Recipes and/or cuisines that originated in your hometown or state?

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22. West Virginia's original - the pepperoni roll!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepperoni_roll

You can get them anywhere, including gas station convenience stores. A well-made pepperoni roll is orange on the bottom, from the grease soaking into the bread as it bakes.

(A second state-wide food is ramps. Think of garlic/spring onions, on steroids! Early settlers ate them as the one of the first spring vegetables to appear each year. Small town churches will have ramp suppers as a fund raiser. From the Wikipedia entry on Allium Tricoccum: "The ramp has strong associations with the folklore of the central Appalachian Mountains. Fascination and humor have fixated on the plant's extreme pungency. Jim Comstock, editor and co-owner of the Richwood News Leader, introduced ramp juice into the printer's ink of one issue as a practical joke, invoking the ire of the U.S. Postmaster General." According to Comstock, "We got a reprimand from the Postmaster General … And we are probably the only paper in the United States that's under oath to the federal government not to smell bad".)