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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For real. It’s like when people think Kraft Singles are representative of American cheese

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We did slip up a tiny bit by literally calling it “American cheese”. Slight strategic error on that one.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They can’t call it that anymore

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      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Not sure I understand, I’m sorry.

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean, for context, I was like 8 years old when I first got here. I didn’t really know the difference between fastfood vs “real” restaurants so I just categorically grouped them all together.

  Honestly, I still don’t really know what “real” western food is.

  I remember going along with family to a cousin’s sweet 16 birthday party and I think its was western cuisine or something… like I heard they spend a lot of money on it (the cousin’s parents were kinda middle class rich) and I disliked most of the food they served, didn’t eat much, don’t even remember what they served. Ended up going home kinda hungry lol.

  I think I just go so used to Chinese food, I didn’t feel confident exploring other types of “western” food… other than like burgers, pizzas, cheesesteaks, subway sandwiches / hoagies. Which I know, living here for like over a decade, I still don’t feel quite “American” because of my picky eating habits.

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Honestly, I still don’t really know what “real” western food is.

    French cuisine is the most classically famous example, but pretty much every western country has hundreds of years of it’s own extremely distinct culinary identity (ex: Germany, Spain, Italy, even the UK (despite the jokes)).

    The US doesn’t exactly have it’s own unified thing but there are plenty of foods, and even a few entire genres of food, that are very closely tied to the american identity (Texmex is probably the most famous example). The most ‘stereotypically’ american food I can think of is probably hotdish which… I don’t actually recommend seeking out.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Don’t forget barbecue

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      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Isn’t that primarily a spanish invention? US has a culture built around it absolutely, but most places also incorporate it somehow. It’s not really an “american” food per se.

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well the West is know for their baked goods and pastries. Like croissants, donuts, churros, etc. Like in East Asia and South East Asia a lot of the pastry that is for sale is based on Western recipes and they are different from the local pastry recipes.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    its mostly meat, and maybe some kind of bread, very high incidence of type 2 amongst western countries, after asians started incorporating alot of sugar in thier diet, type 2 was in the rise in them too. vegatables are lacking in thier cousins, much like with European ones.

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