@Brendan said:
@AlexW00d said:
@Brendan said:
@AlexW00d said:
@Brendan said:
It's pretty culturally diverse over here so there isn't a set 5 dishes that we all eat or something. For example, my family will make some kind of Mexican dish one night, something Mediterranean another night, something British another night, and so on.
You kind of missed the point of the question. Those aren't national dishes. What are national dishes of America/Canada?
E: From holidays there, I can tell you grits are an American thing. I dunno what the fuck they are, but I have only ever seen them in America.
That's exactly my point. We're culturally diverse, and eat the food of many cultures. We don't have a bunch of national dishes.
That's not what culturally diverse means, but ok. We eat a lot of stuff from different countries here too, but that doesn't mean England doesn't have it's own dishes. Pie, fish and chips, faggots, haggis (if we're talking Britain), Welsh rarebit etc etc.
I know what you're saying. North America doesn't really have that. I'm sorry if I used incorrect language, but I don't really know how to put it any other way. There isn't "North American" food. There's eating habits (fast-food culture) that are closely knit with American culture, but there aren't any national dishes.
If you look at the traditional dishes served for Thanksgiving dinner, those are all inherently North American. Turkey, potatoes, cranberries, corn, squashes, yams, etc. are all native to the new world, they didn't exist in Europe until after Columbus. Of course most of us don't eat like that except on the day itself.
edit: and I also have to mention that there really are some dishes that are inherent to our country: Macaroni and cheese, fried chicken, buffalo wings, grits, biscuits and gravy, collard greens, key lime pie, a ton of foods made from peanuts, jambalaya, hamburgers (ground beef on a sandwich with lettuce and tomatoes was invented here though the name is german), our version of pizza (really different from the italian version that inspired it), and then look at our south western food (which is quite different from mexican food despite what you might think) and the california's versions of mexican and asian dishes... I could go on! Our country has plenty of national dishes, we just don't think of them that way because they're so common that they're easy to miss.
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