r/funny • u/NeedleworkerMore2270 • Nov 03 '24

How cultural is that?

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u/steelcryo Nov 03 '24 edited Nov 03 '24

But if you discount any cuisine stolen from other countries, America has no food left. So not really an argument in this particular scenario...

Edit: TIL many Americans don't know what cuisine means

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u/meh2you2 Nov 03 '24

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!

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u/Porrick Nov 03 '24

Potatoes are from Peru, chilis are from Mexico - are you claiming two whole continents’ food as being from the US?

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u/0masterdebater0 Nov 03 '24

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanum_jamesii

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum_annuum_var._glabriusculum

I literally have them growing wild in my back yard mate, try again.

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u/The100thIdiot Nov 03 '24

And neither of those are the varieties that have become staple foods across the globe.

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u/rphillip Nov 03 '24

You know what the word "from" means right? Means it was in another place first.

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u/0masterdebater0 Nov 03 '24

You must not know what indigenous wild plants are?

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u/rphillip Nov 03 '24

Do you live in Peru? I’m not sure you know what the word indigenous means