dsi1 wrote:

> On Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 7:01:09 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> > If you go there to travel, I can't imagine why you would want to
> > eat just the way you do back home.
>
> I'll always seek out the local specialties when traveling. Otherwise,
> what the heck am I suppose to eat? A hamburger? A pizza? Spaghetti?
> Apple pie? I can get all of those thing on my rock. Anybody on the
> mainland can come here and eat American food. American food is a
> subset of the foods we eat here. When we got to the mainland, our
> food choices seem limited. OTOH, on the mainland, I can get better
> Mexican food. That's a good thing.

Every area varies. I'm in the largest city in Virginia, surrounded by
the next 2 largest in Virginia. Hampton Roads dwarfs the rest of
Virginia.

We have local cuisine and a lot of ethnic cuisines. We are a melting
pot area like all the USA but here you see many aspects of American
Indian (AmInd) influence with squash, corn, sweet potatoes, and
'beans'. Our cornbread is savory, not sweet. Grits or beans (or pay a
little extra for both) is a side with breakfast outside of national
chain fast food places. British influence adds baked beans to
breakfast as an option. AmInd is black eyed peas (or maybe that is
African?).