On Jun 23, 12:35*pm, Shiral > wrote:

> Even if it was influenced by foods
> brought to the New World by immigrants, we have surely made it our
> own.
>

Wow, get out much? All American food is derivative, which with the
success of American Fusion shows to have been successful on the world
stage.


I take it as a tribute to our melting pot that no one dish can be
assigned as the one national food.

50 years ago you probably would have a different answer more along the
lines of the the traditional ones cited here, which I was raised on,
and now seem, well, not archaic, but not as relevent as before. Not as
unifying is probably a better description.