Weird foods of States…..

I was looking thru some stuff on the internet…and one that caught my eye was  a site called weird meals from different states…  These kind of stood out.

 

Michigan

Weird food: Dessert nachos

At the Detroit Lions' Ford Field in Detroit, fans can sample this curious mashup -- tortilla chips topped not with melted cheese and salsa but with cinnamon, sugar, smoked-chocolate-cherry Nutella sauce, chocolate-covered cherries, sprinkles, and whipped cream.       Now that didn’t sound bad… kind of sweet…

Nevada

Weird food: Belly of the Beast Burger

America has no shortage of excessive burger presentations, but this Las Vegas monstrosity has them all beat. It's two patties of two pounds each, topped with cheddar and jack cheese, pork belly, tater tots, tomatoes, jalapenos, barbecue sauce, and ranch dressing, all sandwiched inside an entire French-bread boule. The whole thing weighs 10 pounds. Can we get a wheelbarrow full of fries with that?  This one sounds like a heart attack looking for a place to happen…

New Mexico

> Weird food: Green chile sundae

Caliche's in Las Cruces is known for its frozen custard, but it doesn't just top the various flavors with the usual sweet sauces, sprinkles, and the like. The specialty it calls the New Mexican is a big dish of frozen vanilla custard crowned with chopped green chiles and sprinkled with salted pecans.   Now this one sounded like when I was pregnant in 1960, when I ate Mexican food, and had salsa on vanilla ice cream.   lol

North Carolina

> Weird food: Livermush

It's liver, all right, of the pork variety, mushed together with morsels of pig's head meat and cornmeal, formed into rectangles, and fried into something that has been described as looking like burnt Pop-Tarts.    NO NO NO.. never ever liver..  pop tart liver.. ugh

Oregon

 Weird food: Pacific lamprey

Lamprey are long, eel-like fish with sucker-like mouths and no scales, long an important food source for Indian tribes in the Columbia River Basin, prized for their rich, fatty meat. You won't find them in Portland's trendy restaurants, though; while not (yet) on the endangered list, they are considered a species of concern.    I’ll pass… 

Pennsylvania

 Weird food: Scrapple

Known in Pennsylvania Dutch as Pannhaas ("pan rabbit"), scrapple is a mush of cornmeal and wheat flour (sometimes with buckwheat flour added) and a whole array of pork scraps, including head, heart, and liver. Ohio's goetta and North Carolina's livermush (see above) are not dissimilar.   There goes that nasty word again…liver.

Rhode Island

> Weird food: Pizza strips

If you like leftover cold pizza for breakfast, you'll like these. Pizza strips are basically thickish pizza dough, almost like a focaccia, formed into a rectangle, covered with tomato sauce (no cheese), and baked. Then it's cut into strips and eaten at room temperature, to the delight of many Rhode Islanders.   Sorry, but in all my time in R.I. never heard of this one, if I am going to have pizza, I want MEAT!!

Tennessee

> Weird food: The Fat Elvis

The late great Presley is honored (dissed?) all over America with renditions of his purported favorite sandwich -- lots of peanut butter and mashed bananas on white bread, sometimes dubbed the Fat Elvis. (Some versions add bacon.) Tennessee, the home of Elvis's famed mansion Graceland, has a particular claim on it, though, and it is widely sold in the neighborhood.   This one I put up because of the FAT ELVIS part.  I knew he loved peanut butter and banana sandwiches..

Virginia

> Weird food: Cownose ray

This plump, thick-snouted stingray was once accused of destroying the oyster population in Chesapeake Bay, though it has since been acquitted of the crime. Its wings, however, are almost as much of a delicacy as those bivalves. They've been cut into rounds and substituted for scallops, but it can also be made into kabobs or fajitas, among other things.  Now this one upset me.. they use the stingray for substitute of scallops… no that is just wrong on all kinds of levels..

West Virginia

> Weird food: Fried squirrel

Hunters used to bring home squirrels for dinner when they couldn't catch anything better, and in fact, the meat is said to be quite good -- sweet and nutty, like a cross between rabbit and (what else?) chicken. It's still appreciated in West Virginia, which hosts an annual Squirrel Fest, and where frying is a preferred method of preparation.  The picture was enough to make me pass.. right out of the building..

For those who have internet, you can look up your state, if it isn’t here…

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