/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5677474
west coast is best if you ignore the other two coasts

>>5677474
What a bullshit list.

>>5677474
As always

Texas master race reporting.

>Legit Mexican food
>Tex-Mex
>Cajun
>Smoked BBQ
>Southern home cooking
>Gulf seafood

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>>5677474
so.. this faggot list knows nothing about the mid west and just googled for reasearch?

>Alaska
>when you're not eating wolves that Sarah Palin shot out of a helicopter
This article is from 2014? The writer needs to be shitcanned.

>>5677483

Not to mention some steak houses rated top in the nation by a variety of credible sources.

>>5677483
Fuckin spot on m8

>>5677483
If it is so good Mr.Flyover tell us why it isn't on the list

>>5677631
>Flyover
idontthinkthatwordmeanswhatyouthinkitmeans.mpeg

>>5677631
I don't like Texas, but it is definitely not a flyover state.

>>5677474
>Dem Asada Fries
MY BEST COAST NIGGA

I'd agree.

>>5677631
its number 2 on the list

San Diego + Baja California best food city partnership ever

>>5677474
>implying east coast isnt best coast

>>5677664
are these from lolitas? no where else puts the fucking cotija on them.

I live in Texas and I can confirm, best BBQ on Earth.

I moved from California to Denver 2 yrs ago and cannot find fucking carne asada fries that compares. ;_; RIP me

>>5678858
Mang, you moved to munchie capitol of the US too. I feel yo pang.

Suggestion: Learn to make your own, start a food truck and make bank. You could pull up in front of all those dispensaries and serve to all the high folks in need of something to nom.

>lived in Oregon all my life
>all that ever gets mentioned about my state is faggot ass Portland, known more by locals for it's aggressive homeless than the food

Seriously, like 75% of Oregon is rednecks. Everything on the east and everything south. Only the NW corner is bad. Why is our reputation like this?

>>5678858
At least there are 3 or 4 places that do them at all, better than some areas where there's zero options.

>>5678866
That's a pretty good idea --- food trucks are big in Denver and a carne asada fries one might be a cool niche

>>5678891
>>5678866
I've tried to make crarne asada fries at home, but I can't get the meat right. I don't have the Mexican ~touch~

Btw >>5678891 you in Denver too?

>>5678891
Do it bro. Im dead serious. There can never be enough food trucks. Find a truck, buy that bitch and fix-er up. While you are working on that, finances/repairs/whatever, work on your recipe. It MUST be spectacular if you want repeat business. Get license from proper authorities and your set. Its fucking easy, just do it.

>>5677631
>everyone who doesn't live in california lives in flyover land
Califags being delusional once again

>>5678881
That's because the food in Oregon is awful.

>>5678902
In Wyoming, so Denver is my closest place for the CAF fix

>trashes Indiana for fast food
>literally lists white castle and wendys for ohio
seriously fuck this list

>>5678724
Yep. San Diego and tijuana are pretty much bro tier when it comes to cross culture. San diego gives Chargers and Tijuana gives xolos. Tijuana gives street food and San diego made craft beer big in TJ

>Missouri
>dissing Provel cheese

no.

>>5677550
Except that the Golden Ox in KC is the best steak house on the planet.

>>5677599
Eww

>bashing hawaii for glorious spam musubi
>ignoring everything else that you can get at any place that sells spam musubi

"Psh, whatever, I'll give it a look."
>50s and 40s
Yeah, that about figures. I've driven through some of those states, they're garbage.
>30s
All right, someone's gotta be in the middle. No Washington yet, though, that's good.
>20s
Cool, we're ranked pretty high, I guess.
>TEENS
OH FUCK WE'RE REALLY HIGH
>TOP FUCKING TEN!
OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK!

"7. Washington
Do you like apples? They were probably grown in Washington. For real though, this state’s a produce powerhouse and farmer’s market wet dream come to life. That sounded gross. You get the idea, though. They also use their natural advantages in the beer and wine departments (they grow, like, 80% of the country’s hops -- thank them!). Their oysters are delicious, even if they won’t actually get you laid. Oh, and you might think you’re familiar with their coffee, but go there, and you’ll invariably be introduced to something new and better."

Number. Fucking. Seven. Eat it, bitches. Considering that the top 5 are all hugely populated metropolises (except for New Orleans, which is NEW ORLEANS), I'd say that's pretty FUCKING good. And I'm not the least bit flustered about Oregon beating us out for 6th-- us and them, we're bros, we understand how these things work, it's cool, I like that Portlandia show.

Number fucking seven, OH YEAH. I was already planning on going to the Sunday farmer's market tomorrow. Now I'm EXTRA PUMPED about it. Pacific Northwest 4 life.

>>5679971
Obviously these lists are bias man
the people doing research don't actually go to these states they just google things and see what comes up
it's why the "foodie" states of california and new york are always at the top of the list
do they deserve it?
maybe, but it's 70% hype
and while there is a lot of diversity in those areas, it really all comes down to which places have the best reviews
instead of which places actually taste the best/are the most impressive

tfw don't live on a coast

>>5680030
I live on the north coast.

>>5680034

Stop commenting.

>>5680036
stop breathing

>>5680052

Stop existing. Nobody likes you and your family is disappointed in you.

>>5680052
Rekt
❎Not Rekt

>>5680062
I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. 'Cause I'm the real article. What you see is what you get.

>>5680070

All I see is a bunch of faggy letters.

I've been thinking of getting into food trucking, or at least doing a shitty delivery service.
"The Joint", chef tested, stoner approved concoctions. Grilled Charlies would absolutely be a menu item, as well as bacon wrapped, sriracha fried wings.

>>5680110
the red tape is ridiculous bro

>>5680114
the pussy game is ridiculous

>>5680123
not when you spend all your time running a food truck

>>5677474
South Dakota losing to North fuck this shit.

>States with more history and rich people have more and better food and drink options

Holy shit, really? I'd never have guessed.

Superior New York food coming through.

>coney sauce with yellow mustard n' onions covering hash browns n' scrambled eggs

I want to believe...

We do have a lot of excellent food and beer in Illinois, but the people are absolutely unbearable.

>If you didn’t have one incredible pizza town, a corridor of somewhat adorable steamed cheeseburger joints, and pretty good Jamaican food in Hartford, you -- like Darien-native Topher Grace -- would be, AT BEST, in the middle 30s.
why connecticut, why

>Live in Alabama
>Number 14

I guess I haven't found the places these guys have been to

I mean Birmingham has a solid food scene but...number 14?

I guess if you count BBQ place #1,400,502 or Overpriced Southern Food place #3,200,219 or Shitty Gulf Seafood Place Playing Jimmy Buffet Whose Neon T-Shirt Every Orange Colored White Girl Who's Been to Gulf Shores Has #500,000,000 then we're number 14.

>>5680220

Dog Town on Monroe, anon?

>>5680231
Chicago has the best Mexican dining scene in the US,

>>5680273
The only thing chicago is good at is burying shitty hot dogs under 5 pounds of condiments

Protip - If your hot dog has more onions and relish on it than hot dog, you're doin it wrong

>>5677474
A surprisingly strong showing by Alabama.

>>5677474
>Florida is 24
>Missouri, Maryland, Illinois, Massachusetts and fucking Alabama above it

>>5680273
>not even next to the border.
No

>>5680273
I refuse to believe any state not sharing a border with mexico has decent mexican food.

>>5680391
this.
>world of beer
>south FL has something called a "monster drink" its a mexican bulldog margarita, only bigger - 2 coronas in a very large frozen margarita.
Fl actually produces A LOT of beef
micro brewerys every where
cocaine washes up on beaches

>>5680408
chicago has its fair share of mexican immigrants
plus it's so damn segregated so muh authenticity and culture is vibrant
lookup Pilsen chicago
also, have you heard of rick bayless?
get off your high horse, cunt

>>5680220
>>5680269
RITfag chiming in, can confirm superiority.

Hello dear friends, I have journeyed all across this great nation as a food and sex tourist and I come to tell you that the south is where its at. Texas probably deserves number one, and Louisiana two. The things I had in California and New York were as over exaggerated and pretentious as the people who served them. Really nothing special.
And Texas had the best whores.
The fact that they ranked Cali first on the basis of growing fruit and shit is really fuckin stupid and by that measure Nebraska should be top ten for lords of the corn.
And I got a monkey wrench from a fat black chick in Mississippi.

>>5680078
>not recognizing that text

>tasteless white people rank food quality meant for tasteless white people
>west coast is highest ranked
Sounds about right. Nothing but tasteless white people eating food meant for tasteless white people out there. Not a one of them have any Mexican friends to go over their houses and eat proper brown people food, I'd bet. To them, whatever taco truck is the height of Mexicuisine.
God bless tasteless white people.

>>5680391
Yeah I don't get that either. All he has to say are good things about Florida food but because of the "lel florida is so wacky!" bandwagon he HAS to put it lower on the list?

Shit man, if anything Florida should get at least top 15. It has both good Southern food from the hicks up north and delicious Latin and fusion food from the south.

>>5679957
Those are glorious kimchi fries with korean bbq pork, check yourself pleb.

>>5677532
>first page of google results returns nothing of interest
>this place must be shit!
>hurr durr I'm writing an article look at me go mom wheeeeeeee

No shit, the writing is awful. And this topic has been overdone to death in the past year.

What a garbage article. It wouldn't be difficult for me to come up with a list of 50 excellent restaurants for AZ, and all they can mention is a good pizza joint. Simple search engine queries yield better results.
From a pdf directed at elementary school kids:
"Yuma, Arizona is the winter lettuce capitol
of the world. Arizona ranks 2nd nationally in it’s production of cantaloupe & honeydew melons, head & leaf lettuce, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower and lemons. Cattle & calves and dairy goods are Arizona’s most valuable farm products, with cattle & calves representing 18% of total farm receipts and dairy products 20%. There are approximately 1 million head of cattle & calves producing 386 million pounds of beef annually. There are 186,000 milk cows in the state with a yearly milk production of 23,382 pounds per cow. Arizona has over 165,000 hogs, and 150,000 head of sheep and lambs. The state has, on average, 1,600,000 laying hens which produce over 5.8 billion eggs a year.

How can they claim to take any of what they said they took into account? They put no real effort into looking into it at all or just let personal bias override.

I want to say something about the "flyover" states.

Our best food doesn't come from a restaurant. You can't come here to buy it and "experience" us on your terms. We're spread out and have space that doesn't support uniquely inventive restaurants very often (very occasionally). And like everywhere else on this planet, there are plenty of shit restaurants.

I used to live a block from a church that had predominately Mexican attendees. They would have a supper once a month where the neighborhood was invited. All that homemade mexican food as the mom's and grandma's were trying to outdo one another. Fucking heaven. And the large population of people from Laos that lived in a small town to the south of us had grandmas turning out Asian food for school tournaments and more. Those rolls man! And the nail salon that I work near gives us steam buns from a Korean family that cooks out of their kitchen. And the kolaches from those tiny Czech grandmas, turning them out by the hundreds for their small town festival. Every time my dad gets one of his cows butchered, I could not ask for better beef. And then he picks up some jerky from the small town butcher and it's even better. You know what puts the fun in funerals? That fucking luncheon afterwards. Funeral sandwiches, all the midwest salads and desserts because the church ladies trotted out their favorite recipes. The lady that makes pies and sells them frozen to local grocery stores across the state in every weird kind imaginable, and the approximately 7 billion farmers markets. The neighbors that leave produce on your doorstep, because they don't care whether you want tomatoes and squash and watermelon and peppers; they had to many and they think you need some. And on every corner, there's a couple of teenagers sitting in the hot sun with fresh picked sweet corn filling the pick up truck bed to sell to you all summer. I don't understand how anyone can buy sweet corn from a grocery store. Family potlucks and holidays. ETC.

>>5681584
cool story bro

>>5681584 continued
tl;dr: I get why a lot of people mock flyover states, and I'm not trying to say, "Let's compare Gramma Annie's bierock recipe," to a chef directed and planned meal in New York. I'm not having a dick measuring contest, but you are not going to find what is best in "flyover states" based on Google searches or restaurant reviews.

I understand the limitations of living here, and understand those who mock it that have experienced it. But seeing a bunch of coastie idiots make fun the place is kind of like watching a 15 year old that's smoked pot twice explain the finer points of weed smoking to a 14 year old that's smoked pot once. You're missing a lot, even if you are vaguely correct.

>>5677474

The author, Kevin Alexander

> has been an editor at Thrillist since 2008, when the entire company was run out of an abandoned Wendy's in Queens. His hobbies include heckling dog sitters and translating Hardy Boys Mysteries into Gaelic.

What a smug asshole. Was this list intended to be funny? I'm from IL, so I don't take offense to it as a state but more so from someone with a shred of intellect and knowledge of culturally what many states in murica can and do offer

>>5681610
>But seeing a bunch of coastie idiots make fun the place is kind of like watching a 15 year old that's smoked pot twice explain the finer points of weed smoking to a 14 year old that's smoked pot once.
I'll bite, shut your ignorant mouth. Obviously there are people in flyover states that know how to cook and it is understandable that you are proud of where you're from and don't like to see it mocked, but your location is shit for the most part. Get the fuck over it, for one you don't even know what good ethnic food actually tastes like because you have no other comparison so don't try to pretend like your mexican church bake sale shit is even that authentic, it may be but you are really talking out of your ass. The point is your food as a whole can't touch "idiot coasties" food so cry me a river you butthurt faggot.

>>5681672
>european immigrants aren't an ethnicity
>latin america doesn't move to other states after crossing the border
>asian immigrants aren't everywhere

pls

>>5681685
Yes that's exactly what I was saying detective...

My point is that the poster(you?) doesn't really know what he's talking about. The pot smoker comment shows that he's either not giving people that aren't in flyover states enough cred or he's giving his state too much cred. For example the are in which I live has a very strong mexican, viet namese and indian presence and I try as many different places as I can so I know I have a pretty decent gauge on that food in particular. His state does not have a strong presence of anything, yes hes got some mexican families that found each other and made a church and cook a meal, that is not a strong mexican presence. It's more like a seasoned potsmoker that has been smoking various qualities af pot for many years giving advice to a new smoker. Sounds cocky but that's the way it is. Deal with it or move out of you boring state where there is nothing of significance.

>>5681754
and what I'm saying is that you're wrong and retarded

>>5677474
>thrillist.com/eat/nation/every-state-ranked-by-its-food-drink
>Texas not #1
That list is shit.

>>5681781
Whatever stay mad and uncultured flyoverfag

>>5681893
stay ignorant yet opinionated

>>5677474

It ranked Kentucky at #9 and gave no reasoning. Are you kidding me?

What a terrible list, there are very few places in Kentucky that I'd actually want to eat.

>>5681917

glad north carolina is getting some love

>>5681973
North Carolina is best Carolina.