Twitter Reveals Each State’s Favorite Food

You can learn much about each state by what the population in each state tweets about.

This new survey took the amount of tweets from each state to determined the favorite food for each state in the nation.

According to Kitchen Daily.com, the criteria for the survey was

" the results of  a recent analysis of food related topics on Twitter, conducted by a cross-disciplinary team at the University of Arizona. Combing through 3.5 million food-hashtagged tweets pulled from Twitter's API between October 2013 and May 2014, the team identified distinctive food words for each state. Along the way, they also uncovered regional differences in the popularity of #breakfast, #brunch, #lunch, and #dinner. The midwest, apparently, is #breakfast country.

Having said that, the survey found the Midwest really loves to talk breakfast. Those states include North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. The South loves to talk lunch and the West loves dinner.

Through the study, the group was able to determined what is each states favorite food through the number of tweets from each state.

For Minnesota, it was venison. Oklahoma loves pickles. Much of the South including Louisiana, Mississippi loves grits. Iowa loves cloves and South Dakota enjoys soybeans.

The most tweeted food for North Dakota is flan. I had to Google flan and I got this definition from Wise Geek.com - a baked dish consisting of an open-topped pastry case with a savory or sweet filling.

I have to admit, before this moment, I have never heard of flan. Is this survey correct in your opinion? Do you agree with the results?

Now go out there, get yourself some flan and enjoy the day!

(source - The Verve.com, Wise Geek.com)