New Mexico green chile stew is a warming bowl of roasted green chile, pork, potatoes, onions, garlic, and broth.

A Guber Burger is a Missouri hamburger topped with peanut butter, usually along with mayo, lettuce, and tomato.

Gumbo is a Louisiana stew built from roux, stock, seasonings, and ingredients like seafood, chicken, sausage, okra, or filé. It is dark, soulful, complicated, and deeply personal.

The Gym Shoe Sandwich is a massive South Side Chicago sandwich stacked with meats like Italian beef, corned beef, and gyro meat, then loaded with cheese, sauce, peppers, and toppings. Despite the name, no footwear is involved — just chaos on a roll.

Iowa ham balls are meatballs made with ground ham and pork or beef, then baked in a sweet-tangy glaze. They are salty, sticky, retro, and much better than the name prepares you for.

A classic California Gold Rush–era dish made with eggs, bacon, and oysters, usually cooked together into a hearty scramble or omelet.

Happy Cake is a tropical Hawaiian fruit cake packed with pineapple, coconut, and macadamia nuts. It is dense, sweet, sunny, and built like a vacation souvenir you can slice.

Hatteras Island-style clam chowder is a clear-broth chowder made with clams, potatoes, onions, and often bacon or salt pork.

A Hawaiian haystack is a build-your-own Utah potluck meal with rice, creamy chicken gravy, and toppings like pineapple, chow mein noodles, cheese, olives, coconut, and green onions.

Hawaiian-style Chantilly Cake is usually a chocolate layer cake filled and frosted with a rich, buttery, custard-like chantilly frosting. It is sweet, soft, nutty, and very different from the whipped-cream “chantilly” cakes found elsewhere.

Hoppin’ John is a South Carolina rice-and-peas dish made with field peas or black-eyed peas, rice, pork, and seasonings.

The Horseshoe Sandwich is a Springfield, Illinois original made with toast, meat, fries, and a blanket of cheese sauce. It is open-faced, over-the-top, and absolutely not pretending to be light.

A Hot Brown is an open-faced Louisville sandwich made with turkey, bacon, tomato, and creamy Mornay sauce, then broiled until bubbly. It is rich, golden, and absolutely a fork-and-knife situation.

Hot dish is Minnesota’s cozy casserole classic, usually built from meat, vegetables, creamy soup, and a crispy topping like tater tots.

Rhode Island hot weiners are small beef, pork, and veal weiners served in steamed buns with mustard, meat sauce, onions, and celery salt.

Huckleberry ice cream is creamy, sweet-tart, and packed with the flavor of Idaho’s beloved wild mountain berry. It tastes like a summer road trip through the Rockies, but colder.

Huckleberry sauce is Montana’s sweet-tart mountain berry topping, spooned over pancakes, ice cream, cheesecake, game meats, burgers, and barbecue.

Huli Huli Chicken is grilled chicken basted with a sweet-savory sauce of soy, ginger, garlic, sugar, and island-style flavor. It is smoky, sticky, juicy, and built for backyard fundraisers.

Hush puppies are little balls of cornmeal batter fried until crisp outside and tender inside.

The Idaho Super Tuber is a hot dog baked inside a hollowed-out Idaho potato, then split open and loaded like a baked potato. It is part hot dog, part spud, and completely committed to the bit.