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s/o "eating at chains;" What food feels like "home?"
A lot of folks mentioned avoiding foods that you can get at home while traveling, so to you, what food feels like "home?" What reminds you of where you're from?
We currently live abroad, and I can attest to how comforting familiar food can be when you've been away from your home country for so long. To me, a really great hamburger (e.g. not McDonalds but a juicy hamburger made with quality meat and fabulous toppings like mushrooms and swiss!) tastes so delicious - especially because something like that is hard to come by in southern Italy. Also, since I'm originally from Texas but went to school in Maryland, I really miss quality TexMex food and Chesapeake Bay blue crabs! How about you?
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Re: s/o "eating at chains;" What food feels like "home?"
I'm with you on the great hamburger. There is a place near me that everyone claims has decent burgers, but burgers in German restaurants aren't the same. I go to Hard Rock if I want American food, or to an American base if my parents are visiting since they're retired military. Oh, or I cook it myself, of course.
So home to me: burgers, iced tea, chicken adobo & lumpia, pizza a certain way, southern style potato salad, and bagels. There's probably a lot more, but I can't think of it right now.
definitely a great burger
i grew up in new england so seafood, especially lobster, tastes like home to me.
crepes and bacon make me think of my grandpa, even when having those foods elsewhere.
same for bagels & cream cheese, really good chinese and pizza. even moving from NYC to DC makes me miss these foods because they just aren't the same here.
Anything with ranch dressing, lol.
Stuff I appreciated while living abroad were good hamburgers & steaks, McDonald's fries, Tex-Mex or Mexican. There used to be a good Mexi-Carib truck in Spitalfields market.
I hated the lack of late night/all night eating options in London - fried chicken or a kebab - blech.
Diners feel like home. Also, nachos.
I'd never even dare to dream of finding a proper hoagie or cheesesteak in Europe.
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I grew up in Michigan, lived in Milwaukee for 5 years, St. Louis for 4, and Seattle.
When I think about Michigan, cherry pie, Eckrich sausages, and Vernor's reminds me of growing up.
Brats and cheese evoke memories of my time in Milwaukee (college).
Chili-mac from Steak n' Shake, toasted ravioli, and custard from Ted Drewe's I affiliate with St. Louis.
Seattle is craft-/micro-beer and smoked salmon from Ivar's!
I've never traveled abroad for any extended length of time, but I know that the first thing DH wanted when he returned from a year in Ireland was a big juicy burger and a salad.
Home is...
Good dry-rub beef ribs
Mashed potatoes with some skin
Roasted asparagus
Good Texas BBQ, in general (especially from Lockhart or Elgin)
And now I'm hungry.
Mexican food outside of the US (and Mexico obviously) is usually a travesty. I grew up in a majority-Mexican city and am married to a Mexican American so I start to crave Mexican food after 10 days or so out of the US. I inevitably break down and eat the local equivalent if I don't have a kitchen. Bizarrely, the best stuff I've found has been in Myanmar.
Burgers and Mexican food (I'm from CA) for sure! We've got a good burger chain in Santiago, but the Mexican options just aren't quite right.
There are plenty of other foods I miss, but those feel like the US to me. Oh, and for my British side, homey food is definitely braised beef pie...something that makes you feel cozy on a cold day.
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Vernors means I'm sick.
Also, I had Schweppes ginger ale for the first time a few years ago (on a flight) and OMG, that stuff is like water compared to Vernors.
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Ontario, Canada is NOT known for any regional specialty, but the food I sometimes miss on vacation is just stuff I eat a lot at home:
cereal, especially Shreddies & Mini Wheats
salad with grilled chicken
yogurt & berries
And of course, a good burger or pizza. MMM. Although I do find you can decent, but not perfect, versions in most countries.
Dunkin Donuts coffee, sigh. Don't get me wrong, I love Italian coffee too, but sometimes a nice 20oz w/ cream (not milk, that's the secret)... yum!
I also miss New England Chinese food... that's sounds weird, but ask anyone from there... it's just better in NE.
From DC/VA I miss my favorite Cactus Cantina swirlie margaritas and fajitas!
H always craves a burger when he gets back to wherever the current home is. It's funny b/c I never make them except when he's just gotten home.
I think my "home" craving depends on where I'm living at the time. In Japan I really missed good Indian food. Here in Hawaii I find I want good Italian. When I moved back to Denver after being in Japan a couple years, all I wanted was real ramen on a cold day.
Mashed Potatoes
FRESH lobster (the vast majority of the lobster up here is imported from back home)
Maine shrimp
New England scallops
A good steak
Dunkin Donuts french vanilla coffee
Shoot, I may have to make that for dinner soon.
VABeach08: i feel the same way about dunkin donuts. especially an iced with extra cream! and chinese in NE is really good (though NYC still wins on that)
When I lived in Boston and Nashville I missed bagels (Boston has them but they are different), and NY style pizza. In Nashville I missed good Chinese take-out and Dunkin Donuts, there is one but it was so inconvienent. I now miss Tex Mex from Nashville.
I used to miss Dunkin Donuts and NY style pizza when I lived in Nashville also! I lived near Vandy so I would plan my weekends around going to the Dunkin Donuts in Cool Springs when it opened. The first time I went, I was so excited to get my usual coffee but as soon as I sipped it, I made a face. I told them "this doesn't taste like New York" and they explained that it was probably the milk causing it to taste different. On the flip side, Publix in Nashville had honey wheat English muffins. Now those were something special and if I ever come near a Publix in my travels, I will buy 4 bags.
From my Buffalo days, I miss a good chicken finger sub. There is no substitute.
Whenever we go to Europe, at first I craving simple things like drinking an American sized medium coffee without looking like a pig because our medium is like their extra large. They seem to like drinking their caffeine in tiny cups. As the trip goes on, I start craving more spicy and flavorful things they just don't have in their cuisine. I have made it a tradition that when we get home, I must order Indian take out that night for dinner to make up for all the spice and flavor deficits in European cuisine.
I miss a good creole-Italian red gravy, as good as carbonara is, I miss the simple red gravies that are everywhere in NOLA. There is no question I miss red beans and rice on Mondays. I still wander down the main street here on Mondays looking for red beans and rice as the special. And there is nothing like a good, drippy roast beef po-boy, or a fried shrimp po-boy with the shrimp fried in cornmeal-based fish fry, not tempura or beer batter, ohh and the barbequed shrimp (not over charcoal!) made with fresh Gulf of Mexico shrimp. I miss Fridays with paper thin fried catfish fillets and french fries that have an essence of oysters from the friers. I miss cajun and creole dishes like etoufee, dirty rice, chicken & adoullie gumbo and crawfish bisque.