I always laugh when I see responses like this. Thats fine that you don't like it, nobody said you had to eat it. No reason to get pissy about it.
sensitive much? anytime anyone says something is unnecessary, they're automatically being pissy? you're good for a laugh. relax chief. if i was being pissy, i probably would've included some of, if not all of, the following words: bogus, jack-assery, shenanigans, sucky, imbecile, douche, toolbox, and/or wankturd.
Who started those Chicago hot dog shenanigans, anyway? Chicago dogs are sucky. If you like them, you are an imbecilic wankturd.
some of the top of my head: Czech Rep: Prague region/Bohemia, fast food= smazeny syr (fried cheese), formal= pork in cream sauce, horrible stuff...; drink= Beer, golden style normally Plzen or Staropramen Brno/ South Moravia, semi-fast food= rizek (schnitzel made from Chicken), formal- Hovezi Gulas s knedliky (beef in peppers sauce with bread dumplings), drink= White wine; in the fall maybe Burcak-unfiltered baby wine, or sverak-hot spiced wine... basically that gluwein crap they have in Germany. Austria: Vienna; All the pastries desserts and coffees you could want. Also of course the Veal Schnitzel. Coffee I guess is the drink although lighter texture beer and white wine are also common. Lebanon: What my grandmother made (she was from Tripoli); main course-kibbi (ground beef or lamb spiced with cinnamon, onion and burghul. Salad- Tabouli, a lot of parsely and lemon-juice w/small amounts of other crap. Appetizer- Sabnega (spinach and goat cheese pastry). Drink- Arak (the only thing worse than Slivo) USA: Deep South (MS LA): Anything involing shrimp or crawfish in a thick yummie sauce. Also huge pots of boiled crawfish that look disturbingly animate. Hush-puppies (sp?), little fried corn dough things. Fried (insert whatever). Drink: Dr Pepper, Iced Tea, and for alcohol rum coktails like Hurricanes are fairly common. Southwest: (AZ NM): Red or Green? (how you want your chillis or hot sauce), Fry bread, (in Arizona) Mariscos- Mexican seafood brought by Sonoran immigrants, Chilli Relleno/Tamales; when I was at school in Tempe an old Mexican woman sold them door to door in our neighborhood every other Sunday. Drink: Corona and Tequila
Sardinia Malloreddus aka gnocchetti sardi sa panada (bread stuffed with potatoes, various meats or fish et alia) su porceddu (roasted suckling pig)
sardinian drinks cannonau (red wine - black grenache - Grenache is known as Cannonau in Sardinia, where it may have originated and is still common. - wikipedia) fil'e ferru aka abbardente (sardinian grappa) Mirto di Sardegna (Mirto is a liqueur popular in Sardinia, obtained from the myrtle plant through the alcoholic maceration of the berries or a compound of berries and leaves - wikipedia)
there's another variety of wine deserving mention and it is Vermentino The most famous wine made from Vermentino is probably the DOCG Vermentino di Gallura (and Vermentino di Gallura superiore) which is produced in the province of Olbia-Tempio, in the north of Sardinia. -wikipedia
I'm hungry now... A friend of mine is Italien and will cook for me on sunday, but then he is from Rome... I like the Italian food from the Islands better to be honest.
Rome has plenty of fantastic food. I especially love their pasta. the well known spaghetti alla carbonara, alla puttanesca, Penne all'Arrabbiata, Bucatini alla Matriciana etc. etc.
I like the Sicilian version of Penne all'Arabiata the best. other than that, it's still Italian and good, just doesn't have the Island touch to it ;-)