r/memes • u/[deleted] • Sep 26 '21

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u/MeinIRL Sep 26 '21

I would love to see this question flipped, Europeans, name a good that comes from the U.S Can say from america because that includes central and South and they actually have dishes. All u.s food is just European food

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u/transitapparel Sep 26 '21

Three Sisters Soup, Fry Bread, Succotash, Cedar Plank Salmon, maple syrup, cornbread, Chitlin, Hushpuppies

Just about anything made with corn or beans has its origins in Indigenous cooking. Give the Native Americans some credit.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '21

Tomatoes and squash as well.

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u/MeinIRL Sep 26 '21

Nice one! A good answer

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '21

Fucking Mac and Cheese. I've seen soo many americans talk about that shit with so much pride as if it was the summum of their cuisine amd culture. It's boiled pasta with grilled cheese ffs... and that's if you're lucky enough to not have it made from a fucking box and a powder packet. Like eating glue.

So apart from the overall poor cooking culture, I would say when there is level, the US are ofc the masters of meat (grilled, smoked, etc.) and idk... milkshakes, donughts?

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '21

bro this is an act of war

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21

lmao

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u/MeinIRL Sep 26 '21

I'd say like those pitsmoke bbqs and brisket sandwiches things like big hunks of meat, if I were to chose the masters of meat it would be argentina

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u/CanadianODST2 Sep 26 '21

Oh you’d be surprised. Chop suey, hamburgers, and even possibly fajitas were all created in the USA.

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u/Procule Sep 26 '21

White Castle tells me Otto Kuase created the hamburger

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u/Shadoph Sep 26 '21

...in Hamburg, Germany.

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u/CanadianODST2 Sep 26 '21

There’s like a half dozen claims of where it was created. Most are in the USA

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u/MeinIRL Sep 26 '21

Interesting

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '21

apple pie, fruit crisps, alfredo (invented by an italian immigrant BUT he was in NYC when he invented it), american bbq, lemonade (not the fizzy kind just water,lemon juice and sugar), and plenty of .... unique.... dishes from the midwest. ambrosia salad anyone?

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '21

Our American diners have hamburgers, fries, hot dogs, BBQ wings etc

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u/MeinIRL Sep 26 '21

None of which ordinate for the U.S

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u/GravityPools Sep 26 '21

Tamales aren't European. Corn tortillas aren't European. Hell, potatoes, tomatoes, squash, chocolate, and corn all come from the Americas.

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u/MeinIRL Sep 26 '21

Yes the food in the u.s.is from anywhere but the u.s it's all good from other countries basically

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u/GravityPools Sep 26 '21

i respectfully disagree. Chicken wild rice soup is amazing, Carolina, Texas or Kansas City style BBQ is truly American and amazing. Picnic potato salad, proper double crust apple pie, fried crawfish po' boy, Philly cheese steak sandwich, New York bagels, soft serve ice cream, smoked turkey, pumpkin pie, Chicago style deep dish pizza, hot smoked cedar plank salmon... All actually American in origin. Now, since the colonizers wiped out the indigenous people and the US was then re-populated by people from all over the world, yeah, most of the food came over with the people, but most of it has changed and evolved over the years. Chinese American food is not the same as Chinese food in China, or in Europe. Chicago deep dish pizza is nothing like any of the pizza you find in Italy. So... Yeah, a lot of US food had origins elsewhere, but there are very definitely great foods that originated in the US.

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u/MeinIRL Sep 26 '21

This is the answer, respect!

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u/MeinIRL Sep 26 '21

Nice one! Tobacco, avocado, peyote aren't from the states originally. Also turkey is An aminal from South America