What Food Best Represents NY?

via I Can Has Cheezburger

Cat photo aficionados I Can Has Cheezburger took some time out of their busy schedule of posting pictures of semi-incomprehensible lolcats to post Food By State, a picture-graphic tutorial that gives each state an edible representation. Some of them make sense (California=Grapes), some are bizarre (Utah=Green Jell-o), and some are too true (Nevada=Buffets). NY was represented by pizza, and although Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia would probably agree with their assessment, others might ask, "but what about our chicken wings, or our all organic bodegas? Shouldn't we have a rainbow-colored flag of different ethnic foods?" But it comes down to the triangle: do you think pizza is really the quintessential NY food?

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By Ben Yakas in Food on January 13, 2011 2:40 PM

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soxinthecity

NY is big enough on the map to have put a chicken wing or 2 over Rochester.

zombie_cakes

I'm cool with the pizza, pizza rules. And for the most part, pizza outside of NY is terrible. Coulda gotten hot dogs as well. Jersey I would say hot dogs over the Italian sub maybe, but that could just be because I love hot dogs way more. This map makes me hungry.

Peanut_Butter

Yeah, the pizza slice, Nathan's hot dog, bagel or Chinese food carton.

Dan

Triple Decker Corned Beef - Pastrami - Chopped Liver on Rye with spicy mustard and a garlic dill on the side...

Polite New Yorker

Hot dog.

jibbly

Cocaine?

69GeorgeWBush69

California's should be an avocado. Grapes in California are more popular in wine form than fruit form.

chuzzlewit

"not puttin' up with no bullshit" would be the best food at representin' new york city. not really sure about what they got goin' on other places there.

handsomedevil

also, pastrami

The Great Arturo Bandini

Yellow snow.

Just Me

A pizagel dog.

valeriob

Meh. Good enough.

jaycjay

"some are bizarre (Utah=Green Jell-o),"

Bizarre, perhaps, but Green Jello really is the official state snack of the state of Utah, as voted by the state's legislature a decade or so ago. As I remember, Bill Cosby testified in favor of that. And, when the Winter Olympics were held in Salt Lake City, one of the commemorative pins that was sold was in the shape of a bowl of jello.

All of which is bizarre, but that selection on this map makes more sense than a lot of the other choices.

[Edit] Thanks to Google's image search:
http://www.pinsuperstore.com/c...

Len_Drexler

Reminds of the episode of SNL when Buckwheat was killed.

John David Stutts: Hello, it’s good to see you all. [to camera] Hi, I killed Buckwheat. And I have a question for the American public. When you dream, do you dream in color, or black and white? ‘Cause I dream in black and white. And last evening, I had a dream about lime Jello. I didn’t know what flavor it was because it was gray. Then I tasted it, and then I realized it was lime. Definitely lime.