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You're greatly overestimating the willingness of the white US population to try new foods.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
You're greatly overestimating the willingness of the white US population to try new foods.
- kbenson 11y agoI think for the majority of Americans that aren't used to trying these foods it's likely more a matter of supply. It might be hard to support a Vietnamese restaurant in a smaller town with an extremely small Vietnamese population, and the restaurant might go out of business before many people have a chance to even try it (or overcome any hesitance they might have).
- coldtea 11y agoThat means there's not much willingness to begin with though. As in they don't get out of their way to support such places.
- clock_tower 11y agoI think it varies, region to region. I once tried and failed to persuade a roomful of Midwesterners to go to a Russian restaurant. Southerners (at least in Tennessee and Kentucky, probably in Appalachia in general; I can't comment on the Deep South) are pretty willing to explore new foods, in my experience; and in the Northeast and on the West Coast, curiosity about food is ubiquitous and routine.