Awww how CUTE! And my home state of West Virginia has a pepperoni roll! (I didn’t learn that this wasn’t a widely made thing until I tried to explain it to my out of state college friends.) Great find!!

I liked their State-by-Celebrity bag, but I’m a little bummed out about Arizona on this one. Nobody eats cactus in Arizona. The might try to prepare it in some restaurants, but people don’t eat it like bagels in NY.

didn’t mean to complain without offering a suggestion! Chimichangas!

Thanks for your feedback Catherine, I love hearing what everything thinks about our selections. So much fun.

I meant everyone :)

This is super cute – though I am sad about my NC’s choice – liver pudding, really? Never heard of it, and I lived there for my first 24 years. What about NC BBQ (with coleslaw)?

I have live in Missouri my whole life and had no idea we were famous for “cashew chicken”. Fascinating, lol.

As I sit in NY eating my bagel I say, Great job Elana!!

Oh man, Pennsylvania has scrapple??? What a bummer! :). Super cute tote nonetheless :).

…and thumbs up on the Utah jello!

A childhood in NJ is not complete without salt water taffy. Love it!

Yum. I love me some Texas ribeye.

To NC: maybe too many states eat BBQ (not complaining!) — it was too hard to choose which state would get to claim it!

There seems to be popular consensus that NC should have been BBQ. We just couldn’t resist the liver pudding packaging though. Plus, BBQ could apply to several other states, right?

Hey all, I specifically spoke to a friend in Arizona about using a cactus..he said they eat it all the time there! It was really fun to draw too. Tough decisions to make! Oh, and on the BBQ front…too many places have awesome BBQ, so we decided there wasn’t necessarily one state that got to have it.

I’ve lived in Missouri for 36 years and only associate cashew chicken as another menu item at a Chinese restaurant. I had no idea it had any Missouri ties. Thanks for the info!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashew_chicken

With these types of lists you can never make everyone happy!

I grew up with scrapple in Delaware, we even have a festival celebrating it! However, more is made in Pennsylvania so I guess that’s ok PA got it. I never ate any blue crab while in DE for 10 years, but maybe in the rich northern half it is more common. We would have soft shelled crab sandwiches, next to the scrapple sandwiches. The food most indicative of my time in Delaware was chicken, chicken, chicken. We have 2 major companies in DE, Purdue and Allen, that made my hometown have the highest concentration of chicken to people in the United States, if not the world.

Missouri though, I haven’t heard or seen cashew chicken and I have been here 6 years. I only speak for St. Louis though, is it a rural thing? We’re all about frozen custard and toasted ravioli here.

Missouri should have been beer, I believe it is a food group.

What a cute bag! This would be perfect to fill up with my farmers market finds. Although I do have to agree with Katrina, bummer that PA got scrapple. It should have been chicken and waffles or pretzels. Love the PA Dutch pretzels!

Not only is this bag completely adorable, I’m thrilled beyond reason that RI is represented by coffee milk! (I’m not a big seafood fan.)

Very sweet bag.

I’m glad that someone else recognizes that bourbon is a food!

I just love that NJ is salt water taffy! The only thing better would have been “boardwalk fries.” :-)

Very cute! I had to look up the Nebraska-tv dinner association, since I’ve grew up here and had no idea that Swanson was from NE. Why not go with something more closely associated with the state, like kolaches or runzas (from the German, Czech, and Polish roots of many of the people here), or even Kool Aid (from Kearney)? TV dinners just scream ‘obesity epidemic’ to me.

*I grew up here, not I’ve grew up here, sorry

I LOVE this tote. Ack. Wish I needed another tote bag…but I’m marking this one down as a good gift purchase!

adorable!
I want to go state to state sampling all the items now. : )

Am I blind, or is the great food state of Wisconsin missing?

I had no clue cashew chicken was invented in Missouri! You learn something new everyday.

Caroline- Wisconsin is represented by cheese (of course!) in the bottom right, above Idaho’s potatoes.

A more appetizing choice for PA could have been the wonderful gob/whoopie pie. But, then you get western PA fighting eastern PA about which name is correct…

I think it’s awesome that PA got Scrapple. I’ve heard PA folks wax poetic on it…even if I don’t get it. But New Jersey gets salt water taffy over a big red Jersey tomato?! “Rutgers” is a wonderful variety !