USVI-On-Line

As I am eating shrimp and grits for dinner and looking at the recently revived Show Your Face topic, it occurs to me that we all live in so many different states in the US. Would it be cool to think of 3 food/drink items that are ours alone that we could share? I'd love to mail a package of 3 things that are staples to my state. Yes, I'm a SC born and bred girl who has moved around alot in the past 30 years but have been home for the last 20 and we have a few gems particular to our neck of the woods! It would be like an elfter christmas but during the cold, crappy months, a little taste of a place we've never been! Don't know if anyone is interested, but it could be fun!

For a guy from NH this could be dangerous. Maple syrup, lobster and hard apple cider could be expensive, but I do love Callabash shrimp, even if they are from NC.

I know, it cold be dangerous. But it could be fun, if we didn't spend a lot of cash promoting our home state special things. I'm just having a moment where I'd like to do something different!

hmmm I grew up in Massachusetts....but live in NY now... (downstate) so i could contribute juniors cheesecake, good bagels, serious good other appetizing items (think great kosher deli's) and the best freaking thin crust pizza ever (but it wouldn't travel so good, and if you didn't agree that it was the best, then people would probably come and hurt you. so.....maybe not such a good idea).....

It would be tough to ship a hot brown...that was my first thought!
Definitely bourbon!, country ham and biscuits, and Derby Pie!

Cheese. We've got cheese.

Blue Crabs, Old Bay, and Natty Boh from Maryland

Cheese, brats, beer, cream puffs,sundrop made the old fashion way.

We don't have too much in CT but great sweet corn and shade tobacco

Coastal Delaware: Chincoteague oysters, Dogfish Head beer, and Dolle's saltwater taffy.

Well, let's see, we have the Charleston Tea Plantation on Wadmalaw Island, also home to the Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka distillery five miles down the road from the tea plantation, the distillery also produces lots of muscadine wine (I'm not a big fan). We have Charleston Plantation Aromatic Rice, the Adluh Flour Mill in Columbia which produces flour, grits and cornmeal, low country oysters from Okatie and more mustard based BBQ restaurants than I can count. Would be fun to do an exchange of products easy to mail!

Could we decide who's playing, and have our "gifts assembled" and photographed/described, then set them up in like an auction. We could bid on which package was most appealing to us. The money raised could be donated to...maybe the St.John Animal Care Center, or something like that.
This way it would be fun and purposeful.
Whaddya think?

I'd do Chautauqua County Wineries, Cuba cheese, and speedies. Oh, and my favorite local treat, chocolate covered ripple potato chips from a candy maker who is in our little town. Maybe a small dish of german potato salad the way Oma made it

This sounds like fun to me!

mindehankins wrote: Maybe a small dish of german potato salad the way Oma made it

This sounds like fun to me!

yummmmmmmmmmm My Oma made the best warm potato salad

Anyone from the surrounding Philadelphia area will say soft pretzels,Philadelphia cream cheese and,of course,cheesesteaks.Oh,and Tastycakes.
And from the Norristown area there's the Zep. Take a large round sandwich roll,preferably from Conshohocken Bakery,drizzle it with olive oil,sprinkle oregano on it,then build your sandwich with cooked salami,provolone cheese,onion and tomato.
My mouth is watering!

Three Pittsburgh originals that have gone "viral":

Klondike Bars
Clark Bar
Devonshire sandwich


Two items unique to Pittsburgh that remain local:

A sandwich from Primantis' (all come with coleslaw and french fries on the sandwich)

Isaly's chipped ham (makes the best ham barbecue sandwiches ever) - you can get chpped ham from other sources, sliced thin enough to be considred "chipped", but it will not be the same. Mandatory for any Superbowl party.