Food you can't find locally.

For me it's Springfield cashew chicken in Maryland. I ordered a dish called cashew chicken last night and it was a stir fried mess of chopped vegetables, chicken (I think) and cashews. Hurl matter at best. Cashew chicken is to Maryland what crab cakes are to Missouri.
I'm headed to Food Lion and get this craving under control.

I used to be able to get there here in Austin, but the two places I could find them stopped carrying them. x(

I made sure to have one when I was back east though. :9

They make pretty good cheesesteaks and they carry Tastykakes. If you don't, Derby and I can send you some!

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Thanks a million! I know where I'm going soon! :D

If for some reason they don't have them, let me know and we'll send you some. :hi:

Bassetts Ice Cream

Pizza- they just don't do it right in SoCal

Hoagies- its the roll that makes it and again, they don't do them right here.

Tastykakes-and it's probably just as well...

Why did you have to go and remind me. I have not lived or returned to Philadelphia in over 25 years. This thread is making me cry

and upstate new york.

I WANT SOME.

We can get every kind of food here......except for Mongolian BBQ. Guess we don't have a large Mongolian population.

:9

We used to have a great Mongolian place down in Clear Lake called "Hans Mongolian". I really miss not being able to go there.

Have fun at lunch, and don't forget to pile on the lamb.

Only pork, chicken and beef.

Of course, I could also go for some Indian food, to piss off PerkyPat down there. :evilgrin:

some restaurants serve it. This despite the fact that it is raised around here.

Believe it or not: the Mongolian Embassy is like 100 meters from my apartment - and it has a restaurant attached. Yet I haven't dared to go in there yet...

I love central Maine, but I'm at least an hour plus away from any Indian restaurants...sigh!

delicacy. We're also responsible for the Caesar cocktail

There is not one person in LA who knows what maple sugar is

Here in MA we have it by the ton! My fiancee's parents also run an organic maple syrup business on their farm.

got hooked on those in the Magic Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

I've had a few pale imitations here in the States but nothing really close.

Boston has some of the lamest excuses for Mexican food ever! It's disgusting!

Oklahoma. I used to eat Mexican food at least once a week and many times 2 or more times a week. I'm down to once every 9 months or so when I can get back to my favorites in Texas.

I'm still suffering withdrawal.

Denninger's Garlic Baloney and Habitant Pea Soup.

dammit, now I know what I want for lunch and its 1,000 miles away.

Lucky me!

:-)

Can get excellent authentically German bratwursts in stores and restaurants, but I've never seen good ol' brats in stores here, except once, and they were about 5 times what I'd pay in WI for them. So I didn't get any.

I miss the good ol' WI brats.

It was cheap and soooooooo yummy..

Out here, I have found a few sausage shops and have paid as much as $8 a lb..and it was not as good :(..

Damn...now I really want some :(:(

Have a good Lemon or Grapefruit Sorbet out there?

I'll even toss in a few White Castles.

the food capital of the world!

Well...then again, it might be due to me not remembering to get off my butt and actually LOOK FOR IT! I had it all the time when I went to my grandparents' place in Cincinatti. I belive it's a German-thing, anyone? I know it's big in Ohio and Pennsylvania, but down here in Florida, HA HA! Ferget it! Then again, unless I check around...

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Oh man they make that for breakfast here at college, even if I wasn't a vegetarian I wouldn't touch it!
But can they make decent Mexican? Noo... I'm from MN fercrisake and there is better Mexican there!

The best corn in the world comes from Ohio,to be more specific, the Cuyahoga Valley . In fact , I would limit it to a single farm in the vally.

North Carolina sweet corn sucks (my apologies in advance to any North Carolina farmers I may have offended).

it's torture.

it's torture.

How in hell am I supposed to make tiramisu without it?

formula on the 'Alessi Biscotti Savoiardi' package is very reasonable.

16 oz cream cheese
1/2 C whipping cream
5 Tbsp sour cream

{rlg}

Local stores used to carry Calistoga drinks (owned by Perrier), but they stopped.

And, oh yes, I can find Orangina only occasionally at a gourmet grocery.

I've found a couple of passable substitutes, but I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll never again have excellent Mexican food unless I'm visiting home (or until we move to AZ -- 15 years). Sigh.

Live crabs & fresh seafood, deli corned beef, fresh Polish sausage.
Only local delicacy that I like is boiled peanuts!

but a spice. We found this great spice mix that is manufactured in Florida. Its called Everglades Seasoning Mix. ( They have a couple of different varieties like seafood seasoning and a southwestern one called Cactus dust ) We love the main blend though, plain old Everglades Seasoning.

We have not found anything that it does not go well with. We use it on fish, chicken, poultry, steaks, hamburgers, vegetables, I mean just about everything.

Fortunately we found that you can order it from the company that produces it in Florida. Unfortunately their website is kinda clunky and the only way to place an order it to download a form from the site and fill it out and fax it to them, no on-line ordering.

In fact, you can't get it in the US. The NYT did a story on it last year, and I think it said the FDA would approve it by 2007 or something... mmmm ... Iberian ham...

Can't get a decent pasty outside of Michigan's UP.

Where are you from? I miss pasties, too. You know that Jean-Kay's in Marquette will ship them overnight anywhere in the country? I can probably dig up the address if you want me too!

:)

...as opposed to other regional NC pulled-pork barbecues that can be had here in NYC.

I just tried that manna from heaven last summer and I can't get anything that can hold a candle to it here in Philadelphia.

:9

http://www.kingsbbq.com/kings.html

They deliver anywhere. :)

I've only seen them for sale in upstate NY.

I absolutely love them, but apparently the genipap tree (which produces them)is in decline. It's a tropical fruit, so I have never been able to get them here in the US, but if you travel to Central/South America or the Caribbean, try them..:)

:(

-TeriYaki sauce (not the original Japanese - we have that- but the American pseudo-teriyaki)
-Clams (arghhh)
-Scallops
-good Bacon
-good Mexican food
-good Peanut Butter (we only have American, not the superior Dutch)
-good Chewing Gum (especially Spearmint and Cinammon)
-Habanero Sauce
-good Texan and NC BBQ sauces
-...

Wheaten bread, soda bread, baps

I see one recipe after the other, but I just can't find it in the stores. Where do you get it?

OK.. get yer mind outta the gutter.. I was raised in New England, and they're available just about everywhere there.. now, I live in Washington State, and nobody here's ever even heard of 'em..

Nobody knows them in Europe either. Dutch "Mosselen" are not comparable by a far cry.

in Gourmet magazine... but it just wasn't quite the same...

I'm half-chinese and curious ;-)

at David Leong's Tea House in the 1960's. Bite size pieces of chicken breast which are battered and fried in peanut oil, The sauce is made from oyster sauce, soy sauce, chicken broth, cornstarch and a little sugar. The chicken pieces are placed over a bed of rice and the sauce is then poured over the chicken/rice. Top the dish with cashew pieces and chopped green onion.

sounds good

nothing good anyway... spent a week in New Orleans... eating cajun food every night, that was a year ago and ive been looking for good cajun in my area ever since.

-LK

The only thing I miss about living in Nebraska.

They're hard enough to find when in season but you can never find them in this part of California (sigh).

I haven't been able to find a good buffalo wing outside the buffalo area since I moved several years ago. (Unless I make them myself.)

There's like 15 Chinese restaurants in this city, and they all SUCK.

I don't know why so many don't make it to OKC.

At least in containers other than single serving :(