Every country has this issue. In this global universe we live in all "native" foods merge with local culture to produce something new. For example "Mexican" foo

Every country has this issue. In this global universe we live in all "native" foods merge with local culture to produce something new. For example "Mexican" food in various parts of the US is nothing like the food I ate when I worked in Mexico, yet even there regional differences are almost as different. Even "Chinese" food is wildly different dependent on where you are from in China. I grew up eating "German" food that is only barely like any restaurant I've seen in the US, and nothin like what you find in Germany today because it came from my parent's remembering what they ate as kids and my grandmother's what she learned from her mother. Food is not a static item and never has been. Trying to say the food you remember or eat is "yours" to talk about is sort of ignoring that it is a very personal concept as well as rooted in time and place.