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Foods We Thought Everyone Ate Until We Left Our Hometowns

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Peanut Butter

Peanut butter is the classic American snack food. It's a favorite from coast to coast, from peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to candy peanut butter cups.

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Baked Macaroni and Cheese

In many Black American households, a holiday, Sunday, or special occasion dinner isn't complete without a pan of baked macaroni and cheese.

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Grits

If you grew up eating grits for breakfast, chances are you or someone in your family has roots in the South.

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Lobster Rolls

Lobster rolls are another tasty treat practically unheard of outside New England. 

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Ranch Dressing

Numerous American tourists to Europe were startled to find no ranch dressing.

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Philly Cheesesteaks

Natives of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the surrounding communities know that the City of Brotherly Love is the home of the cheesesteak.

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Scrapple

A Pennsylvania Dutch meat popular in the Mid-Atlantic states, scrapple is made from scraps of pork that are not packaged for sale.

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Fluffernutters

The New England states have given us another unheard-of food in the rest of the country, but it should be the fluffernutter.

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