language or a food thats distinctive to your area

[bookgirl]

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3 way is spaghetti/chili/cheese.

My family loves this meal, only I do not use authentic Cincinnati chili I use Midwest chili (spiced with cumin and chili powder no cinnamon).

 

[porschegrl]

Does nobody else call that type of footwear "gym shoes"? I once read an article about regionalisms that said this is a Chicago thing. Can anyone back me up on this? Or is it just my family (and whoever wrote that article, lol)?

As far as regional foods, Chicago has plenty that are well-known: deep dish pizza, Italian beef sandwiches, Chicago style hot dogs.... Probably less well known is Chicago style thin crust pizza, cut into squares. This is the kind of pizza I grew up eating:

 

[Frozen Canuck]

LOL - call me the next time you're up this way... Actually, contrary to the proof of my passport that I actually AM Canadian, I hate Tim Horton's. I'm not a doughnut eater in general and my favourite take-out coffee comes from 7-11! So how about we meet at the 'Sev and I'll buy!

Sounds good! Let me hook up my dogsled and I will be on my way.

We were back in December/January and ended up doing a road trip to one of our parent's places. It was late, so we stopped for a drink and a snack at Timmy's in Toon Town since we haven't been to one in likely 15 years or more. Their doughnuts were AMAZING. I didn't realize how good they were until we started occasionally going to Dunkin down here. I think it could partly be due to the fact that Dunkin has a lot of their donuts trucked in, as opposed to being made fresh on site (or at least thawed and dipped or whatever it is they do at Timmy's). We aren't big coffee drinkers, so I can't really comment on Timmy's coffee, though someone did give my husband a Tim Horton's collector's mug as a gift one time because they knew he was Canadian???...uh, yeah...thanks! We will add that to the rest of our Canadiana collection. Talk about stereotypes! (Giggle!)

 

[fly girl]

Good guess. A maple longjohn is a stick-shaped doughnut with maple glaze. A double-double is practically the national beverage of Canada (sorry Molson's ) and it is a coffee with 2 cream and 2 sugar.

Oh, should've thought coffee. Shucks!

I know longjohns -- I prefer chocolate over maple. Sorry ... I know, Canada and maple.

 

[bookgirl]

Indian Tacos, Calf Fries (I'm not saying I like or eat them but they are popular) and Chicken Fried Steak which is the state meal of Oklahoma.

There is an article on the best Chicken Fried Steak here

http://www.travelok.com/article_page/pass-the-gravy-chicken-fried-steak-on-route-66

But my favorite is listed below.

Restaurants that are popular:

Sonic (which I know are more popular now but they are local here so there is one every other block)

Braum's (Local dairy that started an ice cream shop, but then started selling burgers, and now is a mini store that still has a counter for food and ice cream. They will only ship a days drive away from the main dairy so they have stores close to the border in Texas and Kansas as well)

Del Rancho (home of The Steak Sandwich Surpreme)

Chuck House (Chicken Fried Steak)

Earl's (BBQ)

Eisen's (Fried Chicken, was on Diners, Drive ins and Dives)

What's funny is probably the best known food joint in Oklahoma is Eskimo Joe's, but I couldn't tell you what 'food' they are famous for. However their popular line of tshirts/clothing is everywhere. At one point it was the #2 branded tshirt in the US (I believe Hard Rock may have been #1). I don't know if it still is or not.

 

[Frozen Canuck]

Does nobody else call that type of footwear "gym shoes"?

Growing up, we had "gym shoes," but that only referred to the shoes we kept "clean" for wearing in the school gymnasium. Gym shoes had to be different shoes than the ones we wore outside to play in. It didn't really pertain to the kind of shoes. They were still runners, but if I told my mom, "Hey, I need new gym shoes, she would totally know what I meant."

 

[bookgirl]

The Texas traditions of BBQ and Tex Mex but most people don't know about our Czech heritage. Most of the donut shops are locally owned by Asian immigrant families who adapted the local Czech tradition of sausage kolaches into sausage rolls. My favorite local shop has on their menu: small and large jalapeno sausage rolls, croissant sausage rolls, croissant sausage rolls with bacon on top and cheese stuffed sausage. These are all in addition to the traditional small and large plain sausage rolls. You may have had a sausage roll at Quick Trip but they in no way compare to ones at the local donut shops.

Loved the Kolaches from that store on I-35 that's in between Ft Worth and Austin. Big signs and so we had to stop. Yukon, Oklahoma has a huge Czech population as well so I learned to love kolaches early.

 

[whitney250]

Whataburger, TexMex, Buc-ee's, "Coke" is the general word used in place of soda.

 

[bookgirl]

OH and here it's tennis shoes, and coke as in "want a coke" means do you want a soda, then you say what kind (Coca Cola/Pepsi/Dr Pepper/Sprite, etc)

 

[barkley]

huckleberries-they are in/on everything during the summer.

chow mein-order it here and it's much more what was considered low mein in California (though it's very reminiscent of that vile slimy stuff chun king used to sell in cans).


language? it's a dead tip off that you're not from around here if you pronounce-

spokane as spo-kane (it's spo-can)
gonzaga as gon-zau-gau (it's gon-zag-au)

or
cheney as chain-ee (it's not the way the former vice president pronounces his name-it's chee-nee).

 

[ronandannette]

Sounds good! Let me hook up my dogsled and I will be on my way.

We were back in December/January and ended up doing a road trip to one of our parent's places. It was late, so we stopped for a drink and a snack at Timmy's in Toon Town since we haven't been to one in likely 15 years or more. Their doughnuts were AMAZING. I didn't realize how good they were until we started occasionally going to Dunkin down here. I think it could partly be due to the fact that Dunkin has a lot of their donuts trucked in, as opposed to being made fresh on site (or at least thawed and dipped or whatever it is they do at Timmy's). We aren't big coffee drinkers, so I can't really comment on Timmy's coffee, though someone did give my husband a Tim Horton's collector's mug as a gift one time because they knew he was Canadian???...uh, yeah...thanks! We will add that to the rest of our Canadiana collection. Talk about stereotypes! (Giggle!)

Sorry for you...you must be hard up for a decent doughnut (NOT donut - what are you, American?? ) It was actually a HUGH deal 10 or so years ago when Tim's stopped frying doughnuts in-store. They're crap now. Do you live anywhere near a KrispyKreme? Loved those. And every time we go to SoCal I promise myself I'm going to stop in at Randy's on the way out of LAX, but I'm rambling now...

Oh, should've thought coffee. Shucks!

I know longjohns -- I prefer chocolate over maple. Sorry ... I know, Canada and maple.

Yeah, I don't know if they even come in chocolate, if they do, nobody here eats them.

 

[fly girl]

My family loves this meal, only I do not use authentic Cincinnati chili I use Midwest chili (spiced with cumin and chili powder no cinnamon).

Blasphemy!

I definitely add hot sauce to mine. And Dixie Chili is my personal favorite restaurant in the area, not as sweet. Don't worry @indimom, Skyline is second.

 

[ronandannette]

Blasphemy!

I definitely add hot sauce to mine. And Dixie Chili is my personal favorite restaurant in the area, not as sweet. Don't worry @indygirl99, Skyline is second.

Sweet chili? 'The hell you say...

 

[fly girl]

Sweet chili? 'The hell you say...

I know, it's bizarro. I hated it at first, but for some reason it grows on you.

It's not really sweet, just a touch of cinnamon. No beans either. Just meat.

 

[Frozen Canuck]

language? it's a dead tip off that you're not from around here if you pronounce-

spokane as spo-kane (it's spo-can)
gonzaga as gon-zau-gau (it's gon-zag-au)

And don't forget Oregon as Ory-gone (it's sort of pronounced Or-i (short "i")-gin (with "g" as in game)...hard to spell out, really) I once had a complete stranger stop me to talk briefly, because she heard me say "Oregon" and knew I must have been from there at some point because I pronounced it correctly.

Don't even get me started on place names within Oregon constantly being mis-pronounced...Lake Oswego, Tigard, etc. There was an entire book in our public library called Ory-Gone and it had all of the place names with their proper pronunciations next to them.

 

[fly girl]

Yeah, I don't know if they even come in chocolate, if they do, nobody here eats them.

Mitten state! Chocolate longjohn, and some have cream filling inside.

 

[Frozen Canuck]

Sorry for you...you must be hard up for a decent doughnut (NOT donut - what are you, American?? ) It was actually a HUGH deal 10 or so years ago when Tim's stopped frying doughnuts in-store. They're crap now. Do you live anywhere near a KrispyKreme? Loved those. And every time we go to SoCal I promise myself I'm going to stop in at Randy's on the way out of LAX, but I'm rambling now...

Yeah...don't even get me started on my language confusion...between my Canadian spellings and trying to make my word processor understand that I don't want either British OR American dictionaries, I just want the only right one (giggle!), and trying to blend in with the local spellings and dialect, I can never win.

We did have a Krispy Kreme relatively close by at one time (maybe 25 or 30 minutes away). We stopped there exactly ONE time for DOUGHNUTS, but shortly after that, they closed because there wasn't enough demand for them with everybody eating "healthy"??????????????? And I haven't had one since. They are definitely awesome, as you could get them fresh off the conveyor belt. When that "HOT" sign was on, people couldn't drive in fast enough.

 

[bookgirl]

Blasphemy!

I know , but I dislike cinnamon and the family LOVES my homemade chili so if I changed it up they probably wouldn't eat it. We are not huge red sauce eaters either so since my chili is Bolognese-ish in texture, I thought it would be a good match when I saw the Triple D show with the Cincinnati chili. Sometimes we do beans as well, and in fact they've been known to want a cut up hot dog on top as well. LOL

 

[ronandannette]

Mitten state! Chocolate longjohn, and some have cream filling inside.

What's mitten state? And the long ones with cream inside and chocolate on top are eclairs...round ones like that are called Boston Creams, round with jelly inside and sugar on the outside are Bismarks. I'm rambling again, aren't I...

 

[trip]

How about the bubbler imnot sure if it's a Midwestern term or just WI. Most places call it a drinking fountain. When I was a kid we were on vacation in CO. My little brother needed a drink. So my mom asked a guy in the store if they had a bubbler talk about being looked at like you have 2heads

It's funny the things you learn on the DIS. I grew up in northern Wisconsin and never heard a water/drinking fountain referred to as a bubbler. Must be a southern Wisconsin thing.