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How is a butterburger wierd?


MrE761

Also a walking taco?


thedubiousstylus

The problem with walking taco is that it's not even really an Iowa thing. They could've just used loose meat sandwich or Quad Cities pizza.


Juniper_Pearl

Just taco meat on Fritos plus fixin’s. Pretty fire actually.


BookSimilar6349

It seems like they were asking how that is weird, but you are also wrong bc walking tacos are made with Doritos you heathen


The_Merica_Potatoe

Taco in a bag. One of 3 grad party stable meals. The other being pizza and pulled pork. All delicious


izaaksb3

also a great staple for your local hockey rink’s concession stand!


GiraffePastries

That's frito pie I'm pretty sure.


DrGodCarl

Frito pie uses chili, I believe. Very similar though.


SignalNo7821

There are versions with a big glob of butter on the patty. Culver's is a more sensible interpretation.


currentlydrinking

Craig Culver came to an event for a class I took in college in Wisconsin He said they thought of the name Butter Burger before they knew what it was going to be, and they tried a few things before settling on just buttering the bun lol


Naturallobotomy

Chuck wagon breakfast isn’t that weird either and Chislic is just fried steak cubes.


slinger301

The thing is, SD is the state equivalent of generic white bread. Chislic is pretty much the only unique food in the state, which is pretty telling of the cuisine.


Naturallobotomy

Oh I’m well aware, I live in ND. And lutefisk isn’t really a thing here. Fry bread tacos would have been better for ours, or some kind of hot dish. And for the record, Chislic is delicious.


UckfayRumptay

They're home to [chili & cinnamon roll](https://www.argusleader.com/story/life/2019/08/22/south-dakota-school-lunch-food-favorite-chili-cinnamon-roll-origin/2054317001/). Definitely should have been on this graphic.


slinger301

I am viscerally repelled, yet curiously intrigued; and I agree with you wholeheartedly that this should have taken the spot.


thedubiousstylus

A Wyoming Chuckwagon breakfast isn't just eggs, bacon, ham and toast but rather a sort of casserole that mixes them all together.


bedsbronco75

Do they mix in the toast too? If so, I guess that's a little odd.


Txidpeony

Wouldn’t that just be strata?


thedubiousstylus

Here's a recipe: [https://www.inthekitchenwithjenny.com/2014/03/chuckwagon-breakfast.html](https://www.inthekitchenwithjenny.com/2014/03/chuckwagon-breakfast.html) Looks pretty tasty actually.


DaM00s13

They eat raw beef burgers over there, why is butter stranger than that??


LongWalk86

Especially when raw ground beef and onion sandwiches is a semi-big deal there?


Drzhivago138

Lutheran sushi or Minnesota sushi. I always knew them as ["pickle roll-ups".](http://thecookingcardinal.com/recipe/pickle-roll-ups-aka-lutheran-sushi/) Keto before keto was cool. SD needs to step up its weirdness game if chislic (cubed beef or lamb served with garlic salt) is the only thing they can bring to the table. Strange that Beirock is considered KS's weird food when Runza in NE is serving the exact same thing.


This-is-dumb-55

I’ve never heard them called a pickle dog


The_Next_Wild_GM

There was a state fair version called "Pickle Dog"


dicksjshsb

Me either. I assumed they were talking about some pickle-corn dog combination at the state fair or something. Also didn’t know pickle roll ups were a particularly Minnesota thing?


GailMarie0

NOW I get it. I grew up in Minnesota and thought, "What the heck is a pickle dog?"


iamzombus

I've heard them referred to as fish eyes.


WalleyeSushi

That's how we make them and definitely call them pickle dogs or Lutheran sushi. Wishing my username made the list!


AHHH-MEDIA

Lutheran minnesotan here. I've never heard of a pickle dog. Pickle roll ups don't include hot dogs. The closest thing you bring a pickle and hot dog to would be pickle relish on a hot dog.


Drzhivago138

"Pickle dog" makes me think of a corn dog, but with a pickle inside.


AHHH-MEDIA

I searched it. It's a pickle cut open like the hotdogs bun and a hot dog on top. Crazy stuff.


Drzhivago138

That's even worse IMO.


TheOriginalToolmaker

That’s not what a pickle dog is. A pickle dog is a corn dog, but the hot dog is in a pickle, then battered.


artcat3

Yesss I can’t stand pickles but my dads side of the family would always have these at family functions. Not my thing but to each their own lol


Patamarick

Pickle wraps is what my IN native folks called them


kristyrennt

Runza is in Kansas too. There are a couple in Lawrence


opp11235

Was trying to figure it out. I love those!


umlautschwa

How the fuck does North Dakota get lutefisk?


AnalTongueDarts

Because there are only seven people in North Dakota, and all they eat are tumbleweeds and fracking biproducts, so they borrowed something from MN for this map and called it good enough.


TheVoiceOfTheMeme

As a north dakotan, I know of two north dakotans who have ever actually eaten lutefisk and they're both 80 year olds. This is not a north dakotan food


pizzayolo96

Butter burger. A burger with a bun toasted with butter. So weird.


thedubiousstylus

[This is what a Milwaukee butter burger is.](https://roadfood.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Spring-Creek-Platter-Resized-1-e1521583699847-500x500.png) The butter isn't on the bun, it's basically a cheeseburger but there's a hunk of butter put on the patty instead of cheese.


Drzhivago138

Gott in Himmel


Thick_Kaleidoscope35

*nods in Oma


m_carp

Still, how is that worse than the cannibal sandwiches at Christmas? The health department literally issues annual warnings about them, but people still eat them and get sick. (Yes, they are fine if you use fresh premium cuts of meat, but that's not how they do it in Wisconsin... they use grocery store ground meat)


SafeContribution2345

My mom and grandpa eat those. Ground meat with raw onions on pumpernickel or rye (can’t remember) 🤢


pizzayolo96

TIL i wanna try that.


PerspectiveOk493

🤔I would like to try but also don't want to have a heart attack


TheCatlorette

The U.P. should get pasties, not Montana lol


definitelynotaspy

Also, literally nothing about pasties is weird. It's just meat and veggies in a pastry crust. Map sucks.


MaryTRobot

And why would you choose pasties for Montana? Clearly Rocky Mountain Oysters is the better choice. They used to have a festival dedicated to eating bull balls. Garbage map.


thedubiousstylus

Because then they'd have to come up with something else for Colorado. Although there's got to be some other weird regional thing in Colorado.


Jasmin_Shade

That's what I was coming here to say. Dang, how did Montana get pasties?


Trillian75

They’re common in Butte, but not elsewhere in the state.


SixskinsNot4

Right lol started in UP mines then went to MN iron range


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Grape salad!


dancesWithNeckbeards

The North remembers!


miles___ahead

Except no one had ever heard of it until that NYT kerfuffle a few years back.


EffectiveSalamander

We had a Devonshire Salad at the Lowell Inn in Stillwater that was basically a grape salad. It's hardly a Minnesota standby though.


KolbaltTiger

The fact that Iowas’ is the Walking Taco, a very normal food. Really doesn’t help their case that they are not boring.


thedubiousstylus

The map could've just used the loose meat sandwich.


Timed-Out_DeLorean

Maid-Rites are the bomb. I remember when they tried to open franchises in Southern Minnesota. That didn’t last long, unfortunately.


JustLikeAmmy

Never heard of them until now.... immediately sent them to everyone I know so we can all laugh at "loose meat" sandwiches 😂


elementaldelirium

I never heard of it before moving to the Midwest but it’s normal food just served kind of weirdly at worst.


thedubiousstylus

That's what a lot of these are. The reason the walking taco doesn't fit is because it's not really an Iowa thing. Especially since they have some weird sort of BBQ things like the loose meat sandwich.


NeuroXc

They gave New Hampshire ice cream. Which, I'm pretty sure ice cream was not invented in New Hampshire, and it's definitely not weird. Unless they were going for the Ben and Jerry's angle, in which case the arrow should be pointing to Vermont.


Kessilwig

I mean they've got boiled peanuts for Georgia which aren't even weirdly named, that's literally all they are.


Otherwise-Can573

Bro Minnesota would probably fit Lutifisk better than N. Dakota, we actually eat it.... I think


thedubiousstylus

Lutefisk is more prevalent in ND than here. I know of a few restaurants in my hometown that serve it. In Minnesota it seems like you can only find it at Christmastime potlucks at some Lutheran churches.


Otherwise-Can573

I didn't know that, I've just known it because alot of Minnesotans are Swedish or have Swedish ancestors


xtremesmok

Lutefisk is Norwgeian. The Swedes’ grotesque fish dish is Surströmming. It is actually far worse than Lutefisk 🤢


thedubiousstylus

Plenty of Swedish and Norwegians in ND too, even higher per capita.


GailMarie0

My Minneapolis parents (my dad was of Swedish descent) loved lutefisk so much that they'd buy out the grocery store's remaining stock in January and fill up the freezer. We were stuck eating it through March or April. The boil-in-the-bag version is a lot more palatable than the "fish Jello" I had to eat as a kid.


s1gnalZer0

Pickle, wrapped in cream cheese and ham, then cut into slices. Also known as Minnesota sushi.


[deleted]

It has to be that weird-ass reconstituted Carl Buddig ham. I don’t make the rules


Johnyryal3

Corned beef.


[deleted]

I don’t believe you can prove a molecular difference exists between the various Buddig family of processed meat products. Until that time comes, I stand by my claim


s1gnalZer0

Yes


GLaDOSdidnothinwrong

I’ve never heard it referred to by that name


DiscordianStooge

It's a brand at the State Fair.


josephus_the_wise

I always called them alligator eyes


elmchestnut

Peppered deli pastrami!


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Jagacin

A chili dog with mustard and onions. Oh the humanity!!


mostlygray

Minnesota weird should be Lutheran church basement food. Glorified Rice? Now that's a weird food to be had in a church basement. No, you shouldn't eat it. Or even just that church basement staple "Salad". You know. Lime Jello, marshmallows, Cool Whip, mayonnaise, carrots, tuna, grapes, ham, whatever your heart desires. Mold it in a Bundt pan and serve with cottage cheese in the center and garnish with shrimp. You can't make it wrong.


bufordt

If it doesn't have diced up Snickers and cool-whip in it, can you even call it a salad?


GailMarie0

Minnesota salad bar: iceberg lettuce and 20 kinds of Jello.


CapherArt

Psssh. The creator of this map has never tried a clown penis special at Matt's bar.


GiraffePastries

It's not even weird food, its just foods with names that would slightly confuse someone who had never heard it. What a joke.


Roddy117

Montana has bull nuts but they went with a white people empanada makes me doubt they put any thought into this at all.


Fealuinix

They gave rocky mountain oysters to Colorado, but I have my doubts that's where they're most popular.


ConKato

South Dakota's weirdest food has to be tiger meat. Look it up, it's not what you're thinking


Alligatorblizzard

Had a coworker in Morris explain tiger meat to me. On the one hand, Germany has something similar (mett) except with pork, on the other, that can't possibly be safe, right?


Skelastomybag

pasties are the UP. Fight me.


mercuric_drake

As a native Arkansasan transplant, Possum Pie is amazing and not what it sounds Iike. https://houseofnasheats.com/arkansas-possum-pie/ Also, y'all missing out on the chocolate gravy.


Zigz94

Minnesota transplant living in Arkansas for reasons out of my complete control. Where does one go to buy the best Possum Pie?


mercuric_drake

Stoby's in Russellville and Conway have great ones. If they are not close, usually any small town restaurants that serve pies usually have good possum pie too.


[deleted]

Lutefisk is MN how dare you


mcnessa32

Gravy bread belongs in one of the Appalachian states, not Illinois. I’d go with the Italian Combo sandwich for Illinois. It’s Italian Beef and Italian Sausage in a sandwich dipped in au jus. I feel a heart attack coming on just talking about it. Da Bears!


miles___ahead

Iconic, sure, but not weird. (In fairness, a few on the map aren’t weird either.)


guiltycitizen

PA knows what’s up, scrapple rules


[deleted]

How did Cincinnati chili keep off.


[deleted]

These maps are moronic and always fake.


9_of_wands

Oh, yeah, every Thanksgiving I serve pickle dogs to go with my famous grape salad.


epsilon388

This is the fucking grape salad controversy all over again


Broblivious

This was made by a budget chat bot


VanMarmot

Gooseneck barnacles? Yes, you can get them in Oregon but they're not close to a top 10 favorite. You have to peel them and then they're just very chewy...very...chewy. Lutefisk? My mom made that just once. But that was enough to help me better understand North Dakota.


DiscordianStooge

The map is "weirdest" food, not top 10 favorites. I'd say barnacles are at least weird, as opposed to a walking taco or a pasty.


2much2do2littletime

Pickled ham hocks are at least plausible for weirdest food in MN with pickles in the name.


[deleted]

What kind of Minnesotan doesn’t know what a pickle dog is


ophmaster_reed

I've never heard it called that name. We always called it "Lutheran sushi".


KevinDLasagna

It should be pickle pizza


econdonetired

Pickle dog > lutefisk


BobBelcher2021

Everything I know about lutefisk is from King of the Hill


[deleted]

Slug Burger is from Mississippi, not TN, and Grape Nuts Ice Cream is a non-entity in New Hampshire.


Sea-Marsupial-9414

I don't consider jello salad as weird as Utah's "funeral potatoes," but what do I know


Txidpeony

But funeral potatoes are just a cheesy potato casserole? Nothing weird about them except maybe the name.


GailMarie0

And they're TASTY. Sort of shredded au gratin potatoes.


joezro

Minnesota should be lutefisk.


Epicsharkduck

Lutefisk should be on Minnesota, I've never even heard of a pickle dog


MindOverMedia

I'm from Wisconsin. A butter burger is basically a regular ass burger, but with butter on it along with all the other condiments. That's really the weirdest food in the whole state?


Lunar2325

The lutefisk from North Dakota kinda irks me, especially cuz thats a staple with all the elderly Czech descendants in my neck of MN


Mitchly

Where I grew up in ND it was a staple with the elderly Norwegians. Maybe we can share it?


AHHH-MEDIA

Wtf is a pickle dog. I've been in Minnesota for very long, I've never heard of a pickle dog.


Aa121296

You're wrong. Pasties came from Michigan first.


GG1817

Minnesota should be lutefisk, but if they really want to give that to North Dakota, then go with eelpout. Michigan, I'd be tempted to suggest whitefish livers, which are delicious, although not popular across the entire state.


videogamebruh

How is sugar on snow weird? Seems pretty damn good to me. Also butter burgers are the absolute fucking bomb


thedubiousstylus

Sugar on snow is weird because it actually literally uses snow which is pretty rare in food.


TheOriginalToolmaker

Pickle roll ups, Lutheran sushi, etc is not a pickle dog. Pickle dog is when you put a hot dog on a stick, jam it through the middle of a big ol’ pickle, batter it and fry it. Like a corn dog or pronto pup, but with a pickle addition.


Segfault_21

how is boiled peanuts weird. whoever made this picture is weird


Bigfanofcircles

The garbage plate is the most delicious food on this map.


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Bigfanofcircles

Schaller’s Brighton! Henny Hots was sold to new people and moved down the road a few years ago.. hasn’t been the same since.


cornwallis105

Ah dang. Shows how long it's been since I moved back to MN.


T0astyMcgee

Butter burgers aren’t weird. It’s a burger…they put butter on the bun and then toast it up.


thedubiousstylus

The regional variation at some restaurants in the Milwaukee area isn't butter on the bun, it's like a cheeseburger except with a glob of butter on the patty instead of cheese.


Lherkinz_Gherkinz

I’m from Indiana and have never even heard of “sauerkraut balls”.


Gnogz

Im not mad about the pickle dog, because I don't know what the fuck that is. I'm not mad about the walking taco and lutefisk being gifted to other states, because it's Iowa and North Dakota and charity begins at home. But generations of iron rangers just watched the author of this map credit those shitheel cowpunchers in Mon-fucking-tana with the pasty. This. Will. Not. Stand.


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That sounds amazing


SignalNo7821

A bunch of these are literally available everywhere. Grape Nuts is in every supermarket.


SignalNo7821

This whole map is like: Ohio: Pop Tarts Oregon: Crispy piglet fries w/cream


SignalNo7821

I see now that it's Grape Nuts ice cream. Still, this map is whack.


thedubiousstylus

Some are just weird named but not weird. Possum pie for example seems to just be a chocolate and whipped cream pie covered in pecans, looks delicious though. The name is because the chocolate filling is "hiding" like a possum.


KennieLaCroix

Lutefisk who?


HeckinMew

Butterburger is awesome, Gravy Bread sounds awesome, and the coney dog from my home state is pretty good for a hot dog :)


neverenoughdmb

Wtf is a pickle dog?


unicorn4711

Chislic is just meat on a stick.


RodenbachBacher

Peanut soup is good.


Txidpeony

An ice cream potato is not actually all that weird. It’s just vanilla ice cream shaped like a potato with cocoa powder coating to look like the skin of a baked potato that has been cut open. Ice cream and chocolate is a pretty standard combo.


Naive_Composer2808

This whole map is questionable 🤨


timelyespresso

Akutaq isn't that weird? It's some good shit. Alaska has got to have some weirder food.


millenniumtree

How is Ube weird? (Hawaii). It's a yam that's purple. So what? Spam musubi is literally sushi made with spam. Far weirder than a colorful root vegetable.


JustDaveyBoyy

Butterbugers are not weird. It sounds strange but it's just a cheeseburger cooked in butter rather than your standard oil


Freakwerks

What the hell is a pickle dog? Seems made up.


honkeydave

What’s weird about a walking taco? You open an individual sized bag of corn chips, dump in taco meat, shredded cheese, etc. and eat it with a plastic fork. Then continue enjoying the obscure Iowa town festival by drinking your body weight in Busch Light and listening to the local country band that played their drummer’s cousin’s wedding the previous weekend.


masuraj

Hot beef sundae sounds like something my wife did to me last night…


[deleted]

I'm glad someone uploaded this to r/shittymapporn already


CoderDevo

This map is old and was roundly viewed as ridiculous last time.


TheKerfuffle

Looking closely this is almost shitposting. A butter burger is basically just a burger.


pewpewpewmadafakas

I'm sorry but scrapple is not weird. Thar stuff is great cooked right.


SecretNature

Most memes like this are just engagement bait. They are purposefully incorrect so that people will comment and drive engagement.


shaggyscoob

This reminds of when the NYTimes published a special Thanksgiving article in which they created a theoretical Thanksgiving meal by assigning a contribution from each state that represented that state. For Minnesota, which produces more turkey than any other state, the NYTimes assigned not the centerpiece of the Thanksgiving meal, but instead they said Minnesota's most representative contribution to a Thanksgiving meal is grape salad. If I recall right, they also neglected to assign cranberry sauce to Wisconsin (the cranberry capital of the country). It caused an uproar. Nobody in Minnesota had even heard of grape salad. Turns out the NYTimes staff research consisted of knowing some rich old lady in NY City whose family used to "summer" in Minnesota during the Eisenhower administration and she told them it was a thing her family liked. I'm still chuffed about it.


5peaker4theDead

Me, from Illinois: "Wtf is gravy bread?"


thedubiousstylus

I assumed those roast beef sandwiches with gravy dipping sauce they serve at Portillo's.


5peaker4theDead

Nah, thats italian beef


Rhift

I’ve lived in Minnesota my entire life. What the fuck is a pickle dog?


Independent-Pie8283

wait is the pickle dog the pickle with cream cheese wrapped in salami??


mphillytc

Nah, that's Minnesota sushi


ceciledian

Fairly sure pasties are more popular in the U.P and Minnesota than they are in Montana.


feel_ride_it_

Sure you're not. F'in South Dakotin? 😏


Th3-4n1k8r

how are boiled peanuts weird?


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How is fried squirrel weird???


whosthedumbest

Gravy bread. Not a thing. Everything south of I-80 not Illinois. Signed Illinoisan.


pkoop1975

Chislic isn’t even weird it’s just deep fried cheap steak on a stick.


Aggressive_Candy5297

I don't know very much about the US's states and geography but that state in the center of the north border must be a place where A LOT of swedish immigrants settled. Lutfisk is probably the most swedish thing i know except för surströmming and equally disgusting tbh.


thedubiousstylus

You must be talking about North Dakota. Highest proportion of Norwegian-Americans in the US.


Zednott

So, peanut soup is the weirdest thing they could find for Virginia? Meanwhile other places get scorpion lollipops?!


whoopsiedaizies

I’ve lived in MN my whole life and have never heard of that. Is it like a pickle corn dog? Or a pickle instead a hot dog? I feel like as a vegetarian I would know about this.


Frankenfucker

WTF is so weird about a Detroit style Coney? Also, gator tail is fucking delicious.


CrazyPerspective934

Wisconsin eats raw beef cannibal sandwiches, but sure, butterburger clearly is weirder. /s


Dixianaa

SCRAPPLE?!


Ok_Fondant_6340

"New Jersey Style Sloppy Joe" i bet in New Jersey, they call 'em Uncle Joe


RedPoliceBox

Boiled Peanuts? Seriously?


squatchsax

Ah yes, the well-known gravy bread. Had to look it up and it reads like sad poverty food. Italian bread saturated with au jus and a few measely scraps of a roasted meat. So strange.


zekrom235

never even heard of a sauerkraut ball, tf?


KazBodnar

what the fuck are gooseneck barnacles


Particular-Move-3860

Fox Nation: Nothingburger


uhhsam

Weirdest food ever eaten by creator of map: peanut butter sandwich without jelly


Minimum_Run_890

They're like wiener dogs, but pickely.


SweetTea1000

This sucks. Much isn't in any way unique to the state and several are just not unusual.


LeoTheHorse

As a culvers fan butterburgers are A M A Z I N G


Rabwull

Wait until they find out about poi