Great American regional specialties

i was thinking about the great regional food specialties of america, and a lot of sandwiches came to mind (philly cheesesteak, new orleans muffuletta, memphis pulled pork bbq, maine lobster rolls, etc.).

i'd love to compile a list of all the "don't miss" local specialties across the country, sandwiches and otherwise, so what would all you chowhounds include???

a few others i've thought of . . .
Baltimore crabs
Florida stone crabs
Texas bbq brisket
New Orleans gumbo, jambalaya, po boys
Louisianna boudin
Kentucky fried chicken (oops!)

[thinks too much]

Utah: Navaho tacos
New Mexico: Sopapillas
Connecticut/Rhode Island: Whole Bellied Clams
Hot dogs: everywhere and everyone has their own specific arrangement, making them both universal and regional. Greek dogs, gaggers, red hots, white hots, etc.
New York: Pretzels
New Orleans: beignets and chicory coffee
Smokies: ramps
Northeast and Northwest: Morels
Hawaii: Shave Ice

[Fuser]

I'm glad someone mentioned New Jersey's hoagies. The grinders in Boston are also worthy of note.
Some of my favorite regional foods are
Wise potato chips, east coast
Waffle House, south, east.
I love the fried clams in Massachusetts. I'll never forget the clams sold at Wood's Hole. They became such a part of the summer fun on Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.
Pine Club steaks in Dayton, Ohio, are still worth a visit.
What about true deli food in NYC? Real New York pastrami, chopped liver, etc., oy vay!

[grocerytrekker]

Maid-rite sandwich in the Midwest (originated in Iowa)

[Pollo]

I had some deep fried "pickled" (acidified...jar packed) green pepers in Kentucky (Winchester) that were suposed to have been a local "specialty"....actually very tasty.....

[EJC]

Representing the great state of Alabama, a few more that I didn't see listed:

- White BBQ Sauce (Mrs. Myra's, Bob Gibson's)
- Brown-sauced B'ham hot dogs (Pete's Famous, Sam's Super Sandwiches, Sneaky Petes) w/ Grapico
- Dale's Seasoning
- Fried Green Tomatoes (Irondale Cafe)

[Brian S]

There are so many, and most are unknown outside the little region where they are served, and I think they are fast disappearing. The Eastern shore of Maryland had many seafood-oriented recipes and also their own breed of corn. http://www.e-cookbooks.net/articles/s... But I don't know if you can find it now.

A few from Oklahoma (and surrounding area

)

Chicken-fried steak (with a gravy, a lot like jagerschnitzel), Frito pie, 3 way chili on spaghetti. Many of the Amish and Mennonite families in the area make complex, wonderful food, elaborate pies and cakes, even spaghetti sauce made by each family from their garden tomatoes, then sealed in jars for the winter.

[kenw]

i'm looking for someplace in orlando, fl. area where i can get a pork tenderloin sandwich.
this is one food that i've really missed from when i used to live in dixon,il. i haven't had
one since(over 35 years ago) & i'm really getting hungry. help

New Haven: clam pizzas

There you go....

Now you've done it.....

You just ignited my ultimate hunger pang...

Now it's a hour plus drive to Frank Pepe's....

But well worth the drive.

Thanks

Okay, confession time...never actually *ate* clam pizza, but it must be good. What's on it, exactly, besides clams??

The dressing is very basic:

Fresh shucked clams & Romano cheese on their perfectly
baked coal oven fired thin crust abeetz (that's pizza).

I'm a person who hates to wait on line for just about
anything, but Pepe's is one of the few exceptions and that's after a 70 mile drive.

Just heavenly.

It probably has a bit of olive oil and likely garlic.
The best clam pie I ever had was at a sortof glitzy biggish place down the street from Pepe's on the same side of the street, now closed - it also had a bit of parsley and was served with lemon wedges. Just wonderful

Yes, how could I possibly forget two of my Sicilian staples of life.

Chicken Kelaguen from Guam! Chopped barbecued chicken, freshly grated coconut, hot peppers, lemon juice and salt. Eat on tortillas. Hafa Adai!

Ok, thought of a few more that should have been obvious

Philly--did anyone say scrapple? Love that stuff. And snapper turtle soup, Headhouse squares, and of course big soft pretzles.

Jersey--Italian hoagies, Italian ice, Italian hotdogs, sweet corn, Delorenzos tomato pies.

New Haven--Pepe's pizza, Willoughby's coffee, and Elm City Ale

I haven't read absolutely all the responses, but I haven't seen anyone mention any of the great Pittsburgh specialties - chipped ham and chipped ham sandwiches, lemon blend, Primanti's sandwiches (with the fries on), pierogis and drive through pierogi places, and Klondikes (now available nationally).

there must be some others that I am forgetting...

The NJ pork roll is one of my all time favorite regional foods, seeing all the mentions has made me want a sandwich.

Miriam

You can't attend one of the many town/county/state fairs in Maine and not have at least one doughboy -- a misshapen oval of fried dough hot from the fryolator, covered with powdered sugar (which I think are pretty close to what New Yorkers know as zeppoles).

a big thumbs up for dough boys. Used to eat them at the Cumberland Fair myself (as well as the Yarmouth Clam Festival). My mom even figured out how to make them at home. Also right up there is funnel cake, but I guess that's a bit more widespread.

Didn't Funnel Cakes start out as a regional treat in Pennsylvania Dutch country?

We call them "elephant ears," and they are a fixture at any fair in SC.

That's interesting, because elephant ears are what we (back home in Rhode Island) called palmiers.

Recently, and I can't remember where (but it might have been down in Florida), I saw palmiers being sold as "angels' wings."

You've started a fun thread, Brad!

Regional sandwiches:
Philadelphia area: "Corned Beef Special"
Kentucky: the "Hot Brown," a turkey and bacon and rich cheese sauce that apparently began at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, but has many imitators and variations at this point.

Southern Maryland stuffed ham -- country ham stuffed with chopped kale.

New Orleans--Zapp's potato chips, in various flavors

Jersey Shore--Kohr's frozen custard. The orange & vanilla twist is the most wonderful Creamsicle ever. Has anyone seen their stands anywhere other than on the boardwalks?

NY City: Manhattan Special coffee soda
Texas (and maybe all over the South): Coke and peanuts
Maine: small blueberries
NJ: big blueberries
Oregon: razor clams, salmon jerky, espresso at gas stations
Seattle: Starbucks ;-))
Southern US: Iced tea with simple syrup

And - is the "sausage and pepper" (said w/NY accent) sandwich (Italian sweet sausage, fried onions and green peppers on crusty Italian bread) just a NY tristate thing?

While on the subject of jerky, I seem to recall that all over the Pacific NW, beef jerky of many types is everywhere, sold in dark leathery strips from big jars at gas stations and convenience stores, etc.

I am a New York transplant to Florida, many years ago. I had my first sausage-pepper-etc. sandwich at a county fair in Florida, and I have loved them ever since. A lot of Floridians are big on the sausage BBQ, so I don't think New York has a corner on it. And my stomach is so glad!

breakfast in North Georgia....
pork brains & scrambled eggs, country ham w/ red eye gravy, cat head biscuits, rat trap cheese, saw mill gravy, chicory coffee or egg shell coffee.
snack while fishing....
Vienna sausages, Vidalia onion (in season), sardines, rat trap cheese, & soda crackers
& for dinner.....
"whistlin' pig" in gravy w/ fried sweet potatoes, collard greens & cracklin' cornbread
late night snack....
cornbread & clabber or buttermilk (& you can start a serious argument as to whether you dunk the cornbread in the buttermilk or pour the buttermilk on the cornbread)

Kentucky burgoo
lamb fries in middle Kentucky
Brunswick stew in Georgia & Virginia
Country Captain in coastal Georgia
Pimento cheese burgers in Cola
Tamales in north Mississippi
Slug Burgers in Corinth, MS
pan fried okra all across the South
muscadine & scuppernong preserves, jams, & wine in north Georgia
this makes me hungry & I just finished dinner!

Rockville, SC, lunch at the sailboat races in the 1950's: cans of sardines, soda crackers, and RC Cola.

Red beans and rice in S. Louisiana-I grew up eating it every Monday. One of many things I miss in Austin.

Tamales on Christmas Eve in Texas

BBQ and a big red soda in San Antonio

Wisconsin has the following offerings:

Frozen custard (with the best being Kopp's in Milwaukee, although that might start a fight)

Friday night fish fry (statewide offering, although most popular in Milwaukee)

Bratwurst (Usingers and Johnsonville) and fresh braunschweiger

Door County fish boil (sort of a Scandanavian version of a Louisiana crawfish boil)

And in Monroe, WI lurks the last dairy in the US making fresh Limburger!

Somehow "fresh" and "limburger" don't seem to go together....

For the Northwest, I'd have to add oysters on the half shell (especially kumamotos--yum), hard smoked salmon, dungeoness crabs, and morels.

To the Jersey ones below (pork roll, clams on the half shell), I'll also add Italian hoagies, tomato sandwiches in summer, pencil points, and Loeffler's hotdogs.

another NJ treat is Sloppy Joe sandwiches. Packed high with coleslaw-yum
Don't confusewith the other type sloppy joe with ground meat & tom sauce

Although someone surprisingly mentioned the Buffalo Beef on 'Weck and a Loganberry, they left out the perennial favourite - Wings!

I'm also surprised no one mentioned fried crab claws out of Mobile, Alabama - they're the Chicken Wings of the Gulf Coast.

In Washington State, razor clams are soul food. You have to dig them yourself, usually in the early morning, usually in veeerrry cold water, but they're worth it. About three of 'em makes a serving.

Link: http://www.razorclams.com

Image: http://www.razorclams.com/razclam.jpg

It's not American, but it's close...poutine in Quebec. You can even get it at Expos games. (with a Labatt's)

Along with that shouldn't you include smoked meat?

NY -- egg creams, fresh pastrami and corned beef sandwich.

Maine -- "Italian" sandwich.

LA -- boiled crawfish.

what a Maine italian sandwich and where do you get them?

well, since you asked, "Italians" are sold in many delis in Portland and all over at least southern Maine (I haven't been 'up the county' myself yet). They normally consist of a rather doughy longish bun, similar to the ubiquitous "hero" role in NYC delis but straighter and with less of a crust, sliced down the middle, with strips of ham, american cheese on either side, and on top pickles, green pepper, tomato and black olives. "Salt, pepper and oil with that?" Many variations: turkey Italian, bacon Italian, tuna Italian, veggie Italian (more peppers), whatever else you want to think up. Lunch food, basically....

Toasted Ravioli--St. Louis
Cuban Sandwiches--Tampa and Miami, FL
Half smokes--DC

Boiled peanuts--GA, FL
Smoked Kingfish, smoked fish dip--FL
fish n' grits--FL
Baltimore Lemon Twist (half a lemon w/peppermint stick in the middle, you suck the juice through the peppermint--ingenious, delicious)--MD
Deep-fried half smoke w/coleslaw and hot sauce--DC
Steak 'n Cheese Sub (not a Philly--real steak, provolone)--DC
Steamed Shrimp w/ Old Bay--Maryland to Florida
Boiled Shrimp--FL Panhandle, AL, MS
Peach Wine--SC
Pit Beef--MD
Smithfield ham and ham biscuits-VA
Damson preserves and Damsons in moonshine whisky--VA, TN
She-Crab soup--MD, VA, NC
"Pisser" clams--MD,DE,NJ

I've never heard of the Baltimore Lemon Twist, but it sounds great--is it something that people make at home or is it the trademark of a particular restaurant?

It's a treat the fruit peddlers would sell to the kids in the old neighborhoods of Baltimore. You still see them at street fairs and in certain neighborhood stores. I don't know if any of the "A-rabbers" (guys that peddled fruit and seafood from horse-drawn carts) are still in business over there, but they were still going strong in the late 1970s. The lemon twist is an amazingly tasty treat that I've never seen anywhere else.

Lemon twists used to be one of the highlights of our annual Christmas fair in elementary school. That and having your name put on a Christmas ball in glitter.

Thanks for bringing back the memories!!

Yep, there's still a couple of A-rabbers here, despite the best efforts of some do-gooders to throw them out.

We used to have them when I was growing up in California. Usually made with Sees candy twists in various flavors (including peppermint) they were common at fairs and carnivals, but you could easily make them at home.

Could somebody describe them please? I can't tell if they're cookies, candy, a form of donut or whatever.

It's a lemon, rolled around to make it juicy, with one end cut off and a peppermint stick inserted like a straw. You suck the juice through the peppermint and the result is unexpectedly fabulous. Anyone can make them at home but I've only seen them sold in Baltimore, mostly from pushcarts.

I knew a similar thing in the SC lowcountry when I was a kid: an orange with a peppermint stick for a straw. I don't think it was peculiar to the area, since I have seen pictures of the same thing in late 19th century children's books.

[Pesel]

Lexington Market in Baltimore City sells the peppermint sticks you insert into the lemon before you use them as straws to suck out the lemon juice!

Oh so that's what you call the lemon and peppermint stick. It seems to me that I saw them a lot in Pittsburgh when I was growing up, and street fairs and such. They never had a name though, and always made with that sort of soft crumby peppermint stick. Glad to hear more about them, because no one had heard of them in MA.

Miriam

San Francisco and Northern California:

--Dungeness Crab: Cioppino, Crab Louis
--Sourdough bread
--Wild salmon
--Monterey Prawns
--Hangtown Fry
--Joe's Special

San Francisco burritos
Irish Coffee at Buena Vista
It's-It (Do they still make these?)

And one without much of a pedigree but still devoured by more tourists than anything else: Clam chowder in a Boudin sourdough bread "bowl."

It's Its are still around. And as good as ever. Drive south from the airport on a weekday around dinner time and just smell the cookies in the air. Look to the east and there is the factory from which they come.

Link: http://www.sonic.net/~playland/it.html

But they are not from Playland any more.

I guess you could eat one while watching the climactic scene from Orson Welles' "Lady From Shanghai," which was filmed at Playland.

And Mint sounds kind of newfangled, too.....

Yeah, mint only dates from the 70s. Coffee and chocolate came in in the 80s. But It's-It labels still mention Playland. Geez, I miss It's-Its - they really are a local-only thing.

Yes, they make It's-Its, in vanilla and mint. Fantastic yummy thing. Sold in most grocery stores in SF still.

A regional specialty no one has every heard of from Duluth, Minnesota: A pepper cheeseburger. It's a mix of groung pork and beef, breaded, deep fried, and served with a topping of pepper jack cheese. Fantastic junk food.

More Minnesota specialties: Lake Superior whitefish, wild blueberries, true wild rice (of course!), Labrador tea.

Other Duluth, MN faves:

Smoked chubb
Pasties
Fried Walleye
Fried smelts (during the run)
Potato sausage
Swedish pancakes w/blueberries, currants and sour cream
Cardamom coffee

Yes, all those things also.

More northern Minnesota specialties - Iron Range style.

Pasties - shared with UP people (probably northern Wisconsin people also)

Potica - shared with Cleveland and other places where Slovenes gather

Porketta on hard rolls from Sunrise Bakery

Walleye from the fresh water lakes

Crappies from the fresh water lakes

Pheasant and venison from the northern woods

Potica made it to Southwestern Wyoming with a very small number of Slovenes.

Also to Roundup, Montana!

They also make chocolate, strawberry and coffee It's-Its.

And don't forget artichokes, the bigger the better! The local brussels sprouts ain't bad either, especially impressive when you buy them by the spear.

And our own locally-grown oysters and locally-caught salmon.

Indiana- Breaded tenderloin sandwich, with tenderloins
as big around as the plate

sugar cream pie

West Virginia- hot dogs with chili,slaw,mustard.onions

pepperoni rolls

great thread, very interesting and addicting to read. i'm suprized that i knew of so many--prob thru chowhound no doubt.

cleveland: it's the walleye/perch/pierogie capital. hmm, pizza bagels at the wsm, MAMA SANTOS pizza, PRESTI'S sourcream doughnuts, HONEY HUT ice cream, whipped cream cheese in various day-glo colors, fries w/ gravy, amish rhubarb pie & trail bologna, ORLANDO chibatta bread, STOUFFERS(yuck) and last but not least....CHEF-BOY-R-DEE!!!!

ohio: GRAETERS, TOFTS, YOUNG'S DAIRY ice creams.

n. michigan: cherry pie!

[Kelli2006]

Cleveland,
pirogies
stadium mustard
Gallucis twist bread.
NY spaghetti house brown sauce.

Akron
sauerkraut balls
Luigi's pizza
Barberton fried chicken

MRNYC, I grew up with trail bologna and baby swiss, and can only eat it a few times a year.

[karen2006]

Where do you get wild salmon in SF?

[justagthing]

Wild Salmon was prevalent throughout CA until we started diverting our water. Now one of the only areas where wild Salmon can be found is near the Oregon border. So I am assuming that is where it is caught.

[Nancy Berry]

The commercial wild salmon season starts in the San Francisco Bay Area on May 1st. Sport fishing has already started. There are still wild salmon in California. An interesting trip for chowhounds is to the Feather River Fish Hatchery in Lake Oroville where you can see the salmon jump the fish ladder and where they lay their eggs. http://www.lakeoroville.water.ca.gov/...

Out here on the left hand coast all we have is a "cuisine" named after our state. ;-D>

au contraire - the French Dip is a treasure - originated at Philippe's in the heart of the puebla de los angeles!

Right you are. But we seem to be refiners of others food inventions for the most part. I mean take things like pizza and (depending on your point of view) the perversion or pleasing things that CPK, (or Wolfie with his "Jewish" pizza) have done with them.

Any other home grown So. Calif. foods that you can think of?

The Haas Avocado

The Meyer Lemon

Cal-Mex food, such as the hard shell taco, the mission burrito, etc.

In-N-Out

The fish taco (created in baja, made popular via San Diego).

Grunions

Sardines (at least in the Monterrey/Cannery row heyday)

Casaer Salad (created in Tiajuana)

Cobb Salad (created at the Brown Derby)

Joe's special
Date shakes
Chocolate covered frozen bananas (I think they were invented in Balboa/Lido - is that correct?)
Cioppino (SF original)

Cobb Salad (Brown Derby) - how could i forget!

Oh, and the California Roll (created in Little Tokyo, downtown LA).

[Leucadian]

Fish tacos in San Diego. My brother from Cleveland can't believe it's food, but we love them. And our local favorite, carne asada burrito (no rice, please, just beef and guacamole in a giant flour tortilla).

Old southern items I haven't had for a long time: beaten bisquit and spoonbread.

[Fuser]

How can you forget Santa Maria style barbecue, specifically trip tip?

OK, so some of these have been hit but this is my list anyway!

- New York: pizza, bagels, Italian hoagies, hot dogs (especially Sabretts right out of the cart or Nathan's but only at Coney Island), cheesecake, real Buffalo wings
- Cincinnati Chili (I prefer 3 way myself)
- Texas chili
- Carolina Barbecue
- Memphis Barbecue
- Pennsylvania Dutch funnel cakes, Philly cheesesteaks
- Kentucky Ale-8-1 soda, Derby pie
- Boston baked beans
- Key West Key Lime Pie, chocolate covered Key Lime pie on a stick, Florida Dat'l Do-It Pepper jelly
- Southern Sweet Tea
- Ocean City , MD Fisher's Popcorn
- New England maple syrup
- Louisiana gumbo, po' boys, beignets, Tabasco pepper sauce, King cakes, Hurricanes, crawfish, Andouille, Tasso, pralines
- Virginia peanuts
- WHERE EVER THERE IS A WHITE CASTLES!

Finally, some one mentioned Cincinnati Chili - one of the world's greatest dishes, especially if from Camp Washington Chili Parlor. Where are you Univ. of Cincinnati students? Surely you still go there?

Don't forget Goetta.

What do you mean by "Carolina Barbecue?" Which Carolina? (There are 2, you know.) Eastern NC (Vinegar & Pepper)? "Lexington" type (vinegary, but with tomato)? Central SC (Mustard-Based)? NE SC (Much like Eastern NC)? Sumter-Manning area (Tomato based but very hot)? Upstate SC (Varies, but usually tomato-based)? Central Savannah River area (Somewhat like Lexington NC, but pretty hot)? And the list goes on. Futhermore, there will be arguments over which is typical of what area. It's almost better not to mention bbq.

Virginia: peanut soup.

Tastes light years better than you'd ever imagine!

Fried Clams in New England
Dry-aged beef steaks (rib-eye, strip, tenderloin, porterhouse) from Peter Luger's in NY or perhaps places in Chicago or the southwest (although dry-aging is pretty rare)
Chili (probably Texas, again, darn it)
Southern biscuits and gravy
Smithfield ham
Andouille sausage
Dirty rice
NYC Pizza
Chicago deep dish pizza

This is one of my favorite topics. A partial listing:

- Maine: lobster, lobster roll, blueberry pie

- Rhode Island: NY system hot wieners; quahogs; Del's frozen lemonade; cabinets (milkshakes); Awful Awfuls (special cabinet at Newport Creamery outlets); jonnycakes; doughboys; clamcakes; coffee milk

- Buffalo: beef on weck sandwiches; loganberry juice

- Binghamton, NY: spiedies

- Pennsylvania: scrapple; shoofly pie

- Kentucky: bbq'd mutton; Ale-8-1 soda

- Carolinas: Cheerwine soda; Blenheim ginger ale; bbq (with vinegar-based sauce in N.Carolina, mustard-based in S.Carolina);

- Alabama: Buffalo Rock ginger ale

- Cincinnati: five-way chili; goetta sausage

- Michigan: cherry pie; Vernor's ginger ale; Faygo Redpop; Cornish pasties

- Wisconsin: cheese curds; bratwurst; frozen custard

- St. Louis: bbq'd snoots sandwich

- Minnesota: lutefisk, if you dare

- North Dakota: pitchfork fondue (steak stuck on a pitchfork and deep-fried in a big vat of oil)

- Nebraska: red beer (beer with a dash of Clamato)

- Oklahoma: bbq'd balogna

OK, that's enough for now -- it's a big country!!

Obsessively,
Paul

Rochester, NY: garbage plates and red hots.

Oh, and some more New England specials:

Fish chowder (probably more classic than clam chowder)
Kale soup (the New England variant of the classic Portuguese caldo verde)
Saturday night community bean suppers -- Baked beans (Boston/coastal style (made with molasses) and Maine/North Country style (made with maple syrup)) with brown bread and hot dogs, etc.
Apple pie with Vermont cheddar for breakfast

And

most importantly

The clambake on the beach -- really, it's chowder with lobsters with clams, corn, taters....

If you're talking New England, you can't leave out Polar soda. The best darn ginger ale!

And of course, Moxie!

While Moxie is the worst beverage that New England has to offer, its best has to be a coffee frappe.

What about white hots?

Yes, I should have said red/white hots. I actually prefer white hots!

Yes, I also prefer the white hots.

And you know, to debate the finer points....I've never considered the garbage plate exactly a regional specialty -- more a Nick Tahoe's specialty :)

(though I guess some Tahoe's imitators have sprung up in recent years...)

I'd also include Genny Cream Ale on that list. And maybe some area wines, such as Bully Hill....I guess that's debatable, though. And getting a bit granular for the general board....

Red beer in South Dakota is half tomato juice and half beer - great the morning after!

That's also known as a "redeye" in Texas and Oklahoma.
There's also a Tulsa Martini, which is a draft beer with an olive in it.

Pork roll in Jersey.

Oh, I miss pork roll! Definitely.

And clams on the half shell at the Jersey Shore.

What is a pork roll? And where would you get one?

Pork Roll is not really a roll at all. It's sort of a cold cut similar to Taylor Ham but not the same thing. I've only had it in New Jersey. They serve is in delis for breakfast with cheese or eggs or both. It's so delicious that it's probably really bad for your health. I buy it in the supermarket (it comes in a roll like braunsweiger - hence, the name). I cook it up at home with eggs about once a year. What a great treat!

We also used to have pork roll sandwiches, a big slice of it, cooked up like bacon, and eaten with ketchup. Kind of like a fried baloney sandwich.

Chicago hot-dogs.

New England clam chowder.

OK, this is ususally fun :-)

Chicago Pizza
Maple syrup in VT and NH
Wild salmon in the Pacific NW

Chicago: Italian beef sandwiches. Pizza, thick or thin. Polish stuff like pierogies, kielbasa, and potato pancakes. Southern Pennsylvania: huge Pennsylvania-Dutch meals served family-style. Cape Cod: fried clams, lobster rolls. Maryland: crab cakes. Florida: conch chowder, key lime pie.

Cape Cod: Wellfleet oysters

Maine: crabmeat salad

Rhode Island: jonnycakes (the fat kind), clam chowder with neither milk nor tomato

New England generally: baked beans

boston-Boston Cream Pie
Parker House Rolls
Steamers (NE)
Mussels (NE)
ice coffee--until a couple years ago couldn't get it outside the Boston area (they would pour hot coffee over ice)
ice cream with jimmies
Can't forget RI clam chowder & Manhattan clam chowder
Naragansette Beer

[Feed Me]

Pat, can you tell us about this Rhode Island clam chowder?

[thinks too much]

It's in a gray broth and has neither milk nor cream. Just clammy goodness.