In the past week I had hot links from Pittsburg and kolaches from West. What are your favorite city/ town specific foods?

Favorites:
Detroit - Detroit Style Pizza
Chicago - Italian Beef
Miami - Cuban Sandwich

Least Favorite:
Cincinnati- Skyline Chili
Nashville- Hot Chicken

Breakfast tacos - Austin

Just to see the world burn

Santa Fe - Stacked red chile enchiladas. Objectively the best enchiladas

Decatur, Alabama - Alabama white sauce chicken.

I've made this at home, partly because the recipe is available online. I did not care for it. The sauce tasted how bandaids smell.

HTownAg98 said:

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Decatur, Alabama - Alabama white sauce chicken.

I've made this at home, partly because the recipe is available online. I did not care for it. The sauce tasted how bandaids smell.

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I've made it and I've had a bottle of the original from Big Bob Gibsons. I'm not a fan.

Piedras Negras, Mexico. Where Nachos were invented. In Nacho's Restaurant. They were very simple in those days. Home made chips and a little cheese topped w a little sliced jalapeño. Just a small plate they brought to the table when you sat down.

Edit. An old friend from the area down there reminded me Nacho was actually working at another restaurant when he came up with Nachos. This was before he opened his own restaurant in the 50's.

Mathguy64 said:

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New Orleans.

Tons to choose from. I'll offer BBQ shrimp. A bowl of those with hot bread to sop the sauce and a sazerac at Mr Bs Bistro is damn fine stuff.

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For me it is a muffuletta. And then a stroll across the street for cafe au lait and beignets.

I've tried the green chile pork at probably a dozen places & tried my own hand at it. Each time, I walk away disappointed.

It was already said, but second for BBQ shrimp from Mr. B's Bistro in NO.

Charleston. She Crab Soup and Shrimp and Grits are on every menu. Also Frogmore Stew, Charleston Okra Soup, Hoppin John and Charleston Red Rice.

Bruce Almighty said:

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Houston and fajitas

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99% of people have no idea fajitas originated in houston.

AggieOO said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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Houston and fajitas

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99% of people have no idea fajitas originated in houston.

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First, fajitas didn't originate in Houston.
Second, the op doesn't mention cities where foods originated. Kolaches didn't originate in West, Texas and hot links didn't originate in Pittsburgh.

Bruce Almighty said:

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AggieOO said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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Houston and fajitas

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99% of people have no idea fajitas originated in houston.

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First, fajitas didn't originate in Houston.
Second, the op doesn't mention cities where foods originated. Kolaches didn't originate in West, Texas and hot links didn't originate in Pittsburgh.

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ok, let me rephrase. 99% of people wouldn't associate fajitas with houston in the same manner people associate kolaches with West.

AggieOO said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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AggieOO said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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Houston and fajitas

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99% of people have no idea fajitas originated in houston.

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First, fajitas didn't originate in Houston.
Second, the op doesn't mention cities where foods originated. Kolaches didn't originate in West, Texas and hot links didn't originate in Pittsburgh.

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ok, let me rephrase. 99% of people wouldn't associate fajitas with houston in the same manner people associate kolaches with West.

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Who cares what 99% of people think. I wouldn't associate hot links with Pittsburgh but that doesn't mean they aren't a big deal there. Fajitas have been a big deal in Houston for 50 years, its pretty specific to the city's cuisine. 99% of people couldn't point West, Texas out on a map much less know about their kolaches. People in Pittsburgh probably wouldn't associate breakfast tacos with Austin either. If you're limiting this thread to those foods that are universally known for being tied to a specific city, you're going to have maybe 15 possible answers.

Houston isn't the birthplace of the dish that became fajitas, but if you don't think that Mama Ninfa didn't make them the popular dish that they are from her little place on Navigation, I don't know what to tell you. Her off the menu "tacos al carbon" that was 100% off the menu initially became the fajitas we know today.

I ate there in the early days when that WAS the only Ninfa's and she was working the room. You had to ask for them. And nobody else served them. They served carne asada but not fajitas. Lots of people served carne asada. Nobody had the sizzling plate of sliced skirt and fixings.

Bruce Almighty said:

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AggieOO said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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AggieOO said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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Houston and fajitas

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99% of people have no idea fajitas originated in houston.

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First, fajitas didn't originate in Houston.
Second, the op doesn't mention cities where foods originated. Kolaches didn't originate in West, Texas and hot links didn't originate in Pittsburgh.

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ok, let me rephrase. 99% of people wouldn't associate fajitas with houston in the same manner people associate kolaches with West.

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Who cares what 99% of people think. I wouldn't associate hot links with Pittsburgh but that doesn't mean they aren't a big deal there. Fajitas have been a big deal in Houston for 50 years, its pretty specific to the city's cuisine. 99% of people couldn't point West, Texas out on a map much less know about their kolaches. People in Pittsburgh probably wouldn't associate breakfast tacos with Austin either. If you're limiting this thread to those foods that are universally known for being tied to a specific city, you're going to have maybe 15 possible answers.

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Fajitas are a "big deal" in almost every city in texas that has a tex mex restaurant.

Im not trying to limit to cities universally known for a cuisine. Texas Bbq is all over texas, but Lockhart is "known" for bbq. Fajitas and houston aren't thought of the same way.

We'll just have to disagree.