What food do you miss from the place you used to live?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

I'm in California, and I love it here, wouldn't trade it for anything. But I used to live in Louisville, KY. A transplant from New Orleans moved to Louisville and opened a Cajun restaurant. They served a dish called Drunken Chicken--chicken cooked in a beer-based broth with lots of spices and served over rice. I loved that stuff. I sometimes really wish I could get an order of Drunken Chicken here. Now is one of those times.

Are there foods you love, but cannot get where you live now?

[liberal N proud]

1. Pork burgers and Twin Bing candybars.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

2. I haven't heard of Twin Bings

...but it looks like you can order them online.

[liberal N proud]

5. Local candy in NW Iowa.

Best when fresh.

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. Philadelphia -- great cheesesteaks, hoagies and calzones.

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until the last 10 years or so that PRETTY good places opened up.
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Chariot Pizza makes GREAT calzones, but their delivery area stops about a block or two
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[DisgustipatedinCA]

7. The calzones sound really good...too bad about the delivery

Indica before dinner seems to have a noticeable effect on my post selection and content.

[OriginalGeek]

23. I know this is probably a pale imitation

but last Friday I had a cheesesteak from a lunch truck called Philly Cheesesteaks owned and operated by "A Guy who is really from Philly!" and I can honestly say it was without question the best cheesesteak I have ever had.

It was so much better than the local imitations that I now vow to go to Philadelphia and get one just so I can come back and find this truck and tell that guy "You done good, man."

In the meantime I hope that truck comes back to my workplace. Cause now I have a hankering and Subway just isn't even close.

[NYC_SKP]

4. Quality NYC street pizza, calzone, slouvaki, knishes, Katz's pastrami sandwich.

Now I'm hungry.

[alarimer]

6. Breakfast taco and BBQ

I'm sorry, NC, but pork is not barbeque. Barbeque is beef.

And I really, really miss taquitos in the mornings. Also kolaches, come to think of it.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

8. You'll start a religious war with this beef-only barbecue talk

I like pork & beef barbecue, but I'm no barbecue expert.

And kolaches! I had completely forgotten about kolaches. Great-tasting, if not completely healthy.

[OriginalGeek]

24. Good BBQ beef brisket is why we evolved mouths.

I miss that about Texas.


I'll eat the pulled pork they have here but that's only because I have no choice.


Also I miss Breakfast Jacks and Super Tacos from Jack in the Box. (My high school bus stop was in front of a JitB and I had that for breakfast for years).

[Tommy_Carcetti]

83. Oh, pork is most definitely barbeque.

And I'm not even from the Carolinas and I still recognize that fact.

[RebelOne]

9. Cuban food when I lived in Miami.

I live in the Atlanta, GA, area now and there are no Cuban restaurants near where I live.

[kwassa]

18. Cuban food when I lived in Los Angeles.

including the restaurant Versailles, named after a famous Miami restaurant named after a famous French palace.

[RebelOne]

60. Yup, I ate at the Versailles in Miami on Calle Ocho.

It was considered the gourmet restaurant for Cuban food.

[kwassa]

72. I miss the Versailles in Los Angeles

Their marinated roast pork was amazing, with black beans, rice and plantains. Many excellent dishes.

[Jamaal510]

10. Hostess Twinkies, Orange Cupcakes, Tiger Tails,

and strawberry Honeycomb cereal.

[AsahinaKimi]

11. WISE

When I visited NY, i tried those greasy yummy tasting Wise Potato chips. Can't get them here in Cali.



Also


These were good too.


Oh..and I miss

Too from Southern Cal.

[Nikia]

12. "Creamsticks" from a local bakery in Ohio

I had a cream filled long john from Kwik Trip and thought that it wasn't even close to what I had been used to.

[AtomicKitten]

13. Greek food from a now closed restaurant

in SoCal, Pasadena specifically, in the early 1970s. It was Kabakian's and it was on Colorado Blvd. It was a funky place run by elderly brothers, all graduates of Le Cordon Bleu, that shuffled around in brocade slippers. They had lamb kebabs to die for with names like the Queen Shahrazad Kebab. Their food was far and away the best I've ever eaten. Service was slow as molasses but well worth the wait.

[kwassa]

19. KABAKIANS! THE IMMORTAL KABAKIANS!

They weren't Greek, they were Armenians who had lived in Lebanon, and had Armenian, Lebanese, and French influences, as Lebanon had been a former French colony.

Queen Xenobia's Fingers was a dish I used to order.

Extreme eccentricity. Upholstered tables. All who worked there were part of a large family group.

The waiter had to be 80, had a bit of the shakes, and would flirt outrageously with young female customers. It was quite unnerving when he was serving wine or coffee onto the upholstered table surface.

The maitre de had a waxed mustache and waxed eyebrows.

Did you ever go to Burger Continental? Not far away, on Lake. It is actually a Middle-Eastern restaurant.

Kabakians was forced to move when urban renewal created a mall in downtown Pasadena, and they didn't survive at the new location, which as I recall was way out east on Colorado Avenue.

[AtomicKitten]

29. I still pine for Kabakian's.

Sad to hear of their demise. Their food was really magnificent if you didn't mind the wait. I recall driving home between the soup and salad course to put a note on the door for some guests coming from out of town, and I didn't miss a thing.

They had a tiny candy store adjacent/next door and made dark chocolate covered crystallized ginger. They would bribe the ladies to dance with them. In fact, they offered to comp their meal if they did. Dirty old men!

I recall a barbecue place up Lake Ave. toward Altadena and an Italian restaurant at the other end of Colorado Blvd; the rest is a blur.

A friend of mine who owns Del Mano Art Gallery on Lake bought property for another store on Colorado Blvd near Fair Oaks in the early 1980s. Old Town exploded years later making him the smartest guy on the planet.

[RILib]

61. Dirty old men

The best kind!

[nolabear]

14. Mud bugs and gulf shrimp and charbroiled oysters and po'boys and muffulettas and turtle soup and

Brennan's Eggs Sardou and Dooky Chase's whole damned buffet and grits done right and cathead biscuits and home grown tomatoes and...

[In_The_Wind]

15. Brunswick Stew

They don't make that in Upstate New York.

[arcane1]

53. Same here. Moved from VA to CA, and my mother sometimes ships some to me :)

[In_The_Wind]

54. I make my own in a crock pot but it's not the same.

Back in '09 I drove home from a job in Tennessee with a gallon of Brunswick Stew.
I bought out on I 40. It was great!

[Turbineguy]

16. Borstplaat

sugar, cream and chocolate.

[Kali]

17. DELIVERED

one of the few amenities of urban life I really miss.

[IrishEyes]

20. Proper deep dish pizza from Chicago

Gumbo from New Orleans.
Crab cakes from Baltimore
Clam chowder from Boston.

I just don't like new york pizza as much as chicago style. I miss eating a huge piece of Chicago style pizza. Each piece was a meal.

There used to be an empanada place that delivered where I used to live. It had everything you could think of in an empanada. My roommates and I would order a dozen different kinds of empanadas at a time. The place moved away.

[kwassa]

21. Chile verde burrito from Lucy's Drive-In, Los Angeles.

I have yet to find good chile verde on the East Coast. They make great fresh carrot juice, too, right before your eyes.

also the Thai food from Yai, which is up on Franklin east of Highland in a strip mall. For many years there was no English sign there. The dish I miss the most was a grilled shrimp salad cooked with chili, lemongrass, basil, onion, something else, and is out of this world.

[HipChick]

22. Fish and Chips

British style..the Irish pubs in the US don't quite cut it..

[onestepforward]

25. Wienerschnitzel!

That was my favorite fast food place decades ago.

[truegrit44]

27. +1 I think CA still has them but would kill

for a chili dog from there but 1200 miles is just too far to go for one

[MiddleFingerMom]

93. Tucson still has them, but how they survive is beyond me... there's several restaurants and SCORES..

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fresh onions, tomatoes, mayo, mustard and jalapeno sauce.
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Yes, that's MAYO!!! Strange, but in combination with everything else, it really works. And, I think for
visual purposes, that's more mayo than you'd normally find.
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[Populist_Prole]

26. Good sandwiches from mom & pop deli's. Mom & Pop deli's at all for that matter

The kind from a huge variety of freshly sliced cold cuts and fresh bread, made to order, wrapped in white wax paper. Here, it's all chain shit, though 'Jersey Mike's' and 'Lenny's' is a reasonably authentic wedge sandwhich.

Real pizza. It's better in the last 8-10 yeras in that I can get "real" pizza from several locations a reasonable distance from where I live, but shitty chain pizza dominates here.

[olddots]

28. Brighams in HaHvid Squay-ah

All the places called Town Pizza ----real diners with real food and real people

Devil Dogs ---everything ....

[AtomicKitten]

30. The Godmother sandwich from Bay Cities

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Deli and Bakery in Santa Monica. It was voted in the top 10 sandwiches in the US and THE best sandwich in LA: http://www.consumingla.com/2011/03/25/the-best-sandwich-in-all-of-la-the-godmother/

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

31. I lived in Nice, France for a year in 1999

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the last place I lived before my current residence in California. I miss the bread most of all. The artisan baker near my house had bread out of this world. Since quite a few ethnic Italians live in southeastern France, the thin crust wood fire pizza was pretty special, too. The couscous and mechoui (barbecued lamb) from North African restaurants was wonderful. I love the tabouli and shawarma the way Lebanese restaurants make it in France. And the Nice style fish soup with the rouille sauce and the Marseille bouillabaisse style fish soup are made with local Mediterranean fishes you can’t find in the new world. Whoever thought that something with the simple name of fish soup could be out-of-this-world good? I remember that comedian Jackie Gleason, who fancied himself a gourmet, used to have freshly made bouillabaisse flown in regularly from Marseille through the airlines back in the late 50s. The true cassoulet like you find in southwestern France is also extraordinary and hard to find here. Then there are fresh large Mediterranean sardines fried in olive oil and mint leaves that are wonderful, so crisp and tasty. And the pastries! The flan from France where flan originated served in a flaky crust is fantastic and so are the very delicate vanilla tartelets. And for some reason, the ice cream in France simply tastes much better than what you commonly get here. I don't know if it's the natural flavorings or the milk they use. Oh, and alouettes-sans-tetes and coquilles St. Jacques, blanquette de veau, and pepper steak served with the amazingly flavorful french fries as they make them in France. Oh and there’s French salami which is a meal in itself with a slice of country bread and one of the myriad of delicious cheeses you find in France but don’t travel well. And the many types country pâté, usually aged in a crock and soaked with a liqueur. And French style stuffed cabbage, oh my. I really could go on and on…

[kwassa]

74. I had a fish soup in southern France ...

in a border town between France and Spain, waiting to change trains. Local restaurant with the locals watching a soccer match. Best fish soup I ever had.

[peacefreak]

32. Shady Glen cheeseburgers.

from Manchester, Ct. The grill is so hot, the cheese fries. Yum.

[sharp_stick]

48. Next time I'm there I'll have one

and dedicate it to you. I've really grown to enjoy that place.

[datasuspect]

33. southeast texas

zummo "party time" sausage, boudin, and fresh red snapper from the gulf.

[MrScorpio]

34. Blue crab from the East Coast

And this really great Turkish joint in Arlington VA

[Mopar151]

35. The original Dunkin' Donut

No longer made - and their plain donut is no longer hand-cut, but made in a machine, and the dough has to be a different consistency to work in the machine.

Funny Bones and Devil's Food Twinkies

Bananna Choclate Chip muffins from Hannaford's

[NewJeffCT]

36. We moved to another part of CT

I miss the good schools and good kids of where we used to live.

[NewJeffCT]

39. Oops

I read that as what do you miss, not what food do you miss.

Easy - we miss Hibachi. Where we lived before, there were several good Japanese hibachi restaurants within a 5-10 minute drive of our home. Now, we have to drive 20-25 minutes to find one, and they're not as good as we had before.

[raccoon]

37. Grits.

Well, not really, because I still live in grits country. But I just wanted to say that.

I miss rhubarb--we don't have it round here, and I tried it in Canada some years ago.

[RILib]

62. I think rhubarb grows anywhere. Maybe not in the desert.

[CBGLuthier]

38. Richard's Steak Sandwiches

http://www.richardspizza.com/

It has been 42 years since I left Ohio and I have been back and had a few of them since but it has been a very long time.

[Trailrider1951]

40. I used to live in the suburbs on the west side of Houston, TX

There is a Chinese buffet restaurant in a strip mall near the intersection of Jones Road and 1960 that is family owned and serves food to die for! My bike club friends and I used to stop there after a long (20 or 30 miles) bike ride and devour all the different dishes available. Man, I really miss their lo mein, spicy fish and egg rolls. Now I live in rural central Texas, and the nearest Chinese place is in Taylor. The food is not nearly as good, and is more expensive.

[Aristus]

41. Not much. I love authentic southern cooking.

And even though I live in the Pacific Northwest, I can still get some pretty good stuff. T-Town has The Southern Kitchen, on the corner of 6th and Division. Their collard greens are to die for.

[Myrina]

42. Kroll's (East) Chili & a Chocolate Malt and Rocky Roccocco's pizza!!!

On, Wisconsin!!

[bamacrat]

43. Moved back to Bama from TX...miss the Mexican food.

I mean real Mexican food, not the sit down Taco Bells that the rest of the country has...

[Neoma]

44. Real biscuits...

[avebury]

45. Maine lobster and Blueberries!

Boiled, Lobster Newberg, Lobster Rolls, Lobster Stew, Lobster Casserole (You see a theme here? )

Gigantic Maine Blueberries

[DisgustipatedinCA]

65. I do see a theme...the Maine version of Forrest Gump's shrimp boat friend

I'm guessing lobster is one of those things that tastes a lot better when it's just been pulled from the ocean.

[Loryn]

46. My neighbor in Southern California.

OMG, the best tamales. That woman could cook, and she always made some for me, bless her heart.

[sinkingfeeling]

47. Sonoran Mexican food.

[femmocrat]

49. My mom's cooking.

She made all the traditional Eastern European dishes and they were divine. I can make some of them, but hardly ever do anymore since the kids are grown up. They weren't too crazy about them anyhow!

[LiberalEsto]

50. Hard rolls and real Italian bread in New Jersey

Nobody in Maryland seems to have the slightest idea how to bake a decent hard roll, or make Italian bread with a crisp crust. Maybe they do in Baltimore, but I live in MoCo, land of mushy bread.

We moved here in 1990 and I am still hoping against hope to discover a real hard roll one of these days.

[union_maid]

56. Hard rolls

It only came to my attention a few years ago that hard rolls were a regional thing. We were in Western Mass and it was morning and we stopped for coffee at a little convenience type store. I asked for a buttered roll. In downstate NY and I guess in NJ, too, that's almost one word and standard breakfast to go fare. The guy clearly had no idea what I was talking about.Not like he just didn't have any. Like he could not figure out what I was getting at. He did butter something, and technically, it was some kind of roll, but it wasn't a buttered roll in my world. I looked up hard rolls on the internet and learned for the first time that they're called New York hard rolls in some other places. Go know.

My question is, if they don't have hard rolls everywhere, what does the rest of the world use for breakfast sandwiches, like eggs and bacon or sausage with or without cheese. Wouldn't those be awfully messy on something else?

[LiberalEsto]

79. In the South, I believe they use biscuits

Maybe other places use English muffins or (ugh) just regular toasted white bread.

I never realized what great bread you can get in NJ and the NYC area until we moved to Maryland.

Pizza is not the same outside NY-NJ either, although there has been a little progress in Maryland inn the past few years.

[union_maid]

86. I know - about the pizza

You don't even have to go far before it starts getting a little weird. But to get back to the rolls - well, southern biscuits are awesome, but not as well suited to the job as a hard roll and the other choices are just sad.

[rrneck]

51. Country ham.

I asked for it at the local supermarket not long after I moved out here and they looked at me like I was from another planet.



I used to live in Memphis and I miss the BBQ there as well, although it can be had out here.

ETA

Bunny Bread iced coffee cake. Basically an oversized loaf of rasin bread with white frosting on top. Each slice was six or eight inches long and the bread was unusually heavy, gooey and full of cinnamon. A peanut butter sandwich made from that could keep you on your legs for hours. I used to eat them with green olives and ruby red grapefruit juice.

[kcass1954]

87. Country ham... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. And not that Smithfield shit from the

grocery store. A real country ham that you have to drive out to the country to buy.

And why the hell is there no fatback in Florida??

Every time I go to Virginia, I have to take an extra cooler to bring back those two things.

[Hula Popper]

52. Mostly I miss

having pizza from Connie's in Naperville, the wonderful dishes from the Crystal Room in Westmont, Ill and the sandwiches from Buona Beef. They're all Chicago area places that have been in business for many years. Missing from this list is Paresi's on 63rd in Chicago. Beef sandwiches from the 50's.

[hobbit709]

55. Viennese cooking.

[Xipe Totec]

57. Treebeard's Red Beans & Rice - Houston

[union_maid]

58. Egg creams

I haven't moved. Still in the New York metro area. But I sure miss the days when almost anyplace that would serve you a burger could make you a decent egg cream.

I also take a dim view of some changes to Italian food. Now when you order a baked entree - pasta or parmigiana, you are likely to get it served on a plate, and maybe with fresh mozzarella on top. Fresh mozzarella is great in its place, but it's place is not on my stuffed shells. When it was served in a baking dish, steaming hot, with the cheese on the top lightly browned - that was the way it should be.

[GoCubsGo]

59. Where do I start?

I'm from Chicago. I live in a Southern hell hole where shitty restaurant chains are the norm. I miss good Chicago-style hot dogs and those spicy, little tamales many hot dog stands in Chicago sell. I miss Polish food, especially kiszka and good pierogies. I miss good Italian food, although there are a couple of acceptable restaurants here. I also miss Italian beef and pepper sandwiches. I miss the good Thai, Chinese, Greek, Middle Eastern and other ethnic foods that one could find in the various neighborhoods throughout the city. We had an Indian restaurant here in town for a while. Surprisingly, it lasted a couple of years. All gone now.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

63. Great responses. I've gotten hungry about 4 times reading this thread

It makes me want to go on a food tour of the world. Thanks, everyone.

[Blue_In_AK]

64. I've lived here since 1975.

I don't even remember what I was eating before then.

[RushIsRot]

66. Sabrett hot dogs from a street vendor in NYC and chili dogs from

South Second Street Coney Island in Monroe, LA.

[BarbaRosa]

67. After moving back to NM from Sydney NSW,

I really miss fresh seafood, although all the great Mexican food takes much of the sting out of it.

[Generic Brad]

68. Hawaiian plate lunches

Kim chee, rice, macaroni salad, and a Chinese/Hawaiian/philipino entree. Best lunch wagons in da kine world.

[PRETZEL]

69. The fish sandwich

at Segneri's in Coraopolis.

That is always on the list when I get back home.

[mrmpa]

70. I will try that.............

I'm about half hour from Coraopolis.

[PRETZEL]

71. Should have mentioned

they only serve the fish on Friday.

Don't ask me why, that's the way they've always done it.

[mrmpa]

78. It'sthat "fish fry" thing goin on..........

remember that all churches and volunteer fire departments have fish frys on fridays durn lent.

[Wait Wut]

73. Portillo's

They have, however, opened one in Phx. Still too far, but at least I can get there a couple of times a year.

http://www.portillos.com/portillos/

[GoCubsGo]

98. Me, too.

There's a second one opening in Tempe soon. The closest one to me is in Indiana, and that's a good 16 hour drive.

[TrogL]

75. Broasted Chicken

There was a place in Niagara Falls Ontario that would advertise all over the radio something called Broasted Chicken. I had it once and it wasn't anything special, I could get better at Swiss Chalet with better sauce.

What was funny was the bi-weekly news article that they'd managed to give some tourist food poisoning. They never did get shut down as long as I was living there so maybe they cleaned up their act. In fact I just googled and they're still in business. (http://www.letsgoout.ca/details2_4pixexe.php?id=7238)

[dballance]

76. Southern Country Ham

The real country ham. The salty, cured in a smokehouse kind. You just can't find that on the West Coast.

[a la izquierda]

77. Mexican food...

I lived in western Mexico for awhile and the food is amazing...and not well-replicated.
I grew up in NJ and I miss pizza and bagels...but I'm home pretty often.

[El Supremo]

85. Tex Mex!

You know, enchiladas and tamales covered with chile con carne and tacos fried in the shell.

[a la izquierda]

94. Oh hell to tha no.

Good to see you, El. I haven't seen you around much.

[El Supremo]

95. Oh, I'm here.

Mostly still in the Sports group. You missed my comment about Bob Stoops and Jerry Jones and the National Championship game.

[a la izquierda]

96. Probably a good thing.

Now I have WVU to defend. I got a job there
Better in the big 12 than the Big 10.

[El Supremo]

99. Good!

[Baitball Blogger]

80. Corvina.

[kurtzapril4]

81. I used to live in Chicago

at Milwaukee and Division. I miss ethnic foods of all types. There are none around here, except bad chinese food.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

82. Crab feasts. Complete with newspaper covered picnic tables and mounds of Old Bay.

Okay, I guess it could be replicated most anywhere, but it just doesn't seem right outside of Maryland.

I also miss Ledo's Pizza for whatever reason.

[Granny M]

84. Freshly made tortillas. Authentic Mexican food.

Every time I go back to the States the first place I want to go is a good Mexican restaurant. And I bring corn tortillas home for the freezer. Gets us by for a month or so.

Oh, and dill pickles. The briny kind that we used to get in delis. Can't seem to find those here. There are some Polish ones that are a little closer than the sweet ones that are everywhere here. But just not close enough.

[progressivejazzredux]

88. Kolaches

They had great ones in Houston. Breakfast Kolaches--bacon, egg, and cheese. There's an outfit called the Kolache Factory, but no stores in Massachusetts, where I live now.

[Throd]

89. Pho

I used to live in Westminster, CA near Little Saigon.

[LadyHawkAZ]

90. Boston Pizza and the Alpine Village Inn in Vegas

The ham and cheese croissants at Donuts 2 Go in Bullhead City AZ. Mmmmmmmmm.....

Any of the local seafood places in San Luis Obispo County, CA. Also the late, lamented Burnardoz Ice Cream Parlors. And real SMS Barbecue.

[Moondog]

91. From Miami, Cuban food.

From Maryland, She Crab Soup and a couple of other blue crab recipes.

From New England, lobster (of course), Legal Seafoods' version of scrod, and, weirdly, fresh fiddleheads in season.

From Germany, most versions of schnitzel. Spaetzel. Wines from the Rhine and Mosel valleys.

From England, pub lunches (particularly a ploughman's lunch, with a pint or two of bitter), dry sherry, pickled onions and most of the curries from transplanted folks from India. Oh, and Scotch and Irish whiskies.

From Argentina, pampas grass fed beef.

From the Andes, believe it or not, barbequed Guiniea Pig. And some high altitude chile peppers you can't seem to get anywhere else.

Other stuff from other places.

[Still Blue in PDX]

92. Fried provolone from Fred's in Pittsburgh.

Mozzarella sticks just aren't quite the same.

[locks]

97. So many good foods from so many places

Indiana--Chicken-fried pork sandwiches, shrimp cooked in beer, pimiento cheese spread, homemade sauerkraut, wilted lettuce, potato pancakes
Chicago--Uno's deep dish pizza, Chinese food in Woodlawn
Philadelphia--hoagies
Wisconsin--brats
Santa Fe--Mexican food
Spain--paella and suckling pig
France--croissants delivered at 6 am
San Francisco--dim sum
Maine--lobsters
Vancouver--salmon
Kenya--tea
Mexico--vanilla

[tandot]

100. Drei im Weggla ... Schäufele ... Klöße ...

all the foods I grew up with in Germany (Nuremberg)

Drei im Weggla are 3 small grilled brats in a roll with mustard

http://www.foodrepublic.com/2011/12/08/hot-dogs-abroad-drei-im-weggla


Schäufele is part of the pork shoulder ... roasted ... with very crispy skin with Klöße (potato dumplings)


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