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| American regional specialties.

  1. Pasty: Upper Peninsula, Michigan – I think that people from Cornwall at some point settled in the UP and brought with them the pasty (a heavy meat turnover filled with potatoes and a sauce).
  2. Frozen Custard: Wisconsin – Sort of like ice cream and available in a similarly wide array of flavors, but actually frozen pudding.
  3. Soft shell crabs: Maryland – They are a huge mess and make your fingers stink after wrestling with getting the precious morsels of meat out, but sprinkled with tasty spices, the sweet meat is worth the work.
  4. Fresh orange juice: Florida – It really isn’t the same when you drink it anywhere else. From the hotel restaurant at the Ft. Lauderdale Sheraton to straight from the grove at a grove stand in Boca Raton, it is sweet and cool.
  5. Philly cheesesteak: Philadelphia, PA – Cholesterol central sandwich made of chopped beef with cheese and enjoyed best when eaten with fries