Regional Cuisine Mugs

"I have over a hundred words for 'grits.' "

Backroad cuisine: REDHOT SWEDE...Minnesota - style chili

Big Tex Silver Saddle Restaurant advertises 'BBQ, $10, Chatter in a Vanishing Regional Dialect $1.00 Extra.'

-'but for a full English breakfast you can't beat Blackpool,sir.'

'We can order Lebanese, Thai, Italian, Indian, Greek or Chinese...'

"Is the MSG local?"

A corner market is taken over by suburban sprawl.

As I say, local produce, locally produced; all our meats tonight come form our local meat processing plant.

Mom? Eco club is starting a campaign to eat local food. Good idea. Would you please pack me a lunch from organic stuff grown near here? Ok. I'm sure we have something. Thanks! Oh, boy. A beet sandwich.

Scouse For Beginners

'Tropical fruit, imported cheese, coconuts...I'm not really into that 'eat locally' stuff.'

"Waiter, can you find out if this hair in my arugula salad is locally harvested?"

"Say it with Pierogies"

(Direct to the Consumer)

'It's all local, except for the fish. They're from the ocean.'

"I was raised in New York and Nancy is from L.A., but we're bringing up the children bicoastal."

'. . . the Winter of Discontent Soup, Arab Spring Roll, Summer Madness Salad and The Season of Mellow Mists Fruit Medley.'

'I think we should eat out in the hotel tomorrow dear.'

'I googled it Mom. There's no such thing as McLiver and onions.'

Meanwhile in Yorkshire

"It's Brooklyn clam chowder - you got a problem with that?"

''Pop'? In my part of the country they're called a 'Soda-Tart'.'

"You're the one who wanted to go someplace off the beaten track - you ask him what's gluten free."

'Is it local?'

"Do you do catering?"

'I'd heard that they like to source their food locally'

Yo! The Amboys!

"All our water is locally sourced. From a little something we call 'the kitchen faucet'."

"What's so great about eating local? It's all fast food."

"On the plus side, all the ingredients are local."

Don

"Too bad we only see each other when we're hungry! I know! Let's go on a date, a real date!"

'As you can see, we take the concept of local food very seriously...'

Getting a great ear of corn makes me wish that summer would never end!

"You can do business anywhere... as long as you can speak their menu."