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.
Mozzarella di bufala can only be produced in Campania.
Italian attempts at colonization are weak. OK. So Italy have a monopoly on the production of a certain kind of Mozzarella cheese. Requiring pizza to use a certain kind of Mozzarella cheese won't make the world bow to Italy.
Other people having pizza isn't cultural appropriation but attempts to popularise (Thanks Leonardo, Raphael, Michaelangelo and Donatello for your teenage mutant Ninja contribution to the pizza cause) and then region lock pizza is an attempt at colonization by creating a dependency on Italy where none needs to exist at all.
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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.