299335 Tue Nov 30 15:16:54 -0800 2004 61 27 General Chowhounding Topics 0 1657857 Hello all, I am researching an article about regional snack foods for families travelling across the country, and I thought people here might have some suggestions of items that I had not considered. I look at these boards on a semi-regular basis, but have never posted before today. If it is not kosher for me to be asking for help with an article, I apologize. I have done quite a bit of research already, but there's no such thing as too much, research, right? I'm mostly trying to find foods that can be picked up along the side of the road, at a gas station or maybe a small grocery store. I have found mostly candy, but am looking for really anything that adults and kids will both like. In any case, here is some of what I have so far, which might give you an idea of what I'm trying to find. Green River Soda — Chicago Valomilk — Kansas Del’s Frozen Lemonade — Rhode Island Abba Zabba — California Mike Sells potato chips — Ohio Crack seed — Hawaii Water ice — Philly Marionberries/Olaliberries — Pacific Northwest Moon pies — South Chick-a-stick — Texas Coconut Patties — Florida Boiled peanuts — South Violet Gum — New York Reindeer hot dog — Alaska Thanks for any and all help! Emily Tue Nov 30 15:16:54 -0800 2004 0 Emily 1 1657860 For Philadelphia, add Soft Pretzels (with or without mustard) Tue Nov 30 15:35:56 -0800 2004 1657857 0 Ray 2 1657890 How about Tastykakes? Tue Nov 30 21:08:38 -0800 2004 1657860 0 gina 3 1657904 I don't think Tastykakes are AS regional anymore, but I know you get a much smaller variety if you can find them outside of PA. For years, we shipped the plain Butterscotch Krimpets to my Aunt, Uncle and cousins in Alabama. They loved them whenever they came to visit us, but could never find them anywhere in the South. A few years ago, though, they showed up at a store down there. Wed Dec 01 09:18:11 -0800 2004 1657890 0 AnnieG 4 1657907 Has anyone mentioned Black and White cookies? Used to be only in NYC, but my brother in southern GA claims he can get them at the local supermarket (although not very good). Wed Dec 01 09:35:24 -0800 2004 1657904 0 coll 5 1658036 You can usually get a good black and white cookie in any good New York style bakery or bagel shop/bakery up and down the east coast. I've had them in NYC, Maryland, Florida, and California. Thu Dec 02 12:58:47 -0800 2004 1657907 0 dzoey 2 1657925 Don't forget about Peanut Chews! Wed Dec 01 12:07:30 -0800 2004 1657860 0 jessicheese 3 1657926 I didn't forget about Peanut Chews, but Goldenbergs was recently purchased by Just Born, Inc. and they have plans to go national. They also plan on tinkering with the recipe, which doesn't sit too well with me. Apparently, they want to make them softer (which negates the name Peanut CHEW). But then again, I could never accept when Goldenbergs introduced the milk chocolate version. Yes, I'm a purist. LOL Wed Dec 01 12:16:17 -0800 2004 1657925 0 Ray 4 1657929 I just went home to Philly for the weekend and picked up my bag of Peanut Chews... Someone told me that they are planning on changing the recipe for only the milk chocolate ones, and the texture of the dark will remain the same. Don't know if this is accurate or not... Wed Dec 01 12:41:15 -0800 2004 1657926 0 JeanSuton 1 1657862 Gibbles Potato Chips - PA UTZ Potato Chips - PA Route 11 Potato Chips - Virginia - http://www.rt11.com/ Klondike Bars - Pgh (You can get these just about everywhere now) Tue Nov 30 15:45:05 -0800 2004 1657857 0 Aimee 2 1657867 we get utz and route 11 chips in NY as well. Tue Nov 30 16:34:23 -0800 2004 1657862 0 del 3 1657879 And Indiana. Tue Nov 30 18:19:53 -0800 2004 1657867 0 Candy 2 1658037 Herr's Potato Chips as well. They have a factory on US1 just over the PA border from Maryland. Thu Dec 02 13:01:35 -0800 2004 1657862 0 dzoey 1 1657864 Berger's cookies in Baltimore. Tue Nov 30 15:58:30 -0800 2004 1657857 0 Tugboat 2 1657967 Also Utz' Crab Spice Potato Chips and Tastycakes, Briggs Half-Smokes and the Baltimore Lemon Twist (a lemon with one end cut off and a peppermint stick inserted--you suck the lemon juice through the peppermint). Wed Dec 01 16:11:16 -0800 2004 1657864 0 flavrmeistr 1 1657865 Boiled peanuts in GA Real fried pork skin in NC Krunchers and Backers chips in MO Beef sticks in Iowa and MO Tue Nov 30 16:02:08 -0800 2004 1657857 0 Dennis S 1 1657866 Blenheim's ginger ale in NC/SC, go for the HOT one! Tue Nov 30 16:32:42 -0800 2004 1657857 0 Tee Crenshaw 2 1658004 Hey Tee Crenshaw take it easy on 'dem dey ain't from around y'eah. They will think the mild is as hot as hello neighbor. I would also like to add if in Charleston, Benne Seed Wafers In the South in general Crackings and Fried Pork Skins Cokes with a tube of salted peanuts poured in the Coke Thu Dec 02 00:03:24 -0800 2004 1657866 0 1 weiner hound 3 1658018 Hey weiner hound, We'uns mighten be from the same 'holler. I love a mess of Benne wafers (Citadel grad.),but we put our goobers in RC co-colas. Thu Dec 02 09:03:35 -0800 2004 1658004 0 Tee Crenshaw 2 1658005 Hey Tee Crenshaw take it easy on 'dem dey ain't from around y'eah. They will think the mild is as hot as hello neighbor. I would also like to add if in Charleston, Benne Seed Wafers In the South in general Crackings and Fried Pork Skins Cokes with a tube of salted peanuts poured in the Coke Thu Dec 02 00:03:25 -0800 2004 1657866 0 1 weiner hound 1 1657868 An additional RI - Awful Awful from Newport Creamery Tue Nov 30 16:43:29 -0800 2004 1657857 0 wild child 1 1657872 Cheerwine soft drink in NC/SC Tue Nov 30 17:11:22 -0800 2004 1657857 0 deibu 1 1657880 Pork tenderloin sandwiches in Indiana. One of the best is at the Marathon Food and Fuel in Gnawbone, In. It made the Stern's Roadfood column a couple of years ago. Michigan hot dogs in Clinton County, NY very regional speciality. Mainly found in and around Plattsburgh. Those of us who grew up with them crave them when away and one of the first things we stop for when returning for a visit. Tue Nov 30 18:23:11 -0800 2004 1657857 0 Candy 1 1657883 Chicago : Jays potato chips (BBQ is the best) Garrett's popcorn Maurice Lenell Cookies Vienna Hotdogs Johnnies Italian Beef Tue Nov 30 19:35:10 -0800 2004 1657857 0 Kim 1 1657884 New England has so many it's hard to enumerate, and that's not counting the host of things that have gone national, like Toll House cookies, NECCO wafers and such (New England was the first major confectionary center in the US, courtesy of molasses from the Triangle Trade). Frappes (generally) and cabinets (Rhode Island). There are number sub-regional sandwiches in New England, especially in places like Maine and Rhode Island. Polar brand tonics. Moxie, the original tonic beverage. *** I'll also mention what an item that was until a generation ago, a favorite late night snack in Charlottesville, VA: A grillswith from the University Diner -- a glazed raised doughut, fried on the diner grill plate, then topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Tue Nov 30 19:48:19 -0800 2004 1657857 0 Karl S. 2 1657888 Don't forget lobster rolls, which I've never seen out here in the west. Tue Nov 30 20:19:05 -0800 2004 1657884 0 LBQT 1 1657892 Coney dogs in the Detroit area. D. Tue Nov 30 22:29:13 -0800 2004 1657857 0 Donna - MI 2 1657982 Also for Detroit you've got Vernor's Ginger Ale and who can forget Faygo (my favorite flavors: Red Pop and Rockin Rye). Wed Dec 01 18:33:59 -0800 2004 1657892 0 simply_victoria 1 1657893 State Line (I think) chips - western Mass. Coffee Milk! - Rhode Island Tue Nov 30 22:32:19 -0800 2004 1657857 0 RobE. 1 1657894 State Line (I think) chips - western Mass. Coffee Milk! - Rhode Island Tue Nov 30 22:32:28 -0800 2004 1657857 0 RobE. 1 1657901 Pecan rolls from Stuckey's (gas station food place in the South). Wed Dec 01 06:53:58 -0800 2004 1657857 0 maryelizabeth 2 1658013 Is Stuckey's still around?? Thu Dec 02 03:08:35 -0800 2004 1657901 0 gina 3 1658032 We just returned from a drive down I-95 to south florida and I can assure you that Stuckey's are very much still around. Thu Dec 02 11:35:21 -0800 2004 1658013 0 Bob W. 4 1658033 yes, and they have a cool web site...pecan logs are my favorite! Link: http://www.stuckeys.com/shop/ Thu Dec 02 11:59:49 -0800 2004 1658032 0 Janie 1 1657903 I'm from NY...what is violet gum??? Wed Dec 01 07:25:16 -0800 2004 1657857 0 naomi 2 1657918 C. Howard's violet gum. It's purple and silver and at every bodega. Root around a little, you'll find it. And a big thanks to everyone who helped out! I really appreciate it! Wed Dec 01 11:12:39 -0800 2004 1657903 0 Emily 3 1658101 Wasn't it SEN-SEN? Thu Dec 02 22:52:20 -0800 2004 1657918 0 Mike R. 1 1657909 I don't know in how many areas you can get these, but Cape Cod potato chips are fantastic. Wed Dec 01 09:47:46 -0800 2004 1657857 0 East Point Cook 2 1657951 I can get the chips on Long Island, but I can never find the Blue Sesame Tortilla Chips other than upstate NY, and I love them (sampled at the factory and brought home a half dozen bags) Wed Dec 01 14:55:11 -0800 2004 1657909 0 ValL 1 1657914 perhaps the most evil of all...deep fried snickers bars - i've had them at a place in georgia, and am pretty sure other southern states consider them a regional, life-shortening treat as well. Wed Dec 01 10:59:23 -0800 2004 1657857 0 rawdog 1 1657916 Vermont: cheese curds (generic little bits of cheese lumps sold at all the convenience stores). They are pretty good! Wed Dec 01 11:03:18 -0800 2004 1657857 0 dillard 2 1658038 You run into curds in any dairy area. My wife loves the curds from Tillamook on Oregon's coast. Thu Dec 02 13:04:51 -0800 2004 1657916 0 dzoey 1 1657917 Goetz caramel cremes in Baltimore. Yum. Wed Dec 01 11:05:12 -0800 2004 1657857 0 ck 1 1657920 Some things that I seem to have a hankering for right now from my hometown of LA that I tend not to find anywhere else. -Chili fries (or chili cheese fries) -Chili tamales (this is probably available in the southwest/TX as well) -Oki Dog (or any variety of stuffed tortilla with hot dogs, chili, pastrami, and fixin's--a few copycats in LA now) In Central California, I hanker for Taco Works tortilla chips, the best commercial tortilla chip I've had, anywhere. Wed Dec 01 11:25:24 -0800 2004 1657857 0 Eric Eto 1 1657922 Zapp's potato chips in Louisiana--such flavors as pickle, BBQ, crawfish, ketchup, etc. Knishes in New York City, and coco helado in the summer. Wed Dec 01 11:43:33 -0800 2004 1657857 0 laura 1 1657934 I once was in a bar in South Dakota where next to the jar of pickled eggs was a jar of pickled turkey gizzards Wed Dec 01 13:25:27 -0800 2004 1657857 0 Rick 1 1657938 Pimento cheese - in the south Wed Dec 01 13:40:30 -0800 2004 1657857 0 pina 1 1657950 In NYC we get Japanese wasabi or seaweed crackers in every bodega. Wed Dec 01 14:55:03 -0800 2004 1657857 0 rkn 1 1657956 Oh, now that I am thinking about it, roasted chestnuts sold all over midtown Manhattan during the holidays and sometimes thereafter. Or did those go the way of Times Sq? It's a Proustian memory association (the acrid but oddly pleasing smell of chestnuts roasting at sidewalk vendors) from childhood, and not something I've ever seen in another place. Wed Dec 01 15:16:23 -0800 2004 1657857 0 Karl S. 2 1658024 All over Rome - but a little more difficult to get to by car Thu Dec 02 10:28:10 -0800 2004 1657956 0 Aimee 1 1657960 Upstate (Central) NY: Freihofers baked goods White Hots hot dogs JAX snacks (like cheetos only BETTER) Byrne Dairy Chocolate Milk Wed Dec 01 15:33:50 -0800 2004 1657857 0 Hungry Girl 1 1657971 From the SF Bay Area, It's its - ice cream sandwiched between two cookies and dipped in chocolate - super yummy and available at the Quik Stop 3 blocks from my house. Wed Dec 01 16:37:27 -0800 2004 1657857 0 Chris Willging 1 1657972 Salt Water Taffy from coastal areas, particularly The Goldenrod in York Beach, Me. Wed Dec 01 16:39:38 -0800 2004 1657857 0 East Point Cook 1 1657976 This may not count as an "on the road" snack since it's on an island, but there are several Nantucket Nectar flavors that I've never seen off of Nantucket. The best is Matt Fee Tea, a reddish herbal iced tea. Some great regional fast food: Bojangles, Biscuitville and Dairy Queen in the south, Friendly's in MA, In N' Out Burger in CA Wed Dec 01 17:06:31 -0800 2004 1657857 0 Swirvin 2 1657979 I thought Dairy Queen is everywhere. It is everywhere here in Canada. Wed Dec 01 17:56:24 -0800 2004 1657976 0 Cecilia 1 1657983 I know you already have a huge list, but in Oklahoma and North Texas, Braum's Cherry Lime-aids are it. They blow Sonic's out of the water. And you have to make a stop at Chik-Fil-A. These people here love there Chik-Fil-A. I'm a Houston girl myself and was raised on Antone's po'boys. That place must have put an addictive chemical in those things. And I would always get a bag of this dill pickle potato chips on the side. I forgot who made those though, maybe Zapp's. Very tasty!! Wed Dec 01 18:43:11 -0800 2004 1657857 0 simply_victoria 2 1658014 I believe Chick-Fil-A is nationwide, thank goodness. Thu Dec 02 03:15:27 -0800 2004 1657983 0 gina 3 1658019 Well, I thought that too, but when I lived in the Michigan, no one had heard of it. They had never heard of Sonic and didn't have any Dairy Queens either. I trully felt for all those people and their sparse fast food choices!! Thu Dec 02 09:08:56 -0800 2004 1658014 0 simply_victoria 1 1657994 Vitner's potato chips in Chicago. Wed Dec 01 20:49:19 -0800 2004 1657857 0 Kimberly 2 1657997 While living in CO my friend hd Chip Aoy cookies & Taylor Ham shipped to her. I think Taylor ham is a NJ/NY specialty. Wed Dec 01 21:58:05 -0800 2004 1657994 0 mc 1 1658048 NYC: Manhattan Special coffee soda Thu Dec 02 14:34:36 -0800 2004 1657857 0 Chorus Girl 1 1658066 west, texas: kolaches. there's a place right off I-35 called czech stop/little czech bakery. new orleans, la: hubig's new orleans style pies. flavors like sweet potato, shaped & glazed like hostess hand pies. available at little corner markets in the french qtr. Thu Dec 02 17:06:25 -0800 2004 1657857 0 petradish