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Breakfast cereals, hot dogs, hamburgers, toaster pastries, hot pockets, cornbread, jambalaya, grits, cranberry sauce, jerky, the chocolate chip cookie, pumpkin

Breakfast cereals, hot dogs, hamburgers, toaster pastries, hot pockets, cornbread, jambalaya, grits, cranberry sauce, jerky, the chocolate chip cookie, pumpkin pie, the waffle ice cream cone, milkshakes, Coca-cola, peanut butter (although I learned today the first peanut butter patent was issued to a Canadian in Montreal). Some of these were invented in North America, but before the USA was founded. If you do some research you can find much more. It amounts to a considerable contribution to the culinary arts. Chocolate chip cookies alone are worthy of a lifetime achievement award.

jabroni_salad 2y ago
Louisiana really is this country's best kept secret.
jltsiren 2y ago
While most of the others sound North American, jerky is not. Dried meat is a pretty universal concept, and jerky specifically is something Europeans got from the Inca. Even the word itself is borrowed from Quechua.
- jogjayr 2y ago
  Thanks! > Dried meat is a pretty universal concept Irrelevant in my opinion. Putting something on bread has probably existed since the day after someone invented bread. But we still give Italy credit for inventing pizza. Just like startups, the implementation is more important than the idea.
Footingerm 2y ago
Early version of hot dog was invented in germany Hamburger might also been created in germany Cornbread: Native Americans I give you breakfast cereals, toaster pastries, hot pockets, grits, pumpkin pie, milkshake. Coca-cola? do we now start to listen all types of drink recipetes? So pure cultural, usa invented easy foods. This has very little to do with cultural foods like cheese, or the million types of sausages and breads and etc. It does not amount to a considerable contribution to the culinary arts
- dahart 2y ago
  “American cooks and chefs have substantially altered these dishes over the years, to the degree that the dishes now enjoyed around the world are considered to be American. Hot dogs and hamburgers are both based on traditional German dishes, but in their modern popular form they can be reasonably considered American dishes.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cuisine#Ethnic_influences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cuisine#Ethnic_influe... The list of US-specific and US-influenced food is pretty long, and includes lots of ‘slow’ foods. Why are you basing your argument on cherry picking from an incomplete list of examples? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_foods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_foods And what do you mean that so-called ‘easy food’ isn’t a contribution to food culture? It’s trending globally (for better or worse), and relates closely to food supply economics. > Cornbread: Native Americans Native American foods count, why wouldn’t they? > This has very little to do with cultural foods like cheese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_cheeses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_cheeses
- jogjayr 2y ago
  Inventing Coke, toaster pastries, and breakfast cereals was neither quick, nor easy. And drinks are a part of cuisine. If we can't count Coke, we also can't include French wine-making or German brewing. What's a "cultural food"?
  - 9dev 2y ago
    Not that GPs point is particularly convincing, but are we really comparing the mastery of wine making and beer brewing to Coca Cola now, in a discussion on culinary culture..? That’s like comparing Fox News to Tolstoi.
    - lolinder 2y ago
      Why not? This is just the whole high art/low art nonsense in another context. Plenty of people enjoy their cola of choice more than they do a fancy wine and consider it to be an essential part of their day. Why is it less worthy of inclusion in culinary culture?
wheels 2y ago
While your list is true, it's not a great list to make your case. One responder said that the hamburger and hotdog don't fit, because they're German, but that's only appreciably true for the hotdog (which is effectively indistinguishable from a bockwurst). Gumbo, jambalaya, barbecue, cornbread, chili, clam chowder, fried chicken, pancakes, biscuits and gravy, pies (any sweet sort, not just pumpkin), cheesecake, brownies, fudge. The US is also one of the three great pizza countries (along with Italy and Argentina). And that's just the some of the stuff that's relatively decisively American. In practice, as I said in my original post, things are incredibly fluid, and a lot of American dishes are heavily based on other cultures, and a lot of other cultures' mainstays are based on New World ingredients. American and Italian versions of "Italian" cuisine significantly co-evolved, and it's virtually impossible to separate one from the other.

jabroni_salad 2y ago

Louisiana really is this country's best kept secret.

jltsiren 2y ago

While most of the others sound North American, jerky is not. Dried meat is a pretty universal concept, and jerky specifically is something Europeans got from the Inca. Even the word itself is borrowed from Quechua.

jogjayr 2y ago
Thanks! > Dried meat is a pretty universal concept Irrelevant in my opinion. Putting something on bread has probably existed since the day after someone invented bread. But we still give Italy credit for inventing pizza. Just like startups, the implementation is more important than the idea.

Footingerm 2y ago

Early version of hot dog was invented in germany Hamburger might also been created in germany Cornbread: Native Americans I give you breakfast cereals, toaster pastries, hot pockets, grits, pumpkin pie, milkshake. Coca-cola? do we now start to listen all types of drink recipetes? So pure cultural, usa invented easy foods. This has very little to do with cultural foods like cheese, or the million types of sausages and breads and etc. It does not amount to a considerable contribution to the culinary arts

dahart 2y ago
“American cooks and chefs have substantially altered these dishes over the years, to the degree that the dishes now enjoyed around the world are considered to be American. Hot dogs and hamburgers are both based on traditional German dishes, but in their modern popular form they can be reasonably considered American dishes.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cuisine#Ethnic_influences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cuisine#Ethnic_influe... The list of US-specific and US-influenced food is pretty long, and includes lots of ‘slow’ foods. Why are you basing your argument on cherry picking from an incomplete list of examples? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_foods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_foods And what do you mean that so-called ‘easy food’ isn’t a contribution to food culture? It’s trending globally (for better or worse), and relates closely to food supply economics. > Cornbread: Native Americans Native American foods count, why wouldn’t they? > This has very little to do with cultural foods like cheese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_cheeses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_cheeses
jogjayr 2y ago
Inventing Coke, toaster pastries, and breakfast cereals was neither quick, nor easy. And drinks are a part of cuisine. If we can't count Coke, we also can't include French wine-making or German brewing. What's a "cultural food"?
- 9dev 2y ago
  Not that GPs point is particularly convincing, but are we really comparing the mastery of wine making and beer brewing to Coca Cola now, in a discussion on culinary culture..? That’s like comparing Fox News to Tolstoi.
  - lolinder 2y ago
    Why not? This is just the whole high art/low art nonsense in another context. Plenty of people enjoy their cola of choice more than they do a fancy wine and consider it to be an essential part of their day. Why is it less worthy of inclusion in culinary culture?

wheels 2y ago

While your list is true, it's not a great list to make your case. One responder said that the hamburger and hotdog don't fit, because they're German, but that's only appreciably true for the hotdog (which is effectively indistinguishable from a bockwurst). Gumbo, jambalaya, barbecue, cornbread, chili, clam chowder, fried chicken, pancakes, biscuits and gravy, pies (any sweet sort, not just pumpkin), cheesecake, brownies, fudge. The US is also one of the three great pizza countries (along with Italy and Argentina). And that's just the some of the stuff that's relatively decisively American. In practice, as I said in my original post, things are incredibly fluid, and a lot of American dishes are heavily based on other cultures, and a lot of other cultures' mainstays are based on New World ingredients. American and Italian versions of "Italian" cuisine significantly co-evolved, and it's virtually impossible to separate one from the other.