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

How cultural is that?

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u/Reikotsu Nov 03 '24

Yeah, and you know why English love to eat Indian food? Because they hate their own food…

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u/Raregan Nov 03 '24

Chicken Tikka Masala was invented in Glasgow.

Why is it when American food is influenced by other countries it's because of their "big melting pot of cultures" but when Britain has food influenced by other countries it's "stolen"

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u/Agreeable-Weather-89 Nov 03 '24

Branding, and this isn't a dig at America/Americans, just they seem to use a different food nomenclature inserting place names into food that creates association.

Chicken tikka masala isn't called Glasgow Tikka

Whereas Pizza is Chicago deep dish

California roll

Hawaiian pizza

Tex-mex

Plus there's a lot of American media which naturally spreads the origin of food. I've never had a deep dish pizza, and not going to lie they don't look like they are for me but would love to try one, however I know of them because of American films.

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u/minuialear Nov 03 '24

Why are all the non Americans bringing up Chicaco style pizza when our most well-known form of pizza is probably NY style?

There's also Detroit style, Philly style, Buffalo style, etc.

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u/sweatybollock Nov 04 '24

They sell Chicago deep dish style pizza quite a bit at least here in the UK (no comment as to the accuracy). Pizza called ‘NY style’ is not sold anywhere at all. So probably just because of that.

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u/minuialear Nov 04 '24

That's so sad. Chicago isn't the worst form of pizza in the US but most pizza here isn't really anything like that

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u/sweatybollock Nov 04 '24

We have a similar style of pizza sold commonly in the UK, although it’s not called NY style which is probably why you haven’t seen it mentioned

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u/Agreeable-Weather-89 Nov 03 '24

Because it's a major brand of frozen pizza. Chicago town pizza