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... C'mon. Are they _really_ ethnic foods, or are they the whitewash/watered-down version, for well, you know, Americans?
by Romanulus 11y ago
... C'mon. Are they _really_ ethnic foods, or are they the whitewash/watered-down version, for well, you know, Americans?
- umanwizard 11y agoNot everyone lives in flyover suburbs without real foreign food. You should take GP at face value.
- coldtea 11y agoI've eaten in tons of places downtown and in fancy ethnic places in gentrified areas all over America. Even there the "foreign food" is watered down compared to its country of origin. At best it's close to the quality/palette of the touristy places of the original country. The closer you can get is in some immigrant restaurants (dives etc) that only people of said ethnicity ever go.
- umanwizard 11y agoI wasn't talking about gentrified/fancy neighborhoods. I agree with you there. I was talking about the latter where it's definitely possible to find "authentic" stuff.
- gaius 11y agoCertainly e.g. the pizza you get in the US is not much like the pizza you get in Italy, and the Chinese food in the UK is not much like what people actually eat in China.