We never had fried chicken for Sunday dinner. Usually, it was pot roast.

Of course, I'm one of those evil Yankees.

We didn't have fried chicken for Sunday dinner either. I remember my grandmother's overcooked leg of lamb or a
ham.

quintessential Sunday dinner in our house was usually pot roast too, EL. I'm technically an evil Yankee as I've lived in Baltimore all my life.

quintessential ice cream - vanilla softserve preferably Twin Kiss!

If Snickers or Hershey's is the quintessential candy bar, would that make Zagnut the anti-matter of snack food?

The Q-sandwich PBJ? Grilled cheese? Things must be really bad at the Sun. Those aren't even real sandwiches. Real sandwiches contain meat, cheese, mustard, those gardeny things, and bacon!

Meat and Bacon.

We usually had pot roast, too. But I don't think I could be called an evil yankee since I grew up in WV.

quintessential ice cream flavor for me is chocolate (agree with the Hershey's chocolate for candy bar).

However, if we were to speak in broader terms of ice cream desserts/confections I would say it was the Hot Fudge Sundae (made with vanilla ice cream of course).

Wait a minute. Did you say Hershey's MILK chocolate?

I'd say we had pot roast most often on Sundays as well. Or some kind of casserole.

Perhaps the discussion here should be the quintessential BALTIMORE [fill in your own category].

Quintessential Baltimore cookie? Berger's.

Quintessential Baltimore beer? Natty Boh.

Quintessential Baltimore candy? Goetze's Caramel Creams [original, not chocolate]

But Hershey's chocolate bars aren't candy bars, exactly, they're just chocolate. I would argue a candy bar has to have more than one key ingredient (and I don't mean the components that make up chocolate). Snickers qualifies. A plain chocolate bar does not.

You could break the sandwich question into subsections. The quintessential PBJ would be grape jelly, creamy PB, and white bread. (And I say this even preferring myself strawberry jam and wheat bread.) The quintessential grilled cheese is harder. American slices, Wonder bread, lots of butter? The quintessential grilled cheese "side dish," though, as it were, is definitely a dill pickle spear.

Quintessential holiday meals:

Thanksgiving: turkey

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day: Ham

New Years Eve: My late cousin's famous salmon salad.... in my family it was quintessential.

All summer holidays (Memorial Day, July 4th, etc): Crabs!

But Hershey's chocolate bars aren't candy bars, exactly, they're just chocolate.

Multimedia Editor(ish) Mary gets it.

Now you've just got me wanting a chocolate chip cookie...
How about a TOP10 places for Chocolate Chip Cookies. (I like Au Bon Pain, but I know there are better, and the Great Cookie and other places like that are always good).

Sunday was also pot roast in our house growing up - and my whole family is from Baltimore!

Quintessential summer picnic - fried chicken and potato salad (potatoes, celery, onion, celery seed and mayo.)

Once a winter on a snowy day, my Mom would put the red checked tablecloth out on the living room floor and we would all sit on it and picnic with that very same menu.

Quintessential summer breakfast - fried tomatoes, gravy, bacon and white toast. Best at the end of summer with fresh tomatoes from my Grandfather's garden. Yum.

Quintessential snowy day lunch after sledding: Campbells tomato soup (water, not milk) grilled cheese (yellow American, thanks) and cheese-its to float on top of the soup.

The after sledding must is Hot Chocolate (Swiss Miss). Without it, it just wouldn't be the same

I think the quintessential cheese should be Velveeta.

quintessential Thanksgiving in our house - turkey, stuffing inside (not in a separate dish), mashed potatoes, sauerkraut, greenbean casserole, gravy, Pillsbury rolls, and Ocean Sparay cranberry sauce in the shape of the can, laying on it's side on a dish.

Some more questions:

Quintessential amuse bouche?

Quintessential tapas?

Quintessential offal?

Velveeta isn't cheese. It's what cheese eats.

My wife believes in the quintessential holiday trifecta. Christmas -- roast beef. Thanksgiving -- turkey. Easter -- ham. On Memorial Day, though, my wife takes a break and it's whatever our daughter and her husband are grilling in their backyard.

as soon as I read the title, I thought of the cookies you get when checking in to the admiral fell inn on broadway, a receipe thats like 200 years old and ties into the history of the place, and is the most awsome cookie I have ever had, anyone else know about that cookie?

Wait, they make cookies other than chocolate chip?

And let us not question the power of a Snickers bar!

I grew up here, which is, technically, the south, and Sunday dinner was almost always pot roast. I think fried chicken for Sunday dinner is a "deep south" tradition.

JL, I'll bet anybody who's eating at home favors PBJ and/or grilled cheese over meat. Sure, you get a meat sandwich when eating out, but at home, PBJ or grilled cheese is easier.

Okay, Elizabeth, I'll give you the Toll House cookie as the national quintessential cookie, but in Bawlmer, It's the Berger cookie, hands down.

Jon Parker--quintessential offal? Sweetbreads!

Dottie, no way a grilled cheese sandwich is easier to make than a meat sandwich. at least if one has cold cuts in the 'fridge.

Hal, you're right that a meat sandwich is faster, but not necessarily easier. Let's face it, all you do is melt a little butter in a pan while you slap some cheese between two bread slices, toast the sandwich in the pan, and - BOOM! - you're done!

Best chocolate chip cookie? Easy, the one that just came out of my oven. Chocolate still runny, great aromas, what could be better (except maybe a really fresh Berger cookie)!