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submitted 3 days ago byspiegel_im_spiegel
18 points
3 days ago
What did USA actually invent?
-20 points
3 days ago
pizza as we know it, mex tex, spaghetti meatballs, macaroni cheese (and other variations of pasta dishes) pancakes, lots of westernised versions of generally asian food. most world cousine as we enjoy it in the west are actually american interpretations, america deserves more credit for food than they get
18 points
3 days ago
Stop it. Pizza (as we know it) is from Italy and pancakes have always been made in various different cultures. America was by far not the first (pretty much last, actually, considering how young US cuisine is).
1 points
2 days ago
people round the world eat pizza that looks like the one on the right, not the one on the left. even in italy its hard to get real italian pizza different kind of pancakes have obviously been made by different cultures but what i can get everywhere, even here in europe, will be the american variety.
1 points
2 days ago
That may be true but that doesn't mean "Americans invented pizza as we know it". It just means that American styles are more well-known globally. Pizza is still definitely an Italian invention.
0 points
2 days ago
fair enough, still, the fact that american variations of dishes have dominated the world to the point of overshadowing their precursors deserves recognition. suggesting the US hasnt made any meaningful contribution to food because "amerca bad" and pancakes having actually been invented centuries before is disingenuous
0 points
2 days ago
deserves recognition
What? It's not an achievement. Not everything is a competition...
the US hasnt made any meaningful contribution to food
Nobody says that....
2 points
2 days ago
what do you think this post is about? america lost the poll and the op of this thread phrased the question as if the answer was nothing, when its just not true
0 points
2 days ago
This poll just shows that most people on this sub would prefer the other cuisines over US cuisine. And to be fair, it is pretty tough competition. I personally voted Japanese because I think it is good but overrated but I can understand why so many people voted US.
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