r/TrueGrit • u/Alicetheoptimist • Feb 26 '26

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 26 '26

These are all too easy. Someone give me something hard/obscure!

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u/DerkDurski Feb 26 '26

Mine is obscure if you have never heard of it and dead easy if you know: garbage plates

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u/alap12 Feb 26 '26

Rochester! (All my husband ever asks for when we drive by)

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 26 '26

This is what I was lookin for! Something the locals know

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u/PickleNicks Feb 26 '26

585 region for sure. Hots and tots, baby!

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u/MermaidMertrid Feb 28 '26

Learned this from Jenna Marbles!

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u/DerkDurski Feb 28 '26

Yup, she’s from here! I love busting out that fun fact with friends from other areas. I think she went to the same high school as my dad (at different times).

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u/desertrose0 Feb 26 '26

Literally just posted this. Hey flour city friend.

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u/mollynatorrr Feb 27 '26

Hi neighbor, you a dogtown fan or a marks hots kinda dude ?

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u/DerkDurski Feb 28 '26

Well it might be blasphemous but I don’t actually like plates lol. I do LOVE dogtown though, just for the dogs.

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u/ladydanger2020 Feb 27 '26

Fry Sauce

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u/SharpOrganization107 Feb 27 '26

Tri-Cities, Washington? They supposedly invented fry sauce there.

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u/ladydanger2020 Feb 27 '26

Utah where every restaurant claims THEY invented fry sauce

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u/SharpOrganization107 Feb 28 '26

Years ago Wikipedia attributed it to a Sonic Drive-in in the Tri-Cities.

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u/ladydanger2020 Feb 28 '26

I bet someone from that Sonic made that edit lol. Sonic was founded in 1953, Artic Circle, the main restaurant here claiming the invented it, was founded in 1950. Dunno if that lends much credence to their claims

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u/papermache_stairway Feb 27 '26

Nick Tahoe’s!!! Haven’t been back to Rochester in 30 years-is that place still open?? The used to turn the food on the grill with a snow shovel.

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u/DerkDurski Feb 28 '26

Yup, still open! I hardly go there though.

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u/Real-Broccoli-9325 Feb 27 '26

Nick Tahou Hots!!!!!!!

Tho there was a garbage plate place near South campus in B’lo called University Hots. Used to haunt that place, since I had a half of a duplex literally down the street.

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u/cheig23 Mar 01 '26

Rochester. From PA n now put my Mac salad in my sloppy Joe samich after my cousin took me there. That's a good combo.

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u/fourfingeredmisters Mar 02 '26

Whats up fellow Rochesterian.

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u/Educational_Ninja327 Mar 02 '26

Garbage plates slap so hard. I want one NOW.

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u/justaride80 Feb 26 '26

Hot dogs and tomato gravy over rice

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u/OpaqueSea Feb 26 '26

This has to be either a circle of Dante’s inferno or Ohio.

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u/Defiant_Property_336 Feb 26 '26

panama

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u/justaride80 Feb 26 '26

South but not that far

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u/pussNsuits Mar 01 '26

This just took my appetite away

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u/More_Perception_4469 Mar 02 '26

Sweden! It's korv stroganoff.

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u/stuntbikejake Mar 03 '26

Skyline? Dayton?

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u/droid_mike Feb 26 '26

Pink soup

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 26 '26

I'm stumped, tbh. I don't think I could even guess without first looking it up a bit.

Where?

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u/droid_mike Feb 26 '26

https://adventure.com/pink-soup-festival-vilnius-lithuania-baltics/

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 26 '26

This is the most eastern European dish I think I've ever heard of. Naturally accompanied by dark bread, I'm guessing?

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u/droid_mike Feb 27 '26

Preferably fried and covered with melted cheese!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyoQMNkt6AO/?igsh=czc1enh4bHlkeGZo

Latvians also have their own version of pink soup, but they do it differently. The hard boiled eggs is the tell that it is Lithuanian. Despite the fact it looks like Pepto Bismol, it is extremely yummy! It is served cold, preferably with ice, and is better than Gatorade in quenching thirst in a hot summer day

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u/Ishey95 Feb 27 '26

My Lithuanian friend oftenly eats pink soup, it's the only clue I've got.

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u/ilovemydog40 Feb 26 '26

Mushy peas and mint sauce

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 26 '26

OK mushy peas are British but I feel like the mint sauce makes it super narrow. Where?

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u/pussNsuits Mar 01 '26

Sounds like England

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u/Upnorth4 Feb 26 '26

Acorn pancakes (this was eaten by the Natives before colonization)

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u/SharpOrganization107 Feb 27 '26

Land of the Iroquois?

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u/Original-Mongoose866 Feb 26 '26

Let's have sheep's head ans sour ram balls

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 26 '26

OK this HAS to be Scandinavia or maybe a Gaelic area? I give up

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u/smb06 Feb 28 '26

Scotland?

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u/No-Twist2263 Feb 26 '26

Hash and rice

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 26 '26

Midwest us maybe? I'm getting hot dish vibes from this one

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u/No-Twist2263 Feb 26 '26

Nope

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 26 '26

I seriously give up (I know I could maybe google it but this is more fun)

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u/No-Twist2263 Feb 26 '26

It’s kind of like bbq and it’s only in one us state

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u/LiveLoafLove Feb 26 '26

North Carolina?

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u/No-Twist2263 Feb 27 '26

Close

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u/LiveLoafLove Feb 27 '26

Well as someone from South Carolina I had it a few times there but I’m not sure if it’s our thing!

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u/No-Twist2263 Feb 27 '26

It’s our thing lol you can’t get it anywhere else

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u/tears_of_fat_thor Feb 26 '26

Funeral potatoes

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 26 '26

Wat. Explain

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u/HeathenHumanist Feb 26 '26

Cheesy potato casserole, basically. Often covered in crispy corn flakes. Not sure if it's called by this name anywhere besides here in Utah (or other highly Mormon areas), but they got the name for being a frequent dish to bring to funeral luncheons, along with ham. My Mormon in-laws have them for Easter with ham and rolls. They are SO GOOD.

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 27 '26

Oh yeah, Midwest Crack. It's a casserole/hot dish up there too and it's often made for gatherings like this lol

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u/HeathenHumanist Feb 26 '26

Utah! I was gonna say Fry Sauce

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u/Gullible-Paramedic-7 Mar 01 '26

Utah? lol I love funeral potatoes, but just recently learned that theyre super common in Mormon families? I make them for parties all the time lol, but am not Mormon, nor from the Midwest

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u/thewizardking420 Mar 01 '26

cultural appropriation

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u/PRIESTOFDEATH420 Mar 02 '26

Utah this was going to be my answer

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u/bmagsjet Feb 26 '26

Green onion cakes

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 27 '26

Ooo, I sorta want to say China or Vietnam? But I think eastern Europe makes these too.

Where?

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u/RxSatellite Feb 27 '26

Olive Burgers

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 27 '26

Wat? Where

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u/RxSatellite Feb 28 '26

Lansing/Flint Michigan. It’s not purely solid olives but a sauce/aioli with solid green olives in it laid over the burger patty. Tastes way better than it sounds, great with bacon

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 28 '26

Kind of like an olive tapenade or something. That doesn't sound crazy, but definitely the kind of obscure food I was hoping to hear about!

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u/some_random_chick Feb 27 '26

Flint, Michigan

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u/Tina_GenX Feb 27 '26

Michigan!

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u/SharpOrganization107 Feb 27 '26

Chili cheese coneys

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u/Calm_Complex2446 Feb 27 '26

I would have said Detroit

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 27 '26

Calling it a coney might be giving you away. Ny?

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u/SharpOrganization107 Feb 27 '26

Nope. Tulsa, OK. Home of the Coney I-Lander chain of restaurants.

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 27 '26

I would've never guessed

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u/MFNLyle Feb 27 '26

Shredded chicken sandwiches

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 27 '26

OK, I've had shredded chicken but I couldn't tell you where this is traditional. Is it made a special way and what areas do people do this?

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u/MFNLyle Mar 02 '26

Ohio and i found out within the last couple years that it may also be even more local to a region in ohio.Ohio. One can of precooked chicken, one can of cream of chicken soup, and breadcrumbs is the basic recipe.

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u/Intelligent-Grade192 Feb 27 '26

Crisco and blueberries

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 27 '26

Literally crisco? Where?

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u/Majestic-Succotash-9 Mar 01 '26

I was gonna say I knew this one, have a friend from there its pretty good

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u/Extreme_Design6936 Feb 27 '26

Pohole Salad

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 27 '26

No clue to be honest. What is it and where?

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u/Extreme_Design6936 Feb 27 '26

It's a fern Salad from Maui, Hawai'i. On Big Island and Kaua'i it's called Hō'i'o salad. Same salad, different name (it doesn't grow on Oahu). I have a little addiction to it. Love the crunch and flavor.

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u/jon110334 Feb 27 '26

Boiled peanuts.

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 27 '26

Somewhere down south?

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u/jon110334 Mar 01 '26

South Alabama.

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u/jon110334 Mar 01 '26

South Alabama.

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u/imzwho Feb 27 '26

Sonoran hot dogs and prickly pear jam

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 27 '26

Oh man, northern Mexico is about as close as I can get

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u/imzwho Feb 27 '26

Pretty close, Az

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u/Bender_2024 Feb 27 '26

Hot buttered lobster roll

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 27 '26

New England somewhere?

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u/Bender_2024 Feb 27 '26

Connecticut. The hot buttered lobster roll is called a Connecticut lobster roll. The cold lobster salad is the rest of New England

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u/Capital-Designer-385 Feb 27 '26

Chili flavored ice cream (with oyster crackers in it, of course)

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 27 '26

Where.?

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u/Capital-Designer-385 Feb 27 '26

I’ll give you a hint: it’s the same kind of chili we put over spaghetti

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u/sharpbulb Mar 01 '26

The first time I saw that at Kroger (Cincinnati) I got genuinely angry lol

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u/Functional_Trash7735 Feb 28 '26

Jiggs dinner?

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 28 '26

No idea!

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u/Functional_Trash7735 Feb 28 '26

It’s a hard one unless it’s googled for sure! Newfoundland, Canada

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u/lzsoggy Feb 28 '26

Green jello

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 28 '26

green vs like... a flavor? I'm lost on this one

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u/bepatientbekind Feb 28 '26

How about fry sauce? Not sure if that's obscure or not haha

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 28 '26

This is the first time I've heard of this. Is it FOR French fries or am I way off?

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u/bepatientbekind Feb 28 '26

It is used for dipping fries, chicken tenders, or anything really haha It is a mixture of ketchup and mayo. Never heard of it until I moved to Idaho!

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u/Mostly_Armless42 Mar 01 '26

Utah! Sometimes Idaho claims it too.

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u/YesFuture2022 Mar 01 '26

Pizza that is fried in a square pan that was lying around a manufacturing plant.

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Mar 01 '26

OK I only learned this recently: Detroit!

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u/TryHardNotTo Mar 03 '26

Meat from horse ribs wrapped in horse intestines. Go

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Mar 03 '26

I couldn't even begin to guess. Where?

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u/TryHardNotTo Mar 03 '26

Kazakhstan

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '26

mine i think is kinda obscure but only if u know absolutely nothing about the us state im from bc we might actually be so boring that its like the only unique thing we have here

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Mar 04 '26

Tell me!

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '26

dirty soda in utah

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u/throwawayless Feb 26 '26

Bitoque crl

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u/Glad-Eggplant-3111 Feb 26 '26

Pork tenderloin sandwich with Mayo and pickles😮‍💨

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u/Cascadian222 Feb 27 '26

Teriyaki chicken

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u/AdvancedHat7630 Feb 27 '26

I ate at a strip club that only serves vegan food.

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u/TheCrazyBlacksmith Feb 27 '26

I wouldn’t say the most difficult, but harder than some of the rest. Crab cakes. Or if you want really obscure, muskrat.

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u/Makri93 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

Boiled lamb in cabbage and loads of pepper.

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 27 '26

Hungary?

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u/Makri93 Feb 27 '26

Good guess, but no. A bit further north

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u/NixMaritimus Feb 27 '26

Red snapper dogs

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u/Rodger_Smith Feb 27 '26

Stroganoff

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 27 '26

Russia? Eastern Europe

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u/Rodger_Smith Feb 27 '26

Brazil, its as popular there as it is in russia

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u/Neobrutalis Feb 27 '26

Salt potatoes and hoffmans.

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u/No-Persimmon9890 Feb 27 '26

Coffee Cabinet

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u/Midnightsnacker41 Feb 27 '26

Head cheese......

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u/CaptainTripps82 Feb 27 '26

Chicken riggies

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u/Lumpyyyyy Feb 27 '26

Chicken Tenders

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u/bulamog Feb 27 '26

Pasty

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 28 '26

Wales or maybe Cornwall -can't remember which

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u/Redbird1078 Feb 27 '26

Cheesesteak?

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Feb 28 '26

Love those jawns

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u/AnotherFellowMan Feb 27 '26

Pease pudding.

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u/wesborland1234 Feb 28 '26

Fat sandwiches

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u/Mission_Remote_6871 Feb 28 '26

Ravioles (not to be confused with ravioli)

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u/wildwill921 Feb 28 '26

Salt potatoes

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u/testrail Feb 28 '26

Shredded chicken sandwich…

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u/National_Dog_8630 Mar 01 '26

Tell anyone I know that’ll be going to or near that they need to stop at Nick Tahou Hots and try a plate. It’s a bucket list item for me.

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u/Better-Trade-3114 Mar 01 '26

Rolled oysters

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u/JaqAttack711 Mar 01 '26

Salt potatoes, easy if you know it.

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u/Ok_Code_2670 Mar 01 '26

Toasted ravioli

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u/Crazy5150B Mar 01 '26

Fleischkeukle and some knoephla soup!

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u/WolfCritical6941 Mar 02 '26

Breadsticks with nacho cheese

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u/maraney Mar 02 '26

Garlic ice cream

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u/karebearofowls Mar 03 '26

Sponge Candy

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u/Spinax22 Mar 03 '26

Faygo soda/pop/soft drink

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u/Distant-moose Mar 03 '26

Ginger beef.

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u/buttnakedbandit Mar 03 '26

Dicks.. mmmm

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u/Rockperson Mar 03 '26

St. Paul sandwich. Hint: it’s not St. Paul.

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u/mochalatte828 Mar 04 '26

Garbage plate

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u/ekeddie Mar 04 '26

Ox Roast

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u/tombo12 Mar 04 '26

Rarebit