Waffle House’s store directory lists restaurants in 34 Kentucky cities, from Paducah to Ashland. The yellow menu board looks about the same in all of them, but the kitchen cooks a fair amount that the board never lists. The regulars know the difference. These are the things Kentucky Waffle House regulars order that aren’t on…
Texans plan entire fair trips around one thing: Eating as much as possible before they walk back out the gate. Some fair food travels home fine. But, in our opinion, the best state fair food is built to be eaten hot and messy on the spot, not carried out in a to-go box. These are…
A South Dakota funeral or wedding isn’t the only reason to fill a church basement table. Any ordinary Sunday works too. German-Russian and Norwegian families settled South Dakota’s small towns generations ago, cooking the same dishes their descendants still make. These are the dishes South Dakota doesn’t save just for funerals and weddings. 1. Kuchen…
Sylvester, Georgia bills itself as the Peanut Capital of the World. The town backs it up every October 17, when the Georgia Peanut Festival parade turns into one of the biggest in the Southeast. Boiled peanuts come with rules Georgians follow without ever explaining them to out-of-staters. These are the Georgia boiled peanut rules nobody…
Randolph United Methodist Church used to seat about 100 people for its Saturday supper. These days, the church draws about half that many, even though the plate still only runs $8, per the Kennebec Journal. These are the dishes you’ll find at every Maine church supper if you’re among the attendees. 1. Bean-Hole Baked Beans…
Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has closed 207 restaurants in the United States since January 2025. Americans everywhere have watched their favorite chains go through similar bankruptcies, closures, and sudden shutdowns. These are the restaurant chains many Kentuckians feel aren’t what they used to be. Long John Silver’s Long John Silver’s opened its first restaurant on…
Coffee prices were 6.1 percent higher in August 2026 than a year earlier, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Many Bay Staters have felt the jump. Dunkin’s medium iced latte rose from $3.89 in 2019 to $4.39 in 2022 at one Boston store, the Boston Globe found. The trend isn’t looking promising for…
Indiana Foodways Alliance has mapped 140 restaurants onto one food trail. Every stop serves the same dish: A breaded pork tenderloin pounded thin and wide enough to hang past the bun. No other sandwich gets that treatment here. These are the reasons a tenderloin doesn’t count outside Indiana. 1. the Overhang Test A tenderloin sandwich…
California Dreaming’s history traces its start to 1984, when the first dining room opened inside a Columbia train depot that hadn’t run a locomotive in decades. The kitchen never left. These are the restaurant chains that only make sense in South Carolina. 1. Groucho’s Deli Chain founder Harold Miller, a Philadelphia transplant, carried his recipes…
The sign-up sheet taped to a Utah ward’s Relief Society bulletin board says nothing about menus. It asks only for names, oven space, and how many nine-by-thirteen pans of funeral potatoes each volunteer can spare by Thursday. Out-of-staters take one look and wonder why nobody gets to choose a dish. The menu isn’t up for…
