What Would You Feed Me?

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I like to occasionally visit the website for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to read the Final Meal Requests. It's an odd site, but I just enjoy reading it for some warped reason. Problem is, these people are mostly Texans, and although there is certainly nothing wrong with Texans, they tend to ask for similar regional favorites (lots of iced tea, TexMex, fried stuff...not that I'm generalizing about Texans here...I want to be VERY CLEAR on that!) Visit the site, if you wish, and you'll see what I mean: http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/finalmeals.htm

But my question is this: based on where you live, what would you say makes up a representative menu from your region? If I were to come visit you and you took me out on the town for the "it" meal of your area, what would it be?

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2001

Answers

Mexican food (well, our version of it, anyway) is hugely popular in Denver. (Did you know that Hispanic Magazine recently picked Denver number one for its 2001 Top 10 Cities for Hispanics?) Other than that, probably the big fancy show-off meals would include prime rib and big game, such as buffalo and elk. This is only my best guess, though, since I don't plan on being executed soon. :-)

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2001

Shit, I knew that link was too long and would get messed up. Here it is for real:

http://www.hispaniconline.com/res&res/toplists/tp_cities_01_01.html

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2001


I live in Philly. Easy question.

Breakfast- Scrapple & eggs. Snack - Soft Pretzel with mustard. Lunch- (At Reading Terminal) Roast Pork sandwich & beer. Dinner- (South Philly) Linquini & red gravy. Termini's cannoli with melon. Late Snack- cheesesteak/with at Pat's or Geno's.

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2001


I haven't yet looked at the site because I want to type my menu and then see if any of the inmates chose the same meal.

Chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes, cream gravy, fried okra, and maybe some corn. Iced tea for your beverage and pecan pie with Blue Bell "Homemade Vanilla" ice cream for dessert.

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2001


Around here, it would be beer and pizza. College town.

But, if I were feeding you, it would be halupkis, with halushki and pierogies (smothered in cheese, but don't tell anyone because putting cheddar cheese on pierogies is a lynching offense in these parts). And then, while your arteries are clogging, some of Bubba's famous sugar cookies for dessert.

Someone else might put some sauerkraut in there, but not me. Because I'm your friend. I won't give you chicken and waffles, either, because no matter how many people tell you otherwise, that's just wrong.

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2001



Even if you're about to die, Robyn? :-)

-- Anonymous, September 06, 2001

OMG...that web site gives me the creeps big time.

Toronto has all sorts of different types of food to choose from, but if I had to pick a Canadian dish, and it was going to be the last thing you'd ever eat - tortiere, mashed potatoes w/lots of gravy, some sort of cheesy vegetable dish ('cause it's the cheese that matters, not the vegetables, right?) washed down with Canadian Club, of course.

-- Anonymous, September 06, 2001


especially then.

-- Anonymous, September 08, 2001

Robin, which ones are the stuffed cabage? Halupkis?

-- Anonymous, September 09, 2001

I'm thinking that I'd want some huge indian meal. Just the works. I'd totally not eat for a couple of days before-hand so that I could eat it all (actually, one time at my favourite indian food place near the university I ate a huge amount of food -- and I'd had a pretty big lunch). I'd have rice and dahl and lots of samosas, and nan, and vindaloo whatever, and biryani rice (sp?), and more plain basmati rice, and then some curried vegetables, and then lots of tea, and maybe just one more samosa, and whatever else they had back in the kitchen.

Oh, and a gallon of water because it would all be good and spicy. My baby loves spicy indian food so much that her poor little eyes will be red with tears streaming out of them and her nose will be running and she'll *still* open her mouth and make noises like a hungry little baby bird if you reach for the last samosa.

-- Anonymous, September 09, 2001



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