Unusual foods in PA

[Joe]

These foods are the staple diet of many people in northeastern Pennsylvania...

Tastykake - a Philadelphia brand of packaged cupcakes; a traditional children's breakfast.

Coffee cake - a pastry made with cinnamon

Tasty Freeze - an ice cream shop

Sloppy Joe - ground hamburger in a spicy tomato sauce and served on a hamburger bun

Birch beer - a soda supposedly flavored from birch trees; similar in flavor to root beer

Slushie - flavored ice served partially frozen

Italian ice - flavored ice packaged in a cup; eaten with a wooden spoon

Hoagie - also known as a submarine or hero sandwich; usually consists of a halved french loaf filled with luncheon meat. The Cheese steak hoagie is from Philadelphia and is thinly-chopped steak fried in onions and topped with cheese in a hoagie bun.

Mrs. T's Pierogies - small pockets of dough filled with potato and cheese sauteed in butter. Mrs. T is a popular brand name of packaged pierogies.

Haluski - fried noodles, onions and cabbage

Halupki - cabbage leaves filled with beef or pork

Pigs in the blanket (piggies) - similar to above but rolled

Pizza frita - fried dough covered in sugar

Fried bologna - larges slices of bologna fried in butter

[Ginny]

ymmm...slushies aren't so uncommon up here! In fact, a lot of those foods are common here...but slushies and pierogies are the only one's I've tried...I think

Cheers,
Ginny

[mott]

We have most of those same foods in the Midwest too. The Hoagie in a lot of places is also called a Poor Boy. We have Mrs. Ts pierogis too. I know the stuffed cabbage as glumpki. The pizza frita sounds a lot like funnel cakes, which lay in your stomach for about a week after you've eaten one.

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admin said:

These foods are the staple diet of many people in northeastern Pennsylvania...

Coffee cake - a pastry made with cinnamon

Sloppy Joe - ground hamburger in a spicy tomato sauce and served on a hamburger bun

Slushie - flavored ice served partially frozen

Italian ice - flavored ice packaged in a cup; eaten with a wooden spoon

Hoagie - also known as a submarine or hero sandwich; usually consists of a halved french loaf filled with luncheon meat. The Cheese steak hoagie is from Philadelphia and is thinly-chopped steak fried in onions and topped with cheese in a hoagie bun.

Halupki - cabbage leaves filled with beef or pork

Pigs in the blanket (piggies) - similar to above but rolled

I've heard of some of those you mentioned Joe. The ones I listed above.