foods to try before ya die (US)

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Anonymous wrote:Deep fried seafood platter with Gulf shrimp, scallops, grouper and hush puppies.
Ted Peters smoked mackerel.

I read however many pages with a shrug and then I met you. You are my culinary soulmate. Let’s run away to Gulf Shores or Pensacola Beach together. I’ll let you have some of my deep fried crab claws. But you gotta get your own hush puppies

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Anonymous wrote:Deep fried seafood platter with Gulf shrimp, scallops, grouper and hush puppies.
Ted Peters smoked mackerel.

I read however many pages with a shrug and then I met you. You are my culinary soulmate. Let’s run away to Gulf Shores or Pensacola Beach together. I’ll let you have some of my deep fried crab claws. But you gotta get your own hush puppies

Ah, the fried seafood platter. For people who don't really like seafood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Surprised no one mentioned Maryland crab cakes.

As for Alina type meals, it will be wonderful but whether you feel pranked afterwards really comes down to how much you could afford it and how well you already eat. I'm an excellent cook and eat well at home so it didn’t stand out as phenomenal, but I had an enjoyable time. But I also am not in a hurry to dine there again because the cost benefit ratio isn't there for me.

There’s something to this but I’d quibble. I have definitely eaten in haute cuisine places and felt punked. Some of them are for culinary tourists and expect to wow you with molecular gastronomy tricks. But I know my way around a steam chamber and agar agar so it takes a little more.
Others recognize that the “experience” is still secondary to the *food* and adhere to the principles, hitting the balances just right and not falling back on gimmicks.

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Anonymous wrote:Deep fried seafood platter with Gulf shrimp, scallops, grouper and hush puppies.
Ted Peters smoked mackerel.

I read however many pages with a shrug and then I met you. You are my culinary soulmate. Let’s run away to Gulf Shores or Pensacola Beach together. I’ll let you have some of my deep fried crab claws. But you gotta get your own hush puppies

Ah, the fried seafood platter. For people who don't really like seafood.

Because of course there is only one way to prepare any ingredient and you must choose the one right way or else reveal yourself to be unworthy of it.

You are so sophisticated. We all want to be you.

Happy now?

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Real Chicago pizza

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Anonymous wrote:I am LAUGHING At the posts for ethnic food. I mean yes its good and all- but if you wanted real Vietnamese food you go to Vietnam not Eden Corner. It thought the point was to share foods you can only get in the US.

I think ethnic foods have taken on a new US twist and are a thing in itself.

Of course! Anyone who says otherwise is an insufferable snob.

Food is a palette. Artists may combine ingredients in almost infinite ways. Sometimes they draw on well loved iterations and add their own creative elements. Most just copy those who came before them, like any medium.

I believe that food is one of the greatest expressions of human ingenuity and creativity. I like well executed copies. I like to see artists at every level drawing inspiration and experimenting with new ideas.

Only small minded people insist on one true version of anything. It’s food, not an oil painting. You can’t put a plate of NC bbq under glass in a museum.

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Anonymous wrote:Shrimp and Grits. I guess it's from Charleston, but I've never had a take on Shrimp and Grits I didn't like. My favorite was in Wilmington, NC.

Jambalaya in Louisiana

Crabcakes in Maryland

Crab cracking on the bay in Maryland at a place with long tables with paper on them.

Barbeque in NC

Barbeque in Texas

Agree with whole lobster at a lobster pound in Maine.

Fresh H&H bagels in NYC

Fresh Sourdough in the NW

Hot Krispy Kremes anywhere they are served

American Breakfast with hash browns, eggs, bacon in a diner

Hamburger in a diner

Steak in a fancy steak house (NYC does steakhouse very well.)

Traditional NC restaurant plate of just three sides. Plate must be divided and made from that cafeteria plastic to count.

Virginia apple cider doughnuts

Stop into any roadside local diner in Texas within twenty miles of the border and get a cheap breakfast plate with some of the best southwestern food you've ever had. Whatever the special is will be the best choice you can make. A lunch special at these places will also work.

That's off the top of my head of local specialties that were 100% worth it.

Seriously no to NC mush plates that’s just gross.

H&h bagels no absolutely no. They are barely ok. So ,many better options
This reads like a list of poor old white people food .

Except for your diners sure those are always great and NJ is where to go for goid diner food .

Texas at the border as well

Please tell us your better Bagel options.

Not PP but Liberty Bagel or Utopia.

Hahaha no self-respecting New Yorker would ever go to either of those tourist traps.

I would suggest going to a non-franchise on Long Island. No to Bagel Boss. (but watch the bagel boss guy youtube video)

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Anonymous wrote:I had very memorable clam chowder and banana pudding in Seattle.

Where?

It was on a Seattle food tour. I am pretty sure the chowder was from Pikes Place Chowder and the banana pudding from a bakery in the pikes place market. The food tour wasn’t all in pikes place but most of it was.

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Anonymous wrote:Deep fried seafood platter with Gulf shrimp, scallops, grouper and hush puppies.
Ted Peters smoked mackerel.

I read however many pages with a shrug and then I met you. You are my culinary soulmate. Let’s run away to Gulf Shores or Pensacola Beach together. I’ll let you have some of my deep fried crab claws. But you gotta get your own hush puppies

Ah, the fried seafood platter. For people who don't really like seafood.

Because of course there is only one way to prepare any ingredient and you must choose the one right way or else reveal yourself to be unworthy of it.

You are so sophisticated. We all want to be you.

Happy now?

Don't be dense. There are lots of delicious ways to prepare shrimp, scallops, grouper, and all other fish and seafood. But when they are fried, the dominant flavor is fried breading and oil, not the underlying food itself, which is so obscured as to be almost indiscernible.

Don't get me wrong, I love fried food of all kinds. But a fried seafood platter is on no way a must try before you die.

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Anonymous wrote:Deep fried seafood platter with Gulf shrimp, scallops, grouper and hush puppies.
Ted Peters smoked mackerel.

I read however many pages with a shrug and then I met you. You are my culinary soulmate. Let’s run away to Gulf Shores or Pensacola Beach together. I’ll let you have some of my deep fried crab claws. But you gotta get your own hush puppies

Ah, the fried seafood platter. For people who don't really like seafood.

Because of course there is only one way to prepare any ingredient and you must choose the one right way or else reveal yourself to be unworthy of it.

You are so sophisticated. We all want to be you.

Happy now?

Don't be dense. There are lots of delicious ways to prepare shrimp, scallops, grouper, and all other fish and seafood. But when they are fried, the dominant flavor is fried breading and oil, not the underlying food itself, which is so obscured as to be almost indiscernible.

Don't get me wrong, I love fried food of all kinds. But a fried seafood platter is on no way a must try before you die.

NP. That is a personal opinion. I really disagree with the bolded. Fried chicken and fried clams do NOT taste the same. I love seafood in MANY forms from raw to fried and back again and would def put a fried seafood platter on a list of quintessentially american food experiences, which is what this list REALLY is IMO.

MY list (which I'm sure is not comprehensive) would be:

Cracked crabs and crab cakes from MD (crab cakes from almost anywhere else don't count and ideally you get a md crab cake sandwich from like, a guy with a truck and a hot plate at a fair with a lot of tartar on top).
PS: This is a controversial take but I strongly prefer crabs to lobsters so feel fairly meh on maine AND connecticut style lobster rolls

I WOULD put fried clams and clam chowder from MA on the list, full bellied clams of course

Beignets from NO and some version of creole seafood/rice/sauce dish from NO.

Tacos from Texas

BBQ from KC

Deep Dish pizza from chicago and NY pizza from NY

Conch fritters and smoked fish dip from Florida (also a grilled mahi mahi sandwich)

Some deeply unhealthy southern meal of your choosing (chicken fried steak or fried chicken with biscuits and mac and cheese and collard greens in georgia with peach pie for example)

A REALLY good cheeseburger and french fries (there are many a place to acquire this from)

A diner breakfast for sure

Gotta try a hot dog, honestly I would go with a gas station hot dog haha

Funnel cake covered in powdered sugar at a boardwalk

Very buttery popcorn at a movie theater

A smores over a real fire with ingredients from a grocery store

American chinese food

Poke in Hawaii

I feel like I am missing the fresh produce/fish of California so some element of that would be on here but I can't think of what the quintessential thing would be. I DID have an AMAZING spicy oyster shooter at a restaurant in Santa Barbara.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In addition to the many great ideas so far, porkroll in NJ. Ideally, porkroll, egg and cheese on a hard roll. Much, much better than scrapple.

Also, Manhattan clam chowder is far superior to New England clam chowder [ducks].

Yes on the Taylor Ham, although scrapple is good too.
You’re totally wrong about the chowder though. And I say this as someone who’s had at least three kinds of chowder (can’t remember what the third one is called, but it has a clear broth) and has issues with dairy products. NE clam chowder is so good that it should have its own food group. Def more Manhattan chowder for you, then. I’m wondering, now, what they’d taste like if you mixed them — so, a creamy, tomato base….

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Anonymous wrote:Deep fried seafood platter with Gulf shrimp, scallops, grouper and hush puppies.
Ted Peters smoked mackerel.

I read however many pages with a shrug and then I met you. You are my culinary soulmate. Let’s run away to Gulf Shores or Pensacola Beach together. I’ll let you have some of my deep fried crab claws. But you gotta get your own hush puppies

Ah, the fried seafood platter. For people who don't really like seafood.

Because of course there is only one way to prepare any ingredient and you must choose the one right way or else reveal yourself to be unworthy of it.

You are so sophisticated. We all want to be you.

Happy now?

Don't be dense. There are lots of delicious ways to prepare shrimp, scallops, grouper, and all other fish and seafood. But when they are fried, the dominant flavor is fried breading and oil, not the underlying food itself, which is so obscured as to be almost indiscernible.

Don't get me wrong, I love fried food of all kinds. But a fried seafood platter is on no way a must try before you die.

NP. That is a personal opinion. I really disagree with the bolded. Fried chicken and fried clams do NOT taste the same. I love seafood in MANY forms from raw to fried and back again and would def put a fried seafood platter on a list of quintessentially american food experiences, which is what this list REALLY is IMO.

MY list (which I'm sure is not comprehensive) would be:

Cracked crabs and crab cakes from MD (crab cakes from almost anywhere else don't count and ideally you get a md crab cake sandwich from like, a guy with a truck and a hot plate at a fair with a lot of tartar on top).
PS: This is a controversial take but I strongly prefer crabs to lobsters so feel fairly meh on maine AND connecticut style lobster rolls

I WOULD put fried clams and clam chowder from MA on the list, full bellied clams of course

Beignets from NO and some version of creole seafood/rice/sauce dish from NO.

Tacos from Texas

BBQ from KC

Deep Dish pizza from chicago and NY pizza from NY

Conch fritters and smoked fish dip from Florida (also a grilled mahi mahi sandwich)

Some deeply unhealthy southern meal of your choosing (chicken fried steak or fried chicken with biscuits and mac and cheese and collard greens in georgia with peach pie for example)

A REALLY good cheeseburger and french fries (there are many a place to acquire this from)

A diner breakfast for sure

Gotta try a hot dog, honestly I would go with a gas station hot dog haha

Funnel cake covered in powdered sugar at a boardwalk

Very buttery popcorn at a movie theater

A smores over a real fire with ingredients from a grocery store

American chinese food

Poke in Hawaii

I feel like I am missing the fresh produce/fish of California so some element of that would be on here but I can't think of what the quintessential thing would be. I DID have an AMAZING spicy oyster shooter at a restaurant in Santa Barbara.

Fish tacos in San Diego