I think Mission burritos are more of a San Francisco iconic food, not a California iconic food.
Col. Blake: What is this?
Hawkeye: It’s a Spam lamb.
BBQ Ribs is really Kansas City, both on the Missouri and Kansas sides. The most iconic food for the state of Kansas is chicken fried steak.
St. Louis does have an impressive (ish) list of contributions to cuisine. There’s burnt ends, the aforementioned toasted ravioli, provel cheese* and pizza made with same (and on razor-thin crust), gooey butter cake, and its own take on BBQ. Kansas City has BBQ and … more BBQ, I guess?
*Provel cheese is considered, by some anyway, an abomination, and I have to agree.
Interesting. I definitely associate this with “The South” and having it at my grandparents house as a kid, who hailed from southern Missouri (basically Arkansas). I had no idea it was a Kansas thing, even though I lived in Kansas for quite awhile.
And this I assumed was a KC thing, as I’ve only ever had them at Gates and Joe’s, not any place in STL (which, while there are a few good places now, can’t really compare to KC for BBQ).
And Provel cheese, in itself, is in fact vile. But somehow on thin-crust pizza with a ton of toppings it seems to work…
Damn, Wisconsin’s is right on! “Culver’s Wrapper: Too blackout drunk to rip it off first.”
The Onion is originally from Madison, so they’d get that right
Eh, not necessarily. You need people who have lived in the state, to know what’s popular there, but you also need people who’ve lived elsewhere, to know what’s not popular elsewhere. If you just go by residents, then you end up with things like New Yorkers who think that New York is the only place with American-style pizza.
And yet they did, for… Oklahoma, was it?
I thought Michigan would have the Coney Dog.
Most any home-owned small-town cafe will have chicken fried steak on the menu. There are a couple of restaurants close to my home that advertise as having the largest portion, which basically covers the entire plate. The mashed potatoes are heaped atop the meat. Everything is topped with white gravy.
Heart attack on a plate, but oh so good.
Most any home-owned small-town cafe anywhere on the continent will have chicken fried steak on the menu. It’s not a Kansas thing.
As a Minnesotan, hot dish is good. I’m grateful they didn’t pick lutefisk.
Steak for Oklahoma isn’t completely ridiculous but I’m pretty sure Cattlemen’s Steakhouse paid for that post.
IMO the most iconic food from Oklahoma is the onion burger.
Same is true for Texas, and probably most of the south. BTW, my tablet does not like that website, so what was Texas?
Brisket is right for Texas. As far as New Mexico’s Frito Pie, I don’t know if that’s correct or not, but the photo they use is not typical for a Frito pie. The Texas version, which I assumed (maybe incorrectly) is typical of all Frito pies, is served with chili or chili and cheese. I’ve never seen a Frito pie with lettuce or tomatoes.
I wasn’t surprised that they picked deep-dish pizza for Illinois, but that’s more a Chicago thing than an Illinois thing (although I can’t think of a better “iconic food” that would be representative of the entire state).
Some of those foods are associated with their state as a whole, but others are associated with a specific city or region of the state.
Well, that’s fair, given that Illinois is mostly Chicago.
Yes, I am aware that Chicagoans think so.
Lamb chop for Colorado. Nope! Green Chili by far.
For Ohio, I would have guessed square-cut pizza.