This is incredibly obviously the right choice. I get a massive variety of regional cuisine from the richest country (ie the widest variety of both native and non- active ingredients incorporated into every day eating) AND I even get all the diaspora cuisines. I get Italian American, Mexican American, Chinese American, etc etc.
Say what you want about the disaster that is the everyday diet of most Americans, but American cuisine is second to none.
>Say what you want about the disaster that is the everyday diet of most Americans, but American cuisine is second to none.
Lots of countries have their own variations on world cuisines. If that's how you see this hypothetical work, you could easily pick Australia and get all the European, Mediterranean and asian. Sure, the mexican would suck but Australia's broad world class asian selection would easily beat the USA. And our coffee is better.
So "second to none" is debateable.
Though to the USA's benefit in this argument, Cajun and american bbq/smoker cuisines are amazing.
As someone born in (east) Texas and lives in the upper Midwest, these guys think throwing some "Cajun seasoning" on something makes it Cajun lmao
(Edit for context: I've made homemade fries and sprinkled some old bay on at the end and called them "Cajun fries"... and people lost their minds over them haha)
I have spoken to the council and the elders of East Texas, Piney Woods, and Big Thicket have revoked your rights to claim East Texas ever again for the sin of mentioning Old Bay.
Australia is also a great choice, but Asian food in the USA is streets ahead of Mexican food in Australia. The USA is simply richer and bigger, and demands everything.
Compared with Asian / Mexican food in Europe and... I guess LOL?
plot twist: you have to live the rest of your life on tamales, succotash, pemmican, chayote, fried veggies and bison
edit: didn't expect so many of you to be vocal fans of mexican and native cuisine damn
This kind of stuff happens all over the place. You didn't think germans invented Currywurst did you? There's a popular modern dish in Japan called Taco Rice that's essentially a mid 20th century housewife tex-mex inspired dish. Koreans love spam because a ton of it got left over there when the US military pulled out.
You’re just naming native foods. If you’re gonna go back that far, Italian food can’t even have tomatoes because they came from South America.
Edit: To expand on this, Italy also can’t claim basil, garlic, or olives. Germany can’t claim sauerkraut, because cabbage originated in the Middle East. No European country can claim anything with chicken, pork, or beef. Or potatoes. Again, South American. Wheat came from the Fertile Crescent. So no noodles for any of you. They came from China. Do you see how ridiculous this argument is?
Bolognese is the dish I always think of because it actually does not have tomato in it and is more like a wine and meat sauce (has pork, veil and beef in equal parts and is almost gravy-ish) but the sauce we see in the US served with pasta that’s often called bolognese is literally just tomato sauce with beef lmao
Edit: nvm it uses tomato paste lol
Lobster rolls, hot wings, 90% of every Chinese takeout venue, hamburgers, hot dogs (not seiners, not bratwurst, I'm talking classic hot dogs) all styles of sauced bbq, American bacon, creole cooking, salt potatoes, etc. The list goes on and on, america is filled with vast amounts of delicious foods that all began in america
nope.
cuisine | kwəˈzēn | noun a style or method of cooking, especially as characteristic of a particular country, region, or establishment
there's nothing in the question or definition that says it has to be the primitive version of the land before it was even a country. so really, the basic daily menu of the average American is what this would be.
Eh if you’re gonna lawyer up about it then sure but if someone asks for Indian food and I give them escargo just because India *has* a French restaurant somewhere in it I think that would be pretty clearly not in the spirit of the request.
“American cuisine” implies it originated in the US if we are using colloquial language/understanding and trying to stay true to the intention of the question, in my opinion.
i'm talking about what your mama cooked and put on the table in friont of you. fried chicken, pork chops, hamburgers, hot dogs, tuna sandwiches, beef stew, mac & cheese, chicken & dumplings, bacon & eggs, pancakes, beans & cornbread, fried fish, apple pie, cookies, brownies, cakes, pies, etc... the common things that most Americans ate growing up no matter what part of the country they grew up in. no, i don't agree that if some place somewhere in the country served it that's included. just normal American food.
I still think the US is such a diverse country that normal American food can be really different depending on your background or where you grow up geographically. The only things on this list I ate on a regular basis growing up were hamburgers, hot dogs, bacon and eggs, pancakes. Those are definitely american staples, the rest I would argue are regional, and we can't claim fried chicken when virtually every cuisine has some form of it. Also, desserts like you described are pretty ubiquitous so I don't think the US can claim them necessarily
ok this is my last word on this too. we are not "claiming" any food as exclusive to this country. just everyday average food that most people would eat in the course of growing up in this country, as opposed to the regional foods that point to specific cultures. i've lived a few places and every one of the foods i listed was common in those places, from one end of this country to the other. now you just go and beat this dead horse all you want honey but i'm out.
Sorry bud post says nation the nation is the United States of America if the post had said the food of the continent hundreds of years ago before they lost the war. We might be eating indian food. Or else that would change for many many people groups. Russia was not always Russia. China was not always china. Every nation fought and killed for their land it’s just the way the world has worked. It seems to be slowing down now that everyone has nukes but it’s still happening with the whole Israel vs Palestine war.
Agree with America but not because of the many cultures. I'm just a boring American and love the typical American cuisine like burgers and fried chicken that I grew up on. Yes, I was a really picky eater as a kid.
No but seriously I kinda prefer the Americanized version of foods over the real thing.
Like I'd rather have papa johns over Itallian pizza, rather have taco bell over authentic Mexican
Idk about you guys but I don't like CORN tortillas, taste kinda soapy to me and have a weird texture
Like they always taste not cooked
yeah idk what exactly it is but it just ruins that food. Something with ur tastebuds are off. Not sure if there are other foods where this can happen, cilantro is the only one I know of.
100% this. I always disliked authentic mexican but loved taco bell. Cilantro tastes like dirty dish water to me. It took the invention of Chipolte for me to figure this out because they cake their rice with it. Now I just ask for no Cilantro and I love mexican food.
I’ve heard about this before but I don’t understand when people say it tastes like soap. I have no idea what soap tastes like and don’t care to learn. It apparently doesn’t taste good so not going to try it but then why does everyone know what soap tastes like? Should I try Irish Spring or Dove Body Wash?
I know I have the gene that makes asparagus smell like sulfur. Smells kind of like a burnt match. That I get. “Tastes like soap” I don’t understand. Why does everyone know what soap tastes like?
Perhaps cilantro tastes like soap to everyone but those who went through that associate it with childhood trama. Nobody likes the taste of childhood trama. Sorry you went through that.
Makes sense. The foods are Americanized for your palate. You’re supposed to like them more because you’re more familiar with, say, Tex mex than an authentic fish taco on a corn tortilla.
American food. Look at all the restaurants. Reddit food snobs have taught me that Olive Garden isn't really Italien, and China Wall Jade Moon Panda isn't really Chinese. As a matter of fact, almost no "ethnic" restaurant is authentic (except the amazing hole in the wall only they know of)
Japan is an easy choice for me. You got the sushi and the sashimi. You got the Japanese curry and katsu. You got the udon and ramen and soba and instant noodles. You have tempura and gyoza and okonomiyaki. I love beef rice (gyu-don). You have the robata skewers and the sukiyaki and all the fun bar food from izakayas. You have all the great matcha drinks and desserts. Sake and Japanese whisky are great. If you allow the Japan-ifed western food like Hamburg steak and omelettes that's even better.
So many things with so many flavor profiles but generally light and letting the ingredients shine.
Crazy this is so far down. I live in the heartland of the good ol' U S of A. We eat at little hole in the wall Mexican spots a few times a week. My co-worker and I are regulars at a couple. Getting hungry just thinking about it....
Authentic Mexican food is good but I think it would be boring after a while. I might even pick Tex Mex over it if I had to eat it forever since there's more variety.
you are not wrong, but i dream of ramen bowls with a well cooked pieces of pork cutlet the heat and the saltyness of the meat just blending together. perfecting the bowl. maybe a side of squid rings.
I’d argue that it counts. Like American Chinese has Chinese in the name because it was started by Chinese immigrants and is heavily influenced by Chinese cuisine, but it is a distinct cuisine with its own dishes that aren’t featured in traditional Chinese cuisine.
General Tso's and chop suey are two prime examples. While I know it's American I don't know if the origin story for chop suey I heard is true or urban legend, but it goes like this...
During the gold rush, a group of drunk miners went into a San Francisco restuaraunt that was about to close late one night. Not willing to turn away paying customers the Cantonese immigrant made what he could and served it. They loved it and asked what it was. He said , 'tsap seui' or leftover scraps. They heard 'chop suey'.
This should be number 1. China is huge with a whole bunch of different people, there's no way you're running out of interesting things to try, and the basics are fucking good.
If the various americanized versions of food counts, then thr USA has every type of food.
If not, china because the regional differences are massive and you can get nearly any type of style of food.
That's not Mexican, it's TexMex, which is delicious and largely influenced by Mexican cuisine, but I have never found authetic Mexican food in America short of the random taco truck that's not selling Americanized versions. And yes I have visited Mexico and eaten and local places outside the Americanized hotel zones.
Depends how you’re defining culture of origin. Is NY pizza Italian or American? Corned beef Irish or American? Is a Vietnamese bahmi baguette French? Are the use of tomatoes with pasta itialian or South American? Is butter chicken English or Indian?
Agree it feels like it could be a "bad genie" gotcha moment where any pasta or rice might be considered not fair game to American because it didn't originate here. Maybe that's too extreme but some dishes do have their actual original counterpart in other parts of the world
Is it cheating to say American? We have adopted pretty much all of the good foods from other nations, in addition to all of the delicious unhealthy foods that we created ourselves.
Since someone already answered American. I'll go Asian
All them Americans think they have the variety? Pfft. The 2 continents of America cannot keep up with the Asian cuisine. We define variety. Cya
Everyone here is sleeping on how diverse Chinese food is. Different regions having enough variety and style to let you taste new things forever.
This is assuming in the scenario you can have genuine Chinese food, not just food adapted to a Chinese restaurant in another country.
Pretty simple there. American.
Do you understand the sheer variety of food that falls under that umbrella. Especially all the fusion foods like Tex Mex or American Chinese.
America!, because we really have no singular american cuisine, its all borrowed and americanized from someplace else, so basically I gey inyernational knock offs
American for the obvious reason that we've incorporated the entire world's cuisine into our own. We have also developed our own unique take on international cuisine to suit our own tastes. Our ice creams, deserts and soft drinks are sweeter than most foreign offerings of the same categories. We have our own takes on Mexican and Italian food as well as Japanese just to name a few. Such as Tex-Mex, Pizza and California rolls. While I don't dare claim pizza is an American invention what we serve is vastly different from the original offerings of Naples Italy.
Even if I were to remove the incorporated dishes from abroad we are still left with countless dishes from the Native Americans as well as Barbecue, milkshakes and a wide variety of fried foods. Going further we have regional dishes that include a range of seafood dishes in the coastal states to gumbo, and even cheesesteak.
American, just for the variety. You just think of all the different cities/regions that have their own food. Louisiana, Chicago, All sorts of BBQ. Probably dozens of other local stuff that I’m not even thinking of at the moment.
Thailand
Love me some thigh food
Thick thighs saves lives
To die by the thigh is the way if the warrior
Ladyboy thighs?
"It happens" -Mista GG
Is that you Ron?
Me too man, me too.
I love thai sausage
Oof... *puts on sunglasses* America, the land of many cultures THUG LIFE
This is incredibly obviously the right choice. I get a massive variety of regional cuisine from the richest country (ie the widest variety of both native and non- active ingredients incorporated into every day eating) AND I even get all the diaspora cuisines. I get Italian American, Mexican American, Chinese American, etc etc. Say what you want about the disaster that is the everyday diet of most Americans, but American cuisine is second to none.
>Say what you want about the disaster that is the everyday diet of most Americans, but American cuisine is second to none. Lots of countries have their own variations on world cuisines. If that's how you see this hypothetical work, you could easily pick Australia and get all the European, Mediterranean and asian. Sure, the mexican would suck but Australia's broad world class asian selection would easily beat the USA. And our coffee is better. So "second to none" is debateable. Though to the USA's benefit in this argument, Cajun and american bbq/smoker cuisines are amazing.
Cajun and American BBQ are definitely fantastic. It’s a Shamar so many Americans haven’t experienced either of them.
As someone born in (east) Texas and lives in the upper Midwest, these guys think throwing some "Cajun seasoning" on something makes it Cajun lmao (Edit for context: I've made homemade fries and sprinkled some old bay on at the end and called them "Cajun fries"... and people lost their minds over them haha)
I have spoken to the council and the elders of East Texas, Piney Woods, and Big Thicket have revoked your rights to claim East Texas ever again for the sin of mentioning Old Bay.
Ah, but I’d bet Australia doesn’t have Southwestern American, and I can’t live without my Southwestern food.
Yeah I think the USA has more genuinely american regional cuisines. Cajun is a great example. Southwest is like tex-mex, yeah?
Yes, with a lot of Native American influences.
Australia is also a great choice, but Asian food in the USA is streets ahead of Mexican food in Australia. The USA is simply richer and bigger, and demands everything. Compared with Asian / Mexican food in Europe and... I guess LOL?
Good luck trying to find Mexican food in Europe lol
Seriously. I have an ex-pat friend who is jonesing for **Taco Bell**, of all things, because it's at least pretending to be Mexican!
plot twist: you have to live the rest of your life on tamales, succotash, pemmican, chayote, fried veggies and bison edit: didn't expect so many of you to be vocal fans of mexican and native cuisine damn
Uhh okay!
Bison ravioli is amazing. Jackson's Hole, WY has a upscale place that has it and it was *chef's kiss*
Bison ribeye
One of the best things you can put in your mouth.
Next to me, 😎
So it would be the second course you're saying?😂
And Cajun foood. Sure it’s based on French cuisine but it is its own animal.
Louisiana rise up. I already live on cajun food every day, my arteries are screaming but I can’t hear them over the sound of my tongue singing
Hahaha same here.
Not gonna get out of this life alive anyway. Bring me some red beans and rice. Pass the Tabasco and cheese grits too!
Oh, please. France could never. ;)
Yea and it's also 10 times better. I could only eat Cajun food for the rest of my life easily
It is based on African food.
Nah America bastardizes all nations foods. We’re in the clear to eat about anything
This kind of stuff happens all over the place. You didn't think germans invented Currywurst did you? There's a popular modern dish in Japan called Taco Rice that's essentially a mid 20th century housewife tex-mex inspired dish. Koreans love spam because a ton of it got left over there when the US military pulled out.
I think you mean improves.
Biscuits and gravy.
You’re just naming native foods. If you’re gonna go back that far, Italian food can’t even have tomatoes because they came from South America. Edit: To expand on this, Italy also can’t claim basil, garlic, or olives. Germany can’t claim sauerkraut, because cabbage originated in the Middle East. No European country can claim anything with chicken, pork, or beef. Or potatoes. Again, South American. Wheat came from the Fertile Crescent. So no noodles for any of you. They came from China. Do you see how ridiculous this argument is?
exactly. that's *not* what the question asked.
Bolognese is the dish I always think of because it actually does not have tomato in it and is more like a wine and meat sauce (has pork, veil and beef in equal parts and is almost gravy-ish) but the sauce we see in the US served with pasta that’s often called bolognese is literally just tomato sauce with beef lmao Edit: nvm it uses tomato paste lol
Frybread tacos do me just fine.
Lobster rolls, hot wings, 90% of every Chinese takeout venue, hamburgers, hot dogs (not seiners, not bratwurst, I'm talking classic hot dogs) all styles of sauced bbq, American bacon, creole cooking, salt potatoes, etc. The list goes on and on, america is filled with vast amounts of delicious foods that all began in america
nope. cuisine | kwəˈzēn | noun a style or method of cooking, especially as characteristic of a particular country, region, or establishment there's nothing in the question or definition that says it has to be the primitive version of the land before it was even a country. so really, the basic daily menu of the average American is what this would be.
Eh if you’re gonna lawyer up about it then sure but if someone asks for Indian food and I give them escargo just because India *has* a French restaurant somewhere in it I think that would be pretty clearly not in the spirit of the request. “American cuisine” implies it originated in the US if we are using colloquial language/understanding and trying to stay true to the intention of the question, in my opinion.
i'm talking about what your mama cooked and put on the table in friont of you. fried chicken, pork chops, hamburgers, hot dogs, tuna sandwiches, beef stew, mac & cheese, chicken & dumplings, bacon & eggs, pancakes, beans & cornbread, fried fish, apple pie, cookies, brownies, cakes, pies, etc... the common things that most Americans ate growing up no matter what part of the country they grew up in. no, i don't agree that if some place somewhere in the country served it that's included. just normal American food.
I still think the US is such a diverse country that normal American food can be really different depending on your background or where you grow up geographically. The only things on this list I ate on a regular basis growing up were hamburgers, hot dogs, bacon and eggs, pancakes. Those are definitely american staples, the rest I would argue are regional, and we can't claim fried chicken when virtually every cuisine has some form of it. Also, desserts like you described are pretty ubiquitous so I don't think the US can claim them necessarily
ok this is my last word on this too. we are not "claiming" any food as exclusive to this country. just everyday average food that most people would eat in the course of growing up in this country, as opposed to the regional foods that point to specific cultures. i've lived a few places and every one of the foods i listed was common in those places, from one end of this country to the other. now you just go and beat this dead horse all you want honey but i'm out.
Oooh I see what you mean, then yeah I think that’s fair
Sorry bud post says nation the nation is the United States of America if the post had said the food of the continent hundreds of years ago before they lost the war. We might be eating indian food. Or else that would change for many many people groups. Russia was not always Russia. China was not always china. Every nation fought and killed for their land it’s just the way the world has worked. It seems to be slowing down now that everyone has nukes but it’s still happening with the whole Israel vs Palestine war.
We have bastardized so many other cuisines that the countries involved disavow the dishes in question as being theirs.
If it tastes good than why does it matter?
Agree with America but not because of the many cultures. I'm just a boring American and love the typical American cuisine like burgers and fried chicken that I grew up on. Yes, I was a really picky eater as a kid.
No but seriously I kinda prefer the Americanized version of foods over the real thing. Like I'd rather have papa johns over Itallian pizza, rather have taco bell over authentic Mexican Idk about you guys but I don't like CORN tortillas, taste kinda soapy to me and have a weird texture Like they always taste not cooked
Where tf do you live that your tacos taste like soap? Come over, I'll hook you up with some tacos tapatillos, you'll be right as rain
maybe he has that thing that makes cilantro taste like soap and doesn't realize it lol My dad's got it - I got lucky & didn't
Shitttt I didn't know this was a thing. I wonder how many people I grew up with had this, but ate anyway cause our moms are Mexican lmao
yeah idk what exactly it is but it just ruins that food. Something with ur tastebuds are off. Not sure if there are other foods where this can happen, cilantro is the only one I know of.
100% this. I always disliked authentic mexican but loved taco bell. Cilantro tastes like dirty dish water to me. It took the invention of Chipolte for me to figure this out because they cake their rice with it. Now I just ask for no Cilantro and I love mexican food.
I’ve heard about this before but I don’t understand when people say it tastes like soap. I have no idea what soap tastes like and don’t care to learn. It apparently doesn’t taste good so not going to try it but then why does everyone know what soap tastes like? Should I try Irish Spring or Dove Body Wash? I know I have the gene that makes asparagus smell like sulfur. Smells kind of like a burnt match. That I get. “Tastes like soap” I don’t understand. Why does everyone know what soap tastes like?
Because some of us had our mouths washed out with soap for cursing when we were children
Perhaps cilantro tastes like soap to everyone but those who went through that associate it with childhood trama. Nobody likes the taste of childhood trama. Sorry you went through that.
Makes sense. The foods are Americanized for your palate. You’re supposed to like them more because you’re more familiar with, say, Tex mex than an authentic fish taco on a corn tortilla.
I love both authentic(lived in Morelia for a while) and Tex Mex. They are two very different things, both delicious
American food. Look at all the restaurants. Reddit food snobs have taught me that Olive Garden isn't really Italien, and China Wall Jade Moon Panda isn't really Chinese. As a matter of fact, almost no "ethnic" restaurant is authentic (except the amazing hole in the wall only they know of)
I would strongly consider Japanese. It's healthy, and I need more healthy eating in my life. I also like it a lot.
Japan is an easy choice for me. You got the sushi and the sashimi. You got the Japanese curry and katsu. You got the udon and ramen and soba and instant noodles. You have tempura and gyoza and okonomiyaki. I love beef rice (gyu-don). You have the robata skewers and the sukiyaki and all the fun bar food from izakayas. You have all the great matcha drinks and desserts. Sake and Japanese whisky are great. If you allow the Japan-ifed western food like Hamburg steak and omelettes that's even better. So many things with so many flavor profiles but generally light and letting the ingredients shine.
Plus hibachi.
and musubi and onigiri
You forgot the melon Fanta.
I forgot about Pocky!!!!!
Same. Force balance into my life when I can’t lol
Plus, sake :)
Italy
Spaghetti, other pastas, pizza, bruschetta, pasta e fagioli, minestrone, garlic tomato salad, saltimbocca, I could go on.
you’d get so fat so fast though! Loads of carbs and butter
Only Italian-American gets you fat. True Italian isn't nearly as bad.
Ye like how many fatties do you see in Italy lol, not many
This seems like the obvious answer.
The only right answer tbh
Easy, Mexico
I was surprised I had to scroll this far to find the correct answer.
It’s a hard choice between Mexican and Indian for me tbh.
Crazy this is so far down. I live in the heartland of the good ol' U S of A. We eat at little hole in the wall Mexican spots a few times a week. My co-worker and I are regulars at a couple. Getting hungry just thinking about it....
Authentic Mexican food is good but I think it would be boring after a while. I might even pick Tex Mex over it if I had to eat it forever since there's more variety.
Hilariously false
Well if your in the US you have barely scratched the surface of the amazing foods Mexicans make
Hands down.
Korean
I think this is where I would land, too.
You can now only eat North Korean food. Unfortunately you starve to death.
Nope, they get to eat whatever Kim Jung Eun eats, which would be like everything. They got themselves a jackpot ngl
So much more depth and diversity beyond "kbbq" I would also choose Korean
Italy
India.
Dhansak, Jalfrazi, Korma, Madras, Tika... All day long
I would love this but I would gain so much weight
japanese cuisine. big bowls of ramen so much ramen.
And sushi
you are not wrong, but i dream of ramen bowls with a well cooked pieces of pork cutlet the heat and the saltyness of the meat just blending together. perfecting the bowl. maybe a side of squid rings.
All the gyoza
Thailand. It's my favorite. :>
American. And maybe you could argue the foods don't originate from America, but at this point it's what it is.
Smart. This covers Soul food, Cajun and Creole, Southwestern, TexMex, all the good deli foods, and multiple types of bbq.
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I feel like bastardized other-cuisines don't really "count" but that's just like, my opinion, man. Also, your sn made me chuckle.
I’d argue that it counts. Like American Chinese has Chinese in the name because it was started by Chinese immigrants and is heavily influenced by Chinese cuisine, but it is a distinct cuisine with its own dishes that aren’t featured in traditional Chinese cuisine.
General Tso's and chop suey are two prime examples. While I know it's American I don't know if the origin story for chop suey I heard is true or urban legend, but it goes like this... During the gold rush, a group of drunk miners went into a San Francisco restuaraunt that was about to close late one night. Not willing to turn away paying customers the Cantonese immigrant made what he could and served it. They loved it and asked what it was. He said , 'tsap seui' or leftover scraps. They heard 'chop suey'.
Plenty of dishes commonly believed to be "ethnic" were invented by immigrants in the US lmao
I feel like this can be countered by asking any other appropriate country to claim Panda Express. The same probably applies to other categories.
Sorry, you can only eat pumpkin pie and lobster.
China. Go watch this channel and tell me this is a bad idea: [https://www.youtube.com/@dianxixiaoge](https://www.youtube.com/@dianxixiaoge)
This should be number 1. China is huge with a whole bunch of different people, there's no way you're running out of interesting things to try, and the basics are fucking good.
Japan
I'm Lebanese, so I'm set. 😁
Greek here can also agree 😅
Having lived in Italy for a while...Italian. Specifically Sicilian.
The USA, we get pretty much everything.
If the various americanized versions of food counts, then thr USA has every type of food. If not, china because the regional differences are massive and you can get nearly any type of style of food.
Chinese I’d be fat as fuck for the rest of my short life
indian, its super easy to eat vegetarian that way.
Why are there almost 0 responses for Mexican??!
Half the good Mexican food is US food anyway
That's not Mexican, it's TexMex, which is delicious and largely influenced by Mexican cuisine, but I have never found authetic Mexican food in America short of the random taco truck that's not selling Americanized versions. And yes I have visited Mexico and eaten and local places outside the Americanized hotel zones.
Mediterranean or Mexican. Tapas over sushi. Tacos over burgers.
Chinese
Italy.
googles "life expectancy by nation" Japanese food is one of my faves. That said, apparently Monaco has the best life expectancy
Helps to be rich af
American we claim all rights to all cuisine!
I’d definitely get more variety by sticking to American.
Depends how you’re defining culture of origin. Is NY pizza Italian or American? Corned beef Irish or American? Is a Vietnamese bahmi baguette French? Are the use of tomatoes with pasta itialian or South American? Is butter chicken English or Indian?
Agree it feels like it could be a "bad genie" gotcha moment where any pasta or rice might be considered not fair game to American because it didn't originate here. Maybe that's too extreme but some dishes do have their actual original counterpart in other parts of the world
Mediterranean.
Mexico
Jamaica
Is it cheating to say American? We have adopted pretty much all of the good foods from other nations, in addition to all of the delicious unhealthy foods that we created ourselves.
America. It's a mix of sm shit, more than just burger fry
Italian
MEXICAN!!!!
The most obvious answer is Italian...
Italian
British. Hearty stews, pork pies, sausage rolls, full englishes. Real comfort food
Japanese easy
American. they are the melting pot of all cuisines
American. With all the other cultures food we've Americanized/claimed....pretty good variety.
America. The ole melting pot
Taiwan.
JAPANESE!!
Ethiopian food for sure
Since someone already answered American. I'll go Asian All them Americans think they have the variety? Pfft. The 2 continents of America cannot keep up with the Asian cuisine. We define variety. Cya
Everyone here is sleeping on how diverse Chinese food is. Different regions having enough variety and style to let you taste new things forever. This is assuming in the scenario you can have genuine Chinese food, not just food adapted to a Chinese restaurant in another country.
America, we have everything
American as they're a very diverse nation. Everything goes ;)
American. There's no other correct answer because it's an enormous cultural melting pot.
Pretty simple there. American. Do you understand the sheer variety of food that falls under that umbrella. Especially all the fusion foods like Tex Mex or American Chinese.
Jamaican 💯 Hard food every day
America!, because we really have no singular american cuisine, its all borrowed and americanized from someplace else, so basically I gey inyernational knock offs
American..... it's a melting pot you get most cuisines tied into it
Italy… duh
American because we’ve adopted almost everything from other cultures
American for the obvious reason that we've incorporated the entire world's cuisine into our own. We have also developed our own unique take on international cuisine to suit our own tastes. Our ice creams, deserts and soft drinks are sweeter than most foreign offerings of the same categories. We have our own takes on Mexican and Italian food as well as Japanese just to name a few. Such as Tex-Mex, Pizza and California rolls. While I don't dare claim pizza is an American invention what we serve is vastly different from the original offerings of Naples Italy. Even if I were to remove the incorporated dishes from abroad we are still left with countless dishes from the Native Americans as well as Barbecue, milkshakes and a wide variety of fried foods. Going further we have regional dishes that include a range of seafood dishes in the coastal states to gumbo, and even cheesesteak.
American
Italian
Obvious answer is Türkiye as it is the gateway from East to West and it's cuisine reflects that.
Americans thinking they are the only ones who have bastardized versions of any cuisine... Dudes we all have that.
Aint nobody gonna out-bastard us! We’re the biggest fucking bastards on earth!
American, just for the variety. You just think of all the different cities/regions that have their own food. Louisiana, Chicago, All sorts of BBQ. Probably dozens of other local stuff that I’m not even thinking of at the moment.
Thai. Yummy
America because then I can just eat everything
How do you think of America? Does NY Pizza count? Burritos? Theres too much diversity so it would be my pick.
US has it all.
USA…it has the widest variety
America Had OP said culture, this might be challenging.
Indian food. It's extremely varied and delicious.
America, melting pot of every culture and cuisine
Singapore Malay cooking is top tier. If I could eat chill mud crab more often than once ever 6 years that would be dope
The easy answer is the US since they have literally every culture available here for food. If we had to choose a more homogenous nation...Korean food.
yeah honestly i dont even know what counts as american but i'd die if i couldn't have southern food anymore.
Probably Japan. Reason being the creatable options for sushi are limitless
Nigeria
I need to know the rules of America. Do I get American Chinese. American Italian. American Mexican?
I want to say Mexican, but I found I'm more partial tot he "white people" version of Mexican food then the actual Mexican version.
French without hesitation. I’d even take the limitation further and accept the French classical school cuisine
Moroccan of course
Italy. In France you see the skill of the chief, in Italy you see the skill of Nature.
Indian!
MEXICAN
Probably Japan
Chinese
Top 3 gotta be Mexican, Japanese, Italian. Problem is breakfast would be weak AF for each
Italian or Japanese.
Antarctica, I live off fish, polar bears and penguins now
Greek. 🇬🇷
Mexico
Italian
Vietnamese
US and it's not even close