Food Culture

SC Food Symbols

SC state foods clockwise from top left: boiled peanuts, tea, peaches, and milk.

These foods have become official symbols for the State of South Carolina.

• State Fruit: Peach
• State Beverage: Milk
• State Hospitality Beverage: Tea
• State Snack: Boiled Peanuts

Famous Flavors of South Carolina

From she-crab soup to sweet tea and grits, come learn about South Carolina food at its finest!

South Carolina & Southern Foods

What foods do you consider to be South Carolina specialties?

• Digital Traditions - Foodways
  Meet South Carolinians who are cooking, bottling, barbequing, and making hash.
• Chitlin’ Strut
  This unique festival celebrates chitlin’s, or boiled hog intestines, a delicacy in the South.
• High on the Hog
  Learn about barbequing traditions throughout the state.
• South Carolina Produce
  Find out which types of produce grown in South Carolina are currently available.
• Southern Cuisine
  Learn the history of typically southern foods such as she-crab soup, sweet tea, and collard greens.

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• Soul Food
  Soul food is African-American cooking that originated in the rural South, often including collard greens, chitterlings, grits, and other local foods.
• Barbeque
  South Carolina loves its barbeque. Learn more about the history and techniques of this ancient cooking method.