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This Map of the Most Popular Foods on Pinterest Says a Lot About America

Hey Arkansas, what's with your obsession with Coca Cola?

foodporn: We love it, we share it, we want everyone else on the internet to see it (we know you went to Alinea six months ago, please stop telling us about it).

This goes out to all the people with their cameras out, hovering above their dinners, hitting all the angles: Pinterest recently shared some statistics about what its users care about most, and according to a recent press release, the site's number one category is, you guessed it, food.

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Like any good social media site, Pinterest has loads and loads of data about their users, which it will occasionally distill into a cute little, easy-to-digest infographic. Pinterest's "Foodnited States" of America project showcases the most popular food items on the site on a state-by-state basis.

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Pinterest's list is like some Jackson Pollock painting made of mayonnaise and cupcake batter: all we know for sure is that, somehow as a whole, it must make sense, even if it's indecipherable chaos to the naked eye.

Some populations in our dear country are almost too predictable. Marylanders are looking for scallop recipes, people in Louisiana want shrimp (pasta), and those hardcore Alaskans just want some "survival" recipes (seriously). Meanwhile, the fine people of Massachusetts are really into martinis, which does little to dissuade the notion that north of Boston, the state is little more than drunk croquet players knocking back vermouth on Cape Cod.

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