# A sushi roll for every state **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 20, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892 "2012-07-20T21:43:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892/21 "2012-07-20T23:47:53Z")
Utah: brine shrimp tempura, green jello, wrapped in wonder bread. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892/22 "2012-07-21T00:04:20Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892/23 "2012-07-21T00:15:37Z")
> [@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”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_musubi). Brrr… ---
**Author:** ![goonhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ebca7d/32.png) [@goonhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goonhead)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892/24 "2012-07-21T02:16:29Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892/25 "2012-07-21T02:20:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892/26 "2012-07-21T02:22:40Z")
> [@wmulax93](#): > > Michigan: Lake trout sprinkled with paprika (to look like rust) > [@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 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892/27 "2012-07-21T02:27:09Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892/28 "2012-07-21T02:57:57Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > taegu > [@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. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892/29 "2012-07-21T03:28:54Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892/30 "2012-07-21T03:40:30Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892/31 "2012-07-21T03:40:40Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892/32 "2012-07-21T04:25:33Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892/33 "2012-07-21T04:34:41Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892/34 "2012-07-21T04:47:01Z")
New Hampshire: Fugu and rice. Live free or die! ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892/35 "2012-07-21T06:59:28Z")
New Jersey Roll: Salt Water Taffy & “Fish” Cafaro wrapped in wakame, on a bed of hypodermic needles. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892/36 "2012-07-21T07:16:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Shagunathor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Shagunathor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagunathor)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892/37 "2012-07-21T08:30:40Z")
Wyoming roll: steak. Fish? Rice? What kinda Commie are you? ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892/38 "2012-07-21T08:57:28Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892/39 "2012-07-21T09:10:17Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892/40 "2012-07-21T11:11:01Z")
Arkansas Roll (obviously going to be similar to MS and LA rolls): Catfish with BBQ sauce and Arkansas-grown rice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sushi-roll-for-every-state/628892.md?page=3)