ok so the way i grew up, my grandma was pennsylvania dutch and she taught my mom to cook. meaning food was always comfort, and it was always weird. but some things i grew up thinking were staples
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2) I grew up in Rochester, thinking White Hots (hotdogs) and Garbage Plates were a wide-spread and common thing. Not to mention "hot sauce" means (what the rest of the country recognizes as) hot meat sauce, and tobasco sauce is the red stuff in the Red Hot bottle. I still have trouble with the hot sauce one... try and order that on a burger in Boston. They don't get it.
a) totally new to me, could be good tho. b) peanut-butter-and-banana sandwiches and peanut-butter-and-honey sandwiches. not super weird, but i don't know many people who have tried either.
in maine we had red hot dogs called "red hots", but they weren't spicy. i also drank moxie religiously, put stewed tomatoes on my home-made mac and cheese (another PA dutch thing), ate fiddleheads on pizza, and didn't know what "fluff" was until i was like 14. i had poutine probably every summer when we went to canada. i've eaten moose, but didn't care for it (it's like lean beef).
family dishes (not weird, but famous in my family) include: beef stroganoff, pirogies, chicken paprika, fish chowder (also reformed into onion corn chowder), rhubarb pie, fridge cukes (basically chilled slices of cucumber marinated in italian dressing)...
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2) I grew up in Rochester, thinking White Hots (hotdogs) and Garbage Plates were a wide-spread and common thing. Not to mention "hot sauce" means (what the rest of the country recognizes as) hot meat sauce, and tobasco sauce is the red stuff in the Red Hot bottle. I still have trouble with the hot sauce one... try and order that on a burger in Boston. They don't get it.
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I don't think we had anything unique. My mom was an excellent cook, but not terribly inventive.
Maybe Doritos with Velveeta cheese? I served those at my graduation party that only 4 people came to, and this girl was like "WTF, cheesepocalypse!"
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b) peanut-butter-and-banana sandwiches and peanut-butter-and-honey sandwiches. not super weird, but i don't know many people who have tried either.
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2. Chocolate pudding with milk. Peanut butter and cheese sandwiches. Apple pie with cheese. Oh, and egg nog was always cut with 1/2 milk.
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family dishes (not weird, but famous in my family) include: beef stroganoff, pirogies, chicken paprika, fish chowder (also reformed into onion corn chowder), rhubarb pie, fridge cukes (basically chilled slices of cucumber marinated in italian dressing)...
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