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* ''Anime/HighspeedEtoile'':The Primastellas promote Mt. Fuji curry as a recommended local specialty at the start of the Neo Mt. Fuji race in episode 1, which is curry rice where the rice is shaped like a mountain, helped by unusually colored blue curry that helps the top of the rice mountain look snowcapped. And yes, [[https://soranews24.com/2023/10/01/does-the-blue-mt-fuji-curry-taste-as-terrifying-as-it-looks/ it's real]] and existed before the anime.

* "Anime/HighspeedEtoile":The Primastellas promote Mt. Fuji curry as a recommended local specialty at the start of the Neo Mt. Fuji race in episode 1, which is curry rice where the rice is shaped like a mountain, helped by unusually colored blue curry that helps the top of the rice mountain look snowcapped. And yes, [[https://soranews24.com/2023/10/01/does-the-blue-mt-fuji-curry-taste-as-terrifying-as-it-looks/ it's real]] and existed before the anime.

A FoodTrope, this is a speciality of a place or country. It may be ForeignQueasine, but it's just as likely that a character will fall in love with it at first bite. The well-travelled may introduce it to their family and friends, as will cooks trying to impress. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity may ensue]] if they haven't cooked it before.

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* ''{{ComicBook/Asterix}}'':
** The entire point of "Le Tour de Gaule d'Asterix" (''Recap/AsterixAndTheBanquet'') is Asterix and Obelix going around Gaul to pick up regional specialties ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne sparkling wine from Durocortorum]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saucisse_de_Toulouse sausage from Tolosa]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouillabaisse fish stew from Massilia]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jambon_de_Paris ham from Lutetia]], etc.) to spite a Roman governor who tried to put up a palisade around the village. Also an excuse to poke fun at the various peculiarities of French regions, be it accents, labyrinthine streets, bad driving...

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Penny and Bolt encounter several regional culinary delights during their trip in “The Imaginary Letters,” including Cincinnati chili, Philadelphia cheesesteak sandwiches, Memphis BBQ, and pizza from Chicago and New York.

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** Regional specialties of Ankh-Morpork include Distressed Pudding (a stodge-and-custard type desert with prunes), Slumpie (a chunky meat-and-potato-or-whatever's-available stew similar to scouse or stovies), and the famous pig-knuckle sandwich. Yes, if you want the real Ankh-Morporkian experience, then you're asking for a knuckle sandwich. In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', knuckle sandwiches and Distressed Pudding are both used as A-M's counterpart of "mom's apple pie" in patriotic battle-cries.

*** North-west England gives the world pie and peas. The pie is usually filled with minced beef and potato, often highly peppered, and the peas are mushy peas; dried peas soaked overnight and boiled to a thick, green, lumpy paste. This is obviously a first cousin of the Australian pie floater.

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'', the Galar region's signature dish is curry, which trainers can prepare while camping and share with their Pokemon. There are many variations of curry in Galar made with a wide variety of ingredients and berries for flavor, such as sausage curry, apple curry, whipped cream curry, and instant noodle curry. This is a case of ShownTheirWork, as curry is popular in both Japan and Britain (the latter of which Galar is based on).

** Ulster Fry, which is a fry-up consisting of sausages, bacon, black pudding, fried soda bread, and potato farls.

** Irish stew, which uses mutton and a beer-based broth, is a staple of the island of Ireland

*** Champ (mashed spuds with spring onions, butter, milk and salt) in UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland. Irish Stew and the Ulster Fry, too.

*** In west-central England, there is a certain dish made of ground pork, liver, onions and tomatoes formed into meatballs and served in a special sauce. They are called by the unfortunate name of "faggots" (which is apparently not considered a homophobic slur [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage in the UK]]). The leading brand name that manufactures this dish is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L34m5vabjcM Mr. Brains.]]

* In ''Literature/TheLastContinent'' Rincewind is offered a "Meat Pie Floater", a meat pie suspended in thick pea soup with tomato ketchup according to taste (no honestly, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_floater it's real!]]) as an Ecksian regional delicacy. Rincewind ponders that all of the "Regional Delicacies" that he's been offered in his travels seem to be the kind of disgusting and inexplicable dishes that someone would only concoct while drunk which are then foisted upon unsuspecting tourists. It's a regional delicacy because no-one else in the world would be crazy enough to eat it.

** ''Recap/AsterixInBritain'': Staples of Briton cuisine consist of warm beer, [[SpotOfTea hot water with a cloud of milk]], meat boiled for far too long and served with mint sauce (so horrible that a pair of Romans threatened with being thrown to the lions covered in mint sauce has the Romans protesting on the lions' behalf).

*** Walky-talkies: battered and deep fried chickens' feet.