2006-12-21 17:45:36 · 9 answers · asked by padeirogaucho 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
We most certainly do!
Our cuisine includes many food concepts that we have gotten from other cultures, but they have all pretty much been Americanized. Italians, for example, would think it was very strange that we regularly put meat in our spaghetti sauce, and I think that hamburgers are pretty much an American phenomenon even though they have a German name. I live in a part of the United States where people eat "Mexican" food regularly, but it's quite different from the food I ate when I actually went to Mexico. American Japanese food is much sweeter than Japanese food in Japan. And so forth. And other styles of cooking exist in the U.S. that don't exist anywhere else: barbeque, dutch oven cooking, and cajun cuisine, just to name a few. "American" food is all of these things.
2006-12-21 17:51:19 · answer #1 · answered by drshorty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Where did you get the idea that America does not have American food? It's about more than just apple pie and Boston baked beans...
Of course, America is a very large country. Many of the signature dishes are more strongly associated with individual regions than the country overall. The southwest is associated with certain foods, the northwest others, and the south a whole bunch of others.
2006-12-21 17:51:44 · answer #2 · answered by EQ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ever had a Navajo Toco? Doesn't get more American than Native American food.
2006-12-21 18:13:47 · answer #3 · answered by zaleonia1 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most regular dishes are very American. Sort of the home cooking style stuff.
2006-12-21 17:49:56 · answer #4 · answered by rumbler_12 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What's more American than MacDonald's?
2006-12-21 17:51:26 · answer #5 · answered by Jamie R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
America has lots of traditional foods. What do you mean?
2006-12-21 18:07:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were invented in the USA.
2006-12-21 18:12:35 · answer #7 · answered by Roman Soldier 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i love mexican food but im american
latina
2006-12-21 18:07:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hamburgers, hot dogs, apples pies, cookies, brownies, spaghetti, and pizza . what do you mean?
2006-12-21 18:12:27 · answer #9 · answered by Annmaree 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋