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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No one here is questioning a food called fartons? Okay

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Never heard of it, nor do I recognize the photo. Grew up in Madrid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Go with horchata, tipical from Valencia

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ciabattas are way older than that, a guy only patented it in 1982. Ask anyone who was around at the time, they were hugely popular in the 60s and 70s.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah some of these seem dubious. Pasta Primavera is one of the oldest styles of pasta dishes out there. Maybe the date is when the name was given to it?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

LOL Carbonara not even illustrated with said dish.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If chicken tikka masala has the UK flag and not the Indian one, then nachos should have the US flag, as it was invented in the US (by a Mexican cook named Ignazio, or “Nacho”)

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago

Wikipedia says you are incorrect:

The dish was created by, and named after, Mexican restaurateur Ignacio Anaya, who created it in 1943 for American customers at the Victory Club restaurant in Piedras Negras, Coahuila.

That's just south of the border in Mexico.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Ignacio varga?! Kidding. But that explains the nickname. Or is it like dick and richard ? Altho...now that I think about it, nacio and nacho aren't that far away, so it probably precedes the whole thing. Either way, Cool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Nacho is the short form of Ignacio. Just like Dolores -> Lola. Makes sense right?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Not gonna lie, bubble tea is older than I thought. I thought for some reason it was a product of the 90s. Couldn't tell you why, other than it just feels right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Man, I could really go for some right now.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

The only one I'm surprised about is tiramisu

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Canada invented the Hawaiian pizza?

South Park was right all along. Blame Canada

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Created in Canada by a Greek immigrant!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You could have convinced me that farton was a weight or energy unit.

'The moon weighs 58 fartons'

It takes 3 fartons to move your mum a decimeter

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It roughly translates to "thing that feds you up", or "glutton". So really, could be

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I refuse to believe that salmon sushi is younger than me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Never mind that -- it was invented in Norway?!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Without looking it up, I believe it was because they were producing so much salmon and looking for ways to make it more popular.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I recall watching a YouTube deep dive on it and basically it was debunked. It's raw fish, people have been eating it on sushi rice since fish and rice existed. But Norway did push it heavily in the 80's.

It might have been that Andong guy...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

But what about the whole "Japanese salmon is not really edible" thing?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wtf, I live in Taiwan and never knew the Mongolian beef was made by us.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought you already had Chinese beef?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

It's funny. Living in Taiwan you never find beef and broccoli on our menus. Or orange chicken. I think those are American dishes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Nothing on this list beats Tartiflette.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Missed pad Thai. Pulled right from the Wikipedia article:

Although stir-fried rice noodles were introduced to Thailand from China centuries ago, the dish pad thai was invented in the mid-20th century. Author Mark Padoongpatt maintains that pad thai is "...not this traditional, authentic, going back hundreds of years dish. It was actually created in the 1930s in Thailand. The dish was created because Thailand was focused on nation-building. So this dish was created using rice noodles and it was called Pad Thai as a way to galvanize nationalism."

Another explanation of pad thai's provenance holds that, during World War II, Thailand suffered a rice shortage due to the war and floods. To reduce domestic rice consumption, the Thai government under Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram promoted consumption of noodles instead. His government promoted rice noodles and helped to establish the identity of Thailand. As a result, a new noodle called sen chan pad thai (named after Chanthaburi Province) was created. Pad thai has since become one of Thailand's national dishes. Today, some food vendors add pork or chicken (although the original recipe did not contain meat because of the government's perception that pork was a Chinese meat). Some food vendors still use the original recipe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It is a food that's newer than it seems but the post specifically calls out foods created after ww2

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Caesar salad needs to be added to Mexico's cultural trophy room as well, I only recently learned. Tiramisu is the ultimate fancy imo. I've always loved Mexican food, but am discovering that I love it more than I realized!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

LOL at USA inventing iced coffee!!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Mongolian is my favorite kind of Vietnamese food.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This German Doner thing really triggers me. There are other food disputes I can’t support because I don’t know but isn’t döner literally known Turkish? “A German immigrant in B” blah blah?! I’ve ate döner in any form in bread, in plate, in dürüm and even in a fucking lahmacun in 90’s. If this shit continues, I’ll fucking put a shinitzel in a bread and call it “German immigrant invented in İstanbul called Turkish Shinitzel”.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nobody denies its Turkish roots though. AFAIK putting Kebap in bread isn't really a thing in Turkey and although one might argue how big a contribution that is, it's that step that combined a Turkish dish with German Imbiss culture and made this a huge success all over Germany.

You're welcome to try the same thing with Schnitzel and if you attain the same level of success and cultural significance, I'd rightfully call you the "inventor". (though I have to inform you, that "Schnitzelsemmel" is a thing already, so maybe think of a different example)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

The shawarma and dürüm variants got popular in Turkiye after 2010’s. Before that, we were always eating it in bread. It had veggies too.

If you want to say “it has this specific vegetable and that makes difference” then that’s another perspective I don’t agree with.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you want to say “it has this specific vegetable and that makes difference” then that’s another perspective I don’t agree with.

That's not a point I'm trying to make. Although my idea of Döner Kebap includes specific vegetable/salad ingredients, to my understanding the defining step was putting it in a portable loaf of bread, instead of having kebap on a plate. And as another commenter said, that idea might have been re-imported. But neither was I around when it first appeared, nor am I a Döner Historian of any capicity, so I have to rely on the sources I read. I'm also not passionate enough about the topic to do a lot more research. But no matter it's origins: Döner holds a very special place in Germany's culinary environment and that's thanks to Turkish immigration history. So it's definitely a significant food in this country.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

This one goes also to you: https://lemy.lol/comment/10521648

In 30 years it it got invented, re-imported and became most popular.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You keep telling us about the 90s. The dish had been around for 30 years by then. Enough time for the idea to travel back to Turkey, don't you think?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah

  • no one put it in a bread from 1800s to 1960
  • one of the 5m Turkish immigrant invented it
  • that variant got back to Turkiye
  • that variant became most popular in Turkiye

Makes sense. Unfortunately I don’t want to continue this conversation with assumptions. So you can assume as you want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nobody put cheese on tortillas chips until the 40s? I highly doubt that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

from what i can tell, tortilla chips weren't really used until somebody started putting cheese on them and calling them nachos

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I love fondant.

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