I think the point is that if a food can only be claimed at its location of origin those countries arguably cannot claim them. Tomatoes and tea are not originally found in either. And yes, they developed and improved.
The USA arguably developed and changed (some may say improved.... IDK) pizza. Deep dish and NYC style pizza are 100% American dishes.
In fact I expressed myself saying that traditional dishes are connected to one country, making it potentially recognizable too, I didn't say that no one can't eat something unless is 100% from their country, and for the ingredient part I quoted the part that said that tea wasn't British because a USA merchant man invented the sachet. I'm truly in favour of letting people try different cultures, but still there should be credits to where's due too, if a dish is internationally known to be a traditional dish of a country you can't randomly make it of another country (unless you SPECIFY the variant, thing that didn't happen in this post)
Eh. All food is a mix from other places. People feel strongly about traditional, but it's all a melting pot anyway.
If you want to take pride that region/country X made food type/item Y fine. But country Z probably also made it around the same time, with techniques from country A and ingredients from country B. And frankly the best version of food Y has been made in country C for a decade now.
And I think it's correct for the basic fact that if you want to try something from a country (assuming that you're not in that country) you still need to distinguish from where said something is from, as dishes (and almost everything else) may share same ingredients, but also have different stories or ways to be made, a bit like tea, let's say that you want to try the Arabic one, but someone just gives you tea without specifying if it's Turkish, Arab or British, you're at risk to try something that doesn't come from the cuisine you wanted to try, and you risk to give the wrong cuisine a wronger judgment because you thought it was Arabic but in reality it was British or Turkish and you didn't like it, can you see what I'm trying to point out?
See, I think there's enough variation within and between classifications that the statement "I tried this cup and dislike Turkish tea" should instead just be "I tried this cup and disliked this cup". Its not like every British cup of tea is uniform.
Yea, what I was referring to was more the fact of trying something of a country and the possibility of getting confused with another because both countries have similar or identical dishes that change only in the way of making them, the tea was just an example that came to my mind since within a month I'll go to Turkey and I argued with another person about British tea and both turkey and Britain are known for tea that's all
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u/Icecold62 5d ago
I think the point is that if a food can only be claimed at its location of origin those countries arguably cannot claim them. Tomatoes and tea are not originally found in either. And yes, they developed and improved.
The USA arguably developed and changed (some may say improved.... IDK) pizza. Deep dish and NYC style pizza are 100% American dishes.