the US has stolen foods
Lots of people in this thread seem to be labouring under the bizarre notion that only the US is allowed to count immigrant cuisine as their own.
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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 days ago
G.
Love Mexican and south American food, Creole, Southern, Cuban…plus the US has stolen foods from around the world, so I guess I get to keep pretty much eating whatever.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Because most everyone is an immigrant? Where do you draw the line and call something native or not? Otherwise we’re eating nothing but succotash and whatever else the First People had. Is anyone saying you can’t have a hamburger in Thailand?
skisnow@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Obviously nobody is saying any of those things. The meaning should be obvious when read in context of the original post.
curiousaur@reddthat.com 6 days ago
There’s also some Morocco, Spain and Portugal in there.
I mostly agree, on American Southern and Mexican alone.
D is tempting though, I love all Asian food. The variety from Middle Eastern, Indian, Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. I might have just convinced myself to go D while I was writing this actually…
shenanigans4u@lemmy.world 6 days ago
The is a community of Chinese immigrants that settled in Mexico as well. So some Asian cuisine can be included as well.
curiousaur@reddthat.com 6 days ago
I’m not sure that’s the rules, in that case you can get anything from America.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Everyone in the Americas are immigrants other than Natives, all our food is from someone else’s culture, borrowed and mixed. So what’s the answer? You’re only allowed Native American food? Where’s the timeline cutoff for what constitutes foods in these regions?
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Agreed. However - my exposure to Asian foods has been mostly those foods popular in western culture like sashimi, restaurant Thai or Chinese, etc. There’a a lot of if that I haven’t been exposed to or eaten, and even though I think I’d probably like a lot of the new stuff, there’s plenty I think I could never get used to like still-kinda-living food on my plate, nattō, etc. So I opted for the biggest slice of multicultural food I could get.