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Hamburgers are German my limey friend. Take your complaints to them if you are going to act like a bellend.

what the fuck are you talking about

I don't think that's how it works. bsky.app/profile/slee...

Brit being ignorant about other cultures, next you'll tell me water is wet

Yeah, a lot of "American food" is from immigrants. So what? America is pretty new and made of immigrants. But if you really want an American original, barbecue is the shit

Jesus. The entire American food culture, the one we see in restaurants everywhere, even the UK, is based on our diverse population. People taking dishes from every country and modifying them to create something new is at the heart of the US food culture.

lol. You clearly do not live in Texas or California.

Blew up? You've got less than 200 interactions. Calm down.

But if the sentiment is "Europeans don't have good Mexican food in Europe, so for them trying it for the first time in Mexico would be mindblowing", the fact that Americans *do* eat good Mexican food in America is relevant.

Your attempted dunking on bland white people food just invalidated the majority of the food traditions for the majority of Americans that are not white, AND their Americanness, good going!

Bro you’re gonna flip out when you find out what the “Tex” in “TexMex” refers to

In other words, immigrants can never be truly American or British. They will always be foreigners, interlopers. How progressive.

(It's likely what you think of as 'mexican')

Now you got me on a rabbit hunt: www.kare11.com/article/news...

"True flavors" omit sugar and salt... The meat entrees were the best IMO.

Maybe a little different at the new one?? mplsvegan.com/blog/new-veg...

That's because we Americans are just as big thieves as our colonial parents, but unlike Britain we have zero shame about it. Hippity hoppity Your flavor is now our property

Equanimitable response—I love it!

You can just admit you don't know what TexMex means

lol Indian food in India is arguably British

lol...Leave it to a British White guy to think "American" translates to "White person" and White person culture. Black slaves built our country in addition to their cultural impact, and of course how heavily immigrants have also contributed to what it is to be an American.

Yes . Britain has the best indian food outside of india along with Singapore i would say

There are also dishes that happily straddle both such as daal and Kormas. In South Africa, too, you find Indian and other Asian influences from the "Cape Malays" These fusion cuisines exist in their own right. See The Curry Guy: greatcurryrecipes.net

What we claim is that immigrants who come to this country to make it their own, are completely capable of making their own food and turning it into another American success story with their restaurants. Immigrants have always been part of America’s flavor & food. You really thought this was smart.

Typical colonizer mindset: we conquered them so now we own their culture.

Correct. We love our immigrants. We are our immigrants.

…and according to my sister, as a long time resident in various parts of the U.S, most Indian restaurant food in the U.S sucks and wouldn’t be recognised as authentically Indian.

I’ve only eaten Indian food in England once. I remember it tasted amazing but I was probably high. Indian food in America generally all tastes the same.

no I'm actually totally willing to give you guys credit for chicken tikka masala

Go home lobsterback

What about New Mexican food?

A third of America used to be Mexico. When the border moved, the people did not. When we refer to Mexican food in the States we refer to the food produced by Mexican Americans, not the people of Mexico. Just like how a guy who calls himself Irish here doesn’t mean he was born and raised in Dublin

Silence Fogbreather

So Indian food is British then?

Go eat a jellied eel you king-having rat bastard

As a first generation American of English and Scottish parents, I understand how it’s all good fun to knock us for being less than smart. After all, we did just kill our Department of Education But you are not looking so educated rn, sir Rather than muting notifications, u shld delete the post

I'll never understand German cuisine.

Oh look, blood and soil arguments about food. You’re a real peach, you know that?

So Indian immigrants to America are institutionally as a group unable to cook their own food. Because they landed in America and not Britain? Oof.

You must be fun at parties

There is that too

Some of the most iconic British cuisine comes from immigrants. If we don’t get to claim Chinese American or Tex-Mex food (ignore the fact that that mostly comes from ppl the border crossed), they don’t get to claim chicken masala or fish and chips.

Maybe good food is good food. I like Greek, Mexican, Italian and a bit of Chinese and Japanese too. I am half Scottish, half Scandinavian, you know what i probably wouldnt eat? Haggis and Lutfisk. Let me enjoy what i want to enjoy, and you all do the same.

Do you... even know what Amrrica is?

Well, I'm American. Your logic is very clear.

Sad.

or possibly doing something wrong. I think those are the two options

Either it counts for everyone (meaning there's no such thing as local cuisine anywhere) or for no one (and then you need to look for the things that are truly local and not just an import by immigrants). You can't make fun of the admittedly awful English food and say the USA has great Indian.

Well, killing off the indigenous people does impede having a local indigenous cuisine but I hardly think you should get points for that. Also, non of those countries is a culinary monoculture the way it's represented in "indian" or "chinese" or even "italian" restaurants. It's always a mix.

The US kinda doesn't though. The US is place and a nationality not an ethnicity. Unless you want to resort to the far right's white christian nationalist definition of American then that multicultural fusion IS the defining characteristic of American identity and food culture

There's a difference between an established food culture being influenced by immigrants and/or colonizers and what we have in most parts of the US, especially the southwest, where Mexican food ways (already a fusion) were established before Anglos arrived.

Parts of America used to be parts of Mexico

We appreciate your sophistication

Wait till you find out that large parts of the US used to be Mexico.

I take the last part back. There is bad pulled pork out there, unfortunately. But as a dish it is good

Okay, Google "barbecue" the next time you scrape some cold beans across your plain white bread

Hell, Mexican food in Oaxaca is different than Mexican food in Quintana Roo is different than Mexican food in Chihuahua.

Doubling down on being a dumbshit, eh?

One reason I love English… and respect the f@@k out of our immigrant-Americans (and all people who learn English later in life). Immigrants—ALL immigrants—help make the US great.