History Main / RegionalSpeciality

* The same applies to ''Series/ManVersusFood'', which, when it isn't about pig-out gluttony, insane eating challenges and American Excess, can be surprisingly informative on regional specialities throughout the USA and where to get them.

* ''Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall'': James Herriot recounted an unusual way of eating Christmas cake in the Yorkshire Dales; with crumbly Wensleydale cheese and a draught of raw whisky.

* ''Series/CoronationStreet'': Mary Taylor is well trained in a variety of different cuisines of different cultures (French, Greek, Moroccan, Russian, Spanish etc) and has put on themed nights in Roy's Rolls and The Bistro, before she got fired.

*** ''Braaivleis''--meat you barbecued at a ''braai''.

*** 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 a name that is also a homophobic slur. The leading brand name that manufactures this dish is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L34m5vabjcM Mr. Brains.]]
*** They are called faggots. West-central England has many colourful words used as homophobic slurs but 'faggot' is mostly [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage an American usage]].

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*** London has pie, mash and liquor. Beef pie with mashed potatoes, and a sauce made from the water used to stew eels (which are also available in pie and mash shops), thickened and coloured an improbable luminous green with parsley. It is surprisingly tasty but you will be hard-pressed to find it in the touristy areas.

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*** Marmite, the British equivalent of Australia's Vegimite. It's a yeast extract that is a by-product of beer brewing. Of all popular foods, it may be the definitive example of the LoveItOrHateIt trope.

*** UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}: Coffee, craft beer, and salmon get the most publicity, but you can barely throw a rock without hitting a teriyaki shack. They aren't the Japanese version you'd think, though. The recipes are heavily modified by (and the shops owned by) Korean and Filipino immigrants, which favor heavier and spicier sauces. Typical meal is a portion of sauced meat, plain rice (usually white, but brown rice becoming popular), and a small iceberg lettuce salad with a sweet dressing.

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* ''Film/FriedGreenTomatoes''
* ''Film/MysticPizza'': The pizza.
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* ''Series/DinersDriveInsAndDives''
* ''Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall'': James Herriot recounted an unusual way of eating Christmas cake in the Yorkshire Dales; with crumbly Wensleydale cheese and a draught of raw whisky.

* ''Film/MysticPizza''

*** Green chili in New Mexico. The "official state question" is "Red or green?", to which "Christmas" is one of the accepted answers.

* ''FriedGreenTomatoesAtTheWhistleStopCafe''

* ''Eat Pray Love'' by Elizabeth Gilbert. In the section on her holiday in Italy, she recounts her experiences with their food. One sequence has her and a friend going to a back-alley pizzeria in Naples to taste their pizza. They immediately order another; her friend says that all other pizza is DarthWiki/RuinedForever.

* ''StreetFighter IV'': Used in El Fuerte's ending, [[spoiler:where he mixes Zangief's and E. Honda's favourite foods, Chankonabe and Borscht, and add chilli peppers and lemon to the mix. The results apparently tasted very bad, as Honda and Zangief's faces turn blue with disgust. Then El Fuerte proclaims the food "tastes so great it sends you straight to heaven!"]]

*** Take a basking shark, behead it, and place the body in a well drained hole in the sand under a pile of rocks to press the fuids out. Let the meat ferment, then cut it into strips and hang it out to dry. Voila! Hákarl!
**** The best part: All shark meats begins to smell like ammonia when it breaks down. It's still edible, and it tastes okay--if you can get past the odor. The Hákarl process concntrates the aroma.

*** Kimchi, the generic name for a variety of pickled dishes that usually contain cabbage and onions, plus other vegitables. The pickling brine becomes fermented as it ages.

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*** [[NorthEastEngland The Stottie cake]]. Battered Mars Bars if you want to believe (generally Southern) caricatures of the region, as well.

*** Chop suey (the Chinese term for random leftovers) was actually popularized in Chinese restaurants in SanFrancisco in the late 19th century. Restaurants in China don't serve chop suey because... well, because it's random leftovers.

* ''AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall'': James Herriot recounted an unusual way of eating Christmas cake in the Yorkshire Dales; with crumbly Wensleydale cheese and a draught of raw whisky.

Examples that are focused on how awful the concoctions are go in ForeignQueasine - this trope is more about invoking theire foreign, the rare and/or the exotic.

*** People from [[UsefulNotes/NewJersey North Jersey]] will argue with their neighbors in New York about thin-crust pizza, and folks from South Jersey will argue with Philadelphians about cheesesteaks and pretzels, but one thing all of New Jersey will defend against all comers--and win!--is the integrity of New Jersey [[GreasySpoon diner]] food. Also saltwater taffy, but nobody's arguing with Atlantic City about that.

*** People from [[UsefulNotes/NewJersey North Jersey]] will argue with their neighbors in New York about thin-crust pizza, and folks from South Jersey will argue with Philadelphians about cheesesteaks and pretzels, but one thing all of New Jersey will defend against all comers--and win!--is the integrity of New Jersey [[GreasySpoon diner]] food.