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Originally Posted by rickroll
i actually saw a pbs documentary where they traveled around the US finding signature fast food dishes from old restaurants - iirc a lot of the show seemed to focus on upstate ny as they had a lot of old establishments that specialized in things rarely found elsewhere
Yeah not surprising, a lot of somewhat isolated poor communities with there weird take on American food. In Rochester the signature style hamburger is with something called “hot sauce”, a meat sauce similar to chili. Hot dogs are called Texas hots. A white hot dog or a white Texas hot or white hots are nearly as popular as regular red hot dogs in other cities with a hot dog tradition.
I think this point with road trip food shows and the internet most are now familiar with garbage plates.