{"id":51142,"date":"2025-12-03T15:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/51142\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:45:09","slug":"philadelphia-tops-list-of-foodcation-destinations-in-u-s-survey-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/51142\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia tops list of &#8216;Foodcation&#8217; destinations in U.S., survey shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A recent survey ranked Philadelphia the number one &#8220;Foodcation&#8221; spot in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The survey, <a href=\"https:\/\/talkerresearch.com\/travelers-willing-to-spend-nearly-2k-for-their-foodcation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:conducted by Talker Research;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">conducted by Talker Research<\/a>, revealed the top locations travelers would visit, just to experience the food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">And the iconic <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/tag\/cheesesteak\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Philadelphia cheesesteak;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Philadelphia cheesesteak<\/a> was at the top of their list of foods to try.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New York City came in second for its New York-style pizza, while Kansas and Missouri rounded out the top three for their Kansas City BBQ.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The survey also found food-lovers spent an average of $900 on travel to experience a regional cuisine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They are also willing to spend nearly $2,000 to taste something on their &#8220;must-try&#8221; list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Most respondents also said they prefer to eat at &#8220;hole-in-the-wall&#8221; eateries over big-name restaurants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A recent survey ranked Philadelphia the number one &#8220;Foodcation&#8221; spot in the country. The survey, conducted by Talker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29144,69,12550,71,70,29143],"class_list":["post-51142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-list-of-foods","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-cheesesteak","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-talker-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}