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High fructose corn syrup.
Heart disease.
Not going to argue, but people paying a fascist for their blue checkmark should maybe take a long look in the mirror.
"Your money. Nice check mark." was the appropriate answer. Well, an appropriate answer.
American food is usually hybrid food based on other cultures, either with american ingredients (potatos, tomatos, peppers) or multiple cultures blending together.
Some that I would think should be considered good american food:
smoked/BBQ, Cajun food, generally Southern Cooking, American Chinese food, Tex Mex, Lobster and sorta all those northeastern cuisines, hamburgers and hotdogs.
I don't know why people think America does food bad, we're not one of the fattest countries because our food sucks.
I don't know why people think America does food bad, we're not one of the fattest countries because our food sucks.
I would guess this has more to do with your food having tons of sugar and giant portions. Plenty of countries have amazing food. Not all of them struggle with obesity so much.
ehh its a lot more complicated than it seems.
I think for me I would point to the fact that cheap sugary shit tends to be well, cheap.
For example I had a pack of gummy lifesavers (hard as a rock, rip me) and it was the cheapest thing in my lunch today despite being like, 8 servings of candy? it was cheaper than the water I got??? What the heck is up with that???
Honestly portion size isnt what I would point to, I feel like its custom here to take home leftovers and stuff, even when you visit someone's house for dinner and they make way too much. I'm sure there's some psychological stuff here with portion size, just in my experience I've never felt the need to eat everything and Ive been reasonably healthy all my life.
And yeah shout out to (in no particular order) Mexico, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Canada, Spain, China, South Korea, Ethiopia, Eritrea, India, Vietnam, Thailand, The Dutch, Singapore, Poland, and anyone I forgot y'all are real ones I love your food.
You've got to give some credit that gluttony is somewhere in the causal mix.
The giant portions thing is a cultural left over in a lot of ways, food used to be cooked in a far more communal method and often combined supper and lunch then a snack later at night. For example apparently my 2x great grandfather ensured a small feast for him, my great grandfather, his wife (remarried technically not my ancestor), and all the temp workers during harvest. That's not even getting into things like potlucks.
As for sugar I blame the post war period, arguably the amount of sugar in shit has been decreasing slowly since the 90s but it's a slow generational thing.
I agree, but also - tomatoes and potatoes are from the Americas - so that pizza in Italy? It is ALSO 'fusion' food.
That's just how food works. People eat what's available, and more stuff has become available over the past few hundred years. heh.
I think the whole thing is silly. Enjoy good food! Who cares about the rest?
And sure, I make authentic creole dishes as well as southern, and some legit texmex. But if I didn't, if I made tasty food, who the hell cares? lol.
Tex mex is soooo good but the name makes it sound like "shitty American version of Mexican food" when that couldn't be further from the truth
I love food, I so agree. Honestly if I were rich I would be traveling the world trying as much food from as many places as I could.
In spite of recent events, I'm actually quite glad I grew up American with parents who have friends from all over the world.
I'm 30 now, but the appreciation of foods and cultures was instilled into me from very young, I genuinely believe that sitting down and sharing meals with people might be the ultimate peak of the human experience.
So yeah I get a little salty when people start trashing American food, because American food is hundreds of cultures coming together and making something different but similar and what could be better than that?
Also its like, the only good part of this country anymore .-.
So yeah I get a little salty
WRONG; You got a little MSG-ey. There was salt, but also the umami of stating true things in there, too :)
also agreed on the end thre :)
But I also think that's why people making fun of UK on food are wrong, too. Similar there - the food culture is vibrant.
Also, nice-looking food is nice, but how food tastes is more important to me.
Corn. Cows. Beans, squash, berries.
We have great food here, honestly, and great wine and also bourbon is American. Great cheeses - Humboldt Fog is my favorite fancy cheese and it's American. It's just a big and diverse place. Italian - American food is its own thing and amazing. Cajun & Creole food are American cuisines.
I don't think there is one food that can represent the whole country because it's sprawling and diverse in every way.
Pizza is from Napoli specifically. Italy is incredibly diverse food-wise.
Italian pizza is very different from rest of the world pizza, which is American. Sort of like how hamburgers from hamburg are very different from a McDonald's hamburger.
No, our pizza is way more like Italian than it is American. I don't know where you got your info from, but why would we copy USA if we could copy our neighbour one over?
In an effort to only be a little annoying, some wines in the US have ranked higher in blind tests when compared with French wines. Albeit it’s an old story nowadays, but France doesn’t have a monopoly on good wine, nor Italy on good ‘pizza’.
Something we, the people in the US, do right, is integrating different cultural foods and ingredients. There’s a mountain of things that can be said about just how long something of higher quality actually lasts here, but many of us are eager to try new things and see the local places near us as part of our home.
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As American I agree. However, judging by all the Europeans visiting during the World Cup and then being enamored by our food and culture makes me think this person has never visited.
I don't get it, you agree with the person who never visited? As an American, you should know the food here is diverse and incredible
As a European, it really depends where those tourists were from. Austrian traditional food? Abysmal (even Austrians agree). Germany is also petty meh. Meanwhile Czechia has great food. Further east and south, also great food. That's not to say the US doesn't have good food.
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For those fumbling for the standard answer: it is hamburgers. The USA has hamburgers.
Named after the German city of Hamburg.
Hamburgers are named after the Hamburg Steak, which was named after the city of Hamburg
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Aren't burgers american?
Yes
The U.S. has too many regional dishes to really pick one food to assign as Americas signature dish.
If I were to nominate one it would be the Philly Cheesesteak
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