Yeah, I steer clear of Band for that exact same reason - too many districts and too many ways to piss someone off.

It’s completely unflavored (other than molasses). I’d go with a recipe that has cinnamon, ginger, etc.

The problem is that you are assigning yourself as the arbiter of whether Indian is offensive in the context of the word pudding. Unless you are Indian, you don’t get a vote.

At my “local” supermarket (Fresh Farms in Niles, IL), they have full fat Galbani in the deli case and will slice it to order or chop off a chunk if you prefer to shred it. They have Grande provolone there too - and both are very reasonably priced (among the cheapest cheeses in the deli case).

The issue is that Indians, themselves, prefer and use “Indian” in multiple contexts. My cousins live on an Indian reservation and nearly everyone on “the rez” uses Indian and dislikes “Native American”. White “allies” are concern trolling rather than listening to their voices.

Because Indians, in general, don’t care and (in the US) tend to prefer the term to other ones like “First Peoples”, “Native Americans” and the like.

Indian pudding seem right up my alley - enough so that I went out of my way to get the supposed “best” version at the Colonial Inn in Concord, MA.

(Whispers) The Jewels is Albertsons.

I’m kind of torn about how I want this to go down.

I have always hated churros and then had them at XOCO and was like “oh, churros are actually amazing, you’ve just always had shitty versions of them.”

Obviously Buona can’t serve Portillo’s chocolate cake and Eli’s seems... a little over the top. As a “unique to Chicago” treat, Rainbow Cone seems like a good…

I’m not sure I’d list Rainbow Cone as Chicago’s Best Dessert (it’s certainly iconic, but the ice cream itself is... eh). Brown Sugar Bakery would probably take that spot for me, exempting individual restaurant’s pastry chef creations. Although the churros at Xoco at pretty fire...

I’m not sure you can call this “America’s future” - with the possible exception of Pocky, these are all niche products that appeal to niche audiences (and folks who have relatives in the region).

I think of them as akin to English candies - there is a certain demographic that goes hard for Lion Bars, Coffee Crisp,…

This is exactly Hyperloop - trains inside elevated, mostly evacuated tubes using linear induction motors/magnetic levitation.

Which shouldn’t be confused with Loop, which is the tunnel system running Teslas in Vegas created by Musk’s other other company, The Boring Company. Loop and Hyperloop share nothing but part…

Some of the best cheese curds I’ve ever eaten was at the Mennonite Sauder store in Seneca Falls, NY.

The poutine topped with porcetta at the now shuttered Porco in Montreal was downright glorious.

The fat and sugar was almost entirely from the salad dressings. Which were mostly Newman’s Own.

This was an answer to a question down below (up above?) but figured it should be a top-level comment.

Deep dish is a Chicago style, though. Chicago has arguably four indigenous styles - Chicago style tavern thin, deep dish, stuffed and double-decker (although the latter is mostly a collar county thing + Ranalli’s in the city).

It’s kind of frowned upon to put up your personal list, although you can mention favorites. The idea is to not single out individuals who came in “last” - you essentially have a Top 3 and everyone else just didn’t make the Top 3, at least as far as the public is concerned.

They only released top 3 for each category and a top 4 overall.

List of participants:

Peter Anderson, Gelsosomo’s Crown Point
Chloe Czerwinski, Uncle Jerry’s Pizza Company, Cary, IL
Maximum Durocher, Tiki Sam’s Pizza, Jackson, MI
Candido Gonzalez, Moretti’s (Chicagoland)
Miguel Gonzalez, Moretti’s (Chicagoland)
RC Gallegos,…