/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12433631
Arkansas has a food hall of fame. Louisiana doesn't have anything like that at all.

New York obvs, don't listen to flyover lies

>>12433631
NY, CA and LA are the three best food states in the country.

>>12433631
colorado because they put weed in everything

>>12433645
>>12433655
>we're important, trust us!
Does anyone ever fall for this?

>>12433679
I've been across the country several times. Most of it is a wasteland as far as food is concerned. Those three states are not.

>>12433693
So it's YOU who fell for it?

>>12433656
DUDE

>>12433696
>>12433656
Thank God, I wasn't sure I would get enough reddit memes today.

>>12433696
>>12433702
WEED

>>12433631
Nevada, specifically Las Vegas. Famous Chefs from all around the world the world have their high quality restaurants here with both fine dining and casual restaurants that while being a bit pricey generally have amazing quality food from all different parts of the world. If the mainstream shit on the strip isn't your style then you also have your choice of local places that may be more hole in the wall style, but are absolutely amazing and cheap to boot, especially in Chinatown where there are tons of different styles of food for relatively cheap with good quality resturant experiences, or just for take out. Not to mention the pure amount of high quality and authentic Mexican restaurants that are all across the city. For the fat tubs of lard out there there is also a wide variety of different fast food restaurants that range from high quality regional places like In-n-Out, places from other regions that have set up shop in the market like Chik-Fil-a, White castle and five guys, absolute trash like Taco Bell and McDonald's, and even run down shitty hole in the wall places that makes some surprisingly good food. There is no memery like NYC or LA, and if you don't want to pay an arm and a leg for mainstream food on the strip you have a lot of local places with varied cuisines that are extremely affordable. You also can legally get dude weed lmao to help the experience. Overall, probably one of the best places in the entire country for high quality food from all over the world.

>>12433631
I'm going to say a solid state because I don't like drinking my food.

>>12433631
The best state to have food in is... a state of hunger!

>>12433631
The correct answer is obviously Minnesota.

>>12433695
No, I had it proven to me after having to eat in states like Nebraska and Iowa.

Texas

>>12433631
LA has a lot of diversity that created a cuisine over time. It is curious NYC hasn't done that

Port towns have the best food

>>12433631
>DUDE CAJUN FOOD LOL
Fuck off tourist shitters.

Missouri, why even ask when the answer is so obvious.

>>12433769
Agreed but you can't have a entire state's food reputation rest on one city alone

You are all deluded if you aren't saying California. The food here in Los Angeles is insane. Up in the bay area it is insane. When I go down to San Diego it's off the hook.

>>12434730
>muh kolaches

>>12435369
I mean, fair enough, but the majority of the population of the entire state lives in Vegas, like how the majority of the population of other states live in one to 2 big cities. I'd consider it a a good show of what most of the state has to offer in the same vein as how NYC is where you'll find most of the food in New York just because it's so big and caters to such a large population.

any big coastal city is going to have good food. nyc, dc, boston, la, sf, etc

>>12433642
Louisiana has the HQ of Popeyes.

>>12435634
coasties FUCK OFF
(captcha is golden gate bridge)

>>12435442
>muh fish tacos

>>12433631
Because Louisiana Creole and Cajun food is fucking BASED.

That said, California is truly the top tier state for food, because there's fucking EVERYTHING. Seriously, you can get fucking anything.

there are a lot of frog legs in Louisiana so I'm fine with it

>>12434740
>It is curious NYC hasn't done that
Pizza as we know it, along with most Italian American cuisine. The steakhouse. The Jewish deli, especially pastrami. The Greek coffee shop/diner. The bodega BEC. General Tso's chicken. Shake Shack and Nathan's. Bagels. The Halal Guys. Momofuku. Eggs Benedict and the wedge salad. The list goes on.

>>12433655
Manhattan has excellent food., LA has good cheap food like burgers and burritos but at the highest level its shit compared to new york.

>>12436940
You ever heard of Chez Panisse? Or the French Laundry?

>>12437280
LA beats NYC for some Asian cuisines (excluding Chinese). LA used to destroy New York for Mexican, but an influx of immigrants from Puebla over the last two decades fixed If you limit NYC to Manhattan, yeah we kill LA on the high end and LA kills us on the cheaper eats. Once you include Brooklyn and Queens the cheap eats thing becomes more oif a knife edge call.

>>12433631
>louisiana
>best anything
LOL holy shit the cope

>>12434713
Eating on the prairie should not be done in restaurants, you have to go out to picnics or have dinner in peoples homes. If you were never invited over for dinner anywhere it means fuck off we're full.

>>12437444
Agreed. But great grandma is dead and her recipes don't really work with shit from the supermarket or Walmart anyways. The kind of American homestead/farmhouse cooking that was something of a national treasure was pretty much destroyed by the 20th Century. And what replaced it in home kitchens across the country isn't very pretty.

>>12435352
Fuck st louis. Toasted ravioli is boring as fuck and Imos is literal shit

>>12433645
>>12433655
>>12433679
>>12433696
>>12433693
NY, correct.

>>12433770
>he doesn't eat plasma
If you can't taste the free-roaming electrons then you're doing it wrong

Louisiana food is only decent south of I-10, everything else is absolute shit.

New Jersey because we have the best pizza/taylor ham sandwiches. Fight me

>>12433645
Can you even say NY? The boroughs would fight each other over which one of them has the best food before ever unifying in this discussion.

Cause pic related

>>12440461
>The boroughs would fight each other over which one of them has the best food before ever unifying in this discussion.
Not really. Manhattan is The City. Brooklyn has been cool for at least 15 years now though, but most modern Brooklynites will acknowledge Queens beats them on street level even though no one wants to go to Queens if they don't already live there. The Bronx and Staten Island are still trying to be heard above the hype of Jersey City being the new sixth borough. There's no real fight though, just more of a pecking order.

>>12433631
Louisiana is relatively great but my favorites are GA/SC

>>12437045
all of those exist elsewhere or are not particularly diverse

And I wouldn't be taking ownership of the wedge salad if I were you

>>12440633
>>12439074
>>12437340
>>12437280
>>12437045
You idiots are ok but certainly not better than a middling+ rating and I've been everywhere. Get off your high horses ffs

>>12437340
LA has the best pastrami, though.

>>12437045
>Shake Shack
This is actually a midwest thing
The founder is from STL and based his recipe off of a local burger joint
But Kudos to taking most of your biggest ideas from other places though, I guess it counts if the first iteration of the restaurant started there

Most good burgers are from the midwest desu

>>12440658
Wedge salad was invented here at Delmonico's. Like it or not.
>>12440660
Of course. If you don't know what you're doing eating in this town can be nothing but a pretty good rip off if you're not a price insensitive customer. Don't just come here thinking you know the lay of the land because internet and websites.
>>12440683
Finally LA is on par at it's best. Took over half a century.

>>12440694
>But Kudos to taking most of your biggest ideas from other places though
That's what happens here. Capital of capitalism. Doesn't matter there, but matters here.

>>12440721
>Of course. If you don't know what you're doing eating in this town can be nothing but a pretty good rip off if you're not a price insensitive customer. Don't just come here thinking you know the lay of the land because internet and websites.
I lived in both NYC and New Jersey for a combined 4+ years so definitely not a tourist

I've always wondered why New Yorkers are so far up their own ass about living in New York.

>>12440784
You may as well be an NYU student. Definitely a tourist.

>>12440789
Because when you leave New York everything goes to shit. Food first. There are a few exceptions in the USA. Mostly LA, SF, Seattle and Portland (if you're lucky), Austin, NOLA and some parts of Chicago are the only safe places to eat in this goddam country.

>>12440796
Top-tier copout for a person with such a mediocre (real world, not Schlomo Sez) quality of life

>>12440867
>Lists the biggest shitholes in the country
>Anywhere else isn't safe to eat
Lmfao

>>12440885
You have no idea. I work 8-10 hours a week at $100/hr and do well enough because I own a modest place. And I can afford everything I need. Life is chill.

>>12440867
>Because when you leave New York everything goes to shit.
You couldn't pull your head out of your own ass to answer a question about New Yorkers having their head up their ass. I hope the irony isn't lost on you.

>>12440904
Must be extraordinarily modest (read: a shithole)

>>12440945
20 years ago it would have been, but things change quickly here. Today people pay half a mil to live in a place like mine but just marginally bigger.

>>12441820
> like mine
> but just marginally bigger
Not that guy, but yeah you pay for square footage you fucking delinquent. No one is going to pay $200k to rent your shitty closet apartment but "muh half mil" if it was 12x the size.

>>12433631
North Carolina is easily in the top 5

>>12441828
>12x the size
More like one third bigger.

Wisconsin

>>12434730
>Texas
>posts Wisconsin beer

>>12435352
No Jimbo.

>>12433631
Florida, our sandwich game it top notch and we have fresh gulf and Atlantic sea food. We penetrate far enough northwest into southern country to get good BBQ and southeast enough to get good island food like Cuban sandwichs. Not to mention one of the most divers places on the planet of different cultures so we have everything from real mexican food to legit Thia and everything in-between

close seconds would be Texas, NY, and unfortunately CA

>>12440633
What a privileged life you must lead if you've never seen a chef from the Bronx battle one from Manhattan, and don't even think about throwing Yonkers in there.