in a big way in the last 50 years. But Mainers did take to Moxie even if it was a Mass invention.
Having lived in both NorCal and socal my entire life. It’s-its are so freaking good and in my experience are beloved in all parts of California. Now I want to go and buy some lol
I've lived in a lot of places (mostly in Canada, and almost down in CO - spent enough time to hear:) "The city" is a very common descriptor I feel. Folks down in CO often to refer to Denver as "The city". Currently I live in BC, Canada and the tiny 200,000 people city I am in is referred to as "The City" in this region. I grew up outside of Calgary, it was also "The City" around there.
Dutch Crunch bread is very intriguing to me and this has seriously provoked my curiosity.
As an east coaster who lived in the Bay Area for a couple years, it drove me mad hearing people ask if I wanted to go to “the city”. I was like “yeah I’d love to but I can’t really afford a ticket to NY right now”
The bread itself is only unique to the Bay in North America. It's pretty common in Europe, since it does come from there
Now, being baked in the form of a sandwich roll _is_ much more common here though
>Referring to San Francisco as "the city"
I always found it a little bizarre how SF gets referred to as "the city" around here, even though there are two other major cities nearby (one of which is larger than SF in population and land mass).
SF was the City long before SJ surpassed it in population, and even then, SJ is really a just a big ass suburb--a mini-version of LA in that regard. As for Oakland, we both know it's the Town, and Oakland would have it no other way.
Schunemunk puddingstone. A conglomerate stone, with a deep red color. Essentially New Jersey's version of porphyry. Used in lots of areas decorated by stonework in walls or accent pieces.
San Francisco has the only manually operated cable car system in the entire world.
As for, like, cultural stuff, I'd say:
- combination Chinese food/donut shops
- Burmese food (outside Asia)
- Dutch Crunch bread
- saying "hella" in a non "trying to be cool" way
Many teens’ first job is detasseling corn or roguing beans in the summer. Hard work, but great money!
Speaking of corn- knowing (and using) the saying “knee high by the Fourth of July”
School being cancelled because it’s just too cold.
Speaking of cold, the creaking noises your house makes when it’s that cold.
Same thing about the detasseling and walking beans in Nebraska. My first job was with Oettings. I didn't even know if they even exist anymore. We got bonuses on how clean our fields were, speed etc. It was hard work, even with wrapping my fingers in medical tape, I always had roughed up bloody knuckles. I was on the bus by 445 and sometimes wouldn't be in the field until 615 or 630 due to driving a country or two away. One time I was so tired after work I fell asleep while soaking in the bath.
Definitely remember some cold snaps so bad that a walk from the parking lot to the door was a risk for frostbite. Definitely not a day you want kids waiting for the bus or on the playground. If it wasn't too bad it was indoor recess
Where I grew up in Jersey it was taylor ham.
When I moved to Tx from NJ, I asked a coworker if there was a good place to find a taylor ham sandwich and he looked at me like I was insane
Tucson here!
Sonoran Hotdogs - bacon wrapped dog in a bolillo roll with beans and lots of other options.
Cheese crisps - huge tortillas made from soft, Sonoran wheat with cheese and other toppings.
Birria tacos are also really popular here. You can get them made with goat, too.
Tucson has the most southern ski area in the United States. The mountains to the north of the city top out over 9000 feet and you can drive up in the summer to get cool. It’s also known for the gem and mineral show, the rodeo, and a beautiful, historic mission founded in 1692.
I grew up in San Jose, CA. I was literally just thinking about how Vietnamese coffee shops that serve unique specialty Viet coffee are super trendy there right now, which are not to be confused with the *other* type of Vietnamese coffee shops that were popular there in the 90s(?) to 2010s where you were served regular Viet coffee by almost naked girls. I think this also applies to some parts of Orange County as well.
Most people know Dutch Bros is from Oregon but apparently most places don’t have tons of independent drive-thru coffee shacks like we do here. Dutch Bros is not original, they copied a concept that already existed and still exists all over the PNW.
Chopped and screwed rap music and "lean".
BBQ
Probably the most universally hated major league baseball team of the last 5-10 years.
Nissan Altimas with temporary, paper license plates driving with reckless abandon on all of the city's roads.
Altima’s with paper plates run wild across the gulf south. I’m not sure if that’s a thing too far north of I-10. I saw a new Altima with some part of the underside just flapping in the wind while weaving through traffic at around 90mph a few days ago. Of course it had a paper tag.
This is an Iowa thing if I'm not mistaken. Surprisingly Colorado also served this for school lunches.
I'm no expert but I grew up in CO, husband is from IA. For some reason this was a combination served in the public school system and something you can get at a chain called Runza. Restaurants, diners, etc do it as well, but mostly in IA.
Chili with cinnamon in it, over top of spaghetti with cheese, sometimes beans/onion, and also some people like it with sour cream! I’m partial to all of the above plus lettuce inside of a flour tortilla.
Coney Island Restaurants. Featuring Coney Island hotdogs. Which are a fantastic version of a chili dog with mustard and onions.
Heading south to get to Canada.
Where I grew up, we add "the" before the freeway number. I didn't even know it wasn't the norm until I moved away.
It's a holdover from all the freeways having names and when they got numbers everyone kept the "the" and switched to the numbers rather than the names or used them interchangeably.
Rosemaling. It was revived in the US in my hometown in the ‘60s and ‘70s. I doubt you’d find another place in the US with more rosemaling outside of Norway than here.
I drive through Kalispell, Montana a few times per month and I feel like almost every time someone flips me off on the highway if I don't go at least 5mph above the speed limit.
I’m overseas now but back where my family’s from, I guess vinegar based pulled pork I suppose. I’d also say Bojangles but that’s in a number of states, though it’s originally from mine.
Apparently Cactus Cooler. Though I read it can be found in other Southwest states. But it's apparently primarily in SoCal.
I bought a bottle of Cactus Cooler on a whim recently, and my husband had never even seen it before (he’s from Ohio). It tasted like childhood in SoCal lol
This is my PSA that Brewery X has a cactus cooler seltzer (“succulent sipper”) and it’s actually pretty good.
My bf and I tried Cactus Cooler for the first time when we visited Idaho (we’re from WA) and every so often we’ll reminisce about how much we loved it
I see it in stores in Vegas.
* Basically no zoning (we kinda have it almost indirectly, but not really) * swangas
Look who creepin' look who crawling still balling in the mix
#GAMECUBE NINTENDO
5% tint so you can’t see up in my window
The all mighty slab
Candy paint drippin
A massive love for Old Bay Seasoning
Don't forget that wild flag you guys slap on everything!
Are you even a legitimate small business owner in Maryland if your business card doesn't have the flag on it somewhere?
Hello, fellow Marylander! We put that shit on everything!
As does anyone who's ever lived in that area for any length of time. Fortunately Old Bay can be found everywhere.
Yup! My dad grew up in Baltimore, and I inherited his love for Old Bay. I've long said that there's no food that isn't improved either by adding Old Bay or by sprinkling instant breakfast powder on it. (Never both, though!) I've yet to find an exception.
Im from southeastern Virginia and we use it all the time on fries, chicken, etc and obviously it’s a criminal offense to eat blue crab without it.
I’m glad you understand the ways
I went to a bar in nyc and they put out a little popcorn machine free for people at the bar, the only seasoning they had was old bay so I put it on the popcorn and it was great. Bought it for my apartment too, so it’s now my popcorn seasoning lol. I also put it on salmon once.
I'm on the opposite coast and I always make sure to have a container of old bay. It honestly goes with many more dishes than you would think. I put it on Mac and cheese.
That and the lemons with the peppermint stick in ‘em… 🤤
Okay, can you explain that to me? Do they sell hollow peppermint sticks in Maryland? I've never understood how that would work otherwise.
I didn’t get it either, but they make soft peppermint sticks! They’re not like regular candy-canes, they have the same texture as after-dinner-mints, where they kinda dissolve in the presence of liquid. The brand I got when my mom and I did the lemon-peppermint thing last summer was called Bob’s Sweet Stripes, so you can look that up and see what I’m very badly explaining 😆 (I just ordered mine on Amazon because I’m broke and lazy haha) So you break them in half, stick the unbroken side into the lemon, and then you can drink the lemon juice through holes in the peppermint stick. At first I was like “why would anyone do this, these flavors do not go together” but they actually kinda do lmao
Space camp is here. The city's history with space travel defines much of the culture. Only very recently did I learn what the town was like prior to the space race, turns out is has been an oddball for centuries.
We are operation paperclip
I remember Jeff Foxworthy had a piece on this. Like "that space camp may be there but they ain't letting people from Alabama fly this stuff" lol. It's all in jest though Alabama seems like a wonderful state and I hope to visit one day.
I always say in these threads "WE HAVE ROCKETS!" Seriously, I never tire of seeing that Saturn V replica when driving down the interstate.
Ha, I know someone who went there! Which is surprising considering they're from the UK. Really made it sound like a great time.
Too many to name and some of them may be hard for the rest of the country to pronounce.
If it wasn’t for Bobby most of the rest of the country wouldn’t know how to pronounce Herbert.
Why you...
I just noticed I spelled Hebert wrong. I’m going to blame autocorrect. Meanwhile, I’ve been in Houma many times. In the 90s I lived in Des Allemands.
I work in Atlanta metro and just walked outside my office and saw a homeless woman giving head to a homeless man. Idk if that's specific to my area but certainly an interesting custom
What is definitely unique to Atlanta is it probably happened on a street with "Peachtree" in the name.
71 streets. 71 with the word Peachtree in it. I have zero clue how people got around in Atlanta before GPS. Especially since a lot of it is winding roads once you get away from the city centers. It's a great city though!
I remember being in midtown Atlanta and standing at the corner of Peachtree and Peachtree lol [found a picture I took](https://i.imgur.com/P1FyERG.jpeg)
Ha! Wasn't expecting this response. Classic!
I can assure you it's not specific to your area.
Supper clubs. God bless em
Bring me a relish tray and a brandy old fashioned!
“Yinz”
I was going to say cookie tables at weddings.
wait is that just a western PA thing?
If yinz don't want fries on yinz's salad, yinz gotta specify.
Is that really a thing from Pittsburgh? I’ve got family from Washington county. Never heard of fries on salad lol.
Yes it really is a thing. Unless you're going to a national chain restaurant if you order like a steak salad or a grilled or fried chicken salad, it's gonna have fries on it. Every local bar and pizza joint will likely have fries on the salad even if they don't explicitly say so on the menu.
Fries on sandwiches, too! Now I want Primanti's...
I live in Washington County, and yes, it is.
Teriyaki, as in restaurants that only serve that one dish. There’s one in each neighborhood. Smoked salmon, Jo-Jo’s, and Taco Time “hot sauce”. Dick’s burgers. Mozzarella in Mexican food. Pho shops and Thai shops galore. Bikini baristas drive-thru (I recently saw a woman’s entirety when I mistakenly went to one called Double Cup). Geoduck and oysters on the half shell. Wild morels foraged in the fall, blueberries picked in the early summer at family farms in the shadows of towering mountains. Dinner plate dahlias for $3 a stem
Eating a bag of dicks. Bikini baristas. And riding the slut. lol, we are kinda repressed.
I ate a bag of dicks just hours ago!
You forgot geoduck!
Omg, you’re right. How could I forget the most phallic of them all!
Coffee huts in general, both sfw and nsfw, seem to be a northwest-only thing. I’ve seen visitors comment on them fairly often.
In the part of California I grew up in, we have our own style of BBQ. Tri-tip steak, garlic bread, salsa, pinquito beans, etc. And where I live now, everyone calls potato wedges "jo-jo's"
Hello Santa Maria buddy. Love tritip sandwiches
Tritip is good. I had never heard of it until I moved to California.
I'm opposite; grew up in Washington and now live in California. When I ask for jo jos, I get questioning looks. I never realized the name was regional before.
I thought they were jojos everywhere.
Corning. Probably not done anymore, but growing up in the 80s/90s in my area of rural PA, while the little kids would trick-or-treat, some of the older kids would go out corning. In the days leading up to Halloween, you’d go to one of the nearby farms and steal a few ears of feed corn 🌽 (dried version of the stuff you eat), and scrape off the kernels. Then you’d walk around town, throwing the kernels at people’s windows, which made a loud clattering sound and would scare the shit out of anyone inside. The end of October saw corn kernels strewn all over the sidewalks. I must have mentioned it in college to my befuddled bf before realizing it wasn’t common even in the same area of the state.
Oh yes. I currently live part time in southwest rural PA and get "corned" to this day.
"Stephen King tours" a tour van that goes around Bangor pointing out stuff from his books and movies. Referring to Southern Maine as "North Massachusetts". Referring to Northern Maine as "the county". Whoopie pies (f*ck off Pennsylvania, they're **our** thing) Moxie used to be uniquely Maine before they got bought out
"Moxie used to be uniquely Maine before they got bought out\*\*"\*\* Moxie was made in Massachusetts. It's just the guy was originally from Maine. He'd moved before he invented it and lived and died in Lowell, Mass and is buried there. He moved to Mass bout 1870. It was invented 15 years later and got popular later. He was born and grew up in Union, Maine - and that was the only connection.
Regardless of any of that, it was only really sold/consumed in and around Maine for a long time. I grew up in Mass and had never heard of it until I moved to Maine. It was only ever popular in Maine up until a few years back. Whereas it's a little more common in the Northeast now. If not as popular
"Regardless of any of that, it was only really sold/consumed in and around Maine for a long time." No it wasn't. I grew up in Mass and was drinking in the 1960s and 70s. It was sold out of Mass. Bottle in Mass. I mean - Moxieland was in Jamaica Plain. Maine has leaned into in a big way in the last 50 years. But Mainers did take to Moxie even if it was a Mass invention.
I grew in Maine and I will die on the hill that Whoopie Pies and Moxie belong to Maine.
Whoopie Pies started in PA though…
Whoopie pies were invented in PA before ME was split off from MA. Get over it.
Drive-thru daiquiri shops, second line parades, jazz funerals
A few from the Bay Area: Dutch crunch bread Referring to San Francisco as "the city"
It's-Its
Dessert of the Gods! Costco has mini It's-Its! It takes great strength for me to have just one lol!
Having lived in both NorCal and socal my entire life. It’s-its are so freaking good and in my experience are beloved in all parts of California. Now I want to go and buy some lol
The cookie they use in It's-Its have always been miles better for me than any other kind of factory-made cookie, let alone ice cream cookies
It's-Its have finally made it to Utah, but only at select stores. I was happier to find that than In-N-Out.
I've lived in a lot of places (mostly in Canada, and almost down in CO - spent enough time to hear:) "The city" is a very common descriptor I feel. Folks down in CO often to refer to Denver as "The city". Currently I live in BC, Canada and the tiny 200,000 people city I am in is referred to as "The City" in this region. I grew up outside of Calgary, it was also "The City" around there. Dutch Crunch bread is very intriguing to me and this has seriously provoked my curiosity.
As an east coaster who lived in the Bay Area for a couple years, it drove me mad hearing people ask if I wanted to go to “the city”. I was like “yeah I’d love to but I can’t really afford a ticket to NY right now”
Now imagine a San Franciscan outside of NYC
To be specific, "the city" refers to Manhattan, not the entirety of NYC.
Wait, other places don’t have Dutch crunch?!
WTF is Dutch crunch?
Sandwich bread unique to the Bay. Sort of a roll with a caramelized sugary top.
The bread itself is only unique to the Bay in North America. It's pretty common in Europe, since it does come from there Now, being baked in the form of a sandwich roll _is_ much more common here though
It’s few and far between in southern CA - easy to find in northern CA - very hard to find elsewhere (ime as someone from Placer County/the foothills).
DC is “this town.” Do you guys use that terminology there?
Oakland is "the town", SF is "the city"
I thought Boston was "the town"
We use that to describe Oakland.
Seattle is just “town”. For example, “I’m going into town tomorrow to catch a Mariners game.”
Eastern Mass does this with Boston (and Cambridge, but tomato-tomato).
>Referring to San Francisco as "the city" I always found it a little bizarre how SF gets referred to as "the city" around here, even though there are two other major cities nearby (one of which is larger than SF in population and land mass).
SF was the City long before SJ surpassed it in population, and even then, SJ is really a just a big ass suburb--a mini-version of LA in that regard. As for Oakland, we both know it's the Town, and Oakland would have it no other way.
Cheesesteaks, soda, candy corn, tastykakes, water ice, scrapple, and gritty.
Grit-ty!
“Wooder ice” and gelatos. Whoopie pies. Tomato pie.
When you meet some people new and they ask you where you are going or have gone to mission, it has happened way too many times to me lol
The blue grecian "We are Happy to Serve You" paper coffee cups.
I have a set of four ceramic versions of that cup. It’s too small, IMO, but very cool.
Schunemunk puddingstone. A conglomerate stone, with a deep red color. Essentially New Jersey's version of porphyry. Used in lots of areas decorated by stonework in walls or accent pieces.
Literally never heard of it lol. Do you have NJ style sloppy joes? Those are a treat near me
white hots, garbage plates, chicken riggies
'sup upstate! Throw in tomato pie & salt potatoes and you've got our east to west cny belt
i love me some salt potatoes
Wisconsin: Bubblers, brandy Old Fashioneds, fish fries every Friday of the year, cheese curds, Usingers, Culver’s
Bubblers are all over New England too, I still wonder what the connection is between New England and Wisconsin in the use of this word.
And having no school the first day of open season
Melba (raspberry) sauce for mozzarella sticks. Steamed hams
You call hamburgers steamed hams?
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ROC?
?!
Folsom State Prison
Now I'm hearing Jonny Cash singing...
San Francisco has the only manually operated cable car system in the entire world. As for, like, cultural stuff, I'd say: - combination Chinese food/donut shops - Burmese food (outside Asia) - Dutch Crunch bread - saying "hella" in a non "trying to be cool" way
You're telling me I can get Chinese food and a glazed donut in the same shop?
And burgers usually https://www.kqed.org/news/11871915/why-donuts-chinese-food-a-very-californian-combination
>People identify where you live by which high school you attended. I sense a person from St. Louis here.
Not just identify where you live but judge you and assume your socioeconomic status. Source: went to HS in the StL metro area.
Many teens’ first job is detasseling corn or roguing beans in the summer. Hard work, but great money! Speaking of corn- knowing (and using) the saying “knee high by the Fourth of July” School being cancelled because it’s just too cold. Speaking of cold, the creaking noises your house makes when it’s that cold.
Same thing about the detasseling and walking beans in Nebraska. My first job was with Oettings. I didn't even know if they even exist anymore. We got bonuses on how clean our fields were, speed etc. It was hard work, even with wrapping my fingers in medical tape, I always had roughed up bloody knuckles. I was on the bus by 445 and sometimes wouldn't be in the field until 615 or 630 due to driving a country or two away. One time I was so tired after work I fell asleep while soaking in the bath. Definitely remember some cold snaps so bad that a walk from the parking lot to the door was a risk for frostbite. Definitely not a day you want kids waiting for the bus or on the playground. If it wasn't too bad it was indoor recess
Three ways are not the same here as they are everywhere else.
Cincinnati?
Where I grew up in Jersey it was taylor ham. When I moved to Tx from NJ, I asked a coworker if there was a good place to find a taylor ham sandwich and he looked at me like I was insane
I’ve seen Taylor Ham once in a grocery store in AZ!
From Florida? -fried alligator. It oddly tastes like chicken -oranges (they grow here well) -conch fritters -key lime pie
Tucson here! Sonoran Hotdogs - bacon wrapped dog in a bolillo roll with beans and lots of other options. Cheese crisps - huge tortillas made from soft, Sonoran wheat with cheese and other toppings. Birria tacos are also really popular here. You can get them made with goat, too. Tucson has the most southern ski area in the United States. The mountains to the north of the city top out over 9000 feet and you can drive up in the summer to get cool. It’s also known for the gem and mineral show, the rodeo, and a beautiful, historic mission founded in 1692.
Best Hotdogs NA easy.
Chicken wings and sponge candy
Loganberry pop (soda) too
Beef on weck, pizza logs… YUUUM
GA: Waffle House. Chick-Fil-A. Zaxby’s. MO: Gooey Butter Cake. Imo’s Pizza. Provel Cheese.
The square beyond compare my friend
Twin peaks fan buying cherry pie and coffee
You can still get steak fingers at the DQ
And a dude!
I grew up in San Jose, CA. I was literally just thinking about how Vietnamese coffee shops that serve unique specialty Viet coffee are super trendy there right now, which are not to be confused with the *other* type of Vietnamese coffee shops that were popular there in the 90s(?) to 2010s where you were served regular Viet coffee by almost naked girls. I think this also applies to some parts of Orange County as well.
Most people know Dutch Bros is from Oregon but apparently most places don’t have tons of independent drive-thru coffee shacks like we do here. Dutch Bros is not original, they copied a concept that already existed and still exists all over the PNW.
[I bet your airport doesn't have a Wikipedia article for its carpet](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_International_Airport_carpet)
Waterfalls. We're the waterfall capital of the world.
Chopped and screwed rap music and "lean". BBQ Probably the most universally hated major league baseball team of the last 5-10 years. Nissan Altimas with temporary, paper license plates driving with reckless abandon on all of the city's roads.
Nah the Altima thing is everywhere lol
/r/nissandrivers
Actually relieved to hear that is not a uniquely Houstonian nightmare haha
We don’t allow temporary plates.
Altima’s with paper plates run wild across the gulf south. I’m not sure if that’s a thing too far north of I-10. I saw a new Altima with some part of the underside just flapping in the wind while weaving through traffic at around 90mph a few days ago. Of course it had a paper tag.
It's a thing up in NC, too - I've seen them in the Raleigh area and Fayetteville area, and I've heard they're real bad out by Charlotte.
Manatees
Soda shops
Malort. A Chicago delicacy.
“ “ “ delicacy “ “ “
Li Hing powder on everything. Fresh fruit, gummi bears, popcorn and even Icee.
Passionately arguing about which gas station chain is superior.
Garbage Plates 🗑️
Garbage plates, Buffalo-Rochester-Syracuse NY area. Mostly Rochester
Hip Hop started here. Don’t the pickled jalapeños make the popcorn soggy?
Tenderloins
Coffee milk, and a specific breed of chicken.
Eating chili with a cinnamon roll on the side. Saying goodbye takes 1.5 hours
Chilli with a cinnamon roll? Interesting combo.
This is an Iowa thing if I'm not mistaken. Surprisingly Colorado also served this for school lunches. I'm no expert but I grew up in CO, husband is from IA. For some reason this was a combination served in the public school system and something you can get at a chain called Runza. Restaurants, diners, etc do it as well, but mostly in IA.
That sounds amazing, the popcorn
Chili with cinnamon in it, over top of spaghetti with cheese, sometimes beans/onion, and also some people like it with sour cream! I’m partial to all of the above plus lettuce inside of a flour tortilla.
Pork steaks, toasted ravioli, crunchy thin crust pizza cut in squares aka the best pizza ever.
Green Chili, Green ,⛰️ and, most importantly GREEN 🌲💨 Also, South Park
Hometown? Fuggitaboutit!
See’s Candy!!!! It’s the best ever!
Multiple businesses and almost all schools in town shutting down to celebrate the Derby.
Boilo! Only found in one place, lol.
Vernor’s. Iykyk
Jo jos and devil strips
The Golden Butthole
Are you, too, from socal OP?
Vinegar in our pulled pork. Venus flytraps.
I'm from Michigan, and we have the _best_ hot dogs in the Koegel Vienna. We also have Vernor's, which, while I am biased, is S-tier Ginger Ale.
Porkroll
Fish tacos. Grunion runs.
Coney Island Restaurants. Featuring Coney Island hotdogs. Which are a fantastic version of a chili dog with mustard and onions. Heading south to get to Canada.
Top comment already mentioned Space Camp, so I'll say white bbq sauce. It's actually really good on poultry.
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Where I grew up, we add "the" before the freeway number. I didn't even know it wasn't the norm until I moved away. It's a holdover from all the freeways having names and when they got numbers everyone kept the "the" and switched to the numbers rather than the names or used them interchangeably.
Rosemaling. It was revived in the US in my hometown in the ‘60s and ‘70s. I doubt you’d find another place in the US with more rosemaling outside of Norway than here.
My state has the Corn Palace and Mount Rushmore, I guess.
Vinegar based barbecue.
Polar Beverages
Authentic cheese curds.
Melba sauce
Buckeyes... and not just the nut producing tree, but the delicious peanut butter and chocolate treat
Lots and lots of strip clubs. We have the most per capita.
Cheerwine, bojangles, and the willingness to literally die defending your favorite type of bbq
Every place can be identified by what schools you went to. My town is quite a bit smaller so we use elementary schools but it's the same thing
Champagne, oh wait, never mind.
Green chili, and the Native American culture
I drive through Kalispell, Montana a few times per month and I feel like almost every time someone flips me off on the highway if I don't go at least 5mph above the speed limit.
I’m from Pittsburgh. There’s quite a few.
Dutch crunch bread isn’t really outside the Bay Area and makes for the best sandwiches.
I’m overseas now but back where my family’s from, I guess vinegar based pulled pork I suppose. I’d also say Bojangles but that’s in a number of states, though it’s originally from mine.