food

Daily reminder that the idea of "national" cuisine is inherently nationalist, food doesn't follow borders or skin color and pretending it does only plays into ethnonationalist ideals.
All food everywhere is a result of immigrants influencing local cultures, local climate, local needs. Seeing others take something you grew up with and give their own twist on it should invite joy in your heart, it is a sign of appreciation and respect that others would love a part of your life so dearly, that they would wish to replicate it. The fact that they attempt to modify it to make it into something that they can consider a part of their everyday meals is only a grander sign of love. The fact that we can share and incorporate each others produce, practice and recipes is a wonderful and cool thing that should be celebrated, not something to be used as a cringy dunk that really only exposes your own ass for not having a coherent logical framework.
Pretending like the meal you hold dearly isn't also a product of that same process of immigration, appreciation, appropriation and procreation, is inherently reactionairy.

I guess this is some dumbass American thing I am not capable of understanding. You guys seem to suck at cooking, it seems like food is just signifiers over there. Ive seen users here dunk on the concept of using "salt" to season your food, because "white people use salt." Same goes for herbs.
Whenever i talk to Americans and they talk about using spices, they can't ever specify what fucking spices apart from "oh cajun mix from the local store" or the like. Maybe I'm lucky enough to see the words "paprika" or "cumin", but I've yet to see anything but blank stares when I ask what they use for their other dishes. It's all the same fucking spices on all dishes, because it is not actually about making good food. Like the kings of old, spices are used as a signifyer rather than something that should be understood and used in cooking.
Your hot sauces suck ass too. I don't want some garbage artificial chemical capsaicing booster pack, I want a fucking hot sauce.
And your portion sizes are fucked and don't even get me started on corn syrup.
Americans need to shut the fuck up about food.
All your dishes are German anyway.

This is stupid. Tomatoes aren't native to India and chillies aren't native to China, doesn't mean those ingredients aren't legitimate to use in those cuisines. If you want to critique elitist European gastronomy then you should talk about how the French can't bear to eat anything that doesn't come from a dead animal or how elitist and condescending towards food from non-European cultures many Whites are.

new rule: you're only allowed to eat and cultivate what was where you live in 10000 bce we're uhhh deconstructing imperialism

Also it's very entertaining to hear people talk about precious Italian cultural foods that are only 100 years old or so. Tomatoes weren't really used widely outside of LatAm until the mid-1800s. Bolognese sauce didn't have tomato until the 20th century. Same story for very popular Indian dishes like dal makhani.

People pining after the old traditional days of Italian grannies making tomato sauce is actually looking back at a very short history.

Yeah, finding out bell peppers and tomatoes were native to the Americas I was like what the hell did Italians eat before this?

There's a restaurant in Minneapolis called Owamni that uses only pre-Colombian ingredients native to the Americas. The chef is native.

Anyway the food is incredible and the concept is incredibly interesting.

Death to America

ok.

Coca-Cola? I thought that was from Atlanta. The kola nut is native to Africa, but coca is from South America

Don't forget all citrus from east Asia and all peppers from central and south america

So what foods are indigenous to europe?

Olives?

What else? I think sheep maybe? Idk.

Pre-Colombian expansion food is honestly a fun subject, whether in the Americas side, or in Europe.