Today is grocery day. While trying to make out a grocery list and decide on what to cook next week, my daughter and I got into a discussion. It started with her asking me if I realized that everything thing on my list for meals next week was foreign food. I didn’t realize it!
foodBut looked and saw she was right… let’s see… Spaghetti, Polish Sausage and Saurkraut, Swedish Meatballs… wait here’s one! No wait Pizza’s italian, lol. Meatloaf? Nope, I checked, it’s been around forever in various countries with just slightly varying ingredients…. Hamburgers! Ok, Mongolian and Turkic tribes are the ones who started shredding low-quality beef to make it more digestible, and Germans are the ones who started using ground beef to make a cheap “steak”, but Americans were the first to put it between two pieces of bread, although four states claim to have started it. So I guess the hamburger as we know it is of American origin. But I can’t for the life of me think of any other foods that originated right here in America, by Americans. I did find something interesting while researching though… Spaghetti actually started in China, not Italy. Just leave out the red sauce and add differen’t things. If anyone can tell me of some actual AMERICAN dishes, please do so. I’d be pleased to know of at least 5. Oh by the way, I’m not including AMERICAN-INDIAN food, HA!