Yup! It’s also common in Ireland, too.
Ah, Mackinac! Fudge shops and endless displays of Dr. Beaumont’s surgical saws, et al!
Seriously, I love actually love Mackinac. 
We took many day trips there when H’s family still owned their house in Petoskey.
After learning that Paczki weren’t universal, I feel like I need to question everything 
More food from the childhood summer vacations in PA:
Birch beer - even more medicinal tasting than root beer
Teaberry ice cream - pretty medicinal too come to think of it, but really good with Hershey’s chocolate syrup
Sardines-- the Canadian/New England ones (typically Beach Clift) are far superior the Pacific Ocean ones from Bumble Bee
@happymomof1 . In HS I worked for Weis Market. My predecessor in the ice cream department had order tons of Teaberry ice cream. I remember moving box after box of it around the freezer
@ChoatieMom I used to get to pick what was for dinner on Mother’s Day when my kids were little. One year I made them eat smelt. 
I worked on Mackinaw Island one summer during college as a hotel maid. People used to leave us boxes of fudge for tips. We were strictly instructed not to eat food left by guests, but of course we took the fudge!
@1214mom, I grew up going to crab feasts. Summer wasn’t summer without a bushel of crabs, a keg of beer and a backyard picnic table covered in newspaper. We live by the Bay - my kids used to crab off our neighbors’ pier and we’d have our own free crabs. Unfortunately the supply has dwindled such that we were lucky to catch a dozen in our pots in a week the last few summers. They are simply too expensive now to have those crab feasts from my youth when it seemed like every other week we were having crab feasts at one of the neighborhood houses.
“Unfortunately the supply has dwindled such that we were lucky to catch a dozen in our pots in a week the last few summers.”
That’s sad. 
One I hate - “chicken salad”. To me chicken salad is chunks of chicken with some sort of salad stuff. Pretty broad. Where I live currently, chicken salad is chicken thrown in a food processor with mayo (and maybe some other stuff - hard to tell) and ground into a mush. I thought at first it was an American thing? But I think maybe it is regional. I think it’s vile. Have made the mistake a couple of times when the office orders in food during busy season of ordering a chicken salad sandwich and it is bread with a pile of mush - I just can’t eat it. People at the office think its hilarious.
Yes, I prefer larger pieces of chicken atop a bed of greens myself. I’m not fond of the other chicken salad either, but H likes the food processed Mayo version (he likes mayo, so I’m sure that helps).
Seems we’re talking mostly about things we like. How about Garrett’s popcorn in Chicago? Yum! I had to walk by one of those stores on my way to and from work in the the Loop in the 80s and sometimes chose to walk on the other side of the street so I would’t be tempted. You could smell the popcorn a block away.
As for acquired tastes… I’m in Dublin right now, and the hotel breakfast buffet has beans, what looks like stewed tomatoes, and small fried lumps that the sign says are “Black and White Irish Pudding.” No thanks to any of that. OTOH, they have a large, upright honeycomb next to the croissants that you can scoop and drizzle. Heaven!
Come on, @ChoatieMom, be a sport and try the puddings. At least eat some delicious breakfast chipolatas and some classic Irish brown bread, if they have any!
I adore Irish and English sausages. How I miss them!
If you go to Garrett’s in Chicago you need to order your popcorn ‘Chicago style.’ Half cheese corn and half caramel corn. You can also get it at Nuts on Clark at Midway airport.
I am fascinated by the Dirt Dogs they sell on the streets of downtown Los Angeles. (DTLA) The hot dog is wrapped in bacon and toppings of grilled onions, bell peppers, red peppers and jalapenos and prepared on a makeshift grill. There is a Dirt Dog restaurant in LA if you’re like me and don’t eat street food.
Don’t be afraid of street food, especially if the place is busy and has a lot of turnover. At least you can see how your food is prepared unlike most restaurant kitchens.
I was in Ireland a couple of years ago for a couple weeks, riding my bike from B&B to B&B. In Ireland, they know how to make breakfasts! The brown bread is the bomb, and the full Irish breakfast is fantastic: grilled tomatoes, grilled mushrooms, sausage, black pudding and white pudding (=more sausage), eggs, and sometimes some potato bread well worth of attention. Just the ticket for hungry bike tourists.
I’m told we can’t make Irish brown bread here because our flour is the wrong kind. Pity. It’s so so good.
I forgot about the fish boil in Door County, Wisconsin. All-you-can eat boiled fresh whitefish and potatoes. Sour cherry pie for dessert. Good times.
I’m on board for pretty much every kind of hotdish. Comfort food rules.
Things we see on menus in Central Texas that we have no desire to try:
Fried Gizzards
Catfish
Frog legs
Things we’ve tried and didn’t like:
White gravy - tasteless, often vegetarian which is just bizarre and used to dip fried food into.
Okra - its odd with a weird texture.
Folks here brag about their use of Ranch Dressing but its usually the commercial bottled crap, not true homemade ranch. We will judge a restaurant on its ranch.
Pancakes - sweet and crumbly not slightly salty and chewy like they should be.
I’m from N. Calif hubs from New England.
Hubs dreams of fried clams with bellies, I tried those once, gross!
New England brown bread baked in a coffee can.
I just had some fried clams with bellies at Island Creek Oyster Bar. Delicious!
I like catfish and okra (if prepared well) and white gravy shouldn’t be tasteless if well made.
I love a good from scratch buttermilk ranch dressing. Best served on fried green tomatoes and some crumbled bacon.
Fried clams need from scratch tartar sauce, too. None of that commercial crap.