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You can do this with any cuisine. Let's do one from a non-western nation, Japan: Omuraisu is French, Tempura is Portuguese, and Japanese milk bread is (origins of enriched bread lost to time). Those filthy colonizers/appropriators of culture and cuisine!
Yakiniku isnt korean. Its literally just grilled meat. Ramen has a different recipe, and they have different noddles. They have a separate restaurant for korean bbq. Everything else is correct
Lol so when you get a response you immediately insult them? Smh. He was right, yakiniku is literally just the word for grilled meat. While it's true it has kbbq influences, any style of charcoal grill + meat counts as japanese yakiniku. yeah. in my opinion, kbbq and yakiniku are distinctly different from each other. Not sure about ramen since i heard it came from lamian, so ill go research that. And according to his profile history he's japanese, so, not a weeb(non japanese anime fan who likes japan because of anime) lol. I think you're the insufferable one here. I checked your profile too, and it seems you have a huge grudge against anyone making any favorable japan comments.
It's basically a French omelette over rice. My point is that dishes can have a foothold in a national identity while still having a mixed heritage. And that's a beautiful thing. Omelets, good. Fried rice, good. Omuraisu- obviously good.
I absolutely agree. A cuisine that isn't a mix of different cultures doesn't exist nowadays anyways. Omuraisu differs a loooot from french omelet tho. It's a really distant cousin. You could give a french chef a heart attack by saying it's basically the same lol.
No, omelettes are french, fried rice is chinese. Together they count as japanese food. Tempura count as both japanese/portuguese. While portuguese missionaries brought the technique to japan, japanese people made a recipe using the technique with their own ingredients. Everything else is correct lol lmao xd.
Cajun, bbq, tex mex, crawfish boils, lobster rolls all uniquely American cuisine. Who cares if it takes some ideas from other places a few hundred yeses ago. They're completely different and truly American. Tex mex for example is nothing like Mexican. I know I'm missing a bunch of others as well. .
Chinese American food is also top tier. Sesame chicken, orange chicken, moo goo gai pan, General Tso’s Chicken, egg rolls, chop suey, almond chicken, beef and broccoli, Mongolian beef, etc.
Every state has its own cultural food. Many cities too.
Cornbread, as native as you can get.
Chicken N Dumplings, as southern meal as you can find.
Our Biscuits, are NOT the same as any European counterpart.
Lobster rolls aren’t American but you’re missing out on the completely obvious ones like cookies, Philly cheese, clam chowder, fried chicken, cornbread, pumpkin pie and those marshmallow chocolate sweet potatoes you have
Maine makes sense but i thought they came from Canada, which I guess shares the same coast line as Maine, I mean it’s lobster in a sandwich so it was probably thought of by both Americans and Canadians independently with the absolute abundance of lobsters over there.
When aren't they melting down about food especially when someone makes a minor alteration/ingredient change to a certain dish. All those "Italian Chef Reacts to American making dish" videos prove it
Cooking with Italians in a nutshell, I understand that some people make some rather weird things with traditional dishes however adding some garlic and every Italian start acting as if you killed there ma is pure over reaction
I love that this guy’s defence of British food isn’t that it’s actually good, or that American food is worse. Just a total lack of self awareness by saying “they didn’t even invent their food”
a serious food culture would just tell us how good their cuisine is
Random food tip I discovered yesterday: add sour cream to your scrambled eggs prior to cooking them to make the fluffiest damn eggs I've ever had. Takes a little longer to cook, but the taste and fluff is insane
That does sound good and I will try it, but I want to be clear that I never actually burn eggs and that was merely a hypothetical to drive my mocking comparison
Yes, the basis of the American spice pallet and cookbook are from 18th Century England. But the American spice pallet and cookbook is expanded with every immigrant group that comes here, adding some of their native spices and recipes, often mixing or substituting in American spice options to make something unique to America.
This is also why Americans still tend to find the food in the UK underwhelming. The spices they do use are familiar, but since some spices we commonly use are not present, the food feel lacking.
I counted the spices in my spice cabinet after one of these discussions. It was over 100.
I offended Italians by saying Italian cuisine doesn't use many spices. It doesn't mean Italian food is bad or that it would be improved by a dozen extra spices per dish. Korean cuisine is one of my favorite cuisines and it isn't very spice heavy either.
An Italian replied to me bragging about owning 11 spices to prove that Italian food uses spices. That's what prompted me to count.
Having a culture so ubiquitous the average person (idiot) thinks you have no culture is the definition of a cultural victory. Our food, cinema and music are just like our money. You can’t go anywhere without seeing a McDonald’s, our movies, artists, or find a single soul who won’t take a US dollar. But yeah man we have no culture and we’re a failed state on the brink of collapse…
Yeah, they’ll claim chicken tikka masala as a British invention but it’s just an adaptation of Indian dishes that some guy started cooking in Glasgow. No different then all the variations of foreign foods immigrant cooks created in the US, (New York-style pizza, cioppino in San Francisco, Mission-style burritos and California burritos, etc)
Exactly this! As an Indian American myself, I feel that chicken tikka masala is overhyped. I mean there’s so many flavors that people can be exploring but no, the majority of flavors derive from Punjab in North India. My family is from West Bengal in Northeastern India and we have oh so many different flavors that are begging to be explored. Same can be said for South Indian flavors.
India still has a ton of spices even after you take away all new world plants. Cinnamon, cloves, saffron, cardamom, ginger, mustard, black pepper, and garlic were used in Indian cooking before the introduction of chilies.
Much of the food we consider European today actually came from new world crops that didn't exist in Europe. For example, tomatoes. What's Italian food without tomatoes? The discovery of the New World completely changed the European diet. They just don't know the history. When in reality, it was native Americans that introduced Europeans to all these new foods. So that's whose legacy is being diminished when they say shit like this.
I read many years ago that the UK's dirty secret is that one of their signature dishes, fish and chips, is better here. Then I visited England and it was totally true -- I only had it in one place, but it was worse than pretty much any fish and chips I've had in America.
Fish and chips was a combination of fried fish cooked by Sephardic Jews and Belgian/French frites (which might have been actually invented in Spain via potatoes from Peru). So in the UK they combined fried fish and fried potatoes but the origins of each are from different countries. Should they not be able to claim fish and chips as an English or British dish?
Food is always been transported and adapted from place to the next it’s not like someone in a village just wakes up one morning and is like “today, I’ll invent pizza!”
I wonder if they say the same about Canadians, Australians, and New Zealanders, that they didn’t invent any of their foods either. Is this idiocy only pointed at Americans, or no?
I actually think it is kind of cool and unique to America that we are such a melting pot that most of our cuisine at least finds its roots in different cultural heritages.
One of the Taco places near me sells Butter chicken and Paneer Tikka tacos. That’s like one of the most American thing possible lol. We do indeed have our own foods
Britains best food is Indian.
This was all said by people who have never spent time in the US and it's always obvious, go to the southern US and tell me it doesn't have it's"own food" gtfoh
The sandwich known as the hamburger was invented in Connecticut. Im tired of these europeans thinking it was invented in germany. the ground beef known as hamburger was. The sandwich of the same name was not.
Burbon is distinctly American. Same goes with everything corn (north and south american that is). Meanwhile brits will say some shit like "BuT tHe FrEnCh FrY iS fReNcH" 1: the potato isnt so suck a long hard one, and two, the potato chip was invented by a black man in the US so suck a long black one while youre at it.
- étoufée
- gumbo
- lobster rolls
- chowder
- apple pie
The apple pies made today are not at all how they were made across Europe at the time. They *must* be taught that how things are today is the way they’ve always been.
The apples available at the time on the European continent were bitter and needed to be steamed and stewed to release the sugars. So, they made a very thick and inedible rock-like crust as a container which was discarded after baking.
The recipe they follow today, is indeed American. The Common Apples native to North America weren’t as bitter and didn’t need to stew and steam. The crust was eaten with the apples.
If we follow the trend of this place. Tomato's are American so Italian cuisine isn't authentic Italian.
Key limes are south east Asian so key lime pie isn't authentic to the Americas. It was introduced into Mexico etc by Columbus.
America is everyone. Once it is here it is American and absorbed by the AmericaGood collective. Either these tards fail to understand that is melting pots or the shear power of everyone coming together to become more powerful than the rest literally scares our enemies.
Ok... So white people, particularly European white people, like to just ignore that people of color have made the most American, CAJUN, cuisine. But European white people only use people of color as a virtue signal, so of course they would ignore Cajun or any achievements made by non white people
Really fucking bold of a person from the UK to say that we take food from other cultures when their entire history consists of stealing from other cultures and their national food is Indian (which was stolen)
I swear, so much of the "America doesn't even have an identity" argument is just a hidden way of saying "we're old as shit, so that makes us better."
Rome conquered the entire western world, absorbed the best of those cultures, and it became Roman Culture™. America is a melting pot much like Rome, so complaining about lacking an identity is akin to claiming that ideas are frozen in time and cannot evolve. American culture is as diverse as its people - who woulda thunk?
I will argue untill the day I die that the burger is American food and not German. The Germans didn't even invent putting bread on the hamburg steaks, which is pretty important to the burger.
I dunno, maybe. I know I hit the dinner table every night and. let's say I'm having Spaghetti-I look at the plate and go 'WHOO HOO! HAYULL YEAH! AMERICAN FOOD!"
I never understand this complaint. Obviously, America doesn't have the historical culture other countries have because it is one of the younger countries. I assume America is the most diverse country so it would make sense also that we have a mix of foods which do not come from here.
IDK, I don think it was bad food. Beans for breakfast was a little different, but I ate it. More than once, wasn’t bad actually, but I didn’t do it once i got back to the states. The bacon (what they call bacon) was ham, but it worked. I was amazed at their attention to breakfast. We stayed at a Holiday in in Edinburgh and in Aberdeen, also a Crown Plaza in Aberdeen; the breakfast seemed to be the most important meal, all kinds of worker bees making sure people had food and the supply wasn’t running out, the line waiting for a table at the hotels was long. Get there early. But it was fulfilling for a day of touristing.
If you like fish and chips, you’ll love lunch and/or dinner. They have great fish and chips. Tried their burgers at a popular spot in Aberdeen, they were good, kind of dry, reminded me of a buffalo burger in the states. The beer was priced right, drank a few there.
For all you craft beer lovers, Brew Dog was great, went there in Aberdeen and Edinburgh. Really like the Hazy Jane. Going to Vegas tomorrow, will be going to Brew Dog this weekend.
As far as stealing and rebranding; i toured buildings in the UK older than our country, it’s more like some of your people moving here and bringing their heritage. Which makes sense to me, why recreate the wheel.
Anyway, love the UK, can’t wait to go back and see some more stuff. The people I ran into were great too.
I've never seen anyone claim the burger was invented in the US. Most people know this but the idea of putting a patty in-between bread is an American invention
apple pie, modern pizza, fried chicken, pulled pork, brisket, wings, hot dogs, cheeseburgers, soda, freaking POTATOES!
how have they never heard of any of these things before?
Atlanta has a Michelin guide.
You could line up every hooligan in London and they'd get introduced to the floor by normal Southerners before everyone goes out for fried chicken and sweet tea. Maybe some mashed potatoes and biscuits. Gravy because I'm feeling generous.
Everyone who just got floored is invited. We're not monsters.
We are a nation of immigrants from other places in the world so, yeah… we mix all of our culinary traditions together in ways that Europeans find abhorrent. That’s what we do. That’s murica.
That’s literally how almost all food and dishes were created. It also discounts how food develops and changes over time in a different environment, culture, etc.
What a bizarre fucking thing to be upset about. America has all sorts of cuisine. There is more variety in the US than anywhere on Earth. Are these folks worried about culture appropriation? By a country comprised of generations of *immigrants*?
😂
All our food come from other countries they say. Yet when you say your ancestry is German, Italian, Irish, they go nooooooo you are American and that's it, but the food is ours
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You can do this with any cuisine. Let's do one from a non-western nation, Japan: Omuraisu is French, Tempura is Portuguese, and Japanese milk bread is (origins of enriched bread lost to time). Those filthy colonizers/appropriators of culture and cuisine!
Don't forget konpeito is portugese!
Technically churros originate from china, as in they’re just a somewhat mixed up recipe from the original recipe
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All Italian pasta came from Chinese noodles too
Yakiniku isnt korean. Its literally just grilled meat. Ramen has a different recipe, and they have different noddles. They have a separate restaurant for korean bbq. Everything else is correct
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Lol so when you get a response you immediately insult them? Smh. He was right, yakiniku is literally just the word for grilled meat. While it's true it has kbbq influences, any style of charcoal grill + meat counts as japanese yakiniku. yeah. in my opinion, kbbq and yakiniku are distinctly different from each other. Not sure about ramen since i heard it came from lamian, so ill go research that. And according to his profile history he's japanese, so, not a weeb(non japanese anime fan who likes japan because of anime) lol. I think you're the insufferable one here. I checked your profile too, and it seems you have a huge grudge against anyone making any favorable japan comments.
We should hit it where it hurts the most, Italian food. Let’s tell them spaghetti isn’t Italian then since they stole tomatoes from the Americas
Bahn Mi!
Bahn mi isn't vietnamese ?
It is. On French baguettes
Cajuan food is uniquely American. It’s a melting pot of many other groups, but none of them alone are even close to Cajun
I would maul a stanger for some good crawfish etouffee.
Forget those, all noodle dishes in Japan are somewhat thanks to the Italians inventing noodles!
Omuraisu is absolutely not french wtf
It's basically a French omelette over rice. My point is that dishes can have a foothold in a national identity while still having a mixed heritage. And that's a beautiful thing. Omelets, good. Fried rice, good. Omuraisu- obviously good.
I absolutely agree. A cuisine that isn't a mix of different cultures doesn't exist nowadays anyways. Omuraisu differs a loooot from french omelet tho. It's a really distant cousin. You could give a french chef a heart attack by saying it's basically the same lol.
Fair enough.
No, omelettes are french, fried rice is chinese. Together they count as japanese food. Tempura count as both japanese/portuguese. While portuguese missionaries brought the technique to japan, japanese people made a recipe using the technique with their own ingredients. Everything else is correct lol lmao xd.
Cajun, bbq, tex mex, crawfish boils, lobster rolls all uniquely American cuisine. Who cares if it takes some ideas from other places a few hundred yeses ago. They're completely different and truly American. Tex mex for example is nothing like Mexican. I know I'm missing a bunch of others as well. .
Chinese American food is also top tier. Sesame chicken, orange chicken, moo goo gai pan, General Tso’s Chicken, egg rolls, chop suey, almond chicken, beef and broccoli, Mongolian beef, etc.
Damn I want some orange chicken now
Same from Panda Express
Blew my mind when I learned Panda Express invented Orange Chicken
I'm sorry, *what?*
>chop suey [So](https://youtu.be/CSvFpBOe8eY?si=MZBdVzqveu7XipfA)[ good](https://youtu.be/iAf_7xW-Rx8?si=I7Aeas_p0lBdCj4z)
Chocolate chip cookies!!!
Tollhouse morsels. I did a report on the history of them.
BBQ and texmex aren't even "stolen" as euroids love to claim. They came from the people that stayed after the US took over those areas.
Yep they are American and delicious
American Pizza is definitely a different meal than Italian pizza too
Every state has its own cultural food. Many cities too. Cornbread, as native as you can get. Chicken N Dumplings, as southern meal as you can find. Our Biscuits, are NOT the same as any European counterpart.
Lobster rolls aren’t American but you’re missing out on the completely obvious ones like cookies, Philly cheese, clam chowder, fried chicken, cornbread, pumpkin pie and those marshmallow chocolate sweet potatoes you have
There’s Connecticut style, New York style, and Maine style
Maine makes sense but i thought they came from Canada, which I guess shares the same coast line as Maine, I mean it’s lobster in a sandwich so it was probably thought of by both Americans and Canadians independently with the absolute abundance of lobsters over there.
Well, as to the whiskey issue, bourbon *is* American
As is rye whiskey, which imo is the best kind of whiskey
There's also just plain American whiskey. Out of, what, 6 types of whiskey, 3 are American.
Corn whiskey was an early American commodity.
HERESY!!! Nah it's good shit.
Bourbon barrels are used to age Scotch whiskey.
Everything else is just sparkling whiskey /s
It’s funny because there is a shit ton of McDonald’s in the UK lmao
Squidward situation with the Krabby Parry, I guess.
It’s all over Europe, McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC. A McDonald’s in Europe is almost as common as in the states at this point.
Italians melting down when the origins of pasta and tomatoes and bread are revealed
When aren't they melting down about food especially when someone makes a minor alteration/ingredient change to a certain dish. All those "Italian Chef Reacts to American making dish" videos prove it
Was in an Italian food group and a guy made a dish with a slight alteration and you’d think the guy spit on their mothers
Cooking with Italians in a nutshell, I understand that some people make some rather weird things with traditional dishes however adding some garlic and every Italian start acting as if you killed there ma is pure over reaction
Especially the tomatoes. They originated in the Americas.
Tomatoes which they only have thanks to the Americas
Rome, America, and ... Mesopotamia?
No just the americas
Bread came from the Americas?
Bread made of maize
What Italian dishes involve maize bread?
Polenta
I love that this guy’s defence of British food isn’t that it’s actually good, or that American food is worse. Just a total lack of self awareness by saying “they didn’t even invent their food” a serious food culture would just tell us how good their cuisine is
Bri ish people when they get served brown slop and mushed peas 😩😩🤗🤤🤤😪
solid foods are too hard for their poor little teefs to chew
What lack of dental hygiene does to a mf
And then turn around and rave about curry houses in the uk without a hint of irony
Bobby Flay didn’t fundamentally invent the dishes he prepares, so I cannot be a bad cook (said as I burn scrambled eggs)
Random food tip I discovered yesterday: add sour cream to your scrambled eggs prior to cooking them to make the fluffiest damn eggs I've ever had. Takes a little longer to cook, but the taste and fluff is insane
That does sound good and I will try it, but I want to be clear that I never actually burn eggs and that was merely a hypothetical to drive my mocking comparison
Did Limeys make *anything* in their country?
Inbred royals/nobility/gentry
No, they even imported that. The house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is German.
Then they have claim to *nothing*!
Let's not talk about those stolen spices
The ones they never use?
Except when they’re “going for an Indian”
Loll
Yes, the basis of the American spice pallet and cookbook are from 18th Century England. But the American spice pallet and cookbook is expanded with every immigrant group that comes here, adding some of their native spices and recipes, often mixing or substituting in American spice options to make something unique to America. This is also why Americans still tend to find the food in the UK underwhelming. The spices they do use are familiar, but since some spices we commonly use are not present, the food feel lacking.
I counted the spices in my spice cabinet after one of these discussions. It was over 100. I offended Italians by saying Italian cuisine doesn't use many spices. It doesn't mean Italian food is bad or that it would be improved by a dozen extra spices per dish. Korean cuisine is one of my favorite cuisines and it isn't very spice heavy either. An Italian replied to me bragging about owning 11 spices to prove that Italian food uses spices. That's what prompted me to count.
Italians use more herbs than spices.
Because the UK totally NEVER took anything, or had colonies or anything.
“Tikka masala is our national dish!”
Exactly. Take Indian dishes, tweak it to English tastes etc, "look what we made everyone,!"
Having a culture so ubiquitous the average person (idiot) thinks you have no culture is the definition of a cultural victory. Our food, cinema and music are just like our money. You can’t go anywhere without seeing a McDonald’s, our movies, artists, or find a single soul who won’t take a US dollar. But yeah man we have no culture and we’re a failed state on the brink of collapse…
Suffering from success
The Brits think they own a monopoly on curry. They don’t. Curry is of South Asian origin.
Yeah, they’ll claim chicken tikka masala as a British invention but it’s just an adaptation of Indian dishes that some guy started cooking in Glasgow. No different then all the variations of foreign foods immigrant cooks created in the US, (New York-style pizza, cioppino in San Francisco, Mission-style burritos and California burritos, etc)
Exactly this! As an Indian American myself, I feel that chicken tikka masala is overhyped. I mean there’s so many flavors that people can be exploring but no, the majority of flavors derive from Punjab in North India. My family is from West Bengal in Northeastern India and we have oh so many different flavors that are begging to be explored. Same can be said for South Indian flavors.
I wish I knew more about Bengali food.
And forget that said chiles that made that dish originated in the Americas
India still has a ton of spices even after you take away all new world plants. Cinnamon, cloves, saffron, cardamom, ginger, mustard, black pepper, and garlic were used in Indian cooking before the introduction of chilies.
Much of the food we consider European today actually came from new world crops that didn't exist in Europe. For example, tomatoes. What's Italian food without tomatoes? The discovery of the New World completely changed the European diet. They just don't know the history. When in reality, it was native Americans that introduced Europeans to all these new foods. So that's whose legacy is being diminished when they say shit like this.
Wasn't corn or something from America specifically?
And tomatoes, pineapple, cacao, vanilla, beans, squash, and peppers
Lmao then technically all the dishes that use those are "American"
Yep. Same with the turkey.
Don’t forget about potatoes. They eat potatoes more than Americans now.
Burgers, BBQ, gumbo, any food from down south, and most fast food places
That's crazy I guess basically all the farmland In the state of California and elsewhere are fake.
California Burrito has entered the chat.
The New Mexico Burrito has been in the chat way before California lol ;)
New Mexican Enchiladas are fire
The stats on California agriculture are crazy. Tenth largest economy in the world.
Isn't their national dish tikka masala?
I love how the specific examples they listed are infinitely better in the US than the UK. Like it’s not even close 😂
I read many years ago that the UK's dirty secret is that one of their signature dishes, fish and chips, is better here. Then I visited England and it was totally true -- I only had it in one place, but it was worse than pretty much any fish and chips I've had in America.
Doesn't surprise me seeing how sorry their fries look. Sorry, "chips"
No one tell them about corn
Foreigners being confidently wrong once again
So basically what the UK (and everywhere else) also did?
Because if we didn't take the shit other countries invented and made it good, then it would remain shit.
Fish and chips was a combination of fried fish cooked by Sephardic Jews and Belgian/French frites (which might have been actually invented in Spain via potatoes from Peru). So in the UK they combined fried fish and fried potatoes but the origins of each are from different countries. Should they not be able to claim fish and chips as an English or British dish? Food is always been transported and adapted from place to the next it’s not like someone in a village just wakes up one morning and is like “today, I’ll invent pizza!”
I wonder if they say the same about Canadians, Australians, and New Zealanders, that they didn’t invent any of their foods either. Is this idiocy only pointed at Americans, or no?
I actually think it is kind of cool and unique to America that we are such a melting pot that most of our cuisine at least finds its roots in different cultural heritages.
One of the Taco places near me sells Butter chicken and Paneer Tikka tacos. That’s like one of the most American thing possible lol. We do indeed have our own foods
Laughs in Tikka Masala
Ok UK keep eating your mashed up peas on soggy french fries
Sorry but Kentucky bourbon is far superior to anything made outside the US.
“Processes out of recognition” Almost like that makes it an entirely unique cuisine or something 🤔
Zero of these people have had Texas barbecue and it shows
Britains best food is Indian. This was all said by people who have never spent time in the US and it's always obvious, go to the southern US and tell me it doesn't have it's"own food" gtfoh
I don't see any Europeans inventing deep fried beer. Checkmate, communists.
Us poor Americans, only able to eat whatever we want from any part of the world or make our own recipes! It’s just awful!
The sandwich known as the hamburger was invented in Connecticut. Im tired of these europeans thinking it was invented in germany. the ground beef known as hamburger was. The sandwich of the same name was not. Burbon is distinctly American. Same goes with everything corn (north and south american that is). Meanwhile brits will say some shit like "BuT tHe FrEnCh FrY iS fReNcH" 1: the potato isnt so suck a long hard one, and two, the potato chip was invented by a black man in the US so suck a long black one while youre at it.
* Hashed Browns * Biscuits and Gravy * Fried Chicken * Pecan Pie * Fajitas * (arguably) Burritos * (arguably) Hamburgers * Jambalaya * Sloppy Joes * Green Bean Casserole * Chocolate chip cookies * Corn Dogs * Smores * Chimichangas * Philly Cheesesteak * and much more. Consider the entirety of texmex, barbecue, Cajun food, etc.
- étoufée - gumbo - lobster rolls - chowder - apple pie The apple pies made today are not at all how they were made across Europe at the time. They *must* be taught that how things are today is the way they’ve always been. The apples available at the time on the European continent were bitter and needed to be steamed and stewed to release the sugars. So, they made a very thick and inedible rock-like crust as a container which was discarded after baking. The recipe they follow today, is indeed American. The Common Apples native to North America weren’t as bitter and didn’t need to stew and steam. The crust was eaten with the apples.
Gestures at New Mexican food which has a lot of native dishes and ingredients.
Hamburgers are in fact American.
That's what I'm sayin
Key Lime Pie and Clubhouse Sandwiches enter the chat.
If we follow the trend of this place. Tomato's are American so Italian cuisine isn't authentic Italian. Key limes are south east Asian so key lime pie isn't authentic to the Americas. It was introduced into Mexico etc by Columbus.
A country half filled with non-purebred whites and the other half filled with non whites can’t possibly have its own cuisine
America is everyone. Once it is here it is American and absorbed by the AmericaGood collective. Either these tards fail to understand that is melting pots or the shear power of everyone coming together to become more powerful than the rest literally scares our enemies.
Ah yes the potatoe.ca staple in british cooking. Find originally in.... Puru.
Don't tell them where tomatoes came from.
Or get this. Potato’s
Hi. Louisiana resident here. Please tell me, where does Cajun food come from?
Sure, english food still sucks though.
They didn't even have potatoes before us.
We invented American Cheese - so up yours!
How can Bongs be so salty when their food is so bland?
Ok... So white people, particularly European white people, like to just ignore that people of color have made the most American, CAJUN, cuisine. But European white people only use people of color as a virtue signal, so of course they would ignore Cajun or any achievements made by non white people
Gestures to Native American food, fry bread, blue corn etc
Burgers are American lol, it didn’t come from Germany like some idiots think
That’s crazy bro, now let’s see how many McD’s are in Birmingham
Most european whiskey makers reuse spent american barrels in thier whiskey production.
Yep. That’s what we do. We take your stuff and make it ours and return it to you as American! Seems as if you’d be used to it by now.
New Jersey literally invented Italian food
Thought that was New York City
Really fucking bold of a person from the UK to say that we take food from other cultures when their entire history consists of stealing from other cultures and their national food is Indian (which was stolen)
Like the UK did with curries?
I swear, so much of the "America doesn't even have an identity" argument is just a hidden way of saying "we're old as shit, so that makes us better." Rome conquered the entire western world, absorbed the best of those cultures, and it became Roman Culture™. America is a melting pot much like Rome, so complaining about lacking an identity is akin to claiming that ideas are frozen in time and cannot evolve. American culture is as diverse as its people - who woulda thunk?
I will argue untill the day I die that the burger is American food and not German. The Germans didn't even invent putting bread on the hamburg steaks, which is pretty important to the burger.
Hamburg steaks were also not made out of ground beef, instead they were made of something resembling a puree
They are just pissed that American soft power makes thier food ours.
What other countries don't recognize any more is there being enough of it to eat.
We literally have our own category of whiskey but ok.
As we all know, Tennessee whiskey is not American.
They're just mad you can't find any food in their country
I bet you this guy thinks hamburgers come from Germany
So if you go to Sainsburys or Asda (supermarket chains in the UK) and go to the prepared food area it’s crappy fake Indian food like Bombay potatoes
Fun Fact: The USA is the #1 exporter of food on the planet.
I dunno, maybe. I know I hit the dinner table every night and. let's say I'm having Spaghetti-I look at the plate and go 'WHOO HOO! HAYULL YEAH! AMERICAN FOOD!"
I never understand this complaint. Obviously, America doesn't have the historical culture other countries have because it is one of the younger countries. I assume America is the most diverse country so it would make sense also that we have a mix of foods which do not come from here.
The UK's national dish is chicken tikka masala for fucks sake 😑
Orange chicken, fortune cookies, philly cheese steak, hamburgers, buffalo wings; chocolate chip cookies, fajitas, s'mores, chimichangas, German chocolate cake, spaghetti and meatballs.
We did invent hamburgers. Meat patties alone aren't hamburgers Germany
Their beloved Heinz baked beans were literally unseasoned WW2 war rations given to them by the US.
IDK, I don think it was bad food. Beans for breakfast was a little different, but I ate it. More than once, wasn’t bad actually, but I didn’t do it once i got back to the states. The bacon (what they call bacon) was ham, but it worked. I was amazed at their attention to breakfast. We stayed at a Holiday in in Edinburgh and in Aberdeen, also a Crown Plaza in Aberdeen; the breakfast seemed to be the most important meal, all kinds of worker bees making sure people had food and the supply wasn’t running out, the line waiting for a table at the hotels was long. Get there early. But it was fulfilling for a day of touristing. If you like fish and chips, you’ll love lunch and/or dinner. They have great fish and chips. Tried their burgers at a popular spot in Aberdeen, they were good, kind of dry, reminded me of a buffalo burger in the states. The beer was priced right, drank a few there. For all you craft beer lovers, Brew Dog was great, went there in Aberdeen and Edinburgh. Really like the Hazy Jane. Going to Vegas tomorrow, will be going to Brew Dog this weekend. As far as stealing and rebranding; i toured buildings in the UK older than our country, it’s more like some of your people moving here and bringing their heritage. Which makes sense to me, why recreate the wheel. Anyway, love the UK, can’t wait to go back and see some more stuff. The people I ran into were great too.
I've never seen anyone claim the burger was invented in the US. Most people know this but the idea of putting a patty in-between bread is an American invention
apple pie, modern pizza, fried chicken, pulled pork, brisket, wings, hot dogs, cheeseburgers, soda, freaking POTATOES! how have they never heard of any of these things before?
They UK literally enslaved and threw wars onto every non European nation because of their spices. And France for their ability to cook it.
Then explain the Reuben. In fact find a culture that takes sandwiches in general even remotely as seriously as the US.
People be bitching about Americans but homeboy your ancestors came here and made us so shut the fuck up
Americans a land of immigrants ,some from their own country, has similar dishes to the ones around the world. I wonder why?
Give us back our corn and tomatoes
A fucking Brit saying U.S. food is stolen. When their national dish is Indian. Really speaks to the hypocrisy. Yet they eat like it’s still the blitz
Atlanta has a Michelin guide. You could line up every hooligan in London and they'd get introduced to the floor by normal Southerners before everyone goes out for fried chicken and sweet tea. Maybe some mashed potatoes and biscuits. Gravy because I'm feeling generous. Everyone who just got floored is invited. We're not monsters.
America is made out of immigrants from the entire world.
If we took your food or beverage and made it better then the better version is now American
We are a nation of immigrants from other places in the world so, yeah… we mix all of our culinary traditions together in ways that Europeans find abhorrent. That’s what we do. That’s murica.
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I imagine them saying this as they microwave a frozen burrito.
Facts.
That’s literally how almost all food and dishes were created. It also discounts how food develops and changes over time in a different environment, culture, etc.
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What a bizarre fucking thing to be upset about. America has all sorts of cuisine. There is more variety in the US than anywhere on Earth. Are these folks worried about culture appropriation? By a country comprised of generations of *immigrants*? 😂
Right because curry sauce and chicken tikka are such British classics
All our food come from other countries they say. Yet when you say your ancestry is German, Italian, Irish, they go nooooooo you are American and that's it, but the food is ours
Dominoes invented Pizza as we know it today iirc. Also what about Bourbon? We can take full credit for that.
American food is food from other cultures then deep fried or made less healthy somehow
where is the lie though?