Michigan Street Food

5 dishes in United States

5 street foods from Michigan, United States: Detroit Coney Dog, Upper Peninsula Pasty, Detroit-Style Pizza, Faygo Redpop and Paczki. Each one has its own page with the story behind it and what to look for.

Street foods of Michigan

Coney Island Diner · Chili Dog Detroit Coney Dog Detroit's coney dogs aren't a New York dish — Greek and Macedonian immigrants borrowed the name of Brooklyn's Coney Island, famous for hot dogs, and… A natural-casing hot dog is topped with a loose, cumin-spiced beef chili, yellow mustard, and chopped raw onion, all served in a soft steamed bun. Round-the-clock coney island diners… Roadside Bakery · Cornish Meat Pie Upper Peninsula Pasty Michigan has its own Pasty Day: Governor George Romney proclaimed May 24 Michigan Pasty Day in 1968. A half-moon pastry is filled with diced beef, potato, onion, and rutabaga, then baked until golden. Roadside bakeries across Michigan's Upper Peninsula sell them hot, wrapped in paper to… Pizzeria Window · Square Pan Pizza Detroit-Style Pizza The original pans weren't pizza pans at all — Buddy's Pizzeria, which invented the style in 1946, baked the first square pies in blue-steel… A thick, airy dough is pressed into a square steel pan and topped with cheese all the way to the crust's edge, where it caramelizes into a crisp, lacy crust; tomato sauce is ladled in… 🥤 Corner Store Cooler · Local Soda Faygo Redpop Faygo was founded by two Russian-immigrant bakers in Detroit, Ben and Perry Feigenson, who based their first soda flavors on their cake-frosting… Redpop is a bright red, strawberry-flavored soft drink sold in glass and plastic bottles from Detroit corner stores and coney island counters. It's a fixture in coolers alongside coney… Bakery Window · Polish Jelly Doughnut Paczki Hamtramck, the Polish-American enclave inside Detroit, throws an entire 'Paczki Day' street festival every Fat Tuesday, with bakeries often selling… A rich, egg-and-butter yeast dough is deep-fried into a dense, oversized doughnut, then filled with fruit preserves or custard and dusted with powdered sugar. Detroit-area Polish bakeries…

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