I live in Los Angeles, and we don’t really have anything special here, per se. Though I can in fact get Aero bars fairly reliably at the local grocery store.
Is anyone pining for anything from CA? I’d love to be in on this, but there’s just not much that’s special to California.
I live in Houston, Texas. I can’t think of any special snack foods that are local to Houston, but I’m happy to send chili mix, on the condition that y’all not put beans in it, please.
Robin
Must… resist… cheap… sex… joke… “OldMan”…really girl… dried cherries…
Cranky, my Gramma used to make that. They were called Angel Wings here in Vermont, and coated in chocolate. It was baking soda that made them bubbly and full of holes.
Ummmm, that was so good!
Cranky,
I’m in North Carolina. I can get you some diet Cheerwine if you like - you prefer cans or the 2-liter bottle?
I don’t care, either one. But I feel so guilty–I mean it seems so stupid to ship cheap soda cross-country, knowing that the postage costs more than the item itself.
Say, I got an idea. How about you send up 10 lbs of Carolina barbecue, too? That’ll make it worth the expense and trouble. 
My god, I could get some Utz, too, from Wicked. Looks like I better go up a dress size…
i, personally, jones for zagnut bars, the finest candy bar known to man, and wachusett brand potato chips, although state line will do in a pinch. cranky, try violet crumble, its awful close to what you describe. i, too, like in CA. what we have here, besides see’s candies (when im eatin a scotchmallow bar, better keep your hands and feet away from my mouth) is the famous abba-zaba bar. any takers?
It’s your call, Cranky. I don’t mind shipping some diet Cheerwine to a fellow fan (though I prefer the “leaded” variety myself). As for the barbeque, the western Carolina kind probably wouldn’t last the trip, but the eastern (vinegar) type would be impervious to any adverse conditions encountered along the way ;). Down in these parts, I am convinced that there are 3 things that will survive a nuclear winter: cockroaches, kudzu and eastern Carolina bbq :D.
Too bad this isn’t a “regular food” thread - I’d love to have some real Italian bread show up on my doorstep.
<Homer> Mmmmm. REAL Italian bread. </Homer>
Anyone live near Taylor and Western in Chicago? I’d gladly pay you a subscription fee for monthly deliveries of bread from that bakery that still has the big brick ovens and makes that bread that is rock hard on the outside and so yummy tender soft and chewy on the inside and …<drool>
I gotta stop reading this thread.
I just got a one-pound box of custom-mixed chocolates from See’s.
[daffyduck]It’s MINE, I tell you! All MINE![/daffyduck]
Robin
We’re heading up to Frankenmuth next week - one of my major purchases will be Diet Ruby Red Squirt - I swear mid-Michigan (also found in Muskegon area) is the ONLY place that they sell it!
Also got hooked on Diet Pepsi Twist - but heard it was just a summer thing 
Any Indiana goodie requests? (sweet corn season is over, unfortunately)
Pish, tush, and bother, Rue, we all ignored GingeroftheNorth saying
Suck it up, man! You’re stronger than this!
So, you L.A. types, I suppose it’d violate that no-plant-stuff-crossing-state-lines thing to send me a couple baggies full of fresh Bay leaves, right?
The dried ones in the store are so blah. It’s like they’ve been sitting around going stale or something. I really miss going outside and yanking one off the tree when it was time to make spaghetti…
Is there anybody in Berkeley who could send me a Bongo Burger?
Well, I have Zero bars. Zagnut and Sky bars, too. I hadn’t realized they weren’t national. Lots and lots of Necco wafers. Too bad they discontinued the sweet and sour ones, those were great!
I have State Line chips, as well as Humpty Dumpty in such flavors as ‘ketchup’ and ‘dill pickle’.
Plus everything maple, of course.
I’d swap Kinder Eggs for good horehound drops…horehound ONLY, not those disgusting things with eucalyptus and menthol in them, please. Or maybe some Screaming Yellow Zonkers…do they still even make them?
About the only interesting and cool nummies here that are produced commercially are some really nice local herb teas. Dunno anybody going to Dawson soon enough to get some dried smoked salmon, and I think there’s rules about shipping dry meat (exactly what it sounds like - dried caribou and moosemeat) across the borders. Like, thou shalt not without eighty-seven permits, a sworn statement from your mother that you aren’t smuggling, and an escort.
My mossberry jelly didn’t jelly (which was SO petty of you, Jester), so I can’t swap that.
Turkisn Delight? Is that the crapass candy bar that has nasty gooey stuff hiding inside the innocent chocolate layer? Under the conniving name of “Big Turk” Yeah, I can get that. Don’t know why you’d want to, though…
Everybody join in the candy exchange!!!
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Humperdink! Humperdink! HumperdinkHumperdinkHumperdink!!!
Yep, they’re the real old-fashioned kind of just horehound. I think that I can get Screaming Yellow Zonkers. I haven’t looked lately, but I know of a store that had them about three months ago.
Gravity, I want HUMPTY DUMPTY PARTY MIX. I got hooked on it when I lived in Kingston, Ontario, and can’t get it here. At all.
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Ethilrist, I wondered why Rue didn’t pick up on that. I’m so sad - I didn’t, either.
Wow, I didn’t realize how regional some of the foods Gravity is talking about are, I can’t even get some of them here in upstate NY!
(But you know what I can get? Stewart’s Soda! Best root beer in the world! (and the orange cream is to die for.))
Where upstate? Syracuse is home to Ronsdale Chocolates, although I’m sure she has passed by now. I interviewed Gladys(?) Ronsdale for a school project…sat at her big marble table and she spent the next hour stuffing me with homemade chocolates. The best was called…I swear…Apple Pie. It was friggin’ unbelieveable!
I would looooovve to get my hands on a big ol’ box of their chocolates if they’re still around.
I live in the Albany area, but the place that normally sells them (Stewart’s Shops) are located all over. The are in the Lake George are, southern Vermont, and who knows where else.
But the soda is sold further away than the shops are. I can get Stewart’s soda in my hometown, but the closest store is 50 miles away.
(of course, it’s about twice as expensive in other stores!)