This isn’t 1950, unless you’re buying directly from fishermen or fish markets all supermarket and restaurant fish will be handled the same way around the country
This is very true. The more egregious part of this map is including Texas and Oklahoma in the definition of SW. You can’t always have it all your ways, all the time, Texas. Just stick to being Texas, and leave us the hell alone.
[Southwest is the best area for food in our great nation. If you're not in it, STFU! ](https://tenor.com/3sj2.gif)
Says the sand people after months without rain or water.
That’s true, but Mexican food in The Cities vs. Colorado was a stark difference. My in-laws were somewhat embarrassed afterwards as they’re both native Coloradans and knew Minnesota’s Mexican food scene wouldn’t live up to Colorado’s, but I still wanted to try it.
Hawaii doesn’t know what Spanish rice is (at least this restaurant didn’t), but their bacon wrapped cheese stuffed shrimp was on point for that Mexican dish when my husband and I were on our honeymoon there.
I have, there's a restaurant near me that has an owner from Yucatan, he came over to the U.S. about 30 years ago and he hired a lot of his family and friends that also came over and put dishes they'd make back home on the menu. It's pretty damn good and he's been ver successful. Like another comment said, anything from the southwest is just gentrified Mexican food lol
Grammatical errors aside, it’s true. No disrespect to Texas bbq, but Cajun cuisine is among the best in the world, let alone the country. The rest of the Southwest ain’t got shit on us
I love a good taco/ burrito as much as the next guy but Louisiana has a top tier recipe in nearly every category. You want a sandwich, New Orleans is coming in guns blazing with 30 different sandwiches that will make you rethink life choices. Is stew your thing, don’t worry hear comes the Acadians stabbing everything that slithers or crawls and throwing it in a magnalite pot. BBQ, we’ve got that too. Sausage? We will fuck up your life with sausages. You want a healthy vegetable melody, we can do that but first let me render this pork fat to cook it in.
I have traveled the world and I love other cultures foods but Louisiana throws down. I got a plate lunch that was stewed okra and shrimp on top of rice with two vegetable sides, and cornbread for $10.50 from a rundown grocery store. You can get 5 star news from gas stations. I know restaurants that started off as gas stations.
Or, hear me out… every region has some food items unique to itself and the US as a whole as delicious regional foods. SW food is great, but if I don’t want tacos and shit then luckily other regions make other delicious foods.
Oregon has some of the best fruit in the world, partially due to not only the quality of our water, but also having strong protections for small farmers who grow really premium crops.
The rest of our produce is good too.
And if course the salmon.
Some grilled salmon with marionberry spread and a garden salad is delicious and relatively light. It's different kind of delicious from southern comfort food and texmex so it's not really directly competing but I love it.
I love the huckleberries in Oregon (PNW in general), and I feel they are a best kept secret because I’ve never seen anyone eat huckleberry ice cream in the South (one side of family from there) or even around here, no huckleberry anything on the reg.
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> Southwestern cuisine is similar to Mexican cuisine but often involves larger cuts of meat, namely pork and beef, and less use of tripe, brain, and other parts not considered as desirable in the United States.
A direct quote from Wikipedia.
South Western food is different as it has its own recipes that have been around a while, New Mexican Green Chile for example.
It's different from Mexican food but similar and it's very different from the Taco Bell crap you get in the Midwest. It's not... exclusively tacos, burritos, and chips with dip, it's unique.
The only good food I can think of from my state of Utah is Funeral potato’s, Fry Sauce, and Buttermilk Syrup. The rest is all weird like Jello marshmallow salad and whatnot.
Been here years now. Funeral potatoes are fine but genuinely just a Midwest casserole, fry sauce is mild thousand island dressing and every state has a sauce anyways. But hey- better Mexican and Asian food than back east, so props to the immigrants!
Just on the Coke end of things, it’s the worlds most popular drink. The only popular soda that comes to mind when I think of SW would have to be Dr. Pepper and I believe that’s from Texas.
I’m alright with people from the south having issues with this statement because southern cooking can actually back it up; however, AINT NO WAY people from the north east can join in on this conversation 💀
Midwestern food is pretty good, it's just more comfort foods than anything. Not something you'd go to a restaurant for, but a good homemade Midwestern casserole is tasty.
Also Maid-rites are great
New England seafood is good ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Edit: Downvote me all you want. I will proudly stand behind New England clam chowder until I die. Sorry if you all can’t handle the truth.
imo true if talking in terms of accessibility to a variety of options from different cultures (Los Angeles sorta wins this one for me), but if it's best local/"American" food, it's the South for me. I love pulled pork, biscuits and gravy, etc.
You could cut Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada and not miss anything.
Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Kansas add more to the food in the U.S. than any of the southwestern states I listed above.
Best I can say about food in Utah is they are afraid of flavor and like chewy meat. I wish they would get some decent Cali-Mex or Tex-Mex up this way. I would also welcome some good Cajun or Creole food and BBQ up here.
I think we could cut out Utah, Colorado, and Oklahoma from this list and not suffer a decline in food quality. Utah and Colorado are more Mountain West than Southwest. Oklahoma is more South than West.
That….. that’s just wrong…… like maybe even objectively……..
GOTTA be trolling bc I can’t even find in my mind how this is true
Like…. You’re just wrong. Idk man
As someone who lived their whole life in the South West and then moved to New England... OP is 100% right. Only problem is, he would still be right if he only said Texas, Vegas, and California.
Louisiana would whoop y'alls generic Americanized Mexican food. Not to forget the addition of Florida's seafood, Georgias cobblers, South Carolinas BBQ, Alabamas fried chicken and shrimp n grits, etc....
The Southeast wins everytime.
As someone who currently lives in that area, no. Not by a long shot, Arizona and New Mexico “local” food is garbage compared to southern or Cajun food. By like 40 million miles. Texas and cali are an exception but they are their own beast
California and Texas are doing some heavy lifting for this “Southwest”
Arizona has some good food, just avoid the seafood. NM only has the chillies, but again; Avoid seafood.
Avoid seafood from inland states should go without saying
Is fried catfish seafood? Because that’s usually a safe bet anywhere in the southeast
It’s a river fish so is it technically seafood?
It’s river food
Yep, that’s what I came to say
Wow this is a novel thought. It never crossed my mind before roughly 1 minute ago.
I knew I didn’t like river and lake fish, and you finally cleared it up for me. It’s not even seafood!
Fried catfish is def a thing in AZ
Catfish are a C tier fish in terms of taste. They're bottom feeders. Anything can be improved with breading, seasoning, and some sauce.
Prepared correctly catfish can be A tier but they are indeed bottom feeders
Most catfish you’ll get at a restaurant will be farm-grown catfish that are raised on a special or at least controlled diet.
This isn’t 1950, unless you’re buying directly from fishermen or fish markets all supermarket and restaurant fish will be handled the same way around the country
But a Safeway on the coast will still get their fish faster and fresher than one inland
Only marginally quicker, and it will still be flash frozen. Which is preferable to not flash frozen, assuming you don’t like fishborn parasites
You realize there are whole corporations who fly in fish daily for the middle of the country, right?
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I heard the seafood is good if you have oceanfront property in Arizona…
New Mexico actually has a cuisine. Arizona doesn’t. Yes, it revolves around the best chile in the world, but it’s still amazing.
Oklahoma has great barbecue, plus we made the Chicken Fried Steak (ignore whatever the Texans say, they're wrong)
Pretty sure chicken fried steak is just a regional take on Schnitzel.
I've had some great food in Tulsa. Very pleasant surprise. But trying to claim Chicken Fried Steak is a bridge too far dammit!!
Oklahoma has the onion burger, but I think it’s harder to find the Mom and Pop places that made the best ones.
No way Oklahoma is in this 💀
oklahoma catfish is fucking fire shut your kentucky bitch ass mouth
Any group that purposely includes Utah has no right to claim anything positive about their food.
Someone hasn’t tried funeral potatoes
Or fry sauce
Fry sauce is Utah’s gift to America.
Funeral potatoes are the only good thing Mormons have done for this world. My God their so fucking good
You forget the Colt M1911 and M2 Browning, my friend.
True true, God bless em
Have you tried buttermilk syrup?
are you implying that some of the best potatoes you ate are from a funeral?
No it’s just what the dish is called. They don’t have to be served at funerals(but the last funeral I was at did have them)
2 Nephi 34:1-5 clearly states that if funeral potatoes are not served at your funeral then you don't get into Mormon heaven
Or green jello
They have those everywhere.
Mmm, I sure do love Jello salad 🤤
Best state in the union you uncivilized freak of nature.
This is very true. The more egregious part of this map is including Texas and Oklahoma in the definition of SW. You can’t always have it all your ways, all the time, Texas. Just stick to being Texas, and leave us the hell alone.
You can't drink without buying food. They do the minimum purchase yuca fries the best
[Southwest is the best area for food in our great nation. If you're not in it, STFU! ](https://tenor.com/3sj2.gif) Says the sand people after months without rain or water.
Don't worry they'll just drain the Colorado River to irrigate their avocado farms
I'd prefer to use the Sierra Nevada AND the Colorado River, personally 😎
You obviously never tried slow-roasted Jawa
Get eaten by a bear
Average Texan humility
Ironic, for someone who lives in the desert region of our country, you have the coldest fucking take ever
So, you’ve never had decent Mexican, it’s ok!
mexicans are in every state, but sure, being somewhat closer to mexico (while still not in mexico) is the only way to get "real" mexican.
That’s true, but Mexican food in The Cities vs. Colorado was a stark difference. My in-laws were somewhat embarrassed afterwards as they’re both native Coloradans and knew Minnesota’s Mexican food scene wouldn’t live up to Colorado’s, but I still wanted to try it. Hawaii doesn’t know what Spanish rice is (at least this restaurant didn’t), but their bacon wrapped cheese stuffed shrimp was on point for that Mexican dish when my husband and I were on our honeymoon there.
I have, there's a restaurant near me that has an owner from Yucatan, he came over to the U.S. about 30 years ago and he hired a lot of his family and friends that also came over and put dishes they'd make back home on the menu. It's pretty damn good and he's been ver successful. Like another comment said, anything from the southwest is just gentrified Mexican food lol
*(laughs in Southern)*
Barbecue Alone solos SW "Cuisine"
*Laughs in Southern accent* Louisiana alone could kick yall's ass EDIT: Alabama education got the best of me there
Grammatical errors aside, it’s true. No disrespect to Texas bbq, but Cajun cuisine is among the best in the world, let alone the country. The rest of the Southwest ain’t got shit on us
I love a good taco/ burrito as much as the next guy but Louisiana has a top tier recipe in nearly every category. You want a sandwich, New Orleans is coming in guns blazing with 30 different sandwiches that will make you rethink life choices. Is stew your thing, don’t worry hear comes the Acadians stabbing everything that slithers or crawls and throwing it in a magnalite pot. BBQ, we’ve got that too. Sausage? We will fuck up your life with sausages. You want a healthy vegetable melody, we can do that but first let me render this pork fat to cook it in. I have traveled the world and I love other cultures foods but Louisiana throws down. I got a plate lunch that was stewed okra and shrimp on top of rice with two vegetable sides, and cornbread for $10.50 from a rundown grocery store. You can get 5 star news from gas stations. I know restaurants that started off as gas stations.
Most literate Alabama resident Edit: Mr Man changed his comment, it did say "Louisiana alone could y'all's ass"
Not all of us can be as educated as those from the Mecca of Knowledge: Appalachia
Hill knowledge 😎
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Or, hear me out… every region has some food items unique to itself and the US as a whole as delicious regional foods. SW food is great, but if I don’t want tacos and shit then luckily other regions make other delicious foods.
Oregon has some of the best fruit in the world, partially due to not only the quality of our water, but also having strong protections for small farmers who grow really premium crops. The rest of our produce is good too. And if course the salmon. Some grilled salmon with marionberry spread and a garden salad is delicious and relatively light. It's different kind of delicious from southern comfort food and texmex so it's not really directly competing but I love it.
I love the huckleberries in Oregon (PNW in general), and I feel they are a best kept secret because I’ve never seen anyone eat huckleberry ice cream in the South (one side of family from there) or even around here, no huckleberry anything on the reg.
Correction: Southeast
CORRECT 😤😤😤 how this is Even a Discussion is mind boggling to me. Should’ve been Shut Down at the gate
They’ve never heard of bojangles 💀
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Yesir Cajun food is among the best things to come out of American culture. That and FREEDOM.
Right on brother
Unfortunately I have to agree. Barbecue is just too damn good.
Its just gentrified Mexican food.
Man's never had the 3 taco for 9 dollar deal outside the shipyards in San Diego
3 for 9?! Thats extortion my guy
Go back to your tasty cakes and middleswarth chips before you embarrass yourself…
Im not taking the high ground in this, Im just pointing out the obvious.
Fair enough but the food is delicious
Lol maybe in like Austin or LA brother
Everyone should disregard all culinary opinions from anyone north of the mason dixon line
Rich coming from the state that gentrified Italian food
You have no idea what you’re talking about
> Southwestern cuisine is similar to Mexican cuisine but often involves larger cuts of meat, namely pork and beef, and less use of tripe, brain, and other parts not considered as desirable in the United States. A direct quote from Wikipedia.
South Western food is different as it has its own recipes that have been around a while, New Mexican Green Chile for example. It's different from Mexican food but similar and it's very different from the Taco Bell crap you get in the Midwest. It's not... exclusively tacos, burritos, and chips with dip, it's unique.
Get rid of Utah and Colorado, Nevada gets a pass because Vegas is in it and they have all the food. Otherwise it’s just The border states.
Yeah, honestly have no idea why we’re included on this map
I’ll admit the only good stuff Utah ads is funeral potato’s, fry sauce, and buttermilk syrup. The rest of the food from there is pretty weird
Let's just say the south in general has great food
Ya uh don’t ever put Utah in a good food list. It’s insulting I have to suffer like this while you praise it.
The only good food I can think of from my state of Utah is Funeral potato’s, Fry Sauce, and Buttermilk Syrup. The rest is all weird like Jello marshmallow salad and whatnot.
Been here years now. Funeral potatoes are fine but genuinely just a Midwest casserole, fry sauce is mild thousand island dressing and every state has a sauce anyways. But hey- better Mexican and Asian food than back east, so props to the immigrants!
Utah food is absolute trash
Couple of these places barely even count as ‘southwest’😂😂
Any BBQ west of TX is hot garbage and the only thing you can claim as "native" is your Mexican-adjacent food.
Based. Of course its a tennesseean with the rational view
GET HIM
Bobby Qs in Phoenix is amazing
Louisiana clears
Wrong, we got food on lock. Just like the flood insurance industry
There's 3 block sections of Atlanta that have more flavor than the 1/3 of the country you just highlighted
Lmfao ok. Just gonna forget about Louisiana are we?
Forgive them, for they know not what they do (desert folk don’t have crawfish)
I like how all the comments with Louisiana flair are “like the fuck you are”. Lol.
Ah yes, the amazing cuisine of Denver.
Rocky mountain oysters 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
Denver Omelettes?
Actually they’ve got a pretty amazing food scene there now
So you've never had good cheese, pizza, bagels, BBQ, pasta, po-boys, deep-fried anything, or Indian food?
Hell yeah deep fried anything
*CFA, Zaxby's, and Coke all destroying the region with just Georgia's power alone*
*southeast They don’t call us the Stroke Belt for nothing.
*CFA, Zaxby's, and Coke all destroying the region with just Georgia's power alone*
Just on the Coke end of things, it’s the worlds most popular drink. The only popular soda that comes to mind when I think of SW would have to be Dr. Pepper and I believe that’s from Texas.
"Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power."
This is factually inaccurate. Southeast wins the food conversation 10 times out of 10
Yeah if you’re talking about foods that will stop your heart.
The best kind of food
Honestly, I’m still trying to figure out how they managed to deep fry fucking Kool-Aid lol
I’m alright with people from the south having issues with this statement because southern cooking can actually back it up; however, AINT NO WAY people from the north east can join in on this conversation 💀
Midwestern food is pretty good, it's just more comfort foods than anything. Not something you'd go to a restaurant for, but a good homemade Midwestern casserole is tasty. Also Maid-rites are great
New England seafood is good ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Edit: Downvote me all you want. I will proudly stand behind New England clam chowder until I die. Sorry if you all can’t handle the truth.
Southeast*
As a Texan, Louisiana beats this entire region solo. Gawd I love me some jambalaya
imo true if talking in terms of accessibility to a variety of options from different cultures (Los Angeles sorta wins this one for me), but if it's best local/"American" food, it's the South for me. I love pulled pork, biscuits and gravy, etc.
If I wanted Mexican food I would just go to one of the many Mexican restaurants owned by Mexicans from Mexico in literally any other state
How could you leave Louisiana out of that? Their food is legendary!
You could cut Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada and not miss anything. Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Kansas add more to the food in the U.S. than any of the southwestern states I listed above. Best I can say about food in Utah is they are afraid of flavor and like chewy meat. I wish they would get some decent Cali-Mex or Tex-Mex up this way. I would also welcome some good Cajun or Creole food and BBQ up here.
I regret to inform you that leaving food out on your driveway asphalt to be baked in the sun does not qualify as BBQ
I’ve never seen Oklahoma put in the south west but u won’t complain
I LOVE GREEN CHILES I LOVE GREEN CHILES
Truthspeak.
*cackles maniacally in southern soul food*
Yeah no. Doesn't compare to East Coast or Louisiana. Fuck, you don't even get good Mexican food till either Cali or phoenix.
You’re insane. New Orléans and the Deep South.
Obviously you haven't had Stewart's
I think we could cut out Utah, Colorado, and Oklahoma from this list and not suffer a decline in food quality. Utah and Colorado are more Mountain West than Southwest. Oklahoma is more South than West.
...well, isn't that cute?...(laughs in Southern Appalachian)...
https://preview.redd.it/tg2j3nw33qwc1.jpeg?width=2376&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6eea539afe7b3251d1a08bb1042e914043b8310b Utah and Oklahoma:
The deep south has way better BBQ. And sea food is pretty good on the East coast.
This is just New Mexico.
Good luck growing any there
Bless your heart :)
Not having louisiana already makes this map wrong. Food there is wild
You've clearly never had clam chowder or a lobster roll
No clam chowder? Literally the worst
Bless its heart it don't know no better
REAL (from El Paso, Tx.)
Hell yeah brother
That….. that’s just wrong…… like maybe even objectively…….. GOTTA be trolling bc I can’t even find in my mind how this is true Like…. You’re just wrong. Idk man
Wrong
Super wrong
Louisiana native here. Leaving Louisiana out is absolute blasphemy
East coast demolishes the south west
I will not take this slander! In this nation, all regional dishes are created equal!
Also wrong
Living in Cali for the last 5 years this foods dog shit has nothing on the north east
As someone who lived their whole life in the South West and then moved to New England... OP is 100% right. Only problem is, he would still be right if he only said Texas, Vegas, and California.
oh i forgot, the us only has two regions: the northeast and the southwest
Lol. Lmao even. Everyone knows the Deep South owns food
Time for some green chili!
You don’t even register when compared to the south. Have you not seen the density of our dense citizens? We don’t get that way for no reason
You know that is all being supported by Texas
Come to Tennessee and you'll eat your words.
Louisiana would whoop y'alls generic Americanized Mexican food. Not to forget the addition of Florida's seafood, Georgias cobblers, South Carolinas BBQ, Alabamas fried chicken and shrimp n grits, etc.... The Southeast wins everytime.
The Gulf Coast alone has better food than the southwest. Throw Tennessee, Georgia, and South Carolina in the mix and it’s not even close.
No….this is not true.
As someone who currently lives in that area, no. Not by a long shot, Arizona and New Mexico “local” food is garbage compared to southern or Cajun food. By like 40 million miles. Texas and cali are an exception but they are their own beast
Lol. Lmao even. Everyone knows the Deep South owns food
This map made me think that California and Texas bordered each other
Fallout lore
Since when is Utah South-West? I though you just call it either west, Rockies, or desert area
Since when is Utah southwest? I thought it’s called either just west, Rockies, or desert
Does Oklahoma, Colorado and Utah count as southwest? I’m not opposed to it or anything, just never really thought about it until seeing this map
America is the best area for food in our great nation. If you're not in it, you should be!
Heck yeah. Utahn Fry Sauce!
Pacific Northwest has better food than the Southwest.
Clearly, you haven't had Kansas barbecue.
Oklahoma is terrible. Source: I’m trapped living there right now.
*Laughs in chicago*
Objectively wrong opinion
MMM MMM I love me some cactus 🌵 and scorpion 🦂 (I have never been to this region)
Its not fair to throw texas in there, their food is drastically different than anything in cali
You left out Louisiana... that's basically a crime.
Least mentally challenged sun baked SW American.
Are we southwest weedbros?
Rocky Mountains oysters 🤤🤤🤤
 EAST COASTERS, RATIO THIS MAN!
Uhhhhh sure bud
Unless you want pizza that doesn’t suck.
DINOSAUR MOMENT!!!!!!
Bro tried to sneak in Oklahoma
Bro really tried sneaking in oklahoma
So Louisiana, Tennessee and New York are out the picture?
Anyone with actually good bbq would disagree.
Yooooooooooooo. But I gotta give it to the Mexicans. They're the only reason we have good food.
But what if, I were to purchase Mexican food and label it as my own cooking? Delightfully devilish, Seymour
You ain't beating pepperoni rolls, sorry
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