Most Bizarre State Foods

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When it comes to symbolic foods, these states 

have some wacky ones

When thinking about what makes America unique, it's fun to take a moment
 and consider the foods that have come to define this glorious nation.
And while we pledge allegiance to the flag, one nation indivisible — it seems
that many states have taken the act of designating their official foods very
seriously. Just recently the State Senate declared corn the official vegetable
 of New York (even though corn is actually a grain).

In pictures: Most Bizarre State Foods

Some states are represented by foods that seem questionable at best, such as
Nebraska adopting Kool-Aid as their state soft drink. Others seem to have
deeper historical roots, such as Hoosier pie (also known as sweet cream pie),
 which is the official pie of Indiana. Regardless of their origins, when it comes
 to declaring penultimate foods, many state legislators have made truly curious choices.

In pictures: Most Bizarre Food & Drink Laws

Although many of these foods seem perfectly normal in and of themselves,
such as morel mushrooms and Jell-O, they stand out quite bizarrely among
 the landscape of American state foods.

"as i search for this i discovered that kool-aid(or the earliest version of it)was actually invented by a pharmacist in a small Iowa town. He never tried to sell it large scale or patent it, so the employee that ran off to Nebraska and "invented" Kool-aid made the money and fame. But the recipe and idea was actually stolen..how sad :l"