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What do American people eat?

Updated: 10/7/2023
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A very wide variety including:

  • Pizza and spaghetti
  • Hunan lobster and Sesame Chicken
  • Sushi and Kobe beef
  • Tacos and Rellenos
  • Bratwurst and Jagerschnitzel
  • Cous-Cous and Baklava
  • Escargot and Quiche
  • Tom-Kha-Kai and Gyoza
  • Masala Dosa and Uttapam
  • Fish and Chips and Beff Wellington
  • French Dip, French Fries and French Toast. US Citizens like a wide variety or foods besides meatloaf and mashed potatoes. Some will experiment with the unusual and the exotic, a few will even try Hot Dogs and hamburger.
  • Meat and potatoes with sides of vegetables.
  • Americans eat almost anything found anywhere else in the world. Since people from almost every country on earth have come to the US, their foods came with them and have allowed the cuisine in the US to become more varied than any other country.
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The United States is a melting-pot of cultures, therefore, the cuisine is about the same as any other developed country. Since the US is the birthplace of fast-food, we eat Italian food, Chinese food, French food, Southwestern (Tex-Mex or pseudo-Mexican) food, Greek food, Indian Food, Polynesian food, you name it. It depends on the season, location, or overall mood.

Americans celebrate Thanksgiving every fourth Thursday of November, and turkey and pumpkin pie are two traditional elements in the typical dinner. On Christmas, many of the meats eaten are beef, bison, deer, duck, goose, ham, turkey, fish and shellfish.

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Grits and bacon From the outside; think american, think fast food, burgers and deep-fried chicken. From the inside, city cuisine is a highly charged eclectic mix of world cuisine as rich and as varied as the population, cultures, lifestyles and circumstance. There is no stuffiness, if a mix of epicurial cultures and flavours is good and wholesome, it is right. Rural cuisine borrows heavily from the national influences of the early settlers and is modified and added to by the changing community. Relying heavily on local fresh produce, it is wholesome and good. Unfortunately, family economics can emphasise a reliance on cheap tv/burger bar and processed foods that, although flavoursome and quick, and ok in moderation, they are not good as a staple. And that reliance, more than anything, skews the view the rest of the world has of American Cuisine.

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Junk food mostly

Edit: Many Americans do eat mostly junk food but that is far from all we eat. There is a large percentage of health concious Americans such as myself. We eat a myriad of foods too extensive to list. If you are asking what our "traditional foods" are this is how i'd answer. The traditional foods of America are probably cheeseburgers and hotdogs. Then we have things like philly cheesesteak and cheesecake. If your looking for another i'd probably say pizza. Anyways hope this was a good answer for you.

We eat many things, that originated in many countries:

Amaranth

American groundnut

Artichoke

Arugula

Asparagus

Azuki bean

Beet greens

Bell pepper

Bitter melon/Bitter gourd

Bitterleaf

Black-eyed pea

Bok choy

Broccoli

Broccoli Rabe

Brussels sprout

Cabbage

Cardoon

Catsear

Cauliflower

Celery

Celtuce

Ceylon spinach

Chard

Chaya

Chickpea

Chickweed

Chicory

Chinese cabbage

Chinese Mallow

Chrysanthemum leaves

Collard greens

Common bean

Corn salad

Cress

Dandelion

Dolichos bean

Drumstick (Moringa oleifera)

Endive

Epazote

Fat hen

Fava bean

Fiddlehead

Fluted pumpkin

Garden Rocket

Golden samphire

Good King Henry

Greater Plantain

Green bean

Guar

Horse gram

Indian pea

Kai-lan

Kale

Komatsuna

Kuka

Lagos bologi

Land cress

Lentil

Lettuce

Lima Bean

Lizard's tail

Melokhia

Mizuna greens

Moth bean

Mung bean

Mustard

New Zealand Spinach

Okra

Orache

Pak choy

Paracress

Pea

Pea sprouts/leaves

Peanut

Pigeon pea

Polk

Radicchio

Ricebean

Runner bean

Samphire

Sea beet

Seakale

Sierra Leone bologi

Soko

Sorrel

Soybean

Spinach

Squash blossoms

Summer purslane

Sweet corn

Sweet pepper

Swiss chard

Tarwi

Tatsoi

Tepary bean

Tinda

Tomatillo

Tomato

Turnip greens

Urad bean

Velvet bean

Water spinach

Watercress

West Indian gherkin

Winged bean

Winter melon

Winter purslane

Yardlong bean

Yarrow

Zucchini

Many areas of the United States were settled by immigrants that brought their own culinary history, but were forced to make many changes due to the non-availability of the traditional ingredients. Over time, these evolved into unique cuisines only found in the US. Examples include: the New England boiled dinners and chowders; Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine; dishes in the Texas hill country from both German and Scott (via Kentucky)settlers; two different fares up from Mexico, one in Texas and another on California; and West coast dishes labeled Chinese, because of their origins rather than their ingredients just to name a few. In the last couple of decades, American chefs have been experimenting with fusing traditional methods from both US and international cuisines into entirely new categories of dishes. This, along with the impact of television networks entirely dedicated to cooking has seen major changes in what is purchased in the average US grocery cart and restaurant menus. The "hamburger and hot dog" mentality is loosing its preeminence.

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15y ago

in the us people eat varios of food mostly foods consisting of pizza, chicen, rice, and french fries.

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American food consists of foods from various different cultures, so there are many types of food that American like to eat. It would take forever to list every single meal.

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regular food like chicken and steak and rice and macaroni and beans and a lot of other things too.

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It depends on the area but mostly we eat the same as everywhere else: different types of meats and veggies and potatoes or rice or pasta.

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