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[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yeah! It's not like tikka masala exists or is the most popular British dish or anything.

[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago

Tikka masala being the best British dish will never be not funny

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

it's that class of "immigrant took their native cuisine and retooled it to make drunk locals do that cartoon thing where they smell a visible trail of scent and start floating towards the source, whereupon they hand over their entire wallet in return for delicious food"

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Definitely. But the sentiment these days are that the immigrants are natives. So therefore the food that is made is native too, by extending the logic.

There comes a time where the imported variant becomes more popular than the original. Just look at the italians and pasta.

The Americans rightly claim a lot of food that was made similar elsewhere, but garnered popularity in the us. Hamburg-er is a perfect example. They also "claim" food that might not necessarily be considered American by everyone, like pizza.

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nope! Invented by Bangladeshi/brits in England. Its plenty inspired by butter chicken, but made completely differently with British ingredients.

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Ahh cool. Kinda how Hawaiian pizza is Canadian