Best regional food/drinks thread

Mancini's Bread, Isaly's Chipped Ham, Sheetz. This thread is making me really hungry and sad that I can't have any of those right now.

 

I'll second/third a vote for Sheetz. Will stop there like 4 times in a weekend to Penn St. Much better than Subway, Blimpie, D'Angelos.

If I had money....investors....some knowledge of real estate and an idea of how to run a franchise (think that about covers it), I would try to open one myself.

Second a vote for Turkey Hill. Something with the Freezing process before they ship it makes their tea much better than any of the other prepacked crap.

For chips or pretzels from Pennsylvania, make mine UTZ, not Snyder's please.

In Connecticut we have Avery's (New Britain) and Foxon Park (New Haven) brand of local soda. Both use real sugar and are better than Pepsi/coke.

From RI, Southeast Mass there is coffee milk, which sounds disgusting but is actually pretty good.

 

DID SOMEBODY SAY FAYGO ?!?

 

I've been to Kaelin's. If they invented the cheeseburger, about a million restaurants have done it better since.

And how could you forget Burgoo as a Kentucky fave?

 

This. Holy hell were Ukrop's cakes good. And their bread was awesome.

 

OK, I LIVE in New Britain and have never heard of Avery's. What the hell?

 

Ward's Big Ones with root beer in So. Miss. A greasy, nasty chili-covered guilty pleasure, and they mix their own root beer.

Also, a chilibun from Edd's Drive-In in Pascagoula is a culinary treat is not to be missed.

 

Another one from Michigan ... or should I say the U.P.:

Pasties, smothered in gravy.

They keep cardiologists in business, but they're also great grub on a cold day.

 

Is there an echo in here?

I mentioned those there about the first page.



Here's another from Michigan (although very, very, very regional):

sweet rolls from Hilltop, in the UP. (And I'm sure slappy knows the place).

http://www.sweetroll.com/

 

Martinsville hot dogs
/thread

 

Pasties -- Northern Michigan, Wisconsin, etc. Like a calzone with a different kind of dough, traditionally filled with last night's pot roast and veggies. So effing good. (Crap. Coco beat me. I second the nomination.)

Sun Drop -- in Sconnie and surrounding areas. Lemon soda with actual lemon in it. Still comes in glass bottles.

Hot beef commercial -- upper midwest. Two pieces of white bread, topped with roast beef, mashed potatoes in the middle, gravy over the whole plate.

Jucy Lucy -- Multiple places around MPLS, but the original and still the best is Matt's Bar. Two hunks of beef pattied around a slice of cheddar cheese and fried onions.

Second Rosie's nomination of MN State Fair cheese curds and Caribou Coffee. My old man knows the location of every Caribou in existence, and will drive hours out of his way to stop.

Maid Rites -- All over Iowa. Kind of a BBQ, kind of not. But they're freaking great.

Grinders at the Red Pepper -- Grand Forks N.D. Think every college-area sub-shop you've ever been to. The twist is they take taco meat and put it on the top half of the roll, make the sandwich on the bottom. The cheese crispies are fantastic, too.

 

How regional is Caribou Coffee? I know there's a bunch in Michigan.