What dish represents your state/province?

While getting my hair done (my stylist always takes a week off after my appointment) we were discussing what dish represented Texas--barbecue, tacos, peach cobbler--there were a lot of suggestions and no agreement. I personally think chicken fried steak is the Texas icon--a piece of meat beaten to death, battered and fried, and then drowned in gooey white gravy.
What dish represents your area?

 

I would say, probably soups and stews made with beef, elk or venison, due to the cold winters.

 

I'm not sure there is a particular 'dish' that represents my area. I live in the middle of an agricultural green belt, and so anything grown here ... apples, strawberries, corn on the cob, carrots, cabbage, onions, pears, potatoes and even maple syrup, beef and pork. The one thing I have noticed lately is the large amount of french fry stands on the side of the road, offering french fries and various kinds of poutine. Not sure if that is because I travel the highway alot and so do the cottagers, or if we are all suddenly craving fried potatoes?

 

I would have to say any kind of seafood. Crab taking the front of the line. They are sold by the bushel along the side of the road.

 

Netty, I had to look up "poutine". I think it is the Canadian equivalent of chicken-fried steak for the "oh, my God" factor. French fries, canned beef gravy and cheese? Maybe not . . . .
Donna, a bushel of crabs--can you hear me sobbing? Our only fresh seafood is Gulf shrimp, which is good, but believe me, is not sold by the bushel!

 

Sweet Corn

 

I'm thinking a loaded baked potato. I am right smack in the middle of spud country!

 

There are so many to pick from but I think breaded tenderloins is a fave. I'm sure in Idaho where I live now it's potatoes and in Minnesota it was lefsa

 

N C style pulled pork bbq

 

Miss Kitty, please, what is lefsa?
Loaded potato is one of our favorite winter time lunches, even though we aren't smack dab in the center of spud country!
Pulled pork on a toasted bun, with thinly sliced onion and dill pickle slices--yum! I don't know if our version is North Carolina style--probably our sauce is sweeter, but it sure is good!

 

Sorry, I can't say there is anything that comes to mind immediately, but it interesting that there are those of you who do seem to have something that represents your state....ohio? nothing that I can think of ....maybe tomatoes. I had two different customers this Summer who wanted to take tomatoes back home with them. One came last year from FL. They were here visiting their family and stopped here on the day before they left for barely ripe tomatoes. another one was here from N. Carolina. I asked if our tomatoes tasted better or what? and the response was "There is nothing like an Ohio tomato" Really? I wouldn't know, I guess. It is all I know.

 

Lefsa is Norweigan potato flatbread.

 

I'm Norwegian, and I eat lefse now and then. *lol* Our regional dish must be potetball (or raspeball), potato balls. They're big, grey and filling. We serve them with meat of some sort, either sausages, pork sausages, bacon or salt sheep meat.

 

I looked up recipes for lefse, and I can make it! It is a flat bread made using potato dough. Mine may not be as pretty as the pictures on the recipe sites, but a little practice may improve the appearance.
Now I need to know if lefse is served just as a bread, or if it is filled or spread with something.
Sorry to be such a pain, but I do love to make breads, and this is one that is entirely new (and attractive) to me!