50 States ranked by food and drink: 7 SEC states in top 15

Just another reason Bert heading to Arky was a bad choice

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9. Kentucky
12. Missouri

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14. Alabama
15. Georgia
19. Mississippi

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List is absolute shite.

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9. Kentucky
12. Missouri
14. Alabama

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These are all laughable.

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what are the best dishes in these areas?

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12. Missouri

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French Frys and Mayo.

There is absolutely no way that alabama, kentucky, tennessee, and probably missouri should be ahead of Georgia.

It's not even Texas over Louisiana that's the biggest joke. Texas over New York??? C'mon now.

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without clicking the link because i am lazy, what are they using as criteria for the ranking?

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Here you go:

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During America Week, a parlor game emerged among our editors, in which we discussed what state we'd want to eat and drink in for the rest of our lives if we couldn’t move anywhere else. And, in order to prove each other wrong, we began to research, then really research, and then began to get deep into some weird food forums, and, at the end of it all, we realized we needed to do the most research possible and turn this into a story.

So here is what we did: we ranked states by the food/drink available in that state, focusing on four key questions: 1) What did they produce (beef, oranges, ugh, sorghum?), 2) What iconic items were they known for (key lime pie? onion burgers?), 3) What is their beer/wine/spirits production like (great breweries/wineries?), and finally 4) What is the food/drink scene like in their cities? Weighing all those factors, here is our by-no-means-scientific ranking. If you disagree and want to tell us how stupid our faces are, well, that’s what Internet commenting forums are all about:

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Disagree because of this:

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But Arkansas lacks the dominant iconic Southern foods of literally all their neighbors to the South.

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Then it goes on to list pimiento cheese, fried okra, hush puppies, etc.

Da frick? We eat that stuff here like crazy. We're not big grit-eaters, at least not west and north of Little Rock, but the rest of that is kinda bullshite. And I've never heard of "Possum Pie" until this little ranking. WTF? And we have more local breweries in Fayetteville alone than several other southern states have total.

Makes no sense, considering the heavy Texas influence on the food in the western half of the state. If Texas is that great (which is arguable) then Arkansas is top 10 at least.