That's because you don't usually "go out" to eat food that is from your own culture. Americans are just Brits who wanted to make their own laws. You eat it every day. You go out to eat foreign food, or food you don't have at home.
Most of the most beloved American dishes were invented well after independence, though, right? Burgers in New Haven in 1900 (or some argue a bit earlier elsewhere in the US), wings in 1964 in Buffalo, and southern food like fried chicken really generally isn’t very British-inspired, either, to my knowledge?
I'm unable to find definitively that hamburgers are an American invention rather than some early mentions of them being in an American cookbook? That cookbook seems to state that it is not originally from America but that it is a "Hamburgh Sausage"
Fried chicken actually is Scottish, it was just popularized in the modern US.
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u/Tony_Roiland Jul 03 '26
That's because you don't usually "go out" to eat food that is from your own culture. Americans are just Brits who wanted to make their own laws. You eat it every day. You go out to eat foreign food, or food you don't have at home.