A sushi roll for every state

[Greg Charles]

California rolls are crab (or imitation crab), cucumber, and avocado ... California in food names being a pretty strong indication that avocado is in the mix. The other day, I tried an Alaska roll, which seemed about the same, but with salmon on top.

It's not fair for just two states to be represented at the sushi bar! There should be a Hawaii roll (ahi, pineapple, and poi), a Minnesota roll (tuna salad and Spam), and a Colorado roll (Rocky Mountain oysters and Coors). That leaves us, what? 45 to go.

[etv78]

Massachusetts Roll: Clam strips, roasted turkey, cranberry chutney.

[Shagnasty]

Louisiana would be cooked crawfish tail in a mild sauce rolled in rice. It sounds pretty good.

Maine would be a lobster sushi roll of course.

[JKellyMap]

Kansas: The kind that gives you the runs for a week, because the fish is so very far from home.

[Ferret Herder]

Originally Posted by JKellyMap

Kansas: The kind that gives you the runs for a week, because the fish is so very far from home.

Cute, but I assure you there is pretty much no sushi restaurant in the US that gets fresh-caught-in-their-waters tuna and eel and mackerel and so on. Everyone ships in at least a fair amount of their fish from somewhere else.

[Peremensoe]

Some of these have already been invented (or named). I'm not a big sushi guy, but... Maryland Roll is just (real) crab. Virginia Roll is crab, eel, taegu and mushrooms.

[cher3]

Indiana roll: Fried lake perch and sweet corn.

Not too bad, maybe.

[wmulax93]

Michigan: Lake trout sprinkled with paprika (to look like rust)

[Yllaria]

Is no one from Minnesota going to protest the tuna salad and spam? Or list the ingredients for the tuna salad?

[Qin Shi Huangdi]

New York: Geflite fish obviously

Idaho: put some potatoes and trout in./

[zoid]

Originally Posted by Ferret Herder

Cute, but I assure you there is pretty much no sushi restaurant in the US that gets fresh-caught-in-their-waters tuna and eel and mackerel and so on. Everyone ships in at least a fair amount of their fish from somewhere else.

Not only that, Food and Drug Administration regulations stipulate that fish to be eaten raw -- whether as sushi, sashimi, seviche, or tartare -- must be frozen first, to kill parasites.

[TriPolar]

Rhode Island Roll - Quahog and fried potato

[silenus]

Texas roll - Beef. No, you don't wrap it in anything! What's wrong with you, boy? You some kinda commie?

[garygnu]

Oregon Roll: Fresh salmon and snap peas with a ginger-blackberry sauce.

[Peremensoe]

Originally Posted by garygnu

Oregon Roll: Fresh salmon and snap peas with a ginger-blackberry sauce.

If they adopt that, they can release their claim on the Philadelphia roll.

[thelurkinghorror]

Originally Posted by Peremensoe

taegu

Sorry, what is this?

Wouldn't Hawaii roll be SPAM Musubi? Wikipedia says: "contains shoyu tuna (canned), tamago, kanpyō, kamaboko, and the distinctive red and green hana ebi (shrimp powder)."

I've had filet mignon nigiri. On top of rice with horseradish. It's delicious. Although maybe "cute filet" rolls might insult the Texas sensibilities.

There is a Philadelphia roll, can Pennsylvania as a whole take it? Although it's really only named because of the cream cheese brand.

I've had gravlax nigiri. That could fit one of the very Scandinavian states. Or lutefisk if you must.

The main rule in Nevada is that all-you-can-eat is the rule, not the exception. So whatever it is, you get more of it. I don't think there's an official roll, but I see: "Spicy crab, avocado, topped with salmon & tuna" which doesn't mean much to me.

[Qin Shi Huangdi]

Also, London Roll: Batter-fried fish wrapped in rice.

[wolfman]

Originally Posted by wmulax93

Michigan: Lake trout sprinkled with paprika (to look like rust)

I'd go with Muskie rather that trout.

[Swords to Plowshares]

Florida: pompano nigiri topped with mango salsa. Sounds good!

[E. Thorp]

There's already a Seattle roll. Not sure if that should cover all of Washington state, though.

[Erdosain]

Utah: brine shrimp tempura, green jello, wrapped in wonder bread.

[Shagnasty]

Originally Posted by thelurkinghorror

Sorry, what is this?

Wouldn't Hawaii roll be SPAM Musubi? Wikipedia says: "contains shoyu tuna (canned), tamago, kanpyō, kamaboko, and the distinctive red and green hana ebi (shrimp powder)."

Hawaiian sushi really does have SPAM as the meat. Hawaii has plenty of Japanese and other Asian food influences but the true local specialties are often just plain odd. They really do love SPAM and sell it on top of a rice roll wrapped with seaweed in most convenience stores as snack or breakfast food. I had it a few months ago in Oahu. SPAM sushi, ummm.

[Ferret Herder]

Originally Posted by Shagnasty

Hawaiian sushi really does have SPAM as the meat. Hawaii has plenty of Japanese and other Asian food influences but the true local specialties are often just plain odd. They really do love SPAM and sell it on top of a rice roll wrapped with seaweed in most convenience stores as snack or breakfast food. I had it a few months ago in Oahu. SPAM sushi, ummm.

Aka "spam musubi". Brrr....

[goonhead]

Louisiana roll - blackened catfish and cole slaw

since clambakes are popular in Ohio, I'd make an Ohio roll with clams, not sure what else

[Athena]

Yooper roll, cuz we don't want to be associated with Lower Michigan: Lake Superior Whitefish (cooked), fiddlehead ferns, and a blueberry/thimbleberry sauce. Yum!

Edit: and maybe some cheese curds or Wisconsin cheddar, to even further distance ourselves from Lower Michigan and get in with Wisconsin.

[MadTheSwine]

Originally Posted by wmulax93

Michigan: Lake trout sprinkled with paprika (to look like rust)

Originally Posted by wolfman

I'd go with Muskie rather that trout.

First thing I thought for the Michigan roll was Trout and Red Cherry(which would add the rust color )

[MadTheSwine]

Originally Posted by Athena

Yooper roll, cuz we don't want to be associated with Lower Michigan: Lake Superior Whitefish (cooked), fiddlehead ferns, and a blueberry/thimbleberry sauce. Yum!

Edit: and maybe some cheese curds or Wisconsin cheddar, to even further distance ourselves from Lower Michigan and get in with Wisconsin.

Almost said whitefish ,instead of trout,but the outside of the Yooper roll has to be a pasty dough...with a slice of rutabaga inside also.

I guess a Michigan roll should have a bit of Morel mushroom as well.

[Peremensoe]

Originally Posted by Peremensoe

taegu

Originally Posted by thelurkinghorror

Sorry, what is this?

My understanding is that it is a form of seasoned, dried, slivered codfish, from Korea by way of Hawaii. How does that get into a "Virginia" roll? I couldn't tell you.

[panache45]

Originally Posted by goonhead

since clambakes are popular in Ohio, I'd make an Ohio roll with clams, not sure what else

Clam and a small buckeye (sorry, Opal), inside a pierogi.

[Alice The Goon]

Arizona: tilapia, jalapeno, and prickly pear jam on cilantro rice.

North Carolina: Pulled pork with barbecue sauce and cole slaw on rice with corn meal on the outside.

[carnut]

Originally Posted by Yllaria

Is no one from Minnesota going to protest the tuna salad and spam? Or list the ingredients for the tuna salad?

I think it would more likely be the tuna hot dish roll. Tuna, noodles, peas, and cream of chicken soup.

Or perhaps it ought to be the walleye roll, deep-fried of course.

[Sudden Kestrel]

Originally Posted by Yllaria

Is no one from Minnesota going to protest the tuna salad and spam? Or list the ingredients for the tuna salad?

I protest the omission of lime jello salad. Other than that, the Minnesota recipe sounds about right.

[Chimera]

Originally Posted by Yllaria

Is no one from Minnesota going to protest the tuna salad and spam? Or list the ingredients for the tuna salad?

I will.

It has to Walleye with wild rice.

[It's Not Rocket Surgery!]

New Hampshire: Fugu and rice. Live free or die!

[Tibby or Not Tibby]

New Jersey Roll: Salt Water Taffy & “Fish” Cafaro wrapped in wakame, on a bed of hypodermic needles.

[ioioio]

Mississippi roll: fried catfish with turnip greens, wrapped in a kudzu leaf. Bread that sucker with corn meal, then deep fry the whole damn thing.

[Shagunathor]

Wyoming roll: steak.

Fish? Rice? What kinda Commie are you?

[flodnak]

Originally Posted by thelurkinghorror

There is a Philadelphia roll, can Pennsylvania as a whole take it? Although it's really only named because of the cream cheese brand.

Nah, that's not going to work. The Pennsylvania roll must have some pretzel in it somewhere.

[outlierrn]

Originally Posted by Shagunathor

Wyoming roll: steak.

Fish? Rice? What kinda Commie are you?

I dunno, I just had an awesome plate of basil lamb in a Thai restaurant in Rawlins, WY. You might be surprised.

[An Arky]

Arkansas Roll (obviously going to be similar to MS and LA rolls):

Catfish with BBQ sauce and Arkansas-grown rice.

[Lightnin']

Originally Posted by Peremensoe

I'm not a big sushi guy, but... Maryland Roll is just (real) crab.

Shouldn't the Maryland Roll have Old Bay seasoning on it, too?

I mean, hell, they put it on everything else around here...

[davey77]

Ohio Roll: Walleye and noodles with mashed potato.

[carnut]

North Dakota roll:

Canada goose and sugar beets in a wheat and sunflower seed wrap served with a petroleum sauce.

[Hockey Monkey]

North Carolina Roll: Pulled BBQ pork and cole slaw reverse roll with barbecue sauce.

[John Mace]

Montana Roll: Rocky Mountain Oysters, strips of raw beef, rice, wrapped in seaweed.

[madmonk28]

We're not a state, but

The Washington DC roll: rockfish and rice dipped in mambo sauce, but before you can eat it, some congressman from the suburbs has to say it's ok.

[Postariti]

Ok, so I'm going to be the fourth Southerner to mention catfish. I'm going to offer a second option for Arkansas - catfish with okra. Fried okra, obviously, there is no other kind of okra. And as "Arky" said, with locally grown rice.

[Gatopescado]

Nevada: Fresh Rainbow Trout, served off a Hooker's Titty

Utah: Salt tablet and a lecture

New Jersey: Severed finger (or penis, maybe)

[janis_and_c0]

West Virginia: Rainbow trout (or Deer Jerky) & ramps, wrapped in a Heiner's hot dog bun!

[fluiddruid]

Iowa: Tempura pork and corn in soy paper.