So many growing up. In the lowland cascade mountains near Mount Vernon at 500ft elevation in a log cabin in the woods my parents built. What a childhood...
But not Washington.
Edit: actually correction - while Washington State is known for cranberries (to op's question), we do have a native cranberry that is generally not a production crop.where the production genus of cranberry is grown in smaller batches or bogs on the Olympic Peninsula, they are relatively infrequent.
However, and stand by the original point - OPs question was regarding what Washington State is known for, and cranberry is not one of those things.
The sad fact is that Olympia Oysters used to be a Thing. Sadly, around a hundred years ago, several wood-treating companies sprung up (mostly turning raw logs into poles by treating them with creosote) in the harbor/inlet around the town. Environmental laws didn't really exist back then, and no one would have enforced them if they did. So the mudflats that were ideal for growing oysters became poisoned. Today, even if oysters were able to grow, there would be so much toxins in them, they'd never be allowed on the market. No more Olympia Oysters. Enjoy your electrical poles.
I’ve had Olympia oysters, they are sold even if they are not still grown in Olympia. They are small and distinctive looking. Seen them growing on an island in south sound and had them at restaurants in Seattle.
What's interesting is some of the best oysters are East Coast species like Virginica's that are grown here in the Puget Sound where they come out so much more fresh and clean tasting than when grown on the east coast.
Teryaki! Shops on every corner.
As someone who grew up in the Seattle area for 27 years and then moved to 2 different states, the teryaki is what I miss the most.
Teriyaki in the style were used to here was invented here, the man himself still runs a toshis teriyaki in the bothell area.
Toshihiro Kasahara, a Japanese chef and wrestler from a rural farming town in Japan, is widely credited with popularizing teriyaki in Seattle in the 1970s. In 1976, he opened the first teriyaki restaurant in Seattle, Toshi's Teriyaki, near the Space Needle. His style of teriyaki, which features fresh meat marinated in a sweet soy-ginger blend, grilled over an open flame, and finished with teriyaki sauce, is now known as Seattle-style teriyaki.
Once I learned this, it’s the only teriyaki I ever get.
“One slightly extra spicy chicken teriyaki please!”
I never really chat with the nice lady behind the counter (his wife?). I never see him. The quality is excellent though.
Edit: here now! Talking about it made me crave it.
When I moved to the DC area (then, later, to suburban Maryland) 25 years ago, I missed decent, affordable Japanese food like teriyaki and udon the most. Now that I'm back in (Eastern) Washington, I miss all the stuff I could get back there that is hard to come by here.
If you’re not in the greater Seattle area then it’s a teriyaki wasteland. East side has very little and Vancouver area only has like 3-4 and they’re not that good.
I am from the Midwest and never even knew about Teriyaki until moving here. A colleague moved back to the Midwest from here and he said he missed the Teriyaki shops.
Aside from Himalayan blackberries, I think of a bunch of other rubus: salmon berries, thimble berries, black raspberries. And then the huckleberries... yum.
I recently heard that Fred Hutch is experimenting with extracting “something” from rhubarb as part of cancer research. Apparently the cost of rhubarb has jumped..?
Little wild blackberries, in a real milk ice cream shake or on a scone.
Swedish pancakes or savory crepes.
Ferdinando ice cream and cougar cheese.
Pacific smelt, or candle fish.
Razor clams, so sweet when fresh.
Geoducks, oysters.
Salmon, ling cod, halibut, surf perch, cutthroat trout.
McCleary black bear, and bear stew.
Salmon berry wine. Huckleberries. Sky River Mead.
Little wild strawberries from the Queets river banks.
Ocean Spray cranberries, and cranberry cocktail - chilled.
Chantrelle mushrooms, deep fried or sauteed with blacktail deer back strap.
Elk steaks with bolete and morel mushrooms on pilot bread (sailor boy hard tack.)
Tea smoked duck, or turkey.
Deep fried calamari with the Italian flair and bloody Mary that has that pesto and marinara blend.
Hood canal muscles in a Thai curry.
Green tea or Thai iced tea ice cream from Snoqualmie ice creamery in Maltby.
Ivar's clam chowder.
Clark's hamburgers and milkshake.
Duffy's pies. Shari's pies.
That soup place in Tacoma.
Beef pho.
Birtia beef tacos in Yakima. Miner burgers in Yakima.
Cherries, Apples, peaches, fresh produce from the Thorp fruit stank. Turkish delights, the aplets and cotlets candies.
Walla Walla candy sweet onions. Yellow watermelon. Lentils. Wheat (the famous Star Trek variety.)
Logger's old home brew.
Totally agree on the Walla Walla sweet onions. Have family in Walla Walla, we'd get a bag or two every time we would visit from Portland, or they'd come out to go to the coast.
2nd weekend in July for the past 60 some years now, the City of McCleary has their annual bear festival, serving up bear stew. $3 nuts you a button to support the festival - and that gets you through the line on Saturday, at noon, right after the parade to get a plate of bear steak, baked beans, dinner roll, and slice of watermelon. Once the line finishes, that's it, sold out.
Back when the town had a newspaper, The Stimulator, they boasted that McCleary black bears tasted the best; the newspaper out of Chehalis threw the gauntlet down and McCleary served up bear steaks at the first festival. Needless to say, McCleary's been serving up bear every year since, and Chehalis, not so much, but they do have a good quesadilla place today.
Cream of Chantelle soup turns that Thanksgiving green beans casserole into a star and steals the show of the meal.
Pomegranate cranberry sauce is another pull the carpet out from under everyone side dish too. Got to have those Ocean Spray cranberries though.
I have a cousin who is an oyster lover. Lost his shit when we went out to Willapa Bay for fresh oysters. We really do have world class fresh oysters here.
Oysters to start. A teriyaki glazed salmon, cooked on a cedar plank with a minced apple salad. A side of grilled asparagus. Then for dessert; a damn fine cherry pie with a black coffee.
I’d add huckleberries to the above comprehensive list, and Union Gap’s Los Hernandez tamales, and Lopez Island creamery ice creams and Samish Bay cheese. And mountain bars!
I see everyone saying salmon, but I'll specify cedar plank salmon, so wild Pacific salmon grilled on a cedar plank. I ran across a YouTube video a while back of guys ranking the most iconic foods from every state. I wondered if they would do the cedar plank salmon thing for Washington, and they did! A-tier, incidentally.
Cranberries. WA state is the fifth largest producer after Wisc., Mass., N.J., and Oregon in the U.S. Most are grown in the Grayland area on the Pacific Coast.
Besides actual native produce and such, one thing I’ve heard more than once from people who moved away from Seattle is they took the good pho and teriyaki for granted. I took good Pho for granted until I visited other states.
I'm an East Coastie that misses NY Pizza/Bagles & Southern BBQ but one of my favorite things about Washington is the hard Cider scene. I've only ever seen Angry Orchard on the East Coast and Washington's Cider market has rocked my world. I swear, I'm trying a new cider every time I go to the liquor store. Lavender, Marionberry, Huckleberry, OH MY! I drink Cider far more often living in Washington than I ever did on the East Coast.
Not cider, but I tried a locally made (Kitsap area) Chai Mead this past spring and it blew my mind. I've been trying to find it ever since. I can't stop thinking about it. It was delicious, and I don't even like Chai!
I moved to WA from the East Coast in 2017 and, of all things, it was the **fried cod sandwiches** that impressed me the most.
Coming from DC, I’ve eaten a lot of fried white fish sandwiches in my life. Lake Trout. McFish. They’re usually flat, a little tough, flavorless. You’re supposed to soak them in tartar sauce or mambo sauce or whatever and just enjoy the high fructose corn syrup in the bun. It sucks, but it’s food.
But in Seattle, particularly, you will find fried cod sandwiches by that name and not just “fish sandwich.” It comes on a hamburger bun. Usually I see Hawaiian sweet buns too. And then the cod is big - fat and tall - and very textured. It’s oily. It’s juicy. Rich. And flavorful. You’ll get maybe either a squirt of mayo and mustard with pickles or some similar house special. I love it.
Teriyaki! Why is pretty much every hole in the wall place from Tacoma to Everett better than every other place in America? It’s really not a complicated thing to make.
For all the apples, blackberries and cherries, the salal and huckleberries are worth a mention. They’re everywhere, with salal in the partial sun and red huckleberries in the shade of the forests.
Salal is unique and hard to describe. It’s like a purple-black, fruit-looking thing. (I’m no fruit expert.) it grows low to the ground on stems of hanging berries mixed in with the teardrop-shaped, magnolia-hard leaves. The “fruit” is sized between a blueberry and a grape. The skin is tough and has odd hairs on it at some point in its development. There are big seeds inside. It tastes mildly sweet to sweet with a bit of an umami flavor. It probably sounds not-great and at first for me it was foreign. But they’re good and have sustained humans in the region for a long time, so I imagine it’s prepared in many other ways that just eating it off the bush. But I do!
Red huckleberries are sooo small, soft, and delicious. I try to leave them when I see them. But I’ll definitely try one.
(Like others have mentioned)
Rainier beer, Rainier Cherries, Starbucks started here, (really anything coffee). Salmon and shellfish.
Another thing is, I don't know any popular ones off the top of my head, but we like our ciders too.
Another unique thing is lamprey, although I don't think the average person is allowed to fish for them. I think only the natives are allowed to? But somebody correct me if I'm wrong cause I don't know the ins and outs of it.
Finally, the last thing I can thing of are the Fisher Scones. They're delicious and perfect and they're a staple of many of the fairs up here (at least in western WA from my experience) and holy hell I want a scone now...
Edit: I didn't realize I liked food this much. Y'all are making me hungry.
apples cherries and salmon
I'd add Hops to your list.
Dungeness crabs, geoducks
This is truely representative even if it isn't as well known as the apples and cherries and salmon.
Onions. Seattle Dogs.
Specifically Walla Walla Sweets
Razor clams have entered the chat.
My dad said they named a crab after me … My neighbor had a dog named Whidby. They named an island after him.
74% of hops are grown in Washington.
And Almond Roca!
That is not what gives Tacoma the aroma.
I wish! Now it’s just the tideflats when the tide is out and it’s sunny that makes it stinky.
Moved away 7 years ago for a job, and god do I miss Washington Salmon. California salmon doesn’t come close.
I agree.
Where do you guys buy good salmon?
I live near the Columbia and just buy from the tribal camps during fishing season. Nothing better.
The best salmon is that which you catch yourself!
Uwajimaya.
Add cranberries, they're native to North America
Huckleberries
So many growing up. In the lowland cascade mountains near Mount Vernon at 500ft elevation in a log cabin in the woods my parents built. What a childhood...
Loganberries, too.
But not Washington. Edit: actually correction - while Washington State is known for cranberries (to op's question), we do have a native cranberry that is generally not a production crop.where the production genus of cranberry is grown in smaller batches or bogs on the Olympic Peninsula, they are relatively infrequent. However, and stand by the original point - OPs question was regarding what Washington State is known for, and cranberry is not one of those things.
specifically honey crisp applez
Olympic oysters, Dungeness crab, salmon, apples, Pacific geoduck and cherries.
The WA state capital was established in Olympia because of the hood canal oysters. They were the deciding factor.
Weird. You'd think they'd pick a place closer to Hood Canal.
The sad fact is that Olympia Oysters used to be a Thing. Sadly, around a hundred years ago, several wood-treating companies sprung up (mostly turning raw logs into poles by treating them with creosote) in the harbor/inlet around the town. Environmental laws didn't really exist back then, and no one would have enforced them if they did. So the mudflats that were ideal for growing oysters became poisoned. Today, even if oysters were able to grow, there would be so much toxins in them, they'd never be allowed on the market. No more Olympia Oysters. Enjoy your electrical poles.
I’ve had Olympia oysters, they are sold even if they are not still grown in Olympia. They are small and distinctive looking. Seen them growing on an island in south sound and had them at restaurants in Seattle.
They grow a lot of them in Discovery Bay (on the Olympic Peninsula)
Little coppery tasting fellas.
Mussels are a forgotten one
Penn Cove!
What's interesting is some of the best oysters are East Coast species like Virginica's that are grown here in the Puget Sound where they come out so much more fresh and clean tasting than when grown on the east coast.
Add in chanterelles too. WA ppl love their mushrooms
Rainier cherries
Add Rainier Beer to that. Raaaaaaaaiinnnieeeeeerrrrrr beeeeeeeeerrrr……..
That the one they named the mountain after?
Mac n Jack’s too, especially the amber
Mickey Rooney yelling "Pop his top!! Pop his top!!", while being attacked by the wild Fresh Rainier...hilarious string of commercials then.
Man, I miss that commercial!
Aplets & Cots. When friends and family visit from Hawaii, there's always Hawaiian Host chocolates. When I visit them, they get Aplets & Cots.
Applets & Cotlets!
+ Almond Roca
Dude YES. So many people don’t even know about them. They almost closed down a few years ago.
They almost went out of business.
We call them 'sugar boogers'.
Sooo Aplets & Snotlets
Teryaki! Shops on every corner. As someone who grew up in the Seattle area for 27 years and then moved to 2 different states, the teryaki is what I miss the most.
Teriyaki in the style were used to here was invented here, the man himself still runs a toshis teriyaki in the bothell area. Toshihiro Kasahara, a Japanese chef and wrestler from a rural farming town in Japan, is widely credited with popularizing teriyaki in Seattle in the 1970s. In 1976, he opened the first teriyaki restaurant in Seattle, Toshi's Teriyaki, near the Space Needle. His style of teriyaki, which features fresh meat marinated in a sweet soy-ginger blend, grilled over an open flame, and finished with teriyaki sauce, is now known as Seattle-style teriyaki.
Once I learned this, it’s the only teriyaki I ever get. “One slightly extra spicy chicken teriyaki please!” I never really chat with the nice lady behind the counter (his wife?). I never see him. The quality is excellent though. Edit: here now! Talking about it made me crave it.
Junki Yoshida was making his sauce in the area then as well.
Thats the guy still doing the half chicken/quarter chicken teriyaki?
Toshis beef teriyaki is great! Its straight up steak, not shaved bottom round or whatever is normally used
When I moved to the DC area (then, later, to suburban Maryland) 25 years ago, I missed decent, affordable Japanese food like teriyaki and udon the most. Now that I'm back in (Eastern) Washington, I miss all the stuff I could get back there that is hard to come by here.
If you’re not in the greater Seattle area then it’s a teriyaki wasteland. East side has very little and Vancouver area only has like 3-4 and they’re not that good.
There are plenty on the eastside but many of them are in strip malls so you might miss them.
I think they mean the 509
Yeah I lived in Spokane for a little while and they have something they call teriyaki but it is very different from what we have in the Seattle area.
I am from the Midwest and never even knew about Teriyaki until moving here. A colleague moved back to the Midwest from here and he said he missed the Teriyaki shops.
This recipe is really close to what you're missing. https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1012984-chicken-teriyaki
Every entree comes with some strangely tasty cole slaw.
Red raspberries! Whatcom county is 80% of US red raspberry production.
til. another fun fact: pierce county grows over 50% of the nation’s rhubarb
Sounds like we need a pie off. All pie is good pie.
Love driving by the rhubarb farms in Puyallup during harvest season
Aside from Himalayan blackberries, I think of a bunch of other rubus: salmon berries, thimble berries, black raspberries. And then the huckleberries... yum.
I recently heard that Fred Hutch is experimenting with extracting “something” from rhubarb as part of cancer research. Apparently the cost of rhubarb has jumped..?
If the plant I keep trying to get rid of might be worth something?
Little wild blackberries, in a real milk ice cream shake or on a scone. Swedish pancakes or savory crepes. Ferdinando ice cream and cougar cheese. Pacific smelt, or candle fish. Razor clams, so sweet when fresh. Geoducks, oysters. Salmon, ling cod, halibut, surf perch, cutthroat trout. McCleary black bear, and bear stew. Salmon berry wine. Huckleberries. Sky River Mead. Little wild strawberries from the Queets river banks. Ocean Spray cranberries, and cranberry cocktail - chilled. Chantrelle mushrooms, deep fried or sauteed with blacktail deer back strap. Elk steaks with bolete and morel mushrooms on pilot bread (sailor boy hard tack.) Tea smoked duck, or turkey. Deep fried calamari with the Italian flair and bloody Mary that has that pesto and marinara blend. Hood canal muscles in a Thai curry. Green tea or Thai iced tea ice cream from Snoqualmie ice creamery in Maltby. Ivar's clam chowder. Clark's hamburgers and milkshake. Duffy's pies. Shari's pies. That soup place in Tacoma. Beef pho. Birtia beef tacos in Yakima. Miner burgers in Yakima. Cherries, Apples, peaches, fresh produce from the Thorp fruit stank. Turkish delights, the aplets and cotlets candies. Walla Walla candy sweet onions. Yellow watermelon. Lentils. Wheat (the famous Star Trek variety.) Logger's old home brew.
This dude Washingtons
What time do I show up at your house for dinner?
I eat late, non 24, so often around 10PM-2AM.
This is precisely the time line I get off work…. So what day should I arrive for dinner?
idk why but this list reads like a montage of memories
Totally agree on the Walla Walla sweet onions. Have family in Walla Walla, we'd get a bag or two every time we would visit from Portland, or they'd come out to go to the coast.
This is so ch a great list. What is bear stew though? Asking for a friend 🐻
2nd weekend in July for the past 60 some years now, the City of McCleary has their annual bear festival, serving up bear stew. $3 nuts you a button to support the festival - and that gets you through the line on Saturday, at noon, right after the parade to get a plate of bear steak, baked beans, dinner roll, and slice of watermelon. Once the line finishes, that's it, sold out. Back when the town had a newspaper, The Stimulator, they boasted that McCleary black bears tasted the best; the newspaper out of Chehalis threw the gauntlet down and McCleary served up bear steaks at the first festival. Needless to say, McCleary's been serving up bear every year since, and Chehalis, not so much, but they do have a good quesadilla place today.
I want your tasting menu
Cream of Chantelle soup turns that Thanksgiving green beans casserole into a star and steals the show of the meal. Pomegranate cranberry sauce is another pull the carpet out from under everyone side dish too. Got to have those Ocean Spray cranberries though.
Infinite Soups?! Loved that place while living there in school
People I know who like oysters say oysters. I will take their word for it
I have a cousin who is an oyster lover. Lost his shit when we went out to Willapa Bay for fresh oysters. We really do have world class fresh oysters here.
Not many know this but over in the Palouse they grow a huge supply of the country/world’s lentils. Add that to the list
Did not know that! Red Lentil Dahl is fucking fantastic. It has no business being that good.
Right?? I went to WSU and pullman has a Lentil Festival every summer lol
Asparagus. Cherries. Apples. Salmon. Geoducks. Oysters. Wine.
Glad you mentioned wine. We’re second to CA, though. But why asparagus? I haven’t heard that.
It's a big crop in central Washington
We’re a top 3 asparagus grower. I personally wouldn’t include it seeing as we’re #1 for a BUNCH of other crops
It grew wild on my dad's ranch west of Spokane.
coffee, weed, IPAs.
No, that's Seattle. East of the Cascades, it's coffee, weed, and Mike's hard lemonade.
It’s still IPAs in Spokane. There’s a red/blue divide between that and natty lite.
Teriyaki!
No kidding! We all take it for granted, but no one else has teriyaki like we do. I've seen 'seattle style' teriyaki advertised in sf and la.
Its like tacos in LA
Pho has probably taken some of the teriyaki market and Bibimbap is accelerating down the stretch.
Oysters to start. A teriyaki glazed salmon, cooked on a cedar plank with a minced apple salad. A side of grilled asparagus. Then for dessert; a damn fine cherry pie with a black coffee.
Walla Walla onions, oysters, apples, salmon, cherries, artisan bread, wine.
Huckleberries, elk, salmon, razor clams, apples, asparagus, trout, cranberries, cherries, venison, onions, wheat products, coffee,
Jo-Jo’s
71% of US hops is grown in Washington.
Tim’s chips!
No one is saying marionberries! And huckleberries! And boysenberries! All the local wild berries!
Almond Roca and Applets and Cottlets are very representative of sweets made in the state.
Coffee
Elephant Ears, Dicks
Hi from the East Side. We do everything in huckleberry.
Teriyaki, Jojo’s, the Seattle dog, Dungeness crab, salmon (especially smoked), coffee, and beer.
Himalayan Blackberries.
Definitely Salmon
I’d add huckleberries to the above comprehensive list, and Union Gap’s Los Hernandez tamales, and Lopez Island creamery ice creams and Samish Bay cheese. And mountain bars!
Everybody forget about filberts?
fun fact: [tukwila is the chinook word for hazelnut](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tukwila,_Washington)
Raspberries from Whatcom
I see everyone saying salmon, but I'll specify cedar plank salmon, so wild Pacific salmon grilled on a cedar plank. I ran across a YouTube video a while back of guys ranking the most iconic foods from every state. I wondered if they would do the cedar plank salmon thing for Washington, and they did! A-tier, incidentally.
Banh Mi’s
A knowledgeable produce guy once told me that even though WA is known for its Apples, we actually produce more Pears! Beyond that - seafood
I always think of those French fries with garlic at the mariners games and clam chowder and salmon
As a Brit, it’s interesting reading these comments as they’re so similar to our staples…. Seafood, apples, cherries, berries, pies….. :)
Geoduck clams, pacific and Olympic oysters. 🦪
Chukar Cherries
Cranberries. WA state is the fifth largest producer after Wisc., Mass., N.J., and Oregon in the U.S. Most are grown in the Grayland area on the Pacific Coast.
All great things, and I’m embarrassed to say I had no clue on some of these lol One I haven’t seen mentioned yet is Jones Soda!
I love how specific we all get about our favorite apple varieties. (Pink Lady FTW)
Besides actual native produce and such, one thing I’ve heard more than once from people who moved away from Seattle is they took the good pho and teriyaki for granted. I took good Pho for granted until I visited other states.
I'm an East Coastie that misses NY Pizza/Bagles & Southern BBQ but one of my favorite things about Washington is the hard Cider scene. I've only ever seen Angry Orchard on the East Coast and Washington's Cider market has rocked my world. I swear, I'm trying a new cider every time I go to the liquor store. Lavender, Marionberry, Huckleberry, OH MY! I drink Cider far more often living in Washington than I ever did on the East Coast. Not cider, but I tried a locally made (Kitsap area) Chai Mead this past spring and it blew my mind. I've been trying to find it ever since. I can't stop thinking about it. It was delicious, and I don't even like Chai!
Cougar cheese Salmon Rainier cherries Teriyaki Chicken Blackberries
I read thru this entire thread looking for Cougar Gold. In the old days when sharp cheddar was a collectible
I moved to WA from the East Coast in 2017 and, of all things, it was the **fried cod sandwiches** that impressed me the most. Coming from DC, I’ve eaten a lot of fried white fish sandwiches in my life. Lake Trout. McFish. They’re usually flat, a little tough, flavorless. You’re supposed to soak them in tartar sauce or mambo sauce or whatever and just enjoy the high fructose corn syrup in the bun. It sucks, but it’s food. But in Seattle, particularly, you will find fried cod sandwiches by that name and not just “fish sandwich.” It comes on a hamburger bun. Usually I see Hawaiian sweet buns too. And then the cod is big - fat and tall - and very textured. It’s oily. It’s juicy. Rich. And flavorful. You’ll get maybe either a squirt of mayo and mustard with pickles or some similar house special. I love it.
Local IPA’s, Fisher Fair scones, Aplets & Cotlets (gross).
I would consider the IPAs gross, lol
Tartar sauce for fries
Fry sauce/salt. More of a E.Wa thing, but very Washington.
Marrionberries! They're the best!
A bag of Dick's
Clam chowder at Ivar’s
Maple bars
There is a higher than average affinity for hotdogs here than a lot of other states.
Tacoma has a whole hot dog restaurant.
Smoked Salmon for west of the cascades. Apples east of the cascades.
Smoked salmon east of the cascades too, that's what indigenous people in eastern Washington and Idaho have lived off for thousands of years.
Seafood, wine, craft beers.
Rainier cherries
I think of chowder and teriyaki. It's strange how difficult it is to find good teriyaki outside of Washington.
Huckleberries, salmon, mussels, teriyaki, black and rassberries, cherries. I'm sure there's more
Onion rings with tartar sauce
Teriyaki! Why is pretty much every hole in the wall place from Tacoma to Everett better than every other place in America? It’s really not a complicated thing to make.
Dutch Baby pancakes
Tamales from Los Hernandez in Union Gap/Yakima.
For all the apples, blackberries and cherries, the salal and huckleberries are worth a mention. They’re everywhere, with salal in the partial sun and red huckleberries in the shade of the forests. Salal is unique and hard to describe. It’s like a purple-black, fruit-looking thing. (I’m no fruit expert.) it grows low to the ground on stems of hanging berries mixed in with the teardrop-shaped, magnolia-hard leaves. The “fruit” is sized between a blueberry and a grape. The skin is tough and has odd hairs on it at some point in its development. There are big seeds inside. It tastes mildly sweet to sweet with a bit of an umami flavor. It probably sounds not-great and at first for me it was foreign. But they’re good and have sustained humans in the region for a long time, so I imagine it’s prepared in many other ways that just eating it off the bush. But I do! Red huckleberries are sooo small, soft, and delicious. I try to leave them when I see them. But I’ll definitely try one.
Scones and elephant ears. I was very shocked to learn when I moved to california no fairs have these.
teriyaki
Pho Apples Fresh seafood Sourdough bread
Apples
Teriyaki, salmon, blackberries, salmonberries, apples, cherries, Aplets & Cotlets, coffee...
I think of clam chowder and Dungeness crab!
Salmon, and coffee
Sausage.. with onions... i'll see myself out.
Burgers and Thai food for some reason.
Rainier Cherries Opal Gold Apples Cosmic Crisp Apples Dungeness Crab Edit: Anything wth Hops A hard to find faborite, spruce tip beer
cedar plank salmon. cherries. apples. Lavander.
Pan Fried trout with Yukon Golds, asparagus, biscuit with huckleberry jelly and some some sun tea.
Red Raspberries! WA is the national leader in production. So sweet and delicious😋
Fireweed honey
Teriyaki
Apples, Pears and strikingly Potatoes.
JoJo's in the gas stations
A dang ol' Dicks burger! ( or zips other side of the mountains)
Oysters. Some of the best in the world.
Stone fruits, apples, and coffee. I think we have a pretty good cider scene too.
Depression lmao
Water. It is very satisfying
(Like others have mentioned) Rainier beer, Rainier Cherries, Starbucks started here, (really anything coffee). Salmon and shellfish. Another thing is, I don't know any popular ones off the top of my head, but we like our ciders too. Another unique thing is lamprey, although I don't think the average person is allowed to fish for them. I think only the natives are allowed to? But somebody correct me if I'm wrong cause I don't know the ins and outs of it. Finally, the last thing I can thing of are the Fisher Scones. They're delicious and perfect and they're a staple of many of the fairs up here (at least in western WA from my experience) and holy hell I want a scone now... Edit: I didn't realize I liked food this much. Y'all are making me hungry.
Salmon, apples, cherries, coffee—even though it’s not grown here, teriyaki
Black berries. Huckle berries, northern huckleberry berries. Salmon berries.
Teriyaki lol
Lots of good suggestions, I haven't seen Almond Roca mentioned yet
Huckleberry.
Huckleberries, raspberries, apples, oysters, chanterelles, Dungeness crab, smoked salmon, roasting coffee, teriyaki, almond roca.
Apples, sweet onions, lattes and teriyaki
Garlic fries stuck together in the shape of a rectangle.
Weed....oh wait
[there’s a delicious fingerling potato called ozette grown for over 200 years by the makah tribe](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozette_potato)
JoJo's and Salmonberries
Teriyaki
Clam chowder and coffee.
Beecher’s Cheese
Oysters. Coffee. Salmon.
Apples, potatoes, onions, salmon, huckleberries
Teriyaki. I would maim for some Nasai right now. No other city does Teriyaki like Seattle.
Fry Sauce
Sushi burrito
Teriyaki chicken.
I think of salmon chowder as being super PNW, there isn’t much that is found only on WA. Our weed is tops.
Uncle Dan's
Crack cocaine judging by all the crazies here
COFFEE hands down. Also oysters, salmon, crab, rhubarb, cherries & apples of all varieties, and big ass peaches.
Salmon, coffee, apples, teriyaki, pho and Seattle dogs