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In my area of the midwest, many Mexican restaurants serve an almost certainly horribly inauthentic paella. Mexican rice plus fajita vegetables (onion, bell pepper, tomato), chicken, shrimp, and covered in queso. As far as I know, proper paella has no queso. Does that mean I never order paella? No, absolutely not, I love the stuff around here. I am similarly told that a chile relleno filled with liquid-ish queso cheese is also not authentic, and I usually order one of those too.
What is your favorite inauthentic dish that has been mangled by cultural transfer?
Does pizza count? By now, most people's image of pizza is the American pepperoni style rather than the original Neapolitan Margherita style.
Huh, I'm not sure. Pizza took off so hard that now it's like there's competing visions of the food rather than one clearly right one and one clearly wrong one. When I was in college, I liked the margherita pizza they served, but it was mangled too. Big, round slices of tomato on each slice of pizza, along with basil in roasted whole leaf form. I'm not sure if I've actually ever tried the proper kind yet. Might be something you have to go to an urban area to get.
This reminds me of American sushi versus Japanese sushi. I think I prefer American by a lot -- maki rolls are way better than nigiri. Raw fish all tastes very similar to me, and I am apparently too unrefined to get much out of raw fish. Interesting texture, I guess.
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