I thought they have determined it is climate change and rising ocean temperatures that is the culprit. Fishing is highly regulated. At least on the U.S. side. Not so much with the Russians.
Probable some of both.
They are definitely saying it’s the reason for snow crab. King crab I’m not sure of.
Like I said, it’s from both at this point, especially for king crab. Back in the day, overfishing was a big culprit. Between Seattle and Japan early on, and later with local fishermen, the big kings were pretty much fished out. I remember my mother bringing home massive king crab legs from Kodiak, but now a large king leg is very small. I don’t know what the situation is for dungeness, as I haven’t kept up since leaving Alaska.
As I said in my post #38, there are several restaurants in California laying claim to chimis. It’s likely a mystery that will never be proven to everyone’s satisfaction.
I think it’s aliens.
How is New York not pizza? That’s like the most obvious choice of all states. Buffalo wings may be named after a city in NY but they are not iconic.
Because there’s no distinctive New York style of pizza. What New Yorkers call “New York style pizza” is just what the entire rest of the country calls “pizza”. Though I know that it annoys New Yorkers to admit that anything outside of New York exists.
New Hampshire should be whole belly fried clams, or apple cider donuts.
If I was going to pick an iconic food for NYC it would probably be bagels. Or maybe the “dirty water” hot dog from a pushcart. I’m not sure what food would best represent the entire state of New York, though.
Bagels, I’ll grant. You can find bagels anywhere, of course, but there’s a general recognition that the best ones come from New York.
The pushcart hot dog, though, has the same problem that pizza does. Every city in the US has hot dog carts. A few of them have distinctive regional variations, like Washington DC’s half-smokes or Cleveland’s Polish boy… but does New York have a variation that’s common there but not elsewhere?
Is the list supposed to be food that’s found there and uncommon elsewhere? You can get buffalo wings everywhere else too. And avocado toast and probably many others on the list.
Which is why the list is worthless clickbait.
There are any number of Canadians who will argue that point. But Montreal isn’t in the US, so they don’t count for the idiots at Food Network.
Of course not. Here’s a video of a guy cooking clam chowder from the “original Boston cooking school cook book”, by Fanny Farmer, published in 1896.
And i don’t think the author claimed to have invented her recipes, she just wrote them down and taught people how to make them. I think it’s a British recipe adapted to the plentiful local clams.
The article seems to be mostly a way to plug various restaurants. Legal seafood does make a good clam chowder, but they didn’t invent it, and there are lots of other places that do it well.
Vermont should be Maple syrup.
Lobster roll is good for Maine.
I think coffee milk is okay for RI. Or egg cream. Both are weird elsewhere and make my think of the state.
Yeah, poutine is Canadian, even if it’s possible to buy it in NH. I don’t think of NH as having an iconic food. They have a lot of clam shacks, but so do Massachusetts and Maine. Still, i might have gone with fried clams. Or soft ice cream. And don’t think this is about foods invented in a state, but about foods that make you think of a state.
I would have gone with orange juice, but key lime pie is okay, as is Cuban sandwiches.
Yeah, i think something tex-mex is the answer for Texas.
I lived in Jersey for several years, and have never heard of disco fries. Pork roll sandwich sounds good, unless PA claims that. I associate new jersey with blueberries, but that might be a “me” thing.
Oh, that’s a good choice for NY. I think Buffalo wings is okay, though.
Yeah bagels would have been my choice if pizza was too broad, since whenever I visit my sister in CA she asks me to bring a bag of NY bagels with me.
Pretty much 100% of the population of Arizona are aliens, of one form or another.
Disco fries are definitely part of diner culture. Going out in your youth to party then stopping at a diner at 2-3am. Sure me and my friends were weird. We would order full meals. Most people would get something like disco fries. It’s not something you cook at home or usually get when you are having dinner. My wife will still get it on occasion when she’s being nostalgic. It was never my thing. Late night diner culture is something else that Covid killed. Although NJ is still the diner capital of the world, the number of 24 hour diners dropped to only a handful spread around the state.
I know blueberries are grown here but if I’m going to think of a fruit for the state I would say cranberry. Massachusetts claims them but a hell of a lot of them are grown here.
Not necessarily.
The linked article says “the dishes that most-define every state.” Whatever that means. It could mean that when you think of that state, you think of that food. Or it could mean that when you think of that food, you think of that state—which isn’t the same thing.
The thread title says “…food from each state,” which arguably implies that the food should have originated there. But the word “from” isn’t used in the linked article.
Or at least, that some instances of that food originate from there. When my mom makes pierogis and takes some with her in a cooler to give to family she’s visiting, that’s arguably “food from Ohio”, even though the recipe originated elsewhere.