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These are not official state foods. They are what the source website has decided to appoint as the favorite food for each.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190622015744/https://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/packages/50-state-foods
This is a list of official state foods:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_foods
EDIT: Corrected link; source page is down and had originally linked to wrong page. Used archive.org to get to original.
They also swapped the labels on Nebraska and Kansas on the map. And someone should tell them to repick Rhode Island, drinks don't count.
Are you sure "handheld meat pies" is not what people from Nebraska call ribs?