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Pretty sure they’re describing the Métis. But I can’t think of the name of the city, and don’t want to go look it up.
Nobody yet? I thought that would be easier.
Answer’s in the spoiler, so if you want to keep guessing don’t read it.
Rochester, NY. When the flour production mostly moved out further west they wanted to change the nickname to something they thought prettier. They do have a lot of lilacs and hold a Lilac Festival every spring which is rather a big deal.
I am so glad you gave us the answer! I was totally stumped.
Should be “name from Brit Duke; had been Dutch”.
I need a nap.
This one got lost.
Any one?
Not USA city
Bologna
I’m guessing Bologna, Italy, except that what Americans call Bologna has no business being anywhere near Bolognese sauce.
No but getting closer lol
Can also be made on grill in summer
I was thinking sausage, but can’t come up with anything that fits the clue. I’m also trying to think outside Italy in case red sauce refers to something else. I’m stumped.
Hamburg, Germany
I use a lot of hamburger when I make spaghetti sauce but had to call it red sauce to keep it one syllable
Ah. While I’m familiar with the term being used that way, I call it “ground beef” in that form and would probably have taken a long time to remind myself lots of folks call the raw stuff hamburger, too.
We do call spaghetti sauce “red sauce” here commonly enough, so that was no problem. In fact, there’s even the term, maybe mostly used by foodies, to refer to a classic Italian-American restaurant as a “red sauce place,” as opposed to more modern or Northern Italian or just classical European Italian fare.
I would have gone with “meat served on a bun, can be with cheese”.
I am not much of a cook and did my best.
I am the one who shared the story of boiling my lasagna noodles one at a time in separate pots for more than 15 years lol.
It’s understandable that I would not get the correct cooking terms with something like this 
What place name springs forth with a smell, not an herb but makes the tears flow it grows in damp earth in May or June. Known as ramps or chive like. What big town is this?
No, no – your terms are fine. My brain just wasn’t wired to recognize “hamburger” as ground beef. Just a matter of my local dialect. Many, many people use that term in that way just fine. It just didn’t occur to me.
^As for the above, Chicago.
New York
Naturally!
Instead of a free-for-all, should we maybe take turns? Let the first person to get the city currently in play try a description of their own, and then everyone else try to guess it?
That sounds reasonable, if the OP is up for it. I’ll start with a softball:
Wings and weck.
That discourages me from guessing if I don’t have another one ready to play. And I usually don’t.
It would also have stalled the whole thread when nobody got mine.