Favorite regional/hometown brands

[Anonymous]

There's probably already a similar thread somewhere, but what are your favorite regional/hometown brands that people should know about? Both of mine are consumables, but the question isn't limited to that. I love finding niche brands!

Spring Grove Soda: www.springgrovesoda.com Especially the Lemon Sour flavor. Uses cane sugar (which I prefer the taste of) and the bottle says "mange tusen takk."

Knudsen's Caramels: www.knudsenscaramels.com So soft, so buttery. My favorite caramels ever.

Please share your favorites!

[Anonymous]

Zweigle's brats

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I'm from Columbus Ohio and a couple favs are Donato's Pizza (there's one in Vienna now!) and Grippo's BBQ potato chips.

[Anonymous]

I'm from the SF Bay Area: It's-Its ice cream sandwiches, Granny Goose "Hawaiian Style" potato chips, La Victoria salsa.

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Love La Victoria especially green sauce

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Please state your hometown, too!

[Anonymous]

Detroit. Vernor's ginger ale. So good.

[Anonymous]

Yall can thank Winston Salem for blessing the world with Krispy Creme donuts and Texas Pete Hot sauce.
I also love Movarian Cookies, Im starting to see those in more gourmet specialty shops.
And I am always excited to see Cheerwine on the shelf at Harris Teeter.
Oh and Biscuitville (which is based in VA but all over NC).

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Taylor Pork Roll, especially with an egg and cheese on a roll. Southern NJ

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Diamond Head soda crackers
S&S Saimin
Hawaiian Sun Passion Orange Guava drinks
Zippy's beef chili
King's Hawaiian sweet bread

Honolulu

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yall can thank Winston Salem for blessing the world with Krispy Creme donuts and Texas Pete Hot sauce.
I also love Movarian Cookies, Im starting to see those in more gourmet specialty shops.
And I am always excited to see Cheerwine on the shelf at Harris Teeter.
Oh and Biscuitville (which is based in VA but all over NC).

Wake Forest grad here ... LOVE Texas Pete and Cheerwine!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yall can thank Winston Salem for blessing the world with Krispy Creme donuts and Texas Pete Hot sauce.
I also love Movarian Cookies, Im starting to see those in more gourmet specialty shops.
And I am always excited to see Cheerwine on the shelf at Harris Teeter.
Oh and Biscuitville (which is based in VA but all over NC).

Biscuitville is based in NC and it's Krispy Kreme.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please state your hometown, too!

OP, Red Wing, MN.

We also have the shoes and the pottery, but those aren't really niche products!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yall can thank Winston Salem for blessing the world with Krispy Creme donuts and Texas Pete Hot sauce.
I also love Movarian Cookies, Im starting to see those in more gourmet specialty shops.
And I am always excited to see Cheerwine on the shelf at Harris Teeter.
Oh and Biscuitville (which is based in VA but all over NC).

NC Native here... I attended Governor's School one summer and fell in love with W-S. Oh, those were the days. We ate a LOT of Moravian cookies. (I also have a Moravian star that we use in our Christmas decorations... no one in our neighborhood has one and we've gotten lots of compliments.)

But you misspelled Krispy Kreme. I'm going to assume that's an auto correct fail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's probably already a similar thread somewhere, but what are your favorite regional/hometown brands that people should know about? Both of mine are consumables, but the question isn't limited to that. I love finding niche brands!

Spring Grove Soda: www.springgrovesoda.com Especially the Lemon Sour flavor. Uses cane sugar (which I prefer the taste of) and the bottle says "mange tusen takk."

Knudsen's Caramels: www.knudsenscaramels.com So soft, so buttery. My favorite caramels ever.

Please share your favorites!

What's your hometown, OP?