/r/iamveryculinary believe there should be no barriers around food, that no food belongs to any one country, that recipes are gatekeeping... but also that American food is superior to all others. As such, they are not amused by this YouTube Short in which an Asian woman suggests that American food boils down to burgers, ketchup, fries and self-service cola machines.
Let's see what the commenters say:
Oh boy, my favorite subject that makes me become extremely patriotic.
America has some of the most diverse food in the world, and its culinary scene is among the best if not the best in the world (in terms of things like global impact, food diversity, world-renowned dishes, Michelin stars, etc)
The American culinary scene is so vast that it varies dramatically even by region, with each region having unique styles and recipes inspired by dishes around the world. Even excluding cultural fusion foods, America still has incredible food that was entirely originated in America.
Oklahoma puts onions in their burgers and New Yorkers don't use mustard on their hotdogs.
Number one burger defender.
America simultaneously has no authentic food and no unique food.
Where's the lie?
The same people that complain that American immigrant food isn't authentic because it's not exactly what they have back in their country also say it's not American, because it's a copy of what they have back in their country.
America is a young and diverse country of immigrants with many agricultural zones, so of course what "American food" is will challenge the concepts held by anyone who's country is old, mostly one ethnic group, and mostly one agricultural zone.
"Which agricultural zone should we dine in tonight? Corn Land or Potato World?"
And then 15 separate comments that boil down to "ummm your point is invalid because of cajun food".
The YouTube comments are also pretty good:
They're unironically right, American food is basically airport food.
American food is diverse because there's a panpipe cover of "My Heart Will Go On" in the background of this video pooping on American food.
@r-slur
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@Dramamine defend your culture and try not to mention tater tots this time x
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I think Americans do some things pretty well. I'll try to highlight the parts I think we do best. !burgers !r-slurs
Chicken & Other Poultry
The US is second in the world in per-capita chicken consumption, and first in the world in per-capita turkey consumption. Poultry is cheaper, leaner, more environmentally friendly, and dare I say more versatile than red meat. Some poultry dishes we make well are
fried chicken
barbecued chicken
rotisserie chicken
chicken salad
spicy chicken — wet sauce (buffalo, hot honey, etc) & dry rub (Nashville, Cajuns, etc)
roast turkey
any ground turkey dish (burger, meatballs, stir fry, etc)
chicken fried steak
Grilled & Smoked Food
Not going to elaborate on this. The US & Australia are the only counties that commonly prepare dishes on an outdoor grill. No, I don't think East Asian & Indian grills are as versatile or widely used. We grill everything here - meat, seafood, vegetables, even fruits. Common grilled items would be
grilled salmon
burgers
grilled chicken breast or thigh
anything on skewers (shrimp, lamb, chicken, scallops, you name it)
steak
hot dogs & sausages
pork & beef ribs
brisket
grilled white fish
really any big meaty fish (swordfish, tuna, mahi mahi, toothfish, etc)
vegetables (zucchini, carrots, broccoli, squash, etc)
some fruits (pineapple, citrus, peaches, melons)
You get the idea
Cajun Food
Basically very rich southern food. Common items are
andouille sausage
crawfish
shrimp creole
etoufee (my personal favorite)
red beans & rice
jambalaya
gumbo
Sandwiches
This one is easy, no other country comes close
cheesesteak
chicken sandwich (fried, grilled, blackened)
hoagies/subs/heros
breakfast sandwiches (usually egg, cheese, meat on bagel, English muffin, or Kaiser)
po'boys
Ruebens
roast beef
pork tenderloin
fish, mainly salmon, tuna, breaded cod/haddock, but can also include some obscure ones like grouper, redfish, mahi, etc
Wide variety of seafood & agriculture
The US is a large & geographically diverse place. I'll try to list some unique foods, but I'll miss countless more
crab (dungeness, stone, blue, snow, king)
American lobster
key limes
pink shrimp
grouper
redfish
Alaskan salmon
Alaskan pollock
Alaskan cod
conch
Atlantic scallops
corn
pumpkins & squash
blueberries
cranberries
pawpaws
Tbh Mexico may have us beat for produce
Improved ethnic food
Face it, the US takes what other countries have and make it better. When you eat pizza, are you more likely to eat Italian style or New York style? When you eat a burrito, do you use a fork & knife or do you eat a handheld one like you'd find in Chipotle? Do you think the Dutch or the French make spicy fries, sweet potato fries, or waffle fries? If you eat Andouille, are you eating the spicy American one or the smelly French one? I'm not going to elaborate on this one, I've typed enough. The US just does it better
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This is Reddit mod-tier behaviour
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Wtf you have more upmarseys than my actual post. Are rdrama users more r-slurred than Redditors?
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I pingmaxxed and channeled the American patriotic spirit
As for your question, let's see:
Rdrama users are bigger !r-slurs than Redditors
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Yes.
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Don't be a b-word. Submit to American superiority and we'll go easy on you.
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No thanks I'm enjoying my tuna and sweetcorn jacket potato
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!leafs this guy just personally insulted your father, get him.
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This is going to come across as ironic since this post accuses the US of not having a unique food culture, but that criticism really applies to Canada. Leafs grill bc Burgers grill, and we do it better
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We have poutine and donairs, the only part of the US with a real culinary tradition is the south (and even then only Texas and Louisiana)
You fat fricks just eat processed garbage. Im not going to read your reply unless you post wrist, since 50% of Amerifats are obese and therefore not human
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Bonus pic from last week bc I had to flex after you insinuated I could possibly be a lardass
You are right about the majority of Americans being chonkers, however. I suppose that's why I get upset at the idea that Americans can only eat goyslop-tier food. With our wealth, agriculture, and fishing industries, we've made some excellent food. People are just too lazy to make a blackened trout sandwich instead of buying a Filet-o-Fish. They'd rather eat breakfast cereal than eat unsweetened oatmeal with their own additives. It's frustrating
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Looking pretty tan there, you some kind of Latinx?
American food is great, what happened is that after WW2 American consumption of processed food went through the roof because we had re-tooled our economy to make and ship food across the world. We emphasized consistency and quantity over quality and essentially standardized a lot of our food. If you went back to the 1900s, most American produce would be local food with organ meats, local vegetables and nuts, etc--everything standardized after the 1950s and we ended up with a more homogenous food culture.
However, that's not all there is to eat. And you can find great food in any city. And there's great American dishes you can make. Brisket and Beans with Potato Salad and grilled vegetables, or whatever.
Edit: Check out some menus from the 1800s--https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/concern/texts/0c483k10j?locale=en
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Nah I'm a mayo w family roots in a handful of Mediterranean countries. I spend a fair amount of time outdoors w/o a shirt
I never knew how WW2 affected US food consumption. Thanks for the info
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Looking good bro
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Based
Youre still wrong about leaf food just being american food though. It's ackshualy worse than that since it also includes frog and bong influence!
Plus native and ukrainian influence if you count the prairies.
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You don't even need to refrigerate the beer
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Fidel Castro?
Edit: No Castro Marsey
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Best I can do is Pol Pot.
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!goyslopenjoyers read this you fat bastards
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Also, if our food sucks so much, how come we are all fatter than the supposedly "good" cuisine nations?
It never began for non-Americans.
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Finally someone making a good point in this thread.
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!masterchef !effortposters
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Burger chicken recipes are generally good--But, do yourself a favor and buy air chilled chicken or just some shit from a farm. USDA regs require the chilling of chicken to 40 degrees within like 30 minutes of slaughter, the fastest way to do this is throwing it into a vat of ice water with a little salt. Thus fricks up the osmotic pressure in the meat and washes out some taste.
That's why when you cook a chicken breast in the US, it's swimming in water when you start cooking it,
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Many grocery stores are moving to air chilled chicken as the equipment is getting more economical and it has a longer shelf life (less moisture).
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That's a good point. The default grocery store chicken here is pretty tasteless compared to getting a farm chicken.
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I mean it was a good idea when they first started doing it, that's why large cases of food borne illnesses were rare in the US. It just makes for some bland butt chicken.
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2022-DON369
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Didnt read
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You have forgotten the most American food of all…peanut butter
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Way too long, food the us does best:
Literally everything
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!dixie America haters saying American culture doesn't include our premier barbecue. Probably because you can't have it outside of the Land of Traitors
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This is what culinary perfection looks like. Euros eternally btfod
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You named it after a city in Germany though... Something something "rent free".
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Germans have a city named Cheeseburger?
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Frankfurt am Cheeseburger
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You don't understand symbolism. Euros will be devoured completely at our convenience
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As a reminder that each American has the capability to destroy an entire city of weak butt Germans.
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Dave's Double is better
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Wrong
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Ok, if American food is stolen then we get to claim every dish made with potatoes, peppers, tomatoes and all new world fruits/vegetables
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!burgers
This exactly.
Annoying as shit when euros try to claim Italian and their use of tomatos as though it's not a 300 year old new world discovery.
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Talk to any Vietnamese and they will tell you the best pho is found in Houston cause they can actually get beef here
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A Cambodian in Massachusetts said that to me once
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Tomatoes are an American plant.
The way the degos use them is an Italian invention.
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Stolen from the Red Man
!latinx
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Red sauce is pretty American
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They were all afraid of tomatoes for being poisonous at first. What a bunch of cucks
Putting the
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whatd they eat before, jews?
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Gruel and fish sauce
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its always someone from an irrelevant butt country trying to shit on us lmao
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Its
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To be fair there's only like 4 relevant countries besides America and all of them are in Asia
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OP seems to be the one most upset here lol
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his cute twink butt would have a heart attack if he came over here n tried real food
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I'll have you know that I once ate about a third of a portion of chicken and waffles at Hash House a Go Go in Vegas.
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Yeh frick OP what a wet blanket
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Our country does have a unique style of food though, and it's the kind of farm-to-table stuff that used to be mostly a new england thing but is all over the country now. Also referred to often as "new american" and a couple other terms. If you had to say it borrowed from another culture, it probably takes more from French cuisine than anything else. Something along these lines is a pretty good example:
https://www.barleyswine.com/
Only garbage eating reddit and twitter morons and/or poor people think American food = McDonalds or whatever.
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I'm not trying to be uncivil or start an argument but are you r-slurred? Every country has modern mid-to-high-end cuisine based around local fresh produce.
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What a stupid response. That's like saying "every country has food. there's nothing unique about yours."
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Whoa let's keep it friendly here. Every country has farm-to-table food. Americans think that farm-to-table is novel because they're so used to eating ultra-processed slop that they've never seen whole ingredients before.
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The point you're missing is that, like any other country, we express our culture through our food in our own unique way, and this style of restaurant is what you would actually want to try if you wanted to judge American food, rather than thinking all we eat over here is hot dogs or whatever.
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Keep yourself safe bong scum. No truce with The Shadow!
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Here's the other awesome thing. We don't just have local produce. We have every ingredient that has ever existed at any time at any place within the entire world. Cope and seethe brit.
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Just because you have Taco Bell and Panda Express that doesn't mean you can eat around the world.
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The pinnacle of Austin food is Catfish Parlor or Fran's Hamburgers
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Aren't you a britbong
@AverageBen10Enjoyer? You guys think mushy peas are a delicacy and put tuna on pizza.
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Mushy peas are great. Seafood pizzas should be banned and are only for the most foolhardy 2am takeaway visitors.
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We have the top restaurants in the world. This chink b-word needs to stfu and never come to America.
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Umm Applebees and Olive Garden aren't top restaurants.
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Wasn't talking about chains you mongrel.
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Las Vegas's Heart Attack Grill isn't a top restaurant.
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We have the most Michelin starred restaurants
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You aren't even close to having the most
!eurochads
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Oof.. !burgers, not a good look.
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Yeah but how many Europooran restaurants get featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
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It's a French company. I don't think they even added the US until much later.
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Cope and seethe.
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The most best
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This is rdrama so you're obligated to present per-capita statistics, in which case Japan wins. USA isn't #1 for most stars anyway, it's 6th.
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I will bomb your country
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How does per capita put Japan number 1, there's 125m of them?
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They still shit on whatever cobbletown mush slop you have.
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We have TGI Fridays so you're actually just insulting yourself.
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Hey look at that. Our American food is in such high demand for you bland Brits that even our most common denominator restaurant chains are sprouting up over there. Could you recommend any good beans and toast franchises from your country that I could visit in the states?
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No one eats beans on toast in restaurants, that is a STRAW MAN argument. There are plenty of fish and chip and "Irish" pubs in America serving British food.
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Literally everyone alive would rather go to a TGIF than have your "world-renowned" fish and chips.
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You can have both! https://old.reddit.com/r/fastfood/comments/lvjjs8/tgi_fridays_brings_back_fish_and_chips_for_2021/
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mfw
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Yeah that and great Mexican food in California
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plenty good food can be found in the US. but even if the 100 best restaurants of the world were all in the US that wouldn't say anything about the quality of the other 750000.
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Who cares. This b-word needs a black eye.
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I'm gonna lose brain cells reading these r-slurred arguments.
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we got american burgers, american mexican, american chinese, american french, american italian, american american, and it's all better than the "countries" we stole it from
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Frick that stupid c*nt chink and frick every other country that isn't America. Any food that exists in America is better than any euro cute twink SHIT
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if you love fructose
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Everyone loves fricking fructose that is the weirdest thing to complain about. Particularly since Chinese people love pears which get their flavor by having the highest proportion of fructose of almost anything.
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Stfu subhuman
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extremely sugary response
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Your vaguely anti-burger food posts always trigger local
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I love doing it. There are people in this thread who I've argued with in the last 3 food threads.
@Lappland asked me to stop arguing with him in food threads and then left rdrama. I miss him.
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Suddenly all the "i hate america" rslurs start to value it when criticizing it would criticize consumerism
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Idk, I decided PMC sexy Indian dudea shrew was wrong before she opened her crooked teeth. Looked at her videos and surprise, all her videos are wrong but she also suffers from Burger derangement syndrome. Like every fricking video is about the US, so I wonder if this slut like lives in California or something.
100% she treats other darker people like shit but
because she's the same as they are to westerners
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B-word bye 😂😂😂😂 what's cringe is you stereotyping everyone on the planet who smokes weed. The only person here who's awkward, boring, lame and living in a haze here is you buddy. As someone who smokes weed everyday, I love doing things while smoking weed. Whether it be hiking, yoga, working out, studying or reading a book. On top of all of that, I have my own business and I'm getting a degree in Kinesiology. 😂😂😂 also, getting realizations are fun. Maybe you should smoke some weed one day so you can realize how you're projecting your own cringe personality on the rest of your pothead "friends."
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Are you a European? We probably have the most diverse array of food in the world. We also probably have the most diverse array of original food. It's not just hamburgers and hot dogs (which shit on anything that isn't Italian). New Orleans is a whole different ballgame. Same with Kansas city. Or Houston. And the stuff that we do incorporate from other countries we make better. Keep seething libtard.
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Forgive me OP but I'm not taking opinions on food from someone whose country's top food staples are mushy peas and roadkill cooked over a trashcan by immigrants.
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Umm someone already mentioned mushy peas and they're great so that's your loss. Roadkill is a US speciality.
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Americans invented Buffalo wings, today just "wings", which somehow gets forgotten in discussions of "American food" even though practically every other country in the world copied us and now serves their own local variation.
Also Europoors don't know about spoonbread but basically spoonbread is to grits what an American house is to one of your sad little "flats".
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