New Jersey’s Food Fight Settled?
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Foodnetwork.com, the website for the best food content, recommends tasting distinct local flavors that share history and geography in its new menu of foods. The most popular food in all 50 states.
Travelers shouldn’t settle for eating the same dish wherever they go, so stop eating the cheeseburger.
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So what is the most famous dish in New Jersey?
In New Jersey, Disco Fries are a Garden State staple and originate from North Jersey.
Sorry pork roll or pork Taylor lovers. Smothered French fries are the favorite dish of the entire country.
The magazine says disco fries are New Jersey’s answer to Canadian poutine, and Tick Tock Diner in Clifton claims to have created them. While the dish has been around longer than the days of disco, the name allegedly came about in the 1970s when a John Travolta wannabe stumbled upon it after a night of dancing and drinking. Disco fries are crispy french fries dipped in melted mozzarella cheese and warm gravy.
Most defined dishes for CT, DE, NY, and PA
This list also includes the neighboring states of Pennsylvania and Delaware. This is what Popular Food magazine said about each country’s dish:
Connecticut: White Clam Pizza
There are few other types of pizza as revered as Frank Pepe’s white pizza Napolitana. Pepe’s has been serving up charred, chewy pizza since 1925 on historic Wooster Street in New Haven. The clam pie, in particular, has inspired hundreds of imitators, with few matching the heady combination of pecorino Romano cheese, fresh garlic, olive oil, oregano and clams. Combining coastal Connecticut’s love of seafood with Pepe’s signature chewy and charred crust, Pepe’s is the place to try authentic Connecticut pizza.
Delaware: Vinegar french fries
When in Delaware, the beach is everyone’s summer getaway, and stopping for a bucket of hot fries at Thrasher’s on the boardwalk is as mandatory as a nap in the sand. Thrasher’s has been serving beachgoers the best, freshest French fries since 1929. The addition of apple cider vinegar is not strictly mandatory but is highly recommended by fans of the delicious, salty, memory-making result. Just watch the seagulls bombarding it.
New York: Buffalo Wings
Buffalo wings are a favorite of sports fans, and they get their name from the city in which they originated. There seems to be no such thing as a bad wing in Buffalo, but the institution that rises above all others is where this wing was born. It started almost by chance as an experiment on March 4, 1964. Dominic, the son of Anchor Bar co-founder Teresa Bellissimo, asked his mother to make a snack for his drunken friends late one night while he was tending bar. Teresa fried the wings that would normally be used as a gravy base, then flavored them with a secret sauce. While similar recipes have become mainstays on menus across the United States, Teresa’s closely guarded master recipe is only available at Anchor Bar.
Pennsylvania: Philly Cheesesteak
Thinly sliced beef, fried on a griddle, with or without onions, topped with cheeseburger, American, or provolone cheese (your choice), and stacked on a long, crispy roll – this is a Philadelphia icon. Although Pats and Gino’s are household names, many locals prefer John’s Roast Pork, where the steak is cooked to order and the seeds are placed in the roll. The family-run sandwich shack has been around since the 1930s, and despite being named after another Philadelphia classic, it’s a local favorite for cheesesteaks, too.
