13 American Regional Food Quirks That Will Astound You

[KamaAina]

https://www.yahoo.com/food/13-american-regional-food-quirks-119943986501.html

America is a nation of individuals, and individuals are really weird. So it happens pretty frequently, then, that when a bunch of individuals/weirdos in a certain area get together and start eating the same way, it confuses the holy hell out of everyone else. With that in mind, we set about compiling a list of some of the oddest regional food quirks in America – some will astound you, some will confuse you, and some will make you want to relocate immediately. Weirdo.

Provel cheese in St. Louis and its suburbs
Provolone, cheddar, and Swiss APPARENTLY aren’t good enough for St. Louis, which created its own amalgam of those cheeses and puts it on basically everything, from pizza to soup to sandwiches....

Ranch dressing on pizza in the Midwest
While people do this all over the place, it’s especially popular in the Midwest, where folks smother their pizza in the stuff. And since pizza is a vegetable (duh), everything works out!

Calling green peppers “mangoes” in Cincinnati
This one’s not so much an eating quirk as a terminology anomaly: in Cincinnati, some peeps call green peppers “mangoes”, and to get an actual mango, you’ve got to ask for a “fruit mango”.

[seveneyes]

1. Little things add up

[IrishEyes]

2. Cheddar cheese on apple pie.

My family always ate it that way. I thought most people did that.

[mackerel]

22. My mother loves it like that and I eat apples with sharp cheddar cheese.

[applegrove]

27. My mom always used to say "apple pie without cheese is like

a kiss without a squeeze".

[NV Whino]

3. I remember my grandmother referring to green peppers as mangos.

We're talking Kansas for that one. Probably caught it from Nebraska.

[olddots]

4. my family put gravy on jello

It's a New England tradition .

[KamaAina]

8. Say WHAT?!

[Arugula Latte]

16. I'm calling on Skittles to come kick olddots' gravy-jello eating ass.

That is wrong.

Just wrong.

Egregious.

A crime against humanity.

[Skittles]

25. AGREED

SCHEDULING OLDOTS FAMILY FOR MASS ASS KICKING

[LiberalElite]

5. maybe

this should be xposted in Weird News...

[MicaelS]

6. I'm a heathen in Texas.

I like my chili with beans, period. I never make it without beans.

[Xipe Totec]

7. Ask for a lemonade in Mexico City, and they'll ask you, what flavor? nt

[KamaAina]

9. Ask for a Coke in Texas, and they'll ask you what kind?

Coke, Sprite, Dr Pepper? They're all called "Coke" down there.

[Xipe Totec]

10. Ask for a gopher in Hollywood and they'll bring you a production assistant.

[Chan790]

11. That's industry-wide.

I was a gopher in NYC for a while. I carried the term over when I left the film industry for self-employment in communications...I refer to the office assistants as my gophers. (It's my catch-all entry-level hiring position while I determine someone's skill-set and where they best fit.)

"Gopher this."

"Gopher that."

"Gopher coffee for the office, it's going to be a long night."

[Art_from_Ark]

12. So what flavors are available?

Enquiring minds want to know

[Xipe Totec]

13. Basically any fruit you want. Plus, you can have a milk lemonade, or a water lemonade... nt

[Art_from_Ark]

14. Here in Japan, they have what is called "lemon water"

which I guess is equivalent to a Mexican water lemonade.

I've never had lemonade and milk, but when I was a kid we would sometimes mix milk and orange juice together and call it an "orange cow".

Guava/mango/papaya lemonade sounds interesting.

The next time I get a can of Jumex, I'll try it

[a la izquierda]

26. Maracuyá

Yum.

[Little Star]

15. Chicken Ranch pizza is to die for.

[KamaAina]

19. Literally!

[Goblinmonger]

17. Chocolate-covered potato chips

It wasn't Carol Widman that started it. She is the daughter. They come from where I went to college and they are SO much better than the Lays(?) version.

[LiberalEsto]

18. A quick New Jersey breakfast is a hard roll with butter

Some places sell them already sliced, buttered and wrapped to go.
I miss them. It's not easy to find a decent hard roll in Maryland.

[hobbit709]

20. Cincinnati-where they put so-called chili on pasta.

[KamaAina]

21. And cheese on top of that!

[mackerel]

23. My daughter likes her fries with ranch dressing. I knew a woman who

ate her fries with a mix of ketchup & mustard. In Ireland you can usually get your chips (fries) with a curry sauce, they call it chips & curry. I'm surprised that hasn't taken to more urban areas here.

[vanlassie]

24. "Apple pie without some cheese is like a kiss without the squeeze!"