America: Northern and Southern food

[Trooper]

I've been down to America once. In the south only. I had southern chicken. But I've never been to the north. I am just interested to know. Is there cuisine in the northern part that is different from the south? Like, I know in the south, barbeque sauce is different depending on what part of the south. Is there anything like New York style BBQ or Maine style BBQ? Do they use sauce different from the south? What food style is native to the north?

[Dr Jekyll]

Yankee food is shit. Its bland, its boring. You want good food, stick to the South.

[guinness]

The northeast is more seafood oriented. For example Clam Chowder in Boston is supposed to be really good. You could expect a lot of Irish type food in Boston as well. New York doesn't really have it's own flavor outside of their pizzas. It's mostly a hodgepodge of different cuisines like Italian and Chinese, etc.

[Foster]

The 'chilies and stews' are usually better.
Less grits and more potatoes.

Fast-food is pretty standardized.

Certain parts in the north were largely settled by Finns, Poles, Swedes, and Germans.

The Northern Midwest had a lumber and mining-industry, so a little calzone-ish thing called a 'pasty' (short a sound, almost pronounced like an O; like a reverse-candian thing) was developed as a sandwich that would stay warm, and the crust was often discarded because lead-filings would transfer from their fingernails to the food. Contents were more like a stew, or haggis.

As for lumberjacking... lots of maple-syrup was to be had... so pancakes, flapjacks, waffles, and a cgart to distinguish between them all. Buttermilk panakes were common.. because of wheat and dairy-farms.

These dishes are also synanomous with 'deer-camp' cuisine.

I'm mostly thinking in this way because some weatherman claimed it was thirty-below-zero yesterday.

[Digi]

The northeast is more seafood oriented. For example Clam Chowder in Boston is supposed to be really good. You could expect a lot of Irish type food in Boston as well. New York doesn't really have it's own flavor outside of their pizzas. It's mostly a hodgepodge of different cuisines like Italian and Chinese, etc.

Actually..the southeast is more seafood oriented. There's more flavor to it because of the spices there is down in the southeast reason.

[Foster]

Maine has lobsters at $3/pound.

Florida doesn't.

[Squee]

I would say the entire East is seafood oriented, based on my experience...

[TheDesperado]

Fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, shitlins I ment chitlins*, biskits, grits, deer. The south has good taste.

[Hellis]

man. I see settled by swedes. And Now I want the american version of a Plankstek ;_;. SO much MEAT.

[Omega]

Food varies a great deal through the United States, each region, each city, even certain parts of each city have their own thing. Just look at BBQ, St. Louis means ribs, Texas is beef, South Carolina and North Carolina have been n competition over pulled pork for years, in California you often see seafood with BBQ. Quite frankly I could go on forever on BBQ alone with some areas putting sauce on the side, some directly on the meat, some favoring rubs, some favoring charring, different cuts, different sizes, travel the US and you can try something different wherever you go. Find out what each area you are going to is known for and get that.

There are some foods that do not really even exist outside certain regions, like toasted ravioli is a very localized midwest thing where if you go more than like a state out past Missouri is often hard to find.