chikens have lips though ??mine does ,lol

After living so much of my life in southern Louisiana I'm thankful my wife is such a fantastic cajun/creole cook. You just can't find anything like it outside of the Louisiana gulf coast area. Damn I miss crawfish boils too!!!!!

Would I lie to you honey?...............

Chipped ham & jumbo, fried perogies halupki, freesh from western pa

Gotta agree 100% with that.  Never lived there, but have eaten in the area many times.  No matter how hard anyone tries, you just can't open a Cajun resturant outside LA and make it taste the same.

deep fried alligator tail?! that fer real?! LOL

Course it's real. That's good shit!

I miss pasties - Welsh idea adapted by the Finnish miners in the Copper Country - One of these lasts 24 hours

I dunno which looks tastier 99... two i miss from the states are "arizona fried bread", i near enough stopped my heart eating that in Arizona a few years back...lovely Also "blue corn pancakes with maple syrup" for breakfast. A few waitresses couldn't believe the amount of them I could put away at a morning sitting, considering i weigh 11 st, one girl in Sante Fe was betting on me not getting up from the table. we don't get either here in Ireland.

Spanish omelet.
Eating outside in the sun.

There was a place that did fantastic food in Toronto while I was visiting my sister a few years ago, chicken wing baskets with a variety of sauce that we never see here in Ireland........and beer. It was believe it or not the first place I was ever in that a woman bought me a beer, out side of my wife. It was just put down in front of me by the bar tender and he told it came from a girl down the bar.....man was I impressed.

The other food I miss is French crepes and cider...........the breakfast of champions and the all time hangover cure.
I can't wait for the summer.

I have lived in the FL my entire life, but I know what you mean. When I travel I miss some of our local favorites, especially grits. I also find that when I go somewhere new like El Paso, and fall in love with the TexMex food, I always look forward to going back to get some more.

No most of them can't take their mind out of the gutter.....I know cause I live there and can't get any sleep!


What are grits?  I have heard of them before but never could get anybody to explain what they are.

Thanks Lucky...

Dyna, Here is the definition from wikipedia...

Grits is a food of Native American origin that is common in the Southern United States; it mainly consists of coarsely ground corn.

What we just call grits in the south is typically Hominy grits - made from nixtamalized corn, or hominy.

An interesting fact I saw in wikipedia while looking this up...
Three-quarters of grits sold in the United States are sold in the South stretching from Texas to Virginia, also known as the "grits belt". The state of Georgia declared grits its official prepared food in 2002. Similar bills have been introduced in South Carolina, with one declaring,

"Whereas, throughout its history, the South has relished its grits, making them a symbol of its diet, its customs, its humour, and its hospitality, and whereas, every community in the State of South Carolina used to be the site of a grits mill and every local economy in the State used to be dependent on its product; and whereas, grits has been a part of the life of every South Carolinian of whatever race, background, gender, and income; and whereas, grits could very well play a vital role in the future of not only this State, but also the world", if as Charleston's The Post and Courier proclaimed in 1952, "An inexpensive, simple, and thoroughly digestible food, grits should be made popular throughout the world. Given enough of it, the inhabitants of planet Earth would have nothing to fight about. A man full of grits is a man of peace."

We take our GRITS seriously in the south!!!!

Never mind the pasty thing......SOMEBODY tell me what in God's name grits are?

I feel I am missing out and ye are all keeping it a big secret from me!......I shall cry....I will you know!

Thank youGoFastGirl.....I feel better now. I shall have to get to try them

You are all kinda lucky over there, with such a melting pot of nationalities, you have a wide variety of foods to choose from.
I have to say I like Mexican and Texan food alot.....Texas is on my list to get to soon.
Plus ye can all travel easily, we have to get ferries of God's Island and go through customs and checks every time we go to the  European mainland.

Mike, Real Philly Cheese Steaks are probably one of my favorite foods ever.

Dyna, I'll make you a deal, you come over to the US and I can guarantee that we have someone here on CF from each state that would be happy to take you out to sample the local food and drink!!!

Pizza! Being a New Yorker, it is just not the same anywhere.

ye should try one in Napoli, Italy, then!

Some day! That would be heaven, pizza and art!

I could eat and drink my way through the whole north American continent, has the making of a real good TV program.
I am thinking of heading to the US next year, having made so many friends through here, thanks to you, I will have to make the effort to get over and say hello...just to be polite of course!

Dyna...I tried them grits in Daytona, tasty but make sure you have a clear run to the jacks !!