Favorite regional/hometown brands
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Anonymous
Yeah you're probably right. Every restaurant I ever worked at growing up made us scour those things so the tea didn't get that sour taste. |
Anonymous
Oh man, euchre! I miss euchre! |
Anonymous
| Restaurants who can actually cook grits properly. Sigh. |
Anonymous
| Floridian here voting for Publix subs. |
Anonymous
I was in Maine recently and we had orange dry and it was so, so good. |
Anonymous
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From the South (lived all over the South growing up so no real 'hometown') and I second the poster above who mentioned Publix! There are a lot of good grocery stores in the DC area too but I still miss my Publix.
Other favorite brands: Blue Bell ice cream (despite the recent recall  )
Community Coffee and French Market coffee (which I can sometimes find up here but not always) Steen's Cane syrup Corky's BBQ and BBQ shop bbq and bbq from many other Memphis establishments Dinstuhl's fine candies (also from Memphis) |
Anonymous
| Brunswick, ME...whoopie pies, all the great maine beers, fresh lobster rolls. |
Anonymous
+1 and anything from the Publix bakery! |
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Anonymous
| I would KILL for some Shipley's Donuts (Houston, TX mostly but they have a few franchises in surrounding cities) |
Anonymous
Another Detroitre here and yes to rock n rye with some better made potato chips and Jets pizza. |
Anonymous
My Mom is from Fairmont, WV and pepperoni rolls in general are something I wish we had more of. I grew up in Front Royal, VA -- we're just an extension of the greater DC area, so even Baltimore things like Utz and Old Bay were just normal stuff for me. Natty Boh doesn't seem to make it over the Potomac though, outside of specialty stores like Total Wine. |
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I'm from MA; lived near Boston and the Cape.
Peggy Lawton Choco Chip Cookies. We used to put these directly in the oven, cellophane and all, to soften them up. I've never seen this brand outside of MA. Cape Cod Dry cranberry soda. Canada Dry makes a version but it's not the same. Cain's mayonnaise. The kind of hot dog rolls you pull apart (I can't think of the name, but it's what you use in an authentic lobster roll -- the sides don't have crust. We always used those for everything.) |
Anonymous
Growing up in Front Royal, I would see a spare alley of Nehi -- usually grape -- at the mom-n-pop convenience stores/gas stations. I think now with the increase of energy drinks some drinks like Nehi have fell by the wayside as we focus on the more "mainstream" national brands. Frederick MD has a specialty pop store on North Market Street in downtown where you can probably get a number of soda-related items albeit at a hefty markup. As for regional non-food items I suspect that globalization is to blame -- there is a distinct difference in food between regions, and many foods/recipes don't travel well due to differences in soil, water, etc. However, a regional stationery or other brand will either get swamped by national brands, for the most part. I guess there's things like Fry's Electronics which I've heard are a West Coast thing -- but are they really that different from say HH Gregg? |
Anonymous
Faygo all the way! I had to explain "red pop" to my husband. The rock and rye is good too. (At least it was when I was a kid!) |