I married a Yankee–in fact, a Polish Yankee–and he is absolutely disgusted by grits and refuses to even try them. But yummmmmmmm!!!
My favorite version is “Grits Billy Bob Bailey.” You cook your grits, then throw in crumbled crisp bacon and enough shredded cheese and butter to choke a goat. It still takes a lot of salt and pepper, but you heat it all through until the cheese and butter are all melty and then you have southern manna!
And another vote for the hot buttered cornbread crumbled in a bowl and eaten with ice cold milk. It was one of my favorite suppers as a kid, and it’s another one that my husband is completely sicked out by.
And I guess I should finish it up with a delicacy I haven’t enjoyed since the month after I got married because, yes, you guessed it, it sicked my husband out. My Mom, atrocious cook that she is, used to poach eggs in tomato soup and serve it on toast. I know it sounds disgusting, but man I loved that stuff as a kid.
I’ve never heard it called a Sink Sandwich, but I make those all the time in the summer. I prefer fresh Beefsteak tomatoes, a slice of sweet Vidalia onion, lots of mayo, a heavy sprinkle of black pepper, some salt and yes, it must be on the otherwise-I’d-never-eat-it fluffy white bread.
Yum.
This must be. My mom LOVES 'em. I haven’t gotten up the nerve to try it yet. (I think I’m afraid I’ll love it and then the diet will be blown to hades. sigh)
Another Ohio (Cincinnati specific) delicacy that I adore is Goetta. Pork, pinoats and spices cooked all day and then made into patties and fried up. Mmmmmmmm.
Pickles and cream cheese is great. So is pickles and vanilla ice cream.
Potato chips and spicy brown mustard. Mmm.
Peanut butter and chocolate frosting spread on graham crackers.
peanut butter sandwich on the squishy white bread dipped into a bowl of chili. Preferably the Cincinnati style chili but any spicy red is good this way. Mmmm.
Mock cheeseburger sandwhich:
White bread, ketchup, mustard, chopped onions, and a slice of good American cheese (the kind you buy at the deli counter, not that plastic wrapped shit).
I love fried peanut butter, bacon and banana sandwiches. I’m tickled that pb and bacon seems to be an Ohio thing since my family on both sides are hardcore Boston, lace-curtain Irish. I wonder if all of our mums took cooking lessons from Elvis.
This lovely dish can be enjoyed in cookie form by adding bacon bits and banana chips to a standard peanut butter cookie recipe.
I’m addicted to this tamarind candy I found at the Asian grocery. It’s chunks of tamarind with crystallized sugar on the outside. Some have pits, some don’t. You can get them with chili on it too… hot and sweet. Yum.
I also like beets with lots of salt and white vinegar.
I must have grown up in a peanut-butter-centric family. Butter, peanut butter, and maple syrup on pancakes, waffles, or French toast. Yum. Peanut butter and cinnamon toast. Peanut butter (and sometimes cinnamon) on graham crackers. Peanut butter spread on a slice of American cheese. Yummy!
My father used to peel an onion, salt it, and eat it like an apple. His favorite snack was what he called a POT sandwich: peanut butter, onion, and tomato on white bread. Can’t say I picked up those tastes. But the peanut butter stuck.
I mix cottage cheese into salsa and eat it with tortilla chips.
Yes, I know it looks hideous. But it’s yummy! I got a lot of flak from friends and roommates, and I’d always say, “I know it looks like technicolor barf, but it tastes good!” As a result, the official name of the dish is Technicolor Barf.
My fiance and his friend’s dip their fries in milkshakes when we go to diners … ew. And one time he dipped a potato chip in my orange juice… i was so mad …
And, yes, I drink pickle juice.
I’m vegan, so people think most of what i eat is gross. I love tofu. Baked, fried, crumbled up in tomato sauce, blended up with coco powder … yum a dum dum.
I moved from Jersey to Carolina a year ago and lived with a southern belle type for most of the time (she just moved out). She thought everything i ate was crazy (and she would give me shit for eating healthfully). Lentils, for instance, had to explain what they were. Thai food. Hummus. Soy milk. Brown rice. Oh, the list goes on.
I used to eat Wise potato chips on Wonder bread … mmm … and peanut butter and cinnamon sandwiches … I eat salsa with a spoon when no one’s looking (my father eats honey strait, a whole jar in one sitting, he grew up on a bee farm)… cheeseless pizza … middle-eastern style fried califlower … hungarian fruit soup …
