At some point in this thread I was offended at the notion of who was defining “American Food”.
Since the title actually says “non-Americans”, I am less offended, because at least in theory, I’m the one who gets to sneer .
Joking! I’m not a sneerer!
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I’m not sure if sneerer is a word but if it isn’t it should be.
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Let’s post a weekly circular for Aldi or Lidl when they are having “America Week”. that is what Europeans think of us. (Hot dogs, pancakes, peanut butter, and everything swathed in red white and blue)
And McDonalds. My students in France were quite shocked to find that we almost never ate at McDo
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Your reading skills seem to be mediocre at best.
Same can be said about your ideas about origins and connections to contemporary versions of different dishes
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Plenty of the regional pizzas I mention up thread are not regional American pizzas.
Pictou County
Perogy Pizza in Alberta Canada
Pizza in Naples
Pizza in Japan
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I didn’t say that, did I.
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The original question was what food non-Americans would recognize as typical American - all your one of regional approaches wouldn’t be recognized outside of the US as typical Anerican pizza - perhaps you should try to start thinking before posting and don’t always deflect when you post something irrelevant.
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Erm, not to jump into a contentious argument, but that’s a big claim and not true from where I sit. For instance, and NYC slice or a NY bagel vs a Montreal bagel are things that people I know are familiar with. True, there’s plenty of Europeans with broad and ignorant projections of what constitutes food in the U.S. But there’s plenty of ignorance everywhere. And with things like the Reddit thread, these come from people who have travelled.
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And as if on cue, Lidl informs me of next week’s theme
To be fair, Lidl does this to every nation to an extent (scramble know flavours through the upside down) but this week means also peanut flavoured everything and massive “cookie” puddings of all sorts.
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There are no sneering emojis!
I don’t recall eating, nor do I recognize, any of those products. I assume they are “European” products . It’s reminding me of pictures I took in Europe. I think France, but whatev…It’s all Europe, right? 
I’ll have to see if I can find them.
Found them! I thought it was pretty funny at the time.
Still sneering ( and smiling), but note that it says “USA” and not “American”.
And New York!
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I took a bunch of pics at the “American” section at various supermarkets in Germany, including the super-fancy food section at KaDeWe.
Baking mixes, several varieties of spray cheese, CCC, peanut butter, MW popcorn, Heinz ketchup, ranch dressing, cheetos, doritos, pringles… what you’ll mostly see are snack foods or convenience foods.
TBH, I think they’re not all that off.
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Ah yes. I seem to remember it always fell around the 4th of July.
Some of them I’ve never seen offered in the US…and those jarred hot dog things are the stuff of nightmares. We never managed to screw our courage down enough to try them. In my head, they giant Vienna sausages (vile).
Most of it was fodder for much amusement in the expat community.
I eagerly await German week at Aldi here in the US as it’s a chance to buy some things I enjoy when jn Germany (various charcuterie and pastry).
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I wish they sold teewurst. But it’s always just leberwurst 
Dang, 3.99 Euro for Pringle’s would be enough to make me swear off them for good.
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I went to Aldi last time they had a German week but they’d run out of sausage and cheese. It was the wurst käse scenario.
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Imported foods are always more expensive 
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Do you recall about when this is? A favorite small “European Grocery” (mostly Russian, Polish and German stuff) shut down mid-way through the panic. Another “World Grocery” (mostly Persian but some German stuff (mostly candies or cookies)) survived.
Edit - google is my friend.
- Beyond the many German treats Aldi brings in for the Christmas season, Aldi has two “German Weeks” each year. They typically occur in the Spring – around Easter, and in September – before Oktoberfest.
To John’s (@Harters) point, all the blogs talking about German week (in the US, I mean, not UK) say to get there as soon as the store opens.
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Agreed. Had many Italian FE students ( Napolitano) who saw our pizza as very different. He saw sausage/mushrooms/onion/olives, etc. as American pizza. He loved that you could buy a big slice. He couldn’t believe it when I was driving eating a slice. I can really eat and drive.
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