As determined by Yelp Analysis:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/14/most-popular-cuisine-state_n_6457252.html
>Yelp figured out which cuisines were most common in each state by examining restaurant listings on its site. The review service uses information pulled by third-party data providers from public records and other sources in order to create its online restaurant listings, according to its website.
>To get the data for the map, Yelp first calculated the percentage of total restaurants each cuisine represented in a given state. Then, it compared each percentage with the cuisine’s representation in restaurants nationwide.
Notice anything /ck/?
Get your shit together Colorado
"Kosher" isn't really a kind of food though, any more than "Traditional American". It obviously means something very specific to certain people, but on a large scale it's completely meaningless.
I'm surprised "vegan" isn't there for any of the states; in my experience it's quite a bit more popular than going out for steak, let alone hot dogs.
Am Minnesota, see panniculus often. One just moved in below me.
Virginian reporting in. I live in the most populated area, Hampton roads and never see any Peruvian restaurants anywhere. There's plenty of Mexican and Tex mex places though.
Peruvian cuisine for VA? That's pretty surprising, though I did try it once.
It was really good and I'd recommend it.
Ok, now I'm looking at the rest of the map. How the fuck are steak, foodstands, gastropubs, pizza, soup, or fucking buffets fucking cuisines the same way a regional cuisine is? What the flying f
>huffpost
ok I should have expected this
>>7786338
>utah
>Hawaiian
Kek was not expecting that.
>>7786383
I live in Va.
There's like 8 different peruvian pollo y brasa places withing pissing distance.
>>7786428
>think critically
does thinking "wow huffpost sucks" count
How is CT not pizza?
Fucking Huffington Post
>MFW Maine is "seafood"
>mfw Massachu-chu is "Portuguese"
I'm so glad I did not grow up in stupid shitty New Bedford but goddamn if I could get some Portuguese seafood in my backyard that would be rad
>>7786338
God dammit, Colorado. I blame the faggot transplants
>>7786472
>CT
>Pizza
>>7786338
>Cheesesteaks
>Hotdog
>Pizza
>Steak
>Soup
Those are "cuisines"? I thought those were food items.
>>7786338
>MA, RI, NJ
>Portuguese
As a moustache, this intrigues me. What does their "Portuguese" food look like?
>Hawaii
>Hawaiian
You don't say
>>7786338
Cheesesteak here
Feels good man
What the fuck, Oklahoma?
>>7786338
As a Virginia that Peruvian food must be some shit shit thats just popular in DC. I've never had nor have I ever even seen a restaurant that serves it
Vietnamese... sounds about right. There are pho shops in every town in my neck of the woods.
>>7786567
>Texas' hat
>Copies Texas
What the fuck did you expect? Oklahoma's entire identity is its proximity to Texas, kind of like New Jersey is to New York.
>source: yelp
Oh, that's why it's shit.
>>7786557
It's mainly Azorian, so think that
>>7786338
>WI: Traditional American
I was going to call bullshit but then I remembered I live in a college town and even then half of it is burgers and brats
>>7786338
DC: Belgian
So waffles and fries?
>buffets for mn
But they're all closing down in my area.
This is "most restaurants of ___ variety in comparison to the natural average in a given state" i'm assuming.
Pretty surprised that Illinois is Pakistani considering everything in Chiraq is either Italian, Asian or Polish. (not counting niggers of course)
I've lived in VA my whole life and I think I've seen one Peruvian place. We have a fuckload of Mexican restaurants, maybe I'm just retarded and they're Peruvian?
We'll pretty much appropriate anything in California if it'll put asses in booths/chairs
>>7786729
I've lived in Illinois my entire life, and I've never even seen a Pakistani restaurant. Plenty of Indian, but no Pakistani.
>>7786428
>...
>....
Stop doing that
>>7786338
Portuguese?
>>7786729
Isn't Devon street full of pakis?
>>7786557
>>7786664
This - it's tasty try it you silly Italian
Jk Italians are okay
>>7786495
>GLUTEN FREE
>MFW
>>7786808
You're right, but it's one street in one city in the state. I guess there's so few Pakistani restaurants in other parts of the country that the methodology used makes Pakistani food seem a lot more popular than it is here.
>>7786820
When pakistanis come to america it is usually because they have advanced degrees, not cookery skills. And if they are going to a 1st world country they prefer to go to UK or UAE
In NYC, Shitcago, Texas and Cali are basically where they all are
>>7786857
You mean Jew York, Shitcago, Mexas, and Commiefornia
>>7786857
idk, man. Lots of Pakistani cabbies in NYC.
>>7786866
well for comparison's sake the UK has twice as many pakis but is 1/5th the population of the USA
>>7786857
>>7786820
>>7786795
>>7786808
>>7786729
Pakistani food is almost indistinguishable from North Indian Muglai cuisine (i.e the common curries and kebabs you think of when you think of """Indian""" cuisine), so most Paki's just call their restaurants Indian, because its less threatening in the west, where Pakistan has a horrible reputation.
t.Paki Chef working in an """Indian""" restaurant
>>7786919
How do IndoPak restaurants turn dishes out so quickly? I grew up with homestyle Bengali food, and, while veg torkaris cook fairly quickly, meat dishes take a fuck long time.
>>7786338
This is terrible
I live in San Francisco and I've never even seen a Taiwanese restaurant
>>7786338
Totally inaccurate. I bet some flunky high schooler created that.
>>7786935
theres like 2 on geary, 1 on balboa, 3 in china town. but yeah I dont think SF is embracing taiwanese cuisine since it kind of sux
>>7786933
You make a large quanity at the same time. Most curries are cooked in massive pots and kept at a low heat throughout the whole service. This would be bad practice in most western cuisines, but Indian/Paki food culture is different and the style of food and cooking permits that. Im sure every South Asian has that one aunt who cooks one curry or biriyani for what seems like hours.
In addition, most workers are illegals who work fast because they know the boss could fire them at a minutes notice with zero reprucussions.
Yep, that's about right for TX. shitty mediocre tex mex restaurants on every corner.
Fake and gay.
>lived in jersey all my life
>never even heard of portugese food, let alone seen a restaurant for it
ITALIAN OR GO HOME
IF THEY SAY JERSEY IS ANYTHING BUT ITALIAN FOOD THEY'RE WRONGFAGS
>>7786963
WTF are you talking about? I live in Arlington. Tex-Mex is a non regularity. BBQ is everywhere.
>>7786338
I've never in my life seen a Vietnamese restaurant here in Washington.
>>7786988
>>7786963
it's all relative, that's the methodology, For instance del taco in LA is called tex mex but in New Jersey it is "Mexican." A lot of americans don't know the difference and it is more pronounced the further away you get from Texas. Meanwhile everybody knows exactly what BBQ is so it doesn't suffer the same labeling issues
>wisconsin - traditional american
>ohio - soup
These have to be the most flyover states of them all.
California, Alaska, and Utah always surprise me. I've been through Utah probably a dozen times and had no idea they have an inordinate amount of Hawaiian restaurants.
>>7787001
There's a fuckton of them in Seattle
>>7787021
Oh, I try to avoid Seattle as much as I can.
>>7786338
>Michigan
>Mideastern
Not entirely wrong, as we do have a ton of Chaldean/Muslim immigrants here, but it'd be more appropriate to say Mediterranean, as there are at least as many Greek places as there are Arab. Hell, there are at least 4 or 5 Coney Islands within a few miles of where I love, not to mention all the other Greek places under a different brand. They really ought to just call the category "Lamb" and call it a day.
t. Michigander
>>7787018
>they have an inordinate amount of Hawaiian restaurants
So you stopped in SLC and are now an expert on Utah cuisine, right?
GTFO
>>7787024
wise. the traffic is unbearable right now
>>7787031
>reading comprehension
>>7787028
It's pretty clear MI has a lot of arabs if you live in detroit
>>7787033
There's lots of cool stuff there but it's just such a hassle. I couldn't imagine living there.
>>7787015
That happens regionally all the time. In some parts of the country people distinguish between Italian-American and Italian food, in other places people aren't aware there is a difference. In Latin-Caribbean neighborhoods in NYC the old timers refer to Puerto Rican and Dominican food as "Spanish food", even though there are many actual Spanish restaurants in the city. And depending on where you live Southern food might just be called Southern, Low Country, Soul Food or just food. And the Traditional American food eaten in WI is almost always referred to by the locals as "normal food".
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>>7786569
Peruvian food is fine
They eat Guinea pigs tho, some say that even pigeons are on the menu
>The huffington post
>>7787186
>some say that even pigeons are on the menu
Pigeons were introduced to America as a source of food...
>>7787222
Yay diversity !
>>7787222
I didn't realize that this tweet was supposed to be in praise of huffpost because I noticed they were all white before I noticed they were all women
>>7787222
>all those macs
white women are such a meme it is ridiculous
>>7787271
JUST
>>7786338
>live in illinois
>millions of mexicans
>somehow pakistani wins
what the fuck chicago
>>7786338
I'm curious to know what is considered Irish in that one state.
>>7786338
>buffet
>a type of cuisine
hoohohohohhoho top kek only in america
>>7786338
>philly fags skewing pennsylvania results
pierogies all the way you jag offs, adding cheese to meat isnt rocket science pholidelphia you dont deserve even a sticker for figuring that out
>>7786338
Montana here, should be elk tbqfh
>>7787289
it's the state food of Nevada
>>7786338
Md does have some amazing Peruvian chicken, especially in the DC area
>hotdog
>buffets
>gluten free
Kill yourselves
t.
texas
>>7786495
feels bad, man
>>7787305
This image always pisses me off. I've lived in a bunch of different states and have a pretty good sense of the food scene in a few of them.
First of all, California is a huge state, and fish tacos are pretty much a SoCal/San Diego thing.
Ahi poke for Hawaii is also just based on poke recently becoming a trend. Spam musubi, or just Spam, would be a better choice. As would a kalua pork plate lunch, or just plate lunch in general. Even just putting "fresh fish" would make more sense. For a long time I was always confused when people would say that all the sushi/fish you eat in the US was previously frozen, because growing up in Hawaii I remember eating fish all the time that was supposedly just caught that morning on a small fishing boat that at most would have thrown it in a cooler on top of some ice. Only recently did I realize that Hawaii is the only state that allows restaurants to serve fresh fish without it first being thoroughly frozen.
And then there's fucking Rhode Island. Maybe for people who grew up there frozen lemonade is a childhood memory, but it's just a sickly sweet lemon slushy. They have a distinct Italian-American cuisine, a huge Portuguese food scene, coffee milk, hot wieners, and above all else, fucking clams. They are the clam state, be it stuffies or fried clams, which originated from there. There's a reason the town in Family Guy is named after a type of clam.
surprised about cali desu. taiwanese food is pretty based
>>7787015
>the further you get from Texas
I'm pretty sure Mexicans living in SE San Diego aren't in the habit of confusing your horrible «queso» with actual food, "pardner"
>>7787371
>Mexicans know what Mexican food is
wow you're really teaching us a lot thanks for the post m8 quality contribution 10/10 would read again
>>7787391
>fat white Texan thinks American == Anglo
>>7786338
Wisconsin confirmed most american state
>>7786590
Yeah, fellow WA anon here, that seems pretty legit. That shit is everywhere.
I love pho so no complaints I guess.
>>7786338
>Illinois
>not ' '
>>7787605
Chicago is a small corner of the state.
Guess what! Illinois also invented the corn dog. It's bullshit map just designed to provoke discussion, just like 90% of everything on the internet that some asshole got $30 to throw together in order to garner traffic for 3 days.
>>7786495
I blame the stoners that think marijuana is actually healthy and garlic and turmeric will prevent cancer and all disease and dying.
>>7786962
Singapoor here. Teach me your biriyani recipes.
>>7786983
and diners.
>>7787305
Is there anything special about an all you can eat buffet in Vegas that sets it apart from buffets in the rest of the states?
>>7786338
I disagree with Pennsylvania, it's like they only ever go to Philadelphia when they say stuff like that. PA has a lot more than that extension of new Jersey
>>7787686
Hooker density per square mile
>>7787452
WIDF confirmed for only eating tater tots tendies, and, when directed to do so by a physician, lime jello "salad" to finally be healthy
>>7786382
Where in the Hampton roads ?
Virginia beach here.
>>7786338
why the fuck is ohio soup
we don't have a distinctive soup, we don't even like soup
north east ohio would be eastern euro stuff, dunno about the rest
Alaska is pino? huh?
>>7786983
diners and italian food is the right answer, but anon have you ever had portugese food? Its the stuff of gods
>soup
Jesus fuck I need to get out of Ohio.
>>7787811
>north east ohio would be eastern euro stuff
I'm pretty sure our State flag is just a half-eaten pierogi.
>>7786338
>Pakistani
Let me guess, they didn't separate Chicago from the rest of Illinois. So you end up with results that are meaningless for 90% of the state.
>>7788011
Let me guess, you think the 500 people in Illinois who don't live in shitcago and the 11 ''''restaurants'''' not located in shitcago are statistically relevant
>>7786338
>Delaware
>Irish
U wot m8? There are like 2 Irish restaurants in the whole state (that I know of). We don't even have a large Irish population
>>7788011
Chicago isn't 90% of the state.
I currently live somewhere in Chicago-land halfway between downtown and Wisconsin and it's a literal food wasteland. I've been here for almost two years and still cant find my way around without a GPS because there's nothing but strip malls and the same franchises at every intersection. Two thirds of the state is south of Chicago... then again, I've never really encountered this large Pakistani population.
>>7786601
>North Jersey is all of New Jersey
You're completely ignoring the southernmost parts that wrap their identity around pretending to be Philadelphia.
What the fuck are filipinos doing in Alaska?
>>7787305
>Delaware
>Vinegar French fries
Literally only see them at Rehoboth or Lewes.
Scrapple would be more like it. We even have a place that makes scrapple flavored vodka.
http://paintedstave.com/?portfolio=off-the-hoof-scrapple-flavored-vodka
>>7787686
No one lives anywhere else in Nevada.
>>7787305
My sister is living in West Virginia, and this is 100% accurate about the pepperoni rolls.
>>7787305
Kansas and Nebraska are mislabeled on this map, as are their foods.
>>7788080
And they're terribad. WV might be worst food state in the country, Ohio included.
>>7788087
I'm not sure which is more sad: that you noticed, or that you think anybody else cares.
>>7786338
>Filipino
Literally the only place in Vegas I've seen that has it is a food truck
>>7786338
this seems to be a lie for Va.
Italian is the most popular, followed by chinese
>>7787371
You do realize that Cali-mex is as much of a thing as Tex-mex is, right? When I lived in Orange County I was disgusted to find some places serving "enchiladas" and the sauce on top was literally spaghetti sauce. They claimed ot be authentic and the locals loved it.
Stopped looking when Iowa didn't have maid rites or tenderloins as their food item.
it seems like nothing on this map is right so discard it
Wow Portuguese overtook Italian in MA/RI
>>7786362
But I seriously haven't seen huge emphasis on gluten free out here.
>>7788422
Portuguese is far more prevalent in RI than the few pockets of Italian. I still think it should be clams, though. If RI is known for anything it's clam shacks.
WHY CAN'T YOU NIGGERS READ
>DISPROPORTIONATELY POPULAR
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>>7788447
I'm still a little confused about how Hawaiian food is disproportionately popular in Hawaii, or Southern food is disproportionately popular in the South.
>>7788459
It's compared to the national average. Italian food is very popular nationwide, so states with a lot of Italian food restaurants don't show up as Italian, while Hawaiian or Southern aren't as popular nationwide and show up as their respective states in the map.
Can anyone recommend me a good 'da 'za place to eat this weekend?
I'm a Nevadan and maybe it's because I live in Reno and not Vegas but there's literally 1 Filipino place in all of Reno that I know of.
>>7788550
ya I live in LV and the only flip restaurant I know of is along west tropicana and its fucking nastyyy
>>7786338
What exactly is "foodstands" and "traditional american"? How is "steak" a category of cuisine when there are thousands of different ways to prepare it?
>Buffets
Flyover level 9000
>>7786338
>Virginia
>Peruvian
>yelp
So this is what faggot urbanite hipsters eat in the urban shitholes they populate in each state then...
>>7788866
Horrible post, great digits.
>>7786338
>gluten free
>most common food
Yeah fuck off Yelp
>>7786338
>MI not 'troit 'za
>IL no 'go 'za
>>7788045
What about Irish bars?
>>7786338
>California
>taiwanese
Yeah that's definitely bullshit. There's a few places here and there but they aren't that popular, certainly not the most popular
I have never seen a Taiwanese restaurant here in Los Angeles. I've seen millions of Viet, Chinese, Thai, Korean, and Japanese.
>disproportionally
Does this mean there's like only 2 Vietnamese restaurants in the whole nation and they are both in California?
>>7786338
>Oregon
>foodstands
That's not a fucking style of food, that's just what the location looks like; it's about as fucking informative as telling people the color of the building.
>>7786366
>I'm surprised "vegan" isn't there for any of the states; in my experience it's quite a bit more popular than going out for steak, let alone hot dogs.
I don't visit this board much, is this tripfag a running joke or is he really this delusional?
>>7786338
>CT: Spanish
get the fuck out of here
lived there my whole life and all you see is italian cuisine, and albanians posing as italians making italian cuisine.
>>7786962
When I was young I lived in a solidly middle-class suburban development with a condo complex that was essentially all Indian grad students and their enormous extended families. It always smelled like curry over there and all the grandparents would always be sat on the stoops with their grandkids while the parents were working/studying and they would smell really strongly of curry. Also some of the Indian kids I went to school with smelled strongly of curry and would get bullied for smelling "bad". My family's tastes were always very multicultural so we ate Indian fairly frequently and I really enjoyed it so I didn't think they smelled bad, but I did think it was odd they smelled of food so often. I asked my Mom about it once and she said it was because they generally keep a pot of curry simmering all day so that it's always available to eat and that's why their houses and clothes smelled of it.
I'm pleased to see my whitebread as fug mom seems to have been right.
>>7786338
>Maine
>Seafood
Ahaha fucking what? Like 90% of the state lives near the coast and the quality and abundance oftheir seafood has been renowned for almost four fucking centuries now.
>>7789939
Do you have a point you're trying to make? You sound like you're angry at someone and trying to argue against something.
>>7789940
Yeah, there's nothing "disproportionate" about a state being famous for seafood having a ton of seafood restaurants.
>>7789941
????????
Are you being sarcastic?
Having a disproportionate number of seafood restaurants is inconsistent with having a lot of seafood?
Am I too old to understand this joke?
>>7789941
Are you fucking retarded? If a state has great and abundant seafood, seafood restaurants will be abundant and thus be greater in proportion to other restaurants and that makes them disproportionate.
>>7789806
I live in Portland, so I know firsthand how popular and almost central to the "food culture" food stands/trucks are around here. That doesn't change the fact that it isn't a fucking type of cuisine. "Foodstands" is absolutely fucking meaningless as a description of what type of food they eat in Oregon.
>>7789963
Pretending to be retarded is the same as being retarded.
>>7788443
Theres an old joke on Cape Cod,
Whats the population in the summer time?
About a Brazillion.
Bah dum dum.
>>7786492
Masshole here....are there that many fuckin porto places in fall river and NB that it colors the whole state, because outside that cesspool, I see very few Portugese
(Framingham is like little portugal though)
Is Portugal worth visiting the next time I'm in Spain, or is it shit?
>>7790198
I don't know anything about western mass but Cambridge St in Cambridge on its own has more Portuguese places than my entire home town in California
>>7790202
Lisbon and Porto are awesome, and super cheap.
DC here, I've never had or seen Belgian food here.
>>7788550
Reno here as well and that place is awful. I've seen quite a few Filipino people but only that one restaurant.
>>7786338
> California
> Taiwanese
As a Californian I have a tough time believing this.
>>7790463
Someone was saying that it's supposed to be disproportionate to the national average (I didn't read the article), which still seems pretty random, but I've never seen too many Taiwanese restaurants outside of California either.
On that note, Rhode Island also happens to have one of the largest Cambodian populations in the country, and would probably win for Cambodian food if anyone who actually used yelp went to them.
>>7788072
There used to be a place in Newark, and Five Guys has em.
I think they started in Rehoboth though, right?
I've seen more Vietnamese places in Maryland than Peruvian, shit must be clustered all around down near DC or something
>Taiwanese
Do boba and tea shops count? Because if not I'm in the wrong part of California or something. I see jack shit in the way of specifically Taiwanese cuisine in the bay.
>To get the data for the map, Yelp first calculated the percentage of total restaurants each cuisine represented in a given state. Then, it compared each percentage with the cuisine’s representation in restaurants nationwide. The resulting map, made by HuffPost, shows the cuisines with a disproportionate level of representation in each state.
worthless
>>7791428
A lot of the "Chinese" food here in the bay is Taiwanese
>>7790463
Yeah shouldn't it be Mexican food?
>>7789961
I'd say most food carts here are some kind of asian.
>>7792204
>>Virginia fags: Its because of NoVa being so close to DC. Peruvian is a high tier food for the wealthy, and NoVA is disporportionally wealthy and with tons of people
It has nothing to do with wealth. Peruvian chicken is god tier rotisserie chicken.
It's fairly affordable, you can get a decent lunch or 5-6 bucks.
>>7792332
Most "peruvian" food restaurants, the ones that advertise themselves as such on yelp would be higher end.
>>7792336
http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=peruvian&find_loc=Fairfax,+VA&start=0&attrs=RestaurantsPriceRange2.1
>Inexpensive: 87
>Moderate: 52
>Pricey: 9
>>7792355
Well then, guess the llama fuckers are holding NoVa hostage then. I'm sitting here in Hampton Roads struggling to find some decent korean places that are on the cheap. Looks like I am paying 12$ or so before tip.
I only believe the Taiwanese in CA thing since it's through Yelp, and titled "disproportionately popular." As far as I can tell from working with mainly Taiwanese people, they LOVE restaurants and know all the good ones. San Diego has a lot of Taiwanese places that non-Asians don't know about, especially in the Clairemont/Convoy area.
>>7786338
>disproportionately popular
>southern food popular in the south
>Hawaiin popular in Hawaii
>Tex-Mex popular in Texas
Yeah ok.
Shit chart.
>>7786798
Or what...
>>7788112
I also noticed and I also care, shit for brains.
They had to have meant Runzas.
>>7786362
It's fucking wrong.
The correct answer is "green chili"
It's a condiment, it's a soup, it's an entree all on it's own. Any place worth going in the state has green chili on the menu. And there's about 1,000 ways to make it.
>>7786362
You are correct. I think they kick you out of this town I you eat any gluten.
>>7795537
And we do it way better than New Mexico, to boot.
>>7786338
These "by state" things are hardly ever accurate depictions, just clickbait data manipulation.
>>7786406
Its cause a lot of connecting flights go from hawaii to Utah.
>>7786406
>>7797097
>connecting flights
lolno
The reason is because there's a huge Mormon population in Hawaii and Utah both, which is why BYU, the Mormon university, is present in both states.
A huge number of Mormon kids growing up in Utah decide to leave the state to go to BYU's Hawaii campus rather than stay home to go to Provo or SLC. They come back home and bring their love for Hawaiian cuisine with them. Remember that of all Millennialist/Millenarian Christians, those who believe in The Millennial Kingdom, Mormons are the most likely to have college education.
>>7786338
The only one that really surprised me a bunch was Nevada not being 'buffet,' but I guess that's just a Vegas thing, eh? And New Jersey. Portuguese? Really? Maybe in North Jersey?
The others?
>well, I wouldn't have thought of that, but now that you mention it, I guess that makes sense, sure
That's how I reacted to them.
>>7786366
Never left Babyjesusburg, West Virginia, have ya spanky?
In NY, Kosher is indeed a specific type of cuisine. Unless appended to some other thing ("kosher Chinese cuisine," or "kosher Italian cuisine"), it's assumed to refer to general porkless, no meat and dairy, Central/Eastern European cuisine IE Yid food. Or delis.
