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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is getting silly.

I have a ton of southern pride [i]and[/i] I worked as a chef in the south for several years. I love new southern cuisine and think Atlanta is currently one of the best restaurant cities in the U.S. (Certainly ahead of D.C.)

But let’s be honest, here: the south’s contributions to American food are trivial compared to the north’s. In fact, the only reason we think of the south as having a more defined culinary history is because northern food has been so much more influential that we’ve stopped thinking of northern food as regional food anymore.

Sure, fried chicken, chicken and biscuits, and shrimp and grits are all wonderful dishes.

You know what the north is responsible for? Hamburgers, [b]hot dogs,[/b] New York-style pizza, [b]chicken fingers,[/b] macaroni and cheese, [b]meatloaf, fish sticks, potato chips, the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, hard pretzels[/b], apple pie, [b]cereal,[/b] Thanksgiving dinner, the Reuben sandwich, Philly cheese steaks, blueberry cobbler, chocolate chip cookies, buffalo wings, lobster rolls, chowder, baked beans, crab cakes, [b]Twinkies[/b], pot roast, the club sandwich, ice cream sundaes, brownies, the cupcake,[b] flapjacks [/b](or any risen pancake) . . .

In short, virtually any food you would find at a sporting event and the overwhelming majority of classic American fare comes from the North.

(And sure, a lot of the above food is frequently made poorly these days, but they spread across the country and the world because they were great dishes. And lord knows, its easy to find terrible Southern fried chicken. . . ) 
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And your point is...

With the exception of mac n cheese and Thanksgiving dinner, most of those items are hardly culinary gifts to America :)[/quote]

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