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[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 79 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 5 days ago

Every culture takes/mixes foods from other cultures and makes it their own.

Perhaps more importantly, every generation remixes their parents' and grandparents' food.

French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Mexican food aren't the same as they were 50 years ago. Lots of new dishes were invented and remixed, sometimes from imported influence. It's not like chefs sit around and refuse to do anything different from how they learned. They do invent and innovate and tweak recipes. That's, like, the job.

[-] ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

That is an interesting point and I want to add three cents to it.

Sometimes diasporas preserve the original recipes better than the country of origin. An example of it are some Polish dishes that were preserved closer to the original than in Poland, because when Poland was under USSR occupation there were severe food shortages and some recipes had to evolve or were literally forgotten.

(IIRC that was just a few cakes and pastries, but hey, it still happened!)

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

way to brush off thousands of year of native american dishes :/

[-] Urist@leminal.space 15 points 5 days ago

In significant swathes of the US the natives were more or less successfully exterminated so there's no clear cultural line from ancient natives to the people living there today.

[-] SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

This comment is an example of how that process continues. The original colonizers did their damnedest to try and erase those cultural lines and draw over them with their own.

Those cultural lines are faint, and per capita extremely weak, but that's why it's important to amplify them and highlight them when and where they exist instead of disregarding, ignoring and blurring them further.

[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago

Stop it, you know what I mean. I’m talking European colonials which formed the basis for the modern US, even if it shouldn’t be that way. They stole Native American food too. The combination of these things formed the basis of “American” cuisine, but it wasn’t long ago in a historical sense.

[-] frog@feddit.uk 8 points 5 days ago

Yes. I view Chinese American food as American food. Sweet General Tso's Chicken, orange chicken, fortune cookies, crab rangoons, etc. Basically anything they overly sweetened.

[-] prole 1 points 5 days ago

Which I see as a positive

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