A casserole? The description is a little funny, but Frito pie is not a casserole. At least not if done correctly.
This is the correct way 
I was just in Minnesota a couple weeks ago. I wish I’d read this thread back then so I’d have known a few more good restaurants to try.
(What, you say this thread is only 2 days old? Unacceptable.)
Stupid weird font. I c&p’ed it into a notepad and it is a lower case i
Suppose it’s a regional difference. To me you have to be more specific when you say brisket. Just the word alone and I will picture Jewish style braised brisket. If you want me to think Texas you have to put a BBQ in front of it.
I was stationed at Fort Hood for two years. I don’t remember going to any BBQ places. I did have a lot of Tex-Mex.
When I was a kid we would travel from North Carolina to Wisconsin every other summer to visit my grandparents. We would always return with a cooler full of bratwurst, because back in the 1980s you couldn’t get the stuff in North Carolina.
I’ve never heard of Matts; it probably opened after I left in 1991.
Three places I can recommend, if they’re still there: The Green Mill, for excellent pizza and pasta; the Village Wok, for delicious and plentiful Asian food; and the Russian Tea Room (actually a little bistro), for great fast food like deep-fried pirozhki.
I understand Bridgeman’s has, alas, gone out of business, which is a crying shame. They had the best ice cream, malted milks, and quarter-pound hamburgers in existence.
Viking Village was the smörgåsbord in my old neighborhood, but I suspect it too is gone now, along with Porky’s drive-ins.
One more place comes to mind: the Mac Hotel, just outside of Roseville. It’s along the lines of Motel 6 and caters mostly to long-haul truckers, but don’t let that fool you. I lived there for several months back in the '80s, and its restaurant is fantastic! They pride themselves on serving “OUTRAGEOUS PORTIONS!” and they do. If you go there try the roast pork with wild rice dressing. It’s superb!
Who knows when I’ll get back to the Twin Cities, or if. I was mostly on the St. Paul side. I did stumble across two nice little places; Big River Pizza and The Nook.
I see it between the berkshire pork chop and scottish salmon. Nothing special although when we did the Michelin tour of Denver each restaurant had a lamb dish.
And hatch chiles are winning
Louisiana has such a robust food culture that it’s hard to pick just one food to represent them. Boiled crawfish, gumbo, po’ boys, jambalaya, all would be good picks for them. I’ve only been there once in my life, but I ate a lot of great food when I was there.
For foods named for California, I’d nominate the fake sushi California roll.
Thank you. I did see it later in the thread.
That link doesn’t work for me in the UK. What was Idaho? Even as a Brit I know that it’s probably something to do with potatoes.
Likely not what you’d expect, though.
Shrimp Dejonghe is absolutely a Chicago dish, probably the oldest dish we have associated with Chicago, but it’s an old timey dish so unless you’re a food nerd like me, you may not have come across it. It’s certainly not as iconic anymore as at least a half dozen other Chicago dishes.
More importantly, where are you seeing Shrimp Dejonghe? I’m getting Deep-Dish Pizza as well when I pull up the website. I’m rather impressed at the source that found shrimp Dejonghe and I’d be curious to read their other picks, assuming you are looking at another website.
I’m not seeing that. I see a normal, dotted I. Did they fix it or is it just on your end.
Every instance of the letter was a capital “I” for me as well; which annoyed me almost as much as the pick for Wyoming.
I clicked the link, and that’s what came up. Maybe I’m seeing everything, everywhere, all at once, and it’s an alternative universe type thing. LOL
Maybe it only happens with certain browsers.
From some of the complaints this seems to be a rare article that works better on a phone than a computer.
I think I must poke my head out of my secret underground bunker more often…I have no idea what “Disco Fries” are, and I have lived her for decades!