Midwestern Food

So I'm moving to IN soon. Any Midwesterners care to redpill me on Midwestern cuisine?

lots of mayonnaise based salads and baked dishes that use canned soup as an ingredient.

No nobody cares about some faggot moving.

Look into buying lots of canned food and salty soups

german and polish cuisine steeped in modernism for ~50 years

What do you mean by "Midwestern cuisine?" Most Midwesterners live in cities where you can find many different kinds of food. In the city I live in / the riverfront area of the city just across the river, with a population of only around 115,000, there are two Thai restaurants, two Vietnamese restaurants, four Indian/Pakistani restaurants, five Japanese restaurants, many Chinese restaurants, close to a dozen Mediterranean / Middle Eastern restaurants, a German restaurant, at least six BBQ restaurants, many locally owned/regional chain pizza places, a handful of Tex-Mex restaurants, three taquerias, a good number of diners/family restaurants, a British pub style restaurant, and Irish pub style restaurant, some gastropubs, a few steakhouses, some higher end Modern American places, a restaurant specializing in Southern soul food, some fried chicken joints, countless bars that have kitchens, and of course all the national casual and fast food restaurants that you find everywhere.

>So I'm moving to IN soon.
That ruined my fucking life and killed one friend and several family members. I am not joking when I say that the whole state is garbage and god help you, I am literally praying for you now, if you move there.

Should you be forced to do so be aware of the insane amount of drug production, bedbugs, lice, and 'scary gary'.

At least it's not Ohio.

My grandparents lived in gary, god help that place.

Southern IN has good German heritage cooking. Sausage, dumplings, goetta, fried chicken, fried tenderloin, etc. Northern has good farm to table chefs and craft breweries. Indianapolis is a desolate wasteland with nothing but diners, burgers, and steak

There are some very good dishes you will find in the midwest but you are asking the worst possible group of people for this info, because they will just screech "flyover". Check somewhere else.

Bullshit. You're lying.

Maybe you should have stayed away from the meth you fucking redneck

Depends where you are
That being said St Louis is god tier food city

Stop user, I don't want fucking nonHoosiers moving here.

Eat my ass. All of that is absolutely available to me, and that's not even the extent of my options in the area.
Good thing I live in Illinois. Also, we do fried tenderloins better here. And hey Iowa, we do loose meat sandwiches better here. And to both of you: you faggots don't even have horseshoes. Illinois is best I-state.

>Also, we do fried tenderloins better here
he's right OP move it Illinois, nobody can fuck up that state worse than it already is.

two Vietnamese restaurants? wow!

Two is enough for anyone. Anymore than that you have a "population" of people you don't want to live with.

>living in Oakland

Beware the casserole.

>scary gary
What

Don't listen to these faggots unless you only go out to eat at church potluck dinners.

Gary indiana is right across the border from chicago and so it's nigger ville.

That’s why you’re so fat, tubby.

niggerville is selling it short, there are motherfuckers walking around without any goddamn shoes there! I've never seen a worse city than gary.

Oakland also has four times the population of my city, is right next to San Francisco, and is in a part of the country with a much higher than average Vietnamese population.

Gary Indiana is the perfect example of White flight. it was the first city with a population over 100,000 to elect a black mayor. The white people left after that.

the surrounding area is very nice.

Don't you be talking shit about hotdishes and casseroles.

>Population of 115,000
>city
That's like a village or something.

(You)

what city user? I've always been curios about small city life.

>curios
there are plenty of antique shops, user.

curse these public schools

Peoria, Illinois. It's great if you like doing outdoorsy things because there are many parks(city and state) where you can camp, hunt, fish, or just walk around and enjoy nature. Other than that, you can partake in the wonderful bar scene where you can get hammered seated between your high school history teacher and the guy you used to buy coke from in high school. Speaking of coke, the other big pastime here is recreational drug use. Basically every 20-something gets high, and there's lots of meth, coke/crack, and heroin to be done. A decent amount of psychedelics, too. Outside of parks, bars, and drugs, there isn't much to do. I guess there's sort of a local music scene, but not much good music. There's a fairly major music festival just outside of town every year called Summer Camp, they've had some pretty big name acts like Tom Petty, Primus, and Jane's Addiction, but it's mostly jam bands and electronic music(moe and Umphree's McGee play there every year. However, since it's about 3 hours to Chicago and 3 hours to St. Louis, you're never too far away from a tour stop if there's a band you really want to see. Oh, and there are many Asian massage parlors where you can go get jerked/sucked off, and there's a strip club I go to that's basically a brothel.

sounds like Iowa City but... older.

They're both Midwestern college towns with medium sized populations, so that make sense.

spot on

>there are many Asian massage parlors where you can go get jerked/sucked off
how do you identify these?

small city living = best living. gonna go fishing with my girlfriends dad soon. Everyone has the potential to be friendly out here. The midwest really is the heart land.

They're the ones who advertise on backpage and craigslist. If they mention the phrase "table shower" they're a jerkoff joint.

You’re going to have to try deep dish pizza since you’re going to the Midwest.

Ah, but you took the time to reply that nobody cares, therefore you do care.

Agreed, I live in a midwest town of under 10k, couldn't be happier.

please, if you try deep dish, go to baccino's

tell us about 10k pop life user

Where are you moving from?

In my experience many towns have nothing but chain fast food, though bigger cities are sure to have all sorts of restaurants. I'm in IL but we have tons of mexican and pizza places, lots of takeout chinese, and many family owned type breakfast diners which seem to be dying out. Chicago and Indianapolis will have anything you can name.

There isn't a whole lot to tell. Everybody who wants to be left alone will be, people who are active in the community will know everybody easily. Absolutely no crime, and a police force with a bloated budget. This may seem like a problem, but if your driver's license says you are from here, police won't bother you unless you deserve it. It's just an overall low stress environment, which is why everybody lives a long time around here.

Where in Illinois? Let's fuck.

quad cities

are you a grill or a bottom

Tater tot casserole
Breaded pork tenderloins
Potato soup

I am neither.
When I was little, my parents would always take us to The Isle of Capri(although it was called The Lady Luck when I was really young) in Bettendorf because my dad couldn't legally gamble in the state of Illinois. It'd always be a nice suite, and they'd order room service for us and let us rent movies / Nintendo games on TV while they went out and got hammered and gambled all night at the casino. Those were good times.

>quad cities
Oh shit
not them but we close too

indiana has schoop's, deep fried tacos and pork tenderloin sandwiches.

Prepare yourself for god-teir, shit 'Mexican' food with margaritas the size of your toilet bowl.

And girls in tiny, swishy, see-through 'sun dresses' in the summer.

cincinnati/covington?

>midwest US
>butter,corn,mayo

thats about it.

no shit user, all states are shitty if you move into a trailer park.

Hy-Vee Chinese food
Anything from QuikTrip

Is a Japanese restaurant "midwestern" or is it based on cuisine from fucking Japan?

Jesus.

>farm to table
>using a meme phrase
Nice try newfag but it’s time for you to go back to /r/the_donald kid
Nothing is truly ‘farm to table’ per-say as you can never be sure exactly how the food was handled. Your best bet for knowing if your food is truly farm to table is to raise crops and chickens yourself.

>meme phrase
>meme
Actually it’s probably you who needs to fuck off back to Rebbit you tryhard prick.

Thats bigger than the two biggest cities in my state. Combined.

I got you beat.
>Limington is a town in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,713 at the 2010 census.

>farm to table

It really depends on where you're moving and what you want it to be. The most derided "Midwestern cuisine" such as casseroles and lots of mayo tend to be things people only make at home. Otherwise, the size of the city tends to have more to do with what you'll find to eat rather than the location. Indianapolis, Detroit, Minneapolis, etc. you'll find the mix of restaurant options that coastal people like to brag about. If you're somewhere podunk you'll be lucky to have a good diner and/or bar with pub grub.
Where are you moving, lad?

>goetta
?
John Dee would be proud?

I bet you haven't been to half of those restaurants.

That's not the point, higher probability of a good restaurant if there's more. Just go to the best reviewed, no need to try them all.

Ya dumbass

Uh northern Indiana is nothing but farms outside of the Chicago ghetto suburbs which is only a tiny area.

So when you go to a restaurant in South Bend and they have a picture of the farm where your bison was raised in Indiana... I don't really see how you can get more farm to table than that

Fuck you

Corn on the cob and pork.

If I can eat it here, it's part of the cuisine.

that and your pic are southern

Biscuits and gravy maybe
Put corn on the cob and pork arent super midwestern? what planet you from lmao

Farm to table is popular in fly-over territory now.

Looking deeper into it, yeah, it appears Iowa btfo all others. I was remembering Mississippi, Alabama, and North Carolina from when I was a kid. They still produce a lot, but not as much of the total anymore. We always associated big corn (see animal feed and whatnot, not food corn) with the midwest. I think that still holds true.

>Any Midwesterners care to redpill me on Midwestern cuisine?
Don't. Just fucking don't. Unless it's something country as fuck like a trout cookoff out by the river, or some decent venison, there is literally nothing we have ever accomplished in the culinary world, and much we have ruined.

t. Lived in Missouri my whole life

Get a load of this tasty boi.

This man also knows what's up, we might have shitty fucking restaurants but you find a guy that can cook you some catfish and you're gonna have some of the best fish of your life

Pacific Northwest here
I genuinely feel bad for you.
You will NEVER know the unbelievable taste of fresh wild caught spring chinook from our crystal clear rivers. Have fun with your disgusting mud fish

We also have these which are pretty good fried, I wouldn't buy them though, they can jew you pretty hard on the price.

Just go out and find them during mushroom season.

I flyfish for rainbows on BLM land in VT, actually get on my level.

They're pretty much extinct. Mushrooms are the reproductive pieces of a larger organism and morels were fragile. Companies would hire illegals to trounce through the forest during seasoning; thus killing their ability to spread.

I hadn't heard that at all.

I haven't really asked anyone about mushroom hunting in 4 or so years, and it's been like 3 since I've eaten any.

People take that shit super seriously here. If you do it right they come back in the same spot every year. Nobody will tell you how to get into it, nobody will tell you where a spot is, or how to find one, nobody will tell you they even have morels in case you follow them out to where they harvest them.

Pretty much the only way to get morels here without getting shot is to know a guy who knows a guy or have a family member who gets them.

Or going to the fucking store.

When I was a kid I'd just go out to my cousin's farm and walk along side creek beds and in the woods. Pick them as I found them.

I wouldn't collect pounds of them or anything, but enough to eat them a couple times.

My cousin sold the farm a few years back, and my friends dad sold his farm, so I don't know any farmers anymore that would let me wonder around on their property.

...

A lot of mushrooms if not back will come back in the same spot; as I said it's pretty much them sticking their dick out. But destroying the ground and mushrooms prevents the organism from spreading or even surviving.

I had a great-uncle who would make sure people got lost during a mushroom hunt before taking them to a fucking wall of the little bastards in front of a cavern. It looked like something out of a fantasy game.

They make this shit in my hometown.

You can get it on walmart.com, everyone I know here uses this brand on everything.

Gary is the only city I won't drive through, honestly fuck that place. It's like every post apocalyptic movie you've ever seen. The rest of Indiana is nice enough.

Is it worse than detroit?

>rainbow trout

We have plenty of those here. They aren’t as good as brown trout, and not NEARLY as good as steelhead, chinook, or koakanee

i'm bretty paked and would love to pick over that table.

fuck I LOVE deviled eggs.

Missouri is the South, not the Midwest.

Can confirm, live in IL and this is how my family outings look.

That's pretty much what you get unless you live near lakes which then you will probably get to eat a lot of fried fish.

Imagine people crowding around your car at the stop-light to see who owns a different vehicle.

Yes. It is literally post-apocalypse.

>See recipe for casserole on Food Wishes
>It actually calls for canned soup (Cream of mushroom) as an ingredient
>Turns out a shitton of Casseroles uses canned soup

Nani? I don't think I can even find that here. Does any kind of canned soup work?
Substitutes? Hell, can you make it yourself to begin with?

t. utter retard

>thinking scary Gary is a part of the glorious Hoosier Reich
the smog there literally turns your car red