I mean this because in my country, Spain, a lot of regional products are very known on all of the country or even all the world, stuff like torta del casar, queso payoyo, jamón ibérico, queso tetilla, queso Indiazabal, garrofó del perelló, rioja wines or Valencian oranges.
We protect all these products(not only wines) on the same way you have AVAs,with statements like DOPs,IGPs or ETGs to protect the traditional way on which they’re made.
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I don’t know what most of those things are, but there aren’t a ton of products that are truly regional in the US. Anything pretty popular at all ends up being shipped everywhere. The only thing I can really think of offhand is Taylor Ham from PA and Green Chili stuff from out west.
It isn’t so much the case any more, but for a long time, Bourbon. It is actually defined by recipe requirements (at least 51% corn, at lest 80 proof, aged in new charred oak barrels), not region, but until recently, it basically all came from Kentucky
r/Soda has a lot of people that love Cheerwine throughout the US even though it’s mostly only found in the Carolinas.
That second paragraph has a ton of acronyms. What are they? I don’t know them.
Another one that used to be but isn’t any more, is the Vidalia onion, which is a mild sweet onion. They used to only come from the area around Vidalia, Georgia, although now you can more or less grow them anywhere. There is some debate as to whether it was the breed or the terroir (never thought I’d use that to describe an onion) that made them special. When I was a kid, we had a friend that would bring them up from Georgia. Now, I think you can buy them more or less year round at most grocery stores.
Butch’s Pizza, Kitchen Cooked potato chips, Sterzing’s potato chips, and Black Crow Candles were all things that would be called regional products. They were only produced in and generally sold in the surrounding areas.
Kitchen Cooked was purchased by a chip company from another state (UTZ). So it’s kind of stopped being a regional thing.
Black Crow Candles now sells all over the world but is still locally produced.
California puts avocado on everything. Anywhere you go in the US you will see menu items with California in the name, and it basically means it has Avocado. Example: California Club at Dennys
If I ever saw a bag of Grippos with an IGP on it I’d frame that and put it on my wall
Before they started expanding production and distribution in the late 2000s, Yuengling beer was sorta sought after by people from out of Pennsylvania. I have family in Indiana and whenever I was heading out to visit, they used to beg me to grab as many cases as I could get of it so they could drink it and gift it to friends.
Because of social media, they are huge in America.
There are many regional foods that are available all over the country, but that are popular or originated in a certain region.
For instance, I live in the South, but can find a dish called “scrapple”, that is a breakfast item popular in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in our grocery stores.
Grits, which are a southern breakfast item, can be found in restaurants all over the country now.
There are hundreds of regional products. So many, that many Americans don’t even know that they started regionally.