What do you eat?

[Magmar]

Unique Foods to Rhode Island (http://riroads.com/archive/uniquefoods.htm)

So, where you're from, what do you eat?

[Telume]

Depends on which region you go to in Miami.

If you go to most areas around where I live it's usually cuban food.

[MeLoVeGhOsTs]

Belgium: Fries (and no, the french did not invent them), Beer (Duvel, Chimay, La Chouffe, Stellan Artois, Jupiler, Westmalle, Vedette, to name a few), Chocolate, Chicory, mussels, casserole, aspargus, waffels, and some cheese (Passendaele, Maredsous).

Oh and West-vleteren, which is officially the world's best beer. (evidence (http://www.ratebeer.com/RateBeerBest/bestbeers_012010.asp))

[DarkestLight]

Food.


Uh well being from NYC... Anything goes. Guinea pigs especially.

[Knight of Time]

Well, being as I'm Canadian, I like a whole variety of things, too many to name, really. However, I don't like anything with nuts or peanuts in them, as I'm severely allergic to them, but oh well...getting those allergies when I was around 8 sucked, but I'm fine not having anything with nuts and/or peanuts in them anyway.

[Drago]

The problem with Melbourne is it's so caught up in being multicultural that you'd be hard-pressed to find food that you'd define as being Australian.

At the very least, one time I ate some kangaroo. Pretty bland and really chewy. Eating moose in Canada was a little better, but not by much. Perhaps I should travel the world and eat its animals. While I'm in Paris I'll try some frog. While I'm in the US I can look for a little eagle. While I'm in England I can eat a Brit. Shall be fun.

[PancaKe]

I live in the most multicultura city in Sydney, which is the most multicultual city in Australia, and if Australia is the most mulicultural place in the world, I'm living in the most mixed and diverse place in the world :D

This means that depending on which suburb and which street you walk down, theres a different food and nationality.

So my suburb was originally full of italians, so there is a massive Italian club and lots of italian cafes and stuff. But you go down a few suburbs and it's filled with Thai and Vietnamese restaurants. And Chinese restaurants. A few Lao restaurants. And then further down you go to all the Iraqi and Middle eastern places to eat. MEAT MEAT MEAT <3 And then there's also the Australian hamburger shops, late night kebabs, McDonalds and a range of other fast food places from America, etc. :) Multicultural.

[Magmar]

The Drunken Clam (http://familyguy.wikia.com/wiki/The_Drunken_Clam)

If you've seen Family Guy, then you know that they're from Quahog, Rhode Island, which is a fictitious town. The "skyline" of Providence you see from their house is very similar to the one I used to be able to see from my house in Johnston, Rhode Island growing up, and Johnston is right about where the family supposedly lives. (I guess it's really modeled after Cranston, Rhode Island, which is a town that borders Johnston to the south and Providence, our capital city, to the southwest. The small town culture of Family Guy is very Johnston/Cranston-like. Everyone knows everyone in those towns.) I see that exact skyline from my apartment. I'll take a picture one time and post it!

And we really do have a Drunken Clam. It's a pub in Point Judith, which is near Scarborough Beach in Narragansett. Narragansett is a beach town in R.I. with the village of Galilee, where 1/4 of the world's quahog supply comes from. The Drunken Clam has fifty cent drafts of the Narragansett brand beer, which is a beer you can find in most places in the USA. I've had a beer at the real-life Drunken Clam! ('Gansett beer is a light lager. Tastes like pee if you pay attention though. It's kinda cheap, but not anywhere near as crappy as Keystone beer. It's just a little better than Pabst Blue Ribbon I'd say.)

We have more Dunkin Donuts than anywhere else in the world and our city runs on coffee. There's a place on Mineral Spring in North Providence where there are Dunkin' Donuts all up the street, even across from one another. We also have Tim Hortons now and then, Starbucks, Sip'n'Dip, Honey Dew Donuts, and dozens and dozens of local coffee houses. It's a religion to Rhode Islanders.

A typical day at work for us involves brewing a pot in the morning, drinking 4-6 cups' worth from the pot, buying a large before work, drinking it just before you punch in, buying another large during your shift (at which everyone at work gets coffees), getting a small on your lunch break (even if it means getting lunch somewhere else, you'll travel to the moon and back for the right coffee), and maybe having some iced coffee when you get home. And everyone lives that way here. Everyone.

We are multicultural but predominantly Italian, Irish second. The city is full of Italian bistros. My home town, Johnston, is the most Italian (% of population-wise) town in the United States. The city is also full of Irish bars. The weekend of St. Patty's, I went to a block party at Murphy's Pub before going to another block tent party at Fatty McGee's. Some of my friends went to McFadden's after... usually Bradley's Cafe is a pitstop as well. You get the idea. We also have eleven universities in the area so it's a huge college town. Everyone drinks Irish Car Bombs if they're not sipping Cognac.

You get the hint. We have grinders, not subs. We have iced slushy lemonade with little lemon rind chunks in it (which are somehow delicious), coffee-syrup milk, and somehow manage to be one of the skinniest, healthiest, and live longest states in the country. Oh and we're the smallest state.

Oh, Rhody culture. :)

[Mr. Brightside]

At the very least, one time I ate some kangaroo. Pretty bland and really chewy. Eating moose in Canada was a little better, but not by much.

*vomits* I cannot believe that there are people who eat Kangaroos! Dude it is supposed to be your national animal emblem or something! @.@

Anyway..., being in Greece we have a lot of "unusual" for foreigners foods. Stuffed tomatoes for example.

[DivineAll]

Let's see... where is a famous place to eat in Seattle other than the original home of Starbucks? Ah, the infamous Pike Place Chowder which has won many chowder awards for it's clam chowder in particular. Although, I personally prefer the Corn and Chicken Chowder myself. Maybe it's because I don't eat much shellfish? I dunno.

[Blademaster]

I live in New Jersey. So most of my food has this on the nutrition label:

http://www.nursezone.com/shared/images/articles/AAPCC_LOGO.JPG

[Telume]

*vomits* I cannot believe that there are people who eat Kangaroos! Dude it is supposed to be your national animal emblem or something! @.@

Anyway..., being in Greece we have a lot of "unusual" for foreigners foods. Stuffed tomatoes for example.

Stuffed tomatoes is eaten here too, just depends on what stuffing is used over there in Greece.

[abunaidesu]

lots of fiber

[Crystal Mew]

New Mexico is famous for their green chilie!

We have it on everything pretty much...like mcdonalds and wendy's have special hamburgers with green chilie, or you can order some on the side..thats what I do.

A couple years ago I went out of state and asked for green chilie at a mcdonalds and they looked at me like I was stupid :( how was I supposed to know only new mexico had green chilie everywhere and no other state did!? a lot of people don't even know what green chilie is even.

you guys are definitely missing out 8)

[Weasel Overlord]

Well, I'm from Yorkshire, so we eat a lot of awesome things! Like the Yorkshire pudding. :D Although those aren't specific to Yorkshire, really, but eh. Also, to perpetuate the stereotype, I sure drink a lot of tea.

I'd say the roast dinner is the British thing though. We have a big old joint of meat (pork, yum yum), I stuff mine with a ton of garlic, we have roast potatoes and mash potato, vegetables, yorkshire pudding and oceans of gravy. Maan it's making me hungry for a roast. D: *goes to eat brekkers*

[Magmar]

I live in New Jersey. So most of my food has this on the nutrition label:

http://www.nursezone.com/shared/images/articles/AAPCC_LOGO.JPG

Not just that, but also this logo:
http://londontravels.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/wawa.jpg

[Oslo]

Nothing very notable about Canadian cuisine, but there are a couple of standouts. Poutine (fries topped with gravy and cheese curds) is a big deal here and is available at a number of fast food places. As well, Tim Hortons has a scary-strong foothold in our national identity and, as such, donuts are aplenty. Boston cream. <3

Also, butter tarts and Nanaimo bars are yum. They're baked confections and are sweet and delicious. Butter tarts especially are good (they're kind of like pecan pie tarts?) and they're kind of agreed upon as stuff you get served when you visit your grandmother. Mmm.

On a kind-of-sort-of related note, our milk looks like this:

http://smartcanucks.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/bagged.jpg

[Drago]

*vomits* I cannot believe that there are people who eat Kangaroos! Dude it is supposed to be your national animal emblem or something! @.@
It's not really that unorthodox. It's made of meat just like anything else! :D (This sounds like something Houndy would say...)

[shazza]

The past week due to one of my biggest poverty periods of my life, I had no choice but to resort to Mi Goreng noodles, Corn FLakes and Dim Sims. The lack of nutrition made me feel like shit. :(

Fortunately, I am not in such a predicament, and today I have purchased some bananas, oats, apples, tuna, wholegrain bread, yogurt and some chicken for a chicken stirfry tonight. I usually try to have protein powder, but I can't afford it right now, as well as a gym membership. FML :(

[Asilynne]

I had kangaroo while I was in Australia at a thai restaurant of all places, stir fried with vegetables in a honey sauce with rice ^-^ I was delicious, kangaroos taste like beef sort of. The very next day I went to the wildlife park where I got to feed them so I completed the circle of life...xD

Anyway Virginia is famous for its Virginia ham I guess...otherwise here we just eat normal food :S

[shazza]

Yeah, I've had kangaroo a couple of times and thought it was quite nice. So is lizard. :D

[Ifrian]

Well, i will introduce you to some Catalan traditional sweets and foods.
(Curiously, today we had a special meal due to a festivity)

Ok so here we go:

The King of Spanish Dishes, the Paella:
http://blogs.news12.com/connecticut/files/2009/06/paella.jpg

I do not think i need to explain this one, rice, seafood and so on :3

La Escudella:
http://www.comarcarural.com/cocina/catalana/imagenes/escudellaicarndolla.jpg

Escudella is a Catalan stew.
It is characterized by the use of sausages called botifarra or pieces of meat spiced with peppers, cinnamon, etc.
Additionally, beans, potatoes, and cabbage, as well as eggs and other types of meat, can be used.

Escudella is served in three parts:

* The escudella proper is a soup with pasta or rice.
* The carn d'olla is a tray with all the meat used in the stew.
* The final tray is that of the vegetables used.


Now for the sweet stuff!

Panellets:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Panellets_%28surtido%29.jpg

Panellets or Panallets (Catalan for little breads) are the traditional dessert of the All Saints holiday in Catalonia, Eivissa or the Land of Valencia, together with chestnuts, sweet potatoes or sweet wine. Panellets are small cakes or cookies in different shapes, mostly round, made mainly of marzipan. The most popular are the panellets of pine nuts, made of the basis of the panellet dipped in batter of pine nuts and varnishing of egg white.


Crema Catalana:
http://blog.dimehoteles.com/imagenes/2008/12/crema1.bmp


Crema catalana (Catalan 'Catalan cream') or crema de Sant Josep, is the Catalan version of crème brûlée. It is usually served on Saint Joseph's Day March 19. The custard is flavoured with lemon or orange zest, and cinnamon.



I will post more another day :3

[Mr. Brightside]

Stuffed tomatoes is eaten here too, just depends on what stuffing is used over there in Greece.

Rice.


New Mexico is famous for their green chilie!

We have it on everything pretty much...like mcdonalds and wendy's have special hamburgers with green chilie, or you can order some on the side..thats what I do.

A couple years ago I went out of state and asked for green chilie at a mcdonalds and they looked at me like I was stupid :( how was I supposed to know only new mexico had green chilie everywhere and no other state did!? a lot of people don't even know what green chilie is even.

you guys are definitely missing out 8)

What is green Chilie?


It's not really that unorthodox. It's made of meat just like anything else! :D (This sounds like something Houndy would say...)

Yes, yes it does. To be honest i do not eat a lot of meat.

Well, then something else we have here is souvlaki, i guess that some of you must have heard about it. It is a pie with a lot of stuff inside it XD Meat, tomatoes, fries, garlick etc

Also pastichio (lol not sure if it is spelled that way in English) Google says it is like lasagna.

[Magmar]

Crazy things my Sicilian family prepares on a regular basis:

http://www.dvo.com/recipes_archive/stuffed_peppers.jpg
Stuffed peppers, stuffed with bread, tomato, olives, and such

http://www.brooklynporkstore.com/LARGE_IMAGES/SIDES_StuffedPeppers.jpg
Stuffed hot peppers! My nonna's are more visually appealing usually. Cheese and olive oil, in and around a hot pepper.

http://articlesofmastication.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/frittata.jpg
This is called a frittata. It's not a pizza! It's egg pie! It's absolutely delicious and as a rule eaten with only vegetables and potato as stuffing during Lent, and chock full of HAM BACON BEEF MEAT!!!!!!!!!!!! on Easter Sunday :)

http://letthemeatlentils.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/lentil-soup2.jpg
Homemade Lentil Soup is eaten for good luck on New Year's Day. Small children just stomach a spoonful and they're fine. Grownups can get away with overloading the soup with pecorino romano to give it SOME flavor.

http://www.florahealth.com/virtual/Flora/resourcegallery/Products/64728L.jpg
Every month my grandfather drinks a bottle of 'Budega' to clean himself out. Budega is his own slang for laxative. XD

http://klenihan.com/FOOD/images/baked_ziti.jpg
The pinnacle of Italian achievement. A good Baked Ziti is so cheesy, the homemade red gravy turns pink from all the cheese. However it is difficult to make without burning. (But when it is a little burnt, the crunchy mozzarella on top is excellent!)

http://www.jphpk.gov.my/English/zoom_25206.jpg
It was tough to find a picture of Beef Stew with red gravy. Since we boil our tomato sauce with meats we can legitimately refer to it as "gravy". Traditional American-style uses brown gravy.

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/animals/images/primary/kangaroo.jpg
We don't eat these. Instead, we eat:

http://www.figandcherry.com/wp-content/chilli-octopus-salad.jpg
If you don't look down to see that you're eating octopus, it's actually quite tasty. It's tough and tastes only a little seafood-y, like eating a well-prepared salmon steak.

http://www.italianfoodnet.com/uploads/img/news-deep_fried_squid_rings.jpg
Don't assume, it's actually deep fried squid rings. Really, really tasty, can be dipped in Rhode Island clam chowder.

http://www.scordo.com/blog/blog/pics/xmas_food.jpg
A Sicilian Christmas Eve with the famiglia inevitably involves the "Seven Fishes", including spaghetti with clam sauce, stuffed shrimp, crab dip, and other niceties. We even have lots of old fat people wearing Ralph Lauren dress shirts and other things you buy at Kohl's, so yes, Google got that right too. During the summer is when we eat chowder, little necks on the half shell, and other weird things that crawl out of the infected Narragansett Bay.
Assumed, from left to right: Bean Casserole with a vinaigrette dressing, some broccoli-cheese dish that may have clam sauce on it, something else with fish, quahogs in red sauce, and those orange balls are Clam Cakes! They're very doughy and sweet, and only taste a little fishy. They can get you sick now and then if you eat too many, just like doughboys.

[Heald]

Goddamn Magmar I'm getting on the first plane to Rhode Island and eating with you and your family. I don't think I've ever drooled on my keyboard before but here I am, drooling away.

[Mr. Brightside]

@ Magmar: Stuffed peppers. We do that as well. Actually seeing your pics i see that Greek cuisine is similar to Italian. Makes sense.

[Katie]

In terms of food, Texas is to America what America is to the rest of the world. We pretty much just jack up the fat, grease, and bbq sauce content of normal foods and slap "Texas" at the front of the name. Enjoy your heart attack! :)

Also we tried to rip off our southern neighbors' foods and that bastardization is now known as Tex-Mex. Pretty good for not tasting like anything you'd find in Mexico! AFAIK all "Mexican" food in the rest of the country is also Tex-Mex (but substitute tomato soup for salsa) so I guess it's not really unique to here anymore.

[Telume]

AFAIK all "Mexican" food in the rest of the country is also Tex-Mex (but substitute tomato soup for salsa) so I guess it's not really unique to here anymore.

That's as far as you know but, Miami is hispano-centric and you find some pretty authentic Mexican food if you come here. Matter of fact most Mexicans here would consider Tex-Mex as kind of an insult but at the same time kind of unique to the US. But that's just here.

[abunaidesu]

http://klenihan.com/FOOD/images/baked_ziti.jpg
The pinnacle of Italian achievement. A good Baked Ziti is so cheesy, the homemade red gravy turns pink from all the cheese. However it is difficult to make without burning. (But when it is a little burnt, the crunchy mozzarella on top is excellent!)

post recipe thanks

[RedStarWarrior]

Not just that, but also this logo:
http://londontravels.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/wawa.jpg
Wawa has some good shit for a convenience store. They were the first to have the milkshake machines here...

I love Wawa.

PS - Poutine is delicious...think of it as Canadian's answer to cheese fries.

[RedStarWarrior]

I had kangaroo while I was in Australia at a thai restaurant of all places, stir fried with vegetables in a honey sauce with rice ^-^ I was delicious, kangaroos taste like beef sort of. The very next day I went to the wildlife park where I got to feed them so I completed the circle of life...xD

Anyway Virginia is famous for its Virginia ham I guess...otherwise here we just eat normal food :S
We have peanuts too, douche.

Um...we also have good seafood and barbeque.

:)

[MeLoVeGhOsTs]

Goddamn Magmar I'm getting on the first plane to Rhode Island and eating with you and your family. I don't think I've ever drooled on my keyboard before but here I am, drooling away.

Go to Italy, or Sicilia to be more exact. It's a lot closer to Brittian.

http://www.zwijveke.be/admin/Image/fotoboek/allerlei/STOOFVLEES_MET_FRIETEN.jpg

These are fries, with our beef-stew (casserole). The sauce is made out of the beef meat and bouillon, typical belgian beers (Leffe or Westmalle), and herbs.

http://www.flanders-dentistry.eu/nl/wp-content/chocolade1.jpg

Belgian chocolate, pralines to be exactly.

http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Slideshows/_production/ss_070110_brussels/ss_070110_brussels_tease.rp420x400.jpg

Belgian topped waffles. These are Brussel Waffles, you also have 'Luikse Wafels' who have sugar inside and get warmed between a melting machine. They top it with chocolate, or strawberries, or strawberry-sauce, chocolate-sauce, whipped cream, powdersugar, etc. Lot's 'o calories.

[Dogfish44]

'Holyshitchocolate'
'HOLYSHITWAFFLES'


... I'm catching the first plane there.
Anyway, I'm from UK, and more importantly wigan, so this is what we eat:
http://www.jestersmcc.org.uk/images/WiganPEMCC.jpg

[MeLoVeGhOsTs]

So what's in it? Is it like Australian pastries?

Chicken?

[Oslo]

http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Slideshows/_production/ss_070110_brussels/ss_070110_brussels_tease.rp420x400.jpg

MLG, I think I'm becoming diabetic just by looking at these. @_@ Yum.

[Telume]

So what's in it? Is it like Australian pastries?

Chicken?

I hope you are not speaking of the AMERICAN staple known as chicken pot pie which you usually only eat if you're from like... Tennessee or something.

[Dogfish44]

So what's in it? Is it like Australian pastries?

Chicken?

Literally whatever meat you want (bar human).
Steak and kidney / Steak are fairly common.
And the pastry is proper pastry. Not factory made blobs.

Also, agreeing with Oslo.

[Houndoom_Lover]

Being Polish we have fun Duck Blood soups and porogies and we have all sorts of tasty light pasties and Easter soup!! Mmm, my Polish Grama's cooking! And MMMm The Doughy dumplings! I love them And pigs in the blanket! The real peal with the meat wrapped in cabbage dripping in its own juices.

I love food so much

But ummm, New York, pizza and cart preztals and hot dogs. Mmmmm, PA, anything I can get in my mouth. We have awesome Chinese buffets and a annually Rib celebration, and a chicken wing one, and a soup one! Mmmmmmm~

Perkins! Perkins restraunts! Tons of warm tasty Amish food in the area my Mom lives in! Tons of bar food-fast fish train food in the area of PA I love. Guurgle!

And lots of cabbage! Lots of cabbagy fishy food of the family.

[Lady Vulpix]

Quoting my post at the International Club:


Most people eat beef in some form or other with just about every meal, occasionally replaced by some other kind of meat like chicken or, more rarely, fish or pork. Like my brother, who says it's not food if it doesn't have meat. But he says that to mock me because I'm a vegetarian.

It's common for some people to eat soup as a starter (although in the northern provinces they eat soup as a second course instead), or else salad or some other cold starter which I always skip when they're served (at parties and big dinners, that is; we don't eat starters at home). Hot starters are rarely found, but I eat them every now and then.

Common main courses include pasta, rice, potatoes and/or green vegetables prepared in various ways. There are other options, of course. In Salta, half the meals are made with corn. There are typical meals like locro, puchero, empanadas and asado, which I can describe if anyone is interested. And some regions of the country have their own foods (like tamales and humitas in the northwest -I love humitas-, or smoked deer in the southern Andes :(). Another option is pizza (we have many varieties), and there's also seafood, fast food (copied from the USA) , our own Chinese food (because the Chinese make up different recipies in different countries, using the local ingredients) or food from other countries. Although the most common meals are a mixture of Spanish and Italian cooking.

As for desserts, we have flan, bread pudding, rice with milk (I love this), cheese and jam (typical dessert, I fail to see what's so good about it), milk jam, pancakes, ice-cream (there are some amazing ice-creams here), and many others.

Argentineans normally eat 4 meals a day: breakfast, lunch, merienda (may translate loosely to tea) and dinner. Lunch and dinner are often the largest meals (although I've been having very light dinners ever since I returned from Finland, I got used to skipping dinner there).

Breakfast and tea are generally sweet (although bread or crackers with cheese are a rather common option). It's usually a combination of some of the following: tea, coffee, mate, milk, fruit juice (mainly orange), yoghurt, cereal, bread (or toast), crackers, cookies, pastries, fruits (orange, apple, tangerine, banana, peach, plum, honeydew, watermelon, etc.), jam, cheese, butter, cream and -more rarely- honey. But no one eats all of that at once, of course! :P

And we also have some snacks to have at random times. And we have alfajores, which everyone who comes from abroad seems to love (they're basically cookies stuck together with milk jam -or alternate filling- and coated with chocolate or sugar).

[DarkestLight]

I can go on, but I just wanna say Kangaroo is awesome (as a meal), Belgium sux (their waffles. They taste like half cooked bread with no preservatives whatsoever :p ), Wawa is hilarious and I love making stuffed peppers.

[Drusilla]

My boss once told me that I'm definitely Texan because I like salsa and refried beans with my eggs for breakfast. (Add tortilla chips for bonus points.) It's the closest I can get to a proper breakfast burrito, the kind where you eat half for breakfast and half for lunch because it weights about a billion pounds. THAT is a proper breakfast. =D Oh how I miss Galveston... Taco John's has breakfast burritos, but the model on TV doesn't even look appetizing. So-called "Mexican" food up here has me very homesick.

Unlike most Texans, I avoid beef (I'm allergic T_T) and the majority of fried foods (which just make me feel ill in general). I'm a sucker for fried potatoes in any form, though. Yum, potatoes.

[Blademaster]

Unlike most Texans, I avoid beef (I'm allergic T_T)

I honestly didn't know people COULD be allergic to meat... I guess I can understand shellfish since it's such a different creature from you, but what's in a COW that could cause that kind of reaction?

[Drusilla]

A few people have speculated that maybe it's growth hormones or some other artificial stuff that sets me off. Not sure, really.

[Jeff]

Well, from what I've seen around, Maryland is probably best known for our Maryland-style crab cakes. Crab cakes, if you don't know, are fried patties made from crab meat and other ingredients. We have other things made from crab meat though. Cream of crab soup, Maryland crab soup (which are completely different soups by the way), and crab dip are a few. There's also chicken Chesapeake, which is grilled chicken topped with crab meat, served either on a bun or not.

The best way to eat crabs though is right out of the shell, cooked by steaming them while they're covered in crab seasoning. You can only do that in the summer though since that's when they're in season (some restaurants get them from the Carolinas or Gulf of Mexico when they're not in season, but they're best fresh). Eating crabs is a big social event during the summer. People will invite a bunch of friends to their houses to swim and eat hamburgers, hot dogs, corn on the cob, and steamed crabs.

We have a bunch of brands of crab seasoning but the most famous around here is Old Bay (http://www.oldbay.com/). We don't just eat it on crabs though, shrimp is always served topped with crab seasoning, I put it on chicken salad all the time, you can find crab-seasoned potato chips and popcorn around here, and there's also some fried chicken recipes that use it.

Also, the main beach here is Ocean City, if you visit Maryland during the summer, you pretty much have to go there (which I remember somebody on TPM doing just that not too long ago). The food on the boardwalk is great. One of the things I can think of off the top of my head is ice cream sandwiched between two waffles. There's also a chain of French fry stands along the boardwalk called Thrasher's. They have the traditional salt and ketchup that most people put on fries, but all the locals go straight for the vinegar and Old Bay, if you want real Maryland-style boardwalk fries, that's the way to go.

[Magmar]

post recipe thanks

Howww to cook'a'tha bake'a 'zi-thi! That's how my grandma would say it. Anyways, it's very simple. Boil as much ziti as will fill the bottom of a casserole dish (generally a pound is plenty). We recommend ziti pasta because the ridges on the outside make the dish seem more solid; rigatoni is too slippery. I also recommend either making your own tomato sauce, or else boiling all the acid out by cooking the sauce with several small "baby carrots" inside. This reduces the harshness of the sauce.

Anyways, in the large pan you boiled the pasta in, strain the pasta, then add the sauce, a (16 oz? I know the size by sight) tub of ricotta cheese, and some shredded provolone. Mix this up really well, then pour it into the casserole dish. Top with more cheese, mozzarella will work as if it were a pizza, or you could use pecorino Romano. Bake at 350 degrees F until the top starts to darken and all the cheese on top is melted. Don't go overboard with the cheese on top; you can always individually tailor to taste by adding the ground-up parmesan or pecorino Romano. You can add parsley before baking as well, just for color.

The result should be a brick-like pan full of squishy, cheesy pasta! Caution--it will be VERY hot inside, and takes a long time to cool off.

All sorts of recipes can be found online but trial and error has yielded this one. It's all up to personal preference for how much cheese you use. You can use minimal cheese. Wheat pasta usually turns out okay, if you are looking for a healthier substitute. Vegan cheese will work; in fact, it tastes quite good.

Homemade meatballs and italian bread compliment the dinner nicely. Serve with a white wine. It's designed to be a Sunday dinner dish, meaning that it's very heavy, takes a while to prepare, and is usually eaten in the early afternoon on a Sunday; then you are full the rest of the day and you work off the macaroni throughout the day. Coffee after the meal seems to always be delicious too.

Oh, and Jeff--there's nothing quite like salt and malt vinegar on French fries!! Especially the soggy ones they serve at A&W diners. I don't know if A&W diners are common throughout the USA (like A&W Root Beer is), but there's a quaint A&W shack in Greenville that I love to go to for hot weiners and fresh, flat, homemade root beer. Their soggy ass greasy fries are perfect with vinegar. Even my great grandmother would eat them!

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Cheese is the only reason I cannot become vegan; the idea of soy cheese just induces a visceral reaction in me.

I don't have the same issue with soy chicken though. Weird.