Made in Rochester
This mustard brand traces its origins to Rochester businessman George J. French and became famous after the 1904 World's Fair.
French's
This Rochester museum is dedicated to toys, games, and play-and is home to the National Toy Hall of Fame and the World Video Game Hall of Fame
Strong Museum
This type of accent is commonly associated with Rochester, NY
Nasal Accent
This famously messy Rochester dish piles meats, home fries, macaroni salad, and meat hot-sauce together on one plate.
Garbage Plate
This women's rights leader lived in Rochester and was arrested for illegally voting in the 1872 presidential election.
Susan B. Anthony
This Rochester-founded athletic brand helped popularize the hoodie in the 1930s.
Champion
Opened in the 1870s near Lake Ontario, this Rochester-area park is one of the oldest continuously operating amusement parks in the US.
Seabreeze Amusement Park
Around Rochester, this level of schooling before middle school is often pronounced differently than in many other parts of the country.
Elementary
Unlike standard hot dogs, this Rochester-style sausage is pale in color and made from uncured pork and beef.
White Hots
This abolitionist published his anti-slavery newspaper, The North Star, while living in Rochester.
Frederick Douglass
Founded in 1916 as a pushcart business, this Rochester-based grocery chain is consistently ranked among America's most beloved supermarkets.
Wegmans
This famously cluttered Rochester music store has been visited by countless rock stars and is covered wall-to-wall in signed memorabilia
House of Guitars
This lakeside Rochester neighborhood shares its spelling with a major city in North Carolina-but locals pronounce it very differently.
Charlotte
Originating in Rochester-area Italian-American restaurants, this entree features chicken cutlets in a lemony butter and wine sauce.
Chicken French
Born in Rochester, this soccer star became one of the all-time leading scorers in U.S. women's national team history.
Abby Wambach
Originally called the Haloid Company, this Rochester-based firm revolutionized office work by introducing the first successful plain-paper photocopier.
Xerox
Overlooking High Falls, this Rochester brewery is known for its Cream Ale and for a Christmas "Keg Tree" that has been nationally recognized as one of the best in the country.
Genesee Brew House
This suburb of Rochester is spelled like a spicy dish, but its local pronunciation might leave visitors confused.
Chili
In Rochester, and much of upstate New York, bars, diners, restaurants, and fire halls commonly serve this meal every Friday, not just during Lent.
Friday Fish Fry
This Rochester-born actor won an Academy Award for portraying author Truman Capote.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Founded in Rochester in 1888, this company's slogan promised customers they could "press the button" while the company did the rest.
Eastman Kodak
This Rochester venue features thousands of eclectic artworks in a former factory, making it part gallery, part maze, and part visual overload.
ARTISANworks
This nearby Rochester town shares a name with a cosmetics brand, though locals say it another way.
Avon
Founded in Rochester in 1902, this frozen custard brand later expanded far beyond New York, even opening locations in the south.
Abbott's Frozen Custard
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Michael Colangelo