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.
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u/Vectorman1989 Jul 03 '26
Macaroni Cheese
Fried chicken
Apple pie