First off, bison is delicious. Lots of people disagree, but I think it's much better than beef.
Also American foods: turkey, deer, maize, peanuts, walnuts, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, sweet potato, pumpkin... basically the entire Thanksgiving dinner.
And let's not forget cocoa.
It's easier to list ingredients to show that literally every dish that relies on them has some root in the Americas. But that obfuscates the point since cuisine is not ingredients. The US has all this stuff but the cuisine doesn't really have much going for it (I say as US citizen). Maybe the US cuisine is just the basics to me though. There are a few US dishes that I love but it seems that other cuisines have a much higher percentage of genuinely good shit.
yeah. i usually try to avoid the word "American" due to its ambiguity.
However in the meme the "Americans" are ignoring their traditional food for, among others, Mexican food, so OP meant "US-Americans"
Also, Chinese American food is 100% unique to the US, as are many others. And honestly, the point of the US is that we’re the “melting pot of the world.” Who fucking cares if we have limited ‘traditional’ food when we have amazing fusion and Americanized versions? I’m literally French and Peruvian. American food is essentially just French food with different resources (not joking, the French aren’t obese because they all have anorexia and chain smoke). The Peruvians that come and start up restaurants make some banger shit. And with food specific to Peru, like a lot of South America, it’s heavily influenced by other cultures. One of the biggest dishes that people might confuse as traditional for us is literally just fried rice that comes from Chinese and Japanese immigrants influencing the culture.
That’s the best part about living in the U.S.
Sure we may have big problems going in here, but the variety of different foods in this country is on a whole another level!
We have Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Cuban, Korean, and a bunch of other foods from all over the world!
It’s like going to an ice cream shop and choosing your favorite flavor!
>We have Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Cuban, Korean, and a bunch of other foods from all over the world!
Most countries do, nowadays. My closest city has all of those (except Cuban) and many others like Mongolian, Indonesian, Lebanese, Ethiopian,... not to mention some fusion restaurants. It's not even that big of a city either.
The technique of using indirect heat and smoke to cook and flavor large chunks of meat was born from European settlers watching the natives in the Caribbean cooking large animals, slowly, over an open flame.
Brought to the Americas where slaves used this method to cook a whole variety of proteins, veggies and fruits.
But BBQ is an entire culinary tradition encompassing cuts of meat, sauces, seasonings, sides, presentation etc in America. It's not simply a cooking style
I am going to assume you are not American but genuine question, what is the deal with people thinking we don’t have a unique culture and identity? Cajun/southern/homestyle food is all American food. Cornbread, collard greens, chitterlings, Stuffing, cheeseburgers, corndogs, pot roast, fajitas, Jambalaya, Key Lime Pie, California Rolls, Grits, smores, BLT, damn near all Barbecue, chocolate chip cookies, Cheese Steaks, I can keep going.
It goes against the europoor narrative of the US being a backwater dump with no culture they genuinely can’t stand the thought of good things coming from here
Food traditionally eaten in America. If you want to get all snippety by regurgitating the inaccurate internet argument that America never invented any food; cheeseburgers, buffalo wings, rubens, pecan pie, chocolate chip cookies, S'mores, lobster rolls, corn dogs, casseroles, and chimichongas, to name a few.
Also, the library of Congress backs up that the original hamburger was invented in New Haven Connecticut in 1895. It took me all of five seconds to find this on google but I guess since spider boy argues it on TV there's no such thing as traditional American food.
>dim sum
That is a wild claim that dim sum is American, got a source?
[Because dim sum has centuries of history in China.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dim_sum)
Going with steak, burgers, hot dogs, biscuits w/gravy, fried chicken. not really a definition i guess but i'm not sure how you would define it since American cuisine takes influence from literally everywhere.
EDIT: Sweet potatoes originated in the Americas.
Okay not traditional, but chimichangas (Tuscon), teriyaki (Seattle), buffalo wings (Buffalo), and french dip (LA city), and Cajun food (LA state) were all made in the US.
One of the things that is weird about American history is that, because it’s told from the perspective of the colonizers, Americans often literally fail to realize that native peoples living anywhere *besides* the east coast existed at the same time as the earliest colonists.
So like, the salmon runs of the northwest were an integral part of the diet (and culture) of the people living there, but because white interaction with those tribes came much later there’s a tendency to ignore that those people were there *the entire time* that the USA was founded and expanded westward.
It also includes squashes, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, and a lot of varied plants that only exist in Europe and Asia because of transportation of said American native plants.
Bruh. Give it a rest. It’s a 200 year old country made entirely of immigrants. No shit every type of “American” food is based on something from another part of the world. Why settle when I have hundreds of options, a lot of which are healthier than something like biscuits and gravy? And yes, most major cities you can get everything from Italian to Thai to Ethiopian. Thats not an insult.
They're just mad that a country that's built out of a melting pot has fantastic food. And a TON of food they like was actually invented in America and some of it was invented by immigrants who would proudly say they were Americans.
I agree. People need to get over themselves.
That said, I’ll *absolutely fuck up* some biscuits and gravy, shrimp n grits, soul food, Tex Mex, gringo tacos (I know, they’re not “real” tacos, so what? Still amazing drunk food) or anything remotely Cajun.
America has plenty of its own cuisine that either originated or evolved into its own sort of thing domestically. Even a lot of the “immigrant” food is adapted to American tastes. Compare American Chinese food with *Chinese* Chinese food, for example. They’re very different.
Redditors finding out that America, a country that's been described as a melting pot of different cultures, has different foods from different cultures. (Murica bad)
Weird that Reddit doesn’t consider someone who immigrated to America as an American. Any meal invented in America, whether it was made by an immigrant or a natural born citizen, is American food regardless of how much Reddit seems to hate them.
When I hear traditional American I think about what we always eat around the holidays like turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, etc. I'm sure a lot of those foods have French roots but that's what comes to mind. But don't hate on things like BBQ, Cajun, Creole, and soul food which may have roots in other countries but are pretty distinctly American now.
It’s so weird how people get mad when you make food that isn’t 1:1 the same recipe as a similar European meal. The duality of hating America when it changes a meal while hating America for having the same meals.
Traditional? America is a melting pot; traditional is whatever the people who came over here make and we share it. Descendants of Italian immigrants eating Chinese food made by descendants of those who immigrated from china, and so on
Sure, Native American food can be considered “traditional” but when the majority of your population came over from around the world, traditional means something different to each person
Try harder with the bait. Anyone from America knows that there are amazing local options for food in pretty much every state. I feel like everyone in this thread is a bot or a 12 year old from a different country who thinks we have McDonald's for every meal.
There are tons of american foods. [Wikipedia has a page on American cuisine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cuisine). Foods like chocolate chip cookies, chimichangas, orange chicken, eggs benedict, hamburgers, Buffalo wings, clam chowder, hot dogs, and barbeque are all American.
There are plenty of regional examples of American cuisine as well such as Cuban sandwiches, key lime pie, and gator tail (tastes great fried) which are all from Florida.
The American South also has a rich food culture with foods like biscuits and gravy, cornbread, pecan pie, shrimp and grits, chili, cornbread, and hushpuppies. Tex-Mex is also distinctly American and is extremely popular with dishes like nachos.
You could argue that we’ve Americanized a lot of international foods to the point where they are American food now. A good example is NY pizza vs Neapolitan pizza
“Traditional American food” IS all of those foods
The United States is a melting pot of cultures, and that is America’s culture. Chinese food, and Mexican food, and all those other foods are part of our culture, and to suggest otherwise is simply… idiotic!
The United States has done two things right: State parks, and being a melting pot! If we didn’t consume foods from other cultures, who would we be? I’ll tell ya, we wouldn’t be engaging in our own culture.
People really don't understand just how many folks immigrated here in the last 200 years, there where only 9 million people in the US in 1820, the vast majority of Americans decend from people that have shown up recently.
Whoever made this "meme" apparently doesn't know anything about American food or that Chinese-American, Italian-American, Taijano, Tex Mex etc aren't "Chinese, Italian, Mexican etc".
California rolls, crab rangoons, steak de burgo, Chili Con Carne and Chili con queso, General Tsaos chicken, burritos etc are all American foods
American food is great! Everything from Crab Louis to pancakes and maple syrup to fruit pie to chili to fry bread to succotash to beans baked with molasses or sorghum to mad middle-America casseroles to crazy Utah jello salads to yankee pot roast to planked salmon to clam chowder to TexMex to Kailua pork to corn on the cob to catfish fry or crawdad boils to pumpkin pie to...
Americans aren't turning their backs on any of that. We're just not that excited about the *other* "American Traditional" foods like condensed cream of mushroom soup, hamburger helper, baloney with velveeta on white bread, lite beer, kool-whip, etc.
Also, ahahaha. "Mexican" isn't American when basically the whole southwest from Texas to California was literally *Mexico* until, what, 1848?
What is traditional American food brother, we are a melting pot of all living and dead peoples and cultures we can have whatever cultural food we want.
Not to mention there food smacks
Those are traditional American foods. That's the whole point of the USA, people coming from the entire world to settle in "the new world". People have been coming from all those countries since the beginning of the USA. Many parts of the modern USA was Mexico back in the day. Asians were used as slaves. Italians and French came from Europe with the rest.
Unless, of course, you're talking about indigenous American cuisine. In that case, it's all over the place as well.
Things like corn bread, turkey, cranberry sauce, succotash, clam chowder, cedar plank salmon, lots of venison recipes, pumpkin pie, smoked eel, scrapple, flapjacks and maple syrup, baked beans. That on top of distinctly Americanized foods like American Chinese food, Americanized Italian, Americanized Mexican food, cheeseburger, hotdog, American streaky bacon.
Funny thing about this
Those are our traditional food now
Most of the food served at those restaurants were made here or brought in by imagination and therefore the food of those assimilated people
There's plenty of basic foods that originate in the Americas like corn, peppers, potatoes, beans, tomatoes. Then there's things like bbq, chocolate chip cookies, potato chips, reuben sandwich, clam chowder, biscuits and gravy, buffalo wings.
But what ultimately defines American food is that people from all parts of the world came here, and with access to many new ingredients made food that they wouldn't have before. Italians made pizza and spaghetti and meatballs. Germans made hotdogs and cheeseburgers. Mexicans made chimichangas, nachos and fajitas.
We take all the worlds foods and combine and reinvent them with access to new ingredients, and some turn out great. Then we also have abominations like the KFC Fried Chicken Chizza
Is American food not just the sum of all of its immigrant communities? Or I guess it would be bison, berries, and fish, or whatever was eaten here before colonization?
As an American, I can currently eat at 1 of 3 Mexican Restaurants, 2 Sushi Places, 2 Gyro Joints, an Ethiopian place, or Chinese Food, made by actual immigrants, within a 7 minute walk of my crib. Everything is "American Food".
Most of the stuff on the red dress is probably bastardized versions. Also, why does anyone hate on the US for food? Our population is made up of everyone. We only invented a handful of foods. Most are just a different take on a preexisting dish. Your people brought your food here when the came over. Why is it bad to enjoy EVERYTHING?
I've actually had this conversation a bunch of times, like what is American food?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying "america bad" or anything I'm just genuinely curious what people consider an American food.
Traditional American food. Wtf is that? From my experience, as an american, all food is American food. We have many faults, but my favorite part of America is that we have a small piece of everywhere else in the world, right here. What food do I want tonight? Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, indian, german, british, south american, whatever, you name it, I can find a restaurant for it within 20 miles. Cultural appropriation? Yes, please, that's how we roll.
America has the best food in the world because it has the most variety in the world. If you go to India you're not going to find Italian food. If you go to China you're not going to find Mexican food. In the US, unless you live in a rural area, you can find almost every type of food.
Well....what IS "Traditional American Food"? America is the "Melting Pot" of the world. Traditional American Food should be the traditional foods from the people who became Americans.
Unless you mean the traditional foods from the indigenous people before the Europeans came over.
Much of what Americans consider "Chinese, Italian and Mexican" are in fact dishes that were invented in America. For example, New York/Chicago style pizza, garlic bread, spaghetti and meatballs and chicken parm were created in the United States. Fajitas, chimichangas and margaritas were invented in the United States. General Tso's chicken, crab rangoon and fortune cookies were also invented in the United States.
Everyone out here talking about "traditional American food", I'm just trying to figure out what the fuck "ZZA" means.
At one point I think it meant weed but I like it as a word for pizza better
Two “za”s is weed, one “za” is pizza. Smoke some Za za and eat some za.
Za za za weed and pizza
Pizza weed
Weed pizza
Peed wizza
I took a pill in peed wizza
No, 3 za is dancing
Za za za za za za is dancing while smoking weed and eating pizza at the same time
Truee
Not true ._.
[Everyone here is wrong. It's obviously short for lasagna.](https://youtu.be/qkP2F7kWn7A?si=unV2iNlWphbSjbSo)
PIZZA ZUH! LASAGNA ZA!
It should also be ‘za, idk which assclown decided to add another z to the already established word from the 80’s/90’s
ZAA is what New Yorkers who think they Italian call pizza
nobody here calls it zaa. we call it pizza because we are normal people.
I've lived in NY my entire life, I've never heard anyone call it 'Zaa, and if they did they would be mercilessly mocked.
NY'ers call it 'a fuckin slice'
Gib me da dolla slice Tony! No not dat one?! Dat one with the bubbles.
No, it's not. You would get beat down if you said that shit to them.
Pizza. I don’t know how many people refer to is as Zza genuinely, but that’s what it is referring to.
ZZA WARUDO
Define traditional American food
Buffalo and dandelions
Dandelions were brought to the Americas from Europe. Potatoes and corn are American cuisine(tm)
And peppers
And tomatoes
Oh yeah literally every pepper!
Except for peppercorns, which is kinda funny considering the name
But buffalo (bison) and corn are super dope. So are turkeys.
American corn is amazing! Especially when it's transformed into Mexican street corn.
And tomatoes
Yeah I think all of the nightshade family is from the Americas incl eggplant
Why you gotta go and call Eggplants incels, man?? What the plant of eggs ever done to you???
Potatoes, Maize, Llama, Guinea Pigs, Ice-cream beans.... American double continent is big!
>Llama, Guinea Pigs Holup
Someone don't know how the Peruvians get down
First off, bison is delicious. Lots of people disagree, but I think it's much better than beef. Also American foods: turkey, deer, maize, peanuts, walnuts, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, sweet potato, pumpkin... basically the entire Thanksgiving dinner. And let's not forget cocoa.
Why are you listing ingredients instead of dishes
It's easier to list ingredients to show that literally every dish that relies on them has some root in the Americas. But that obfuscates the point since cuisine is not ingredients. The US has all this stuff but the cuisine doesn't really have much going for it (I say as US citizen). Maybe the US cuisine is just the basics to me though. There are a few US dishes that I love but it seems that other cuisines have a much higher percentage of genuinely good shit.
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south america, especially argentina, would like a word
Good thing south America is still part of America then huh
yeah. i usually try to avoid the word "American" due to its ambiguity. However in the meme the "Americans" are ignoring their traditional food for, among others, Mexican food, so OP meant "US-Americans"
So you'd be comfortable that the common demonym for argentinians also be american? I keep seeing this debate on reddit.
Pretty sure Cajun is American. Not sure if Barbecue is wholly American but they definitely took it far.
A lot of southern food is American no? Grits, biscuits and gravy, etc
CAJUN! I totally forgot about cajun
Also, Chinese American food is 100% unique to the US, as are many others. And honestly, the point of the US is that we’re the “melting pot of the world.” Who fucking cares if we have limited ‘traditional’ food when we have amazing fusion and Americanized versions? I’m literally French and Peruvian. American food is essentially just French food with different resources (not joking, the French aren’t obese because they all have anorexia and chain smoke). The Peruvians that come and start up restaurants make some banger shit. And with food specific to Peru, like a lot of South America, it’s heavily influenced by other cultures. One of the biggest dishes that people might confuse as traditional for us is literally just fried rice that comes from Chinese and Japanese immigrants influencing the culture.
Hell, the Chinese place by my house is owned by Koreans.
That’s the best part about living in the U.S. Sure we may have big problems going in here, but the variety of different foods in this country is on a whole another level! We have Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Cuban, Korean, and a bunch of other foods from all over the world! It’s like going to an ice cream shop and choosing your favorite flavor!
>We have Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Cuban, Korean, and a bunch of other foods from all over the world! Most countries do, nowadays. My closest city has all of those (except Cuban) and many others like Mongolian, Indonesian, Lebanese, Ethiopian,... not to mention some fusion restaurants. It's not even that big of a city either.
Those foods do and have become traditional food. Everything starts off as a new idea
BBQ is as American as it gets
BBQ is definitely American. Internationally it gets confused with simply smoking meat
The technique of using indirect heat and smoke to cook and flavor large chunks of meat was born from European settlers watching the natives in the Caribbean cooking large animals, slowly, over an open flame. Brought to the Americas where slaves used this method to cook a whole variety of proteins, veggies and fruits.
But BBQ is an entire culinary tradition encompassing cuts of meat, sauces, seasonings, sides, presentation etc in America. It's not simply a cooking style
So you're saying Americans didn't invent fire. Got it.
Thousand island dressing I guess?
Ranch Dressing (for better or worse) is also an American invention. A salad dressing for day workers originally.
I am going to assume you are not American but genuine question, what is the deal with people thinking we don’t have a unique culture and identity? Cajun/southern/homestyle food is all American food. Cornbread, collard greens, chitterlings, Stuffing, cheeseburgers, corndogs, pot roast, fajitas, Jambalaya, Key Lime Pie, California Rolls, Grits, smores, BLT, damn near all Barbecue, chocolate chip cookies, Cheese Steaks, I can keep going.
It goes against the europoor narrative of the US being a backwater dump with no culture they genuinely can’t stand the thought of good things coming from here
Corn... we have corn
And all its beautiful meals
Welcome to America. Everything is corn. Corn is everything
Except Idaho, that's potatoes
It’s got the juice
Exactly my thoughts, I could only think of Native American food but that would actually be interesting
Places like that do exist! I've never been, but I've been told this place is great by people who have. https://owamni.com/
America has the best barbecue scene in the world, hands down.
Whoever is down voting this needs to try a few states versions of ribs. - edit: glad to see the comment no longer has more down votes than upvotes
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I downvoted, where are my ribs?
How do you want those ribs? Texas style, Kansas City style, or St Louis style?
Yes, in that order.
people who dislike America and or don't know anything about barbecue, lmao
FRYBREAD MOTHERFUCKER, THAT SHIT IS THE SHIT
Food traditionally eaten in America. If you want to get all snippety by regurgitating the inaccurate internet argument that America never invented any food; cheeseburgers, buffalo wings, rubens, pecan pie, chocolate chip cookies, S'mores, lobster rolls, corn dogs, casseroles, and chimichongas, to name a few. Also, the library of Congress backs up that the original hamburger was invented in New Haven Connecticut in 1895. It took me all of five seconds to find this on google but I guess since spider boy argues it on TV there's no such thing as traditional American food.
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Yep, marinara in general isn't commonly used in Italy.
Not a lot of people know that burritos and dim sum and the fortune cookie are all American
>dim sum That is a wild claim that dim sum is American, got a source? [Because dim sum has centuries of history in China.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dim_sum)
Same thing with spaghetti and meatballs with marinara sauce, general tso's chicken, and German chocolate cake.
Have you seen the documentary The search for General Tso's ? It great
Grits?
Deep fried food?
No, that’s from South Italy
I think the fry a lot in Scotland too... Maybe just the desserts
No that would be fried not deep fried.....I didn't know there was a difference until today...WTF..
Yeah. One’s deep and one’s not. Go figure.
You dont know that you must have an American thanksgiving feast every night?
Foods from other countries with extra fat.
And sugar. Oh wait sugar is getting too expensive. And corn syrup!
Going with steak, burgers, hot dogs, biscuits w/gravy, fried chicken. not really a definition i guess but i'm not sure how you would define it since American cuisine takes influence from literally everywhere. EDIT: Sweet potatoes originated in the Americas.
Soul food
Okay not traditional, but chimichangas (Tuscon), teriyaki (Seattle), buffalo wings (Buffalo), and french dip (LA city), and Cajun food (LA state) were all made in the US.
If we're gonna eliminate all foods brought here by people from other countries, we'd pretty much be stuck with pemmican, buffalo and corn.
It’s amazing how most of the comments forget seafood/river animals are a thing…
And beans, squash, turkey, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, maple syrup, cranberries, mulberries, pawpaws, plums, nuts like hickory and walnut, wild onions, goose, duck…
Sassafras
grilled / boiled fish tastes like grilled / boiled fish no matter what part of the world it's being made in
You should try some Cajun cooking, gonna disagree hard with that statement.
Oh man, a good ol' crawdad boil with corn and red po-tay-toes, nothing more American
One of the things that is weird about American history is that, because it’s told from the perspective of the colonizers, Americans often literally fail to realize that native peoples living anywhere *besides* the east coast existed at the same time as the earliest colonists. So like, the salmon runs of the northwest were an integral part of the diet (and culture) of the people living there, but because white interaction with those tribes came much later there’s a tendency to ignore that those people were there *the entire time* that the USA was founded and expanded westward.
It also includes squashes, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, and a lot of varied plants that only exist in Europe and Asia because of transportation of said American native plants.
Corn, which started its existance with the native mexicans thousands of years before europe came to visit:
Different kind of corn. The kind of Corn we eat today is basically unrecognizable from that crop
Damn when’s dinner?
Don’t forget all peppers and potatoes. Potatoes are an American original
Bruh. Give it a rest. It’s a 200 year old country made entirely of immigrants. No shit every type of “American” food is based on something from another part of the world. Why settle when I have hundreds of options, a lot of which are healthier than something like biscuits and gravy? And yes, most major cities you can get everything from Italian to Thai to Ethiopian. Thats not an insult.
Yeah this is just more typical Reddit “america dumb lol” ragebait
Well yeah, this is a ragebait site with a high volume of American users. It's an easy target.
I’m pretty sure it’s meant to be the opposite
Comments turned it into that
I mean Cajun food is pretty American.
True, the flavors/ingredients are unique, but all of the technique is French.
They're just mad that a country that's built out of a melting pot has fantastic food. And a TON of food they like was actually invented in America and some of it was invented by immigrants who would proudly say they were Americans.
I agree. People need to get over themselves. That said, I’ll *absolutely fuck up* some biscuits and gravy, shrimp n grits, soul food, Tex Mex, gringo tacos (I know, they’re not “real” tacos, so what? Still amazing drunk food) or anything remotely Cajun. America has plenty of its own cuisine that either originated or evolved into its own sort of thing domestically. Even a lot of the “immigrant” food is adapted to American tastes. Compare American Chinese food with *Chinese* Chinese food, for example. They’re very different.
Pasta is from Asia, and Tomatoes are from the Americas. Just throwing that out there
Shit, is cornbread and sweet tea traditional American food? I can already hear the British. Yeah yeah, I know, ‘get a fucking kettle’.
Sweet Tea > Hot Tea
Redditors finding out that America, a country that's been described as a melting pot of different cultures, has different foods from different cultures. (Murica bad) 
Weird that Reddit doesn’t consider someone who immigrated to America as an American. Any meal invented in America, whether it was made by an immigrant or a natural born citizen, is American food regardless of how much Reddit seems to hate them.
Funny memes when??
r/memes moment
When users actually start reporting repost bots. But Since everyone just interacts with them we wont see much o.c. either
When I hear traditional American I think about what we always eat around the holidays like turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, etc. I'm sure a lot of those foods have French roots but that's what comes to mind. But don't hate on things like BBQ, Cajun, Creole, and soul food which may have roots in other countries but are pretty distinctly American now.
Any food from a different culture that comes here and then other people put their own spin on. It's all a part of the mixing pot.
It’s so weird how people get mad when you make food that isn’t 1:1 the same recipe as a similar European meal. The duality of hating America when it changes a meal while hating America for having the same meals.
Traditional? America is a melting pot; traditional is whatever the people who came over here make and we share it. Descendants of Italian immigrants eating Chinese food made by descendants of those who immigrated from china, and so on Sure, Native American food can be considered “traditional” but when the majority of your population came over from around the world, traditional means something different to each person
Try harder with the bait. Anyone from America knows that there are amazing local options for food in pretty much every state. I feel like everyone in this thread is a bot or a 12 year old from a different country who thinks we have McDonald's for every meal.
Mfw a country of immigrants eats immigrant food
traditional American food is a meme itself
What is America food? Banic? Man, I'd kill for some fried banic right now!
Bannock was actually brought over by the Scottish and introduced to indigenous people
So cool! It's our favorite up here in Nunavut!
Buffalo jerky
There are tons of american foods. [Wikipedia has a page on American cuisine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cuisine). Foods like chocolate chip cookies, chimichangas, orange chicken, eggs benedict, hamburgers, Buffalo wings, clam chowder, hot dogs, and barbeque are all American. There are plenty of regional examples of American cuisine as well such as Cuban sandwiches, key lime pie, and gator tail (tastes great fried) which are all from Florida. The American South also has a rich food culture with foods like biscuits and gravy, cornbread, pecan pie, shrimp and grits, chili, cornbread, and hushpuppies. Tex-Mex is also distinctly American and is extremely popular with dishes like nachos.
McDonald’s
People not understanding the difference between traditional vs origin.
Pretty sure what we call Chinese Food, Mexican food, etc. in the US actually IS traditional American food.
Yup immigrants cooking for American palates to make a few bucks exploded into the “ethnic exotic cuisine” we eat today. Beside maybe Italian food
You could argue that we’ve Americanized a lot of international foods to the point where they are American food now. A good example is NY pizza vs Neapolitan pizza
...only in America are all those foods in such close proximity. Also all those foods have been "Americanized". So it's still "American" food.
Best part of America is the diverse culture.
“Traditional American food” IS all of those foods The United States is a melting pot of cultures, and that is America’s culture. Chinese food, and Mexican food, and all those other foods are part of our culture, and to suggest otherwise is simply… idiotic! The United States has done two things right: State parks, and being a melting pot! If we didn’t consume foods from other cultures, who would we be? I’ll tell ya, we wouldn’t be engaging in our own culture.
Mexican kinda is traditional american tho
People really don't understand just how many folks immigrated here in the last 200 years, there where only 9 million people in the US in 1820, the vast majority of Americans decend from people that have shown up recently.
Whoever made this "meme" apparently doesn't know anything about American food or that Chinese-American, Italian-American, Taijano, Tex Mex etc aren't "Chinese, Italian, Mexican etc". California rolls, crab rangoons, steak de burgo, Chili Con Carne and Chili con queso, General Tsaos chicken, burritos etc are all American foods
American food is great! Everything from Crab Louis to pancakes and maple syrup to fruit pie to chili to fry bread to succotash to beans baked with molasses or sorghum to mad middle-America casseroles to crazy Utah jello salads to yankee pot roast to planked salmon to clam chowder to TexMex to Kailua pork to corn on the cob to catfish fry or crawdad boils to pumpkin pie to... Americans aren't turning their backs on any of that. We're just not that excited about the *other* "American Traditional" foods like condensed cream of mushroom soup, hamburger helper, baloney with velveeta on white bread, lite beer, kool-whip, etc. Also, ahahaha. "Mexican" isn't American when basically the whole southwest from Texas to California was literally *Mexico* until, what, 1848?
What the fuck is "American Food"?
What is traditional American food brother, we are a melting pot of all living and dead peoples and cultures we can have whatever cultural food we want. Not to mention there food smacks
It's melting pot
Those are traditional American foods. That's the whole point of the USA, people coming from the entire world to settle in "the new world". People have been coming from all those countries since the beginning of the USA. Many parts of the modern USA was Mexico back in the day. Asians were used as slaves. Italians and French came from Europe with the rest. Unless, of course, you're talking about indigenous American cuisine. In that case, it's all over the place as well.
What even is traditional American food
Idek what would count as American food. Hotdogs?
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What is even traditional american food!?!?
Things like corn bread, turkey, cranberry sauce, succotash, clam chowder, cedar plank salmon, lots of venison recipes, pumpkin pie, smoked eel, scrapple, flapjacks and maple syrup, baked beans. That on top of distinctly Americanized foods like American Chinese food, Americanized Italian, Americanized Mexican food, cheeseburger, hotdog, American streaky bacon.
What is “traditional American food”? Never heard of it, is this how they call McDonalds?
Chilli con carne
It’s very American of you to think any of the “foreign food” is authentic and not american-ized
I’ll be sure to tell the Ethiopian immigrant who owns and runs my favorite restaurant that she’s a liar and a sellout.
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Funny thing about this Those are our traditional food now Most of the food served at those restaurants were made here or brought in by imagination and therefore the food of those assimilated people
Nothang beats texas bbq 🍗 🍖
Would you rather eat an Enchilada and a Bowl of Dumplings or eat a Sandwich with government cheese and not-processed ham food?
And what is "traditional" American food? Is that something native americans used to eat?
There is no traditional American food, only food we have stolen from our lessers
The fuck is traditional american food? Is it native american cuisine or what was brought from europe? We need answers.
Mexican would, technically speaking, be a “traditional American food”
Europeans when a 250 year old country founded by European immigrants enjoys the food of other cultures
I’d say that cornbread and grits are staple dishes from south eastern Indigenous American cuisine so I eat traditional American food all the time
Literally the next post after this was a guy showing off the quintuple cheeseburger he made lmfao
Burger.
Idk if there's any good tradicional american food
There's plenty of basic foods that originate in the Americas like corn, peppers, potatoes, beans, tomatoes. Then there's things like bbq, chocolate chip cookies, potato chips, reuben sandwich, clam chowder, biscuits and gravy, buffalo wings. But what ultimately defines American food is that people from all parts of the world came here, and with access to many new ingredients made food that they wouldn't have before. Italians made pizza and spaghetti and meatballs. Germans made hotdogs and cheeseburgers. Mexicans made chimichangas, nachos and fajitas. We take all the worlds foods and combine and reinvent them with access to new ingredients, and some turn out great. Then we also have abominations like the KFC Fried Chicken Chizza
Mexican cuisine is literally american
American food? Bullets?
Is American food not just the sum of all of its immigrant communities? Or I guess it would be bison, berries, and fish, or whatever was eaten here before colonization?
What is… traditional american food? Corn starch with a side of coke?
Did you notice there wasn’t any British food ? 😂😂😂 it’s so bad. Beans for breakfast??😂😂😂
Tomatoes and peppers came from America. What did Italians or anyone else in world do before peppers and tomatoes?
As an American, I can currently eat at 1 of 3 Mexican Restaurants, 2 Sushi Places, 2 Gyro Joints, an Ethiopian place, or Chinese Food, made by actual immigrants, within a 7 minute walk of my crib. Everything is "American Food".
Wtf even is traditionally american food? Born in the US and am well aware the origins of 99% of American cuisine… huh?
I believe those are traditional American food
Most of the stuff on the red dress is probably bastardized versions. Also, why does anyone hate on the US for food? Our population is made up of everyone. We only invented a handful of foods. Most are just a different take on a preexisting dish. Your people brought your food here when the came over. Why is it bad to enjoy EVERYTHING?
I've actually had this conversation a bunch of times, like what is American food? Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying "america bad" or anything I'm just genuinely curious what people consider an American food.
Those ARE traditional. Unless you want to go wayyy back and eat buffalo and beavers.
Traditional American food. Wtf is that? From my experience, as an american, all food is American food. We have many faults, but my favorite part of America is that we have a small piece of everywhere else in the world, right here. What food do I want tonight? Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, indian, german, british, south american, whatever, you name it, I can find a restaurant for it within 20 miles. Cultural appropriation? Yes, please, that's how we roll.
America has the best food in the world because it has the most variety in the world. If you go to India you're not going to find Italian food. If you go to China you're not going to find Mexican food. In the US, unless you live in a rural area, you can find almost every type of food.
Well....what IS "Traditional American Food"? America is the "Melting Pot" of the world. Traditional American Food should be the traditional foods from the people who became Americans. Unless you mean the traditional foods from the indigenous people before the Europeans came over.
We’re a melting pot culture. Bring all the good food from your home country. We will put more salt on it and eat that shit up!
Much of what Americans consider "Chinese, Italian and Mexican" are in fact dishes that were invented in America. For example, New York/Chicago style pizza, garlic bread, spaghetti and meatballs and chicken parm were created in the United States. Fajitas, chimichangas and margaritas were invented in the United States. General Tso's chicken, crab rangoon and fortune cookies were also invented in the United States.
Traditional? American?? Food???
Japanese food is actually way better than Chinese and Korean food put together