pseudangelos

pseudangelos t1_j8hhk2j wrote

Embracing and celebrating influences from various world cultures is a 'serious imperialist attitude'? I suppose we're not allowed to consider tea part of UK culture either since we got it from trading too. Maybe we should also force India to rework most of its country's recipes to remove all the chillis and tomatoes they got from the Americas.

In fact, let's just force every country to only use ingredients and techniques from their own borders, and see what a marvelous world foodscape we have then.

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pseudangelos t1_j8ff44h wrote

I disagree too. Food culture travels and evolves. We have been eating curries in the UK since the 18th century - at what point do we get to call it our own?

It's as silly as telling an American that he can't consider pizza a national food because it comes from Italy.

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