Have you tried the weirdest food from your state?

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1. >Michigan: Detroit-Style Coney Dog

   In my mind, that’s the only way to make a chili dog

   >Montana: Pasties

   Interesting imo the list would give Montana pasties. Never knew there was a connection between the two!

2. Jello salad isn’t really that weird.

3. I don’t consider gator a weird food. Grew up eating it. However, it is not usually eaten as “gator tail” like a steak. We normally eat it in small bites deep fried with seasonings and dipped in a sauce like ranch. That’s my experience. I never met anyone that tried it and did not like it.

4. Boiled peanuts aren’t weird, they’re an average southern food that you find at gas stations.

5. Who made this list? This ranges from normal ass food (pasties, Detroit dogs, geoduck, ube, gator) to some things I’m pretty sure damn near nobody actually eats (cotton candy burrito, nutria).

6. No, never

   I’ve heard about them and would order that if I went to one of those places

   ——

   Apparently this place has the goods.. I’ll go there this weekend and try it 😂

   https://www.bkmag.com/2022/04/08/brooklyn-hots/

   Any of you Upstaters have an opinion on that? Legit looking or nah?

7. >Wisconsin: Butter Burger

   no WAY is this the weirdest Wisconsin food. not even close. what about cannibal sandwiches, which are made with raw beef? or limburger cheese, a cheese that smells like feet?

8. Yes. It’s old timey but Chow Mein Sandwich was something in my grams house.

   This “chow mein” recipe was pretty popular back in the day. Starting back in the 1930s my gram bought La Choy cans of bean sprouts, soy sauce, and those crispy noodles. It was great if you couldn’t afford meat.

   I feel like it was like the fondue of it’s time. It felt exotic.

   And we had hot ice cream, too. Which was a thing if you were poor and couldn’t afford a freezer/ice cream. Which was just pink coloring and a cornstarch pudding.

9. Rocky Mountain Oysters? Yeah, they’re pretty chewy.

10. Wisconsin: Butter Burger

    I’ve seen this list before, and Butter Burgers being on here continues to baffle me. It’s just Culvers’ normal cheeseburger brandname, because they lightly butter and toast their hamburger buns. I have to assume that whoever compiled this fundamentally misunderstood and was imagining some kind of fair food monstrosity.

    Blue Moon ice cream is a far better contender for Wisconsin cuisine that even some Wisconsinites might see as “weird”. (I had it long ago and thought it was nasty). Madison also makes an orange chocolate chunk flavor.

11. Seriously, I live in NW Indiana, and I am sure that is where the sauerkraut balls are from, but I have never seen them. I have absolutely had walking tacos and gravy bread, boiled peanuts, Detroit -style Coney Dogs, Soup Beans, Jello Salad and Butter Burgers.

12. Boiled peanuts? That’s not weird or exclusive to Georgia

13. Yeah, scrapple is probably my favorite breakfast side. Its basically stewed pig organs and scraps groind down and mixed with conrmeal, flour, and some spices and salt, then cooled into bricks. The bricks are then sliced and pan fried. Some people like maple syrup on top for a sweet and salty taste. I prefer it plain.

    I don’t normally like orgam meat. I like scrapple. Definitely try it if you visit.

14. Gator tail doesn’t really taste that weird. It has has a chickeny flavor (of course) but is flaky like fish. I’ve usually seen it offered fried with dipping sauce as an appetizer at seafood places (especially those that cater to tourists).

15. I have had a sushirrito many times and there’s even a chain called Sushirito.

    It’s honestly just a giant sushi roll.

16. I’m not sure how weird the Sushiritto is. It’s just a big ass maki roll that hasn’t been cut up.

17. Gator Tail is the “weirdest food” in Florida?

    Son, you are overdue for a visit to the Sunshine State.

    Gator tail is just straight-up good cookin’, I challenge anyone anywhere on the planet to have a bite and dislike it. They’d serve it at goddam McDonalds worldwide if gators weren’t a protected species.

    If you want weird? Oh boy Florida surely does have it. More than you’ll ever care for. But it’s not gator tail.

18. I didn’t even know it was odd until I was in my 20s.
    My grandmother made a “sloppy joe” that was ground beef & tomato on a bun – basically “[Manwich](https://www.manwich.com/)”.

    But I also worked at a deli from about 11 years old, and we made “sloppy joes” there that had meat and cole slaw on them. I just figured it was different ethnic groups using different names for messy sandwiches.

    I’ve had some of these other foods, too. I never considered them ‘weird’, just different regional foods.

19. Geoduck is just a species of clam

20. How are coney dogs weird?!

21. “New York: Garbage Plate”

    Pretty much unique to the Rochester area, and not weird at all. It’s just all of your food mixed together.

22. You think Akutaq (Eskimo ice cream) is the weirdest food in Alaska? Wait until you find out about Muktuk.

    And yes I’ve had both.

23. Pennsylvania: Altoona-Style Pizza

24. Geoducks just a big ass clam, yeah I’ve had it a bunch even in an ice cream.

25. [Peppermint stick and a pickle](https://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/ct-hearken-pickle-peppermint-food-0315-20170313-story.html). Whoever created this is a menace to society

26. Walking tacos are fantastic. Definitely wouldn’t consider them weird.

27. Shit on a single is strange? And how is that Delaware’s dish?