/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19723797
The many regional variants, including the world-famous KC-style sweet ketchup-molasses sauce, the Carolina spicy mustard sauce, Texas dry-rub, Michigan cherry BBQ, or Alabama lemon-mayonnaise-black pepper "baptized" smoked chicken, are all uniquely American inventions. Everywhere you go in the US you'll find different native cuisines. In western Kentucky you'll find the only few towns known for slow-smoked mutton. California has tri-tip. In Illinois you'll find beef ribs, or a thin, sour cumin-based sauce poured on simple dry-smoked pulled pork. To say American BBQ isn't unique is either ignorant or disingenuous.
>>19721778
Also:
Pumpkin pie
All Cajun food (boudin, gumbo, crawfish boil, etc.)
Snickerdoodles
Fluffernutters
Sweet gelatin dessert
Banana pudding (w/ nilla wafers)
The potato chip (crisp) in Sarasota, NY
California Pizza
California roll (sushi)
Tri-bean salad
Creamy coleslaw
Caesar salad (no, not mexican)
New England clam chowder
Boston baked beans (with molasses)
Hazy IPA (not my favorite)
Concord grape juice/jelly
Root Beer/Sarsparilla

And don't even get me started about the hundred or so regional hot dog styles, or we'll be here all day.