• spujb@lemmy.cafeOP
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    5 months ago

    very possible for a region to validly claim a certain iteration of a food, even if it originated elsewhere.

    for example, anglo-indian food would not exist without british influence. in the same fashion, american pizza, hamburgers, american-italian beef and US “chinese food”, while not utterly distinct from their precursors, are iterations of the cuisine that would never have come about in their countries of origin.

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      5 months ago

      Youre kind of making my point. My point was much more “if you think that’s bad, you should see this” as opposed to “it can’t be done.” For example, the curries from the UK are very different to anything youd get on the Indian sub-continent.

      Claiming apple pie is a outrageous though.