What do we think will be the US-American millennial equivalent of like....
-
Darius Kazemireplied to Darius Kazemi last edited by [email protected]
One of my favorite things to do is read culinary and food history. You read enough of this you start to notice that "traditional" foods, even the ones that people swear up and down have Always Been The Food of Our People, are almost universally not much older than the grandparents of the oldest people currently alive.
I grew up on "traditional" Iranian food. I read primary historic sources on this stuff & most of what is claimed to be long-standing tradition was invented after 1900
-
@darius in much the same way that some people believe the vikings made it to atlantic canada, i believe italy made it to the americas thousands of years ago and have been eating tomatoes ever since
-
@darius Huh. In that case I have just lucked out into the two culinary cultures that are actually *really* old by most others' standards?
-
@dequbed I encourage you to look into the actual history (I haven't even looked at your bio to see what those cultures might be, this is just a recommendation I make to everyone who thinks their food lineage is ancient. Even religious stuff, there's like, major translation and meaning changes over time, it's all interpretation that shifts)
-
@darius I mean, just by the connotations, I'd say Avocado toast.
-
@darius Ooh, my sister wrote a book all about this as it pertains to New England: https://www.amazon.com/Truth-about-Baked-Beans-Washington/dp/1479882763
-
@darius I'm not sure there IS a universal for that in the US.
I see meatloaf but I more strongly associate that with Gen-X. Personal bias in that I've always hated the stuff tho, and stopped eating it the minute I had a choice.
Everything else I can think of that I've seen as a staple is regional/cultural, and that stuff gets passed down. The coasts will never stop having seafood, the deep south will never stop having barbecue, the SW will never stop having Tex-Mex, etc.
-
@Kyresti my point is actually that it doesn't get passed down the way we think it does! Southern BBQ today, even extremely traditional southern BBQ, looks nothing like it did 150 years ago as far as anyone can tell
-
@CarlMuckenhoupt thanks to my library I'm reading this RIGHT NOW
-
@darius Peanuts. It seems like everyone I know with kids has someone in their classroom with a severe allergy to them
-
@pwbrooks fair
-
@darius Carbonara is my favorite example of this.
