20 greatest American food dishes
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Anonymous
| Breakfast cereals are uniquely American. |
Anonymous
The history of breakfast cereals is also bonkers. The inventor was wildly anti-sex and believed bland vegetarian diets restricted sexual urges. Then his brother got control of the company and started adding sugar and salt, which made the cereal more popular and the two ended up in litigation over who could use "Kellogg" on cereal. Super weird stuff. |
Anonymous
Sort of. Sanitarium flakes wasn't going to be a catchy name. However, Kellogg inspired a number of different grain-based cereals that didn't require cooking. Fortification of breakfast cereals eliminated rickets in the Western world. |
Anonymous
That’s a myth. Clearly Chinese people had noodles but the Italians did not get it from them. The first identifiable Italian pasta was made in Sicily many centuries before Marco Polo and from there moved to Naples. It may have derived from a North African dish. |
Anonymous
Wheetabix? |
Anonymous
Nope. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granula |
Anonymous
How do you explain pasta sauce? Tomatoes are from the New World. Clearly, Italians stole pasta from the Chinese and tomatoes from MesoAmerica and faked historical entries to make it seem like Italians invented both hundred of years ago. |
Anonymous
| French fries are Irish? |
Anonymous
| Of course BBQ and fried dough are not uniquely American but there is American specific forms of those foods. |
Anonymous
Because it is appetizer. |
Anonymous
| America runs on chickens! |
Anonymous
| Brownies! |
Anonymous
Yes! American origin? |