# Help Me Like Yankee Food **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 14, 2005, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185 "2005-10-14T04:58:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185/41 "2005-10-16T03:42:32Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > **Donner kebabs**? > > That sounds more like Sierra Nevada cuisine than New England. There is a lot of Turks in Sierra Nevada? 😉 And I’m talking New York City / New Jersey food, not New England. We are Yankees too ;). ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185/42 "2005-10-16T03:53:13Z")
Usually food threads make me hungry, but not this one! I love ethnic foods, and cook/eat Ukrainian/Polish food whenever I can. But my soul belongs to the South, and Tex-Mex. Some of the stuff you Yankees eat is just plain **wrong**! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185/43 "2005-10-16T04:09:47Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Some of the stuff you Yankees eat is just plain **wrong**! 😃 In Boston, Brookline, there is a Kosher restaurant named Reuben’s. They have the most wonderfull roast beef sandwiches in the world. They have tzimmes. I wish I knew at least how to make the sauce. Cabbage rolls, meatballs with some vegetable filler wrapped in cabbage. (I use mustard greens or collards, One Must Have Some Principles) A sort of sweet and sour sauce made of tomato paste, brown sugar and lemon juice. They have some great food, even if they do put sugar in corn bread. :eek: I was surprised at sefood in New Hampshire. It was like Red Lobster with yesterday’s tea. Sea Food in New Orleans was shrimp from the ocean to a boat to the restaurant and after being boiled to my plate on a bed of ice. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185/44 "2005-10-16T05:07:14Z")
> [@](#): > > Avoid cornbread under any circumstances; it will have sugar in it. what What WHAT?! I’m willing to broaden my horizons. I’m willing to try ground beef BBQ and eating the turnips instead of the greens. But sugar in cornbread…that ain’t right. What heathen first had that notion? And what part of Arkansas are you from? 🙂 As for BBQ sauces, I tend to like Tennessee style better, it has a smokier flavor. Thanks for your suggestions, everyone. I’ve written them all down and am going to find a cookbook to learn how to make them. Or should I try them from a restaurant first? ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185/45 "2005-10-16T05:35:04Z")
Cornbread with suger is FAR FAR FAR superior. I’ve had both, and I’ll take Northern cornbread anyday over the Southern variety. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185/46 "2005-10-16T05:37:18Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > Cornbread with suger is FAR FAR FAR superior. I’ve had both, and I’ll take Northern cornbread anyday over the Southern variety. You…are a communist. People who put sugar in cornbread are the reason we lost the war in Vietnam! ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185/47 "2005-10-16T05:39:42Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > You…are a communist. > > People who put sugar in cornbread are the reason we lost the war in Vietnam! I’d rather be a communist than say that Southern cornbread is anywhere near as good as the Northern variety :p. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185/48 "2005-10-16T05:40:46Z")
> [@Odinoneeye](#): > > Anyway, that said, if you want a taste of Michigan, the best thing would be a pasty, but you can only get decent ones in Michigan. And in fact, I’ve only ever found one place in the lower pennisula, usually you’d have to go north of the bridge. What!? Take that back, _Odinoneeye_! There are plenty of decent pasties in Wisconsin, thankyewverymuch. Mmm, potatoes and meat and onions in a little pastry pocket. If you put ketchup on it, you have ruined it. A pasty does not need condiments. For the OP, try an apple, a _real_ apple. Not those silly little red things you get at the supermarket. Talmon Sweets or Honeycrisps or Jonamacs or . . . oh, Honeycrisps. They are so damned good. I just can’t face Red Delicious anymore, after Honeycrisps. And I put honey in my cornbread. Nyah! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185/49 "2005-10-16T05:42:58Z")
I adulterate my cornbread with many things: chilis, bacon, cheese, onions…but never sugar. So tell me, Comrade Siddiqui…how do you stand on beans in chili? ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185/50 "2005-10-16T05:47:20Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I adulterate my cornbread with many things: chilis, bacon, cheese, onions…but never sugar. > > So tell me, Comrade Siddiqui…how do you stand on beans in chili? I don’t mind beans in chili at all :p. I do like a Texas chili, but a good made chili with beans in it is fine by me as well. I even enjoy Cincinnati style chili (which is served over pasta, with cheese… invented by Greek immigrants), even if it isn’t as spicy. Oh… I almost forgot a Yankee food that no one has mentioned. Duh! Buffalo wings! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185/51 "2005-10-16T05:49:33Z")
> [@Miss Purl McKnittington](#): > > What!? Take that back, _Odinoneeye_! There are plenty of decent pasties in Wisconsin, thankyewverymuch. Mmm, potatoes and meat and onions in a little pastry pocket. If you put ketchup on it, you have ruined it. A pasty does not need condiments. Indeed the most famous reference to pasty in a book was in _American Gods_, where they had it in Wisconsin. Though they did refer to it as an Upper Penninsula Michigan food… never had one, but sounds like it tastes utterly amazing! Like a pierogie on steriods ;). ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185/52 "2005-10-16T05:50:58Z")
I thought pasties were little caps you put on stripper nipples. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185/53 "2005-10-16T05:51:37Z")
Silly Southerners. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185/54 "2005-10-16T05:58:22Z")
At least we don’t pollute our cornbread with sugar. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185/55 "2005-10-16T05:59:03Z")
> [@KCSuze](#): > > At least we don’t pollute our cornbread with sugar. 😉 Which is just another reason why you’ll always be inferior to Yankees ;). ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185/56 "2005-10-16T06:02:17Z")
Hey now, is this any way to bring a country girl to the Dark Side? Let us break your hard bread and we shall share in the feast of a thousand hams and pierogies! ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185/57 "2005-10-16T06:06:34Z")
Except Northern Cornbread isn’t hard ;). It’s usually used in corn muffins, and lighter and fluffier than Southern Cornbread. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185/58 "2005-10-16T06:09:35Z")
I was talking about sourdough. Great for dipping into soup, but hard to break the crust. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185/59 "2005-10-16T06:09:39Z")
… and besides, I’m still peeved over what you Southerners call ‘pizza’ ;). ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185/60 "2005-10-16T06:12:02Z")
Meh, pizza is Yankee food. I don’t care for it anyway. I’ll admit you know pizza. But cornbread is within the realm of the south. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-like-yankee-food/326185.md?page=4)