Anonymous
Post 08/31/2015 22:52     Subject: Favorite regional/hometown brands
Annapolis, MD here

Otterbeins cookies. Yum!!!
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2015 22:47     Subject: Re:Favorite regional/hometown brands
DC here, Rock creek grape soda...soo good
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2015 22:45     Subject: Favorite regional/hometown brands
Anonymous wrote:Detroit. Vernor's ginger ale. So good.


Another Michigander. Love me some Vernor's.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2015 22:21     Subject: Favorite regional/hometown brands
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:From TX:

Blue Bell Ice Cream
HEB Grocery Stores, especially the ones with the tortilleria (sp?) right in the middle of the store...tortillas would still be warm in the bag when you got home
Margaritas (so glad Chuy's finally opened...they can do a frozen margarita)
Texas BBQ, especially anything from Lockhart, Salt Lick, and newbie Franklin BBQ
What-a-burger
kolaches
chicken fried steak


Pretty much all food related. I'm not even from Texas but lived there long enough that I still pine for these things.



Kolache Factory! Drool!


There's a business in DC trying to get off the ground selling kolaches. Republic of Kolaches, maybe? I predict the next cupcake fad (maybe hope is a better word).
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2015 21:35     Subject: Favorite regional/hometown brands
Anonymous wrote:Graeter's ice cream.


+1

It is sold around here, but it's not the same as heading to the local shop. They had the best ice cream cakes.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2015 21:24     Subject: Favorite regional/hometown brands
Anonymous wrote:From TX:

Blue Bell Ice Cream
HEB Grocery Stores, especially the ones with the tortilleria (sp?) right in the middle of the store...tortillas would still be warm in the bag when you got home
Margaritas (so glad Chuy's finally opened...they can do a frozen margarita)
Texas BBQ, especially anything from Lockhart, Salt Lick, and newbie Franklin BBQ
What-a-burger
kolaches
chicken fried steak


Pretty much all food related. I'm not even from Texas but lived there long enough that I still pine for these things.



Kolache Factory! Drool!
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2015 21:23     Subject: Re:Favorite regional/hometown brands
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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!)


New Detroiter here...

Faygo pop
Vernors pop
Better Made Chips
Jays Chips
At this point any Coney Island
Miscellaneous schwarma's
Shields Pizza
Pizza Papalis
Farmer Jack
Big Boy's

What the heck... While I'm at it Hudson's, Parisian..



Ah I remember when Farmer Jack opened up by my parents house, people in the neighborhood went nuts! They had a salad bar which at the time was unheard of in grocery stores, my mom loved that.

And Big Boy's... man, when I was little after every Christmas parade my dad would take me to the local one around the corner from our house and we'd always get slim jims and fries. Sometimes we'd go early because it'd be too darn cold to sit outside but we could kinda see the parade from the window, so when it became clear santa was making his appearance my dad would grab me and run outside so I could wave.


I'm pp, yup mentioned big boys specifically for the slim jims!
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2015 21:15     Subject: Re:Favorite regional/hometown brands
Anonymous wrote: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)


Memphian here ... Oh man do I miss good BBQ. Rocklands is the closest for pork shoulder, but I haven't found good ribs within 400 miles!

Dinstuhl's is also a nice treat, but I'd trade all the 'turtles' in the world for a decent bbq place. I miss Paynes most, though it's not a brand like Corky's.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2015 17:29     Subject: Re:Favorite regional/hometown brands
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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!)


New Detroiter here...

Faygo pop
Vernors pop
Better Made Chips
Jays Chips
At this point any Coney Island
Miscellaneous schwarma's
Shields Pizza
Pizza Papalis
Farmer Jack
Big Boy's

What the heck... While I'm at it Hudson's, Parisian..



Ah I remember when Farmer Jack opened up by my parents house, people in the neighborhood went nuts! They had a salad bar which at the time was unheard of in grocery stores, my mom loved that.

And Big Boy's... man, when I was little after every Christmas parade my dad would take me to the local one around the corner from our house and we'd always get slim jims and fries. Sometimes we'd go early because it'd be too darn cold to sit outside but we could kinda see the parade from the window, so when it became clear santa was making his appearance my dad would grab me and run outside so I could wave.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2015 14:27     Subject: Favorite regional/hometown brands
From TX:

Blue Bell Ice Cream
HEB Grocery Stores, especially the ones with the tortilleria (sp?) right in the middle of the store...tortillas would still be warm in the bag when you got home
Margaritas (so glad Chuy's finally opened...they can do a frozen margarita)
Texas BBQ, especially anything from Lockhart, Salt Lick, and newbie Franklin BBQ
What-a-burger
kolaches
chicken fried steak


Pretty much all food related. I'm not even from Texas but lived there long enough that I still pine for these things.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2015 14:13     Subject: Favorite regional/hometown brands
Cumberland, MD

Coney Island hot dogs

D'Atri's pizza rolls

Caporole's bread
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2015 12:52     Subject: Re:Favorite regional/hometown brands
In Miami

Latin American for Cuban food!
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2015 11:06     Subject: Favorite regional/hometown brands
Grew up in the Kansas City area, on the Kansas side. Off the top of my head:

BBQ. What passes for BBQ in DC is just sad. (Gates, Bryant's, Jack's Stack, Zarda sauces)
Povitica bread. www.povitica.com
Louisburg apple cider
Sifer's Valomilk candies
I don't like beer, but my beer-drinking friends would say Boulevard and Free State beers belong on this list.

Anonymous
Post 08/31/2015 10:29     Subject: Re:Favorite regional/hometown brands
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Floridian here voting for Publix subs.


+1 and anything from the Publix bakery!


The Publixs in Miami would sometimes have a little coffee stand and sell Cafe Cubano alongside the guava and cheese pastries. Sooo good.

Publix in general was a really good grocery store. Much better than the Safeways here.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2015 10:09     Subject: Re:Favorite regional/hometown brands
Anonymous wrote:
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!)


New Detroiter here...

Faygo pop
Vernors pop
Better Made Chips
Jays Chips
At this point any Coney Island
Miscellaneous schwarma's
Shields Pizza
Pizza Papalis
Farmer Jack
Big Boy's

What the heck... While I'm at it Hudson's, Parisian..