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Steubenville Ohio with their weird pizza that has raw cheese and pepperoni. 

Ohioans have weird taste buds. 

My principal died in a car accident yesterday.  Sudden and random feeling....she was a year or two away from retiring, too. 

Really sorry to hear that. My condolences.

I dunno...

Wikipedia says the korean taco started here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_taco
Says carne asada fries started in San Diego: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carne_asada_fries

The thing about anything that starts in LA is that it if it becomes popular, it's going to spread out from here quickly; people keep leaving and moving to Texas, you know... Can't keep much a secret around here.

So it's hard to really identify a true "local" food that hasn't spread or been copied elsewhere.

The bigger thing about SoCal is that the "region" defined as anything from probably Ventura down to the border is a population of over 20M people. So the best way to describe it is that we've got just about EVERYTHING.

Well we all know wikipedia is always right...

And yeah, like I said, depends on "when" the Korean tacos were "invented" in SoCal.  There were two different food trucks regularly serving them in downtown Austin in the mid 2000s, before the "Chi'lantro" food truck dude made his entire business out of them starting in 2010.  The earliest "citation" in that wiki article, is that they appeared in SoCal in 2009.  Make of that what you will.

But as far as "carne asada fries"-- like I said, places have been doing that here since before I was born.  The wikipedia "citation" puts it early 1980s.  But Mexican places around here always served french fries, and hamburguesa, too. In fact, because their flattop griddles are...ummm... so "well-seasoned," let's say... hamburguesas at Mexican restaurants are always pretty great.  But that aside, as long as there have been Mexican places making dishes that included carne asada, or carne guisada, or al pastor, or anything else of Mexican origin, there have also been restaurants that served that stuff on top of fries.  Because America loves to be fat, I suppose.  But I've been able to get any and all of that since the day I was born.  In fact, my earliest memories of eating some of those proteins were on top of french fries rather than inside a tortilla, at a local taqueria around the corner from my childhood home named "La Feria."

Sheee, next thing ya know, yer gonna try to tell me that nachos were invented in Southern California, too!

You should.  One of our local places makes a banh mi pizza that's really tasty.

I made banh mi sandwiches the other night with pork belly. Well, very American ones, since my wife hates pickled anything so she got slaw.

Beats me.  Crawfish boils?

I feel like it had to be a coonass who first looked at a bug in the ditch and thought "I bet that would taste good with corn and potatoes."  But I don't know that for sure.  Southeast Texas and even as far as Austin, in small pockets, eat boiled crawfish.

However.

The "crawfish boil" is not just boiled crawfish.  It's not a restaurant thing.  You do it at home, outside, with at least a dozen of your friends or family, preferably at wooden picnic tables.  The crawfish boil is a social event as much as a meal.  Everybody brings their own veggies that they want to throw in the pot and let them soak.  Host provides the corn cobs and taters, tho.  It's polite amongst friends and family to chip in $5-10 for expenses, though certain occasions warrant that the host springs for everything.  Water and soft drinks are tolerated.  Beer is preferred.  Wine is grounds for an ass-beating.  You can be all the sommelier you want in other settings; this is not the place for it.  If it doesn't last for at least two hours, you did it wrong. 

I'm cheating because this is not technically a food, but I don't know what else to put. 

There are also some people in TX and MS who do this, but they got it from us. 

We definitely got it from y'all.

Thanks!

I love a good crawfish boil.

And you can claim your "region" as all of Louisiana as far as I'm concerned, so you get to claim all  Cajun and Creole food.

And, thanks for that, too!

There is this gawdawful desert that people serve out here that is Green Jello with disgusting things suspended in it such as shredded carrots, raisins and cottage cheese. 

Vomit inducing.