/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.13946214]

What does /ck/ think of Midwest cuisine?

[Anonymous No.13946225]

>>13946214
Can't stand that slop.
Learned how to cook so that I wouldn't have to keep eating it.

[Anonymous No.13946232]

>choice of second entree
lol

[Anonymous No.13946240]

lotta cracker barrels here

[Anonymous No.13946261]

>>13946214
Both of those options sound terrible tho

[Anonymous No.13946290]

>>13946214
FYI Chet spits in your food every time you come in

[Anonymous No.13946297]

Coastie sounds likes the kind of person to wear their hair in a top knot, have taped glasses and wear sweaters all the time.
Fucking nerd.

[Anonymous No.13946303]

>>13946214
It's not good, but it's delicious.

[Anonymous No.13946308]

>>13946290
>Terre Haute
Chet is too busy smoking meth outside the diner's backdoor to bother spitting in the food.
t. Indy

[Anonymous No.13946522]

Midwest take on TexMex is pretty killer

[Anonymous No.13946536]

>>13946214
whats a horseshoe?

[Anonymous No.13946547]

>>13946536
Basically an open faced cheeseburger on toast with fries or onion rings on top. It's mostly an Illinois/Indiana/Iowa thing.

[Anonymous No.13946615]

>>13946547
Live in Indiana, never heard of that in my life.
>>13946214
The food at Chet's diner is sad and bland. I've been to many places like that, and they're uniformly shitty. Food on the coast is generally better, because they have more money, and good food is expensive. I've had better unhealthy food in Boston than I've ever found in Illinois/Indiana/Kentucky.

[Anonymous No.13946691]

>>13946547
>It's mostly an Illinois/Indiana/Iowa thing.
Iowa here, never heard of it.

[Anonymous No.13946732]

>>13946615
>Food on the coast is generally better

Seafood caught that morning? Sure. Ethnic food in ethnic enclaves? Yes.

But a Greek diner in NYC with 631 items on the menu is just as shit as Chet's truckstop in Terre Haute.

[Anonymous No.13946755]

>>13946732
Oh, yeah. I meant as far as walking into a random restaurant. A lot of those "pizza joints" you get in Boston for example are basically just fronts for Italian American families to sell deep fried frozen food from sysco and run drugs out the back. But if you just walk into a random place in a major city on the coast, I think you'll have better odds than anywhere in the Midwest, especially if you're in a gentrified part of town where the waiters are all college educated.

[Anonymous No.13946773]

>>13946755
I've lived all over the east coast (NY, VA, SC) and visited the west coast frequently, but for my money the best food I've ever eaten were local places in my home state in the Rockies. Never been to Boston, but I hit Cape Cod one week in the summer and all of the restaurants sucked. Maybe they were all just tourist traps?

[Anonymous No.13946842]

>>13946691
Same. Closest thing I can think of is a burger at Drake Diner.

[Anonymous No.13946846]

>>13946308
>Hoosiers
t. STL

[Anonymous No.13946927]

>>13946214
As someone who's lived his entire life in Michigan, I can say that "Midwestern cuisine" is a misnomer. The Midwest is a hodge podge of Yankee pioneer, European immigrant, and Southern cooking (at least in the Rust Belt), and whatever immigrant group got settled in your area. Then there's the added factor of whatever grows nearby; Michigan has a lot of fruit for example. There's some shared dishes, but more often they're broken into regional dishes.

That said, I'll offer up some observations:

-The best Michigan dish is a pasty. Coney dogs are great, but pasties are pasties.
-Lebanese people can really cook chicken.
-The best breakfast I've ever had was at Pegtown Station in Maple City.
-Cottage Inn > Jets
-Detroit style is better, but using anything but a Koegel's is heresy.
-Get the lemon chicken tadka at Shalimar.
-The cake I posted is worth every penny.
-Anyone who goes to Walmart over Meijer is a traitor.
-Oberon is a tasty beer, Leinenkugel makes a tasty shandy. These are not controversial statements, but you should be made aware of them nonetheless.
-The greatest cider is JK's Scrumpy from Flushing. Seriously.
-Donna's Donuts in Flint are the best donuts in the state. No, fuck off with your garbage bakery.
-Vernor's is the best, especially in a Boston Cooler.
-Faygo flavors are ranked as such: Peach, Redpop, everything else.
-Quality Dairy is ass, just like everything else in Lansing.
-I would kill a man for Zehnder's buttered noodles.
-The truffled french fries at Jolly Pumpkin are delicious.
-Better Made is overrated.
-Greek diners are incredible when you're shitfaced at 2am.
-Cheesy potatoes are the ambrosia of the gods.
-The coronavirus means an undefeated season for Detroit sports and thank fuck for that.

Oh, and anecdotally: On my last trip to and through Indiana, I went to a diner in Indianapolis that had never heard of corned beef and hash. Consequently, we must destroy at least all of Indiana, possibly Ohio and Illinois just to be safe.

[Anonymous No.13946930]

>>13946927
is this pasta or a real post? i can't tell anymore.

[Anonymous No.13946932]

>>13946930
I should kill you where you stand. I meant every word.

[Anonymous No.13946937]

>>13946214
is that what they mean when they say "haute cuisine"?

[Anonymous No.13946941]

>>13946932
sorry but i see more pasta on the cooking board funnily enough than any other board i frequent. gets hard to tell sometimes.

[Anonymous No.13946943]

>>13946547
Illinois here, never heard of it

[Anonymous No.13946946]

>>13946927
Ah fuck, I knew I forgot something. Culver's is god tier fast food, double so if you get the cheese curds.

[Anonymous No.13946963]

>>13946927
Wow fuck you for shitting on lansing, its one of the best area in the lower peninsula. I can tell you are probably from the detroit area

[Anonymous No.13946967]

>>13946963
And I can tell from the dents in your keyboard that you type with your knuckles.

[Anonymous No.13946987]

>>13946214
Grew up eating it. It was always miserable. I'm glad I got out. Vegetables taste good. Canned food tastes like shit. Having to explain to someone that a delicious thing eaten in other parts of the world won't make them sick got tiresome.

For people who weigh, on average, about 400 pounds, midwesterns sure are afraid of their food.

[Anonymous No.13947006]

>>13946927
100/100 post

[Anonymous No.13947020]

>>13946547
That's not an Indiana thing. At least not in central Indiana where I am.

[Anonymous No.13947060]

Seafood: coast
Literally anything else: midwest

[Anonymous No.13947506]

>>13947060
>casserole with no dairy
>looks so dry you'd wonder if it was left in the sun for 3 days

if people ever tell you not to bother bringing a dish for thanksgiving, this is why

[Anonymous No.13947533]

>>13946927
Im in Ann Arbor righ now and its basically like a coastiw area due to the university. Food here is pretty good though not the absolute best. There’s nothing truly unique here except for Zingerman’s.

[Anonymous No.13947572]

michigan here
I have come to realize that fast food truly is the pinnacle of food here. It's a lot of fun being a fatass and eating different takeout every day. I'm thinking I'll eat fast food 1-2 times a week and then make my own food at home the rest. It's just not worth going to a real restaurant here because the level of cuisine is so low.

[Anonymous No.13947600]

To my fellow Hoosiers, I’m going to be grilling the shit out of some brats, beef franks, and Oscar Myers in a bit. Then for dinner then I’m charring some Italian sausage for a big spaghetti dinner for my kids. I’ve got some jalapeños and cheese too but I usually do those in the oven since it takes so long. Pittsboro out.

[Anonymous No.13947620]

I lived in Utah for a couple years. Food there wasn't very good. Really relied much to heavily on fat and sugar for flavoring.

[Anonymous No.13947660]

>>13946214
Unironically fantastic. Meat, cheese, butter, onions, pickles, potatoes. simple as.

[Anonymous No.13947667]

>>13946214
I like Midwestern food.
But I just can't give up crawfish and catfish.
>T.Southern Coastie.

[Anonymous No.13947785]

Rate my steak /ck/ it's based in Irish butter, garlic and rosemary.
Please share your steak cooking wisdom.

[Anonymous No.13947821]

>>13946927
>Faygo Redpop
No thanks, I’d rather chug Robitussen, same taste and I’ll get high doing it

[Anonymous No.13947854]

>homemade bread
>homemade cultured butter
>homemade low-sugar jam
thanks to eurofags for the idea of putting cultures in
shit's good

[Anonymous No.13947883]

>>13946214
>cornbread
>midwest

[Anonymous No.13947924]

You can’t get Asian food in the Midwest except that horrible Americanized garbage. And no, your one cherry picked example in chicago doesn’t count. Coast has a huge variety of authentic stuff. Usually can find for very cheap too.

[Anonymous No.13947932]

>>13946214
https://imgur.com/a/3gTgNH1
Juggalo cookbook
The bible of the Midwest.

[Anonymous No.13947954]

>>13947533
I went to a shitty bar there last summer. Had a “spooky trilogy” slot machine that I won $80 on. Tipped the QT waitress an extra 20 and was feeling good.

[Anonymous No.13947957]

>>13946303
Cincinnati Cheese Coneys are fucking delicious.
>>13946927
I moved to the US a while back, in Cinncinati, and what you're saying is pretty much right on the money. There's a lot of shit people don't recognize as being Midwesterner (off the top of my head, Colby Cheese, notably), because they don't know it's native only to the Midwest, or to their region, even. So there's this perception of "everyone eats that", when in reality, not that many people do. You eat that because it's common. I'm in Cincinnati, so there is a higher level of pork because of city tradition, but also a significantly higher level of river fishes compared to elsewhere in the Midwest (where fishing is closer to lake fishing) and a much stronger Southern influence, because on a good day I can see Kentucky from my friend's house, and on a great day I don't.

[Anonymous No.13947964]

>>13947924
There's a great place for it in Columbus, OH if you're into Japanese food.

[Anonymous No.13947975]

>>13946927

Preach it, Michibro. Michigan has every kinda food you could imagine and does so without the pretentious bullshit of the coasties.

[Anonymous No.13947979]

And the people who eat these meals...

[Anonymous No.13948028]

>>13947883
Cornbread is pretty popular in Ohio.

[Anonymous No.13948106]

>>13946927
>corned beef and hash
I'm willing to bet they knew what it was but I just see people call it something different at breakfast places. It's usually just served as a skillet with some cutesy name like 'The Grand Slam' or something, probably with cheese and eggs. I'm curious what diner you went to

Also fuck Michigan and fuck your shitty lakes. I had to sit through bullshit Pure Michigan radio commercials on my way to school every morning

[Anonymous No.13948135]

>>13946927
>-Greek diners are incredible when you're shitfaced at 2am.

are you sure you're Michigan?
they're called Coney Islands and are usually owned by Alabanians

pasties are the tits, though

[Anonymous No.13948141]

>>13948135
Michigan sucks that would explain why.

[Anonymous No.13948159]

>>13946214
Atrocious

[Anonymous No.13948163]

>>13948141

your Mom sucked real good last night after I fucked her in the butt and she had made my dick stinky

[Anonymous No.13948179]

>>13948159
I would never put green beans in it but hot dish is maximum comfy.

[Anonymous No.13948182]

>>13947924
Bullshit. Stop lying on the internet. There are real asian people running very good asian restaurants all over the midwest. Stop going to panda express

[Anonymous No.13948188]

>>13948163
bet your stinky cock after gay sex still smelled better than an average yooper even after a shower

[Anonymous No.13948191]

>>13948159
That looks good af tho?

[Anonymous No.13948218]

Midwest is maximum comfy food. Chicken pot pie, chicken fried steak, meatloaf, hot dish, tavern sandwich. I love it all.

[Anonymous No.13948229]

>>13948191
It is good. It's American shepard's pie. You can make it as good or as cheap as you want.

[Anonymous No.13948245]

>>13946927
8/10 not a bad representation. Although haven’t been able to find a good pasty around Detroit.

[Anonymous No.13948255]

>>13948135
Around Detroit probably 85% percent Greek owned coneys.

[Anonymous No.13948291]

>>13946927
They have Greek diners out there too? Tons of NJ diners are Greek owned, thought it was just a north east thing.

[Anonymous No.13948441]

>>13946547
grew up in chicagoland hearing rumors about these but never saw one
now im in school in central illinois and they're everywhere
even better than they sound boys

[Anonymous No.13948464]

>>13946963
You know your food scene is shit when the best thing you have to offer are wraps served in 2 pounds of grease, and the "unique" thing is that they're tatertots inside.

[Anonymous No.13948475]

>>13946547
from northern indiana, never heard of this shit

[Anonymous No.13948481]

>>13948159
casseroles might be the worst dish in the fucking midwest. jesus

[Anonymous No.13948529]

>>13946214
You people really need to move to a southwestern state, or any that has a large hispanic population. Here in Texas I can get amazing tacos in almost every strip shopping center or gas station. Flyover food is nothing compared to street tacos, breakfast tacos, tamales, brisket tacos, fresh tortillas, etc.

[Anonymous No.13948540]

>>13948291
We call them "coney islands". Mainly around Metro Detroit. There are a lot of chains and also independent ones.
Typically, it's standard american diner food, but also with Greek stuff like gyros, spinach pie, chicken lemon rice soup, that sort of thing. And also the eponymous Coney Dogs.

[Anonymous No.13948546]

>>13946927
>Better Made is overrated.

Them's fightin words.

[Anonymous No.13948575]

>>13946773
I live about 30 minutes north of Boston and there are a ton of great places to eat - never been to cape cod. I was in Denver a couple months ago and the Mexican food blew ours outta the water. In my opinion it works like this:

Midwest - You will never walk into a random place and walk away with a second mortgage, but the foods probably just OK at most places

Coasts - High chance of walking into a random place and having your wallet raped for a small portion of uninspired garbage. Rarely you will visit a meme and be blown away and its all worth it.

[Anonymous No.13948578]

>>13946691
Illinois, same. Filthy Hoosier.

[Anonymous No.13948712]

>>13948182
Yeah you got maybe 1-2 good places in your flyover state, the rest may be owned by Asians but it’s all Americanized to fit your corn eating palates. In bigger cities it may be more but nothing like on the coasts. I can drop by the 626 and get dozens of good places to eat. If you are asian and don’t want to cook everything at home then Midwest is a terrible place to live.
T. Lived in Illinois for 2 years.

[Anonymous No.13949545]

>>13947020
>>13946615
>>13948475
Huh, I'm a Hoosier myself and my dad used to make them all the time for me growing up. He's from Central IL, which I guess explains it, but I figured it was a midwest thing in general.

[Anonymous No.13949599]

>>13948540
Not that anon, but I'm also from NJ and have spent a decent amount of time in the Detroit area. It's kinda crazy, it's literally the only other place in the country with restaurants that felt and tasted exactly like a NJ diner, just with the owners having Great Lakes accents instead of sounding like me. Even the Coney dogs, we have our own equivalent called a Texas wiener (chili dog with onions, and just like how Coney dogs have nothing to actually do with NYC, Texas wieners have nothing to do with TX).

Part of why I like Michigan so much desu.

[Anonymous No.13949607]

>>13948481
Coasties will never understand.

[Anonymous No.13949871]

>>13948291
They're just greasy spoons and they serve general diner fare (though sometimes they offer Greek items), but they're ALWAYS owned by Greeks.

[Anonymous No.13949911]

>>13948106
It was some mom and pop eatery. I forget the name. The food wasn't terrible, I'm just annoyed that these people didn't have what I wanted.

Divvy in Carmel was fantastic. If you're in the area and you want to blow money, that's a good way to do it.