Eating should also be considered America's favorite pastime. Jim Cooke created this map for Deadspin, where a careful drawing of a signature food is used to represent every U.S. state and the District of Columbia. Meanwhile, Albert Burneko riffs on each dish, offering his, um, "colorful" opinions.
Each food is ranked, with Chicago's deep-dish pizza earning the top spot:
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New York is represented by New York-style pizza (#22), which gets a fair amount of shade thrown in its direction:
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Pennsylvania and its scrapple are ranked 28th, and there are a few shots at Philadelphia and its infamous cheesesteak:
But the cheesesteak mer m'mer Phiwwy cheesesteak mer! Shut it. The famous grease-and-garbage sandwich belongs to the city of Philadelphia, which A) is the worst place on Earth, and B) doesn't come close to representing the entire state of Pennsylvania. In a given day, 500 times as many Pennsylvanians are scraping possums off the motorway to add volume to their scrapple as are standing in line with the tourists in the Junior Varsity Metropolis to have a bucket of Cheez Whiz dumped onto a fistful of thinly sliced sewer rat. Your state food is this salty, greasy, gray, abjectly horrifying pig-rectum-mash, and, fuck you, it is delicious.
Wow, who hurt you? But hey, to each his own.
Ohio, which came in dead last with the Cincinnatti chili, receives the harshest of words. Here's a sample:
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There's so much more, but you get the gist of it by this. The food game is serious, so very serious.
[via Deadspin]
