@BunsenBurner, yuck! I can’t past it being described as looking like a wrinkled schlong of a hippopotamus. I have never not tried any food, but this would definitely be my first. NO way!
Finger steaks (battered and fried pieces of strip steak) and fry sauce (equal parts ketchup and mayo). Nothing more Idaho than that.
Foods we do better. B-)
http://www.delish.com/cooking/news/a42017/foods-that-are-better-pacific-northwest/
@romanigypsyeyes What about Vernors?
I can easily live without grits and many other Southern dishes. Sorry, Tampa, I didn’t retire here for that or the Cuban sandwiches. Sweet tea should never have been introduced at McDonalds, either. I miss the variety of North European baked goods and sausages (at least they have s decent brand of brats available in the grocery stores). Thankfully enough transplants many regional favorites make it down here. Miss Friday Fish Frys, including freshwater fish found in the Great Lakes states.
@intparent but who doesn’t like Vernors???
Big Red soda from Texas. Nanaimo bars from British Columbia.
Our summer trips to Seattle (escape Florida summer and see kid) always include salmon and Thai food. Often three times each in a week’s visit.
I learned about geoduck from The Egg and I. Loved that book as a kid.
Also, as @BunsenBurner ‘s article mentioned, water tastes the best in WA/OR.
I eat my fill of conch fritters when I’m in Miami.
This is great! Some things sound delicious…others not so much.
The UP of Michigan food, pasties. Meat and potatoes in a pie crust. With ketchup on top (or gravy). Not my favorite.
But I think Jamaican meat pies are delicious, go figure.
I recently moved to North Carolina and discovered Cheerwine. Yum! But my H, who is from Kansas City originally, is having a hard time adjusting to the regional BBQ.
My eldest Texas daughter, attending school in Milwaukee, misses Kolaches. Which is weird because Mikwaukee is full of Czech/Polish people and you would think it would be a thing, she claims not available or at least just not the same. Youngest daughter, a HS senior, is seriously taking into consideration for her college decision, that nobody does does Tex-Mex right but Texas and she can’t live without “good” queso or Torchy’s Tacos. I am a transplanted Ohioian, I miss Bob Evans sausage and my transplanted upstate New Yorker husband misses Empire apples.
I left Michigan in my 20s and missed Vernors so much while we lived in Boston. But, surprise, Vernors is plentiful in AZ because the big grocery chain here, Frys, is owned by Kroger. 
@flymetoothemoon. My PA Mom makes her Pot Pie with left over ham bone, served with vinegar and ketchup. My husband and children do indeed find it appalling! I still make her prepare Pot Pie whenever she visits.
I also miss the fish frys at my grandma’s in Michigan when the smelt would run. My uncles would come home with garbage cans full. Nothing like a huge platter of fried smelt. DH can’t get past the name.
@Consolation , my son loves Moxie! I don’t get it at all. But I adore those candies made with maple syrup, even though I generally hate things that are too sweet.
Hush puppies from the deep south. What’s not to love about cornmeal and onion fritters?
Everyone knows the Buffalo chicken wing, which has now spread to every corner of the country – with every variation. A lesser-known Buffalo treat is the Beef on Weck. Thinly sliced roast beef, served on a hard roll covered in Caraway seed and coarse salt (Kimmelweck). The top of the roll is dipped in au jus and then fresh horseradish is slathered on the beef. Awesome.