a cool guide of foods
a cool guide of foods
Ciabattas are way older than that, a guy only patented it in 1982. Ask anyone who was around at the time, they were hugely popular in the 60s and 70s.
31Yeah some of these seem dubious. Pasta Primavera is one of the oldest styles of pasta dishes out there. Maybe the date is when the name was given to it?
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LOL Carbonara not even illustrated with said dish.
15Neither is fondant.
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If chicken tikka masala has the UK flag and not the Indian one, then nachos should have the US flag, as it was invented in the US (by a Mexican cook named Ignazio, or “Nacho”)
12Wikipedia says you are incorrect:
The dish was created by, and named after, Mexican restaurateur Ignacio Anaya, who created it in 1943 for American customers at the Victory Club restaurant in Piedras Negras, Coahuila.
That's just south of the border in Mexico.
33Ignacio varga?! Kidding. But that explains the nickname. Or is it like dick and richard ? Altho...now that I think about it, nacio and nacho aren't that far away, so it probably precedes the whole thing. Either way, Cool.
2Nacho is the short form of Ignacio. Just like Dolores -> Lola. Makes sense right?
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The only one I'm surprised about is tiramisu
9Not gonna lie, bubble tea is older than I thought. I thought for some reason it was a product of the 90s. Couldn't tell you why, other than it just feels right.
9Man, I could really go for some right now.
1Same with blended iced coffee
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You could have convinced me that farton was a weight or energy unit.
'The moon weighs 58 fartons'
It takes 3 fartons to move your mum a decimeter
8It roughly translates to "thing that feds you up", or "glutton". So really, could be
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Canada invented the Hawaiian pizza?
South Park was right all along. Blame Canada
8Created in Canada by a Greek immigrant!
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Nothing on this list beats Tartiflette.
5Missed pad Thai. Pulled right from the Wikipedia article:
Although stir-fried rice noodles were introduced to Thailand from China centuries ago, the dish pad thai was invented in the mid-20th century. Author Mark Padoongpatt maintains that pad thai is "...not this traditional, authentic, going back hundreds of years dish. It was actually created in the 1930s in Thailand. The dish was created because Thailand was focused on nation-building. So this dish was created using rice noodles and it was called Pad Thai as a way to galvanize nationalism."
Another explanation of pad thai's provenance holds that, during World War II, Thailand suffered a rice shortage due to the war and floods. To reduce domestic rice consumption, the Thai government under Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram promoted consumption of noodles instead. His government promoted rice noodles and helped to establish the identity of Thailand. As a result, a new noodle called sen chan pad thai (named after Chanthaburi Province) was created. Pad thai has since become one of Thailand's national dishes. Today, some food vendors add pork or chicken (although the original recipe did not contain meat because of the government's perception that pork was a Chinese meat). Some food vendors still use the original recipe.
5It is a food that's newer than it seems but the post specifically calls out foods created after ww2
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Wtf, I live in Taiwan and never knew the Mongolian beef was made by us.
5I thought you already had Chinese beef?
5It's funny. Living in Taiwan you never find beef and broccoli on our menus. Or orange chicken. I think those are American dishes.
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Poutine.
5Caesar salad needs to be added to Mexico's cultural trophy room as well, I only recently learned. Tiramisu is the ultimate fancy imo. I've always loved Mexican food, but am discovering that I love it more than I realized!
4Mongolian is my favorite kind of Vietnamese food.
3LOL at USA inventing iced coffee!!!
3The invention of fondant was a war crime and should be punished as such.
3This is a fondant au chocolat, which roughly means melting chocolate cake, it's a small cake with a liquid chocolate core.
It's not fondant as in cake fondant, which is an abomination.23
This German Doner thing really triggers me. There are other food disputes I can’t support because I don’t know but isn’t döner literally known Turkish? “A German immigrant in B” blah blah?! I’ve ate döner in any form in bread, in plate, in dürüm and even in a fucking lahmacun in 90’s. If this shit continues, I’ll fucking put a shinitzel in a bread and call it “German immigrant invented in İstanbul called Turkish Shinitzel”.
2Nobody denies its Turkish roots though. AFAIK putting Kebap in bread isn't really a thing in Turkey and although one might argue how big a contribution that is, it's that step that combined a Turkish dish with German Imbiss culture and made this a huge success all over Germany.
You're welcome to try the same thing with Schnitzel and if you attain the same level of success and cultural significance, I'd rightfully call you the "inventor". (though I have to inform you, that "Schnitzelsemmel" is a thing already, so maybe think of a different example)
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I love fondant.
1Nobody put cheese on tortillas chips until the 40s? I highly doubt that.
1from what i can tell, tortilla chips weren't really used until somebody started putting cheese on them and calling them nachos
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