Bah. Cincinnati chili is terrible,no flavor,no beans or tomatoes. Yankees don't know to eat breakfast. 2 eggs,grits,sausage and bacon,some tomato gravy,and biscuits and sausage gravy.That's a breakfast.
There are great things about both food cultures. I'm from the Chicago area and they do pizza and hot dogs better than anyone in the country. But the south is the king of BBQ.
It depends. Pizza in the south is generally not very good. Might as well eat a frozen pizza. I know southerners THINK their pizza is good, but it's not. If you want true pizza, you must go to Chicago or New York City. I introduced one of my friends (who is from the south) to Chicago-style deep dish pizza and he was blown away. He never had pizza that good before in America.
I prefer Chicago pizza.Barring that,NY style.Chicago pizza is rare in the south. I heard a place opened up.I will have to check it out. Oh,and they make kielbasa fresh @ the bbq place Gonna get some next week.Polack certified.
Did you eat pizza in Chicago or just eat "Chicago-style" pizza in the south? I have plans to move to the south and one business idea I have is opening a Chicago-style pizza shop. I think it would do really well.
Let me know the next time you have grilled Redfish in NY. or Kobia,or Yellowfish,or Snook or Grouper.Or good grass-fed beef for that matter. You guys have salt potatoes and cheese curd.That's it.
I think that is a good idea.There is a shortage for sure.I have no plans to travel to Chicago,ever. There's also a shortage of custom Calzones around here.I want spinach + Italian sausage in Alfredo please. I don't think your idea is better than my friend's though:Move to Colorado and open a Southern breakfast restaurant. You know they're going to be hungry.
In Chicago, Italian roast beef is usually cooked in a sort of au jus sauce and then served on white bread with giardiniera. People from Chicago put giardiniera on almost everything. Philly cheese steak is different because it isn't as juicy, comes with cheese standard, and doesn't have any giardiniera.
That's true, but our BBQ is a joke compared to the south's. I'm sure they can get good beef in NYC. They have some of the best steak houses in the world. But I agree about the seafood in Florida. It's really good.
I can understand that but you will never taste true pizza if you don't visit Chicago at least once. Think about it... People like novelty, so it's a good idea in general to bring them new experiences.
Apples from the north. Okra from the south. Fresh sweet corn from anywhere. Gulf coast seafood. Wisconsin cheese. Pizza with a good marinara sauce. Grass fed beef and produce fed pork. Home raised eggs...and a clean kitchen.
We have Pizza Hut, Papa John's, Domino's, Little Caesar....there are a few small pizza places. Pizza certainly doesn't come to mind when you talk about southern cooking...haha
There are some great BBQ joints even out in the suburbs where I'm at. I wonder how much influence the south has on great BBQ up here. A lot, i'd presume. They've perfected it down there, at least we get some copycats up here. Oh man, head up to Maine some time if you want some seafood. Seattle also has access to a ridiculous variety.
Good grief! https://www.google.com/search?q=giardinera&oq=giardinera&aqs=chrome..69i57.1892j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=giardiniera It basically goes on anything and everything in Chicago. A beef sandwich is an ideal landing spot for it. You can also put it on Pizza, mix it with chicken, or really any type of meat. I put some in a bowl and can just eat it with bread.
You have to go to a larger city in the South like Houston, Dallas, or Atlanta, but there are some genuine Italian thin-crusted pizzas down here, made by Italians or Albanians, to die for.
The best Chinese food I ever ate was in NYC. And I've been to China twice. - - - Updated - - - I don't want lepers anywhere near my food, but thanks.
Here in the south it seems like they have gotten cheap on the Chinese food. The egg rolls are all cabbage and the sweet and sour is just meat and sauce....no pineapple or onions or tomato... just sauce and meat. I make my egg rolls at home and also my sweet and sour dishes. My sweet and sour has pork and shrimp. My egg rolls are cabbage, sausage, shrimp, onions and carrots. With soy sauce of course. We salt the cabbage to bleed out the water, then rinse to keep the rolls from getting soggy. I would rather eat at home than eat out. We have our own eggs, home grown produce and sometimes we even raise our own pigs and beef
nice anecdote. you should have posted an anecdote of a Southern Hospitality experience, for comparison and contrast.
Smaller places can vertically integrate more easily, depending the circumstances. A "family farm" could grow food for the diner.
I had it easy in Montreal; the biggest advantage of having much ethnicities is undoubtely the culture, and especially in the Mile End, one could have access to Italian pastas and coffee, Polish sausages and pastries, Jewish bagels and delis, Asian fish and sushi, French croissants and cheeses etc, all within a 10mm walk. We've got about all cuisine one could imagine this side of cannibalism. My faves currently are Vietnamese, Indu and South American (the continent) cuisine. Homegrown Quebecois specialities are tourist-famous roast chiken, poutine (french fries with curd cheese and BBQ sauce), local duck and lightwater fish such as trout and walleye. Nobody does pizza like they are doing it in NJ. By comparison,the pizza here tastes like a dirty rug. American also do know know how a barbeque works, I'll give them that.
I exaggerate for color. Actually there are some southern waitresses who get on my nerves with their treacly "hon" this and "baby" that
