I have issues with all catfish. The best thing people who like it can say is, “it doesn’t taste fishy.” Infact, it has no flavor at all.
Turnip Greens - I love to eat and cook most types of greens, but turnip greens are a whole lot of work to cook with very little payoff. They have to be rinsed forever to get all the dirt and sand out of the wrinkles. The stems have to be completely removed because unlike other greens where the stems get tender, turnip stems just get stringy. And anything that requires a huge pot to cook in with just enough finished product to fill a small serving bowl, should taste better than bitter grass, to make it worth the effort.
True, but ya gotta give us the shrimp omlette!
Like you, I just assumed it was called “red-eye” because of the coffee (although not all red-eye gravy contains coffee.)
Still, it’s a better choice than the “brown-eye gravy.”
Most of Kentucky’s contributions to the food world are at least as good as advertised–bourbon, Ale-8-One, Derby Pie, Western KY BBQ, beer cheese. The mint julep has its detractors, but I’m not one of them.
I can’t say I’m nuts about the Hot Brown, though. It’s an open-faced turkey sandwich on toast with bacon, usually a tomato, and covered in Mornay sauce (white sauce with cheese). Certainly nothing bad about that list, but it usually falls down in execution. First of all, there’s really no way to keep the toast from getting soggy under all that sauce. Second, unless you use some really giant and thick bacon, it just gets lost under everything else, and they almost never do. Third, most sandwich-type turkey breast is dull and tasteless.
Overall, there are so many things going on that it’s hardly worth using good ingredients, since it’s all going to get lost in the shuffle, but the parts don’t add up to anything that makes up for it.
The version I had at its namesake Brown Hotel was particularly anemic, and almost offensively tiny for its $11 price tag. Even worse is that it was created as late-night drunk food, and you can’t even get one at the Brown after about 10:00 PM–I don’t even think room service can bring you one. It’s an excellent hotel otherwise.
No offense-but why do people rave about “Philly Cheesesteaks”? It is just a sandwich , and I’ve had better outside of Philly. The really weird thing-devotees claim you have to make a “real” cheesesteak with Cheezewhiz-that orange plastic-like substance that comes in cans-eeew!:smack:
Happy to oblige. 
Ladies & Gentlemen, we have a tie for comment of valor
Oklahoma BBQ
vs
Brown-eye gravy
I just busted a gut on that one…
:D:D:D
No you ain’t. I don’t much care for steamed crabs. They’re messy and as you said, you have to work really hard for nothing. And all the Old Bay and salt hurts my damn hangnails.
Also, crabcakes are gross too. Smelly and too salty. And expensive. My friend, who is originally from Massachusetts, still cracks up at the sign every other restaurant in this area seems to have: “Best Crabcake in Baltimore”.
Blech. You can have them!
I guess I’m the only crab I actually like. 
My favorite dinner was a celiac, a vegetarian and a Muslim in a DINER.
I think we had three milkshakes.
To answer the question - walleye. Its a decent freshwater fish, but its sort of a shame that Minnesota isn’t known for something better. Oh, I suppose hotdish and jello salad, but those aren’t making anyone’s culinary top ten lists - even if the hotdish has tater tots and the jello has shaved carrots.
“Is this some kind of joke?”
(I once ended up in an elevator at work - I work in a hospital - with three hospital chaplains, and I swear that there was a priest and a rabbi plus a chaplain type I couldn’t identify. I struggled very hard to not say that line out loud.)
In my mind, its reputation is not so overblown, and so it lives up to (maybe more than to) this modest reputation. Decent comfort food/'70s style casserole.
Well, I’ll be… following that hotdish wiki link along for some wiki-diving, I reached this: St. Paul sandwich. Which is apparently a local St. Louis specialty I’ve never, ever heard of before.
hmm… like egg foo young, but white bread is vile. ponder
Any of the food at Dick’s Drive-In, except the milkshakes, is overrated. (That doesn’t mean I don’t still eat there maybe once every five trips to Seattle.) The fries especially- the website makes a huge deal about them being fresh cut, but what they really are is grease in a potato disguise.
I can’t find the sketch from Almost Live, but there was a “Which bag of fries came from Dick’s” scene once- and while completely greased stained paper bag identified as Dick’s fries was an exaggeration, it was only slightly so.
You shoulda said, “So a priest, a chaplain, a rabbi, and an ax murderer get into an elevator, and the ax murderer says, ‘Is this some kind of joke?’” They woulda laughed and laughed!
Daniel
After an evening on the town, getting shit-faced, Halifax students are known to seek out a Donair on their way back to the dorm.
“it lacks even the patina of healthiness. Just look at it: A pound or more of spiced beef, slathered in a sauce that’s mostly cream and sugar, sprinkled with “the works” – usually diced onion and tomato – and wrapped in a big piece of pan-fried pita bread that’s also been drenched in sauce for good measure”
Aw man – the doner kebab is worldwide (it may be worse, who knows, in lovely Halifax), and is nasty yet awesomely tasty worldwide. Streetmeat=streetmeat, no matter where you roam.
I’ve only had the local version. I quite enjoy the ones from Velos Pizza on Almon St.
but only once every 6 months or so.
Is the sauce (Carnation milk, sugar, vinegar, garlic) universal or is it a Hfx. creation I wonder?
Hmm. That could be local to Halifax. My impression is that “white sauce” (the only phrase I’ve heard the Turkish/Greek/Arab Jihadi vendors, worldwide, use), is supposed to be some commingling of yogurt, dill, garlic – what? This is basically shawarma, writ streetwise.
Carnation milk???
Yeah, I’d eat that on a dare, but only then. Egg foo yung is of marginal value even as a Chinese-American dish. And Chi-Am cuisine as practiced in the Midwest? Game probably not worth candle.