/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16041675
As someone who lives in michigan, I could tell you about the venison and homegrown foods. But I won't. That is all seasonal. When people come to visit me they laugh at me. The best restaurant we have in my town is an applebeas. I have friends all over the USA and I am ashamed. I've never had
>five guys
>shakeshack
>papa johns
>chipotle
>chicfillet
etc.

>>16041675
Boiled chicken with a tiny pinch of salt and pepper
Tater tot hot dish
Mcdonalds
Those shitty taco kits you can buy at Walmart
Boiled vegetables unseasoned

>>16041675
Literally who cares

>>16041706
That's all fast food, who cares. An actual sit down restaurant is astronomically better than all of that. I also suspect that you're a coastfag larping as a midwesterner

>>16041706
take a trip to chicago, you can find most if not all of those places.

>>16041675
In midwestern meals, corn and potatoes are considered "vegetables"

>>16041737
This is very true

>>16041715
>taco kits
do flyovers really?

>>16041675
>making a bait thread and using a place where people don't know how to use the internet

Standard subhuman flyover fair. Which wouldn't be that bad if they didn't get so defensive over it and treat their disgusting slop as a personality trait.

>>16041706
>Five Guys
>Papa Johns
>Chipotle
How the fuck have you not had any of these? I've lived in Michigan my whole life and I have multiples of these fastfood chains by me. You're obviously living in an inbred hick area too if the best restaurant is a goddamn Applebee's. Leave your bumpkin town and move to the Detroit or Metro Detroit area, since these are the only areas that matter in Michigan, faggot.

>>16041675
Iowa tard here
I just put 3 strips of bacon and some tater tots in the air fryer. About to fry up 3 sunny side up eggs and load that shit with cheese and home made tomatillo and chile de arbol salsa. Suck my dick.

>>16041675
Meat and cheese with deep fried vegetables
t. Indiana

>>16041675
Hotdish and beer

>>16041827
I'd wager that the majority of American /ck/ posters are from the midwest since they had to learn how to cook out of necessity because there are no other options outside of chain restaurants and pork tenderloin sandwiches.

>>16041827
That's to feed two or three people, right?

>>16041675
Wisconsin here: a lot of family food is bland middle america sloppa or basterdized versions of german/polish/scandi cuisine. We have great cheese and beer.

Raw beef sandwiches up here in Wisconsin

*coughs*

>>16041857
Is that at least made with high quality beef, or do people actually eat raw preground slip from the supermarket?

>>16041864
The latter obviously

>>16041862
A normal hamburger formed around some cheese instead of placing the cheese on the burger is the pinnacle of regional midwestern cuisine.

>>16041675
Nothing worthwhile

MN here. One nice thing is there is a ton of farms, so fruit/vegetable/egg/meat prices are generally not too bad and there are often some decent sales for it.

Bar food is pretty common up here for most restaurants along with cheese curds and pretzels. Stuff like wild rice and hot dishes are also common at potlucks and whatnot. We also have a pretty big Vietnamese population so there are a ton of decent options.

>>16041854
600-800 calories for two or three people?

>>16041854
No you skinny ass bitch

>>16041675
fried cheese dipped in cheese

>>16041675
insulin because they're fat diabetics lol

>>16041706
I can tell you as someone who was raised in a major city, stick to the homegrown shit. Unless you are shitting out hundreds of dollars at an expensive steakhouse its all literal low quality shit.

>>16041675
From Wisconsin
Beef, cheese and sausage in many dishes.
Asparagus, Onions, Mushrooms, Root vegetables are common.
Lots of beer
Fish fry
In general a lot of comfort food

Beers, casseroles and pot pie, easy stuff like sphagetti and meatballs, grilled meats, fried anything, big breakfasts with eggs pancakes or waffles and sausage or bacon. Dairy generally. Lots of pre packaged store bought stuff. Frozen pizzas or gas station pizzas like Casey's or Hunts Brothers. If near the great lakes or in very Scandinavian areas, fish.

>>16042344
>no potato pancakes with applesauce
you have to go back

>>16041675
Better question: What do they eat?

>>16041688
>>16041715
>>16041833
>>16042956
Hot dish. Maybe it's not tater tot hot dish, but some kind of hot dish is in everyone's repertoire.

Ground beef, onion, some kind of starch, some kind of goo. Bake 350f for an hour, pull off the tinfoil at 45 minutes in.
Good stuff.

>>16041675

>>16043066
>methheads
>eating
rochester has a garbage plate

>>16043066
Steamed hams

>>16043066
pretty average american stuff, lots of italian german irish immigrants. there are nice pockets like saratoga springs that have high end shit

>>16041675
A lot of anons talking about meme dishes and fast food but are missing a key upper Midwest feature - supper clubs. They’re few and far between now that boomers are dying off and small rural communities are disappearing, but there is really good charm to them; great food at good prices.
Prime ribs, chicken kievs, Friday fish fries, and a minty grasshopper drink for dessert. Used to go to one for my grandfather’s birthday every year but sadly I think the place shuttered due to the recession from covid.

>>16043163
tell me more about this

Went to Milly-Walk-Kayo forever ago but still think about the chili I had in some Ben's Chili Bowl equivalent, so diner since the thirties or forties based on fixtures, downtown, & was just chili mac but with weird regional toppings that I do not recall but still remember as being extra delicious. Also ate at the weird converted speakeasy restuarant downtown where you exit through the underground staircase that leads up to a phone booth.

Chicago had great food but I wasn't there long enough to get the true homecooking ideas & cuisine. Lotta Polish influence, great Taqueria...

>>16041675
Pretty much what Scandinavians eat since they're all from that region

>>16042979
That sounds like something my brother would have liked. Apples are more seasonal since they are better picked fresh from a tree. Apple cobbler was something i would make when i was younger

>>16043186
>tell me more about this
They’re all pretty unique from one another depending on whatever sub-region they’re, local economies, and the types of customers that visit. They all have varying degrees of formality - more urban ones you’ll find people dressing up and have live bands playing while rural ones you’ll get farmers fresh off the fields in their overalls eating with their families.
They typically run very late as well since they function as social clubs. Go in, grab a bite to eat, then sit at the bar to talk and drink with neighbors until you’re booted out at 1 AM.
The buildings tend to be pretty neat as they often started as someone’s house or a tiny gas station and gradually expanded.
Not from Chicago so can’t speak about their food scene but go out of your way to visit a supper club in some little farming town if you ever have the chance. They’re pretty soulful in a region not known for culinary excellence.

>>16041706
>He has an applebees

>>16041737
because they are

Great lakes have some decent fish

>>16043239
Are the mason's and lion's club in these towns supper clubs?

>>16043094
I make butter burgers at home but usually use margarine instead of butter

>>16041809
>move to the city bro!
>DUDE i just LOVE the hustle and bustle of the big city, it’s so DYNAMIC and makes me feel like i’m in one of my favorite TV SHOWS. you should totally come on down to my studio apartment, it’s got EXPOSED RED BRICK walls and everything, we can crack open a nice hoppy ipa or three and get crazy watching some cartoons on adult swim! and dude, dude, DUDE, we have GOTTA go down to the barcade- listen here, right, it’s a BAR where us ADULTS who do ADULTING can go DRINK. BUT!!!! it’s also an ARCADE like when we were kids, so we can play awesome VIDEO GAMES, without dumb kids bothering us. speaking of which megan and i have finally decided to tie the knot- literally -we’re both getting snipped tomorrow at the hospital, that way we can save money to spent more on ourselves and our FURBABIES. i’m fuckin JACKED man, i’m gonna SLAM this craft beer and pop open another one!!!

>>16041675
Dakotard here. Everyone here seems to suck one farmer's dick to get good cuts of meat. Fishing and cooking what you eat is popular right now. All the restaurants are bar food, authentic Mexican, or SE Asian. Steakhouses rotate different "specials" that are different parts of cow every night. Meat here is pretty good but sides generally suck ass. They literally have no idea how to prepare anything that's not potato or corn.

>>16041675
Casserole

What do they eat?

>>16044051
This pasta never fails to make me cringe

>>16044044
Then they're margarine burgers silly

>>16044024
No.
Supper club is a dinner-only restaurant, often only 3 or 4 nights a week.
Usually no membership required these days.

From the outside, you're not going to find anything particularly daring at a supper club; nothing avant garde. Lots of well made classic dishes, a bit nicer than everyday food, less expensive than a "fancy" restaurant but they usually have tablecloths.
Expect the soup to be good, and try to get there on fish fry night.

Lions/Masons/Elks/Moose/Eagles do have a membership requirement; you kinda gotta commit.

>>16044062
What's with the chislic and red beer?

>>16041675
Popcorn salad

>>16044765
Chislic can range anywhere from fried steak on a toothpick to actual cured, spiced beef with a distinct flavor. The most flavorful is like italian seasoning and garlic steak in bite sizes. Chislic kind of varies from restaurant to restaurant. I'm pretty sure red beer is a meme to mask iron-rich tap water flavor; still good beer tho

>>16041688
Unironically this but not with jalapenos, those are waaaaaay too fuckin spicy for us flyovers.

>>16044051
Metro Detroit area is a bunch of suburbs
>>16041675
Michigan has a bunch of coney islands, Chinese food, and Mediterranean/Middle Eastern food

>>16043066
chicken parms

>>16043066
I didn’t even know there were people there

t. Long Islander

>>16044081
Too close to home?

>>16041706
decent bait. the subtle misspellings are a nice touch.

>>16044954
That’s funny, I always knew Long Island lacked actual humans

I was in Madison for a job interview a few years ago, and people on the street are basically fighting one another to give you cheese curds and beer.
It's pretty great.

>>16044937
We really need to split this state up.
I have lived in Michigan all my life and I have never had coney island dogs or Mediterranian/Middle Eastern food. Chinese only really exists in buffet form. Instead I've had a shitload of venison in various forms, pasties from old church ladies, and fried bluegill/perch. There may be a bunch of them but you can be in Michigan and still need to drive 7 hours to get to them.

>>16044729
Damn my town is too small for a supper club. Sounds comfy

>>16041688
this is the correct answer

>>16044926
kek. i had a coworker who was from south dakota once and he always said "if it doesn't have velveeta it's not hot dish, but no rotel--that stuff is way too spicy"

>>16044066
I can only speak for us in Zackers but we eat lots of cum.

>>16041675
Minnesota here
We've got a pretty good variety of food, native stuff like chicken and wild rice soup or walleye is bretty good but we've also got a shit ton of pho/ramen places. Many months of soup season around here

A steady diet of kroppkakor and nut goodies

>>16041706
I'm an Ozark poorfag and this post made me sad.

>>16041706
Larp

>>16043066
pizza, jewish food, frozen custard, and occasionally some grits

>>16045323
Quite comfy.
The better rural supper clubs are generally about 4 miles outside a town of between 800 and 5000, along a state road.

Fortunately, if you're in tiny town, you're used to going for a drive to get anything.

>>16041675
>hurr durr flyover
Minneapolis has a really good restaurant scene. Of course it's not NYC or Chicago, but it's not bad at all.

>>16043066
Buffaloanon here, we eat Buffalo wings (obviously), beef sandwiches on weck rolls, loganberry sodas, and otherwise your typical schlock.

Italian food is big too, as is Irish or German food. Basically, any immigrants that went north to get away from the faggotry that is NYC. Culturally, upstate is more like the midwestern United States, which is reflected in our accent.

>>16045449
>t.Korbel Manhattan drinkin' Sconnie
I made you an appetizer, pic related

>>16045413
What's up with the obsession with bagels out that way anon? It's such a pointless food to care about.

>>16045413
This is either a strange answer or a very well-done movie reference. I'll hope for the latter.

>>16045462
>scene
Why dint you just say
>Minneapolis has some good restaurants
Why do people use this expression

>>16041864
the filename is cannibalsandwich

>>16045517
Nice

>>16045517
>tfw the pretzel balls are only a seasonal item and not always on the menu
come on market researchers, report back that this fat bastard would eat them all year with the cheese sauce

>>16045559
I just get the cheese sauce to dip my cheese curds in

>>16041715
>Those shitty taco kits you can buy at Walmart
>Boiled vegetables unseasoned
So basically my mom's idea of home cooking

>>16041675
Flying Jacob.

>>16041675
They eat a lot. Have you ever seen their women. Enormous.

>>16041675
From iowa

Grilled steak, pork, chicken, burgers. Fish is less common but still there. Lots of potatoes/corn/green beans/ect. Smoked meats also common. Asian foods are here and there depending. Honestly ive been to a lot of states and we all pretty much eat the same things in different quantities.

Makes your lakefront picnic kino

>>16045462
>Minneapolis
Oh fuck off, most of what is offered is overpriced hipster garbage. St Paul has better options. That said, fuck the TC, and that sentiment is from far before last summer.
t. suburbfag

>>16043066
Salt potatoes are the peak of their culinary world

>>16041706
You don't have restaurants that aren't corporate chains?

>>16044954
Based long island bro

>>16041706
Motherfucker, I live in Michigan too and I've had Papa Johns. Hell, we have one here in town.

>>16048067
>t.Edina cunt

>>16041809
>Detroit
>Metro Detroit

No thanks, and I have multiple reasons:
1. Feral blacks
2. High cost of living
3. Feral whites
4. Feral Mexicans

>>16048067
Downtown st Paul is pretty bland. Midway has a crazy cuisine scene but its high risk high reward

>>16048906
Did you try not living in a shithole area? My neighborhood is like 99% white and the rest are pajeets and Sikhs. My house wasn't expensive either.

>>16045479
I had some spergy janitor at work who used to give me a rundown of Buffalo and your god damn wings every day he was emptying trash and I was trying to eat

>>16045482
Thanks anon i love it

>>16043554
I’d stick it in her butthole with my weener

>>16041675
Wisconsinfag here

>Mostly eat grilled hamburgers and brats, traditionally simmered in beer and onions after being grilled, all served on a Sheboygan hard roll
>also eat pretty much any cut of beef/pork, occasionally eating chicken as well
>most bars and local restaurants have Friday Fish Frys year round, where you can get a platter of beer-battered fresh fish and seafood, fries and/or potato salad (American or German), coleslaw, two slices of rye bread, and tartar and shrimp sauce
>Fish Boils are also common at some charity events, which is whitefish boiled with potatoes, onions, and carrots in a big pot.
>most of our other dishes are bastardized German/Scandinavian home cooking, with tons of cassaroles and cooked local vegetables (asparagus, corn, potatoes, green beens, apples, cranberries)
>one popular cassarole is Cheesy Potato Cassarole, which is cheese and potatoes topped with Corn Flakes. Green Bean Cassarole is also popular.
>the most popular mixed drink is the Brandy Old Fashioned, made with Korbel brandy
>the most popular beer is Coors Light, but Spotted Cow is the local favorite
>Cheese Curds are of course a popular snack or side dish, either raw or deep fried
>Cannibal sandwiches (raw beef on French bread topped with black pepper and onions) are popular at New Years celebrations
>Foreign food is lacking, but there are a few decent Mexican places here and there. The Hmong community also likes to sell homemade Spring Rolls, which are always pretty good

>>16041946
As a fellow MN person I will confirm. Bar food is fucking everywhere, granted usually pretty good. Cooking for yourself is easy because as my fren said fruit/vegetable/meat prices are pretty good, I survive on just about $10 a day and I go big with stuff, I could easily cut that in half

>>16041675
your mom lolololo

>>16041675
Bad things. Don't come visit

>>16041706
Michigan is one of the best states for food you absolute LARPing faggot.

>>16045485
bagels in new york are unlike any other bagel in the world. theyre really good

>>16049987
>thinking generic fast food chains make it one of the best states for food

>>16045211
t. one of the like 12 yoopers in the world

>>16041688
>velveeta
Do flyover fags really? With that being said, I would most definitely eat this, it looks good.>>16044926
pussy

>>16048906
Dude, Metro Detroit is comfy as fuck. I can get Japanese, Thai, Chinese, Cajun, Mediterranean/Arabic, Mexican, and Italian food while living cheaply and away from niggers. Learn more about the state and areas by leaving your bumfuck nowhere hometown.

These people are The Land of the Lost.

Sleestaks and painted stones.

>>16050321
I don't do Velveeta but MN I do eat this. It's super easy to make and it's great in the winter.

>>16041675
better food than you, faggot.

>>16041675
sometimes like this in Detroit
so good

>>16043094
Solly's is for boss niggers only and you clearly are not one.

>>16041706
as someone who lived in michigan, I could tell you that five guys, papa john's, chipotle, and chick fil a are all available. incredible larp.

>>16050264
I agree, guy is definitely from up north. Nothing wrong with that, but it's very 'in the wood'.

Lived in Wisconsin all my life. A lot of wypipo food has German or Scandinavian roots. We also have shit like fish fries, pig roasts, supper clubs, etc. If you live on the eastern half of the state you will get a shit ton of fish from Lake Michigan and Green Bay. Lake Winnebago has a metric fuck ton of sturgeon, but it also has bad algae problems. In hunting seasons you will see a lot of venison.

The town I grew up in had a big Hispanic community so there were a lot of authentic Mexican restaurants. If you want places with a lot of good restaurants you'll have to go to Milwaukee or Madison (Janesville has some nice spots) in the southern part of the state. If you're in the Fox Valley you'll want to go to Appleton or Green Bay. If you're further north, like in Rhinelander or Eagle River, you're pretty much fucked.

Despite some places in Wisconsin either empty or white trash as fuck I would rather live here than an urban shithole full of loudmouth faggots on the coast.

>>16052691
Just how you typed i can tell your a faggot, a nigger, or both. Dont ever come north of fond du lac

>>16041675
cunny

>>16041675
Bratwurst sandwich

>>16041675
> What do they eat?

>>16053460
You're probably from Waupaca given from how retarded you are.

>>16054324
home of one of the most delicious pizzas on the planet

>>16043099

>>16041675
We have Perkins you bitch. The greatest late night restraunt to ever exist. Going there is like the zoo, there are many odd mole men that come out at night to eat at perkins

I ate steaks and burgers almost everyday while living in ND fracking. It was actually some of the best food I've ever eaten in my life, and it was a paradise for an alcoholic too, really liked the Germanic heritage for the towns as well, obviously the white towns, not the Indian ones. Fuck the natives

They eat multiple hundred dollar fines for not mowing their lawns on every property they own every morning at 8 AM because their city/county decided to adopt HOA rules as actual legislation.

>>16055473
You complaint sounds a bit specific. Would you like to tell us more?

>>16041725
Not fucking applebees. I hope he does have good sitdown restaurants near him though.

>>16041706
>>five guys
>>shakeshack
>>papa johns
>>chipotle
>>chicfillet
everything except shake shack is in michigan you retarded NEET

>>16041809
>Leave your bumpkin town and move to the Detroit or Metro Detroit area
this is terrible advice. do you want to be surrounded by normies, retards, blacks, hipsters, and people that think they are cool because they are from a detroit suburb? of course not. live in a smaller town, less retards, because, less people. don't be a fucking idiot

>>16054756
Used to go to the burnsville one all the time late at night. The overnight girl was hot as shit and we had nothing better to do in 11th and 12th grade. I miss those days so much

venison, beef and fish, something a lot of retards in this country have little or no access to

>>16055558
The one by where I live right now has this super classy black man. He'll come up to you and say "come with my gentlemen", then he'll sit you down and say "you're table gentlemen, you're menus gentlmen". Really sets to mood for the night. I love that black man

"Have a good night gentlemen"

>>16045615
same lmao

>>16052691
>in Rhinelander or Eagle River, you're pretty much fucked
Bullshit.
All the up nort towns I've been to have a comfy as fuck diner, bar (with food), supper club, or restaurant. Maybe not table cloths & wine lists fancy, but the food is good (but admittedly not diverse).

Besides, if you're that far north, you're on (or next to) a tribal casino, and they'll have a passable restaurant.

>>16041675

>>16041737
>cousin has a bunch of turkey and bread on plate
>aunt tells him to eat his vegetables
>puts a scoop of corn on his plate
end scene

I love Wisconsin haha

>>16041862
the day a burger nut in my mouth i'm shooting up the block

>>16056371
I miss it. The last Outback here closed because of a lack of wagies here this week.

>>16048898
comeon bro, you gotta let him breathe!

>>16050043
You've never been to Michigan, faggot. There's a metric shitload of delicious independent chains, at least in the greater Detroit area.

>>16055545

At least for SE Michigan there's one in downtown Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Troy. So all of that is available.

>>16041706
I'm from Michigan. We're a great food state you retard.
>Better Made Potato Chips
>Vernors
>Faygo (Rock & Rye is based)
>Venison, homegrown foods
>Other Wild Game
>Coney Chili Dogs
>Middle Eastern food is good around here because of the muzzies they let in
>Other normal american cuisine

>>16045211
I live in St. Clair County. I experience both.

>>16058239
Also lots of good micro brews from Michigan
>Bells
>Shorts
>Strohs
>Khunen
>Founders
>M-43 is the nectar of the gods in WIlliamsburg

>>16058239
dont forget 99% of pizza chains started in michigan

>>16044066
here in new nantes the only 'eating out' is gas station sushi
i heard those lucky fuckers over in ronald have a denny's