(11-18-2015 12:43 PM)Dawg87 Wrote:  Hahahahaha As someone who is from Louisiana and has traveled all over the country, its hilarious that people actually think that food is better in the north. I will give you that you have pizza and hot dogs down to a science but I dont consider that fine cuisine.

Ah, so you are talking about fine cuisine ... this is another example of where the Big Ten had to add Rutgers and Maryland. You'll find some of the best Thai and Lebanese and Indian restaurants in DC, a subway ride away from College Park ... and no range of fine cuisine is complete if you leave those out. And of course, actual Chinese food ... Northern Chinese, Hunan, Sechuan, Cantonese, all the stuff that the local "Chinese buffet" serving "General Tso's Chicken" is just a pale, weak imitation of.

Quote: Southern Coastal states have pretty much the best of just about whatever flavor you prefer. Seafood, homecooking, bbq, mexican etc. ...

And now you abandon the "fine cuisine" focus. "Homecooking" tends to rank highly no matter where you come from, because it tastes a lot like what people who came from there grew up eating.

And all of the different varieties of BBQ are like that and more ... my first preference is more Memphis style, but I do quite like Texas BBQ as well. If you are from the southern Coastal states, you may prefer the kind of BBQ you grew up with, but gather your cook-off jury from a dozen folks from western Tennessee and northern Mississippi, and the Southern Coastal BBQ's are not likely to win that competition. (As a MAC fan, I'd add that BBQ Razerback with a Memphis sauce might be the tastiest.)

And the Mexican that you have in the Coastal Southern areas is the same Mexican that is there up north ... you want to get some Mexican cuisine that really lights up a candle, you head over to New Mexico, so the Sunbelt and MWC hold pride of place in that competition. And for Tex-Mex, I'd say CUSA has an edge, with UTSA in their conference.

Quote: I agree that you have a wide range of options in places like New York where you have very diverse ethnic backgrounds but no sir, you do not have the best food. Hands down New Orleans is the best city in the states for any type of food you dont buy at chain resturants such as pizza haha just laughable.

Buying pizza at chain restaurants? Why would you do that if you had good pizza available? I grew up in the countryside east of Columbus, so we had no alternative to Pizza Hut or Domino's, but in little Oxford, we had two pizza places better than any chain restaurant, and my current home base when I'm stateside has six or seven pizza places, only two of them chains.