12 Dishes You Know if You Grew Up in the Heartland

dbCooper

Although I grew up in the "Heartland", three of these are unknown to me: Snicker Salad, St. Paul Sandwich, The Lunchbox.  The others are legit good, especially Chili w/Cinnamon Roll and Cheese Frenchee.  Curious thing about the Frenchee, you get three triangles in your order, what happens to the fourth one is a mystery.

https://www.eater.com/24254132/midwest-food-history-heartland

Botch

I grew up in SD and have only heard of two of them, and not chislic until a hunter friend of mine gave me some venison chislic here in UT.  

StillH2OEgger

Odd that I'm totally unfamiliar with the St. Paul Sandwich, but can most assuredly vouch for virtues of the Snicker Salad.

danhoo

JohnInCarolina

dbCooper

JohnInCarolina said:

More like two words, adding in obesity.  Couple generations back folks eating those foods would burn the empty calories through physical activities, by necessity.  Different world today.

*edit to add . . . your favorite chili with a cinnamon roll is worth the health risk. 🙂

DoubleEgger

With food like that, no wonder it’s flyover country. 

U_tarded

Some are nostalgic favorites for me: cup and a roll, Runza,taco pizza, and snickers salad.  Most were served at high school sporting events in northeastern Colorado where I grew up. 

JohnInCarolina

dbCooper said:

JohnInCarolina said:

More like two words, adding in obesity.  Couple generations back folks eating those foods would burn the empty calories through physical activities, by necessity.  Different world today.

*edit to add . . . your favorite chili with a cinnamon roll is worth the health risk. 🙂

The chili and roll certainly sounded interesting, in the sense that I wouldn’t normally expect those two things to go together, so I’d probably try it.

The Snickers salad, OTOH… W-T-F

RRP

I grew up in Missouri and went to college there. I never heard of any of these dishes even by a different name.

WeberWho

12 dishes you know if you grew up in the Heartland brought to you by a company who is based out of New York. Makes sense. 

This is like me explaining Texas BBQ to people who grew up in Texas because I drove through Texas once. 

Legume

You can just say barbecue, Texas is assumed.

DoubleEgger

WeberWho said:

12 dishes you know if you grew up in the Heartland brought to you by a company who is based out of New York. Makes sense. 

This is like me explaining Texas BBQ to people who grew up in Texas because I drove through Texas once. 

kl8ton

JohnInCarolina said:

dbCooper said:

JohnInCarolina said:

More like two words, adding in obesity.  Couple generations back folks eating those foods would burn the empty calories through physical activities, by necessity.  Different world today.

*edit to add . . . your favorite chili with a cinnamon roll is worth the health risk. 🙂

The chili and roll certainly sounded interesting, in the sense that I wouldn’t normally expect those two things to go together, so I’d probably try it.

The Snickers salad, OTOH… W-T-F

Growing up... Snickers salad was like hiring the jackpot. It was a side dish to accompany the main course!  It's like dessert was served with my meal and dessert was still coming! 

kl8ton

kl8ton said:

JohnInCarolina said:

dbCooper said:

JohnInCarolina said:

More like two words, adding in obesity.  Couple generations back folks eating those foods would burn the empty calories through physical activities, by necessity.  Different world today.

*edit to add . . . your favorite chili with a cinnamon roll is worth the health risk. 🙂

The chili and roll certainly sounded interesting, in the sense that I wouldn’t normally expect those two things to go together, so I’d probably try it.

The Snickers salad, OTOH… W-T-F

Growing up... Snickers salad was like hiring the jackpot. It was a side dish to accompany the main course!  It's like dessert was served with my meal and dessert was still coming! 

Hitting.... The jackpot