From Deseret News archives:
The United Plates of America
From apples to onions, official state foods run the gamut
Flower: Sego lily
Fruit: Cherry
Grass: Indian rice grass
Insect: Honeybee
Contemporary vegetable: Spanish sweet onion
Historic vegetable: Sugar beet
Snack: Jell-O
VERMONT
Beverage: Milk
Cold-water fish: Brook trout
Warm-water fish: Walleyed pike
Flavor: Maple
Fruit: Apple
Insect: Honeybee
Pie: Apple pie
Tree: Sugar maple
VIRGINIA
Beverage: Milk
Shell: Oyster shell
Fish: Brook trout
WASHINGTON
Fish: Steelhead trout
Fruit: Apple
WEST VIRGINIA
Fish: Brook trout
Fruit: Golden Delicious apple
Tree: Sugar maple
WISCONSIN
Beverage: Milk
Domestic animal: Dairy cow
Fish: Muskellunge
Grain: Corn
Insect: Honeybee
Tree: Sugar maple
Wildlife animal: White-tailed deer
WYOMING
Mammal: Bison
Sources: Netstate.com at www.netstate.com/states; State History Guide Resources, at shgresources.com/al/symbol, and The Food Timeline at foodtimeline.org, and Deseret Morning News archives.
E-mail: vphillips@desnews.com
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