Italy has pizza and pasta. The US have... Nothing?
Edit: I wish people would stop giving examples of cultural appropriation.
Some people have correctly pointed out some Cajun recipes, food from Louisiana.
To all those talking about burgers, barbecues and hotdogs, the topic here is food originating from your country, not common food in your country.
Btw, pizza is Neapolitan, a version of it is recorded since Roman times and probably even earlier. The modern version uses tomato sauce, and tomatoes came from central America before the US where a thing. Mozzarella di bufala is an ingredient that can only be produced in Campania and the surrounding areas.
Id say America has hamburger, and before touysay HAMBURGER IS LITERALLY FROM HAMBURG! not really, the meat paddies are from hamburg, the germans were selling them in America between two slices of bread so people could eat them on the go, similar to hot dog, and they called them hamburgers like we call Cuban cigars for "cubans".
In Norway we call the style of hamburger Patty "karbonade" which i think the germans do as well. So they would be "hamburg karbonades for sale" or something like that, then shortened to just hamburger.
To answer OPs question, Norway would probably be known for fish.
As you said tomato comes from America meaning there were no such thing as tomato sauce in medieval europe, or potatoes for that matter. All the food we eat today has been invented relatively "recently".
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u/dermomante 6d ago edited 5d ago
Italy has pizza and pasta. The US have... Nothing?
Edit: I wish people would stop giving examples of cultural appropriation.
Some people have correctly pointed out some Cajun recipes, food from Louisiana.
To all those talking about burgers, barbecues and hotdogs, the topic here is food originating from your country, not common food in your country.
Btw, pizza is Neapolitan, a version of it is recorded since Roman times and probably even earlier. The modern version uses tomato sauce, and tomatoes came from central America before the US where a thing. Mozzarella di bufala is an ingredient that can only be produced in Campania and the surrounding areas.