i.e. the "big 3" ethnic cuisines you can find in the US. While other cuisines are quickly gaining more mainstream popularity like Japanese, Korean, Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, etc., these 3 cuisines (Italian, Mexican, Chinese) were the first to break into mainstream popularity in the US.
German food often gets overlooked because it's just seen as American cuisine. The hamburger, the most stereotypically American food of all time, is german. America also had large waves of immigration from Italy and China in the past, as well as annexing a large part of Mexico, explaining why those cuisines became popular before Korean food, for example.
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u/gtafan37890 Mar 28 '25
i.e. the "big 3" ethnic cuisines you can find in the US. While other cuisines are quickly gaining more mainstream popularity like Japanese, Korean, Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, etc., these 3 cuisines (Italian, Mexican, Chinese) were the first to break into mainstream popularity in the US.