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Hey there fellow hungry travelers! Mark here with Baldus World and today we're in Baltimore
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Maryland. Today we're going to talk about the food you need to eat when you come here to Maryland
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And we got to start with the most important Maryland food out there and that is crab. Maryland
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blue crab. It is fantastic when you're here and if you can get steamed crab, FYI, it's in the warm
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months. If you're here in January and someone's trying to sell you fresh steamed Maryland crab
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No, that's been frozen and probably redone. But if you're here when you can't, oh my God, the crab meat, the crab meat, it's sweeter
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It's like, I guess it's from the water, like the fresh water coming to the breakfast water and the bay and everything
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I mean, just, they're wonderful. They're wonderful. And if you can be here in the summertime and you'll see people on their picnic tails
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they'll see people outside with the newspaper out and they got their little mallets. They're like, bing, bing, opening them up
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Oh my God, just eating that steamed crab is so good when you're here. And even if you can't be here when it's crab season, when you can get it fresh, there's
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all kinds of the fantastic crab things you can have when you're here. The crab cakes. You know
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when we go outside of Maryland, they call them Maryland crab cakes. So make sure you know how good they are here. They just call them crab cakes. We're in Maryland anyway, but that is
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amazing when you have those. You have to have that when you're here. The thing is crab kind of filters
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into other food as well. You want to get your kids to have some crab? Yeah, there's some crab
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mac and cheese. Oh, you want to have some chicken? Oh, I have some Chesapeake chicken. And it's like
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chicken with some some crab on top i mean it's all over and so many things there's crab flavoring and
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chips and all kinds of stuff but crab crab and more crab you got to have that whether it's crab
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cakes or crab or in any which way you got to do it and one of the ways i love having it is actually
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maryland crab soup not a bisque i mean you can get crab bisque if you want here too but like
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maryland crab soup like you're getting like oh it's red what is this like you're expecting like
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a vegetable soup but it's so much more than that with the crab in there i mean honestly it's
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one of my favorite soups in the world. If you're here, get the Maryland crab soup. You won't go wrong, okay
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And the thing is, a lot of these crab dishes, you're getting like a crab cakes or something, you'll notice that Old Bay seasoning will sneak in
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Like, they have a really crazy obsession with Old Bay in this state. Like, t-shirts, hats, like, people put Old Bay on everything
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Like, there's Old Bay on popcorn. They put Old Bay on the rim of their beers sometimes like on the glass I mean the Baltimore margarita that the guy told me next to at the bar is when you have a glass they rim it with Old Bay and then
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you put some Natty Bo in there and drink it up. There you go. I mean, they love Old Bay and you're
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going to have it a lot of places. It's going to be a lot of foods. Just know that they literally
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will spice that on all kinds of stuff. I mean, I had chicken wings with Old Bay hot sauce and it
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was fantastic seriously old bay they have a problem here this is old bay hot sauce on wings
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okay they love the old bay love it and the longer you spend in maryland you start to understand
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why they love it so much you ask yourself do we have that yellow container that little that
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that metal container at our house because i need to get myself some more old bay i mean
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it'll get you like buying t-shirts like that's how much it gets you but they have it all over
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and it's no joke when people talk about how much they love old bay here i mean literally i think
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Marylanders when they go around the country might bring some Old Bay with them in their pocket
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Now Old Bay is usually associated with seafood and things and there's a lot I mean there's tons of great seafood you can have here in Maryland. Don't worry if you're having clams or there's
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fish that's great here all kinds of you get the water right nearby you're gonna do great but one
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thing I do recommend is you actually get oysters when you're here and there'll be oyster houses here in Baltimore other places you're gonna love it. I know for me my favorite oysters were the snow
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hill kind. I mean they're a nice big plump just oh so delicious went down so easy so good when
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you're here, but you have a lot of options in the seafood realm. And if you want something that's not a seafood realm, probably the most popular one you'll find online and you'll see people talk
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about is pit beef. Okay. And so pit beef, some people like to say it's like, oh, it's Maryland's
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like barbecue. No, that's no, no. Think of it more like thinly shaved roast beef. It's a roasted beef
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And then, you know, it's like crispy on the outside. And then it's like rare, rareish on the inside. You put it in your sandwich and eat it. And the thing is, I think of it more like an Italian beef
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like thin slice not Italian beef with the salt like with the juice and stuff but just like that
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thin slice kind of stuff that's what it's more like and you'll go to stands that have it all
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around the state so you can grab it it is very tasty it's a little bit hard to find in like
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downtown Baltimore so yeah you gotta go find places to get it but honestly pit beef something
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you can grab when you're going around especially if you're traveling more in the state because honestly here the shocker people Maryland is more than Baltimore and Ocean City there a lot of great state parks to visit all kinds of great stuff But you can learn about that We got a Shocks of Visiting Maryland video that I talk about those things but you have that and the thing is when you going around Maryland you probably going to want some
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snacks, right? We got to talk about some snacks you should grab when you're there, and I know I mentioned Ocean City, which people like to go to, and the most famous snack from there are the
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Thrasher's Fries, and basically what it is, it's just like good, good old school French fries that
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you get like at a carnival kind of thing, and then they put, you know, salt and apple cider vinegar
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on there, and it's really good, and I'm always kind of surprised it's not Old Bay on there, but I'm sure if you ask, they probably have Old Bay they can sprinkle on top
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But honestly, their fries are fantastic. Another thing you want to get around is Fisher's Popcorn
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That's some good popcorn. Like they sell it all over the place. You can get it in different flavors
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And of course, they're more popular when it's caramel. You want to get the caramel corn from then
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But the one I fell in love with was the Fisher's Caramel Corn with Old Bay seasoning
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Yes, they do have that. So you have that. If you're looking at other sweets, Burgers Cookies
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Oh my gosh. You could almost call it Burgers Fudge or Burgers Cookies, but you can't merge fudge and cookies in a word and still be able to stay in the company of children
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So Burgers Cookies, it's like half of it is this really big chocolate fudge, and the bottom half is like a shortbread cookie
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It is so good. You want to grab those so you can find them. They're well worth it. I mean, Burgers actually has on their website
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You can put in your zip code where you are in Maryland. It'll tell you where the closest place they sell it is
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So you might want to check it out because it's worth grabbing those. though if you're coming in the summer don't leave them in your car f y i now another local maryland
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treat you want to grab and sometimes you actually find these around the country at gas stations are the caramel creams and the cow tails and what they are like the caramel creams it's like a circle
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of caramel and there's cream right in the middle and the cow tails are like a you get the short
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ones or you get long ones it's just it's just basically a caramel and then the inner has inner
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the innards has cream in it and it's actually really really good and that's one thing i can
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get that. I've done road trips around the U.S. I've seen them all over, but you can get those
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Those are from here, so you can grab those, and they actually are fresher here, because I know the cow tails I get when I buy them in Illinois are hard when I get them here. There's still that
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soft caramel with the soft cream in the middle. So good. Now, if you're here in the summertime
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and you're getting a little hot, like I'm getting a little warm here today, you'll notice these
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places popping up that sell snowballs Now you see a snowball you think oh it a snow cone No it more in the shaved ice kind of family And they call them snowballs here That is a really good thing to cool off I had one yesterday when I was at a conference I like I so hot in
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there. And I came outside, they had a snowball truck right there. I'm like, so those are really
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good. Now the thing is when you travel around the state, you can't always get like the home
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cooking kind of stuff or the, the mom's baking kind of stuff. But there's one thing here in
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maryland if you go to a cafe if they have smith island cake you want to get it because basically
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what it is it's every kid's dream it's like eight or nine or ten or i don't know how many layers of
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yellow cake but in between every layer is chocolate icing and chocolate icing on the outside oh my gosh
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it is so good the frosting you have with it it's fantastic but it's the layers that make you go
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you need to have this on like the great british bake-off is one of the challenges of making
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you know, Smith Island cake, right? So that's one thing you can get. It's harder to find these days
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but if you can find it, it's really good. And then, you know, the thing is, is when you're
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going around, sometimes you want to think about the beverages of a city or beverages of a state
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And I can say here in Baltimore, when it comes to adult beverages, Natty Bow, National, Bohemian
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it's a beer here. That is like the go-to truly quintessential Baltimore beer. They have it around
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Maryland. You can grab that so you could have it. And one of the things that I feel is for me
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I felt was my most Maryland moment is when I was having a Natty Bow, okay? And it was a Natty Bow
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but they poured it in a glass with that rim, right, of Old Bay, of course, you know, the
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Baltimore margarita, and they had an oyster in it. I'm like, my God, could I be, like, this is
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for me, it was like, oh my gosh, I feel so Maryland-y, you know, like, if I only had crab soup with it, which I did afterwards, but honestly, Natty Bow is, like, the thing here. I
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mean, it's such a thing, like, when they're, if you're an Orioles game here in Baltimore, they'll have orange cans of it for the game. And if you're just sitting back with your friends, you just want
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to grab a snack with your daddy poe, you get the Uts crab chips. And basically, it's just potato
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chips. I mean, it's a brand that you get a lot of places. It's all over the place. But it's the crab
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chip, the crab flavor one that really brings it that Maryland-edness right to it. So I hope this
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list of fun foods to have and things to drink when you're here in Maryland help you have a better time
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here. Because honestly, Maryland's a beautiful state. From the coast to the mountains and everywhere
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in between, you can have some good eats. So I wish you all the best. I'll say bon appetit from here in Baltimore
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