Irish potato candy; scrapple (a kind of fried mush made from pork scraps); and Tastycake.
2. Approximately 75% of the state's population was born in Pennsylvania.
4. Pennsylvania, along with Rhode Island, had the most secure religious freedom of all the American colonies, leading to great religious diversity among the people of the state. Although much of the historic character of Pennsylvania is rooted in Quaker ideology, practicing Quakers are now a small minority in the state.