America is known for its tasty food – as well as its undeniably epic portion sizes. Here, the team at Flight Centre share their six favourite dishes you should try on a visit across the Pond:

• Chicago dogs

Grab your Cubs tickets, find your seat and order a Chicago dog. This combination of a hot beef frankfurter on a poppy seed bun with peppers, onions, celery salt and pickles is traditionally served at baseball games in the city's Wrigley Field. Join the fans for the quintessential Chicago experience; just be sure to order yours with mustard otherwise you might be met with scowls of disapproval – ketchup is a definite no-no. 

• Cherry pie

Cherries, cherries all around! Take a look along the shores of Lake Michigan and in Door County, Wisconsin for row upon row of cherry trees producing these sweet and juicy fruits. You can buy them fresh from the roadside, or try them cooked up in a traditional Michigan cherry pie. To make one, freshly picked and slightly tart cherries are boiled down and placed into a sweet shortcrust pastry case, then baked until piping hot. 

• Chippers

Love crisps? Love chocolate? Then you'll love chippers: essentially fried potato chips dipped in chocolate. We all know sweet and salty together makes an irresistible combination and this snack capitalises on that…and then some. Try them at Carol Widman's Candy Company, Grand Forks, North Dakota, which has sold them for over 100 years. It offers milk chocolate, dark chocolate, peanut butter and white almond varieties. Yes please. 

• Sugar cream pie

An Indiana favourite, sugar cream pie is made up of a shortcrust pastry case filled with flour, butter, sugar and cream which is then baked, transforming into a slightly wobbly tart. This is Indiana's official pie, thought to have originated from 19th century Quaker settlers. It tastes best homemade, of course, but the mass-produced Wick's Pies version can be found in shops all over the country. 

• Kansas City barbecue

Smoked meat, slow cooked over various types of wood, lathered with a thick tomato and treacle sauce and served with chips, Kansas City barbecue has been wowing the Kansans since 1900. Today, there are over 100 speciality barbecue restaurants in the city, which also hosts a number of barbecue cook-offs. Many different meats are used, including pork, beef and lamb, while burnt ends – the tips of meat from a pork brisket – are often served as an accompaniment. 

• Chicago-style pizza

If you like pizza – and, let's face it, who doesn't – then you will love Chicago's famous deep-dish pizza, made in a pan with a high edge. This doesn't necessarily make for a thick crust, but instead the extra space is taken up with more cheese topping and a thicker tomato sauce. It takes longer to bake Chicago-style pizzas than the flatter variety, and so the toppings are often layered upside down, starting with the cheese and the vegetables or pepperoni and finishing with the tomato sauce, which prevents the cheese from burning and the dough from becoming soggy. 

Fancy tasting your way around the USA? Take a look at Flight Centre's tailor-made USA holidays.

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About the Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG):

The Flight Centre Travel Group (fctgl.com) is one of the world's largest travel companies with over 18,000 staff and 2500 stores across its leisure, corporate and wholesale businesses. The company's turnover in 2014/2015 financial year was £9 billion. After starting with one shop 30 years ago, FCTG has enjoyed remarkable growth and is one of the top 100 publicly listed companies on the Australian Securities Exchange. 

All specialist brands under the FCTG Corporate banner offer 24/7 support and the benefits of a blended offline/online solution; global negotiation strength and unique and superior business travel products. 

About Flight Centre:

The team at Flight Centre are experts when it comes to travel and are committed to providing customers with a great experience. The company's success comes down to its people, experienced Travel Experts who are passionate about finding their customers the holiday they want, for the price they want. 

Since establishing the first Flight Centre store in 1995, the business has grown its team of Travel Experts to include over 80 stores within the United Kingdom, with new stores opening regularly. Worldwide, Flight Centre has an amazing 2,500 stores across the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, United States, Canada and more, making Flight Centre one of the largest and most successful independent travel retailers in the world. With its global reach and close relationships with the world's best travel providers, the company is able to provide competitive travel deals. 

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