# Iconic foods for different areas **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 27, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-foods-for-different-areas/845462 "2019-12-27T18:52:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**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:** [December 30, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-foods-for-different-areas/845462/81 "2019-12-30T17:37:25Z")
50/50 draft lager and tomato juice. I first encountered it 50 years ago playing poker with farmers in west Kansas. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-foods-for-different-areas/845462/82 "2019-12-30T17:45:16Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > 50/50 draft lager and tomato juice. I first encountered it 50 years ago playing poker with farmers in west Kansas. That does not sound good. But I’ve never tried it, so who knows. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2019, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-foods-for-different-areas/845462/83 "2019-12-30T17:57:41Z")
It’s just a michelada without the spices. Sounds gross, but under the right circumstances they can be quite tasty. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-foods-for-different-areas/845462/84 "2019-12-30T17:59:39Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > For the Cincinatti area, it’s a sausage called goetta. The main producer, although not the only one, is a company called Gliers. Let’s complete Cincinnati. Goetta is distinguished from it’s lesser ilk like Scrapple due to the inclusion of steel cut oats in the sausage blend, along with distinctive seasonings. Gliers is the ubiquitous brand and likely the best. Great with breakfast, but they put that stuff on everything around here, especially pizza. It’s good, I dig it. Cincinnati chili. Love it or hate it, it’s a thing here with chili parlors everywhere. Gold Star, Camp Washington Chili, Price Hill Chili, Empress Chili, Dixie Chili…they are legion. Served typically as a “way” (as in, 3-way, 4-way, etc), it’s runny chili (often seasoned with ingredients like cinnamon, or chocolate, or nutmeg) that’s served over spaghetti. A 3-way is chili, spaghetti and finely shredded mild cheddar cheese. 4-way adds onions, 5-way adds beans. It’s also served with mustard and onions on coney dogs, which are the food of the Gods. Graeter’s Ice Cream: Possibly the best ice cream on Earth, particularly their black raspberry chip, which is dry-ice shipped across the globe. Made in small batches with the french pot method, it’s expensive, but oh so good. So good. Oprah’s favorite, so you just KNOW it’s good, right? Brats/Metts: Bratwursts and Mettwursts are HUGE here, which no surprise given the German population in this town. Montgomery Inn ribs/BBQ sauce. Bob Hope used to get this stuff shipped out to his CA home. Not my cup of tea but so many celebs/athletes, etc that are in town swear by it. Grippo’s BBQ Chips/Cheese Nibs. OMG. Best BBQ chips ever. People actually shake the bags of the chips in a “measuring the weight” sort of way, the idea being that the heavier they are, the more seasoning and hence spicier/yummier. They are damn good but I think their cheese puffs are even better. Tangential, but important: Christian Moerlein Brewery. Very old brewery, opened in 1853 in Cicinnati. Was a very early pioneer of the craft beer movement back in the 1980’s. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-foods-for-different-areas/845462/85 "2019-12-30T19:00:12Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I’m not an expert on it, but I wouldn’t even really call it “smoked,” at least in the sense of barbecue. It’s more like charcoal roasted roast beef. There is a wisp of cooked-over-coals flavor to it, but it’s not really what I would call “smoked roast beef.” It’s cooked relatively quickly over high heat (an hour or so) so it doesn’t pick up too much smoke flavor and served on the rare-ish side (though you can ask for it more cooked.) It’s damned good, especially the version I’ve had at Jake’s Grill. Yeah, fair enough. “Charcoal grilled roast beef” works for me. Nothing particularly special about it, but it’s a fairly impressive feat to charcoal grill a big chunk of meat like that and get the consistent results that they do. And Jake’s is the right answer. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![fedman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/278dde/32.png) [@fedman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-foods-for-different-areas/845462/86 "2020-01-01T22:19:52Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > 50/50 draft lager and tomato juice. I first encountered it 50 years ago playing poker with farmers in west Kansas. it may(?) (no definitive evidence) have been a SW thing, esp with Latino population ---
**Author:** ![fedman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/278dde/32.png) [@fedman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-foods-for-different-areas/845462/87 "2020-01-02T02:49:38Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > And while I’ve never had one myself, apparently the St. Paul Sandwich is also an iconic local StL concoction. > > My wife grew up in Wisconsin and always brings back a Kringle or two when she goes to visit her family. and don’t forget Imos pizza duck and noodles stag beer [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-foods-for-different-areas/845462.md?page=4)