/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13695962
As a Minnesotan, I get a boner when I see a nice casserole, errr, hot dish. Looks fantastic.

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>>13454618
Fellow man of the north here. Ambrosia salad is the tits. Nothing perks up a post-funeral crowd like a big bowl of it at the potluck in the church basement.

>>11259501
Minnesotans really do eat tater tot hotdish. If you've never had it, probably best not to. If you grew up with it, it's fucking fantastic.

That said, there is a huge divide between rural and urban Minnesota. Urban (near the Twin Cities, obvs,) tries to be cosmopolitan, and in some ways, succeeds. There are some very good restaurants and there is some ethnic food. Some of it even has flavor. The inner ring suburbs all have a nouveau riche douchery to them, Especially wealthier towns like Edina and Wayzata. Total cunts, but good variety of foods. Once you're around 30, maybe 40 miles from the cities, it's a different world. Hotdish rules. Simple foods like meat and potatoes, lots of soups and stews, and all of the 'flyover' classics. This gets more extreme the farther you get from the cities. See attached, highly scientific graph. Except in Duluth. Somehow, they manage to mix the two. You can get all sorts of trendy stuff (and some damned fine beer,) while also having a salad bar loaded with stuff like herring.

Uff da, Minnesota.