Anonymous
08/31/2015 09:17
Subject: Re:Favorite regional/hometown brands
Anonymous wrote:Detroit:
Faygo sodA
Better made chips
Sanders bumpy cake and hot fudge
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!)
Anonymous
08/31/2015 08:56
Subject: Re:Favorite regional/hometown brands
Anonymous wrote:DH is from Mississippi so I didn't experience it until I went home with him, but Nehi Peach Soda is ridiculously sweet and amazing. I once saw some in a gas station in Winchester, VA about 6 years ago but haven't seen it since. Even when I went to NOLA last year, I didn't see it around anywhere, and I drove through MS.
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
08/31/2015 08:52
Subject: Favorite regional/hometown brands
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.)
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
08/31/2015 08:41
Subject: Favorite regional/hometown brands
Anonymous wrote:This thread is making me hungry.
Chico's pepperoni rolls. Morgantown, WV
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.
Anonymous
08/31/2015 07:44
Subject: Re:Favorite regional/hometown brands
Anonymous wrote:I'm from the Detroit area
Vernors - No ginger ale can compare! I recently saw a 6 pack at Balducci's in Alexandria, I was excited!
Faygo pop, specifically Rock N Rye. I miss that. Staple at any backyard bbq or cookout at the lake was a cooler filled with cans of Faygo.
And not really a brand, but I haven't had a good coney dog in years!
Another Detroitre here and yes to rock n rye with some better made potato chips and Jets pizza.
Anonymous
08/31/2015 07:26
Subject: Favorite regional/hometown brands
I would KILL for some Shipley's Donuts (Houston, TX mostly but they have a few franchises in surrounding cities)
Anonymous
08/31/2015 03:47
Subject: Favorite regional/hometown brands
Anonymous wrote:Salen's hot dogs
Bison french onion dip
Buffalo, NY[/quote
+franks red hot!!
Anonymous
08/31/2015 03:39
Subject: Re:Favorite regional/hometown brands
Anonymous wrote:Floridian here voting for Publix subs.
+1 and anything from the Publix bakery!
Anonymous
08/30/2015 22:06
Subject: Favorite regional/hometown brands
Brunswick, ME...whoopie pies, all the great maine beers, fresh lobster rolls.
Anonymous
08/30/2015 22:02
Subject: Re:Favorite regional/hometown brands
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)
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
08/30/2015 19:57
Subject: Re:Favorite regional/hometown brands
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Central Massachusetts:
Polar seltzer water and soda!
And cranberry dry!! So good.
NP here. They also have grapefruit dry now!
I was in Maine recently and we had orange dry and it was so, so good.
Anonymous
08/30/2015 19:56
Subject: Re:Favorite regional/hometown brands
Floridian here voting for Publix subs.
Anonymous
08/30/2015 15:06
Subject: Favorite regional/hometown brands
Restaurants who can actually cook grits properly. Sigh.
Anonymous
08/30/2015 13:08
Subject: Re:Favorite regional/hometown brands
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm from the Detroit area
Vernors - No ginger ale can compare! I recently saw a 6 pack at Balducci's in Alexandria, I was excited!
Faygo pop, specifically Rock N Rye. I miss that. Staple at any backyard bbq or cookout at the lake was a cooler filled with cans of Faygo.
And not really a brand, but I haven't had a good coney dog in years!
I was just talking to my DH the other day about Rock N Rye!! It was so good. Brings back lots of memories of going up north to the lake.
I also miss a good euchre game!
My family were/are euchre fanatics! And I'd forgotten about rock n rye. I am PP with the Detroit grandparents. We played so many card games.
Oh man, euchre! I miss euchre!
Anonymous
08/30/2015 12:55
Subject: Favorite regional/hometown brands
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm from Georgia and I just miss good sweet tea. All the sweet tea around here tastes like it was sweetened with Nutrisweet and has been sitting in the urn for 3 days and gone rancid. Damn yall it isn't that hard! Luzianne tea + sugar added when it's HOT + water.
They don't do a great job cleaning out the tea urns in most restaurants, that's why it probably tastes old.
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.