Google Correlate: A Food Data Nerd's Heaven

Food nerds, rejoice! Google Correlate (think Google Trends in reverse) allows users to learn how people search for terms over time, or by region. Our favorite part is not actually the correlation (though we did discover some interesting pairs such as salted caramels and Dutch bicycles, and Rocky Mountain oysters and John Elway rookie card), but the nifty maps of searches by region.

Some things we learned:

Hot dogs. People like 'em. More and more each year:

Açaí probably hit its peak in 2009.

People in Maine love pie:

People from Utah do not like Top Chef:

However, they do like pancakes:

And chocolate chip cookies. Utah is all over Google Correlate!

Midwesterners love their casseroles:

Montana and South Carolina <3 mustard:

Everyone loves dinner parties!

This could get addicting.

Comments

[sunshades]

09:00 PM on 06/04/2011

Ha. It's nice to know that I contributed to that casserole statistic.

[dblueII]

05:10 PM on 06/04/2011

A haiku...

Long summers in Main
Lobster dinners blue
Berry pie. Casseroles suck.

[Esmerelda Foofypants]

12:16 PM on 06/04/2011

ADDICTIVE. ADDICTIVE. ADDICTING IS NOT A FREAKING WORD.

Seriously, it is beyond appalling that Huffington Post is employing writers who make mistakes like this. If you use the word addicting instead of addictive, you deserve to never, ever be employed as a writer.

[dblueII]

05:02 PM on 06/04/2011

I to refudiate addicting.

[Maharg1]

05:28 PM on 06/04/2011

you split your infinitive, noob.

[1000daysoframen]

03:10 PM on 06/05/2011

classic... f/f

[Schottey]

11:14 AM on 06/04/2011

The only reason Minnesota is so light on the "Casserole" map is because they call it "hotdish", otherwise they would be the darkest shade green possible--this is the state famed for "hotdish on a stick" at their state fair!

[southernfried]

07:34 AM on 06/04/2011

like who cares

[Laxsmi de Potrero]

01:30 PM on 06/04/2011

apparently those who care, care. and so why should you care?

[ArnoldHorshack]

08:55 PM on 06/03/2011

mmmmmm....pie.....
http://youtu.be/-saBFp_EspI

[Sarah Glatz Huggins]

10:51 PM on 06/07/2011

yeah, pie.

[qtcherry]

02:25 PM on 06/03/2011

Ok, stop typing so fast...and I am from the midwest....

[qtcherry]

02:24 PM on 06/03/2011

And, I've from the midwest!

[qtcherry]

02:24 PM on 06/03/2011

I have searched for more casserole recipes over the past year

[playsindirt]

01:33 PM on 06/03/2011

I've been to Utah. They hate everything.

[sabela]

04:34 PM on 06/03/2011

Yeah, I was wondering why they don't like Top Chef. Are their food tastes a little too plebeian or is it all the drinking and cursing the chef's do?

[playsindirt]

09:16 AM on 06/04/2011

Not enough Mormon contestants? They have some odd ideas that are food-related like hoarding for emergencies. They're also against anything containing caffeine.

[ArnoldHorshack]

08:54 PM on 06/03/2011

The like Big Love

[KJLSanDiego]

01:11 PM on 06/03/2011

Cool to know!

[ttaz4dqm]

11:50 AM on 06/03/2011

And of course Utah is all over Correlate, Mormons are awesome foodies!

[mdemploi]

02:26 AM on 06/03/2011

Mrs. Fields HQ is in Utah somewhere, no surprise on the choc chip cookies.

[Tamma Peery]

09:57 PM on 06/02/2011

Fun! More please!

[signgrrl]

08:44 PM on 06/02/2011

this sounds like something Calvin Trillin would do.