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November 03, 2009 10:50 AM
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In Michigan there are four foods you should not miss while driving up I-75 from Detroit to the Soo Locks.
1. A Flint Coney Island. A Flint Coney Island is nothing like a Detroit Coney Island, so don't stop until you arrive at Flint. A Detroit coney is most likely to be so sloppy that they serve them with spoons, which is just plain wrong. A Flint Coney Island is a top quality 100% beef hot dog (Koegels) on a fresh soft bun, with a dry coney sauce made of ground hot dog with special seasoning. A Coney "all the way" is served with mustard and chopped or diced onion. Angelo's Coney Island on Franklin and Davison has recently returned to original ownership and has been in business for 49 years, but there are coney island joints all over Flint.
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2. Frankenmouth Chicken Dinner at the Bavarian Inn. World's best chicken dinner, just ask the millions of annual customers. http://www.bavarianinn.com/
3. Mackinaw Island Fudge. Again, ask the millions of satisfied customers.
4. Upper Peninsula Pasty. Once you cross the five mile Mackinaw Bridge (fifty years old today), you enter into another world. Among other things, you will find (if you look hard enough) the only remaining Norwegian language radio broadcast (yah, shore, you betcha) and you will find (or trip over) thousands of places offering to sell you a Pasty. A Pasty is a Cornish Cultural icon, A pot pie without a pot.
http://www.hu.mtu.edu/vup/pasty/history.htm
They can be dry at times, best to have a drink along. The best one I had was from a grocery store in Escanaba, from a basket at the checkout counter for $5.oo .
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1. A Flint Coney Island. A Flint Coney Island is nothing like a Detroit Coney Island, so don't stop until you arrive at Flint. A Detroit coney is most likely to be so sloppy that they serve them with spoons, which is just plain wrong. A Flint Coney Island is a top quality 100% beef hot dog (Koegels) on a fresh soft bun, with a dry coney sauce made of ground hot dog with special seasoning. A Coney "all the way" is served with mustard and chopped or diced onion. Angelo's Coney Island on Franklin and Davison has recently returned to original ownership and has been in business for 49 years, but there are coney island joints all over Flint.
2. Frankenmouth Chicken Dinner at the Bavarian Inn. World's best chicken dinner, just ask the millions of annual customers. http://www.bavarianinn.com/
3. Mackinaw Island Fudge. Again, ask the millions of satisfied customers.
4. Upper Peninsula Pasty. Once you cross the five mile Mackinaw Bridge (fifty years old today), you enter into another world. Among other things, you will find (if you look hard enough) the only remaining Norwegian language radio broadcast (yah, shore, you betcha) and you will find (or trip over) thousands of places offering to sell you a Pasty. A Pasty is a Cornish Cultural icon, A pot pie without a pot.
http://www.hu.mtu.edu/vup/pasty/history.htm
They can be dry at times, best to have a drink along. The best one I had was from a grocery store in Escanaba, from a basket at the checkout counter for $5.oo .
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November 02, 2009 09:32 PM
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That's not a conundrum. A conundrum is: "Do I eat lobster when I'm in Texas, and should I eat steak when I'm in Main?"
But it's a fair enough thing to make note of, because as any seasoned traveler knows, the best cuisine is always to be found in stuff made from the local ingredients, therefore, find out what food is harvested in abundance in that state, and even though the locals might think it's peasant food (Newfoundland fisherman would eat lobster for dinner six days a week because it was the only thing they caught and they were too poor to buy anything else) that's what you'll want to order in the restaurant, because that's what the locals will insist on being prepared right.
That being said, where I live, the "specialty" isn't really that unique... crab, salmon, and oysters... and I miss it how when I lived on the prairies one could order a steak from any cafe and be able to safely presume that it would be triple-A grade prime aged beef.
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But it's a fair enough thing to make note of, because as any seasoned traveler knows, the best cuisine is always to be found in stuff made from the local ingredients, therefore, find out what food is harvested in abundance in that state, and even though the locals might think it's peasant food (Newfoundland fisherman would eat lobster for dinner six days a week because it was the only thing they caught and they were too poor to buy anything else) that's what you'll want to order in the restaurant, because that's what the locals will insist on being prepared right.
That being said, where I live, the "specialty" isn't really that unique... crab, salmon, and oysters... and I miss it how when I lived on the prairies one could order a steak from any cafe and be able to safely presume that it would be triple-A grade prime aged beef.
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Some of my favorites are:
fried oyster po-boy.
crawfish etoufee
chicken and andouille gumbo
boudin !!!!
deep fried alligator on a stick
There's a lot of other good dishes here:
red beans and rice with smoked sausage
fried catfish
blackened redfish
frog legs sauce piquante
crawfish boil
I don't think many of these are found much outside Louisiana.
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fried oyster po-boy.
crawfish etoufee
chicken and andouille gumbo
boudin !!!!
deep fried alligator on a stick
There's a lot of other good dishes here:
red beans and rice with smoked sausage
fried catfish
blackened redfish
frog legs sauce piquante
crawfish boil
I don't think many of these are found much outside Louisiana.
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I live in Southern California and everyone here seems to be obsessed with Sushi. There are many Sushi restaurants here and I was told you have to develop a taste for it. I think everyone should try it at least once in their lifetime, just so they can say they had it. Who knows? You might get hooked.
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