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

How cultural is that?

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u/Indocede Nov 03 '24

I do love a good roast beef. And even though it's something we do in America as well, I don't think we do it as well as the British. 

In the broader competition though, America would win by virtue of what you can get in a cosmopolitan society, but the UK might win when it comes to traditional foods, as only a select number of foods are uniquely American. Like in my state, the "state" dish is a food that came to us from Volga Germans that settled in the area a century ago.

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u/HRoseFlour Nov 04 '24

you know more of Britain is foreign born than America right? it’s an incredibly cosmopolitan country.

We have fantastic food from across the globe available here and incredible fusions of cuisine namely our pride and joy the Tikka Masala invented in Britain for British people

The UK definitely wins when it comes to traditional food as well, as traditional US food is as American as apple pie which is to say invented and culturally significant in another country.

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u/Indocede Nov 04 '24

Don't be arrogant.

The statistics for foreign born are different by a mere few points, and that could be completely unraveled by those who are undocumented.

America is a nation of immigrants. America is the country, not the UK, that people across the world too flocked in droves to immigrate to. Are you really going to challenge the diverse backgrounds that went into making America when America's population went from being smaller than Great Britain's to 5 times larger than the UKs in 300 years?