{"id":34804,"date":"2026-09-28T06:48:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T06:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/34804\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T06:48:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T06:48:43","slug":"which-grilled-food-is-the-top-choice-in-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/34804\/","title":{"rendered":"Which grilled food is the top choice in Mississippi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/vincent-keiman-ul_m5dHThaM-unsplash.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Mississippian\u2019s favorite food to grill is similar to the top choice across several other Southern states, the study found.\" alt=\"Mississippian\u2019s favorite food to grill is similar to the top choice across several other Southern states, the study found.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Mississippian\u2019s favorite food to grill is similar to the top choice across several other Southern states, the study found.<\/p>\n<p>            Vincent Keiman via Unsplash<\/p>\n<p>Summer is heating up \u2014 and so are grills across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Outdoor cooking is one of Americans\u2019 favorite warm-weather traditions, with about 70% of U.S. households owning a grill or smoker, according to analysts at Innerbody, an online health and anatomy resource.<\/p>\n<p>But what people throw on the grill isn\u2019t the same everywhere. A June 15 study by Innerbody found that what people like to grill varies based on region and state.<\/p>\n<p>So, what are Mississippians most likely to fire up this summer? Here\u2019s what the study found.<\/p>\n<p>What do Mississippians love to grill?<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no question if Mississippians love to grill \u2014 the state ranked 19th-most enthusiastic about grilling this summer, according to the Innerbody study.<\/p>\n<p>But what Mississippians most like to grill does stands out. While burgers are the top ranked grilled food across the country, chicken wings reign supreme in Mississippi, the study found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWings proved to be the perfect food for gatherings: inexpensive, shareable, and easy to eat while watching a game,\u201d analysts said.<\/p>\n<p>Which other states grilled chicken wings the most?<\/p>\n<p>Chicken wings were the favorite food to grill across much of the South, the Innerbody study found. Here are the states where it also ranked as the top food to grill:<\/p>\n<p>AlabamaFloridaMissouriTennesseeWhich states are most passionate about grilling this summer?<\/p>\n<p>These are the 10 states most excited to grill this summer, according to the Innerbody study;<\/p>\n<p>1. Minnesota<\/p>\n<p>2. Wisconsin<\/p>\n<p>3. South Carolina<\/p>\n<p>4. Maine<\/p>\n<p>5. New Hampshire<\/p>\n<p>6. Missouri<\/p>\n<p>7. Connecticut<\/p>\n<p>8. Alabama<\/p>\n<p>9. Colorado<\/p>\n<p>10. North Carolina<\/p>\n<p>How did Innerbody conduct study?<\/p>\n<p>Innerbody analysts compared Google Trends search data from the past year across all 50 states and Washington, D.C. from the to learn which foods are the most popular for grilling in each state, according to the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mississippian\u2019s favorite food to grill is similar to the top choice across several other Southern states, the study found. Vincent Keiman via Unsplash Summer is heating up \u2014 and so are grills across the country. Outdoor cooking is one of Americans\u2019 favorite warm-weather traditions, with about 70% of U.S. households owning a grill or smoker,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[5051,5098,5096,5099,5097],"class_list":["post-34804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississippi","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-dining","tag-mississippi-food","tag-mississippi-grocery-stores","tag-mississippi-restaurants"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/vive.im\/@dc\/117347333281153358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}