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xiphiasSome foods are place-bound. There's no reason that a Cincinnati Chili couldn't be made outside of Cincinnati, or that there could be a Garbage Plate somewhere other than Rochester, NY. But they're not. And some are a bit less place-bound, but still place-bound -- try getting Moxie outside of New England. Is there a region somewhere down South where they drink it, too? But not most places.
So, for those of you who grew up with such a cuisine, how old were you when you realized that other places just don't have it?
For me, I was just thinking about Whoopie Pies. And the age that I realized that they're not ubiquitous outside of New England was 40 2/3.
Yeah. Okay, I'm slow sometimes.
Oddly, I think I've got almost all the ingredients I'd need to make them in my kitchen right now. The only thing I'm missing is ... eggs. I've never made them before; it didn't occur to me until half an hour ago when Lis asked me that they were a thing that you actually COULD make. But they don't look all that difficult. It's just basically chocolate cake and buttercream frosting, really.
Well, one of the variations we found includes a buttercream/marshmallow combination frosting. Dunno how that would be.
So, for those of you who grew up with such a cuisine, how old were you when you realized that other places just don't have it?
For me, I was just thinking about Whoopie Pies. And the age that I realized that they're not ubiquitous outside of New England was 40 2/3.
Yeah. Okay, I'm slow sometimes.
Oddly, I think I've got almost all the ingredients I'd need to make them in my kitchen right now. The only thing I'm missing is ... eggs. I've never made them before; it didn't occur to me until half an hour ago when Lis asked me that they were a thing that you actually COULD make. But they don't look all that difficult. It's just basically chocolate cake and buttercream frosting, really.
Well, one of the variations we found includes a buttercream/marshmallow combination frosting. Dunno how that would be.
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Date: 2014-10-17 11:18 am (UTC)But I hear you; this is different. I honestly thought pastrami was something you could get everywhere growing up, and it really isn't. But places do _call_ what they serve pastrami, and you can see that's clearly their intent, so that's different than what you're talking about in the original post. And as you point out, there are a few bagel hotspots around the world, even if the bagels in my hometown are the best in the world. (No, really, as voted one time by Food Network!)
For me the food that was really local was Mallomars, which were of strictly regional distribution when I first moved away from their epicenter. I think nowadays you can get them in other places, though.