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* ''[[All Creatures Great and Small]]'': James Herriot recounted an unusual way of eating Christmas cake in the Yorkshire Dales; with crumbly Wensleydale cheese and a draught of raw whisky.
* ''[[All Creatures Great and Small]]'': James Herriot recounted an unusual way of eating Christmas cake in the Yorkshire Dales; with crumbly Wensleydale cheese and a draught of raw whisky.
* ''Eat Pray Love'' by Elizabeth Gilbert. In the section on her holiday in Italy, she recounts her experiences with their food. One sequence has her and a friend going to a back-alley pizzeria in Naples to taste their pizza. They immediately order another; her friend says that all other pizza is [[Ruined FOREVER]].
* ''Eat Pray Love'' by Elizabeth Gilbert. In the section on her holiday in Italy, she recounts her experiences with their food. One sequence has her and a friend going to a back-alley pizzeria in Naples to taste their pizza. They immediately order another; her friend says that all other pizza is [[Ruined FOREVER]].
* In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]'' Rincewind is offered a "Meat Pie Floater", a meat pie suspended in thick pea soup with tomato ketchup according to taste (no honestly, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_floater it's real!] as an Ecksian regional delicacy. Rincewind ponders that all of the "Regional Delicacies" that he's been offered in his travels seem to be the kind of disgusting and inexplicable dishes that someone would only concoct while drunk which are then foisted upon unsuspecting tourists. It's a regional delicacy because no-one else in the world would be crazy enough to eat it.
* In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]'' Rincewind is offered a "Meat Pie Floater", a meat pie suspended in thick pea soup with tomato ketchup according to taste (no honestly, [[wikipedia:Pie floater|it's real!]] as an Ecksian regional delicacy. Rincewind ponders that all of the "Regional Delicacies" that he's been offered in his travels seem to be the kind of disgusting and inexplicable dishes that someone would only concoct while drunk which are then foisted upon unsuspecting tourists. It's a regional delicacy because no-one else in the world would be crazy enough to eat it.
* In ''[[The Hunger Games]]'' Peeta is a second-generation professional baker and he expounds on the regional breads in sufficient detail that fans have [[Defictionalization|been able to make them]].
* In ''[[The Hunger Games]]'' Peeta is a second-generation professional baker and he expounds on the regional breads in sufficient detail that fans have [[Defictionalization|been able to make them]].


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*** Champ (mashed spuds with spring onions, butter, milk and salt) in [[Northern Ireland]]. Irish Stew and the Ulster Fry, too.
*** Champ (mashed spuds with spring onions, butter, milk and salt) in [[Northern Ireland]]. Irish Stew and the Ulster Fry, too.
** Italy
** Italy
*** The 1996 movie ''Big Night'' revolves around the limited palates and opinions of 1950s Americans towards authentic Italian food. (If it didn't have marinara sauce, it wasn't thought to be authentically Italian.) The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timballo timballo] -- called a timpano in the movie -- in the third act is a thing of beauty.
*** The 1996 movie ''Big Night'' revolves around the limited palates and opinions of 1950s Americans towards authentic Italian food. (If it didn't have marinara sauce, it wasn't thought to be authentically Italian.) The [[wikipedia:Timballo|timballo]] -- called a timpano in the movie -- in the third act is a thing of beauty.
** Scandinavia
** Scandinavia
*** Lutefisk -- wind-dried cod fermented in lye. Yummy.
*** Lutefisk -- wind-dried cod fermented in lye. Yummy.
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