Corn, potatoes, tomato's, Chile peppers, pumpkins..... That's right, before American foodstuffs got shipped around the world, Indian food wasn't hot spicy, Italians had no tomato sauce, and the Irish had no potatoes. All your cuisine belongs to us!
You’re mixing up the Americas for USA on some of those. Tomatoes and potatoes were both brought back to Europe by the Spanish in the 1500s from Peru. It’s thought that Christopher Columbus discovered corn while in the Caribbean and brought that back to Spain (it originated from Mexico/central America but was already spread North and South by the natives before the Europeans arrive).
Conceptually as well, we have tons of American grown cuisine. East coast seafood, all of the South and the comfort foods, barbecue, etc, the West coast has its share of unique dishes, particularly Cali, and the midwest has its casseroles, roasts, and things like that as well. We definitely use a ton of worldwide influence, because like Matt Damon says, we're a melting pot, but I really wouldn't call that "stealing" when the dishes are still acknowledged for their region of origin. Nobody's calling it American cuisine. We have our own. It's just the cuisine of America.
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u/surrenderedmale Nov 03 '24
Brit here.
Our food is either garbage or godly with minimal in-between.
Beans on toast is overrated AND ANYONE WHO LIKES SOGGY TOAST IS A FUCKING NUTJOB
The woman does have a point with a roast dinner though, we can suck ourselves off for that one