I have had some help with this one. The observations of other PNWerners who have gone to other places to live have created this post.
Apparantly you can not get good Chinese bbqed pork in other places. I am talking about the stuff with the red outside which you get in a piece or sliced from the store or a Chinese resturant. An Uncle who has lived in a few other random states (in big enough cities it should have been there) always tries to get this when he comes home. I remembered this and got some of it at the store this morning.
Also Maple Bars are apparantly non existent outside the PNW. I learned about this because Bro In Law moved to Charleston, SC. They get doughnuts when big wigs show up and he asked why they never get maple bars. They said "WTFare maple bars?" and he told them to "google image that shit" and after some research it became apparant they exist only here.
It is so easy not to notice little things when they aren't present but I have been sure to get both of these things while back home.
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Just had some friends in from the PNW and they had never had catfish or hush puppies. Everything in life is a trade off.
Home is always the best place. Unless you're not from Texas ; ) Greezy enchiladas, mesquite smoked brisket, and cold Shiner Bock. Yeaaahhhhh, that's livin'...
Contrary to what the wiki says, I grew up in CA calling them Maple bars, in a family that came from Oklahoma three generations back.
However, the ones here in Oregon taste better. So far, and I have been here four years, everything in Oregon is better, with the exception of street signs and phone books.
no maple bars in other places? I never noticed that before.
For all they've got, they lack an awful lot. Ask a PNW'er what Birch Beer is. Or how their maple syrup harvest was last year. Do they have hoagies? Grinders? Nah. They've got tiny coffee shops in every parking lot, though. And more scooters per capita than Europe.
I used to be able to get maple eclairs(not the exact same as a maple bar) in Vegas when I lived there. I have never seen them anywhere else. Of course Vegas being the tourist dive it is with people coming from all over, you can find a lot of stuff you wouldn't normally find anywhere else other then where it originates from.
Back in the mid-1980's I had to go to upstate NY on a business trip. We stopped for lunch at some joint, and I got a hot pastrami sandwich. She asked me what kind of cheese I wanted, and I said 'Jack'.
She shot me a look like I had said something offensive. She asked me to repeat what I had said, so I clarified it by saying, 'Monterey Jack Cheese'.
They had never heard of it. I guess it was a California cheese at the time!
I went with the mozzarella...
I think I've had that Chinese BBQ pork at a "Mongolian" BBQ place just west of Saint Louis when I used to live there (King's in O'Fallon, Missouri), but then, the proprietress hailed from the Seattle area.
Brass: So the PNW is lacking because we don't have enough maple trees to harvest for syrup and we like coffee? I notice the TOR didn't insult any other US regions, he just stated his opinion on the oddity of regional differences.
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