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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@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

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@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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