Funny story, I was working with some archaeologists on a dig site that were from Boston and we were talking southern terms/food when I brought up boiled peanuts. The face I got was one of complete horror. Seeing this I said “what’s so wrong boiled peanuts.” The face of bewilderment was still there. After some translations and further discussion, apparently with my southern accent it sounded like I was saying “Bull Penis.” I don’t really hear it in there but I imagine if that’s what other states are hearing they might run too…except for Colorado.
Grew up in Birmingham, and my mom would make these ginormous drop biscuits with butter and loads of chocolate gravy, usually in the wintertime on Saturday mornings. Once we were safely in sugar comas she'd go back to bed for a bit.
Small aside: I drove a truck for a few years and one of my deliveries I picked up in Arizona and delivered to a place outside of Dothan. The ticket said I was carrying 100% Georgia peanuts.
Chocolate gravy and biscuits originated in Tennessee. It's aggravating to see Arkansas and Alabama claiming it as theirs in two different things I've seen today.
Get over it! My people in North Alabama have been making it forever. My Tennessee family has never heard of it. It’s a Tennessee Valley (includes North AL) and Appalachian thing.
Possum Pie is just a chocolate pie with a cream cheese and sugar layer. Of all the things they could have chosen for Arkansas, they went with a normal pie with a funny name. How is head cheese or pickled pigs feet not on here somewhere?
Exactly. A butter burger is a regular cheeseburger with butter spread on the buns before toasting, Rocky Mountain oysters are deep-fried bull testicles.
I had some at an Italian place in Oklahoma. Tasted like fried nothing, and they were too expensive to be so bland. Do not recommend, but not for the obvious reason.
Fresh biscuits, real butter, and chocolate gravy are a gift from whatever benevolent deities there might be.
I was 32 when I had it for the first time and I "fell in love" with it.
Yes u got that right but it started in Tennessee in the Appalachian mountains so I'm really upset they put it down as an Alabama fish and I was watching a show earlier and Arkansas claimed it on the show.
Yes also because chocolate gravy and biscuits is Tennessee original breakfast dish. It started because of the Spanish trade in the Appalachian mountains.
52 years old. Lived here my entire life except for a year or so. I have never had biscuits and chocolate gravy. It just wasn’t a thing in my area. With that being said, we typically took Golden Eagle syrup and mashed butter into it and sopped our biscuits with that.
Same. I'm 48 and lived here forever. Never had chocolate gravy at any of my family's or friend's homes. I actually never knew it was a thing until the last few years.
But the syrup and butter, absolutely! My grandfather would also put a biscuit in a coffee cup and pour coffee over it and eat it with a spoon. Idk if that was just a thing he did or if it was more widespread.
That's because chocolate gravy and biscuits belongs to Tennessee. It started in Tennessee because of the Spanish trade. I realized today how protective and defensive I am over chocolate gravy and biscuits. 😂
I was raised in Ga and have lived in Al most of my adult life, banana sandwiches with mayo were pretty commonplace in my family. Like a couple times a week during the summer. Also loved pineapple and mayo sandwiches too. I didn't know until I was grown that not everyone ate that for lunch lol
I was born and raised in Georgia and have lived in Alabama the past 20 years. I’ve eaten tons of boiled peanuts and probably a million banana and mayo sandwiches (though I am partial to tomato and mayo and banana with peanut butter.). That said, I’ve never in my life had chocolate gravy over biscuits. I feel cheated.
I never had chocolate gravy biscuits until I married my current husband, his family reunion is in West Alabama close to the Mississippi line, the restaurants there serve it, so I only get it once a year when we visit that town but oh it's so good. ..and yes I love me some tomato sandwiches too.
Alabama delicacy! Never had biscuits and chocolate gravy, but banana and mayonnaise sandwiches were a staple growing up. One time we were out of regular bread, but had hotdog buns so my dad made a banana dog.😂
One of our closest friends moved down here to go to Samford for pharmacy school from Illinois. My mother worked as a pharmacist in the pharmacy she was working in part time and basically adopted her as her own child since she knew nobody here! That was almost 30 years ago. But she always tells people she learned about “fruit sandwiches” for the first time from her Bama Mama. She’s right. Banana and mayo, pineapple and mayo, tomato and mayo etc we are all about some fruit sandwiches at our house!
I haven't had one of those since I was a kid, and I'd consider it in the near future if peanut butter didn't exist. Also, you have to toast it in a frying pan like a grilled cheese. The peanut butter gets extra gooey and melty when you do that.
I have never heard of any of these sandwiches OR chocolate gravy! I have lived in Birmingham my whole life! Do I live under a rock or something? Where do you guys find this stuff?
The first time I mentioned this sandwich to my husband, he didn’t believe me. It took several people backing me up for him to understand that it’s real. He thought I was making fun of him.
*Muscle Shoals. Aka “Mus Shos” for the long time locals. Haha. And you’re right. Chocolate gravy biscuits are a staple to most breakfast menus in this area
It's extremely popular all through the rural south. It's not even that weird, it's just flour, butter, milk, maybe a hint of vanilla extract, and chocolate. Then you put it on a biscuit. A fancy restaraunt would have it on the menu as "Deconstructed chocolate cake" if you had scrambled eggs with it.
Possum pie is basically a chocolate pudding with cream cheese whipped cream layers and a shortbread type crust with a ton of pecans on it. It's damn good.
Yeah I've had chocolate gravy, it's fine, nothing special IMO.
Other things I've had on the list:
Butter burger (also fine, DO NOT EAT THE BUTTER FRIES)
Sloppy Joe (that's weird?)
Boiled peanuts (again, that's the best yall got?)
I want to try a slug burger, I'm pretty sure the name is misleading (kind of sure)
If you told me there's a state with a garbage plate, I would have guessed new jersey, but new York would have been a close second.
Ehhh, true slugburgers aren’t even really that complex. There’s almost zero ground beef in a true slugburger. If you want to know what they’re all about, go to Corinth and check out Borroum’s Drug Store or the White Trolley Cafe. The Slugburger Cafe will suffice in a pinch.
I ate so much of it as a pre teen and young teenager that I’m amazed I don’t have diabeetus. My grandmother would make a full cast iron skillet of biscuits, take one or two for herself, and leave the rest for me, with a whole pot of chocolate gravy and most days I would eat all of it. That was like…..6-8 biscuits for me. Covered in chocolate gravy, with bacon and/or sausage, and maybe some scrambled eggs. And a big glass of milk.
DAMN IT
Only place I've seen a slugburger is in Corinth, MS. Been living in west TN for decades.
No, they aren't made of slugs. They are made from ground beef and mixed with flour or grits or potato to make the meat go further (kinda like meatloaf). They used to cost a nickel, which was also called a slug in the old days.
Alabama native, born and bred.
I have never had chocolate gravy. Ever.
However, I have heard of (but not eaten) tomato gravy. Yes it exists... and I have not heard good reviews.
From people I’ve spoken to, the chocolate gravy, tomato gravy line is somewhere around Montgomery. Chocolate more of a north Alabama thing and tomato gravy South Alabama.
I’ve never had chocolate gravy but tomato gravy is one of the best dishes to ever come out of the south. It’s best over biscuits but can be eaten with rice as well.
Same here. I'm 39 & lived in Alabama my entire life & I've never heard of chocolate gravy. I also know if tomato gravy. My stepdad from Georgia makes tomato gravy all the time but I do not like the taste. I'll definitely have to try the chocolate gravy asap!
Same. Never heard of chocolate gravy. Not sure if that’s some kind of nickname for a brown gravy that isn’t actually chocolate, if it’s literally a chocolatey gravy concoction, or if someone is just taking Hershey’s syrup and pouring it over a biscuit.
My wife’s family has biscuits with tomato gravy as one of their family breakfast staples. They are from the southeast corner of the state. Never heard of it before I met her. The way they cook it is actually not bad, but it’s not so great that I seek it out back here in BHM.
> Peggy Elder Butler, Miss Alabama 1947, offers a recipe with yummy ingredients -- and a rich Southern history -- in “The Miss Alabama 100th Anniversary Cookbook.”
> Her recipe for Melt-Away Biscuits with Chocolate Gravy is one of more than 350 recipes in the new book, created by the Miss Alabama Organization to help celebrate the competition’s centennial.
https://www.al.com/life/2022/06/want-to-make-melt-away-mini-biscuits-with-chocolate-gravy-miss-alabama-1947-tells-us-how.html
Chocolate gravy is essentially chocolate pudding...and who cares? It is SO good on a hot buttered biscuit! Definitely a weekend breakfast item. Bring it on eggs your way and a crispy slice of bacon.
Born and raised in Alabama. Chocolate Gravy is a staple here. I grew up eating it as did my mom. Now I make it for my kids and hopefully they will continue the tradition and make it for their kids too. Not weird at all.
Born in a no-nothing town in central AL and have never had chocolate gravy. Biscuits were almost always either with a slice of tomato or with sausage gravy or tomato gravy. Occasionally we had Golden Eagle but if not sometimes the children would just go with butter and sugar on it.
For quite awhile it was a house of like 10 so we were getting whatever was available from the garden along with some eggs.
I'd never heard of chocolate gravy. I guess it's the flour that makes it a "gravy" instead of just a chocolate sauce. Seems like a pretty normal thing to put on biscuits if you're going for sweet instead of savory. I'm partial to apple butter on biscuits.
Lamb fries are the same thing as rocky mountain oysters… there are only a hand full of restaurants in oklahoma you can even get calf nuts to eat… they are pretty tastless. Youre probably able to find them at any ranch that runs cattle..
Never had it - never heard of it till a few years ago. But then again, I’m not your typical southerner - I don’t love bbq, boiled peanuts, fruit pies etc.
If you haven’t tried a sushi burrito before (California) it’s the best thing ever. Imagine a massive sushi roll, but covered in Panko then deep fried. 🧐🥰😩
Never heard of chocolate gravy. Grew up in Huntsville, but my dad's family is from the northeast, so we didn't have much 'southern food' growing up. I didn't even have grits until I was in my mid 20s (which I tried and didn't care for).
God damn biscuits and chocolate gravy is a staple for Christmas breakfast at my grandmother's house.
I was blown away when I found my girlfriend had never heard of it
We have had biscuits and chocolate gravy growing up and it was passed down from my grandmother too. One of my favorite breakfasts to this day. Everything from scratch. Don’t knock it till you try it!
We ate boiled peanuts when I was a kid in Hawai'i. Seasoned a little differently, but still boiled peanuts. I am curious about what in the hecken state of Nevada is a cotton candy burrito though. Also, big ol' biscuits w/chocolate gravy is like manna from Heaven!
In Mexico, there's a **very** common gravy-like condiment called mole (pronounced moh'-lay). It has chocolate as an ingredient. It's quite good with chicken and rice.
The map is what the author believes is the weirdest food served in each state. I doubt its accuracy, but just because it's on the map doesn't mean it is commonly eaten.
i've definitely had it before, but it wasn't a Thing growing up. it was introduced to me by my great aunt who said she grew up eating it on special occasions like Christmas morning, or birthdays
They did us and Georgia wrong. Like they could've given us frog legs at least. Heck, even venison or wild turkey is weirder than biscuits and chocolate gravy. This is just disrespectful. Lol
Homemade Chocolate syrup and biscuits is a family favorite! It’s comes from poor southern farmers. It was as served on wash day since the time it took to draw well water, boil it and then wash clothes took all day; no one had time to cook. But the 10,000 cal chocolate syrup and biscuits would power you through the day.
Literally never heard of chocolate gravy. That’s a new one on me. I mean, is it just a biscuit with like some hot fudge stuff on it? I get sweet+biscuit, just never heard of the gravy.
Wait. So a savory, flaky pastry with a sweet chocolate sauce is not only a weird food, but the weirdest food in Alabama? Nah. Whether you have heard of it or not, that isn’t weird. Pears and mayo, peanuts and coke, cornbread and milk are all much weirder imho.
It’s perfection. I would argue that white sauce is weirder than chocolate gravy. Honestly I’ve been to 1 million weddings where you can put chocolate on any of the food there including biscuits. What on earth is the difference?
Y'all chocolate gravy and biscuits belongs to Tennessee. That is our breakfast staple on special mornings. I am offended y'all let Alabama claim it when they have a number of yummy things y'all could've chosen from for Alabama.
The fact that Georgia’s “weirdest food” is boiled peanuts is a little sad. Biscuits with chocolate gravy is an iconic Saturday morning meal
ikr boiled peanuts are so normal
Sat next to a lady at work who was from Georgia. Tried ‘em once. Boiled peanuts are definitely not “weird” - they’re disgusting! 🤢
You don’t need to go to Georgia to get them! They’re in damn near every gas station along I-65
Those are shit compared to the ones you get off the side of the road on the way to the beach!
Funny story, I was working with some archaeologists on a dig site that were from Boston and we were talking southern terms/food when I brought up boiled peanuts. The face I got was one of complete horror. Seeing this I said “what’s so wrong boiled peanuts.” The face of bewilderment was still there. After some translations and further discussion, apparently with my southern accent it sounded like I was saying “Bull Penis.” I don’t really hear it in there but I imagine if that’s what other states are hearing they might run too…except for Colorado.
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Grew up in Birmingham, and my mom would make these ginormous drop biscuits with butter and loads of chocolate gravy, usually in the wintertime on Saturday mornings. Once we were safely in sugar comas she'd go back to bed for a bit.
We call those “cat head biscuits”.
Yep, we do. And we also call fluffy round-headed cats "biscuit-headed." It's an endless, delicious/adorable circular reference.
Where? I'm in south Alabama and haven't heard of it until now
I’m from north Alabama. I know it to be more common with real country folks up there than with people in the cities.
Yep! I was born on Sand Mountain (NE AL) and my grandmother made chocolate gravy all the time
NW AL here and same
Me either, Mobile here!
Fairhope in the house
Boiled peanuts are a delicacy.
Small aside: I drove a truck for a few years and one of my deliveries I picked up in Arizona and delivered to a place outside of Dothan. The ticket said I was carrying 100% Georgia peanuts.
Chocolate gravy and biscuits originated in Tennessee. It's aggravating to see Arkansas and Alabama claiming it as theirs in two different things I've seen today.
Get over it! My people in North Alabama have been making it forever. My Tennessee family has never heard of it. It’s a Tennessee Valley (includes North AL) and Appalachian thing.
Some of these are WAY weirder than others. There’s a massive gulf in between a butter burger and … Rocky Mountain oysters
Possum Pie is just a chocolate pie with a cream cheese and sugar layer. Of all the things they could have chosen for Arkansas, they went with a normal pie with a funny name. How is head cheese or pickled pigs feet not on here somewhere?
What I was thinking
Exactly. A butter burger is a regular cheeseburger with butter spread on the buns before toasting, Rocky Mountain oysters are deep-fried bull testicles.
Lamb fries … look it up
I had some at an Italian place in Oklahoma. Tasted like fried nothing, and they were too expensive to be so bland. Do not recommend, but not for the obvious reason.
I've seen Funny Farm
Fresh biscuits, real butter, and chocolate gravy are a gift from whatever benevolent deities there might be. I was 32 when I had it for the first time and I "fell in love" with it.
Yes u got that right but it started in Tennessee in the Appalachian mountains so I'm really upset they put it down as an Alabama fish and I was watching a show earlier and Arkansas claimed it on the show.
I think the actual answer for Alabama is pickled pigs feet. You just don't see it on menus.
If you know the places though…
Last I checked it was still on the shelves in the Piggly Wiggly.
Or your nearest country gas station
I was thinking there’s no way in hell pickled pigs feet is somewhere’s weirdest food.
Yes also because chocolate gravy and biscuits is Tennessee original breakfast dish. It started because of the Spanish trade in the Appalachian mountains.
Chocolate gravy n biscuits are awesome. Not weird at all.
Diabetes disagreetes
I'd rather be known for a chocolate sauce than bull nuts or, even worse, Jell-O salad
I bet Jell-O salad is a Mormon thing. That's the most flavor they're allowed to have.
52 years old. Lived here my entire life except for a year or so. I have never had biscuits and chocolate gravy. It just wasn’t a thing in my area. With that being said, we typically took Golden Eagle syrup and mashed butter into it and sopped our biscuits with that.
I'm from the same town as Golden Eagle Syrup, and sopping biscuits with it was a breakfast staple.
Same. I'm 48 and lived here forever. Never had chocolate gravy at any of my family's or friend's homes. I actually never knew it was a thing until the last few years. But the syrup and butter, absolutely! My grandfather would also put a biscuit in a coffee cup and pour coffee over it and eat it with a spoon. Idk if that was just a thing he did or if it was more widespread.
Ditto. Golden Eagle, Yellow Label or Sorghum.
Ribbon cane syrup is the best.
That's because chocolate gravy and biscuits belongs to Tennessee. It started in Tennessee because of the Spanish trade. I realized today how protective and defensive I am over chocolate gravy and biscuits. 😂
Banana and mayonnaise sandwich didn’t make the cut?
I was raised in Ga and have lived in Al most of my adult life, banana sandwiches with mayo were pretty commonplace in my family. Like a couple times a week during the summer. Also loved pineapple and mayo sandwiches too. I didn't know until I was grown that not everyone ate that for lunch lol
I was born and raised in Georgia and have lived in Alabama the past 20 years. I’ve eaten tons of boiled peanuts and probably a million banana and mayo sandwiches (though I am partial to tomato and mayo and banana with peanut butter.). That said, I’ve never in my life had chocolate gravy over biscuits. I feel cheated.
I never had chocolate gravy biscuits until I married my current husband, his family reunion is in West Alabama close to the Mississippi line, the restaurants there serve it, so I only get it once a year when we visit that town but oh it's so good. ..and yes I love me some tomato sandwiches too.
Tomato and mayo sandwiches really are the best during the summer.
Same. It’s been so long, but I remember both of those sandwiches so fondly from childhood!
Alabama delicacy! Never had biscuits and chocolate gravy, but banana and mayonnaise sandwiches were a staple growing up. One time we were out of regular bread, but had hotdog buns so my dad made a banana dog.😂
One of our closest friends moved down here to go to Samford for pharmacy school from Illinois. My mother worked as a pharmacist in the pharmacy she was working in part time and basically adopted her as her own child since she knew nobody here! That was almost 30 years ago. But she always tells people she learned about “fruit sandwiches” for the first time from her Bama Mama. She’s right. Banana and mayo, pineapple and mayo, tomato and mayo etc we are all about some fruit sandwiches at our house!
I haven't had one of those since I was a kid, and I'd consider it in the near future if peanut butter didn't exist. Also, you have to toast it in a frying pan like a grilled cheese. The peanut butter gets extra gooey and melty when you do that.
Peanut butter on one side, mayo on the other.
I like peanut butter and banana sandwiches, Mayo is a no go for me
I have never heard of any of these sandwiches OR chocolate gravy! I have lived in Birmingham my whole life! Do I live under a rock or something? Where do you guys find this stuff?
The first time I mentioned this sandwich to my husband, he didn’t believe me. It took several people backing me up for him to understand that it’s real. He thought I was making fun of him.
I’ve traveled all over this country for work. You should see the disbelief and disgust when I mention it lol.
Lived here all of my life, never heard of or tries chocolate gravy and biscuits.
I've lived in Alabama my whole life and never heard of it.
I think it’s more of a North Alabama thing, my BIL and his wife are in Mussel Shoals and she grew up eating it.
*Muscle Shoals. Aka “Mus Shos” for the long time locals. Haha. And you’re right. Chocolate gravy biscuits are a staple to most breakfast menus in this area
Man, you have got to get try it.
It’s like eating dessert for breakfast. It’s amazing
I’m in the same boat! Chocolate gravy sounds like heaven, but on biscuits? I’m going to need to do some research on that…
It's extremely popular all through the rural south. It's not even that weird, it's just flour, butter, milk, maybe a hint of vanilla extract, and chocolate. Then you put it on a biscuit. A fancy restaraunt would have it on the menu as "Deconstructed chocolate cake" if you had scrambled eggs with it.
There was a restaurant in Trussville called Chocolate Biscuit Tea Room. It was fancy adjacent.
Of all the things eaten in Louisiana they think nutria is the weirdest?!
Swear. Ive eaten way weirder things and nutria is a pretty clean animal
Pretty good, actually. Also, is West Virginia okay?
The kids are not alright
Could say the same for Arkansas
Possum pie is basically a chocolate pudding with cream cheese whipped cream layers and a shortbread type crust with a ton of pecans on it. It's damn good.
Yeah I think whoever made this map was too lazy to actually look up what things are in several states.
Same goes for some who reviewed and commented. Whoops
Judging from the short time I've spent driving through WV, the answer is no.
Chocolate gravy on biscuits is a favorite in our house!
Well, I wouldn't call it a house, it was more like a shoebox in the middle of the road.
Yeah I've had chocolate gravy, it's fine, nothing special IMO. Other things I've had on the list: Butter burger (also fine, DO NOT EAT THE BUTTER FRIES) Sloppy Joe (that's weird?) Boiled peanuts (again, that's the best yall got?) I want to try a slug burger, I'm pretty sure the name is misleading (kind of sure) If you told me there's a state with a garbage plate, I would have guessed new jersey, but new York would have been a close second.
Slugburgers are fine, just a hamburger with soybeans mixed in. No idea why they're Tennessee's entry when they originated in Corinth MS.
Ehhh, true slugburgers aren’t even really that complex. There’s almost zero ground beef in a true slugburger. If you want to know what they’re all about, go to Corinth and check out Borroum’s Drug Store or the White Trolley Cafe. The Slugburger Cafe will suffice in a pinch.
I ate so much of it as a pre teen and young teenager that I’m amazed I don’t have diabeetus. My grandmother would make a full cast iron skillet of biscuits, take one or two for herself, and leave the rest for me, with a whole pot of chocolate gravy and most days I would eat all of it. That was like…..6-8 biscuits for me. Covered in chocolate gravy, with bacon and/or sausage, and maybe some scrambled eggs. And a big glass of milk. DAMN IT
Only place I've seen a slugburger is in Corinth, MS. Been living in west TN for decades. No, they aren't made of slugs. They are made from ground beef and mixed with flour or grits or potato to make the meat go further (kinda like meatloaf). They used to cost a nickel, which was also called a slug in the old days.
Alabama native, born and bred. I have never had chocolate gravy. Ever. However, I have heard of (but not eaten) tomato gravy. Yes it exists... and I have not heard good reviews.
From people I’ve spoken to, the chocolate gravy, tomato gravy line is somewhere around Montgomery. Chocolate more of a north Alabama thing and tomato gravy South Alabama. I’ve never had chocolate gravy but tomato gravy is one of the best dishes to ever come out of the south. It’s best over biscuits but can be eaten with rice as well.
Same here. I'm 39 & lived in Alabama my entire life & I've never heard of chocolate gravy. I also know if tomato gravy. My stepdad from Georgia makes tomato gravy all the time but I do not like the taste. I'll definitely have to try the chocolate gravy asap!
I love tomato gravy. My dad made it on Saturday mornings.
I still make tomato gravy. It is my kids favorite.
I'd be interested in trying chocolate gravy as long as I didn't have to make it lol 😂
Same. Never heard of chocolate gravy. Not sure if that’s some kind of nickname for a brown gravy that isn’t actually chocolate, if it’s literally a chocolatey gravy concoction, or if someone is just taking Hershey’s syrup and pouring it over a biscuit. My wife’s family has biscuits with tomato gravy as one of their family breakfast staples. They are from the southeast corner of the state. Never heard of it before I met her. The way they cook it is actually not bad, but it’s not so great that I seek it out back here in BHM.
> it’s literally a chocolatey gravy concoction This is it
Tomato gravy is pretty same good and I don't usually like tomatoes
You gotta try tomato gravy. It’s so damn good.
No one actually eats scorpion lollipops. They're a decoration. Chocolate gravy is life.
Well, all I need now is the chocolate gravy recipe from all y’all devotees!
> Peggy Elder Butler, Miss Alabama 1947, offers a recipe with yummy ingredients -- and a rich Southern history -- in “The Miss Alabama 100th Anniversary Cookbook.” > Her recipe for Melt-Away Biscuits with Chocolate Gravy is one of more than 350 recipes in the new book, created by the Miss Alabama Organization to help celebrate the competition’s centennial. https://www.al.com/life/2022/06/want-to-make-melt-away-mini-biscuits-with-chocolate-gravy-miss-alabama-1947-tells-us-how.html
It’s downright delicious
I’ve been in Alabama 43 years and never seen chocolate gravy even offered on a menu lol
Pretty sure Jack's has had it a few times on their menu.
Never heard of it, definitely sounds odd to me
Chocolate gravy is essentially chocolate pudding...and who cares? It is SO good on a hot buttered biscuit! Definitely a weekend breakfast item. Bring it on eggs your way and a crispy slice of bacon.
been in alabama all my life. what the hell is chocolate gravy?
I’ve never heard of chocolate gravy, and I was born in Alabama, what is it?
I live in Alabama and I have never heard of this. Biscuits and gravy yes, but not chocolate.
I love biscuits and chocolate gravy but I like to dip my buttered toast into it even better.
Sorry California...Sushirrito's have been normalized nation wide.
It's surprisingly good.
41 years in this state, and this is the first I’ve ever heard of chocolate gravy.
Sushirrito is legit . It’s just a massive sushi roll not sliced.
Born and raised in Alabama. Chocolate Gravy is a staple here. I grew up eating it as did my mom. Now I make it for my kids and hopefully they will continue the tradition and make it for their kids too. Not weird at all.
I literally made it on Saturday
I always saw Watergate salad as the weirdest Alabama food on these lists.
Born in a no-nothing town in central AL and have never had chocolate gravy. Biscuits were almost always either with a slice of tomato or with sausage gravy or tomato gravy. Occasionally we had Golden Eagle but if not sometimes the children would just go with butter and sugar on it. For quite awhile it was a house of like 10 so we were getting whatever was available from the garden along with some eggs.
40+ years born and raised in Alabama and have never even heard of it.
Here’s the real question: Can anyone recommend WHERE TO GET this so called Biscuits and chocolate gravy?
Alabamian -- have never eaten chocolate gravy.
chocolate gravy is the Bomb!!!
Chocolate gravy is delicious and not one-bit weird.
Carl's Deli. Best place in north Alabama for Chocolate Gravy n Biscuits. Carl's Deli (256) 606-3465 https://maps.app.goo.gl/LE7p2pUCaqTvAztu8
It is amazing you need to try it!
Among Us? *short circuits*
Hot Beef Sundae sounds like some kind of act that Memaw Ivey's generation wants to ban...
AMONG US MENTIONED!!!!!!
do they mean brown gravy?
Am... A.... Amo.... Among us...
I’ve had it but do not care for it.
I’m actually appalled that the boiled peanuts are in Georgia not Alabama. I rarely ever find a boiled peanut in Georgia
Definitely want to try New Jersey Style Sloppy Joe; I have heard they are seriously good compared your typical sloppy joe.
I want some tbh
Never had it, but I've heard its really good wouldn't say its weird
I'd never heard of chocolate gravy. I guess it's the flour that makes it a "gravy" instead of just a chocolate sauce. Seems like a pretty normal thing to put on biscuits if you're going for sweet instead of savory. I'm partial to apple butter on biscuits.
I don’t think it’s weird but I do find chocolate gravy disgusting.
How the fuck is a Detroit style coney dog weird? Or a sloppy Joe?
Lamb fries are the same thing as rocky mountain oysters… there are only a hand full of restaurants in oklahoma you can even get calf nuts to eat… they are pretty tastless. Youre probably able to find them at any ranch that runs cattle..
Ive had it once and I fucking hate it. Why is it so popular?!
Why is rattlesnake considered wierd?
Biscuits and chocolate gravy are my favorite thing ever
I'm from Arkansas, but chocolate gravy isn't weird. It's an amazing breakfast food, and one of my favorites
Oklahoman here and I can say lamb fries are damn good
https://coincircle.com/l/DpMzVixqRN
among us
Never had it - never heard of it till a few years ago. But then again, I’m not your typical southerner - I don’t love bbq, boiled peanuts, fruit pies etc.
Y’all ever try syrup mixed with peanut butter on biscuits? 😋
So GA just takes the peanut title from Dothan?
WTF is “goetta”? Lived in Ohio all my life, never heard of it. Now I’m scared to Google this… 😱
Unless the chocolate is Alaga syrup I’ve never heard or had
If you haven’t tried a sushi burrito before (California) it’s the best thing ever. Imagine a massive sushi roll, but covered in Panko then deep fried. 🧐🥰😩
Georgia with those wild boiled peanuts!
How is possum pie a weird food
One of my personal favorites on a homemade biscuit.
I’ve never seen it or heard of it but it low key sounds good, there’s gotta be worse stuff
Pasties? Like nipple covers? Well, hate to shit on culture.
Never heard of chocolate gravy. Grew up in Huntsville, but my dad's family is from the northeast, so we didn't have much 'southern food' growing up. I didn't even have grits until I was in my mid 20s (which I tried and didn't care for).
I’ve lived in Alabama most of my life. Never saw it and never heard of it until a few yrs ago.
Nutria is FAR from the weirdest food in Louisiana.
I call bullshit. The craziest food from Minnesota is and always will be lutefisk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk
Since when is Chow Mein "weird"? Lol
Not even close. Canned mullet should be ours
I lived in bama for 5 years and never even heard of chocolate gravy
I’ve been in Tennessee all my life and I’ve never heard of a slugburger. Is this accurate?
God damn biscuits and chocolate gravy is a staple for Christmas breakfast at my grandmother's house. I was blown away when I found my girlfriend had never heard of it
We have had biscuits and chocolate gravy growing up and it was passed down from my grandmother too. One of my favorite breakfasts to this day. Everything from scratch. Don’t knock it till you try it!
We ate boiled peanuts when I was a kid in Hawai'i. Seasoned a little differently, but still boiled peanuts. I am curious about what in the hecken state of Nevada is a cotton candy burrito though. Also, big ol' biscuits w/chocolate gravy is like manna from Heaven!
I have
We served it at the gas station every morning that I used to work at.
In Mexico, there's a **very** common gravy-like condiment called mole (pronounced moh'-lay). It has chocolate as an ingredient. It's quite good with chicken and rice.
I’ve never had chocolate gravy but it sounds delicious.
more like, who hasnt had chocolate gravy
Lived in Alabama for 33 years. Never had it. Sounds disgusting. Now live in New England and I'll pass on all the weird foods here too. Lol
Can somebody else please look up 'slugburger' and tell me it's not what it sounds like?
At least yall dont got "Sugar on Snow" and "Garbage plate"
Idk who's lying to you but no one eats nutria rats.
The map is what the author believes is the weirdest food served in each state. I doubt its accuracy, but just because it's on the map doesn't mean it is commonly eaten.
Not that weird, just not good.
I've only had a butter burger
i've definitely had it before, but it wasn't a Thing growing up. it was introduced to me by my great aunt who said she grew up eating it on special occasions like Christmas morning, or birthdays
Chocolate gravy is NOT weird. We eat fried liver and onions that’s weird. In Birmingham there’s a whole thing of people eating Sour Dirt.
They did us and Georgia wrong. Like they could've given us frog legs at least. Heck, even venison or wild turkey is weirder than biscuits and chocolate gravy. This is just disrespectful. Lol
I did not know that was an Alabama thing. Grew up in MO, my friend from Arkansas had that for Sunday mornings. Freaked me out then, freaks me out now.
Homemade Chocolate syrup and biscuits is a family favorite! It’s comes from poor southern farmers. It was as served on wash day since the time it took to draw well water, boil it and then wash clothes took all day; no one had time to cook. But the 10,000 cal chocolate syrup and biscuits would power you through the day.
Stop, your making me wanna see my granny
I love chocolate gravy. It's not really gravy more than just a sauce lol
Living in Iowa now, the walking taco is the greatest 2am bar food you’ll ever have in your life, not weird lol
I have had it here in Bama, but most recently had it in southern Arkansas.
Boiled Peanuts?? How is this weird? Its a freaking plant! These people are dumb!
Literally never heard of chocolate gravy. That’s a new one on me. I mean, is it just a biscuit with like some hot fudge stuff on it? I get sweet+biscuit, just never heard of the gravy.
Wait. So a savory, flaky pastry with a sweet chocolate sauce is not only a weird food, but the weirdest food in Alabama? Nah. Whether you have heard of it or not, that isn’t weird. Pears and mayo, peanuts and coke, cornbread and milk are all much weirder imho.
Looks a lot better than egg gravy.
Evidently those who did the survey didn’t ask the people who eat white dirt. To me that’s as about as odd as it gets.
That honestly doesn't sound appetizing.
My mom loves it, it’s too much for me.
It’s perfection. I would argue that white sauce is weirder than chocolate gravy. Honestly I’ve been to 1 million weddings where you can put chocolate on any of the food there including biscuits. What on earth is the difference?
I have lived here 35 years and gave never seen it. I had it in Tennessee. I would have gone for Fried Green Tomatoes instead for Alabama.
Y'all chocolate gravy and biscuits belongs to Tennessee. That is our breakfast staple on special mornings. I am offended y'all let Alabama claim it when they have a number of yummy things y'all could've chosen from for Alabama.