First of all, PA has a lot of interesting kinds of food and some of the food is unique only to PA and other foods originate from PA, but are in other states or are worldwide.

Zeps: This is a food only found in Norristown, evidently that's where I'm from. These are sandwiches made on a kaiser roll with thick cut cooked salami with peppercorns in it, thick cut bologna, thick cut provolone cheese, tomatoes, slicked onions, and oregano. 

Cheesesteaks: This food originated in Philadelphia, aka Philly. You can get cheesesteaks in other states, but they are not real cheesesteaks because they aren't made the way they are in Philly. Cheesesteaks are made of thinly sliced beef and slices of melted cheese on a long roll. In Philly the cheese is cheese wiz and there's sometimes onions on them.

Soft pretzels: These are just as it sounds. Twisted chewy soft pretzel topped with salt. These are found on any street corner in Philly. Often they are topped with mustard. These were brought to Philly by German settlers in the 1700s.

Mushrooms: Kennett Square is known as "the mushroom capital of the world". 50 percent of the nations mushrooms are grown here.

All of these foods are authentic Pennsylvania Dutch foods.

Whoopie Pies: These are a sweet food made from two cake-like cookies sandwiched around a cream center. They're very delicious and can be made in many different flavors.

Shoofly Pie: This is made of brown sugar and gooey molasses. It got its name because bakers had to 'shoo' the flies away from the cooling pies. 

Pot Pie: Pot pie is a delicious pie made with chicken, chicken broth, and vegetables in a homemade dough. This is made all throughout PA and has been adopted by many companies and made in other states.

Scrapple: No one really knows what this is made of, nor do we really want to, but it's a fried mush of pork scraps and cornmeal. It's slightly spicy and can be made to be very crunchy.

Birch Beer: It's like root beer, but made with the sap of the birch tree. 

Utz: In 1921, in a home kitchen the first chips were made by this company. Since then they've become the largest independent privately owned snack brand. The produce more then one million pounds of potato chips per week. They also produce a ton of other kinds of snacks.

Herr's Snack Factory: Originally started in Lancaster in 1946 by James Stauffer Herr, when he bought a chip company. They are now located in Chester County, PA. They produce a ton of snack food these days. They are a rival company to Utz.

Hershey's Chocolate: This chocolate comes from the Chocolate Capital of the World in Hershey Pennsylvania. Known as "The Sweetest Place on Earth", Hershey produces a ton of candy throughout America and the company spans the globe. This company was developed by Milton Hershey in 1905. They're famous for the Hershey's Chocolate Bar, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Twizzlers, and Jolly Ranchers.

Tastykake: These delicious, individually wrapped, snack cakes started in 1914 when Phillip Bauer started baking them. It is now one of the largest baking companies in the United States. 

Turkey Hill: More that 75 years ago in Lancaster, PA, Armor Frey began selling milk to his neighbors. The business grew and his sons bought it from him in 1980. They started selling ice cream after that as well and their business took off. 

First of all, these two food places are constantly being fought over. Pennsylvanians are always arguing over which of these two is the best place.

Wawa: This is strictly an Eastern PA food place. It's heaven and has hoagies and many other delicious foods.

Sheetz: This place is similar to Wawa, but it's in Western PA and has different kinds of food than Wawa, usually home of the more unhealthy fried foods.