#west virginia food

[catfindr]

[alliluyevas]

Was engaging in my favorite hobby of Curating Lists (specifically in this case of the states I have visited and the ones I have yet to visit) and was wondering…which state would you all most like to visit that you haven’t been to yet and what city/area/site would you want to go there for?

[offensivelytasteless]

/ck/ is on a roll

[angelx1992]

[big-low-t]

Chicken Gouda Pizza

Beer cheese sauce on the crust. Topped with Gouda cheese, grilled chicken, bacon, and more cheese. This is pizza perfection.

[undeadnecromancer]

it's literally so sad that pepperoni rolls are a regional thing in West Virginia made by Italian coal workers and it's such a big thing here but barely anyone else has heard of them

[misery-has-no-company-now]

Heeelloo guyss I'm baaackkkk, pretend I wasn't gone all this time and take this headcannon from me now it's OG13 (and a few of the other older ones) angst -

BTW I suppose some of the topics in this - like references to abuse and eating disorders or food issues - could be triggering for some people so I'll just mention that over here itself just to let you leave if you don't want to continue reading [also let me know if there's anything else you want me to add to this list]

Okay, now that you're here, it's picture time!

(Pic is about the largest states by size from over here : https://www.worldatlas.com/geography/us-states-by-size.html)

In the top 10 smallest states, 7 of them were from the original 13 colonies. (And amongst these 10 was West Virginia). And if we take the 17 smallest, it's mostly either one of the og13, or one of the states that came from them - like Maine or Kentucky or even WV.

So I already have a hc that their heights are a representative of their land area, and based on this, what if the reason [most] the original 13 states are so short is because those who took care of them when they were younger (like England or the Netherlands when they were still colonies) either neglected feeding them while they were still growing or starved them on purpose as a punishment?

Take for example, Rhode Island (the shortest) and Massachusetts. Both were very rebellious back in the day, right? And they're also amongst the smallest ones in size.

England knew that while personifications might not need to eat as much as humans, and would not suffer death by starvation like their fellow mortals might; they still did need food, especially while they were younger - and it was easier to make them obedient to him if they were too weak to be otherwise. So what was the best way for him to make them unable to fight him back, as well as to teach them a lesson? By withdrawing their food. He wouldn't allow them to eat, and he'd just keep them locked up in a room with a strong, unbreakable door and no windows for long periods of time - till he decided he needed them for something. They would always be exhausted and too tired to challenge him for quite a while after that, so he was fully aware his plan worked.

This went on for ages until they managed to escape his hold and he could no longer stop them from rebelling; but by then the damage had been done to them (another hc - they can grow until they achieve statehood) and since they'd been malnourished for frequent bouts of time for so long, they hadn't been able to grow to the heights they should have actually been able to reach [like for example they could have ideally gained at least a few more centimetres based on how big their land was but thanks to England stunting their growth on purpose, they couldn't], hence now they're just shorter than all the other states that came after them.

States like Maine and Kentucky are only smaller since they came from the OG 13, meaning that for them, it's naturally based on the size of their area anyway. But they did manage to achieve their potential heights (like the maximum they could obtain) and weren't a bit shorter than what they should be. Moreover, Maine is taller than Mass for this very reason.

That's sort of why food isn't a priority for them...since they didn’t always get it even if it was there. I'd discussed this headcannon with @imkindanerdy as well so based on what she added about these states being very careful about food now; I feel like they would often just have something hidden in their rooms like packaged food, stuff that's easy to open or won't be missed, stuff that doesn't have a very obvious smell, things which don't expire easily, etc. - even if they don't always eat it. Many a times they will forget that they kept food deep inside their wardrobe or under their bed (since food is rarely ever on their minds), and it'll go bad; which makes them feel terrible but this is a habit they can't stop since not having something to hold on to should there ever be a time when they don't have food makes them highly anxious, and the thing is that they keep saving it for 'in case of an emergency, yet those emergencies never come. It's hard for them to relax if they don't know that there's always something to eat nearby, despite hardly ever actually eating it. It was ages before some of them stopped taking food from the dinner table and hiding it in their sleeves for later.

Some states that know what they went through, like VT, ME, or KY, often purposefully buy a ton of small pieces of packaged food so that these states can sometimes take a few and 'sneak' it to their rooms because that's better than them not eating anything at all on the days they're too scared and stuck thinking about the past to come down for a meal. Furthermore, this is how the eating disorders faced by some of the western states really affected them all a lot, which is also why they helped the west to a great extent during those times too.

Also, the fact that this wasn't at all in their hands, and the reason they're so small is because of England definitely isn't helped by the fact that the other states tease them a lot for their heights; but in typical NE fashion, the northeastern states just curse them out and do their best to ignore them, while the states in the South usually resort to replying with any and all of the southern insults they have accumulated over the years.

They all do their best to shrug it off, but that doesn't stop them from being hurt by this though, particularly on the days when the jokes hit them one after the other with all the force of the unaware states. Heck in fact, I'm willing to bet that after the Rhode Island Joins the Table meeting was one of the few rare times that Rhode Island was actually unable to even pretend to not cry - as is common of the Northeast states - since a bunch of such comments at once affected him so badly he just couldn't keep it in anymore and broke down once he was in his own room. Because it's not his fault he's so short he needs a booster seat. Because had England allowed him to eat just a bit more, he wouldn't need a step-stool to see over the kitchen counter. Despite this though, he just tends to use the fact that the other states remark on his height as an excuse to fight them, because that's the RI spirit in him.

Also, he freely uses his size to exploit the kids under 12 eat free option since they all always fake their ages whenever they need to make a new identity card [this is a hc that I'll talk about another day]. But only him. No one else gets to do this for him. One of the more miser states tried that once, and all he got was the living daylights beaten out of him plus a bigger check than what he would have had to pay if Rhodey just ate as an adult.

Anyway that's all I can think of right now, this came to me long back, I just finally got the inspiration to write it; since the fact that I already had this down in a bunch of messages made it easier to do. I can't promise I'll be active frequently again, but wttt hcs fill my brain whenever it's not busy being against me so er...yeah. Anyway, add on if you have anything more.

[lukeskywahlker]

Too easy! Summer flavors are Hillbilly Hotdogs, The Peddler (best burger of all time and it's got banana!!), watermelon matcha, Bloody Mary, and taco trucks!

[rotipizza]

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My Top 5

in the DMV/DMV area

[catfindr]

[socialistriley]

Shoyu ramen from Yama, in Downtown Morgantown. Unquestionably one of my favorite meals from one of my favorite restaurants.

I’ve always been partial to cramped establishments. There’s something about sitting nearly shoulder to shoulder with perfect strangers in a cramped room that makes the food taste better.

Morgantown, West Virginia—March 19, 2024

[scrumpyfan43]

To everyone confused about Cornish pasties being Midwestern cuisine, they're a specialty of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, brought over by miners who worked the copper mines up there. Pretty similar to how pepperoni rolls became an iconic part of West Virginian cuisine from the Italian immigrants working the coal mines.

[prattlinpeach]

Let's head north! Stop in NC, and drive 10 hours, what did you do today?!

Got up, waited for SDL and Miss A to get up, took a shower, packed, hugs and kisses all around, and headed out. My goal was to leave between 8 and 9am and I split that down the middle! I was out the door at 830a exactly! Highly unusual for me, btw! I got on the road and headed to meet MM at Nellie’s Southern Kitchen in Belmont, NC, a little over 3.5 hours from SDL’s house, no problem. I stopped…

[angelx1992]

[goalhofer]

2024 in memoriam (part 30)

Prof. Peter A. Sturrock, 100

Wally Amos; Jr., 88

Dan Dorazio, 72

Catherine Cooke Steinmetz, 100

Sergio Donati, 91

Lazar Lečić, 85

Frank Selvy, 91

Herschell Turner, 86

Fritz Von Goering, 94

Lars Björn, 92

Gen. Gary E. Luck, 87

Virginia Rowlands Forrest, 94

Ralph LaCock aka Peter Marshall, 98

Olga Horak, 98

Tom Brown; Jr., 74

David Davies, 78

Bobby Hicks, 91

Claude King, 85

John Lee, 71

Norman Spencer, 110

Maria Branyas, 117

Black Caviar, 17

Eugene Quilban, 58

Jim Brady; Jr., 88

Ruth Colvin, 107

Mike Lynch, 59

Archbishop Ramiro Moliner Inglés, 83

Al Attles; Jr., 87

Tanaka Atsuko, 61

Rato Tvrdić, 80