When I lived in Hawai'i it was the Plate Lunch, a couple scoops of white rice, a scoop of macaroni salad, and the protein, usually a teriyaki chicken or beef or chicken katsu or pork something, or Spam something.
I live in Maine. I'm always so disappointed when lobster is the answer. I love lobster in all forms. But comfort food? It's expensive. True Mainers do not just settle in for a comfy meal of lobsters. We cam't afford that. Homemade beans and hot dogs, boiled dinners, pot roast and veggies, and corn chowder or meatloaf and mashed potatoes. Now those are meals we find comforting.
hahaha, I'm sitting here thinking "cherry pie is our comfort food in Washington? I woulda picked apple if you're gonna say pie." More likely our comfort food is coffee.
IKR, you can't even get buffalo wings outside buffalo how the heck is it for the state? Most consistent option in NY is pizza. WNY, NYC, and CNY all have their own specialty pizza.
I had it with melted butter in Maine; Red’s Eats in fact. I think they have it either way. As a Texan it was a real treat. We do have lobster from time to time. Luckily, we live in Houston, so we at least get as much shrimp as we can handle. I found it odd that in Maine they were selling Gulf shrimp. Evidently they haven’t been allowed to fish for shrimp up there; but this was some years ago. Of the places my wife and I have been, we really want to go back to Portland, ME and the surrounding area. Wonderful break from the Houston heat in the summer. So much to see and eat.
Depends on where you get it. I’d say it’s about 50/50. I’m from Maine and I personally won’t order a lobster roll unless it comes with butter and not mayonnaise.
@@kevingray8616 Red's Eats has great lobster rolls, but unfortunately, they are served cold, while the Connecticut lobster roll, which is the original lobster roll, is served hot.
Lots of great dishes, as a Native New Mexican Chile is king here. State question? Red or Green? State cookie? Biscochito. When I think of comfort food, thats gonna be a big ol bowl of Beans and Chile not Chili. With a fresh tortilla. That I belongs to Texas and their chili. Best New Mexican Comfort foods Frijoles, Chile con papas, Posole, Tortillas with butter, or Sopapillas with honey. Navajo Tacos... Tamales, so much more. When people ask what kind of food I like, I proudly say New Mexican food. All day!❤
Yes thank you I'm not a native New Mexican but I lived there for a good half of my life and you know green chile stew with a tortilla on the side is definitely a comfort food in Nuevo
So, I am not from the states, but....FryBread Taco for Montana? Frybread was basically created out of desperation by the Navajo tribes living in Arizona after they were forcefully relocated into the reserves of Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado (and that have basically nothing to do with the tribes living in Montana), and the idea of "taco" is pretty obviously a southerner one, so.....what's the story behind? Plus I'd expect one of the states that makes the best huckberries in the whole US and is one of the top three cattle-farming states (and one that is very invested in raising bisons) I'd have expected stuff like huckberry jam and pies, steaks and bison steaks, meat pastries....so hearing about frybread taco being a Montana staple feels....weird
My jaw dropped on this one, too. I’m from the northwest corner of NM so grew up with frybread and Navajo tacos. It’s still one of the first things I get when I go home and wish that they sold it at the high school football games where I live now like they do at home. Or sold it anywhere really. 🤤 While it’s not what I would say is THE comfort food for NM (green chile) it is definitely up there if you are from NM and it is not what would have ever come to mind if someone asked me about Montana. There I would say beef. 🤷🏻♀️
Fry bread is popular with many natives in many states, it might have started with the Navajo but it spread quickly to other tribes across the country. I'm Lakota with family in South Dakota and frybread and the fry bread tacos are very popular there too. Different tribes also have slightly different ways of making it. I'm not sure of the origins of using it for a taco, but I'm assuming it started out with the Navajo too, and they are down south. I'm also assuming that it spread quickly to other tribes just as the fry bread did. There are many powwows across the country that welcome and allow various tribes to participate, so even though each tribe is different, there are many things that become shared with between tribes. Certain tribes might not get along that well, but overall, we still feel connected to each other like family regardless of what tribe you're in.
@@bekkiwampler9016 South Carolina mostly does the mustard sauce. Im from western North Carolina and ive heard people say that we do a ketchup based vinegar sauce but the ones ive ever had consists of apple cider vinegar water brown sugar lots of black pepper a little salt hot sauce and red pepper flakes. Eastern NC does a brown sugar bbq sauce i believe. Ive never had eastern bbq. But yeah youre right theres definitely a debate about that one.
@@amberjones9520 lol the debate is real in SC as well I lived in SC for 20 years and my parents n grandparents are born n bred there and my grandfather made and sold only ketchup based. My uncle still uses his recipe to this day on his food truck. If u like the mustard that's all u will eat and vice versa. I'm strictly ketchup based myself but mainly because I buy my uncle's/grandfather's brand...😉
@@bekkiwampler9016 Lexington red slaw is the absolute best !!!! I was raised near Charlotte so we definitely did the Lexington style. My fiancee is from Easley SC (near Rock Hill) but he like my homemade vinegar sauce better than mustard. Ive lived in Florida for 9 years now and still crave real bbq. Down here they claim NC bbq but all they do is put it on a bun with regular red bbq sauce and put white slaw on top. Can u imagine my face when they brought that crap out 😂😂😂 total disappointment lol. And i miss cheerwine and livermush so bad too.
i had a neighbor lady that made candy including buckeyes to sell. omg i loved those as a kid. i was her paper boy and she usually be in garage making rugs on her loom when i showed up with her paper or during summer months at least. she often would have a free candy or sweet treat she made for me to try. she was a better grandma to me than my grandma. i really miss her.
As a native Hawaiian, I am proud that poke is considered a Hawai’i comfort food. But if we’re looking for a dish that nearly everyone loves and indeed finds comfort in, I’d have to give it to Spam musubi. I know *a lot* of local people, Hawaiians included, who won’t touch poke; but those same people will easily take 2 or 3 Spam musubis.
West Virginia pepperoni rolls were created by Italian immigrants who primarily worked in GLASS FACTORIES, not the coal mines. And yes, they are delicious!!!
As a Chicago native, I can firmly attest to the fact that "Chicago Style" pizza is NOT "The" comfort food for the entire state of Illinois! NOT even close! "Chicago Style" pizza isn't even the comfort food of the city of Chicago either. It's usually reserved for special occassions or for impressing out-of-towners. The Chicago area would probably have the comfort food of an authentic Chicago style Italian Beef sandwich while Central Ilinois would claim the Horseshoe Sandwich and corn on the cob in early summer when our sweet corn is at its finest, as their comfort food of choice. (There are entire festivals in Northern and Central Illinois entirely themed around sweet corn!) Southern Illinois is interesting as it really is "Southern" - they love a good Biscuits and Gravy, Fried Chicken and Pineapple shakes! Hawaii: Poke bowls are popular but a "comfort" food there would be a Spam Sandwich!
I must add to the Chorus of my New Mexico family that Green Chile Cheeseburger is the obvious number 1 comfort food in the history of the land of enchantment, followed closely by Green Chile Stew, Posole and then Allsup's Burritos. And Red or Green the answer is not Christmas, it's green, always green FTW!
Obviously!! That's what we said...green chile cheeseburgers on the grill and some amazing Red/Green Christmas Stew. So far the videos I have seen haven't mentioned green (or red) chile...which is surprising.
I'm from Louisiana, and gumbo (and boiled crawfish) definitely beats jambalaya (at least imo). Chicken and dumplings are also a huge comfort food in La.
My grandma was from southern Louisiana, (first language French) and she always made gumbo, I don’t remember her ever making jambalaya, even though I know it’s very popular. I also think red beans and rice beat jambalaya(although my grandma usually made great northern beans). I’m a Texan raised on the Louisiana border so my opinion probably doesn’t count.
Officially, there are no beans in the chili con carne of Texas. That being said, I often had it with beans and white rice as a kid. (likely to stretch it) My wife likes Frito pies, so when we make it we do everything. It’s a chili con carne, with red beans and rice, Frito pie combo. Pro tip. Use cubed cheese so the cheese won’t break down into a gooey mess and you can actually taste the cheese.
Yes, they probably didn’t mention that but, sure enough that’s how beans got started being put in chili, as a filler to help stretch the chili farther! However, I am from the South Western region of Ohio and Indiana! And, a Greek dish is chili spaghetti as well as coney dogs, now we don’t do the beans typically on chili cheese coneys but, we do with chili spaghetti, however, the beans don’t typically go in the chili when, served the typical way the Greek do, the red beans or kidney beans are added as optional if you would do a 5 way but, the beans added as part as a added layer! Some people when making it at home my mom would do it this way also. Now, I have a recipe for skyline, the chili and, it calls to add the beans in the chili just like we all do when, we make chili soup!
@@sonyafox3271 I tried Skyline, but it just wasn’t for me. I remember a lady showing off the cans of Skyline chili on the airport shuttle bus when we got back to Houston. That some years ago. I’m sure I have seen Skyline chili at an HEB (best grocery store ever!), but that was a few years ago. I guess if you grew up on it it’s great. To me, it was just weird. It didn’t taste bad mind you, just weird. To that end, there is a Greek guy here in Katy (near Houston) who has a great restaurant that I go to occasionally. He’s from Detroit apparently. His Detroit dog is just too damn sweet. (might’ve had beans in the chili too) Is chili sweet up there or something? YUCK! Chili should taste like chili peppers, not sugar; there I said it.
I’m a Texan and I’ve genuinely never heard of chili con carne, nor have I ever heard anyone say it’s their comfort food. Maybe its a different part of the state from me? Edit: My family made something similar a few times. Still wouldn’t say it’s a comfort food though. I’d go with BBQ for Texas
Po-boys -- *Mississippi*?!? That's from Louisiana, not MS. The story sounds about right, though, aside from that. Sure, they're popular here, but po-boys are a New Orleans invention, much like Muffulettas. I'd also say that Louisiana is known more for gumbo than for jambalaya -- they're both ultimately African in origin, and both amazing, though ^_^
And I eat it with or without tomatoes lol. Actually New Orleans is more Creole cooking then Cajun cooking. We were lucky to grow up with some fantastic dishes! My mom was raised in the 9th ward way back. My in laws were married by Judge Seeber on Christmas day. I do know New Orleans food.
You definitely got New Mexico wrong. I've lived here for 50 years and never heard of albondigas soup. Green chile (with an 'e', not an 'i') is definitely the comfort food of choice.
When it comes to Hawaiian meals, Idk if poke bowls are my idea of comfort food. Sure they’re refreshing, but Loco mocco, fried saimen, or Kalua pork would be my go to comfort foods.. just sayin and that’s just meals, we talking snacks, Manapua is my all time comfort snack
As point of fact, Michigan is the pie cherry capital of the world, Traverse City holds the National Cherry Festival & the Cherry Pit Spit, there is even a Cherry queen
Nashville Hot Chicken was not an accident, it was an act of revenge on a player boyfriend who had stayed out one to many times, and the girlfriend did the hot chicken
Yeah, I live in Washington State and they gave us cherry pie and I was like whaaaat? That is definitely not us. We love our cherries here but we don't eat cherry pie as our comfort food.
Poke? A comfort food? First of all, I would never get poke from a gas station. Convenience store, maybe, depending on the store. Foodland (grocery store) has long been known for having good affordable poke. Secondly, poke is not really a comfort food. Loco moco, saimin, oxtail soup, Portuguese bean soup, Zippy's chili, those are popular comfort foods in Hawaii.
I was just going to comment the same thing for Hawaiʻi. Poke bowls are a new trendy dish in other states, and REAL poke was never eaten with beans, lettuce, tomatoes, and other salad toppings as shown - even though the narrator talked about traditional poke, which is a popular dish without the rice, but I wouldnʻt call it a comfort food. I would definitely say saimin is a comfort food that appeals to locals across the generations. The other things you mentioned are also good examples.
Brisket is clearly the staple food of Texas…nobody thinks of Chile Con Carne here in Texas when they think of comfort food or any signature dish of that matter.
Yep. Lived in San Antonio for 12 years and miss good Texas brisket from Hill Country or Bill Millers. I'm in Illinois now but I order brisket from Texas every Christmas,
Lacks accuracy; may I suggest people invest in a copy of "Cook's Country Eats Local: 150 Regional Recipes You Should Be Making No Matter Where You Live". Its a real gem.
Green chile (that is with an e not an i) is very much NM not CO. In fact, NMSU has done more research and created more varieties than anywhere else in the world. Probably a better comfort food would have been green chile stew. Colorado is famous for rocky mountain oysters and mutton.
@@margaritamaldonado9677 agreed I could go for a Blake's right now. I mean you could include sopapilla compuesta on your list if you are form Southern NM. But they wanted comfort food.
Blake's Lotta Burger! I used to live up in Abiquiu,we'd go into the town of Espanola,they used to have 2 Blake's Lotta Burgers.I lived the one on the main st.their burgers tasted so good! Theyve since tore it down,but they have another one on the other side.
Of course most Chicagoans don't eat much deep dish pizza, but it is the home of it. Most Chicagoans prefer ultra-thin crust tavern-style pizza - a fact that certain marketing myth-makers tend to ignore. Chimichangas in Arizona are a restaurant favorite, but they are not often made at home since most people don't have deep fryers.. Because they are usually SOOO big and you can't stop eating it, you'll find yourself about ready to explode about half an hour later - and you'll need to take a nap.
Colorado's comfort food is Chile? My ass New Mexico uses Chile far more often. I've never even heard of Albondigas being sold anywhere. Heck Green Chile stew would've been a far better choice
Chicago style pizza may be the pizza of choice above I-80 but not the vast portion of Illinois below there. Most pizzas in central and southern Illinois are New York style, thick crust, tomato sauce, cheese and toppings. Or St. Louis style- thin cracker crust, tomato sauce, cheese and loaded with toppings. The food that has been uniquely adopted by Illinois in the last 40 years or so is the Horse Shoe Sandwich made of your choice of meat on open faced bread covered with french fries and cheese sauce Or the Pony Shoe a smaller version of the Horse. Not my choice, but very popular here in the Land of Lincoln. A close second is riverrfish--catfish, buffalo, carp, crappie served in restaurants and diners all over the state, especially in towns near the Mississippi, Ohio and Wabash rivers and also before or during Friday night high school football games, Fridays during Lent, or in summer homecomings and fairs by churches, volunteer fire departments, fraternal and veterans organizations, and other charitable organizations as fund raisers. Except in the dead of winter, you will seldom have a Friday where there are no fishfries within 50 miles of where you are located.
Toasted Ravioli was a reach I've lived and Kansas City, MO all my life (37 years) and been to St. Louis too many times to count. I've never even seen Toasted Ravioli on a menu. BBQ is king.
16:01 Nope. There was a survey of Pennsylvanians and the number one comfort food is the Philly Cheesesteak. People in the northwest, northeast and southwest parts of PA don’t typically eat scrapple much, if at all. It’s a big state and a lot of ppl don’t even know what scrapple is, but everyone knows Philly Cheesesteaks. Everyone has eaten a Philly cheesesteak and they are not only our most famous food, but our favorite, PA comfort food - statewide.
Kansas City is in Missouri. I lived in Kansas for 60 years and I never heard of a burnt end. However, I live in Nebraska now & I had a runza for supper from the Runza restaurant my daughter works in.
I think it's hard to say a food is a staple in the entire state for any of these, when I first saw Key Lime Pie for Florida I was like "ha, so true" but then remembered when I was in central or north florida you rarely met people who have even tried it let alone it being a comfort food. I currently live in Houston and no one ever mentions Chili con Carne, it's usually crawfish everyone's obsessed with, tho it ranges of course.
I was gonna fuss about ham biscuits for Virginia, but then I remembered that every neighborhood or family gathering usually features at least 3 different trays of ham biscuits. Then again, I'm from the southernmost part of the state, near the NC line, where we still consider ourselves southerners. NOVA people might have different ideas (and those don't count).
Oregonian here and I’ve never had dungeonous crab. Yes it exists, but I don’t think of it as a common Oregonian comfort food. I’d probably nominate something like blackberry cobbler for that honor.
Fried green tomatoes for Alabama is spot-on. When I moved here years ago, I thought those tomatoes were going to be as disgusting as I had been told grits were. I was wrong on both counts, and happily so. I haven't gotten to the Maryland segment of your video yet, but if crab cakes (preferably with Old Bay!) aren't the answer, someone was seriously confused! Maybe they were addled by the sight of the glorious trainwreck that is the Calvert & Crossland flag. (Also. Delmarva slippery dumplings are fantastic. But so are the biscuit sort more prevalent in the Deep South!) ed: All of my applause! You hit Maryland perfectly. If you go to a public function anywhere around the Bay (including Delaware and that one bit of Virginia at the south end of Delmarva) you're very likely to find crab(cake)-burgers on offer. Great stuff if you don't mind fishing out the occasional bit of shell, because one can _never_ seem to pick Jimmies perfectly clean. Or, at least I can't!
As a retired horticulturist (40+) years… the ONLY reason I ever grew tomatoes in my own garden at home was to be able to make myself a huge plate of Fried Green Tomatoes! I absolutely adore them! Being a GA native living in Tx now, my other craves are chicken & dumplings and fried okra/ yellow squash! Edit: 1 cup milk mixed with 1 or 2 eggs (blended) and dredged into cornmeal to which 1 tblsp sugar to 1 cup is added! Fry till golden each side !
Yep…I lived on the eastern shore for 12 years …Delmarva peninsula… and the McDonald’s in Pocomoke City even has a soft-shelled crab sandwich on their seasonal menu and the Hardee’s does a seasonal crab-cake sandwich.
@@kimberlypatton205though I was born and (mostly) raised in Pennsylvania, fried green tomatoes and ripe tomato sandwiches were always a staple of our summer meals. We eat the fried green tomatoes either as a side with other summer foods… like burgers, bbq chicken, picnic type foods, etc… We also eat fried green tomatoes as a sandwich on toasted bread with an aïoli or flavored mayonnaise of your choice, salt & pepper. Red/ripe tomatoes we like on bread or toast, usually with salad dressing/Miracle Whip rather than mayo and some salt & pepper. Simple, but delicious. And only locally grown tomatoes are used, as grocery store tomatoes have zero flavor. 🤢 Besides you can’t find green tomatoes in the stores around here, you have to grow them or get them from a local, roadside, produce stand. ✌🏻😊🥰
You snubbed the U.P. of Michigan. Yes ! They are very proud of themselves. You will find the Michigan style of pasty, at the top of the comfort food tree. They different from Cornish pasty in texture and taste. Michigan style uses ground meat, which makes a vast difference in texture and taste. As steak and hamburger are different so is the Michigan pasty. By the way I love them both.
As a New Yorker I’m proud to know that my home state essentially created the greatest game day food known to man, and I can always go down to Brooklyn from my home borough of Queens and get a dog from Nathan’s whenever I want lol but props to Michigan , however I also gotta give it to Detroit because I love Detroit style pizza real recognizing REAL. That Juicy Lucy look CRAZY though , I want it !
HMM!!! I know things change, times change, etc. Again - born and raised in Seattle, WA - cherry pie has never been a comfort food, Apple Pie and seafood have always been comfort foods in Washington State! Apple trees all over!
Also as a native of the PNW, I would never associate Washington state with cherry pie. Yeah sure we had it sometimes, made from canned pie cherries, but it's not a signature dish. If you grew up around Puget Sound it might be a bowl of steamers (clams in the shell) with melted seasoned butter. Of course a Dick's Deluxe always hit's a nostalgic spot but it's just a burger.
In CALIFORNIA our favorite comfort food is IN-N-OUT BURGER. Every region of California can all agree on one thing together hands down. Fans probably go three times a week on average. I personally have completed a 30 day challenge. (it was not difficult ; ) Daily IN-N-OUT drive-through lines are absurdly long. Very few CA restaurants even offer fish tacos, let alone good ones. Best examples are mostly found at random specialty taco restaurants, or more of a San Diego delicacy.
Nice to see Idaho finger steaks being mentioned. I will say one ingredient was wrong. No ketchup, no cocktail sauce. They are only allowed to have fry sauce which Idaho created despite what Utah thinks.
IMO, Champlain Orchards in Shoreham, VT has THE best cider doughnuts I've ever has the pleasure of chowing down! Perfectly coated with cinnamon sugar but not cloyingly sweet. Worth the drive from any where!
Vinny Gambini : [Vinny and Lisa receive their breakfast orders, Vinny looks at his skeptically] "What's this over here?" Grits Cook : "You never heard of grits?" Vinny Gambini : "Sure, I've heard of grits. I just never actually SEEN a grit before." 👀 -My Cousin Vinny 😂
As a born and raised Kansan that also grew up and have lived most of my life in the Kansas City area(on both sides of stateline- Kansas and Missouri), I definitely won’t deny burnt ends being one of my most favorite foods(or just bbq in general lol). BUT I must point out, to give credit where credit is due, that burnt ends being enjoyed as an actual dish, instead of continuing to be considered scraps of meat, is recognized as being started by Arthur Bryant’s Barbecue in Kansas City, Missouri many decades ago after they used to leave them on a dish for customers to help themselves to for free as a little treat and realized how popular they were. Burnt ends aren’t a Kansas or Missouri thing, they’re a Kansas City thing 😊
Where did you get the footage of Texas Chili? Chili con carne is just meat, maybe peppers and onions. And beef chunks, not ground. NO beans, corn or other stuff. That is the official version. I know loads of people that put beans and other veg in it to stretch out the pricey beef.
So this list seems remarkably messed up. I mean some of the states are possibly accurate or at least passable if you call it an iconic tourist food instead, but others are just completely and utterly wrong for comfort foods. NM is so wrong that it’s laughable! Hatch green chilies are actually grown and roasted here and are put on everything! I’ve never even had the soup they mentioned after years here. Also several generations of my family have lived in MO and fried ravioli just isn’t it. Comfort foods are biscuits and sausage gravy or chicken and dumplings (pillowy dumplings, not biscuity). But I grew up in ME and although I love a good lobster roll and we are quite purist about our seafood, it was always a treat rather than a go-to comfort food.
What is this misconception of “Hot Brown” and Kentucky? 3/4 of the population hardly ever eat a Hot Brown. There are way more and/or better options than that here.
I'm from PA and scrapple is amazing. I used to help my dad make it when I was a kid. It's just scraps organs and cheek meat. When ppl say everything from eyes and stuff are crazy. That's not in there
Pennsylvanian here: 😣 Don't listen to her folks. Scrapple? SCRAPPLE! The comfort food of the Keystone State is a Philly Cheesesteak sandwich on a hoagie roll. Thinly sliced and diced steak with American cheese or Cheez Whiz, onions, peppers, bacon, mayo, tomato sauce or any combination therein. I prefer American cheese, onions & mushrooms. THAT is what Pennsylvanians go for.
Cherry pie as Washington's comfort food? Since when? Having lived in Washington state, I can say Cherry pie is good, but it's really not glamorized or anything special over here. If any pie was gonna be associated with the state, I would have chosen apple. Salmon and seafood are also good choices.
RIGHT?! I was like maybe apple or blackberry pie, but I wouldn't say any pie is our comfort food. I feel like it's teriyaki or pho. Like....cherry pie?
i have never had a cherry pie in my life. lol. when i think of washington i think of like.... seafood like salmon or just any shellfish as far as "uniquely washington". like out of all the places ive been on alki i always have good memorys of The Spud. or going to a seahawks game and getting an Ivars breadbowl. or... heck seeing the people are the market throw fish. even then. its not my own personal comfort food.
I’m in WA and my comfort food is Thai yellow curry or pizza. I can’t even remember the last time I had cherry pie but I do make apple pie on rare occasions
@@mamadoom9724 i think my comfort food in general is mexican cuisine. but yeah. im just thinking like.... a unique dish to washington. cherry pie doesnt come to mind. i say that as i munched down on some rainier cherries earlier lol. not in pie form.
While Buffalo wings are very popular across the state especially where they originated in western New York. It doesn’t hold a candle to the real champ, Pizza.
As a Coloradan, I said to myself: It's going to be either burgers with super-fresh local beef, or chile verde. Kudos for getting it on the chile verde!!!
This actually pissed me off as a New Mexican seeing that they gave this dish as our staple, our dish? And they have the nerve to say that green chile is a Colorado thing! As a lifelong New Mexican, I have never even heard of that yucky looking meatball soup. Where the hell did they get this from?
CT here. Born and raised in this wonderful state. I’ve never ever had a steamed burger! They really only exist in maybe one or two towns from years ago. Update please. We have a a lot of great pizzas throughout the state!
Albondigas is something I've never heard of. Ever. And that's from someone who's indigenous to the area on one side and really old hispanic settler blood on the other. I'm guessing no one bothered to actually visit the state or talk with someone actually from NM.
@cindymichel4870 A lot of New Mexico doesn't identify as Mexican. At least, not the families who have been here for at least 10 generations. And not the small-time local shops that sell New Mexico style meals which are different from how Mexican style meals are prepared.
I was born and raised in NM with family that has been there before it was a state and I had never heard of albondigas. I’m sure I’ve seen it on menus but probably skipped over it for the green chile. Haha.
That's because you have a functioning brain. Jucy Lucy (not JUICY Lucy) is available at Matt's Bar, but otherwise is not considered a Minnesota comfort food.
Okay...as a Gringon married to a Latina native, and have lived in New Mexico for close to 30 years, I am not sure what the hell these folks are talking about.
Alaskan King Crab is an expensive delicacy here, not a comfort food. Better representatives of accessible Alaskan comfort food would be smoked salmon, fried halibut, and any dessert made with our popular local wild-grown berries like blueberries, raspberries, currrants, and lingonberries!
WHAT?!? 🫨 Green chile (chile is the vegetable, chili is a meat stew - not the same) for Colorado and not New Mexico?!? I take issue with that. Born and raised in NM and I have never had or heard of albondigas soup. I’m sure it’s amazing, but NM is known and famous for its green chile - even more so than Colorado and I have lived in CO for almost as long as I did growing up in NM. I still go to NM in the fall to get enough fresh roasted chile to last the year. New Mexicans eat green chile in everything! Soups, pie, breads, eggs, salsas, burritos, gravy, hamburgers. IT is the comfort food of NM. I would have placed posole over albondigas but neither is the top comfort food of NM - green chile holds that particular honor. While CO is gaining more fame for its chile, and Coloradans are willing to go to the mat to fight for their chile, NM simply cannot be beat. For me, CO is more known for beef than anything. Or maybe the Denver omelette.
I can get behind the assessment for Ohio, buckeyes are delicious. A step above that my mom makes are buckeye brownies, basically combine the peanut butter and chocolate and layer it with brownie mix! I was going to be irate if this video said Cincinnati chili is the Ohio staple food, it is absolutely not, especially not as far as the entire state is concerned. I can eat it, but I definitely wouldn’t go out of my way for it (and I am even from Cincinnati).
As a born and raised Washingtonian if it’s going to be pie it’s strawberry rhubarb all day…i don’t even know of any places that tout cherry pie…WA is salmon, apples and rhubarb…seeing comments from others I wonder if Mashed did any research for this video
I live away from the coast in Oregon and not a single local restaurant has ever had crab anything on the menu, plus when you go east from the Cascade Mtn Range alot of people are either farmers/ranchers, or involved with the lumber industry and have probably never eaten crab. Only reason I have is I grew up literally 5 miles from the ocean down in the hell hole called California.
TX here. But your state is known for cheese. When grilling, I usually take brats over wieners. They just seem to turn out better. Perhaps I need to try the Costco beef hot dogs. I think I need something with some heft. I want to put some char on them without burning them. I’ve only been to Wisconsin once for a few days; deep southern Wisconsin. Nice people.
Two things completely wrong here: North Carolina BBQ is *finely chopped* pork, not pulled pork. The texture is more like tuna salad than it is chunks of meat. Secondly, Nashville Hot Chicken wasn't "accidentally created by a chef who put too much spice in the chicken." It was intentionally created to be overly spicy as a form of revenge by the cook against her womanizing partner.
How about making this States and territories Guam might be the one that has a Filipino classic as its comfort food since Agana Airport is 3hrs from Manila
No, I'm sorry, as an Arkansawyer, biscuit-like dumplings are a red-flag you're a transplant from some other area of the county. We expect our dumplings to be thin and indescribably pillowy. Also...buffalo ribs, cheese dip, muscadine wine, chocolate gravy, and fried pickles. Miss me with the biscuit dumplings.
Ham biscuits are absolutely not a thing in Virginia. Just because Smithfield hams are made in Virginia, it doesn't mean ham is our favorite food. If you blink, you'll miss the ham section in the Richmond metro area stores. I've lived in Virginia for about 30 years, and I've never seen ham biscuits on a restaurant menu.
when i think of washington (being a resident) cherry pie doesnt come to mind when i think of comfort food. maybe because....... i never had it and i dont know many people who have. most of the large citys and populated areas are along the sound. typically think of seafood like salmon or shellfish. heck even apples more than cherries.
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The po-boy sandwich was invented by the Martin brothers, Benny and Clovis, in 1929 to feed striking streetcar drivers in New Orleans, not Mississippi
New Orleans also brought us the muffuletta! I’m in Houston. Soooo much good food in my region and from around the world.
Good story son.
@@kevingray8616good story g.
Mississippi is known for catfish 👌‼️
Came here to say this very thing. They’re called ‘po-boys’ because they were FOR POOR BOYS!!
When I lived in Hawai'i it was the Plate Lunch, a couple scoops of white rice, a scoop of macaroni salad, and the protein, usually a teriyaki chicken or beef or chicken katsu or pork something, or Spam something.
Oh, also, when I lived there, they were served ubiquitously in polystyrene container plates, duh.
When I lived in Hawaii and went to university there, I lived off Zippy’s plate lunch🤙🏼
I live in Maine. I'm always so disappointed when lobster is the answer. I love lobster in all forms. But comfort food? It's expensive. True Mainers do not just settle in for a comfy meal of lobsters. We cam't afford that. Homemade beans and hot dogs, boiled dinners, pot roast and veggies, and corn chowder or meatloaf and mashed potatoes. Now those are meals we find comforting.
Scrapple in Pennsylvania is a good call, but the cheesesteak reigns supreme.
That or the Pittsburgh sandwich, with coleslaw and fries,
Pierogis
@@smoke8326 I love ‘em, but not even close. 😊
@@smoke8326 every now and then you’re just in the mood for a dozen pierogies. They’re so good.
Real video title:
"Foods that tourists claim is each states comfort food"
hahaha, I'm sitting here thinking "cherry pie is our comfort food in Washington? I woulda picked apple if you're gonna say pie." More likely our comfort food is coffee.
IKR, you can't even get buffalo wings outside buffalo how the heck is it for the state? Most consistent option in NY is pizza. WNY, NYC, and CNY all have their own specialty pizza.
Also the lobster roll is popular in Connecticut, where Maine's lobster roll is based on mayonnaise, ours is just based on melted butter..
I had it with melted butter in Maine; Red’s Eats in fact. I think they have it either way. As a Texan it was a real treat. We do have lobster from time to time. Luckily, we live in Houston, so we at least get as much shrimp as we can handle. I found it odd that in Maine they were selling Gulf shrimp. Evidently they haven’t been allowed to fish for shrimp up there; but this was some years ago. Of the places my wife and I have been, we really want to go back to Portland, ME and the surrounding area. Wonderful break from the Houston heat in the summer. So much to see and eat.
And thank God it is! Our hot, buttery lobster roll is the only way to go!
Depends on where you get it. I’d say it’s about 50/50. I’m from Maine and I personally won’t order a lobster roll unless it comes with butter and not mayonnaise.
Mayonnaise is disgusting!
@@kevingray8616 Red's Eats has great lobster rolls, but unfortunately, they are served cold, while the Connecticut lobster roll, which is the original lobster roll, is served hot.
Fry Bread Tacos where in invented by Native American on reservations. They weren't alllowed to have there traditional foods and had rations of flour.
It's their chili,usually from Hatch,N.M!Their state question is"red or green",they love their chili on everything!
Lots of great dishes, as a Native New Mexican Chile is king here. State question? Red or Green? State cookie? Biscochito. When I think of comfort food, thats gonna be a big ol bowl of Beans and Chile not Chili. With a fresh tortilla. That I belongs to Texas and their chili. Best New Mexican Comfort foods Frijoles, Chile con papas, Posole, Tortillas with butter, or Sopapillas with honey. Navajo Tacos... Tamales, so much more. When people ask what kind of food I like, I proudly say New Mexican food. All day!❤
Yes!!! It’s strange that not everyone grows up with fresh beans. Nothing better in the winter!!!
Yes thank you I'm not a native New Mexican but I lived there for a good half of my life and you know green chile stew with a tortilla on the side is definitely a comfort food in Nuevo
So, I am not from the states, but....FryBread Taco for Montana?
Frybread was basically created out of desperation by the Navajo tribes living in Arizona after they were forcefully relocated into the reserves of Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado (and that have basically nothing to do with the tribes living in Montana), and the idea of "taco" is pretty obviously a southerner one, so.....what's the story behind?
Plus I'd expect one of the states that makes the best huckberries in the whole US and is one of the top three cattle-farming states (and one that is very invested in raising bisons) I'd have expected stuff like huckberry jam and pies, steaks and bison steaks, meat pastries....so hearing about frybread taco being a Montana staple feels....weird
My jaw dropped on this one, too. I’m from the northwest corner of NM so grew up with frybread and Navajo tacos. It’s still one of the first things I get when I go home and wish that they sold it at the high school football games where I live now like they do at home. Or sold it anywhere really. 🤤 While it’s not what I would say is THE comfort food for NM (green chile) it is definitely up there if you are from NM and it is not what would have ever come to mind if someone asked me about Montana. There I would say beef. 🤷🏻♀️
Frybread isn't just a Navajo thing
Fry bread is popular with many natives in many states, it might have started with the Navajo but it spread quickly to other tribes across the country. I'm Lakota with family in South Dakota and frybread and the fry bread tacos are very popular there too. Different tribes also have slightly different ways of making it. I'm not sure of the origins of using it for a taco, but I'm assuming it started out with the Navajo too, and they are down south. I'm also assuming that it spread quickly to other tribes just as the fry bread did. There are many powwows across the country that welcome and allow various tribes to participate, so even though each tribe is different, there are many things that become shared with between tribes. Certain tribes might not get along that well, but overall, we still feel connected to each other like family regardless of what tribe you're in.
North Carolinian here. They missed the most important part. We put our BBQ on a bun topped with vinegar sauce and slaw. Its so delicious.
And N.C I believe prefer mustard as opposed to ketchup based BBQ sauce...gotta specify there is a debate there as well lol
@@bekkiwampler9016 South Carolina mostly does the mustard sauce. Im from western North Carolina and ive heard people say that we do a ketchup based vinegar sauce but the ones ive ever had consists of apple cider vinegar water brown sugar lots of black pepper a little salt hot sauce and red pepper flakes. Eastern NC does a brown sugar bbq sauce i believe. Ive never had eastern bbq. But yeah youre right theres definitely a debate about that one.
@@amberjones9520 lol the debate is real in SC as well I lived in SC for 20 years and my parents n grandparents are born n bred there and my grandfather made and sold only ketchup based. My uncle still uses his recipe to this day on his food truck. If u like the mustard that's all u will eat and vice versa. I'm strictly ketchup based myself but mainly because I buy my uncle's/grandfather's brand...😉
@@amberjones9520 SC is all about Shealys BBQ or the other popular one whose name escapes me.... But those were local to my hometown of Lexington
@@bekkiwampler9016 Lexington red slaw is the absolute best !!!! I was raised near Charlotte so we definitely did the Lexington style. My fiancee is from Easley SC (near Rock Hill) but he like my homemade vinegar sauce better than mustard. Ive lived in Florida for 9 years now and still crave real bbq. Down here they claim NC bbq but all they do is put it on a bun with regular red bbq sauce and put white slaw on top. Can u imagine my face when they brought that crap out 😂😂😂 total disappointment lol. And i miss cheerwine and livermush so bad too.
i had a neighbor lady that made candy including buckeyes to sell. omg i loved those as a kid. i was her paper boy and she usually be in garage making rugs on her loom when i showed up with her paper or during summer months at least. she often would have a free candy or sweet treat she made for me to try. she was a better grandma to me than my grandma. i really miss her.
As a native Hawaiian, I am proud that poke is considered a Hawai’i comfort food. But if we’re looking for a dish that nearly everyone loves and indeed finds comfort in, I’d have to give it to Spam musubi.
I know *a lot* of local people, Hawaiians included, who won’t touch poke; but those same people will easily take 2 or 3 Spam musubis.
Dude. Saimin. Maybe moco loco or Spam and eggs over rice. but Poke bowl is not it.
100% Spam Musubi.
I thought for Hawaii it would be loco moco
I looooooove poke bowls with raw salmon... They are so so good.
West Virginia pepperoni rolls were created by Italian immigrants who primarily worked in GLASS FACTORIES, not the coal mines. And yes, they are delicious!!!
As a Chicago native, I can firmly attest to the fact that "Chicago Style" pizza is NOT "The" comfort food for the entire state of Illinois!
NOT even close!
"Chicago Style" pizza isn't even the comfort food of the city of Chicago either.
It's usually reserved for special occassions or for impressing out-of-towners.
The Chicago area would probably have the comfort food of an authentic Chicago style Italian Beef sandwich while Central Ilinois would claim the Horseshoe Sandwich and corn on the cob in early summer when our sweet corn is at its finest, as their comfort food of choice. (There are entire festivals in Northern and Central Illinois entirely themed around sweet corn!)
Southern Illinois is interesting as it really is "Southern" - they love a good Biscuits and Gravy, Fried Chicken and Pineapple shakes!
Hawaii: Poke bowls are popular but a "comfort" food there would be a Spam Sandwich!
I must add to the Chorus of my New Mexico family that Green Chile Cheeseburger is the obvious number 1 comfort food in the history of the land of enchantment, followed closely by Green Chile Stew, Posole and then Allsup's Burritos. And Red or Green the answer is not Christmas, it's green, always green FTW!
Obviously!! That's what we said...green chile cheeseburgers on the grill and some amazing Red/Green Christmas Stew. So far the videos I have seen haven't mentioned green (or red) chile...which is surprising.
My mouth waters in true pavlovian style just THINKING of Hatch chilis.
Yep, Green chile cheeseburgers! And, that green chili they were showing from Colorado is also a New Mexico staple.
I'm from Louisiana, and gumbo (and boiled crawfish) definitely beats jambalaya (at least imo). Chicken and dumplings are also a huge comfort food in La.
My grandma was from southern Louisiana, (first language French) and she always made gumbo, I don’t remember her ever making jambalaya, even though I know it’s very popular. I also think red beans and rice beat jambalaya(although my grandma usually made great northern beans). I’m a Texan raised on the Louisiana border so my opinion probably doesn’t count.
@@michellebrooks4748 Red beans and rice absolutely beats jambalaya.
Right? I barely ate jambalaya because gumbo is king
Officially, there are no beans in the chili con carne of Texas. That being said, I often had it with beans and white rice as a kid. (likely to stretch it) My wife likes Frito pies, so when we make it we do everything. It’s a chili con carne, with red beans and rice, Frito pie combo. Pro tip. Use cubed cheese so the cheese won’t break down into a gooey mess and you can actually taste the cheese.
Yes, they probably didn’t mention that but, sure enough that’s how beans got started being put in chili, as a filler to help stretch the chili farther! However, I am from the South Western region of Ohio and Indiana! And, a Greek dish is chili spaghetti as well as coney dogs, now we don’t do the beans typically on chili cheese coneys but, we do with chili spaghetti, however, the beans don’t typically go in the chili when, served the typical way the Greek do, the red beans or kidney beans are added as optional if you would do a 5 way but, the beans added as part as a added layer! Some people when making it at home my mom would do it this way also. Now, I have a recipe for skyline, the chili and, it calls to add the beans in the chili just like we all do when, we make chili soup!
@@sonyafox3271 I tried Skyline, but it just wasn’t for me. I remember a lady showing off the cans of Skyline chili on the airport shuttle bus when we got back to Houston. That some years ago. I’m sure I have seen Skyline chili at an HEB (best grocery store ever!), but that was a few years ago. I guess if you grew up on it it’s great. To me, it was just weird. It didn’t taste bad mind you, just weird. To that end, there is a Greek guy here in Katy (near Houston) who has a great restaurant that I go to occasionally. He’s from Detroit apparently. His Detroit dog is just too damn sweet. (might’ve had beans in the chili too) Is chili sweet up there or something? YUCK! Chili should taste like chili peppers, not sugar; there I said it.
I’m a Texan and I’ve genuinely never heard of chili con carne, nor have I ever heard anyone say it’s their comfort food.
Maybe its a different part of the state from me?
Edit: My family made something similar a few times. Still wouldn’t say it’s a comfort food though. I’d go with BBQ for Texas
@@fluffycloud9 To be honest, I haven't seen "chili con carne" used in decades. I seem to remember it being on menus that way.
Frito pie is a New Mexico staple, first made in Santa Fe.
Po-boys -- *Mississippi*?!? That's from Louisiana, not MS. The story sounds about right, though, aside from that. Sure, they're popular here, but po-boys are a New Orleans invention, much like Muffulettas. I'd also say that Louisiana is known more for gumbo than for jambalaya -- they're both ultimately African in origin, and both amazing, though ^_^
And I eat it with or without tomatoes lol. Actually New Orleans is more Creole cooking then Cajun cooking. We were lucky to grow up with some fantastic dishes! My mom was raised in the 9th ward way back. My in laws were married by Judge Seeber on Christmas day. I do know New Orleans food.
@@Retired683 Dad was raised there, too (tho you wouldn't have known it from the way he spoke).
Street tacos were my go to growing up in California.
You definitely got New Mexico wrong. I've lived here for 50 years and never heard of albondigas soup. Green chile (with an 'e', not an 'i') is definitely the comfort food of choice.
Or posole. This was way off.
For real. And green Chile for Colorado? GTF outta here.
When it comes to Hawaiian meals, Idk if poke bowls are my idea of comfort food. Sure they’re refreshing, but Loco mocco, fried saimen, or Kalua pork would be my go to comfort foods.. just sayin and that’s just meals, we talking snacks, Manapua is my all time comfort snack
As point of fact, Michigan is the pie cherry capital of the world, Traverse City holds the National Cherry Festival & the Cherry Pit Spit, there is even a Cherry queen
Nashville Hot Chicken was not an accident, it was an act of revenge on a player boyfriend who had stayed out one to many times, and the girlfriend did the hot chicken
Funeral potatoes are also popular in the south, or in any Methodist congregation. It's a casserole after all
Do Michiganders even eat coney dogs outside of metro Detroit? Thought it was a Detroit thing.
Yes we do. I live in Kalamazoo, and we have a Coney Island place.
Yeah, I live in Washington State and they gave us cherry pie and I was like whaaaat? That is definitely not us. We love our cherries here but we don't eat cherry pie as our comfort food.
Poke? A comfort food? First of all, I would never get poke from a gas station. Convenience store, maybe, depending on the store. Foodland (grocery store) has long been known for having good affordable poke. Secondly, poke is not really a comfort food. Loco moco, saimin, oxtail soup, Portuguese bean soup, Zippy's chili, those are popular comfort foods in Hawaii.
I was just going to comment the same thing for Hawaiʻi. Poke bowls are a new trendy dish in other states, and REAL poke was never eaten with beans, lettuce, tomatoes, and other salad toppings as shown - even though the narrator talked about traditional poke, which is a popular dish without the rice, but I wouldnʻt call it a comfort food. I would definitely say saimin is a comfort food that appeals to locals across the generations. The other things you mentioned are also good examples.
Brisket is clearly the staple food of Texas…nobody thinks of Chile Con Carne here in Texas when they think of comfort food or any signature dish of that matter.
Yep. Lived in San Antonio for 12 years and miss good Texas brisket from Hill Country or Bill Millers. I'm in Illinois now but I order brisket from Texas every Christmas,
shes talking about chili which is absolutely a staple here too. Im pretty sure she got them confused
Frito pie is nice when you're a kid. Also, they put beans in the chili. Definitely didn't talk to Texans when they made this.
Hoosier here. And we do love our breaded tenderloin!
Lacks accuracy; may I suggest people invest in a copy of "Cook's Country Eats Local: 150 Regional Recipes You Should Be Making No Matter Where You Live". Its a real gem.
Green chile (that is with an e not an i) is very much NM not CO. In fact, NMSU has done more research and created more varieties than anywhere else in the world.
Probably a better comfort food would have been green chile stew.
Colorado is famous for rocky mountain oysters and mutton.
Ha,yess rocky mountains!
N M also is famous for frito pies,green chili with their cheeseburgers & biscochitos!
@@margaritamaldonado9677 agreed I could go for a Blake's right now. I mean you could include sopapilla compuesta on your list if you are form Southern NM. But they wanted comfort food.
Blake's Lotta Burger! I used to live up in Abiquiu,we'd go into the town of Espanola,they used to have 2 Blake's Lotta Burgers.I lived the one on the main st.their burgers tasted so good! Theyve since tore it down,but they have another one on the other side.
I was living in northern New Mexico,22 miles from the town of Espanola.I lived in "Georgia O'Keeffe country", Abiquiu.😁
Of course most Chicagoans don't eat much deep dish pizza, but it is the home of it. Most Chicagoans prefer ultra-thin crust tavern-style pizza - a fact that certain marketing myth-makers tend to ignore.
Chimichangas in Arizona are a restaurant favorite, but they are not often made at home since most people don't have deep fryers.. Because they are usually SOOO big and you can't stop eating it, you'll find yourself about ready to explode about half an hour later - and you'll need to take a nap.
While Jucy Lucy is a local favorite, it's not a "comfort food". Minnesota should have been tater tot hot dish.
Pennsylvania should have been the Philly Cheesesteak.
AMEN! I ate Scrapple as a kid in the 60's (and liked it!), until I found out what it was made of. Not comforting at all!
Colorado's comfort food is Chile? My ass
New Mexico uses Chile far more often. I've never even heard of Albondigas being sold anywhere. Heck Green Chile stew would've been a far better choice
Chicago style pizza may be the pizza of choice above I-80 but not the vast portion of Illinois below there. Most pizzas in central and southern Illinois are New York style, thick crust, tomato sauce, cheese and toppings. Or St. Louis style- thin cracker crust, tomato sauce, cheese and loaded with toppings. The food that has been uniquely adopted by Illinois in the last 40 years or so is the Horse Shoe Sandwich made of your choice of meat on open faced bread covered with french fries and cheese sauce Or the Pony Shoe a smaller version of the Horse. Not my choice, but very popular here in the Land of Lincoln. A close second is riverrfish--catfish, buffalo, carp, crappie served in restaurants and diners all over the state, especially in towns near the Mississippi, Ohio and Wabash rivers and also before or during Friday night high school football games, Fridays during Lent, or in summer homecomings and fairs by churches, volunteer fire departments, fraternal and veterans organizations, and other charitable organizations as fund raisers. Except in the dead of winter, you will seldom have a Friday where there are no fishfries within 50 miles of where you are located.
i though it was the tavern style pizza tho
@@dimensionalmagic Well taven style is like New York
I feel like Missouri got shafted. Maybe it’s being on the KC side, but the whole state loves ribs. St. Louis spare ribs?
I live closer to KC and I agree. I've never even heard of toasted ravioli.
Toasted Ravioli was a reach I've lived and Kansas City, MO all my life (37 years) and been to St. Louis too many times to count. I've never even seen Toasted Ravioli on a menu. BBQ is king.
I’m in St Louis, but honestly I have to agree. Toasted Ravs are a St Louis thing, but ribs are definitely a Missouri thing.
Tbf, Kansas kinda got shafted too by featuring KC burnt ends. KC is mostly on the MO side of the state line.
As a Chicagoan I couldn’t disagree more. Deep dish is most definitely NOT the go to
What is
@@Roberto-tt7yv I’d say thin crust square cut would be the go to.
Hot Dogs
@@breadfan9 maybe for some but I really don’t like them.
16:01 Nope. There was a survey of Pennsylvanians and the number one comfort food is the Philly Cheesesteak.
People in the northwest, northeast and southwest parts of PA don’t typically eat scrapple much, if at all. It’s a big state and a lot of ppl don’t even know what scrapple is, but everyone knows Philly Cheesesteaks. Everyone has eaten a Philly cheesesteak and they are not only our most famous food, but our favorite, PA comfort food - statewide.
Kansas City is in Missouri. I lived in Kansas for 60 years and I never heard of a burnt end. However, I live in Nebraska now & I had a runza for supper from the Runza restaurant my daughter works in.
I think it's hard to say a food is a staple in the entire state for any of these, when I first saw Key Lime Pie for Florida I was like "ha, so true" but then remembered when I was in central or north florida you rarely met people who have even tried it let alone it being a comfort food. I currently live in Houston and no one ever mentions Chili con Carne, it's usually crawfish everyone's obsessed with, tho it ranges of course.
yep looks like they are going by just a few places in each state. born and raised in alabama and never heard of fried green tomatoes there.
@@rebeccalynn7795 I'm currently in Texas and they seem to be very popular in a lot of restaurants out here, go figure!
I live in Florida. And have not met a single person who likes Key Lime Pie. Gonna have to say these people didn't do much research.
I was gonna fuss about ham biscuits for Virginia, but then I remembered that every neighborhood or family gathering usually features at least 3 different trays of ham biscuits. Then again, I'm from the southernmost part of the state, near the NC line, where we still consider ourselves southerners. NOVA people might have different ideas (and those don't count).
Oregonian here and I’ve never had dungeonous crab. Yes it exists, but I don’t think of it as a common Oregonian comfort food. I’d probably nominate something like blackberry cobbler for that honor.
I love fried green tomatoes
The baby eating corn put a smile on my face. So Iowa.
Wyoming's bison burger is "leaner, greasier...". If that's not a paradox, then please define lean and grease.
Fried green tomatoes for Alabama is spot-on. When I moved here years ago, I thought those tomatoes were going to be as disgusting as I had been told grits were. I was wrong on both counts, and happily so. I haven't gotten to the Maryland segment of your video yet, but if crab cakes (preferably with Old Bay!) aren't the answer, someone was seriously confused! Maybe they were addled by the sight of the glorious trainwreck that is the Calvert & Crossland flag. (Also. Delmarva slippery dumplings are fantastic. But so are the biscuit sort more prevalent in the Deep South!)
ed: All of my applause! You hit Maryland perfectly. If you go to a public function anywhere around the Bay (including Delaware and that one bit of Virginia at the south end of Delmarva) you're very likely to find crab(cake)-burgers on offer. Great stuff if you don't mind fishing out the occasional bit of shell, because one can _never_ seem to pick Jimmies perfectly clean. Or, at least I can't!
The movie takes place there too!
As a retired horticulturist (40+) years… the ONLY reason I ever grew tomatoes in my own garden at home was to be able to make myself a huge plate of Fried Green Tomatoes! I absolutely adore them! Being a GA native living in Tx now, my other craves are chicken & dumplings and fried okra/ yellow squash!
Edit: 1 cup milk mixed with 1 or 2 eggs (blended) and dredged into cornmeal to which 1 tblsp sugar to 1 cup is added! Fry till golden each side !
Yep…I lived on the eastern shore for 12 years …Delmarva peninsula… and the McDonald’s in Pocomoke City even has a soft-shelled crab sandwich on their seasonal menu and the Hardee’s does a seasonal crab-cake sandwich.
@@kimberlypatton205though I was born and (mostly) raised in Pennsylvania, fried green tomatoes and ripe tomato sandwiches were always a staple of our summer meals.
We eat the fried green tomatoes either as a side with other summer foods… like burgers, bbq chicken, picnic type foods, etc… We also eat fried green tomatoes as a sandwich on toasted bread with an aïoli or flavored mayonnaise of your choice, salt & pepper.
Red/ripe tomatoes we like on bread or toast, usually with salad dressing/Miracle Whip rather than mayo and some salt & pepper. Simple, but delicious. And only locally grown tomatoes are used, as grocery store tomatoes have zero flavor. 🤢 Besides you can’t find green tomatoes in the stores around here, you have to grow them or get them from a local, roadside, produce stand. ✌🏻😊🥰
You snubbed the U.P. of Michigan. Yes ! They are very proud of themselves. You will find the Michigan style of pasty, at the top of the comfort food tree. They different from Cornish pasty in texture and taste. Michigan style uses ground meat, which makes a vast difference in texture and taste. As steak and hamburger are different so is the Michigan pasty. By the way I love them both.
Because they know that the UP rightfully belongs to Wisconsin.
As a New Yorker I’m proud to know that my home state essentially created the greatest game day food known to man, and I can always go down to Brooklyn from my home borough of Queens and get a dog from Nathan’s whenever I want lol but props to Michigan , however I also gotta give it to Detroit because I love Detroit style pizza real recognizing REAL. That Juicy Lucy look CRAZY though , I want it !
Nathan's is the ONLY hot dog allowed in my home!
I'm from Chicago and while the deep dish is the most popular dish we have, the city's real comfort food is the Chicago dog.
HMM!!! I know things change, times change, etc. Again - born and raised in Seattle, WA - cherry pie has never been a comfort food, Apple Pie and seafood have always been comfort foods in Washington State! Apple trees all over!
What is this cherry pie nonsense? Where's the dang teriyaki?
@@LukeWalker206 YEAH!
Right?! I said teriyaki and pho. Now thooooose are comfort foods. If we ate any kind of pie it's apple or blackberry/marionberry.
I never see cherry pie anywhere. I know we grow a lot of cherries but, apple pie makes more sense than cherry.
Also as a native of the PNW, I would never associate Washington state with cherry pie. Yeah sure we had it sometimes, made from canned pie cherries, but it's not a signature dish. If you grew up around Puget Sound it might be a bowl of steamers (clams in the shell) with melted seasoned butter. Of course a Dick's Deluxe always hit's a nostalgic spot but it's just a burger.
In CALIFORNIA our favorite comfort food is IN-N-OUT BURGER. Every region of California can all agree on one thing together hands down.
Fans probably go three times a week on average. I personally have completed a 30 day challenge. (it was not difficult ; ) Daily IN-N-OUT drive-through lines are absurdly long.
Very few CA restaurants even offer fish tacos, let alone good ones. Best examples are mostly found at random specialty taco restaurants, or more of a San Diego delicacy.
You use Rachel Ray's cooking as an example of a dish... please help us all...
Before I even watched this video, I guessed that the #1 classic comfort food in Massachusetts would be clam chowda... And I was RIGHT!!!!! 😛😛😛
Nice to see Idaho finger steaks being mentioned. I will say one ingredient was wrong. No ketchup, no cocktail sauce. They are only allowed to have fry sauce which Idaho created despite what Utah thinks.
I've lived in Oklahoma for Three years and I have never seen anyone order chicken fried steak. T bones and Mexican food for sure.
Pork tenderloin is also big in Iowa. (Along with that sweet corn of course.). 😊.
Navajo tacos are AZ's comfort food not chimichangs lol
How did they EVEN screw that up? 😮
Wrong New Mexico is Og for Green Chile , if you know, you know. Even Nasa picked New Mexico Green Chile so that's that Mashed
iowa was pork tenderloin sandwich for me growing up there
IMO, Champlain Orchards in Shoreham, VT has THE best cider doughnuts I've ever has the pleasure of chowing down! Perfectly coated with cinnamon sugar but not cloyingly sweet. Worth the drive from any where!
Vinny Gambini : [Vinny and Lisa receive their breakfast orders, Vinny looks at his skeptically] "What's this over here?"
Grits Cook : "You never heard of grits?"
Vinny Gambini : "Sure, I've heard of grits. I just never actually SEEN a grit before." 👀
-My Cousin Vinny 😂
As a born and raised Kansan that also grew up and have lived most of my life in the Kansas City area(on both sides of stateline- Kansas and Missouri), I definitely won’t deny burnt ends being one of my most favorite foods(or just bbq in general lol). BUT I must point out, to give credit where credit is due, that burnt ends being enjoyed as an actual dish, instead of continuing to be considered scraps of meat, is recognized as being started by Arthur Bryant’s Barbecue in Kansas City, Missouri many decades ago after they used to leave them on a dish for customers to help themselves to for free as a little treat and realized how popular they were. Burnt ends aren’t a Kansas or Missouri thing, they’re a Kansas City thing 😊
Did Louisiana dirty…Gumbo or Boudin would have to be the top! There really are so many Cajun meals that hit home tho…
Deep dish is for tourist. Italian beefs are the comfort of Chicago
That Chili Con Carne would get you kicked out of Texas. Beans do not go in it. Period. Meat and sauce.
I second that!
@@richardarriaga6271 WRONG.
@@sithyarael6807 Why are you trolling me when I agreed with you?
It gets beans
@@seanforbes1034 Not south of the Red River
Where did you get the footage of Texas Chili? Chili con carne is just meat, maybe peppers and onions. And beef chunks, not ground. NO beans, corn or other stuff. That is the official version. I know loads of people that put beans and other veg in it to stretch out the pricey beef.
Definitely seen ground beef, but NEVER beans
Finger steaks? Shit, my grandma called it steak in the rough because it was the cheapest cut of meat. cut it into strips to feed a bunch of kids.
So this list seems remarkably messed up. I mean some of the states are possibly accurate or at least passable if you call it an iconic tourist food instead, but others are just completely and utterly wrong for comfort foods. NM is so wrong that it’s laughable! Hatch green chilies are actually grown and roasted here and are put on everything! I’ve never even had the soup they mentioned after years here. Also several generations of my family have lived in MO and fried ravioli just isn’t it. Comfort foods are biscuits and sausage gravy or chicken and dumplings (pillowy dumplings, not biscuity). But I grew up in ME and although I love a good lobster roll and we are quite purist about our seafood, it was always a treat rather than a go-to comfort food.
What is this misconception of “Hot Brown” and Kentucky? 3/4 of the population hardly ever eat a Hot Brown. There are way more and/or better options than that here.
Toasted rags is a S.t Louis MO thing. Started in the neighborhood known as The Hill.
I'm from PA and scrapple is amazing. I used to help my dad make it when I was a kid. It's just scraps organs and cheek meat. When ppl say everything from eyes and stuff are crazy. That's not in there
Pennsylvanian here: 😣 Don't listen to her folks. Scrapple? SCRAPPLE! The comfort food of the Keystone State is a Philly Cheesesteak sandwich on a hoagie roll. Thinly sliced and diced steak with American cheese or Cheez Whiz, onions, peppers, bacon, mayo, tomato sauce or any combination therein. I prefer American cheese, onions & mushrooms.
THAT is what Pennsylvanians go for.
Cherry pie as Washington's comfort food? Since when? Having lived in Washington state, I can say Cherry pie is good, but it's really not glamorized or anything special over here. If any pie was gonna be associated with the state, I would have chosen apple. Salmon and seafood are also good choices.
RIGHT?! I was like maybe apple or blackberry pie, but I wouldn't say any pie is our comfort food. I feel like it's teriyaki or pho. Like....cherry pie?
i have never had a cherry pie in my life. lol. when i think of washington i think of like.... seafood like salmon or just any shellfish as far as "uniquely washington". like out of all the places ive been on alki i always have good memorys of The Spud. or going to a seahawks game and getting an Ivars breadbowl. or... heck seeing the people are the market throw fish.
even then. its not my own personal comfort food.
I’m in WA and my comfort food is Thai yellow curry or pizza. I can’t even remember the last time I had cherry pie but I do make apple pie on rare occasions
@@mamadoom9724 i think my comfort food in general is mexican cuisine. but yeah. im just thinking like.... a unique dish to washington. cherry pie doesnt come to mind. i say that as i munched down on some rainier cherries earlier lol. not in pie form.
@@MrEd8846 I’ve got big cherry trees growing on the property my husband and I recently bought and they look like rainier cherries 😋
Minnesota isn’t a juicy lucy its tatertot hotdish.
AZ here. Carne Asada fries would be ours, thank you.
TX here. Nodding approvingly. How about some chili cheese fries?
NM here. Green chile and cheese on the fries!!! Mmmm.
While Buffalo wings are very popular across the state especially where they originated in western New York. It doesn’t hold a candle to the real champ, Pizza.
I think of hot dogs and pizza. Never saw so many Sabrett stands in my life over in NYC.
As a Coloradan, I said to myself: It's going to be either burgers with super-fresh local beef, or chile verde. Kudos for getting it on the chile verde!!!
I think it's more of a reagioinal thing. Green chile definetly a thing in southern Colorado, not so much in northern Colorado.
I'm in Aurora. I will finish off the last of the green chili I made yesterday. It always tastes better the next day.
Albondigas is not the comfort food of New Mexico!
This actually pissed me off as a New Mexican seeing that they gave this dish as our staple, our dish? And they have the nerve to say that green chile is a Colorado thing! As a lifelong New Mexican, I have never even heard of that yucky looking meatball soup. Where the hell did they get this from?
New Jersey also know for salt water taffys
I have to go with the Wiener Schnitzel as my favorite. Either Austrian or German, both are great. Shalom
CT here. Born and raised in this wonderful state. I’ve never ever had a steamed burger! They really only exist in maybe one or two towns from years ago. Update please. We have a a lot of great pizzas throughout the state!
They're more of an Albany dish.
Ted's in Meriden, the inventor of the steamed cheeseburger, still serves them. They're very good in their own way.
Albondigas is something I've never heard of. Ever. And that's from someone who's indigenous to the area on one side and really old hispanic settler blood on the other. I'm guessing no one bothered to actually visit the state or talk with someone actually from NM.
You've never heard of albondigas soup? Wow. I agree, not a classic comfort food but it's really common in Mexican restaurants in the southwest.
@cindymichel4870 A lot of New Mexico doesn't identify as Mexican. At least, not the families who have been here for at least 10 generations. And not the small-time local shops that sell New Mexico style meals which are different from how Mexican style meals are prepared.
I was born and raised in NM with family that has been there before it was a state and I had never heard of albondigas. I’m sure I’ve seen it on menus but probably skipped over it for the green chile. Haha.
Albondigas are real, but I've never seen them in soup.
I would have gone with tater tot hotdish for Minnesota!
That's because you have a functioning brain. Jucy Lucy (not JUICY Lucy) is available at Matt's Bar, but otherwise is not considered a Minnesota comfort food.
I've only heard of a Juicy Lucy in these videos, never in the rural parts of Minnesota. That state does love a nice tater tot hot dish though.
Okay...as a Gringon married to a Latina native, and have lived in New Mexico for close to 30 years, I am not sure what the hell these folks are talking about.
Alaskan King Crab is an expensive delicacy here, not a comfort food. Better representatives of accessible Alaskan comfort food would be smoked salmon, fried halibut, and any dessert made with our popular local wild-grown berries like blueberries, raspberries, currrants, and lingonberries!
You never put beans in TEXAS chili. Never, never,never.
Yep, yep, yep!
WHAT?!? 🫨 Green chile (chile is the vegetable, chili is a meat stew - not the same) for Colorado and not New Mexico?!? I take issue with that. Born and raised in NM and I have never had or heard of albondigas soup. I’m sure it’s amazing, but NM is known and famous for its green chile - even more so than Colorado and I have lived in CO for almost as long as I did growing up in NM. I still go to NM in the fall to get enough fresh roasted chile to last the year. New Mexicans eat green chile in everything! Soups, pie, breads, eggs, salsas, burritos, gravy, hamburgers. IT is the comfort food of NM. I would have placed posole over albondigas but neither is the top comfort food of NM - green chile holds that particular honor.
While CO is gaining more fame for its chile, and Coloradans are willing to go to the mat to fight for their chile, NM simply cannot be beat. For me, CO is more known for beef than anything. Or maybe the Denver omelette.
Minnesota should have been tater-tot-hotdish
I can get behind the assessment for Ohio, buckeyes are delicious. A step above that my mom makes are buckeye brownies, basically combine the peanut butter and chocolate and layer it with brownie mix!
I was going to be irate if this video said Cincinnati chili is the Ohio staple food, it is absolutely not, especially not as far as the entire state is concerned. I can eat it, but I definitely wouldn’t go out of my way for it (and I am even from Cincinnati).
As a born and raised Washingtonian if it’s going to be pie it’s strawberry rhubarb all day…i don’t even know of any places that tout cherry pie…WA is salmon, apples and rhubarb…seeing comments from others I wonder if Mashed did any research for this video
I live away from the coast in Oregon and not a single local restaurant has ever had crab anything on the menu, plus when you go east from the Cascade Mtn Range alot of people are either farmers/ranchers, or involved with the lumber industry and have probably never eaten crab. Only reason I have is I grew up literally 5 miles from the ocean down in the hell hole called California.
You couldn’t be more incorrect in naming states comfort foods about 50% is incorrect. Especially Ohio.
I’m in Wisconsin and cheese curds is not my comfort food although I like them. I would think brats over cheese curds
TX here. But your state is known for cheese. When grilling, I usually take brats over wieners. They just seem to turn out better. Perhaps I need to try the Costco beef hot dogs. I think I need something with some heft. I want to put some char on them without burning them. I’ve only been to Wisconsin once for a few days; deep southern Wisconsin. Nice people.
@@kevingray8616 yes we’re known for cheese, but brats are more popular here. I recommend those beef hotdogs. They’re pretty good
Two things completely wrong here: North Carolina BBQ is *finely chopped* pork, not pulled pork. The texture is more like tuna salad than it is chunks of meat. Secondly, Nashville Hot Chicken wasn't "accidentally created by a chef who put too much spice in the chicken." It was intentionally created to be overly spicy as a form of revenge by the cook against her womanizing partner.
How about making this States and territories Guam might be the one that has a Filipino classic as its comfort food since Agana Airport is 3hrs from Manila
Wild Rice Soup is probably more popular in Minnesota.
Or tater-tot-hotdish
No, I'm sorry, as an Arkansawyer, biscuit-like dumplings are a red-flag you're a transplant from some other area of the county. We expect our dumplings to be thin and indescribably pillowy. Also...buffalo ribs, cheese dip, muscadine wine, chocolate gravy, and fried pickles. Miss me with the biscuit dumplings.
Ham biscuits are absolutely not a thing in Virginia. Just because Smithfield hams are made in Virginia, it doesn't mean ham is our favorite food. If you blink, you'll miss the ham section in the Richmond metro area stores. I've lived in Virginia for about 30 years, and I've never seen ham biscuits on a restaurant menu.
You made a steamed burgers mention without THAT Simpsons clip?
I thought it was more of an Albany expression. But there is SO MUCH they got wrong. Louisiana and Texas, for one.
when i think of washington (being a resident) cherry pie doesnt come to mind when i think of comfort food. maybe because....... i never had it and i dont know many people who have. most of the large citys and populated areas are along the sound. typically think of seafood like salmon or shellfish. heck even apples more than cherries.
scrapple is only eaten around the eastern part of PA. No where else in the state. Around Pittsburgh it would be piroggis. Or maybe kielbasa or both.
Then there's the Pittsburgh salad that literally has everything on it and Primanti's sandwich which is an entire meal in on a
Hogie roll