Anonymous wrote:What would we eat? Are there any restaurants around for native cuisine?

Anonymous wrote:How would they enforce that? I mean will they ban me from buying the ingredients to make my own pasta with a pasta attachment for my KitchenAid mixer? Will they ban me from buying tomatoes and the ingredients to make tomato sauce?

Think of the enforcement! They go creeping around apartment buildings with dogs specifically trained to sniff out specific cuisines and then confiscate the food and ... eat it in hiding?

Would we bring back the prohibition era, except instead of alcohol, it's lo mein and matzoh ball soup?

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Anonymous wrote:How would they enforce that? I mean will they ban me from buying the ingredients to make my own pasta with a pasta attachment for my KitchenAid mixer? Will they ban me from buying tomatoes and the ingredients to make tomato sauce?

Think of the enforcement! They go creeping around apartment buildings with dogs specifically trained to sniff out specific cuisines and then confiscate the food and ... eat it in hiding?

Would we bring back the prohibition era, except instead of alcohol, it's lo mein and matzoh ball soup?

Dictatorships enforce things like this.

MAGA cult of stupidity

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Anonymous wrote:What would we eat? Are there any restaurants around for native cuisine?

What did Christopher Columbus chomp on ? That.

Hardtack.

Anonymous wrote:How would they enforce that? I mean will they ban me from buying the ingredients to make my own pasta with a pasta attachment for my KitchenAid mixer? Will they ban me from buying tomatoes and the ingredients to make tomato sauce?

Think of the enforcement! They go creeping around apartment buildings with dogs specifically trained to sniff out specific cuisines and then confiscate the food and ... eat it in hiding?

Would we bring back the prohibition era, except instead of alcohol, it's lo mein and matzoh ball soup?

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Anonymous wrote:Eh, we've "americanized" almost all international cuisine to the point that it is American. "italian" food like lasagna, Tex-mex, giant sushi rolls with everything in them, chinese take out, etc.

Italians stole tomatoes from us. The food in Italy isn't Italian if it uses tomatoes.

Anonymous wrote:Chop suey was first created in San Francisco
we could also eat hot dogs

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Anonymous wrote:Assuming OP meant imports… we’d all be eating a lot of corn and soy and not much seafood. Also very few spices. Coffee only for the robber barons.

Just thinking about this weeks meal plan… we’re ok for tonight (vegetable soup and homemade bread), and the zucchini pasta doesn’t have any international ingredients (except black pepper). Everything else would suffer in flavor.

This is what I assumed the OP meant. Many people would be dead because we import most of our pharmaceuticals and medical equipment. Boomers would be obliterated, child mortality would go back to the 1930s, more women would die in child birth etc etc.

I think we could go back to producing a lot more here in our country. But prices would rise a lot. We have a lot of consumable products that are inexpensive because land, labor, and other resources are cheap in other countries. But we could make them here if customers would pay more.

That said, it's very expensive to change production sites back and forth.

My industry is busy writing down billions in assets because of changes in administration policy. Nobody knows if it's prudent to invest with current circumstances in mind. The current rules may only last for 4 more years. Whipsawing businesses around wastes money.