@ai6yr

This seems like a good place to reup this NPR story about arroz con pollo in the American South https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/04/09/598848804/what-did-the-south-do-to-arroz-con-pollo-it-s-a-cheese-covered-mystery

@ai6yr Yeah, for many cuisines, there's a whole "American" version of that cuisine, that ends up with a fairly standard set of dishes based on the local cuisine of some of the earlier immigrants from that country, what was possible to make with American ingredients, and what appeals to American palates.

The fun part is when that actually creates new types of food that are excellent fusions of the cuisines; the Mission burrito, for example, was invented in San Francisco, but it's quite an innovation.

The bad part is when yeah, you get these meme dishes that are a kind of dull and horrifying imitation of the cuisine, like egg foo young or General Tso's Chicken or crispy shelled tacos with ground beef and shredded lettuce.