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"Regional" Foods?
What do you consider central-pennsylvania regional foods?
DH and I were talking about this last night over dinner (which, incidentally, was not regional).
The only ones I could come up with were
- the weird soup-like chicken pot pie
- scrapple 
Kelly
Kelly Be Welll
Re: "Regional" Foods?
I'm from Chicago and my DH is from San Diego. When we moved here, we experienced several new foods. Things we consider regional:
pretzel sandwiches
pickled eggs
mac& cheese with stewed tomatoes
shoo fly pie
Moon pies and chicken & waffles are not regional but are strangely popular here
I'd also never seen a crab cake sandwich until I moved here.
I would agree with Pickled Eggs.
And also:
Chicken and Waffles
My MIL makes this dish of chicken and homemade noodles in a gravy and then serves it over mashed potoates
what about "hogmaw" ???
i never encountered that dish in nj. i think it's beef and potatoes stuffed in a pig stomach?
The soup you are probably thinking of is chicken corn soup
-chicken pot-pie, just the way we make it is regional. most places have ing, just in a pie, we make and roll out our dough and cut it into square
-smearcase
-real whoopie pies--not with marshmallow creme
-pickled eggs
-snitzpie
-chow chow
-shoe fly pie
-snitz & knepp
-pawnhaus
-puddins
- cup cheese
-saurkraut
yeah, a lot of PA Dutch foods.
We call that pig stomach (although others do call it hogmaw) in my family, sausage, potatoes, and cabbage in a pig stomach.
My mom also made chicken pot pie the way the pp described - I love that! I agree with chicken and waffles, whoopie pies, and shoo fly pie. They were staples growing up and people even in Maryland haven't heard of these.
Are deviled eggs in other areas?
Now I really can't wait to go home this weekend for all the yummy food my mom makes!
Between the various replies, I think we've got a pretty comprehensive list going here! Living in MD currently, DH and I have undergone culture shock when grocery shopping and discovering just how much *is* region-specific that we never really thought about. It's been crazy - just as an example, we've found that they definitely don't value their pretzels as much as we do in PA, since their selection really kinda sucks!
As a side note, my mom's side of the family is predominantly German, so I grew up with all those "weird" PA Dutch foods - and of all of them, I will *always* be addicted to PA Dutch style chicken pot pie. I was in high school before I learned that most people considered pot pie to be the stuff with a crust!
... every single day of forever.
My mom's side did a lot of the PA Dutch stuff. That's where I got a bunch of the foods I mentioned. I think my mom's grandparents, on her mom's side had come directly from Germany. Which is why her mom often used German words for things and probably made many of those things.
i will say that i don't care for chicken pot pie, but love ham pot pie, made the same way with the fresh cut dough and use Virginia ham instead of chicken. We also add raw onion on our plate when eating it.
I know, it's such a shame. I can't foods that I love here and the groceries always cost more. I stock up on things when I go home.
I also had the same experience with pot pie. When I went away to college I found out what other people think about chicken pot pie, but I still like the PA Dutch version much more.
Haha great answers. I don't even know what cup cheese IS.
Whoopie pies (called Gobs, where I'm from) and saurkraut don't really strike me as regional because their common in western pa, where i'm from, but they could just be transplants...
It's things like hogmaw and the soupy chicken pot pie -- that wild stuff that I see here!