There are some exotic foods we tend to take for granted exist. Almost every city for example has a Chinese restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, and maybe an Outback Steakhouse. But this isn’t universal for some reason. Someone asked me if I wanted to go to an Egyptian restaurant and I was like “wait, they have restaurants?”

A question for all those who would say they consider themselves ethnically fluent. What are all the cultural categories of food you’ve had?

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    2 months ago

    I used the terms in the sense that they refer to any division of people based on culture, not so much in the sense that I was implying an Axis Mundi of cuisine. Someone for example asked if I would consider KFC “ethnic food” even if one lived in the United States where Kentucky (the home of KFC) exists, and I said that yes, the case could be made.