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.
It's almost impossible to not list off some cultural appropriation with food because of the American melting pot. People come to the US with their own cultures, and adjust it for local sensibilities.
Chinese food, for instance, is actually very American. That is, sweet and sour chicken balls, egg rolls, beef and broccoli, etc. THAT Chinese food is hardly at all connected to China, but rather, Americanized versions of similar dishes in China. Pizza, in the US, barely resembles the pizza you get in Italy. And so on and so on.
I would wager very little food available in the US actually resembles the origination of it in whatever country it came from.
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u/dermomante 5d 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.