# Regional foods you miss and where to find them **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 7, 2004, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745 "2004-04-07T14:26:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Elysian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@Elysian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysian)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/61 "2004-04-09T02:05:04Z")
> [@Chastain86](#): > > **Lone Star beer.** > > I love it, and you can’t buy even a single damn bottle in Arizona whatsoever. :mad: > > BTW, if anybody has the line on a place I can find some, let me know. I mentioned in your GQ thread that you can find it in a Lone Star Steak House. Hope you find it! ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/62 "2004-04-09T03:12:42Z")
> [@ENugent](#): > > Hawaiian **cone sushi**. I live on it when I get to vacation there, but it’s been years. Anyone know how to make it? What is cone sushi? Is it aka “hand rolls”? If so, it’s very common in the PNW/Vancouver area, and I’d imagine that any decent sushi place would have it. ---
**Author:** ![kalex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dfb087/32.png) [@kalex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kalex)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/63 "2004-04-09T04:05:34Z")
Glad to see the Florida people show up a while back, but I have to go further south, to the Keys, my home for many years. The fried oyster sandwich at the 7 Mile Grill - not the fancy new one, with tables and stuff, but the old one. It was sort of a shack, the last restaurant before the 7 Mile Bridge, and your last chance to eat before Key West. From the Southernmost City, I mostly miss cheap Cuban food. They had kiosks - they always seemed to be near laundromats - which opened at 4:30 in the morning. You would nod at the elderly Cubanos and get your con leche, or you buche (a shot glass sized cup of espresso and sugar) and your cheese toast. The bread was smooshed flat in a sort of press. Nothing like it north of West Palm Beach. Very homesick now! ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/64 "2004-04-09T05:02:45Z")
I’m with **Lissla** on some good Canadian poutine… ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/65 "2004-04-09T05:34:49Z")
I used to live in upstate New York (upper Hudson Valley). Now I live in Texas. Tastykake’s Butterscotch Krimpets, from Pennsylvania, as previously mentioned. Although I found some at a grocery store in Orlando, Florida when I was on vacation. Dad used to bring 'em up by the case whenever he was down PA way for work. Also previously mentioned, Jax cheezy poofs. I can’t find cheezy poofs AT ALL in the grocery stores down here, except occasionally for Cheetos, which are INFERIOR. But the thing I miss the most is Freihofer’s bakery cakes and cupcakes. DEEE-licious. The gold fudge-iced sheet cake? Great. I always peel the frosting off in one big sheet and set it aside, eat the cake first then the frosting by itself. And the cupcakes! The vanilla-frosted ones are the best, and I used to love the holiday ones because they’re usually all-vanilla instead of a box of three vanillas and three chocolates. Yum yum yum. When I went on the forementioned vacation my folks brought me down a box. They were gone by the end of the week. I miss those things. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/66 "2004-04-09T06:12:03Z")
Rizzo’s pizza - Glenside, PA Also from the Philly area: Stutz Candy Cheesesteaks and hoagies, of course Goldberg’s Peanut Chews Italian water ice Jewish rye bread (soft inside, chewy crust, lots 'o seeds) Tastykakes Real soft pretzels Carvel chocolate dip ice cream cones (unlike the evil DQ kind, the ice cream actually tastes like vanilla and is dipped in dark chocolate, not milk) Crap, now I’m hungry _and_ homesick. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/67 "2004-04-09T16:47:44Z")
UK: As mentioned three times before: Cheap and lovely Indian food. It’s okay here in Ireland, but neither as good nor as cheap. Holland: Cheap and lovely Indonesian food. Oh, and andijvie stamppot (raw endives mashed through potatoes with bit of bacon). You’d have to be Dutch or Flemish to get wound up about that one, I guess. Everything else I miss is more durable and gets brought over by my mother or other visitors. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/68 "2004-04-09T16:54:57Z")
angelicate- Big Red soda? I live in Indiana & I certainly see it here (can’t stand it tho _L_), I’ll have to ask my brother if it’s also in L.A. yosemitebabe- our local bakery makes salt rising bread, I’ve never seen it anywhere else. I started wondering if it was a peculiar recipe of the old German baker that started it. ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/69 "2004-04-09T18:14:12Z")
It is **Fiddlehead** season again and I am without. The fiddlehead is not only the prettiest vegetable known to man, it also has a divine earthy taste absent in any other green veggie. I could find them reliably when I lived in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Now that I am in DC even the farmer’s market guy has never heard of them. I would be a good and loyal friend for life to anyone who knows where to find fiddleheads in the DC area. I am also jealous of the Aussies (and I presume the Kiwis) for their acess to the **Violet Crumble** , the best candy bar ever made. My sister loves them so much she imports by the case, and that is the only time I get to have one. ---
**Author:** ![caray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@caray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caray)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/70 "2004-04-09T20:42:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Steaming them (with Old Bay seasoning, which I hear may also be tough to find outside the state) seems to be a largely local thing Heck, you can even get Old Bay seasoning in the grocery stores in Minnesota! Boiled peanuts is something you CANNOT ---
**Author:** ![caray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@caray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caray)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/71 "2004-04-09T20:45:53Z")
Ok, my finger had a mind of it’s own and prematurely ended that post… You CAN’T get boiled peanuts up here in Minnesota. A friend’s husband is from the south and he’s a truck driver, so when he’s down that way, he brings back a bushel of green peanuts, and she boils them and freezes them. Those are EXCELLENT but the canned variety that was linked a few posts ago are acceptable. Most people around here would give you the “17 and 1/2 heads” look if you mentioned boiled peanuts though. OH, and I almost forgot… I heard Jay’s Potato Chips went bankrupt… ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/72 "2004-04-09T21:14:02Z")
> [@Hunter Hawk](#): > > What is cone sushi? Is it aka “hand rolls”? If so, it’s very common in the PNW/Vancouver area, and I’d imagine that any decent sushi place would have it. I believe **ENugent** might be talking about [“inari sushi”](http://www.house-foods.com/yummy_recipes/recipe_pages/age_inari_sushi.html); at least we used to call it cone sushi when I was a kid. Inari is pretty common in any sushi place or Japanese restaurant; to make it yourself requires loads of effort. A friend of mine calls them “brown bags.” ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/73 "2004-04-09T23:40:25Z")
> [@Judith Prietht](#): > > I believe **ENugent** might be talking about [“inari sushi”](http://www.house-foods.com/yummy_recipes/recipe_pages/age_inari_sushi.html); at least we used to call it cone sushi when I was a kid. Inari is pretty common in any sushi place or Japanese restaurant; to make it yourself requires loads of effort. A friend of mine calls them “brown bags.” If this is what ENugent was looking for, I’ve bought something that looks the same from Bread and Circus. Er, I mean Whole Foods. The one at Fresh Pond in Cambridge makes the best supermarket-made sushi I’ve ever had. I liked the inari, too. ---
**Author:** ![rostfrei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7bcc69/32.png) [@rostfrei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rostfrei)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/74 "2004-04-10T01:31:15Z")
From Germany, I miss the following: Orange Fanta. Sure, we get orange Fanta here in Virginia, but it’s not the same thing. The German Fanta has orange pulp. Milka Chocolate. There are better chocolate bars, but this has always been my favorite. Target stores used to sell Milka, but I guess they didn’t catch on. Kinder Eggs: Even though I’m 37, I still like the prizes. Davidof Lights: I quit smoking 2 years ago, but I still miss these heavenly things. Curry Catsup: I’ve never seen it for sale here in the US. Plus, dozens of others. These are the major items. Eric ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/75 "2004-04-10T03:07:59Z")
> [@kalex](#): > > Glad to see the Florida people show up a while back, but I have to go further south, to the Keys, my home for many years. > > The fried oyster sandwich at the 7 Mile Grill - not the fancy new one, with tables and stuff, but the old one. It was sort of a shack, the last restaurant before the 7 Mile Bridge, and your last chance to eat before Key West. Damn, why’d you have to go and mention the Seven Mile Grill? Some of my most enduring childhood memories are of eating the fried shrimp and Key lime pie there, when there used to be a couple of picnic tables out back. It was my first Key lime pie, and still the best in my mind, even though I’ve had better (and made better) since. I dragged a couple of childhood friends into the new one last January, but the place just wasn’t the same. You have to eat there with saltwater in your hair and sand in your toes, preferably still in a wet bathingsuit. If I’d had any sense, I’d be down there right now, hanging out with my cousins, my best childhood friend, and my guitar, on the beach with my feet dangling in the water. On other subjects: also a Jersey girl by birth, I miss the hell out of Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes, too. I stock up whenever I’m in the neighborhood. There was one supermarket chain in Chicago that used to carry them, but they never really caught on, because for some Godawful reason Chicagoans prefer Twinkies. Eeeew. Chicago has its food pluses, that’s for sure, but things that I wish we had here include European lemon soda (the kind that actually tastes like lemons, either Fanta or Schweppes), New England lobster bakes, and a bunch of other things I’m probably forgetting right now. ---
**Author:** ![Kuizelemartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@Kuizelemartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuizelemartz)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/76 "2004-04-10T03:28:38Z")
Pork tenderloin sandwiches from central Illinois. I’ve lived in Michigan, North Carolina and Florida, never seen one. It’s pork beaten to a thin pulp, breaded and fried. About 9 inches in diameter, served on a slight 6’ diameter bun with ketchup and pickles. Has anyone seen these outside of central Illinois? Please tell me where. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/77 "2004-04-10T03:35:40Z")
A month or so ago I was up near San Francisco in the East Bay. I got jonsing for some [El Pollo Loco Chicken](http://www.elpolloloco.com/indexflash.html) Now down in LA, where I live, you just about can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one of their stores (there are thee within 3 miles of my house) So I drive around Pleasanton, nada. Dublin, nada. Check the phonebook nada. Go on the net, the nearest freaking store is almost 50 miles away! ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/78 "2004-04-10T11:02:45Z")
> [@Motorgirl](#): > > If this is what ENugent was looking for, I’ve bought something that looks the same from Bread and Circus. Er, I mean Whole Foods. The one at Fresh Pond in Cambridge makes the best supermarket-made sushi I’ve ever had. I liked the inari, too. Thank you! I’ve never seen inari sushi on a restaurant menu, but I’ll check out Whole Foods. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/79 "2004-04-10T15:21:49Z")
> [@ENugent](#): > > Thank you! I’ve never seen inari sushi on a restaurant menu, but I’ll check out Whole Foods. Good luck, I really hope it’s what you’re looking for. Then my librarian-ness (librarianosity?) will be satisfied at another reference question successfully answered! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745/80 "2004-04-10T15:23:05Z")
> [@Motorgirl](#): > > Good luck, I really hope it’s what you’re looking for. Then my librarian-ness (librarianosity?) will be satisfied at another reference question successfully answered! 😃 Oh, and bear in mind that I’ve never had inari at a sushi restaurant, so I would have no idea how the Whole Foods version compares. I can say that I like it, though! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-foods-you-miss-and-where-to-find-them/238745.md?page=5)