Local foods

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

As a resident of Cornwall, I will have to go with the pasty. They're great, traditional pasties, chicken, steak and ale, lamb and mint, pork & apple, steak & Stilton, bacon egg & sausage meat ...drool... Clearly you have been given an inferior American knock off

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

**SNIP**

For some reason I love pastys... don't know why.

Odd colloquial foods I've encountered:

Shit on a shingle - Chipped beef and white sauce on a piece of bread. Fairly decent. Not sure where it is from but it is common in American military families.

Cracked Conch - Hands down my favorite food and so damn hard to find done correctly. Its also difficult to find outside of tropical areas, and honestly I'd recommend outside of Florida or the Caribbean its probably best if you don't try it.

Potato pancakes are also cool but I don't know how common they are.

 

[Folksoul]

Live in the Okanagan valley, it's almost made entirely of orchard. Apples, cherries, plums, peaches, apricots, and grapes. (Ice)Wine, cider, and coolers for obvious reasons.

 

[TheSYLOH]

Singapore here.
Most of the "local" food is either Malay, Indian or some Variety of Chinese.
Malaysia and Singapore bicker over who invented dishes such as
Chilli Crab or Bak kut teh

But I'm fairly confident that Roti John is from Singapore.

Spoiler: Roti John

Its the kind of fusion cooking that occurs spontaneously, when you shove 4 extremely different cultures on an island and let it cook for a century.

Basically you take a Baguette layer it with minced meat (usually spiced Malay style) and cheese, then you grill it and then criss cross it with tomato sauce, chilli sauce and mayo.
It is exceptionally bad for you.

 

[ccggenius12]

If I remember my elementary school Wisconsin heritage lessons, a pasty is a flaky crust (roughly calzone shaped), filled with meat, vegetables, and the third ingredient, (differentiating it from pot pies) it uses lard instead of gravy. I'm sorry, but lard is what you use to make the crust flaky, not to add flavor and as the base for your filling.
Also, my mom's Filipino, so you guys have to top raw duck embryos. Good luck with that. It was featured on Fear Factor for crap's sake.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I live in Georgia in the US, so here we have...I dunno, boiled peanuts? I've only been here for a year so maybe I'm missing something.

I USED to live in Maryland where our big thing was Crab specifically Crabcakes and, crab soup.

Spoiler: a little bit of food porn