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The 5 Popular Foods that Make America Great

New England Clam Chowder is a populr food from Massachusetts

Besides Hamburgers, Apple pie, and potato chips as the original famous dishes from America, actually still there are some popular foods of America that you should know. The list of the 5 popular foods that make America great, they are as follows:

1) New England Clam Chowder (Massachusetts)

New England Clam Chowder is the most famous of all chowders, originally comes from the Massachusetts coast. There are two versions of Clam Chowder, this one and the Manhattan, which is tomato based. Maine passed a law in 1939 outlawing the use of tomatoes in chowder. New England clam chowder contains clams and potatoes in a base of milk or cream. You can find New England clam chowder can on almost every menu from Connecticut to Maine. It is also very poplar and sold at Boston Red Sox games at Fenway Park.

Pastrami is a popular food from New York2) Pastrami (New York)

Pastrami Came to New York the first pastrami-on-rye-togo slid over the counter in a Delancey Street delicatessen in 1888. Pastrami is the king of Jewish deli meats that cannot be disputed.

According to Jackie Mason as a comedian, when in an interview in the New York's News- day magazine, “I feel pastrami is the tastiest thing that was ever invented”. The modern pastrami is basically made from beef plat, and it is also called as deckle, belly, and navel, or a fatty part of a brisket. Although not originally a specifically Jewish food, pastrami is exclusively Jewish in the United States.

 

Shoofly pie is a popular food from Pennsylvania

3) Shoofly pie (Pennsylvania)

Have you ever hearth the old song “Shoofly pie”?  OK, unless you are from Pennsylvania, you might not know that the shoo-fly pie is actually a very delicious combination of brown sugar and molasses.

This pie is so delicious and so very easy to make. Shoo-fly pie is a popular dish in the USA, a simple but unique Pennsylvania Dutch dessert.

 

Smithfield ham is a popular food from Virginia

4) Smithfield ham (Virginia)

The Smithfield ham is characterized by its meat with dark red color, a peanut-fed hog with the yellow translucent fat indicative, a slightly oily texture and its salty but divine taste. This food is originally comes from Virginia.

The Smithfield ham has a "long cut" which includes the loin and also the shank intact. The Smithfield ham is salted and aged longer, a minimum of one hundred and eighty days and usually up to 9 months.

 

Po-boys is a popular food from Louisiana

5) Po-boys (Louisiana)

PO-BOYS is originally called “poor boy”, a unique name that given to the sandwich by the Martin Brothers during the depression in the 1930's.  This food came from Louisiana.

The Po-boys sandwich is made with a variety of things, such as ham, deep-fried seafood includes shrimp or oysters, Creole hot sausage, or roast beef with a dark, rich gravy called “debris”.


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