Have you seen a lot of posts about St. Louis-style food today? It’s not a very appetizing sight, to say the least. But it’s damn funny if you know how it all got started.
Alek Krautmann, a program coordination officer at NOAA in Washington, D.C., tweeted on Monday about how he introduced his coworkers to the “St. Louis secret” of ordering bagels that are sliced like bread. But the tweet really took off today. And while this bagel-cutting method may look ridiculous to an outsider, it inspired one of the best new memes I’ve seen in a very long time.
Here, for example, is a St. Louis-style hot dog, just like Mom used to make.
nothing reminds me more of the summer than a st louis style hot dog pic.twitter.com/i43OCNCjrr
— Trey Smith (@SlimiHendrix) March 27, 2019
And here’s a classic St. Louis-style KitKat.
Just had a Kit Kat St. Louis style for lunch. pic.twitter.com/qsYDem0GcL
— Mike Jeter (@MaJiKPfix) March 27, 2019
As well as St. Louis-style cereal.
https://twitter.com/embed/status/1110956273632198657
And a St. Louis-style peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
https://twitter.com/embed/status/1110919069140742145
And St. Louis-style spaghetti.
https://twitter.com/embed/status/1110930142791192577
Not to mention the famous St. Louis-style cake.
It's my coworker's birthday! I served her cake St. Louis style: pic.twitter.com/oyalpoypzL
— I'm an annoying Green Transportation Account now (@butt4ss) March 27, 2019
Of course, St. Louis-style strawberry milk is always a hit with the kids.
St. Louis style strawberry milk pic.twitter.com/G9ynkL3wgw
— 𝒅𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒅𝒊𝒐𝒕 (@melip0ne) March 27, 2019
This one tweet about St. Louis pizza sadly doesn’t look like it was intended to be a joke.
you never hear about St. Louis style pizza for some reason pic.twitter.com/glQob6dngg
— Paul Franzen (@PaulMFranzen) March 27, 2019
But who knew St. Louis had such a rich culinary tradition? I mean, we all knew that St. Louis has great ribs. But this is really opening up new doors for me.
There are plenty more of these St. Louis-style wonders on Twitter, but please share your own favorite St. Louis-style recipes with us in the comments. Especially if you’re actually from St. Louis.
Update, 6:30pm: And now The Brands™ have officially chimed in:
Today we're eating our cookies St. Louis style❗ pic.twitter.com/P8SjWRrHDX
— Chip (@ChipsAhoy) March 27, 2019
