Original/traditional foods

[BuffaloParrot]

I am just curious as to what sorts of foods are traditional or originals in the cities/areas you live in or have lived?  Many know here in Buffalo we have chicken wings, our own style pizza, subs, char broiled hot dogs, beef on weck sandwiches, and fish fries.  Polish, Greek, and Italian foods are also very popular here.  When I lived in San Diego it was basically Mexican food and damned good!

[Sondra]

Growing up on Holidays we had traditional English foods, where I live now it is traditional Italian & polish foods.

[BuffaloParrot]

Growing up on Holidays we had traditional English foods, where I live now it is traditional Italian & polish foods.

Just the holidays or in general?   Me want to know both, all and everything

[Mi Amore]

well i dont think there really is traditional foods here in wisconsin.. at least none that i am aware of and i have lived her my whole life. there are so many different cultures around that the variety is almost endless. we have a lot of asian type resturants,polish,german,italian,mexican. we even have a buffalo wild wings here. my husband is from out east so i am sure he grew up with some of the same things you did. i am curious about this topic now to!

[Sondra]

Fish and chips (french fries)with vinegar & salt, plum pudding, roast beef and yorkshire pudding (which is really a bread type stuff), bread pudding - can't think tonite - am beat! 

[Conure]

Lots of vegan/ vegetarian restaurants in my city, that's what we're known for. Tofu, soy, and all that good stuff. Nom nom!

[BrilliantFids]

I would say the most traditional food in WI are:

CHEESE
Cheese curds...I have to add that there are 2 styles of cheese curds...fresh and fried. WI has the best of both.
Beer and cheese soup
Cow pie's (its a WI candy if you don't know...most amazing thing ever)
Brats (specifically beer brats)
German food...like german potato pancakes
Fish Fry is a HUGE thing here
Spatzel
Polish sausage
Dairy products
Jerky
Sausage
POUTINE.....My favorite
Burgers
Beer
Wine
asparagus (grows wild here)
cranberries

To sum WI foods up....if you can grill it, make it from milk, grow it, pick it growing in ditches, catch it, shoot it, add beer in any way shape or form...thats what we eat! ;)

[BrilliantFids]

Buffalo meat and alligator is also fairly big here...and there as far as restaurants we have Jamaican, Japanese, Chinese, Lots of Italian, Mexican is HUGE, polish, greek, german...we have it all. In WI Dells you can find just about anything you could imagine within a few miles. Lots of beer brewery's and pizza parlors.

[BuffaloParrot]

This is getting good!  Keep em coming peoples!!!!

[Conure]

Food carts are a big thing in Portland.
And obviously there are a crazy amount of coffee shops...
By the way, Portland is home to the amazing Bacon Maple doughnut!!! Which I haven't actually tried because I don't like meat. One of the big tourist attractions is Voodoo Doughnuts. They stopped selling the Nyquil doughnuts ( ) but there's still a lot of weird doughnuts there.

[BuffaloParrot]

So basically all you Portlander's are Doughnut munchers?   Cool!

[Conure]

When we're not overly jack-up on caffine! 

[Conure]

Or riding bikes or fufilling other stereotypes.

Jk. I have a life. I do like my coffee though. Portlandia is pretty acurate if you've ever seen that. Ok, I'm done blabbering.  party

[BuffaloParrot]

How about a chicken wing flavored doughnut?   Hmm, 

[BPMar]

 :deer:Nyquil????? No way!  What is the Voodoo one?  I think I would like the bacon maple one....We have coffee shops everywhere here also....Timmy Ho's will have lines wrapped around and in the street....lots of cool coffee shops in the city too.  I love my am coffee! 

Is this it???? http://www.voodoodoughnut.com/menu.php
  How cool!