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[–] 13 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Any food in the US that's qualified with will typically baffle anyone of said nationality.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    That's true in every country, you should see "pizza Americana" or "American fried rice".

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago* (1 child)

    Or you know, watch the comment section of most Spanish omelette or paella videos. I'm there on the omelette comments btw, it's not that fucking hard why does everyone fuck it up.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    Hell, it's true just traveling across the US. Try "Phildadelphia Cheeseteak" a few hours' drive out of Philly. They'll ask if you want marinara.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    Accurate but I was trying to expand beyond "Americans using food words wrong". (Also, "wrong" is culture purity nonsense in this context. Food and language evolve and that's fine.)

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  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago

    You're right that prescriptivism is fundamentally nonsense, but it's been more than a decade and I still put airquotes on "pizza" when referring to it around Pittsburgh, because I don't want to mislead visiting relatives

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