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Anonymous10/17/25, 20:47No.21662950
>"American version of said cuisine is better than the original country's"
is this cope or true? Ex: people will be like Italian American food is better than Italian food in Italy lol wtf. If you say different ok, but better?
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Anon10/17/25, 20:48No.21662954
In some cases it is better, but usually it's just different, as you said.
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Anon10/17/25, 20:56No.21662966
>every person has different tastes
First day thinking about other people and not just yourself?
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Anon10/17/25, 21:01No.21662969
Italy is a relatively new country
During the 19th century many of the people who would later be in Italian territory moved to the US where their food was preserved, sometimes updated, sometimes standardized
Other Italians lived with Austrians, Germans, Hungarians, Macedonians, Greeks, etc., where their foods took on different influences
Later, when Italy unified, many European Italians returned to Italy, whereas most Italians living in America stayed here
So in some ways Italian-American food was more authentic, at least back in the day
Both have changed since, although interestingly enough some American dishes became very standard in Italy, like pasta bolognese
Bolognese in Italy prior to the American influence was made with pork and veal, carrots, and cream, it had no tomato in it at all
Another example would be eggplant parmesean
Eggplant parm used to be a layered casserole and was not breaded, but floured and fried before layering and baking
So with these two examples, bolognese was very much improved by America, while eggplant parm was butchered
I have no dogs in the pizza fight, I like them all
Well, not French pizza, that's dogshit, and I'm French
Also fuck French tacos
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Anon10/17/25, 21:57No.21663053
>americans prefer american food
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Anon10/17/25, 22:01No.21663058
>San Jose, CA mentionedAyyy! I need to swing back by Tony DiMaggio's for some stromboli.
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Anon10/17/25, 22:17No.21663083
It's not a black and white subject. American pizza has a lot more freedom of ingredients and tends to be more "comforting"; whereas Italian pizza has high quality ingredients and never makes you feel gross eating it. Same goes for sauces, Italian sauces are heavily but alfredo tastes so good when you ain't got an Eyetie in yo ear telling you it's nasty.
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Anon10/17/25, 22:19No.21663085
It’s cope. Italian-American food is dogshit compared to actual Italian food.
t. Italian-American
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Anon10/17/25, 22:34No.21663111
Italianxs are going to get mad and cope but italian food and italian-american food are hardly distinguishable. Same ingredients and same techniques 99% of the way through. The only reason there's any distinction at all is because Italians are neurotic and insecure faggots who want attention and a gold star next to their name. Compare this to the relationship between Mexican food and TexMex where there is nearly 0 things in common with each other ingredients wise or technique wise.
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Anon10/17/25, 23:20No.21663173
everything american is worse because americans decided to poison the food and water with glyphosate and fluoride, so everything tastes like a public swimming pool
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Anon10/17/25, 23:43No.21663202
Not from burgerland but in the UK the 'american' style pizza that the big chains sell mogs Italian pizza all day. Went to Italy a couple years back and every pizza I had was 90% bread, 1% sauce and 10% leafy greens and it was shit. Didn't even offer good toppings either. Sometimes the origin country just makes an inferior product that other countries perfect.
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Anon10/18/25, 00:20No.21663259
As a whole, probably not. The overwhelming amount of landmass on that map only offers chain restaurants and the walmart grocery section.
However, there is a small amount of americans who are voracious learners and will do everything in their power to make something to the absolute best they can, and they can and will succeed. Like some random creamery in Central Point Oregon won a best cheese in the world award, hosted in Italy, for their blue cheese.
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Anon10/18/25, 01:09No.21663325
Americans don’t have refined enough palates to enjoy native cuisines.
They also think the slop that’s been Americanised (i.e Italian/Mexican) is the same food you’d be getting in Italy/Mexico.
They’re the same as Pajeets, their tastebuds are absolutely fried so they can’t taste anything subtle.
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Anon10/18/25, 03:09No.21663515
Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
There's a lot of really shitty tiktok """chefs""" who tries to reinvent the wheel by fail miserably.