Ok guys, let's talk some culture.
What is/are the traditional dish/es of your country?
don't forget to state where do you come from...

I live in Malta, Europe. Here some of the traditional dishes are:

Rabbit - The rabbit is usually lightly fried, then simmered as a casserole of red wine for several hours. It is usually served with fries or potatoes and salad. It is mostly served in tomato sauce or rich gravy.

Pastizzi - Pastizzi are small, diamond-shaped packets of flaky pastry stuffed with either fresh ricotta cheese or a mushy pea mixture.

Ħobz biz-Zejt (Maltese bruschetta) - this variation on the Italian bruschetta consists of a slice of crusty Maltese bread dipped in olive oil, rubbed with tomatoes and filled with a mix of tuna, tomatoes, onion, olives, capers and garlic.

i bet i made you hungry

Trans Fat.
I live in the good ol' U.S. of A.

In Northeast U.S.A, particularly a region called Cape Cod we love our lobster. Lobster rolls, lobster sallad, and just plain ol' lobster. Thankfully where I live (MArthas Vineyard), there is no fast food joints so good food can be found all over the place. It's all too damn exspensive though. We also eat lot's of Cod (you probably figured that out because I live in Cape COD).

I live in Seattle, we're all about salmon, and shell fish up here. And of course... Coffee.

Often times you can find salmon in restaurants that's been fillited and roasted on a cedar plank.

It's pretty mild weather wise in this part of the world so we also have a lot of fruit. Berries in particular and Washington is also well known for it's blackberries, raspberries, apples, apricots, and cherries. It's not uncommon to get your salmon served with something like a blackberry demi glace sauce or even huckleberry or salmonberry too.

I don't know how many folks have had salmonberry before... it grows wild in this area... it's almost a cross between a strawberry and a raspberry. Delicious!

My favorite salmon recipe is "Roasted salmon with Peppar Vodka Mango Chutney" it's SO good. I think if you do a search on UM for Peppar Vodka, the recipe should pop up, I know I posted it once.

Mostly we're just obsessed with coffee here. LOL.

well being formerly from la. the state not the city, we enjoyed red beans and rice , peach cobbler, and lets not leave out corn bread these are customary dishes through out the state. if the third bite doesnt fill yah the third serving will make yah fat. and dat the way it was back home.

pea ot wolfie

Oooo and HUSHPUPPIES! I love hushpuppies! Y'all eat grits too... Personally, I love them, but I know a lot of people who think they're the vilest food on earth. LOL. And Catfish.. omg, the LA catfish.

In my humble opinion, LA and MS have some of the best food on the planet--comfort food extrordinaire. LOL.

**drooling**

Maryland is on the Chesapeake Bay and is famous for seafood, especially crabs which we sprinkle with a combo of hot spices called "old bay".

The official food for North Carolina, where I grew up, was barbeque. Yeah, we had all the other traditional Southern things, too, like biscuits and whatnot, but barbeque -- real, honest to god barbeque -- is a NC thing.

It is not a verb. It is a noun. In fact, it's only a specific noun: pork, for BBQ is only ever made from pig meat. You take a pig and roast it over hickory smoke all day, and baste it with a sauce that has red pepper, black pepper and a blend of spices. Then you shred the meat, and then chop it into little bits. And serve it, usually with hushpuppies and coleslaw. Sometimes you can dress it with a further dash of the sauce -- if you live in Western NC, it's a thicker sauce made with a tomato base (similar to what other, confused people put on chickens or cows further west), or a delicious vinegar-based sauce if you live in Eastern NC.

You can also make it into a sandwich, topped with pickles and coleslaw. And it's also best to get it in little road-side shacks.

It's literally the only thing I miss from living in NC, since you can't get it outside the state, despite what restaurants claim. I've gotten into arguments with chefs here who try to ply me with "real, Carolina-style" BBQ beef or chicken.

--Jaylemurph

Here in South Jersey, it's all about seafood. If we're not catching it, we're eating it and most popular are crabs, clams, and mussels. We also have a kick-a** chili contest down here with folks coming from all over to make their specialty chili, and on the boardwalks they hold a seafood festival which covers just about any kind of fish you can think of.

Greek salad, squid with green beans.

But if you talk Malta: You forgot ross-fil forn, imqarets and pastizzi.

of course! ross fil- forn and mqaret...you seem to know Malta quite alot

we also have a variety of soups... soppa ta l- gharmla (widow's soup) made out of cauliflowers, peas, and Maltese cheeselets, or else aljotta (fish soup)

I know... some time ago I was one of the few who wrote that Malta has a worthwhile cuisine .... despite the rather deplorable stuff they feed to the tourists.

I've eaten at a lot of places around the US, I love the seafood of the Pacific Northwest, especially crab legs. I also love BBQ as well, I ate at a place in Arkansas where the BBQ was the best I ever had, it was a little place, like jaylemurph was talking about, with autographed photo's of BB King, Dale Earnhardt, Tom Petty and what not that had eaten there. I also love food from the southwest, fajitas, carne asada burritos or tacos etc. there's a lot of good food around the US

One has to be careful to go to a genuine Maltese cuisine restaurant. Some restaurants around the island are real good, but not very popular.

*drools* i love BBQ i have to visit the U.S sometime =]

Yeah, there's some sort of inverse law about how big and clean a place is to the quality of the barbeque. I forgot autographed pictures on the wall, but that is pretty necessary. And pictures of pigs doing things like drinking beer or kissing.

--Jaylemurph

I've been to Malta a couple of times, had the rabbit and many good fish dishes, your history is fantastic, your museum is one of the best i've visited, the silent city etc., you have one or two churches aswell
I'm from the UK, Roast Beef, Yorkshire pudding, roast Potatoes and Veg, you could add Roast Lamb or roast Pork just as traditional, the only difference is the sauce, Beef horseradish sauce, Lamb mint Sauce and Pork apple sauce.

Bacon and cabbage.
or roast chicken with roasted potatoes and veg.

Ok... why is it that everywhere else in the world they eat lamb as a staple but most people here in the USA won't touch it?

I can't even hardly find decent lamb in the grocery store and it hacks me off because I LOVE it.

I think Americans have a hard time eating anything with a baby animal name.. **shakes head**

Need I say that here in Mexico it is enchiladas, (Coronas) tacos, (Coronas) burritos, (Coronas) molletes, (Coronas)carne asada, (Coronas) salpicon . . . . and yes, Coronas.

Hee Hee...I'm from NOLA and we eat red beans and rice every Monday as a tradition with cornbread and smoked sausage..I live in Norway now but it's not going to stop me from making some fried okra with Tony Chacheres spice tomorrow. It's hard to make gumbo or jambalaya here because they don't have the right sausage.

I still make smothered potatoes with onion as a side dish or some maque choux..it's pretty much smothered corn with the trinity (onion,celery,and bell peppers)..

I guess the most traditional dish in Louisiana would be the red beans and rice but we eat alot of raw oysters and drink our faces off.
The coon asses eat turtle,squirrel,rabbit,deer and cracklins..my maw maw always used the gizzards for her turkey stuffing..I am a coon *** but
I didn't like all that wild tasting food.My favorite was rice and gravy and chicken and dumplings.

We have a wide variety of cuisine there but it's mostly French based..The Poboys and Muffelettas and stuffed artichoke rule too...I'm hungry as hell now.

Well we stole most of our food off of England but I'd have to say meat pies...
For dessert its Pavlova and Tim Tams.
But seeing as the aborigines are the first australians then I'd go with their traditional dishes of damper and wiggity grubs.... or some other kinds of bush food.

Hehe I don't think that the aborigines had a whole lotta damper.

Remember that is classic bushranger food.

The aborigines didn't harvest wheat like us westies, we introduced that. So, no wheat = no damper.

But, how on earth could you forget Vegemite? Shaame.

Battered Fish and Chips, dont get more English then that!

That's so true! Maryland is southern enough to have serious barbeque- pulled pork slow cooked for hours. Or ribs. Excruciatingly delicious sauce.

Definitely, autographed pictures on the walls. Somewhere in the place there's a tribute to Dale Earnhardt. If you're near the coast, several plastic fish are mounted on the walls. The windows are generally covered by Venetian blinds that you don't dare open because a decade's worth of dust will come sliding down on you.

There's a bartender who looks like the most laid back person in the world, despite the fact that he can carry on ten conversations at once while mixing drinks at the speed of light.

Outside, the dingy clapboard building is hanging on it's supporting timbers like an old horse whose legs are about to give out. There's little, if any grass near the building-- it's all been crushed by countless pick-up trucks.

How interesting; I grew up in Los Angeles where is it enchiladas, (Coronas) tacos, (Coronas) burritos, (Coronas) molletes, (Coronas)carne asada, (Coronas) salpicon . . . . and yes, Coronas.

...I am not sure why that is...

Here is the northwest US it is kind of a hodgepodge. Lots of Seafood based dishes that are good, but for the mostpart the northwest doesnt have the uniqueness of the other parts of the country that I have lived in.

And don't forget the noble Cornish Pasty.

McDonald's

Hey do you have Corona in Mexico?

I'm from Manitoba Canada, the heart of the Canadian Prairies. We are known for our rye bread, kolbassa and perogies. Mmmm, perogies swimming in sour cream. Oh and Jeannie's cakes but I just don't get that. They are so dry!

HAHA looks like a Nachitoches meat pie..

hmmm, love Greek food (I love Greece), Gyros, tatsiki and pittas, mmmmmmmmm

Some of these posts sound just lovely.

Well here in England it's good old fish and chips and roast beef and Yorkshire Pudding. We recently found the best chippie in the world, it's in Perranporth, Cornwall and the locals are queueing out the door for it. I don't know what they fry it in, but it must be something hideously fattening for it to be so good.

Sloppy Joes and Tater-tots witha side of mac and cheese. in the mid west seems to be a big staple.

Meat and Potatos. Usually mashed.

This man knows what he's talking about.
Seriously.

It surprises me you have difficulty getting lamb, can you get mutton (adult sheep) it makes great stews and curry, it's not readily available in the UK?

How could i forget "The Cornish Pasty" i also missed fish & chips, how about "A full English Breakfast" there's many regional dishes, Lancashire hotpot, another cornish one stargazey pie, porkpie, a black country dish is gray pays (grey peas) i could be here all day

I guess I should also add that some more "traditional" Canadian food would be bannock and Poutine.

I'm from Pittsburgh, PA - So it has to be Primanti brothers.

In SW Florida grouper and grits.

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English food; Beans on toast - with cheese.

Wow I have never heard of that. I might have to try it.
We would probably just call it a grilled cheese sandwich but without the beans.

Nope, can't get mutton either... I've NEVER seen mutton in a grocery store and we have very few specialty butcher shops. We can get some lamb, like maybe lamb chops, but that's about it. Veal is even hard to come by. I might find some veal chops now and again, but it's horribly difficult (and excruciatingly expensive) to find something like veal tenderloin.

I'm in Seattle in the USA.... and I think it's bizarre that they don't sell lamb in stores in a wider selection of cuts. We have a HUGE indian population here and they do tend to like their lamb (the ones that aren't vegan that is)

Mostly this part of the USA is influenced by Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, and Korean food (good chinese is almost impossible to find here). I think they call it "Pan-Asian" -- fusion food abounds in Seattle.

We eat a ton of seafood, veggies, fruits, berries, nuts and rice in this area. I suppose that's the reason Seattle is ranked as one of the USA's healthiest cities and fittest cities.

chicken bbq




fried rice



chicken satay

We like fried stuff. Not terribly healthy but sooooo yummy. There's what we call an "Indian Taco." It's fried bread, or in the old days, "bannock" with taco meat sauce and fixings on top. You eat it with a knife and fork. Probably one of my favourite things ever. They're probably the most popular food items at PowWows. Another is the corn soup; boiled pork hocks and hominy corn.

Going back to the fried bread, blanket dogs Hot dogs wrapped in the bread dough and deep fried.....*drools...*

You would love it here, you could get as much lamb, mutton & veal as you like, (it's part of our life) we have every type of meat in our stores, although I do not buy the more excotic ones, like ostritch and stuff I have no idea even how to cook....

Ok South Africa, we call it Boere Kos of Kook Kos - it's almost like the UK's roast +veg(with just more flavour) but when we cook, it's almost a law to have rice, potatoes at least three diffrent kinds of veggies and meat with gravy, and no Sunday lunch will be complete with out a desert or pudding of usually jelly and custard...yummy, but no one makes food like our mums....

We also have Pap en vleis (Maise meal porridge and meat with tomato and onion sauce), very nice!

I love seafood.

Don't forget the sweet tea, and i'm talking about loaded with sugar sweet tea!

I'm gettin' hungry now...


--Mandalore--

Not to forget for Aus. Lamingtons, I ate a whole tray yesterday, well I shared a couple with the kids.
And I don't know iff it counts but, sausage sizzle, a sausage on a piece of bread slathered in either tomato or BBQ sauce.

Michigan - cherries , pasties , fudge from Mackinaw. off the top of my head.