My experience traveling has been that very few countries have as much variation of cuisine as the US, even considering the amount of 'american-ization' of dishe

My experience traveling has been that very few countries have as much variation of cuisine as the US, even considering the amount of 'american-ization' of dishes you'll see. Alpha cities and regional / global capitals certainly do, but your average Midwestern city seems to have much more variation than a random middle-sized European city from what experienced abroad (with the caveat that obviously individual European countries are much more different from each other than US states are).