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What Food Best Represents NY?

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Ben Yakas

Published Jan 13, 2011

Modified Jan 13, 2011

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Published Jan 13, 2011

Modified Jan 13, 2011

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Cat photo aficionados I Can Has Cheezburger took some time out of their busy schedule of posting pictures of semi-incomprehensible lolcats to post Food By State, a picture-graphic tutorial that gives each state an edible representation. Some of them make sense (California=Grapes), some are bizarre (Utah=Green Jell-o), and some are too true (Nevada=Buffets). NY was represented by pizza, and although Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia would probably agree with their assessment, others might ask, "but what about our chicken wings, or our all organic bodegas? Shouldn't we have a rainbow-colored flag of different ethnic foods?" But it comes down to the triangle: do you think pizza is really the quintessential NY food?

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Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.

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