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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jan-2026 04:27:36 JST Adrianna Tan

   Wrote this comment to yer another ‘Murican food bad’ post

   https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/1qghiy7/comment/o0cceo2/

   #Food

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jan-2026 04:37:30 JST Adrianna Tan

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     It also feels silly to me to make generalizations about food of a place as big as

     The distance between Ireland to Belarus and Syria

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jan-2026 04:43:45 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Sometimes people will be like American food is just burgers

     And I’m like what about pho? Ramen?

     They then say it’s not American as if those foods didn’t exist in America for as long as that one, but I guess only ‘white’ foods get to be American

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     Carolyn (cstamp@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Jan-2026 04:50:03 JST Carolyn

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     @skinnylatte American food depends on where in America you are. It’s known for fast food chains, but it’s a lot more than that. When I used to visit SF, friends took me to a lot of amazing holes in the wall, inexpensive but yummy food.

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     Carolyn (cstamp@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Jan-2026 04:50:03 JST Carolyn

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     @skinnylatte And after eating Mexican food in California, I will never again eat at a Taco Bell. :)

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jan-2026 04:50:03 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @CStamp some of my Mexican friends in California unironically love Taco Bell, they see it as just another regional cuisine. Same with me and Panda Express.

     There’s such huge variety. In LA, or even Fruitvale across from SF, I can get Mexican food from every region

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jan-2026 04:58:16 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Carolyn

     @CStamp even the variants of Mexican Californian food have evolved within California. San Diego burritos are fundamentally diff from SF, and most of that differs from Mexico’s.

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     Carolyn (cstamp@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Jan-2026 04:58:17 JST Carolyn

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     @skinnylatte very interesting.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jan-2026 05:03:22 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • mic

     @mic there’s northern and southern Vietnamese pho that have come to California and Texas and evolved separately on their own as well. I also like that most immigrant foods also interact and fuse with each other for example many Vietnamese dishes use a Puerto Rican coconut beverage, as in the 70s it was hard to get imports from Vietnam. Lots of ways in which immigrant. Foods have interacted with each other and not just with the dominant group.

     Vietnamese Cajun food is a real and amazing thing in Texas. There’s Chinese food in St Louis heavily influenced by African-American foods. There’s Chinese-Fuban and Chinese-Venezuelan foods. And my favorite American cuisine of all, the food of the Gullah Geechee people

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     mic (mic@ruhr.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Jan-2026 05:03:23 JST mic

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     @skinnylatte
     In Germany, Döner was basically adopted into the cuisine - possibly similar to tacos in the US. There are "Berlin Döner" restaurants outside of Germany. There are definitely US style taco places outside of the US. Is there US style pho?

     Adrianna Tan repeated this.
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     Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) (suzannealdrich@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jan-2026 05:14:46 JST Suzanne Aldrich (she/her)

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     • Carolyn

     @skinnylatte
     I grew up with burritos filled with shredded chicken in Northern California, I can’t find it anywhere else. I guess it’s tinga de pollo? I don’t enjoy any other Mexican chicken meat preparation. I really miss my hometown burritos. 💔
     @CStamp

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jan-2026 05:15:59 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @suzannealdrich @CStamp very prevalent in NorCal but it is from Pueblo (NorCal has a lot of folks from there). You’ll have to find a pueblan spot I have send it elsewhere

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     Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) (suzannealdrich@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jan-2026 05:21:18 JST Suzanne Aldrich (she/her)

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     @skinnylatte
     That makes sense. This was my best friend’s mom’s recipe. I worked in their restaurant as a busser on Sundays for the church crowd. Everyone thought it was funny because I was a gringa being paid under the table 😆
     @CStamp

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jan-2026 05:27:18 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Michael Wyman

     @mwyman I just had a massive portion of biryani which was not at all bland. I think there are some foods that just don’t hold up to seasonings very well and that’s okay. I saw a video from the essayist Horses in which he investigated the idea of ‘bland’ food. His take was, and I think I agree to an extent, some foods descended from places in the Nordics and W Europe that rely on fresh ingredients continue to exist but with worse ingredients and no fresh herbs, everything just gets worse. Related to industrialization.

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     Michael Wyman (mwyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Jan-2026 05:27:19 JST Michael Wyman

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     @skinnylatte regarding seasoning and flavor, I have to wonder if a big problem is American portion sizes are commonly expected to be so huge that properly seasoning would lead to massive over-consumption of salt (and probably other things), so the result is massive, bland portions.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jan-2026 07:35:49 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Human after all

     @humanhorseshoes ramen is a type of noodles but not all noodles are ramen.

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     Human after all (humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 19-Jan-2026 07:35:50 JST Human after all

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     @skinnylatte aren't ramen and noodles the same thing? And not all of us white people are WASPs

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jan-2026 07:42:38 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @humanhorseshoes I see this a lot with European critique of American food. Yes, it’s bad, in parts, but whenever someone goes ‘there’s also this other stuff’ they’re like yeah but that’s not real American, American food is just burgers and fries, and bad versions of ‘our’ bread (I’m not American, I’m an immigrant who has lived on both sides of the pond and I find this all very disappointing)

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     Human after all (humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 19-Jan-2026 07:42:40 JST Human after all

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     @skinnylatte I knew that Cultural erasure and theft isn't a minority sport and I agree with you, American food is not just burgers just symbolic of the domination of the white bread culture of the very very conservative Protestant European invade and conquer culture