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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean…what explains Marylanders eating crabs?[/quote]
I'm  originally from CA.  I love MD crabs with old bay. What are you talking about?

Outside the college towns and larger metro areas in the midwest, I doubt there's much variety.

My spouse is from the UK, and when they were growing up, they ate the typical meat and two veg dinners.  Not much use of spices back then. Of course, today is very different. Curry is the national food now in the UK.

My spouse said that back in the day (like 40 years ago?), a lot of non city people also thought putting garlic in your food was kind of weird.  When spouse's mom started getting more adventurous with cooking, spouse would take that for lunch, and their friends would find it weird.  Obviously, times have changed there, but I think their past with different spices is why the UK used to be known as "where taste buds go to die".  Again, not like that today.

I imagine that is how it is anywhere outside of college towns and large metro areas.  People just aren't used to different ethnic foods.  As much as my ILs have eaten curry, Chinese and Thai food, they still had some food issues with other ethnic type foods.  [/quote]

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