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OR regional foods?

BBQ. It's both our regional food and our tradition. There's a huge contest once a year, and all the leftovers go to homeless shelters and needy families. EXCEPT LAST YEAR WHEN THEY HAD BLEACH POURED ON 'EM. /hiss The health department said that since it wasn't inspected, the food wasn't allowed to be given away. Despite this being a tradition for decades. Despite it meaning over 4,000 pounds of food would go to waste. UGH, IT STILL PISSES ME OFF.

What type of BBQ?

Smoked, usually. Meat doesn't matter much, but it's not Kansas City BBQ unless that hunk of animal's been smoked in a pit.

Ah, Kansas City. I grew up on SC BBQ but strongly prefer Kansas City BBQs (I hate vinegar).

Yes. I'm from Kansas and the few years I lived in Alabama wet the worst for barbecue.

It's just...BLECH vinegar. It is why I also dislike so many Chinese dishes. VINEGAR IS THE WORST!

I like vinegar (it's what I get for having a British mother), but that stuff doesn't belong in BBQ sauce.

Boiled peanuts in the South. People here in Oklahoma have never even heard of them. :C

Regional foods here include lefse, lutefisk, hot dish, and bars. lol

Customs or traditions that are different from the rest of the US? I don't know. Really long good-byes, never wearing shoes indoors, being overly friendly and casual with everyone, and always talking about snow. lol

Waffles. Chocolates.Beer.

Really.

Baked beans, cranberries, corn muffins, clam chowder.

New England?

Yup.

Our diet has a lot of Asian influences because we spent so long in the Philippines. So lots of garlic, stir fry, ginger, white rice. Adobo, which is amazing. Then there is the southern cooking influence because my dad is Southern. And we really like Italian so we do a good amount of that. And then your traditional American sorts of things.

In Chicago, we put lawn chairs in front of our house when dig the show out of our parking spaces so people won't park where we shoveled. If you park in a place that has chairs, your tires will probably be slashed or your windows will get broken.

In Chicago, we call the room off the foyer the "front room," which may or may not be different from a living room. It's literally just what we call the room closest to the front of the house.

Regional foods: Anything with seafood, especially lobster--I do not like seafood all that much, and can't stand lobster. (When my 83 father was a child in St. John's, lobster was the poor man's food--if you had money, you could afford bologna--fried was and still is a popular dish in the Atlantic provinces).

Dulse--dried seaweed, which I basically just suck the salt off of. Hodge podge--usually had in the summer because veggies are in season--small/new potatoes, yellow & green beans, carrots, peas cooked in a milk broth.

Rapie (rap-ee) pie, a chicken and potato Acadian dish. Donairs (similar to what other areas call "gyros" but not identical, I don't think) and Garlic fingers, which are often bought along with pizza and are eaten with donair sauce. Baked beans.

We have a chain of used clothing stores called Frenchy's (and various knockoffs)--good condition used clothes for good prices. People will spend a day/morning/afternoon going "Frenchy-ing"--means you travel from Frenchy's to Frenchy's. There's absolutely no stigma attached to one getting one's clothes at Frenchy's--there's often remainders from US stores, so you can get brand label clothes for a fraction of the price.

We've got local festivals and fairs, that vary by region in the province; in Cape Breton, there's a lot of Gaelic and music stuff, in the southwest of the province, a lot of Acadian stuff.

We call Black History Month--African Heritage Month instead. There's probably other stuff I'm forgetting....

Rhode Island:
Quahogs and Johnny Cakes. Del's Frozen Lemonade. Clam Cakes. Chowder. "American Chop Suey"

Low numbered license plates make you special, and are often handed down through the family. Hmm, there's a lot of sailing races? General ocean-y celebrations.

Maine:
More chowder. Lobster. Apples. Cranberries. Blueberries. Up north in "the county" are a lot of potato farms. These weird red hotdogs that people are obsessed with. And the godawfulness that is Moxie.

I can't think of any Maine-specific traditions at the moment.

Edited 2017-02-20 00:14 (UTC)

Pennsylvania Dutch foods, hotrods, potato chips, standoffishness

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