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What to Eat in Indiana - An Indiana Foodie Tour
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Aug 10, 2025
Tenderloins the size of your head and popcorn until you pop! Just a couple of the tasty treats you can find from Indiana! So here are some traditional foods from Indiana you can enjoy. Filmed in Indiana #indiana #indianapolis #foodtour Wolters World for Food! Our videos focus on helping travelers know what to eat when they travel, the traditional food that you always want to eat when you travel. Copyright Mark Wolters 2024 Our Main Channel: https://www.youtube.com/woltersworld Visit Our Amazon Store for Drinkware, cookingware, travel gear, and other necessities of life. http://www.amazon.com/shop/woltersworld Follow Jocelyn on Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/jocelynwoltersworld Follow Wolters World on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/woltersworld Follow Our Shorts Channel for quick travel tips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmSIWRrLCcqamLlTEEBLFLA
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Hey there fellow hungry travelers, Mark here with Woltersworld, and today we're in Marion
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Indiana. Today we're going to talk about what tourists should eat when they come here to
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Indiana. And yes, Indiana is famous for its corn. And what you might not realize is a lot of the
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popcorn you're eating at the movie theater, or maybe you're having right now at home while you're
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watching YouTube or whatever, is actually made here in Indiana. And the popcorn in Indiana is
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fantastic. And whether you're getting any cheese and caramel mix, or you're just getting buttered
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popcorn, maybe with chocolate drizzled on top. The popcorn here is fantastic. But also, it's not
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just a popcorn for the corn in Indiana. If you're getting the sweet corn, corn on the cob when you're
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here is so good. When you're driving through Indiana, I'll tell you, you'll see signs up that
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says, oh, sweet corn for scale, sweet corn for sale. You literally can go to the side of the road and
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buy sweet corn from people. And it's so good. But I won't forget, make sure you got your corn butter
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So whether you roll it or you smear it on there, you're ready to go because the corn here in Indiana
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is something you really have to have. But let's be honest, when you think about going out to eat
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you don't think about popcorn and sweet corn. What you think about is meat. I'm Mark
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I need food that's going to make me full. And I'm going to tell you right now, probably the biggest thing you're going to see to eat
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when you come here to Indiana are the breaded pork tenderloins. Now you'll see at the restaurants and at the bars and the pubs
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they'll say tenderloin. And you'll see this big tenderloin. It's beaten pork tenderloin, beaten down
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breaded and fried on a bun. And literally the bun, the bun will be like this big
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And then sometimes the tenderloin is like the size of a platter at a cafeteria
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It can be huge. That's the big one. If you're the normal one, it's like normal size
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But if they offer you the big tenderloin, you better be ready for a big tenderloin
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But it's so good. You can put whatever you want on it. But if you're going to put ketchup on it
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I do want to tell you this. Here in Indiana, go for the red gold ketchup
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That's the Indiana ketchup. I love my Heinz, but I got to respect my Indiana people
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and go with the red gold when I am here because that's their ketchup. But honestly, breaded fried pork tenderloins
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are fantastic when you're here. you really need to have one. Or two or three, whether it's a pub, a drive-in, wherever
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Now another Indiana kind of meaty thing you might want to have when you're here
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and this is one you gonna find more like a cafe pub kind of thing versus like a fancy restaurant kind of thing and that gonna be be Beef Manhattan If you not sure what Beef Manhattan is imagine how I explain this It calling it a roast beef
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and mashed potato sandwich with gravy on top. Make this sound silly, but really it's like bread with
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mashed potatoes and bread and roast beef on there and they put the gravy on top. It's a wet mess
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but it's really, really good. And you're going to find it, especially in smaller towns, at cafes, You'll see that
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That's in this very Indiana as well. But also, you're going to realize when you come here, there is an Amish community here that is here
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There's a lot of Germanic history here as well. So you get a lot of different fantastic foods, like hearty foods when you're here
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And one thing I want to tell you about. Fried chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy
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Yes, and the corn. You can't go wrong with that. If you see that, go for it, okay
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Because they do good with their fries and their mashed potatoes here. They are good. Their gravy is fantastic
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And that's why I got to talk about the next thing you have to have when you come here. And this is a more of a morning treat and it's biscuits and gravy
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Look, the biscuits here, don't think Southern biscuits, think more of a moisture biscuit
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when you're here. But the thing is the gravy that goes with it, you can't go wrong
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So you go to a breakfast place, a pancake place, you should get pancakes, Mark. It's a pancake place
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No, y'all, biscuits and gravy. They love them here in Indiana. So go for that
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And the thing is, in terms of biscuits and gravy kind of stuff that you want, like fried biscuits down in Nashville, you hear people talk about this, but someplace you'll see
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able to just fry up little biscuits and roll it in cinnamon sugar it's like homemade donuts kind
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of things you can get that there's so many good like sweet treats when you are here and i'm going
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to tell you if you want to have the official hoosier pie yes hoosier pie or you might want to call it
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sugar cream pie yeah it's literally sugar cream and vanilla think of like a custardy pie you're
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going to have that and you'll see it in some of the cafes i mean sometimes you can pick it up like
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at a meyer you know they might have their their bakery section it's after but that's something It's very much a Hoosier eat, okay
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So Hoosier pie, your sugar cream pie. You can't go wrong with that. Some people also like to get persimmon pudding
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Now, persimmon pudding, some people think, well, pudding, you mean like Jell-O pudding, Mark
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No, no, no. Think of it more like bread pudding consistency, like a moist cake made with like a persimmon flavor
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You're going to have that. You don find it all over the place but if you do definitely get a slice Or I would say probably get a square Now when you think of Indiana you more think of like flat farmland and not like rivers or or anything fish related but honestly
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here they're just some pieces of fish you can get. Obviously I'm going to tell you this it's
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probably going to be fried and probably gonna see like fried catfish, fried walleye, fried perch
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Look just get it if it's on the menu especially on Fridays you see it on the special
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definitely get it. You might get a fish sandwich or just the fried fish on the side with
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your coleslaw and mashed potatoes you can go that way i mean there's a lot of options with that fried
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fish that is something they do well when you are here and i will tell you any healthy is not easy
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when you come to indiana when you go for the traditional foods i mean if you're going to go
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to indianapolis you're going to mass avenue you've got you know a lot of different national fare there a lot of cultural stuff you have a lot different you get peruvian food in indiana
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you get all kinds of stuff around but you're going to get a lot of food when you're here in indiana
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they're going to fill you up and if you are in indianapolis one thing i'm going to tell you is Indianapolis is famous for its steak houses, okay
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So get a steak when you're in Indy. My dad still talks about when he used to work in Indianapolis
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He would love going there because he knew he'd get a great steak every single night. So you can do that
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And if you're looking to get like a starter when you're in Indianapolis, get St. Elmo's Shrimp Cocktail, okay
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St. Elmo's Shrimp Cocktail, the sauce. The shrimp is the shrimp, but the sauce, it's like a really spicy shrimp cocktail sauce
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It is really good. I mean, if you're flying out of Indianapolis, you can't get into town to have it
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They actually have it in one of the restaurants in the airport. and you can have it when you're there and eat that
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Okay, so you have that. But yeah, the St. Elmo's shrimp cocktail
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it does have a little bite to it. It is a little spicy, but I love it that way because then you really feel that you're eating it
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I remember I had it with my parents and literally I was having it and I can feel the horse riders coming through my nose
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I'm like, yes, I'm alive eating my shrimp cocktail. I mean, you're gonna love that when you're here
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The other thing is, when you're thinking of steakhouse and you think fancy, when you come to Indiana, there's a lot of very informal places to eat, okay
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Restaurants, bars, pubs, taverns, all kinds of things, mom and pop restaurants, especially the small towns you have a lot of when you're around you also have
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these things called drive-ins and no it's not the drive-in movie theater it's a drive where you really drive in but I tell we'll go to one here and Marian and I'll
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tell you about it now when you're going around Indiana one thing I'm gonna tell you is that don't pass up the drive-ins when you're here when you come in you'll
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drive and you pull in it not a drive movie theater it a drive that you drive in a park they come and take your order you get burgers get those tenderloins those big tenderloins you can get that Fries shakes all kinds of fun things But it one of those like things you don see around a lot of places in the U
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anymore. They still have them here. Sometimes it's kind of set up like this or sometimes you'll see
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almost like a kiosk. It used to be like a gas station where they'll be selling food out of
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Don't worry, pull over, grab some grub there because it is pretty good. So just one of those
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tips when you're eating here in Indiana. And the thing is, it's just fun food to get. Liam loved
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his fried corn dogs. He loved his grilled ham and cheese. My burger, I had an onion burger
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which was great. Jocelyn had fried shrimp with shrimp cocktail. I mean, she had that
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you have all these fun things you can get when you're there. You can bring it with you if you need your car. I mean, just a fun thing to do. And you'll see all these little places around
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but you don't feel like it's just chain restaurant after chain restaurant after chain restaurant
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I mean, I live in Illinois and Illinois is like kind of taken over by the chain restaurants, whereas here in Indiana, you still get those mom and pop places. You get those drivers
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You get those little chains when you're around here in different parts of the state. And it's really kind of a fun thing to do
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And so that's why I got to tell you, whenever you're going to go to the Indiana 500, where you're going to Indiana Dunes, you're going to have some really fun opportunities
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to eat and enjoy yourself when you are here. Now, if you're in Indiana, there is a national chain that does a bit better than other places
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around the country, and that's Steak and Shake. So if you're in Indiana and you see a Steak and Shake, you want kind of a fast food place
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that's the one to go to. The thing is, if you're in Indiana, they do have a lot of crap brewers you can have when
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you're here but honestly you want to get something that's more of a craft beer but it's not a beer
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triple x root beer yeah it was on diners drive-ins and dives i mean it's a famous kind of drive-in
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you can go when you're here but also they make the root beer but you get the root beer in different parts of the state so have that and have some of those local things so when you do go to that park
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you do go to that pub ask them hey uh you got anything made from around here and there probably
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is i mean we've been driving all over the state we're seeing breweries we're seeing distilleries
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that have food or drink just have a good time and have a drink and have it simple and enjoy our time
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here in Indiana. So what are some things you think people should do when they come here to Indiana
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Please let us know in the comments below if we know that it's more than just tenderloins and fantastic popcorn when they come here. Anyway, I wish you all the best. I'll say bye from here in
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Marion, Indiana, right in front of Frank Lloyd Wright House. If you want to learn more about this
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Justin actually has a video on that on one of our other channels, so it's pretty cool. Yeah. Indiana, you're gonna eat till you explode. Bye
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