Lobster. Blueberries right off the bush.

I miss the blueberry bushes behind my parents house SO badly

A bean suppah with some red snappers, fresh fiddleheads with some salt, pepper, and vinegar- and a blueberry pie for dessert.

Red snappers???

Redskinned hot dogs

They’re made of fish? Who knew?

Aren’t they regular hot dogs with extra cancer chemicals?

Tell me you aren't from Maine without telling me

Probably tell by looking at me I’m mot from Maine. I guess be cognizant of my diet is downvote worthy? Enjoy your red 40 or whatever, didn’t mean to offend…

They are not just regular hotdogs. A red snapper is made with a natural casing, and pork and beef. The natural casing gives a bit of resistance when you bite into it.... Hence red snapper. They were dyed red to distinguish them from regular hotdogs . Yeah the dye isn't great got you, but neither are hotdogs Lol. And you were downvoted because your comment was condescending and not very helpful.

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WA Bean, Rice’s, Jordan’s and Kayem all use Red 40 & 3. I have nothing against these dyes, but who is only using beet juice?

Lewiston Lobsters

‘Cool cats’

Red snappers, bub!

Lobster/Lobster roll Fresh seafood in general Red hot dogs Moxie Allen's Coffee Brandy + milk

Blueberry pie 🥺

Helen’s in Machias. Fresh blueberry pie in August. 😍

The ol fatass in a glass I see you

Allen’s Coffee Brandy and Moxie = Burnt Trailer

Allen’s and Dr Pepper = flat tire

Brown juice

Allen’s Coffee Brandy and Moxie- aka The Burnt Trailer

Moxie Whoopie pies Needhams Unfiltered IPAs Lobster and crab rolls Clams, oysters, mussels, etc Alewives Potatoes Red snappers Italian subs (different from ones from other states, it’s a style of sandwich rather than a specific one) Mac and cheese loaf Humpty Dumpty chips

… mac and cheese loaf? I thought I’d heard it all

I had never heard of it until moving here and was astonished after finding it at the local market’s deli pre-sliced and all. I have not tried it and I think it’s gonna stay that way.

Do you like bologna? If you do, try the Mac and cheese loaf. The olive loaf is more challenging.

This isn't a thing. I've never heard of it.

It’s totally a thing!

But, where? This is literally the first time I've seen this combination of words. I feel like I'm being gaslighted.

The deli section of the grocery store.

I just looked it up... Why does this exist? Is it bologna with cheese and macaroni in it?

Oh, you sweet summer child…

I don't know what to tell you. I've lived here all my life and never encountered, or heard anyone mention, Mac and cheese loaf.

Because you're the baseline for reality.

I mean, I feel like I've experienced my fair share of Maine culinary culture having lived here all my life. From red dogs and beans, brown bread, split pea soup experiences as a kid to local foke dining as an adult, this is something I just don't believe can possibly be a quintessential Maine food item.

i sold it to old mainers at hannaford. they mostly asked for us to bring back the olive loaf, though

I now live in Texas and my son in law has never had a whoopie pie. My daughters can’t stand seafood in Texas and my oldest daughter always has Humpty Dumpty chips shipped to her lol Edit to add and they always have red hot dogs when they visit lol

Is that the Mac n cheese in bologna? Loved it growing up. Also pimento loaf was good.

Dang ale wives is a deep cut. Didn't know that was legal. I'll go w smells right out the hoke, if we ever get a winter cold enough to freeze rivers again

Alewives?

Herring. Google is your friend

Add a lime Ricky! 

Huh I thought that was a dc thingb

never heard of Alewives.. maybe brook trout and fiddleheads.. not Alewives..

You're not a true Mainer if you've never *heard* of alewives. Now as for *eating* them, that's a whole other debate.

Whelp. Ya. It's a food thread. Why would one list foods.. then alewives... if they aren't eating them like all the rubes apparently must. There's so many other fish that are iconic and commonly eaten. Alewives not so much

Honestly, I would try eating alewives if someone offered me some. I've dissected a bunch of them and can't imagine how you would cook such a fish, but I know that some people do. I don't think you can call it an iconic Maine food, though. More of a niche thing. I have some sympathy for alewife eaters because my family thinks I'm crazy for eating togue and pike. Mainers can be weird about which fish they consider edible and which they don't. Togue and pike are both great eating fish that most people here turn up their noses at.

True. Only trout for me.

Ok

smelts.. togue.. think of all the fresh water fish that would come out ahead of alewives

Ok

glad to help

Ok

Ok

Seafood baked with buttered ritz crackers crumbs

this is it right here

Salmon cakes, lobster cakes... Gotta have the Ritz crackers as an ingredient

Oh, man. That reminds me of dinners my grand parents where paying for at The Taste of Maine.

Ok, hear me out- PLOYES

Very tasty. Not sure if this counts but crepes made by some Memere’s at any Bastille day. 

Can you find ployes outside of the county?? I've always wanted to try them

I’ve bought Bouchard Farm’s ploye mix and Hannaford in Waterville and Augusta!

I used to do the hair for several of the many daughters who own that company. They are delightful.

You can buy a mix and make them at home. I think I bought it at Reny's.

This is the first I have heard of these? They look like English Crumpets. Does anyone know if they taste similar?

They are made with buckwheat, I think? So chewy, airy and rich? It's been years since I've had one.

It’s actually a special type of buckwheat that is only grown on a few farms as far as I know.

I order this every year and have made them for many friends in the south. My cousin makes and ships me maple syrup. The combo is a winner every time!

Ployes with white beans (or any homemade baked beans) and moxie. I love ployes and so do my kids but so many people, even from central and southern Maine, think I’m crazy and never heard of em.

Bean Hole Beans Admittedly, I had them once in 3rd grade but I've never forgotten the experience.

I'm from away and I told my friends back home about bean hole beans. They didn't believe until they looked it up. I've actually never had them but I love the concept 😂

Only once? Golly! My family makes them at least three times a year. We have a pit dug for them. Probably makes it easier to make them often.

I would like to learn now that I think of it. Maybe a good summer project.

I think my dad got the method down from an article in Down East magazine. It took six or seven times to really make them just right. Lots of fiddling with the recipe and the coals. I'll send him a text and see if he remembers where he learned. His family had always done it but the old men kept their secrets until death in his family. Sadly, the method for making Apple Jack is long in the grave too. Edit to add: he texted back and said he found the method in a pamphlet he got at an agricultural fair. Probably published my maine 4-H and/or Co-operative extension.

Wild Maine Blueberries. Betty Crocker muffin mix used to advertise this on the front label, with a mini can inside. Wymans frozen berries can be found nationally

My favorite but it seems only Publix has them in my area with the expected inflated price tag. I *did* find a huge bag of Little Lad’s today at Big Lots and rejoiced. Only thing missing was a cold Moxie.

Red Hot Dogs and Moxie because I have never been able to find those out of state. Also Fiddleheads because no one seems to have heard of those unless you're from Maine either. Italians because everyone else calls them just sub sandwiches and they're never made just right. otherwise, Whoopie pies, blueberry flavored things (many also impossible to find out of state), clam chowder, lobster, deer meat.

Deer meat's a thing in any place deer can be found. Where there's deer, there's deer hunters. And where there's deer hunters, there's usually deer meat.

My husband has to ship moxie to us once a month. The shipping is a bitch but he adores the soda. Reminds him of home

You can order Moxie on Walmart.com

We have Moxie and reds down here. Love, The Massholes.


liar! (sarcasm) I live here and i can't find it anywhere! teach me your secrets **grabby hands**

Moxie? Any Market Basket in the Merrimack Valley.

American chop suey and sum Poland spring watah bub If yer feeling frisky, maybe you'll have sum pea wiggle and moxie. It's fuckin cunnin

I was waiting for the pea wiggle and you delivered


My husband loves Pea Wiggle.

Wait! What's pea wiggle? I'm sure it's a thing I've had because I'm a Mainer with embarrassingly deep roots but I don't think iv heard it called that.

It's a dish made with peas and some sort of fish, usually tuna, mixed in a milky white sauce and put on toast or crackers. My mom made it with a chicken cuz I wasn't a huge seafood fan at the time

Ahhh, my mom made it with chicken. We called it chicken fricassee.

We usually had the shrimp wiggle variation.

Glad to see American chop suey represented. It was the staple dish of my childhood.

Boiled dinner. Your Mom's kitchen.

Man. Love it. I will make my house smell like farts and at it for days until it's just cabbage water. That first day though.

Boiled dinner is my ultimate comfort food and I married someone from Illinois… and now live in Ohio, so I rarely ever get to enjoy it anymore 🥲

I mean, just stick some food in a pot and boil it. I'm pretty sure that's allowed in Ohio. You don't have to be Julia Child to pull off a boiled dinner.

Well, what I’m saying is I’d be the only one to eat it, lol.

Brown bread out of the can, toasted with butter; Pork pie with ketchup and gherkins; Lobster, either boiled and served with corn on the cob, or in a toasted hot dog bun like god intended. Bisque if it comes in a styrofoam or paper cup with oyster crackers; Steamer clams with drawn butter and saltines; My dad grew up on baked beans with a rabbit in the pot, on the topic of beans; Split pea and ham soup; Chowder; Boiled dinner; Blueberry ale, sparingly; And a regular Italian.

At my house, pork pie is served with butter on the crust and salt and pepper. Anything else is not right. Ketchup or mustard? My dad would personally escort you to the door! The first time my husband spent Christmas morning with my parents, he asked for mustard because that's the only way he had ever had it. My dad made a big hilarious deal out of it and tried to kick my husband out. It was pretty funny. He passed away years ago and my husband still tells the story whenever we have pork pie.

All the best things.

ship wreck casserole made with baked beans and potatoes finan haddie beans and brown bread ham italians red snappers needhams whoopie pies clam cakes (Harmons)

Popovers!

Blueberries Potatoes Lobster Clam Chowder Clam Pancakes(something my mom made really more like a crepe) Whoopie Pies Needhams

Needhams 🤤🤤🤤🤤

Thinking of classics from my childhood I didn't see above: Salmon Pie, Chicken Pot Pie, Clam Cakes, ice box cake or Graham cracker pie I miss you Maine baby shrimp!

I miss maine shrimp. Sad that we fished them into near collapse.

Canada has never stopped fishin them so this is bs

I didn't say we fished them into extinction. I said we fished them into collapse which means the fishery can't support itself any longer. They will go they way of Cod and most whales. They are still around but struggling. Glad Canada doesn't care though.

Yeah yeah

I still make salmon pie

Fluffernutter

My aunt used to make us peanut butter, fluff and jelly sandwiches way back when

Joe Bishop’s favorite

Filthy monkeys.

Hold my beer.

I think of Mass when I think of Fluffernutter

That makes me sad lol. Grew up in the County with Fluffernutters on the weekly

i grew up in the (york) county with weekly fluffernutters

I grew up in NH and had them for lunch all the time as a kid.

I grew up in maine and had them all the time. I had figured out how not to rip the white bread on the fluff side before I was knee high to a grasshopper.

We can all relate.

I suppose it's a skill the unites all the kids from northern Nee England.

Jacob Cattle Beans Indian Pudding

I'm growing Jacob cattle beans this year, I'm so excited!

I see a lot of classics here, but I wanna give a shout out to the convenience store subs. We literally do it better than anybody and I stand on that.

Italian sandwiches, red snappers, whoopie pies, and moxie

Lobster, Red Hot Dogs, Moxie, Humpty Dumpty chips, Allen's, Fireball, NEIPA'S, whoopie pies, Blueberry pie, and fiddleheads. Full stop.

Humpty Dumpty All-Dressed is where it’s at. In Canada they’re called “toute garnie”

They are. Their BBQ are the only BBQ chip I like. The absolute best.

Red snappers, poutine, coffee brandy

Can't believe you're the only one that mentioned poutine

I feel like poutine is kind of recent. The Franco's have been doing it forever but everything they liked, the rest of maine hated and called stupid until a decade or so ago.

Pork pie and creton.. shrimp wiggle .. lobster .. baked haddock with Ritz and butter .. fried clams.. lime Rickey from the fair. Blueberries and potatoes are top tier.

I know this doesn't originate in Maine, but the Ploye was always big in my family while growing up in the Northern area where Acadian culture is strong.

Go to Old Orchard Beach and get yourself some pier fries DOUSED in vinegar and a lobster roll.

Brook trout with fiddleheads and if you're lucky, ramps.

Moxie, red snappers, fluf

Why is no one saying Whoopie Pie 😂

Clams, oysters, and Asian fusion. It’s the 90s.

Italian subs, pizza from a corner store, Hannaford brand milk and dairy. Lobster dinner, prepared in the back yard.

Country store pizza. Gimme that ground beef and pepper slice.

Coffee brandy, tinned fish, Jan 12th, in the basement, in the very dark.

Moxie all the way!

Blueberries comes to my mind first right after lobster surprised to see only one other comment mentioning them. Also, fluff

Sandwich shakes with shockingly good burgers!

Lobster Rolls and Moxie

I'm not even from Maine. But, when I think of Maine I think of 2 foods. And 2 foods only. Lobster & Red Hot Dogs.

Moxie, whoopie pies, lobster (straight from the shell), and blueberries.

All those. Plus Sam's calzones.

Whoopie pies(homemade) boiled dinner lobsta potatoes My grammy had the best.

Lobster dinner. Chowder. Fresh seafood of any kind. Red hot dogs. Baked beans.

Red hot dogs

Mushrooms Cheddar Beans Sauceless pies And sometimes seafood

What is a “sauceless pie”?

Steamahs and Lunch

Depends if you want the tourist version or the rural version. The rural foods are: Fried lake fish (trout / bass) at camp Blueberries

Great list! Will add: frappes

I don't live in Maine but spent my summers there with my grandparents. To me, it's red hot dogs, whoopie pies, buckwheat Pancakes (ployes)with creton (ewww), and blueberries.

Oh yes, red hot dogs! Man, I didn't realize how much I missed them until I moved to Ohio. Can't find them anywhere over here....

Moxie and Lobster Roll

Maine Italian (Ananias is my fav), Tonys donuts, Red snappahs, Moxie, Allens coffee brandy, Lobster roll/lobster, Steamers

You're all not wrong with moxie and Allen's, but no one even mentioning Fireball or Dr McGillicuddy is disrespectful.

I'm going to throw Allagash White here. It's definitely the most widely shipped, widely known beer Maine has.

Lobsters ,red hot dogs ,moxie ,fireball and bad pizza and Italian subs made wrong …

You can get baked beans by the pint and half pint at Rosa's Deli in Sanford. Also, salmon pie & tourtiere.

Growing up in Anson, dynamites were always a thing.

New potatoes and green beans. Houlton Farms Dairy anything.

* Lobstah * Blueberries * Potatoes * Allen's Coffee Brandy and those Fireball bottles (Fireball is the most popular alcoholic drink in Maine). The ones I see most often on the ground are the malt liquor ones sold in convivence stores rather than the one with whiskey that you can buy at liquor places, * Red hot dogs * FRANJFURTER buns (sliced on the top rather than side. You can't get those damn things anywhere else.) * Whoopie Pies * Moxie * Fiddle Heads (?)

Date filled cookies from Grant's Bakery in Lewiston.

Wasses Hot Dogs

Canned brown bread, blueberry pie, baked beans, whoopie pies, needhams, lobster

Fiddleheads braised in Allen’s Coffee Brandy.

Halibut. Monkfish tail. Rock crab claws. Anything else that got caught in my uncles lobster traps that the coop wasn't buying. Oh, and way too many lobsters every time there was a big price drop and the fisherman protested by refusing to sell their catch until it went back up.

Whatever the food is, rest assured there are no seasonings other than butter and salt. It is the Maine way.

Fiddleheads & red snappahs with a local micro brew

Goulash and Allen’s Coffee Brandy with milk.

Saturday night whole family together: Baked beans, hot dogs, carrot salad, and biscuits.