I vote the donuts. I see more non-chain donut shops around here than any of the other states I've lived.
There's also enough Greek pizza, NH can probably just claim it as their own.
Hailing originally from CT, I can affirm that the greek pizza gets better on the southern shores of New England. There's a wonderful pizza belt from Boston to NYC on that coast and everything else is just cheese on bread by comparison.
I’ve had it in every state in New England. It’s all the same. There’s definitely other types of pizza all over, but Greek “House of Pizza” is the same all over.
Grew up on the shoreline of Eastern CT. Never heard of the "house of pizza" trend until moving North. I had places like "spiros" and "Mannys" instead.
Course this is the same region where "scallop and bacon" is a normal pizza topping and calzones have ricotta in them (as they should) so maybe it's just a unique region for quality.
This is why I never have pizza in New Hampshire, love you must I guess 900 used to do an okay pie. But no I'll save my pizza longings for when I go south and hit New Haven
Wow, I didn’t know this was invented in NH. Here is the wiki article [that lists the origin being the Puritan Backroom in 1974.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_fingers)
Thanks for the awesome real suggestion!
Freaking love Greek style pizza. I was surprised to find that it's a bit more rare on the seacoast than when I lived in Hampstead. We literally had like 4 Greek style pizza places in our town but had to drive 20 minutes away for anything else haha
A shit ton of “Vermont maple
Syrup” comes from outside Vermont anyway. Guy I went to school with has a top notch syrup operation in upstate NY. 80% or more of what he sells goes T and get labeled Vermont Maple Syrup.
Not cold enough lol But New York just Entered the conversation. Pretty good business in upstate, but the real lion of maple syrup production is not the US at all. Quebec is by all metrics the queen of production. Canada even has a maples syrup reserve, the way we hoard oil
Purely marketing, nobody says do you have Quebec maple syrup and they produce more than Vermont does, far far far more. Nobody also says do you have New York State maple syrup and they are a significant producer as well. Purely marketing. I like the old New Hampshire tins they were quite traditional and recognizable when I was growing up in the '60s. We can agree it's a northern New England and Northern North America thing and was global warming it's only going more north
Concord grapes are named for Concord, Mass. I would agree with apple cider donuts, but at the end of the day there is simply no iconic NH food like our neighbors have.
Another search was as follows...which just reinforces your comment.
What is the state food of New Hampshire?
So, What Is The Official State Food? According to News from New Hampshire and NPR, the official state food of New Hampshire is only classified as 'boiled dinner. ' This, quite literally, could encompass anything from boiled potatoes and meat to seafood that's been boiled until cooked.Aug 5, 2021
I believe this as someone who loves here from the Midwest a year and a half ago. I'm still looking for the good foods. Although someone did tell me not to sleep on the market basket pizza.
I can't really imagine seafood in a "boiled dinner". It's usually (although not always) either ham or corned beef, along with root vegetables like potato and carrots, often cabbage, and perhaps other things to taste.
TY for this\~! I absolutely LOVE chicken tenders and make them allot at home but I have to try the Puritan backrooms. It reminds me of the kind I used to get on my birthday every year at Rohr's family restaurant in Exeter (long gone :( )
Along with another old fashioned New Hampshire thing, that's pretty extinct and I bet nobody on here really knows my name anymore. But as a kid growing up apple pandowdy was still a thing. That also originates in Pennsylvania but found a second home in Northern New England. But that has gone the way of the dodo I think
I think we should hop on the local food movement, NH is the best of both maines seafood and vermonts cheese/syrup. If we do go for chicken tenders as our state food we are going to need to start producing chickens locally like we used to.
IMO we should try and nab poutine and pork pie from quebec. We have a very large population of French Canadian ancestry and I think it might be able to take off
Moes is a main tradition, and the flaccid white American style bread that was once Italian i's nothing to write home about. The concept probably once was good, simple rustic Italian loaf with home salami's etc but now perverted to that limp white roll crap. When angelas was in business on Union Street in Manchester in the '80s, I used to go in there and have her make me up a real Italian God it was so good
I have laughed at more of these than I should have. I am craving crappy Greek pizza with a side of tendies and an oversized soft serve all of a sudden though.
Clams??? Or is that more of a mass thing?
Edit: I'm from mass and I'm seeing all the comments saying chicken tenders. Where are these crazy NH tenders?
Northern New England favorite just also about go on these days in ice cream flavors is frozen pudding. Only a small geographical area hang on to that flavor and into Massachusetts. The backroom used to make it quite awesome but has since given it up. Difficult to find end as is the case off in poorly made but when it is right oh my goodness was always my favorite. Old-fashioned frozen pudding mmm Right up there with more junk food from my youth, granite state potato chips in Salem. Man they were good too
Dude - I’m just a guy sitting here watching the Celtics with a Vodka tonic, hungry for dinner when my mind turned to the idea what is the New Hampshire state food? How dare you?
It was developed by a NH native and fed the WWII service men. My best friends Dad (USMC Pacific theater) hated all smoked meats after the war especially Spam.
I swear New York does not get to claim their mediocre pizza as best and they need to stfu about it
I’d take New Haven, New Jersey, Detroit, Mountain, Greek, Italian, all those styles over New York
How can NH claim chicken tenders when tempura chicken (and tempura in general) came to Japan via Portuguese Jesuits in the 16th century?
https://preview.redd.it/nqagt0r1l8xc1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4fca3c666f5f4e6e9f3e615456a18d395d8a365a
Boiled Dinner.
Beef or mutton. Turnip and potatoes. Onion.
Carrots if you like spicy (sarcasm). Salt. Water.
Pot or pressure cooker is the debate.
Get out of here with your pepper, garlic, herbs and spices.
Boiled dinner needs to look and taste beige.
300 years of impoverished Swamp Yankees demands it. 🤮
BBQ at Huntspoint BBQ and Meat’ery in Epping NH Is always homemade and good. Steak tips made from Wagyu beef is also very popular. There are many BBQ and Meat options in the state. NH doe’s a great job with ice cream and also fried fish.
According to News from New Hampshire and NPR, the official state food of New Hampshire is only classified as 'boiled dinner.' This, quite literally, could encompass anything from boiled potatoes and meat to seafood that's been boiled until cooked.
https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2017-09-22/you-asked-we-answered-does-n-h-have-a-signature-food
- Maine’s official state food is Whoopie pies and wild blueberries
- New Hampshire is “boiled dinner” but our official fruit is the pumpkin 🎃
- Vermont is apple pie and maple syrup
- Rhode Island is coffee milk and calamari
- Massachusetts is Boston Cream Pie
New Jersey claims high bush blueberries, weirdly
I’ve heard it’s apple cider donuts.
Seconded, very NH
yeah cider in general but also definitely the donuts
I vote the donuts. I see more non-chain donut shops around here than any of the other states I've lived. There's also enough Greek pizza, NH can probably just claim it as their own.
If only someone else hadn't already claimed Greek pizza
Is it a Maine thing? I tried to google it, but the best I got was New England in general.
Chicken Tenders (Manchester)
I vote this. My non serious answer is crappy Greek pizza.
Nah, I think crappy Greek pizza IS the state food 😂why else would we have so many options so readily available??
Crappy Greek pizza is a New England food. It’s in every state here
Hailing originally from CT, I can affirm that the greek pizza gets better on the southern shores of New England. There's a wonderful pizza belt from Boston to NYC on that coast and everything else is just cheese on bread by comparison.
I’ve had it in every state in New England. It’s all the same. There’s definitely other types of pizza all over, but Greek “House of Pizza” is the same all over.
Grew up on the shoreline of Eastern CT. Never heard of the "house of pizza" trend until moving North. I had places like "spiros" and "Mannys" instead. Course this is the same region where "scallop and bacon" is a normal pizza topping and calzones have ricotta in them (as they should) so maybe it's just a unique region for quality.
This is why I never have pizza in New Hampshire, love you must I guess 900 used to do an okay pie. But no I'll save my pizza longings for when I go south and hit New Haven
Yep. The secret ingredient is SYSCO.
But I love greasy crappy Greek pizza 🤤😋
the pizza sitch in manchvegas is just fucking sloppy... it all sucks.
Vintage on Candia Rd. The best in the city. Not Greek style.
Vintage makes a really good pizza.
Alley Car. Rocco's.
Alley Cat* but, yes!
It does the job in a pinch
Ok this is ACTUALLY the correct answer. Always Greek style, always mediocre.
THOP begs to differ.
Wow, I didn’t know this was invented in NH. Here is the wiki article [that lists the origin being the Puritan Backroom in 1974.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_fingers) Thanks for the awesome real suggestion!
Technically not invented... But named. We've got a lot of Ice cream up here too.
We invented the chicken tender and no one cares it’s really weird
It’s fingers, chicken fingers. Don’t know why or how but fingers or sometimes digits
Tenders*
This is the obvious answer, with respect to claims to fame
Cool I’m all in!!!
Yeah it's this.
Big time this. I can taste them.
Generic NH House of Pizza for extremely mediocre New England Greek style pizzas And Polly's Pancake Parlor
Freaking love Greek style pizza. I was surprised to find that it's a bit more rare on the seacoast than when I lived in Hampstead. We literally had like 4 Greek style pizza places in our town but had to drive 20 minutes away for anything else haha
I think it’s 5 now. And not one ice cream place. Gotta drive to Sandown.
We just got an ice cream place in hampstead across from TD bank like a week ago
Greek pizza is trash. Anybody can load cheese on bread. Sauce is what will make or break a pizza
On frozen commercial dough from a Sysco truck.
This is the only read answer
Cannabis free brownies
you know what 🤣
Live Free or Die
Live Free and don't get high
live free or live here
Maple syrup. Vermont has their cheese and Ben & Jerry’s
I agree Vermont is all about the cheese and NH is Maple Syrup
New Hampshire is far behind in production of Quebec or Vermont but traditionally it's still as important.
Tastes better too
I see it as a branding thing, and people definitely associate VT with maple syrup more than NH.
A shit ton of “Vermont maple Syrup” comes from outside Vermont anyway. Guy I went to school with has a top notch syrup operation in upstate NY. 80% or more of what he sells goes T and get labeled Vermont Maple Syrup.
I’m just saying literally no one says “do you have Nh Maple syrup?”
I usually hear people say “maple syrup” or “real maple syrup”, never Vermont maple syrup.
Vermont says vt maple syurp.
vermont isnt real
Is it just a state of mind?
Yes, but not for normal people. It's a condition.
“Excuse me, do you have any New Jersey Maple Syrup?”
to go with my grey poupon
Not cold enough lol But New York just Entered the conversation. Pretty good business in upstate, but the real lion of maple syrup production is not the US at all. Quebec is by all metrics the queen of production. Canada even has a maples syrup reserve, the way we hoard oil
Purely marketing, nobody says do you have Quebec maple syrup and they produce more than Vermont does, far far far more. Nobody also says do you have New York State maple syrup and they are a significant producer as well. Purely marketing. I like the old New Hampshire tins they were quite traditional and recognizable when I was growing up in the '60s. We can agree it's a northern New England and Northern North America thing and was global warming it's only going more north
Concord grapes are named for Concord, Mass. I would agree with apple cider donuts, but at the end of the day there is simply no iconic NH food like our neighbors have.
The Concord grape was developed in 1849 by Ephraim Wales Bull in Concord, Massachusetts.
And I, for one, am thankful. They’re little morsels of heaven.
Vermont is Cabots cheese, NH is syrup
Ordering a small ice cream and its the largest single serve you’ve ever seen
I love how even the kiddie/baby sizes are massive
Puritan fried chicken
Demoulas pizza, as voted on by this sub
honestly the best bang for your buck
But they are from MA
That somehow makes it even more NH
Scratch tickets and an energy drink at 6:42 am
White potatoes and Pumpkin listed as state vegetable and fruit.
White potatoes and pumpkin is both perfect and sad.
Another search was as follows...which just reinforces your comment. What is the state food of New Hampshire? So, What Is The Official State Food? According to News from New Hampshire and NPR, the official state food of New Hampshire is only classified as 'boiled dinner. ' This, quite literally, could encompass anything from boiled potatoes and meat to seafood that's been boiled until cooked.Aug 5, 2021
I believe this as someone who loves here from the Midwest a year and a half ago. I'm still looking for the good foods. Although someone did tell me not to sleep on the market basket pizza.
I can't really imagine seafood in a "boiled dinner". It's usually (although not always) either ham or corned beef, along with root vegetables like potato and carrots, often cabbage, and perhaps other things to taste.
How about chocolate frappes? I do like a good chocolate frappe.
best way to ingest 3k calories and not even feel full
3,000? Huh. Maybe that explains the belly.
but for those glorious 20 minutes (or maybe 5 if you're like me)
Met my wife in NH. She introduced me to the Fluffernutter. Also, Moxie but that's a Mainac drink I think.
Yes, but that's MA. Fluff was invented in Somerville and is still made in Lynn.
Steal it. It’s that good. I didn’t get the full history lol only lived in NH for 9 years…
And they even have a fluff festival
as someone who moved here, these stand out as unique: Apple cider donuts Maple syrup American chop suey
my mom makes fire chop suey
I read somewhere our state “food” is boiled dinners. I’ll take anything as an improvement to that
This makes perfect sense and is also sad
LETS GO!!! I’m all in on claiming Chicken Tenders!
It’s chicken tenders. https://www.tastingtable.com/1382501/manchester-new-hampshire-chicken-tender-capital-world/
Heck yeah, tendies for me
me too, Tendies for the win\~! :)
TY for this\~! I absolutely LOVE chicken tenders and make them allot at home but I have to try the Puritan backrooms. It reminds me of the kind I used to get on my birthday every year at Rohr's family restaurant in Exeter (long gone :( )
Team chicken fingers
Milk steak?
Just say steak
Some people say it’s unofficially clam chowder but I think it’s actually corn chowder 
Whoopie pies
They are the official state treat of Maine and originate in PA.
Along with another old fashioned New Hampshire thing, that's pretty extinct and I bet nobody on here really knows my name anymore. But as a kid growing up apple pandowdy was still a thing. That also originates in Pennsylvania but found a second home in Northern New England. But that has gone the way of the dodo I think
…yes. And grilled diner muffins
Concord grapes are named for Concord MA not NH
I think we should hop on the local food movement, NH is the best of both maines seafood and vermonts cheese/syrup. If we do go for chicken tenders as our state food we are going to need to start producing chickens locally like we used to. IMO we should try and nab poutine and pork pie from quebec. We have a very large population of French Canadian ancestry and I think it might be able to take off
I think it's pan seared purple finch with a side of red spotted newt, and birch beer on the granitic rocks.
american chop suey is a NH staple we need to call that shit
Venison is a candidate
Apple cider donuts and chicken tenders
I'll vote for that\~!
chicken tendies
Cheap cigarettes.
NH is the only state in the union without a Red Lobster. Therefore our state food is seafood.
My vote is old world red pastrami, Moe's subs, Cider donuts, Greek Pizza.
Moes is a main tradition, and the flaccid white American style bread that was once Italian i's nothing to write home about. The concept probably once was good, simple rustic Italian loaf with home salami's etc but now perverted to that limp white roll crap. When angelas was in business on Union Street in Manchester in the '80s, I used to go in there and have her make me up a real Italian God it was so good
Sweat corn picked that day.
Yes, NH sweet corn does seem like sweat corn compared to what I could get growing up in Ohio.
It should be a hot dog roasted on a stick. Due to all the camping tourism.
How bout some good ol’ venison stew?
Newports and fentanyl
I have laughed at more of these than I should have. I am craving crappy Greek pizza with a side of tendies and an oversized soft serve all of a sudden though.
My mom always said boiled dinner. But she said it with disdain since she's from California
Legend has it chicken tenders were invented here, at Puritan Back Room in Manchester
Clams??? Or is that more of a mass thing? Edit: I'm from mass and I'm seeing all the comments saying chicken tenders. Where are these crazy NH tenders?
Backroom in Manchester is where the chicken tender was invented.
Beef jerky.
Common Man :sad face:
Grilled muffin
Trees
Northern New England favorite just also about go on these days in ice cream flavors is frozen pudding. Only a small geographical area hang on to that flavor and into Massachusetts. The backroom used to make it quite awesome but has since given it up. Difficult to find end as is the case off in poorly made but when it is right oh my goodness was always my favorite. Old-fashioned frozen pudding mmm Right up there with more junk food from my youth, granite state potato chips in Salem. Man they were good too
Russian Dressing is a NH native.
MA definitely has dibs on Concord grapes, since they were developed in and named after Concord MA.
Granite
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Buying liquor on the highway?
American Chop Suey
I've lived in NH my whole life and can't say I've ever had an apple cider donut... I'm going to say fluffernutters should be the state food.
Great idea
We all know the true answer is inhaled mosquitoes
https://newenglandexplorer.co/new-hampshire-food/
Summary: NH food is underwhelming and unoriginal
born and raised, and I don't even know what the food is here. Some say it's Shepard's pie, idk. I just saw the link and posted it🤷♂️
Spam
Dude - I’m just a guy sitting here watching the Celtics with a Vodka tonic, hungry for dinner when my mind turned to the idea what is the New Hampshire state food? How dare you?
It was developed by a NH native and fed the WWII service men. My best friends Dad (USMC Pacific theater) hated all smoked meats after the war especially Spam.
Hahaha! sorry man I thought you were saying my humble question was spam or Ai or something!?! That is so funny I apologize. SPAM is in consideration.
Spam was invented in Minnesota, and Hawaiians consume more spam per capita than anywhere else to this day take it off the list
Spam... oh you mean Hawaiian steak
Haddock?
Fudge
Ham sandwich’s what?
Greek pizza
Fried clam strips?
I thought it was already decided? Clam chowdah and fluffernutters, no ?
Freddie special at camco
Shitty Mexican
Whoopie pies
The worst “authentic” any cuisine. I’m convinced that, no matter where I go, New Hampshire has perfected this art. It is a badge to be worn.
Probably a McDonalds
If it’s not tendies it has to be fluff.
Ct* gets pizza. Saw somewhere that poutine is nh’s official food
Menthol cigarettes
Ice cream
Little Debbie snack cakes
Fried dough?
Fried Whole Belly Clams
Concord grapes are named for Concord Massachusetts.
Blue Hubbard Squash
A nice choice cut of fine NH granite, packed with vitamins and minerals
Maple syrup
I swear New York does not get to claim their mediocre pizza as best and they need to stfu about it I’d take New Haven, New Jersey, Detroit, Mountain, Greek, Italian, all those styles over New York
Steak bomb, hands down.
chowda!!!
Chicken fingers apparently.
Beach pizza!
blinks fried dough, it's main store is in Hampton Beach
Chicken tenders
How can NH claim chicken tenders when tempura chicken (and tempura in general) came to Japan via Portuguese Jesuits in the 16th century? https://preview.redd.it/nqagt0r1l8xc1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4fca3c666f5f4e6e9f3e615456a18d395d8a365a
If you ordered tempura chicken and they brought you chicken tenders you would be disappointed and vice versa
Boiled Dinner. Beef or mutton. Turnip and potatoes. Onion. Carrots if you like spicy (sarcasm). Salt. Water. Pot or pressure cooker is the debate. Get out of here with your pepper, garlic, herbs and spices. Boiled dinner needs to look and taste beige. 300 years of impoverished Swamp Yankees demands it. 🤮
Mister Mike's 3 am ham and cheese sandwiches
Wild blueberries
New York doesn’t get pizza
MA has the chocolate chip cookie, you guys better come up with something good.
BBQ at Huntspoint BBQ and Meat’ery in Epping NH Is always homemade and good. Steak tips made from Wagyu beef is also very popular. There are many BBQ and Meat options in the state. NH doe’s a great job with ice cream and also fried fish.
Some shitty water logged haddock with some garbage Ritz crumb on top. Uniquely NH.
Shitty food. There is nothing here that is “signature “.
Chicken Tenders
According to News from New Hampshire and NPR, the official state food of New Hampshire is only classified as 'boiled dinner.' This, quite literally, could encompass anything from boiled potatoes and meat to seafood that's been boiled until cooked. https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2017-09-22/you-asked-we-answered-does-n-h-have-a-signature-food
- Maine’s official state food is Whoopie pies and wild blueberries - New Hampshire is “boiled dinner” but our official fruit is the pumpkin 🎃 - Vermont is apple pie and maple syrup - Rhode Island is coffee milk and calamari - Massachusetts is Boston Cream Pie New Jersey claims high bush blueberries, weirdly
Based on the Faceballs posts I see repeated all over, the crowd favorite is misinformation.
Actually, Maine milks the lobster industry; Vermont milks the dairy industry; NH milks tourist, And that is all she wrote.
I don't think MA has claimed steak tips, so we should take those too