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Palt. Potato dumping filled with meat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palt

Switzerland: Fondue!

Italy: It's really hard to beat pizza, maybe a good lasagna or a "cacio e pepe" pasta depending on the mood.

I'm from Cleveland Ohio. Our local dishes are heavily influenced by Eastern Europe, plus Italy and Ireland. Pierogi are universally enjoyed all around north east ohio, but Cleveland is the center. And fat tuesday just went by, which for Cleveland is pączki day. Something that is always found at the baseball game that is unique to Cleveland is the Polish Boy. It's kielbasa, either deep fried or grilled, on a bun with coleslaw and french fries on top. This town also loves corned beef, if you ever come here, Slyman's is an institution and is a must visit. And something that I did not realize was local until recently is a romanburger. Essentially put a burger patty in an Italian sub. The exact recipe has variations, generally has to have mortadella and salami in addition to the burger, and a vinegarette sprinkled on instead of the usual burger sauce. We aren't afraid of calories here.

Portuguese tipical dish: Bacalhau à Gomes de Sá Pure Bliss 😀✨

From central Mexico, my favorite is huaxmole (or guaxmole, "mole de huaje"): pork with a sauce made of guaje (Leucaena leucocephala) seeds, green chiles and, sometimes, husk tomatoes. Other recipes use goat meat, red chiles and can be more like a soup.

Swedish meatballs, brown cream sauce, lingonberry jam and mashed potatoes. Vegan in my case, but doesn't matter, it's fucking great either way.

Also, Semla.

I love my local dish: crab cakes. I hate my local seasoning: Old Bay. Never bought a can in my life.

UK here and the best thing I can think of is a full English in a bun, there's a butty van near me where they taste amazing. it's basically a heart attack in a bun with how much oil is on there but it's so good.

Brazil: Feijoada, it is a traditional food that is pretty much "just" pork and beans, but its fucking rad lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feijoada

Daeji Gukbab(돼지국밥)! You get it all over Korea but it's especially famous in Busan where I live. It's pork bone broth with meat served with a few toppings and a bowl of rice on the side. I always order the one with meat, intestines, and blood sausage. It's very rich and savory and comforting. It's also very cheap and often open 24hrs

Canada doesn't really have a local cuisine, unfortunately. Too much mutual cultural exchange with the US and too little history. Of the like three dishes to choose from, I do love a good Nanaimo bar. (That's a layer of chocolate, on a layer of an icing-like custard concoction, on a thicker base of a coconut-chocolate crumbs)

Not exactly a dish, but a Pie or a Sausage roll followed by a Lamington.

Aternatively Tim Tams. (I'd like a chocolate biscuit. How much chocolate? Yes.)

Chicago Illinois USA here:

The two foods that scream “This is Chicago” to me are deep dish pizza and a Chicago style hotdog (poppy seed bun and a dog with mustard, chopped onions, tomato wedges, sweet relish, a pickle spear, and peppers, then sprinkled with celery salt).

As to which is my favorite, deep dish is definitely more unique and probably the better answer here, but man can I do love when the dogs are just right.

Australian here. I'm going with Vegemite with avo and toast. If I travel for too long, I end up missing it a lot.

Bunny Chow - South Africa (does not contain any bunnies)

It's a ¼ or ½ loaf of bread hollowed out and filled with curry

There's a version called kota (certain groups pronunciation of quarter, for quarter bunny) that is filled with chips (thick cut french fries), polony (bologna, I think), viennas (a frankfurter i think), cheese, tomato sauce, atchar (mango pickle), and sometimes russians (kolbasa, not the people). It's the ultimate comfort food for me

Poffertjes!

Robbers roast (rosvopaisti) in Finland. I suppose other countries have something similar, but it's a piece of meat cooked in a ground oven. First dig up a small hole, line it with rocks, keep bonfire going in the hole for couple of hours, scrape the coals out and put meat wrapped in parchment paper, wet newspapers and foil in to the hole, fill it with sand and set up a new bonfire on top of the sand. Throw onions, garlic, carrots and whatever you like to accompany/season the meat while you're at it. Things like potatoes or sweet potatoes doesn't really work as they just turn into a mush, at least unless you individually wrap them, but the process isn't consistent enough, just cook whatever sides you want separately.

With meat include pieces of fat on top of it and season however you like. It's traditionally made out of lamb, but I prefer cow (or moose if it's available). Pork works just fine too. The whole process takes 10-12 hours, so it's not for your wednesday dinner, but it's very much worth the effort.

When the weather is good and you do it right the meat just breaks down and you'll almost need a spoon to eat it. Absolutely delicious. And as you have bonfire going for all day you can cook sausages on a stick and have a 'few' beers while feeding the fire. It's an experience with absolutely delicious food in the end.

Just be careful that you don't pass out on all the beer while cooking and miss the fun part.

South London, UK: doner meat and chips. Optional lettuce, onions and burger sauce.

Gooey butter cake. Dessert from St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Bagna cauda, from Piemonte Piedmont north Italy

Delicious in winter, a cream made with a lot of garlic e anchovies, eat warm with vegetables or meat

Burritos. Like most burritos.

I grew up in interior Alaska. The hometown food I miss the most is saltine crusted Northern Pike. Very bony but so tasty. Though to be honest a lot of that may be nostalgia as it was something we'd eat camping as an extended family when the fishers in the group had a good haul. Pan fried moose heart and tongue is a simular situation.

If we do the United States instead of my home state I'd say key lime pie for sweet and shrimp and grits for savory.

Czechia and it's a tie between goulash (the Czech variety, not the Hungarian one) and Vepřo knedlo zelo.

Pepperoni rolls from West Virginia, and it's not even close. Simple and easy to make, last unrefrigerated, and I can eat about 40 of em if I'm not careful.

I'm not from Lazaro Mexico, but let me tell you that the Mixtas there are the best food I've ever put down my gullet.

A store-made bagel, with 2 over-easy eggs and a thick slice of a spiced ham product called (pork roll) or (taylor ham), a slice of American cheese, and "salt, pepper, ketchup".

Commonly with bacon, sausage, or regular sliced deli ham replacing the meat. Sometimes with hot sauce instead of ketchup. The bagel can be any type, but is often "everything".

NYC area, mostly north New Jersey.

Belgium: vol au vent with Fries

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vol-au-vent

Furikake shrimp chips.

Hard to say. NZ cuisine is like British cuisine, but it got stuck in the 80s.

The Flat White. But that’s not strictly food.

Or maybe a potato top pie.

From Arizona / Mexico:

Birria, especially Birria Ramen. It's slow cooked meat in a broth of spices and a bit of onion and Chiles. It's fall apart tender, and usually served with melted cheese (Queso Birria). But my favorite version is served on top of Tapatio Ramen. So it's fork tender beef with spicy noodles.

Really great on a cold day.

Funny thing is, I'm from the East Coast of the US, so actually have a bunch of favorites from there that are really worth giving a try too.

Especially a REAL Cheesesteak.

Shaved Ribeye cut thin and grilled on a hot surface for a char. Grilled and charred onions and green peppers. Add it to an Italian soft roll that's warmed, NOT toasted. Melt on top of it either Cheez Wiz (an Aerosolized Cheese snack that's awful by itself) or American cheese. Mix it all together on the bun along with a few slices of Italian peperonchinis and a couple dashes of celery salt.

Incredibly unhealthy, but quite an experience if you ever get to try one (or make one yourself! I'm literally eating one I made for dinner right now haha 😂)