A similar example is the shopska salad[0], known throughout the Balkans as a symbol of either Bulgaria’s Shopsko region in particular or Bulgaria as a whole, bu

A similar example is the shopska salad[0], known throughout the Balkans as a symbol of either Bulgaria’s Shopsko region in particular or Bulgaria as a whole, but in fact this dish under that name only goes back to the 1960s or so and was part of a national marketing campaign. (Incidentally, tomatoes, cucumbers and white cheese form the colours of the Bulgarian flag, which do make this an even more apt cultural export, but I’m not sure that was intended.) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopska_salad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopska_salad