# Lesser Known Local Foods **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [January 15, 2026, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704 "2026-01-15T05:43:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704/181 "2026-01-17T19:15:10Z")
Well, if you’re ever feeling flush and are dying to try [Ollalieberry Pie](https://linnseats.store/2-frozen-ready-to-bake-family-size-fruit-pies/), this place will do you right. We used to buy them whenever we were meandering around between Cambria and Morro Bay. Direct from the stand wasn’t nearly so expensive. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2026, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704/182 "2026-01-17T19:43:45Z")
Come to California and see where they originated. > **[History of Knott's Berry Farm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Knott's_Berry_Farm)** > > The Knott's Berry Farm amusement park in Orange County, California, originated from a berry farm owned by Walter Knott (1889–1981). In the 1920s, Knott and his wife, Cordelia, sold berries, berry preserves and pies from a roadside stand beside State Route 39, near the small town of Buena Park. > In 1932, on a visit to Rudolph Boysen's farm in nearby Anaheim, Walter Knott was introduced to a new hybrid berry of a blackberry, a red raspberry, and a loganberry cross-bred by Boysen, who gave Wal In 19... ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704/183 "2026-01-17T20:45:23Z")
Also popular in California‘s Coachella Valley and neighboring regions of Arizona: date shakes. > **[Where to Stop for Date Shakes on California Road Trips – Travelcraft Journal](https://www.travelcraftjournal.com/date-shakes/)** ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan\_myers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@aruvqan\_myers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan_myers)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704/184 "2026-01-17T21:15:53Z")
yes, cheap roast beef, no dip and no horseradish sauce? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704/185 "2026-01-17T21:18:56Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > Also popular in California‘s Coachella Valley and neighboring regions of Arizona: date shakes. The same places also sold chocolate covered soybeans. I”m not sure how local those are. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704/186 "2026-01-17T22:11:22Z")
About the only thing that the Louisville, Kentucky area can claim are the Hot Brown (a rich, open-faced sandwich featuring thick-sliced turkey and bacon on toast, smothered in a creamy Mornay sauce and baked until bubbly and golden, often garnished with tomatoes and a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese). Or the Derby Pie (a rich, gooey chocolate and nut pie, traditionally made with walnuts or pecans and often a splash of bourbon, created in Kentucky and strongly associated with the Kentucky Derby). ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704/187 "2026-01-17T22:31:30Z")
Normally, it’s served with horseradish (though not “sauce,” but the minimally prepared stuff. I’m not a fan of horseradish sauce), and you can get jus on the side, if you ask. Beef is maybe “cheap” in that it’s cut from the round, but it’s quality at good places. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704/188 "2026-01-17T23:46:52Z")
And modjeskas! Marshmallow center covered with caramel reportedly created in honor of an actress in the 1800s, ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704/189 "2026-01-18T01:15:58Z")
sorry, tri-tip is available at Bolyard’s, a local butcher shop in St Louis. I also saw it in Cleveland ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704/190 "2026-01-18T01:37:58Z")
actually, this was popular in St Louis Black community, only separate items ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704/191 "2026-01-18T01:45:12Z")
These may not be lesser known, but scrapple in Philly, and I don’t know how common pork roll sandwiches are outside of this area. ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704/192 "2026-01-18T01:46:31Z")
even though I grew up with square-cut pizza, I can see both sides: if you’re walking around, for instance, pie-shaped cuts make sense, easier to hold and eat as you go; as one poster noted, calling it “party-time’ is appropriate since you eat it sitting down ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704/193 "2026-01-18T01:50:05Z")
Yeah, the point of square-cut pizza, in my estimation, is more as smaller portions of pizza to pass around during a party, or to eat at a bar. It edges pizza more towards finger food. Plus if you want to try a variety of pizzas (as there often are at a party), you can have a slice of sausage, a slice of mushroom, a slice of pepperoni without commiting to eating half (or almost half) a pizza. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704/194 "2026-01-18T08:25:43Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > Dannon fruit-on-the-bottom boysenberry yogurt I miss it so much. It was my favorite food growing up. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704/195 "2026-01-18T08:44:30Z")
Up here in the northwest we’ve got marionberries, which like boysenberries are a blackberry-raspberry-loganberry hybrid. They have a sweet tart flavor, and they go well in pies or ice cream. During a trip to Oregon a few months ago I stopped at a roadside farm store that had marionberry cream cheese empanadas on sale that were absolutely delicious. The guide of the tour group I was with insisted I had to try one and bring one back for my mother and if either of us didn’t like it he would personally Venmo me a refund. He didn’t wind up having to do that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan\_myers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@aruvqan\_myers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan_myers)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704/196 "2026-01-18T13:20:08Z")
nothing wrong with round, one of my favorite cuts, also a nice big hunk of chuck as potroast is comfort food =) Wegmans has a good brand of roast beef that is not ‘well done’ but more a medium - has a bit of pink so it isn’t dry as heck. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704/197 "2026-01-18T13:28:52Z")
Beef on weck is supposed to be pink, and not supposed to be dry. Did you see my pictures upthread? I’m not entirely sure if we’re talking about the same thing or I’m completely misunderstanding your comment from before. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704/198 "2026-01-18T13:50:33Z")
I think it must be just me misreading the comment. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704/199 "2026-01-18T14:37:46Z")
Huckleberries were a HUGE part of the local cuisine around Glacier National Park in northwestern Montana this past summer, when we visited. Huckleberry ice cream, shakes, pies, tarts, jams, even a pork roast with huckleberry sauce. My previous experience with huckleberries consisted only of watching Huckleberry Hound cartoons as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704/200 "2026-01-18T14:48:13Z")
> [@Die\_Capacitrix](#): > > [Young’s Dairy](https://youngsdairy.com/the-dairy-store/) includes Buckeyes in their Buckeye Sundaes. Don’t know who makes the Buckeyes - I expect they make them there. I live about 30 minutes from Young’s Dairy. It’s a must-visit if you’re in SW Ohio. Large restaurant, miniature golf, driving range, batting cages, indoor carousel, goats, Jersey cows, Christmas Tree farm, etc. And Yellow Springs is very close, which has a rather eclectic downtown. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesser-known-local-foods/1026704.md?page=11)