What’s one US food invention you wouldn’t want to live without? Hot dogs? Hamburgers? Something less basic?
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Cheesesteak
In a similar spirit, the Juicy Lucy was invented in MN, though two different bars claim to be the ones that invented it.
A Jucy Lucy (or Juicy Lucy) is a stuffed cheeseburger with the cheese inside of the meat instead of on top, resulting in a melted core of cheese. It is a popular, regional cuisine in Minnesota, particularly in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. Two bars in Minneapolis claim to have invented the burger, while other local bars and restaurants have created their own interpretations of the style.
New Mexican green chile
What makes it special? Is there a particular dish/sauce that’s made with it that you like?
In New Mexico we put it on everything, stuffed sopapillas, fry bread, enchiladas, we make salsa with it. Green Chile cheeseburgers are a common dish, i am vegetarian so i skip that. But green chile cheese fries are fantastic. It is on our pizza, in our ranch, on our breakfast burritos. It is even half of our state question. (Red or green?)
Proper crab cakes. Unfortunately 99.9% of the country doesn’t do it right, so you basically have to travel to very specific parts of Maryland to actually understand the hype.
Fortunately, they’re easy to make.
As long as you can get fresh crab. The canned lump stuff can definitely make a good cake, but the fresh stuff is still a pretty big step up.
I would never willingly live somewhere that does not have fresh crab available.
Texmex
One of the few places I’m proud to represent my home state: Pepperoni rolls.
Leave one out for Mothman.
It wasn’t invented in West Virginia, but I feel like the thing that I most enjoyed in West Virginia that I don’t find nationwide is apple butter.
For sure. It’s crazy popular here, but I never much cared for it.
Yeah man, I went to a WVU game, that was a heap of fun! WVU games are such a blast.
Folks kept talking about Pepperoni Roles so I had some and I really don’t get it. It is a basically a Stromboli hold everything but pepperoni.
I’ve had similar food before, but never exactly that, looks good! The history is interesting, being invented for coal miners is a very WV.
There’s good ones, and there’s the ones you can buy at the gas station, lol. If you’re ever in the area, I can recommend some good ones.
A couple weeks ago a bunch of friends from college came in for a semi-annual get together. The ones from out of state were all craving pepperoni rolls. I begged them not to buy anything from a gas station / convenience store and to let me hook them up.
I showed up the next day with $100 worth of these super bougie artisanal rolls from a local place. They were a hit.
Imagine ordering a food and the lady pulls your order out of her forehead. I would have doubts, if I would eat it or not.
Pizza is pretty good… invented in NYC by Italian immigrants iirc, so technically American, although I gather there is controversy surrounding that take (flatbread was invented in Italy, even with cheese topping, but the whole tomato sauce thing that we recognize today was invented here; this orc entirely ignoring the debate about whether flatbread is “better” or “worse” than American style pizza).
At this point, any crop you grow yourself, and animals raise yourself for meat (chickens, goats, cows, sheep, etc).
