@FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works
2026-02-16 08:14 UTC
Replies (22)
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@PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-02-16 08:29
Fusion kitchens are the best and maybe the only good thing to come out of colonialism. Indonesian-Dutch food slaps. Vietnamiese-French cuisine kicks my ass. Must I bring up Italian coffee or Swiss chocolate? Turkish-German Döner is so popular it is sold basically everywhere now.
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@baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2026-02-16 12:24
Every culture takes/mixes foods from other cultures and makes it their own. I think the difference with the US is that there isn’t an ancient history to form a basis.
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@fell@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-02-16 11:43
My wife is Australian, but we live in Germany now. Last year, she was craving "Honey Chicken" which is ubiquitous at Chinese takeaway places in Australia. None of the Chinese places in Germany knew what I was talking about. Turns out Honey Chicken is a purely Australian invention.
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@ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-02-16 22:56
Fuck all of you. Go to New Orleans in a week when crawfish season starts and eat some mud bugs, some blackened redfish, jambalaya, gumbo, cajun crawfish etouffee, etc. Best food in the world. Also, king cakes.
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@Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 2026-02-16 08:22
Umm... it's not mexican, chinese or italian but also american food doesn't exist? I can't tell if this was the joke or the meme just wants to shit on americans for stealing and mangling everyone's food... Also, jalapeño poppers.
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@JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2026-02-17 03:09
I'm a white boy but in highschool my best friend was 1st-generation Chinese-American. His parents owned a Chinese restaurant that I worked at...Americanized Chinese, like everyone in America is used to. While I worked there his parents also opened up an authentic Chinese restaurant. Most of the stuff on the menu, Americans would ball at. There were dead ducks and pigs hanging in the window. But I tried cow tongue there for the first time. It was amazing. And something else with white sauce I don't remember what it was but it was so damn good. I had a falling out with him, and the parents lost their restaurants in COVID.
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@DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2026-02-16 12:34
[off topic?] Great classic mystery novel, "Too Many Cooks" by Rex Stout. Nero Wolfe is a 300 pound private detective who hates leaving his Manhattan brownstone. He investigates from his armchair, sending his assistant Archie Goodwin to round up clues and bring him folks to interrogate. Wolfe is a famous gourmand and is invited to give a speech on American food to a group of European chefs. Interesting novel on many levels.
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@dalekcaan@feddit.nl 2026-02-16 10:35
I feel like if you know what typical American breakfast foods are, "breakfast taco" is pretty self-explanatory.
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@Retail4068@lemmy.world 2026-02-16 11:47
America has, by a long shot, the most diverse and some of the best food on the plant. Go to one of the big three and you can have 3 star Michellin from every continent or some of the best street meat shit you'll have on the same day.
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@9point6@lemmy.world 2026-02-16 08:56
Tbf the kind of cultural fusion cuisine you get when another culture successfully imports another culture's cuisine, is super interesting to me. I'd say this stands separately from intentional fusion restaurants, this is more something that happens organically as a cuisine is adapted to the ingredients and tastes somewhere away from where it is invented. The classic examples are Tex-mex and British curries, but every country has a few things like this. Japanese Italian is a pretty cool experience, not least of all because now I think about it there's some places that are straight up Japanese/Italian cultural fusion, but others are more Japanese/Italian-American, so this thing can go deeper. And don't get me started on the godlike German/Turkish magic happening on the streets of Berlin Always been a fan of trying local cuisine when I've travelled, but I've more recently been trying to add places like the above into the mix, as it's genuinely always been interesting to me
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@PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-02-16 08:31
Why are all nationalities chads except the Italian is a wojak?
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@Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2026-02-16 11:21
First they say 'that is not our food'. Then the say 'all you do is eat our food'. Make up your minds.
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@saturn57@lemmy.world 2026-02-18 00:14
I wonder how much of this applies: 
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@ranzispa@mander.xyz 2026-02-17 16:28
Came from Italy and to be fair I didn't try too much American food, I guess some corn meal and pancakes, meat was really good; but the real greatest thing I found in the US is the HUGE sandwiches they make in the Publix supermarket. Great stuff, loved it.
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@ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 2026-02-17 19:50
I've been thinking about it, and I can only name 3 dishes that were uniquely created in the USA (so no General Tsao Chicken), that were not an old recipe with a changed ingredient because it's hard to get the original (so no Jambalaya), or were not just bigger sandwiches (so no Italian sandwich): Gumbo. Pumkin pie. Buffalo wings (but I'm not sure if this can be called a dish, as its so simple its more like a snack, and its fast food). If someone can think of more, please advise - I'm extremely curious. Edit: Etouffe is also one.
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@arcine@jlai.lu 2026-02-17 17:44
Maybe "American Food" should stop pretending to be from somewhere else, then we would respect (*some of*) it.
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@rumba@lemmy.zip 2026-02-17 19:16
My favorite part was Rick and Morty calling it out as sugar chicken.
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@robocall@lemmy.world 2026-02-18 00:44
"You don't make authentic recipes from our country" "You keep making our recipes" I'm confused.
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@thatradomguy@lemmy.world 2026-02-18 00:19
[Come Fly With Me](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8St7AI37F7Q)
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@A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 2026-02-17 14:14
Plain hotdog and Cheeseburger, are staple american foods lol. And deep fried butter. You guys have your own cuisine, it's just a lame one.
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@osanna@thebrainbin.org 2026-02-16 11:03
What about burge.... oh. What about pizz... oh. What about past... oh. American food? cheetohs and cheezits. Yum. /s
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@MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2026-02-16 18:23
I mean, technically, even the use of tomatoes or potatoes is Native American influence. Except those have become so ubiquitous in European cuisine that no one would even consider for a moment that they were completely unknown there just 500 years ago. Imagine Italian food without tomatoes, or German food without potatoes… Corn as well, though that didn’t catch on quite as much on the continent, where it’s still mostly a boring vegetable, while Americans use it to bake as well (not to mention putting it into literally everything ever since they figured out HFCS).