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Re: Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war

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Post by account42 » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 11:41 AM UTC

0x457 wrote: post #273

miki123211 wrote: post #237

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What would you consider the major differences between European and American? I feel like as Europeans, we're as good at importing American food as America is about importing European.

> I feel like as Europeans, we're as good at importing American food as America is about importing European. What you call European food is a direct result of importing American food. Just different Americans...

There's plenty of European food without potatoes and tomatoes. And even then, incorporating ingredients originally native to the Americas doesn't really mean "importing American food".

Re: Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war

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Post by account42 » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 11:50 AM UTC

wat10000 wrote: post #308

fullstop wrote: post #236

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I often wondered about that. We hosted an exchange student for a few weeks, and he was from Nanjing. Before he left the country, we took him to a Chinese restaurant and warned him that it was likely going to be more like American-Chinese. He went through the menu and pointed out the dishes which were authentic and those which were not. I was surprised at how many were actually authentic -- it was about half of the me…

Authentic places certainly exist. That's not generally the sort of place that has menus covering multiple countries, though. There are also places where they can make stuff like home, but usually won't. They might have made "proper" stuff owing to the presence of your exchange student.

Authentic places often also want to server groups of people with varying tastes and expectations so IME even there you of then have parts of the menu dedicated to other vaguely related cuisines.

Re: Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war

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Post by account42 » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 11:53 AM UTC

StilesCrisis wrote: post #120

jstummbillig wrote: post #107

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Because that is how it's presented to "us". If the cuisine that we could access where we live was more diverse, we would think differently about the entire set (which is not happening for another set of entirely good reasons, but alas.)

I don't know about that. Japanese food and Thai food have very little in common besides rice. Possibly there is some overlap in curry but not much.

You're forgetting soy sauce.