Just saying, if I were tasked with looking up a recipe online in my non-native language, I would abandon the project in despair after the second paragraph about the author's grandmother.
When I went to Japan one of the hotels our tour group stayed at had you choose between a Japanese and western breakfast. The western breakfast was just what they thought westerners ate for breakfast. Still good though.
french fries are Belgian (got that name because American soldiers in WWI didn't realize they weren't in France anymore when Belgian locals gifted some to them), hawaiian pizza is Canadian
Okay, but the creator of the Hawaiian pizza himself called it Hawaiian because he sourced his pineapples directly from Hawaii rather than buying them from the grocery store.
We do have packaged mixes to make ...very, very sad approximations of fried rice (think Rice-A-Roni and similar boxed and bagged things), but I imagine this dish is much better.
It's not necessarily "what people think Americans eat," but giving a dish an appealing, exotic name. French fries, French toast, Danish pastry, Hawaiian pizza, Mongolian barbeque, Russian dressing, German chocolate cake, Swiss cheese, English muffins...
And people don't necessarily believe the places a food is named after is the real origin. Case point in Pizza Americana in Finland, which is made with a cheese that's only made locally in Finland.
Legit never really heard of anyone adding ketchup to fried rice. The closest is I think they add it to Omurice in Japan? Is that the same as "Japanese Fried Rice" here?
Thats adorable actually! I wonder what they'd think if I told them some places in the state actually fry (brown) our rice in butter? ....... wait I think that tips the scale too far in the other direction 😂
idk
is it so bad to wanna eat food from both your culture and someone elses?
to step outside of your comfort zone but still be close to home?
thats what i assume was the thought process
This is actually super common - "American" dishes that are nothing like what Americans typically eat. XD I loved the "American style" chips (crisps) a friend showed us: "Buffalo chicken burrito" flavor, and "smoked mayo" flavor. There was also apparently a corn-on-the-cob flavor.
In French we call Shepherd's Pie, Paté Chinois. I've never been able to figure that out either. It's an Irish dish, it has nothing to do with the Chinese.
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(I think it's because of the phonetic readings of the characters but whatever)
Today i learned there's American Fried Rice!
It wasn't insanely easy to just use the internet to find HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS (millions?) OF ACTUAL AMERICAN RECIPES.
But you CAN do that, now.
So why not do that? Why continue making shit up, at random?
If not that, it'll be a lot of barely-parsable screeching about whether beans go in chili, or whether "real" bbq sauce has a tomato base.
Because here in Mexico we have "red rice", which is rice cooked with tomato based consomme powder or seasonings.
im latinamerican
i guess it works????
But also I kind of wanna try it lol
The French popularized them. They still like them.
So, at the very least, people should refrain from acting as if France has nothing to do with French fries.
If anyone HAS to be all like "ackshually, French fries aren't French lol," you should at least credit the Belgians.
Upgrade the smug factoid to "ackshually, they should be called Belgian fries."
"Nasi Goreng USA" - American Fried rice
Nasi goreng = fried rice.
The actual reason for the USA is actually this:
U - Udang (Prawn)
S - Sotong (Squid)
A - Ayam (Chicken)
That said, this does sound… kinda good. 🫠
Maybe it's just that I love cheese. Cheese curds are this weird cheese-adjacent, byproduct thing that I don't get the point of.
Someone should figure out a way to trick people into eating cocoa pod husks.
If I want to eat cheese, I want to eat the PRODUCT of that process.
The weird, squidgy things left over after you make the cheese are, like, the OPPOSITE of cheese, in my humble opinion.
I feel like that’s pretty “American” lol
is it so bad to wanna eat food from both your culture and someone elses?
to step outside of your comfort zone but still be close to home?
thats what i assume was the thought process