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always-a-slut-4-ghouls · 1 year ago

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I would say that the United States, as of right now, has three main food groups (aside from junk food) and those are, Italian, Mexican, and Chinese. All of which have been Americanized here to some extent but differently in different parts of the country. I find this very funny because I have heard people from Italy be indignant about what we’ve done with the stuff (and about good restaurants too!) like, sorry if you guys weren’t creative, mixing things up a bit is great. “What about (regionally popular food)?!” I know we all have those, I haven’t heard of bitches in the south eating lefse, but that’s not my point! What was my point actually? I think I was going to say that, even if we bastardize stuff a lot, I’m super glad we have, as a country, agreed that more seasoning is good. Because if this place had been like “fuck immigrant food forever, we are eating British style” I think I would die.

This country has historically treated immigrants like shit, but we do tend to cave eventually and go like “actually,

your food is really good” a kind of shallow prize I guess, but I’m glad we actually start doing it eventually because I WILL mock British food and I WILL be sad that the only good family recipes my family has from before immigrating are all desserts. Don’t get me wrong, I love sweets, but I’m pretty sure there is a reason we stopped making other stuff

Wait, I re-read this today and realized I sound like my family is British. We are not. What even are British desserts? I bet they don’t have enough cardamom. Although lefse doesn’t have cardamom and i like a lot of things without it, my point is that their holiday and special event foods probably don’t have enough! Which wouldn’t surprise me tbh because apparently the only place that went crazy for the stuff outside of where it originated seems to have been Scandinavia for some reason. At least some maps I looked at seemed to suggest it. Which rocked me to my core

#emma posts #and I know that there are Native American foods that were really here first #but the three most popular quisenes (idk how to spell that) on a country wide scale #are those three #and also. I’ve seen a few Italian recipes from Italy and you guys don’t always use enough seasoning #I don’t care if that’s insulting #foods should have depth if they are going to be good #and I think people (at least around here) rely too heavily on cheese #even aside from the vegan thing. since i have diversified my diet more I am like #cheese is not a substitute for other flavors #this is my hot food take #my take on hot foods though is that I thought I couldn’t handle hot spiciness but then #I heard about British people reacting and also ate with older people here and was like ‘oh my god. that’s so sad’#my mom thinks udon is too spicy :(#i hope this doesn’t come across wrong but this IS the bad reading comprehension website #going to a local Scandinavia festival and admiring the arts and the sweets and then they start talking about other cultural foods and I’m #just like ‘why would you do that to fish?’ and judging my ancestors #in THEORY I understand why. food preservation and all that. but in practice…#like I said. there is a reason dessert and bread recipes are what my family still has from before America and I’m not really mad about that #being the only food #we’ve all heard the old people talk about lutefisk and we are like ‘nope’

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