Tell us about your favorite local food.

[Maddy McCall]

Mine is Pittsburg Hot Links, made in Pittsburg, Texas. Best food in the world, especially when sopped in cayenne-vinegar hot sauce. Chili made with Pittsburg Hot Links is exquisite. Even after I moved to Mississippi, I still make trips back to Texas just to stock my freezer with the hot links.

My other favorite is Nick's Boudain, from Nick's Grocery in Groves, Texas. He makes a crawfish boudain that's too die for.

Tell me about your favorite local food. :D

[deadparrot]

1. Ted Drewes Frozen Custard.

Along Route 66 in St. Louis. Absolutely the best. They use honey and all sorts of good stuff. Smooth, creamy perfection, especially during the when temperatures get well over 100 during the summer. :)

[Midnight Rambler]

2. El Disco Oro, Brownsville TX

THE source for hot, fresh corn tortillas my whole life. Even now, In Austin, whenever I go home to visit the family I have to bring a whole bag full back up with me.

[Rowdyboy]

3. Local restaurant named Penn's has the best damned fried catfish

I've ever had outside of Middendorf's in Manchac, Louisiana....

http://www.nola.com/food/index.ssf?/food/reviews/middendorfs.html

[Maddy McCall]

9. I'm thinking about going to Manchac crabbing this weekend.

Will have to stop by Middendorf's. YUM.

[sir_captain]

4. Hmm...probably the bagels

H&H only, thank you. I refused to eat bagels all throughout college in Boston.

[alittlelark]

5. Super Taqueria in San Jose

It's 20 minutes away, and worth every mile!

[sasquatch]

6. Ham Grinder

It's a hot sub with ham, lettuce, tomatoes, mayonaise, and pizza sauce.

[democracyindanger]

7. Tony's Cable Car Burgers, SF

Crinkle-cut fries. A burger ain't a burger unless you've got some crinkle-cut fries.

[DBoon]

8. I know LA doesn't count but

La Brea Bakery Bread, Jodi Maroni Sausages

[GRLMGC]

19. why doesn't it count? nt

[MrScorpio]

10. Blue crab cakes

Yumsters!

[last1standing]

11. American Coney Island in Detroit.

Nothing says the Motor City like a coney with the works and some chili fries at 3:00 in the morning. :woohoo:

[sir_captain]

25. But, but....

How can Coney anything not actually be referring to Coney Island, which last time I checked, wasn't in Detroit?

[CO Liberal]

12. Pueblo Salsa

Source: http://www.pueblochamber.org/

The Pueblo area is great for growing peppers - in fact, each September they have a Chile & Frijole Festival to feature local produce.

Pueblo Salsa is made locally from locally-grown produce and sold in all the supermarkets in the area. You can also buy it by the case from the local Chamber of Commerce.

http://www.pueblochamber.org/shopping/pgm-more_information.php?id=4&=SID

[gardenista]

13. San Francisco cioppino.

Listening to the blues spill down from the bar upstairs, with my baby on a sunny September day, the fog just fixing to roll in under the Golden Gate.

[democracyindanger]

22. But where?

'Cause I see that "SF's Best Cioppino!" sign at that restaurant on Bay, across from the shopping center, and I seriously doubt it...

[gardenista]

24. Lou's Pier 47 is the place with blues upstairs, great outdoor tables

downstairs, and really decent cioppino.

Alioto's is supposed to be the best cioppino in town, though I've never tried it.

Rose Pistola also serves gorgeous cioppino, and though the ambiance is wonderful, it's not close to the piers, which have a special feel, unique to the waterfront.

[frogbison]

14. Potato Sausage

Food of the gods from the north country, Minnesota!

[frogbison]

15. Crap!

Hit send twice, Sorry. Tho it's fitting, really, that my 400th post be about potato sausage, which I have spent over half my life recreating, obtaining, or wishing I had some more of....

[Radical Activist]

18. They eat crap where you come from? Wierd. n/t

[SmileyBoy]

16. Kroll's Diner

A classic 50's diner that has a menu based on German and classic American food.

[Radical Activist]

17. Horseshoes

The only dish unique to my home town. It will give you a heart attack but its good.

[leftofthedial]

20. I miss New Mexican food, but since that is no longer "local"

I'd have to say Daddy Bruce's Memphis Barbeque Memphis-style pork sandwich with cole slaw on the sandwich, also known as a "Like It or Not." It's Colorado food, despite "Memphis" being in the description twice.

[Ophelia Rising]

23. I miss New Mexican food too!

Ahhhhhh green chile in my mac and cheese, chips and queso, frito pies, Fellipe's bean burritos, fresh limeade..the list goes on and on....as for my "local" food, here goes: Bob-o-links pizza in Oelwein, Iowa, my moms Rubarb Shortcake drenched in half-and-half, fresh corn on the cob from my aunt and uncles farm, beer-batter-fried Walleye and Crappie from the Mississippi and Rock Bass from various lakes in Minnesota and Iowa (preferably caught and fried by myself or served at The White House Resturant in St. Lucas, Iowa), cheese curds from across the river in Prarie du Chien, Wisconsin, and strawberry shortcake made from fresh strawberries from the Strawberry Point berry patch. Oooooo and anything pumpkin made from various pumpkin patches-especially the one near Elkader.

[SarahB]

21. A couple...

Shady Glen

http://www.ctnow.com/dining/4511,0,486587.venue

and

Wooster St. Pizza

http://www.pmq.com/hotwheels.shtml (I don't treck down to New Haven, but go to one of their other locations. Yummy calzones! My boys love the cars everywhere. Plus, you get to eat in a bus! :P)

[A HERETIC I AM]

26. When i lived in the Detroit area it was the Lamb Shawarma sandwiches...

at La Shish restaurant in Dearborn. The Shish Kafta and their stuffed grape leaves are also delicious! I love Middle Eastern cuisine and La Shish is one of the best. If you are ever in the area, check it out.

To Maddy Macall (The OP) if you like Boudin, try and get to the Boudin Shack at exit 104 on I 10 in Luisiana. ( i think it is exit 104...going west it is the 1st exit after you cross the Atchtafalaya swamp bridge.) A little dumpy looking place but scrumptious boudin and fantastic crawfish etoufee'