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A hanky panky is a small meat patty made with hamburger, sausage and cheese. It’s served on a square of dark cocktail bread. Apparently they are a thing in Ohio. Buster Bar is an ice cream cake with Spanish peanuts on it. It’s apparently named after an ice cream bar they sell at Dairy Queen. It tastes like a tin roof sundae and deserves much wider distribution, IMHO. I’ve been trying to think of foods like this that are local to CA and I’m coming up blank. In and Out burgers maybe. Or El Pollo Loco, but nothing comes to mind as far as what you might bring to a New Years party. What are your regional faves?
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Here's a few that come to mind for Pittsburgh:
Big Al
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Cincinnati chili of course, but I regret one cannot find a good burrito outside of SoCal. Texas bbq, North carolina pulled pork. oregon pinot noir. I cracked a 2013 Resonance open last week and it was glorious. It’s Louis Jadot’s property in Oregon and this was their first release. Dead ringer for a cru Volnay. I would have bet $100 it was Burgundy, not Willamette Valley.
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Gee..., I donno...maybe lobster? Clams?
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By the way, I have never heard of a hanky panky. Sounds like a slider.
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In San Francisco they served a fish dish called Cioppino, and I've never seen that anywhere else. Here in NY, of course, they're famous for bagels and black-and-white cookies, but neither are exactly elevated cuisine. NY bagels are not as good as they used to be. Many dishes of Jewish origin are considered "New York" like pastrami sandwiches and half-sour pickles. Oysters used to be a huge staple in NYC because they came from local harbors. Pollution killed them off, but they've been reintroduced -- not as food but to filter the water naturally.
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Chicago is known for its hot dogs and deep dish pizza, neither of which I'm incredibly fond of. More to my taste...in the Green Bay area, it's Belgian trippe sausage. Basically bratwurst with cabbage. Also fried lake perch, and smoked whitefish, both fish coming from the Great Lakes. Fresh cheddar cheese curds.
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Recipe for hanky panky. Feel free to share yours  https://www.food.com/recipe/hanky-panky-18638
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Italian beef sandwich - just thin-sliced roast beef that's prepared and heated in a bath of beef jus with garlic and herbs, served sloppily piled on a Vienna roll (which is like a tranche of a large baguette with a horizontal cut like a hot dog bun) with giardiniera or sport peppers. Ask for it dipped, and the whole sandwich is drowned in the jus. Ask for a combo and your beef sandwich will have a grilled Italian sausage nestled within. 
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Oh yeah, I forgot about those. 
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Or, for a slight variation, Ricobene's makes an incredible breaded steak sandwich, which is a slab of ultra-thin pounded skirt steak that is breaded and deep fried, then folded into (you guessed it) a Vienna roll and liberally slathered with a thick marinara. They'll garnish it any way youse ask (this being Bridgeport), with giardiniera being the most popular. 
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My seafood guy makes great Cioppino and gumbo both. Wonderful.
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No Chicago dogs? Wow. I love them. Italian beef too. Luckily, Portillo's is expanding. Hope to have one here soon. Like you, I am not so fond of Chicago pizza. Sits like a big rock in the gut. Detroit style is better.
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DQ's tin roof was/is a guilty pleasure from my childhood.  Regional foods? In Arizona, I'm guessing it's a chimichanga or perhaps Navajo Fry Bread (a staple at most Indian fairs, but not often in restaurants). For Oregon, at least in my mind, it's salmon, ideally grilled/smoked on a cedar plank. BUT I think that the region for that is larger, because Washington would most likely stake a claim to that as well. Also, though not a food, Oregon can legitimately lay claim to a gajillion types of craft beers. Now I'm hungry.... Navajo Fry Bread (sometimes called an Indian taco)--super ridiculously unhealthy and absolutely fantastic!  | |||
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I always thought the Vienna beef sand was made with Vienna Beef. The Vienna part is actually the roll? Who knew?
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