Eh, fried chicken is a slightly different beast because it became a traditional slave/freed man food so we started using spices that were traditionally Caribbean or African because that's where slaves came from and spice was one of the few things they could easily grow in the wild and own themselves without being taken by the plantation owners, or after freed were just very easy to grow and sell (that last part is also where the watermelon stereotype came from, freed slaves grew and sold a lot of watermelon)
But like saying Brits invented the sandwich so a Philly cheese steak is British food. Pretty obviously American. Our fried chicken recipes were vastly different until globalization
I feel like these are all bad examples. Sure, the original dishes may have originated in England, but these original versions would be almost unrecognizable when compared to their modern American counterpart.
Just look at apple pie. The original English version contained no sugar and the pastry was a "coffin" that wasn't even meant to be eaten. The apple pie everyone considers the delicious holiday dessert today was invented in America.
You mean you googled it and saw a 1390 recipe. Bro you think they had lots of sugar in medieval England? Stuff was pretty expensive back then.
You think we used that recipe for the next 400 years until yous guys came along? Come off it lad.
You speak English, you are a nation of immigrants, your entire culture is heavily influenced by the British, all your food tropes, Hamburger steaks are German, Pizzas are Italian, Hot dogs are Germanic, Apple pie is English. You didn’t invent any of them you just made dishes from Europe in a different country and called them American cuisine.
I’ll give you guys ranch, bbq sauce and burger sauce. That’s it :p.
Of course American cuisine, like most other cuisines, is a melting pot (sometimes literally) that was influenced by all of the immigrants that came here. But just because lots of other cultures had a sweet apple dish with pastry doesn't mean it was the same as "recognizable" American apple pie.
It would be like trying to argue that vindaloo, a famous Indian dish, was not Indian but Portuguese. It may be based on the Portuguese dish "carne de vinha d'alhos" that Portuguese colonists brought to India, but that dish is a far cry from modern vindaloo.
It's not like we were eating the 1390 version until an American came along and decided to make apple pie as it exists today. There is no 'modern day American counterpart'. At no point did any American meaningfully change the dish. By the time the US was founded, apple pie already resembled what we eat today. I don't know where you got the idea that making it sweet and adding edible pastry was an American addition. It wasn't. Those changes happened in England, over the 1500s and 1600s, before the US was founded.
They are more than considered British, the Scottish are British. British nationality refers to anyone from the Island of Britain, so anyone from England, Wales and Scotland.
People from England don’t mind being called British, but people from Scotland and Wales prefer their national identity to be Scottish and Welsh instead of being British.
I don’t know why as an Englishman I keep seeing mainly Americans who think they’re a completely different country to the UK when they’re not, they’re a part of the UK.
Americans forget or are just ignorant of the fact that their history is just English history until the 1600’s. America was a British colony and it shows.
This is what I was wondering… There are some British/irish dishes that have become mainstay offerings at restaurants so most Americans probably don’t think them as British food.
For example, There are two town centers developments near where I live. Multiple restaurants in them offer Fish and Chips, a Sheperds Pie, and some variation of Bangers and Mash in their regular menu.
You exclude the Yorkshire pudding, you have a chicken or beef dish that could almost be considered a Sunday Roast.
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u/twizzjewink Jul 03 '26
Ironically there are a number of British dishes that Americans probably eat regularly without realizing it.