question for fedi: how many uniquely USian foods/cuisines can you think of?
we can think of exactly two: barbecue, and cajun cuisine
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@trwnh that's not a cuisine that's an abomination
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@Oneironott does it count as USian if it predates the US? though it is native to this location, of course
i just dunno if native peoples would want their traditional cuisine to be called USian, but that's not my decision to make, we're not native
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@Felthry yeah i personally wouldn't call it USian, but it depends on why you're asking for the information i guess so i thought I'd mention it
@Oneironott yeah thanks! i'm just asking out of curiosity more than anything
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New Mexican counts too, in my opinion. It's not the same as regular Mexican; more emphasis on sauces made from the local chile peppers, and stuff like carne adovada you don't get anywhere else.
@dodec I don't believe we've ever had carne adovada but you are right, there is a distinct style of southwestern food, distinct from mexican despite how often USians tend to call it mexican (taco bell is *not* mexican food people)
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There are all kinds of styles of Mexican food. California Mexican, Tex-Mex, New Mexican, Oaxacan, and lots others I can't think of offhand.
I don't think Taco Bell is quite any of these.
Oaxacan cuisine is interesting, though, because it's one of the few places they embrace eating insects - chapulines, which are a kind of grasshopper. I've been curious about trying them, but haven't found a place yet.
@Felthry apple pie is like, the Icon of US food, right
perhaps just southwestern US food lol
@VoxSomniator it is but it's actually not american, it's dutch iwrc
maybe german??
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@Felthry @VoxSomniator Yeah, American style apple pie at least is directly derived from the Dutch way of making it.
@Felthry Do you count indigenous cuisines? If not: southern (chicken-fried steak, fried green tomatoes, grits, shoo-fly pie, collard greens), bagels, deep dish pizza, Cheez Whiz and cheesesteak, beer-battered anything, any of the deep-fried abominations against nature, pumpkin pie, raw kernel corn (which almost no one else eats!)... probably more I'm not thinking of
@lorxus i wouldn't want to count indigenous cuisine, because that sounds a lot like... colonizers taking ownership of the culture of the colonized? but yeah the southern stuff probably counts, we didn't think of it because.... it's just normal food to us
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@Felthry indigenous cuisine probably but i can't think of much else