What cuisine is prevalent in your geographic location?

[paulinkansas]

For you 'tards that don't understand the title, it means "what food is popular where you live?".

I'm not too far from Kansas City. Barbeque is very popular. 100 years ago Kansas City was the starting point for shipping beef from the midwest to the east coast. So the prevalence of beef was an influence on the cuisine. I took a guided tour on a bus that took us to 5 different barbeque restaurants that have their own unique style of preparing their food. What impressed me was their custom built wood smokers. They were the size of a full size van and they cook the meat overnight in them.

Let's hear your story.

[AdamWW]

Mainly seafood... and apples.

[Pterodactyl314]

Gumbo

[faithbrah]

beer

[TolerantLactose]

I would imagine Chinese food where I live. Don't know what it would be for my geographic location.

[SuffolkPunch]

Pork, especially sausages from rare breeds. Fish, shellfish. Beer and cider (Adnams and Greene King).

[desslok]

Mexican food. I live 20 minutes from TJ. There is good mexican food in TJ, but the really good places tend to find their way up here, so I can get some of the best mexican food locally. Although if I want to save money, i can drive across the border and get full of tacos for under $10.

[Pterodactyl314]

Yeah Louisiana. Along with Jambalaya, crawfish, shrimp étouffée, boudin, and pretty much anything you can pull out of the water

[desslok]

For you 'tards that don't understand the title, it means "what food is popular where you live?".

By “where you live”, do you mean my house? Or which country we live in?

[Redfish225]

Cajun crew.

[paulinkansas]

By “where you live”, do you mean my house? Or which country we live in?

I mean by any driving distance you would normally entail in order to obtain some food. Nobody is going to drive 6 hours for a dinner, then drive back. So let's call it within a 45 minute driving radius.

[TolerantLactose]

By “where you live”, do you mean my house? Or which country we live in?

Home is where the heart is.

[desslok]

Home is where the heart is.

Which reminds me, if you order “sweet breads” in Munich Germany, its not bread at all. Luckily they have strong beers(liquid bread) to wash it down.

[desslok]

I mean by any driving distance you would normally entail in order to obtain some food. Nobody is going to drive 6 hours for a dinner, then drive back. So let's call it within a 45 minute driving radius.

If I drive 45 minutes south i am literally in the slums of tijuana, so taco trucks and carts of mango with chamoy.

If I drive 45 minutes north, its California coastal cuisine.

If i drive 45 minutes east its mountain diners and pie shops.

If I drive 45 minutes west i am at the bottom of the ocean. May be some lobster traps though.

[ECGordyn]

Thai food

The university students around here love "moo kra taa" because it's cheap all you can eat meat buffet. Plus they have fun in big groups cooking it at the table on hot plates and eating watermelon and ice cream for dessert.

Next would be "shabuchi" or hot pot, same basic thing but cooked in soup. More vegetables here than mookrataa.

Next would be a Thai restaurant. Too many choices to describe here, lots of spices and meat with rice. Good food once you find the right place and the right dish. Also noodle stands.

Next would be "malaa." You walk up to a cold case cart and choose raw seafood and mushrooms on little sticks. They grill it for you right there in a spicy red sauce that makes your mouth tingle. You eat it out of a plastic bag. But seafood is suspect up here in the north because there no refrigerated trucks to deliver it 800+ km from the sea. Only chemical preservation, I hear.

There's a Japanese place and a Vietnamese place that are pretty popular too. Last night I just saw a new pizza cart that I'll try sometime, but Thai pizza is hit-or-miss. They make the crust too thick and soft and they drizzle ketchup over the top. Ever had ketchup on pizza? Trust me, don't.

When I stay in the family home I cook western dinners.

[EliKoehn]

Interesting thread! (Although, I am getting kind of tired of the 'tard joke.)

Oklahoma is a lot like Kansas. We have some famous barbeque and steaks, although I think we share a weaker form of each respective heritage from Kansas to our north and Texas to our south, unfortunately. If there's one definite regional specialty we probably have better than either I would say it's most likely catfish - on par with any other pescatarian cuisine I've encountered, and perhaps better.

What may be a surprise to all of you, is that Oklahoma (probably due to low living costs) has among the highest multi-national populations in the States, so there are numerous dives from all kinds of cultures here, although I honestly couldn't be much of a judge of authenticity. Not sure if most large American cities have major swathes of the world represented in their 45-minute radius restaurant options, but we at least nominally do. Tex-Mex has a strong presence here as well, and large quarters of Oklahoma City are primarily Spanish-speaking: in fact some neighborhoods don't even have English on their signposts and storefronts. Many of us speak a modicum of Spanish and it's kind of an expectation to have some use of the language.

Maybe I'm being nativistic here, but I think that Oklahoma is kind of an overlooked melting-pot.

[TolerantLactose]

(Although, I am getting kind of tired of the 'tard joke.)

I can laugh at myself.

[desslok]

Interesting thread! (Although, I am getting kind of tired of the 'tard joke.)

Its not a joke. This is Paul we are talking about here.

[Omni]

Donuts. Food Trucks (not a cuisine but you get what I'm saying)

[MrCarrot]

I live in England and it's pretty diverse here, so curries are quite popular, as is Turkish food (kebabs and such like) but Chinese food and Fish & Chips are also really popular.

When I was a kid it was pretty much just fish and chips, or McDonalds. I dunno if that's because my parents weren't adventurous, but I suspect immigration was lower then, and all the other cusines hadn't taken off at that time.

If you mean "home cooked food" then a lot of the Asian population will cook curries, and more typical "English" food is probably things like sausage and mash, pies, pasta, shepherds pie, etc.

[LtGoose]

TexMex & BBQ

Just FUKIN LOLZ if you don't live in Texas