ITT: Post traditional food from your city/town/state that the rest of your country does not eat
Pic related, I live in a small rural town and we have a tradition of eating Giant Weta once a year for Maori New Year. We take the kids to collect a bunch of them in the weeks leading up to it. We usually manage a few dozen, and keep them alive until the holiday.
Traditionally we would fry them normally, but we recently got our hands on a deep fryer. Since then we've deep fried them in various batter.
>>52563658
W-what does it taste like?
>>52563715
Texture is crunchy with a juicy/soft inside.
It's an acquired taste, I think. The weta inside tastes sort of prawny I think, best thing I can think of to compare.
>>52563828
do you like to eat it? like, you eat many of those things or just 1 and you're done?
>>52563927
They taste pretty good, but I wouldn't want to have it often. It has like... A sort of after taste, hard to explain. It's a nice traditional food I think.
We normally have several each. They are quite difficult to collect though, so we can't have too many. Luckily they are not endangered where we live so we aren't threatening them in anyway. We've been considering raising them domestically as it's pretty simple, but we've never gotten around to it.
>>52563658
Look at the ass of that thing.
Once fried. Does it still has that disgusting goo shit that insects with big butts have inside??
>>52563658
That's a really africa tier tradition but then again, it's at least something.
>>52565397
Yeah sort of. It's not so much goo as it is just mushy shit though.
>>52565819
To be fair most people here also beat their kids and are alcoholics. It's a pretty African tier place.
I had no idea this wasn't a thing outside of the North East.
It's like an overweight grasshopper with no wings. Kinda cute to.
>>52565894
Jesus that looks like it'd make me gag. So much sugar, man.
Not traditional but I haven't hard of anybody from other states talking about this beauty.
Carne Asada Fries
T. California
>>52563658
is that a big ass stinger on its butt???
>>52566067
Fuck, that looks good.
>>52563658
>>52563658
this is something relatively new in philadelphia: the "philly taco". get a whole cheesesteak sub followed by a giant slice of plain pizza. wrap the pizza slice around the cheesesteak and consume.
I have lived in a few places in Canada and the US. I will post the region and some things people commonly ate there but not so much elsewhere:
>Southern California
Churros and authentic Mexican in general
>Southwest Colorado
Beefalo, Indian flatbread, Rocky Mountain oysters (bull balls)
>Eastern Tennessee
Biscuits & gravy, iced sweet tea, pickled pigs feet
>Anglo New Brunswick Canada
Fiddleheads, donairs, poutine râpee, meat pies
>Downeast Maine
Clambakes, blueberry everything even beer and wine, real lobsterrolls, chowder, New England style hotdog buns, oxycontin
>Bakken area of North Dakota
Walleye fish and chip, giant 3"+ thick "cowboy cut" steaks, lutefisk
>>52567212
Sounds nice
>Jersey wonders
If you consider the UK as "the rest of the country". Its something unique to us, similar to a doughnut but incredibly soft inside. I'd kill for one right now
Forgot pic
>>52563658
My town was founded in the 1960s so it has no traditions
We also have black butter. You boil cider for 2 days until it is reduced by half, then add Apple, lemon, liquorice, sugar and spices.
>>52563658
m-mehmet?
Fucking noice
>>52563658
>eating weta
>not keeping awesome giant lucky cricket as a pet
fucking kiwi's fucking sheep and treating their awesome animals terribly.
We almost lost out on the incredible tree lobsters.
>>52563658
Do they taste good?
>>52569992
Crunchy prawn/shrimp
>>52569902
looks like a chinese dish desu
where i live in texas we are known to eat the occasional hamburger
>>52563658
>>52563828
>>52564005
>>52565891
In Vancouver we have Japadogs. They're fucking delicious. Kind of expensive though as made with seaweed.
>>52563658
Deep frying turks?
>>52566067
Arizona here, those are quite popular here as well.
I guess Sonora style hot doges
>>52565891
Isn't being an alcoholic and beating up your kids one of those things that transcends race, though?
>>52571577
anyone who eats this deserves to be headed out of mexico
>>52572334
the potato chips seem excesive but otherwise they're the best hot dogs in the world
the hot dog is wrapped in bacon and you can put anything on them from chorizo to guacamole and cheese
>>52572508
That's fair, really the chips are the only thing that threw me off.
Indian food that looks like mexican food
>>52564005
OP is shitposting, or grossly misinformed.
Giant Weta are endangered and rare. Even where there is somewhat successful conservation efforts, it would be outlandish to capture several and eat them.
OP could of course be talking about more 'regular' weta species.. Which are more numerous. Still, I don't know if they'd be common enough to have a tradition of capturing and eating "several each" once a year.
Stinky tofu.
Although it isn't one of a kind, our city has THE most famous stinky tofu vendors.
Smells like feet but the taste is great.
>>52567212
>Shrimps
The best shit
>>52571577
That's fucking delicious.
>>52569062
I found a weta on a school camp once. I took it to my cabin but my teacher made me put it back, so I released it into the river :)
>>52574350
On our school trips to this park we'd always catch crayfish in the river. It's funny there were so many when I was 5, by the time I was 12 they were rare as fuck to find.
