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D has a ton of Asian goodness
Also, D even gets the entire bay of Naples, in addition to the cuisines of 3-4 billion people. Anyone who wants anything from A can get anything from there in Oceania.
D is so OP, I cannot imagine anyone picking anything else unless they are basing their choice on where they live.
Anyone who wants anything from A can get anything from there in Oceania.
But then that’s food you can eat in Oceania, not food from Oceania. D has a ton of good Asian food, but for traditional Western cuisine you want A or H.
D has Australia and nz too
Yeah that’s (part of) Oceania.
This gate keeping of cuisine is ridiculous. It would logically follow that you have to throw out anything that’s made with something originally from a different zone. So no potatoes, tomatoes, corn or other new world crops… Well, anywhere but one of these sections. Anything that comes from cultural exchange is, apparently, right out. So good luck with whatever the fuck they were eating in mesopotamia and the Indus river valley civilisation. I hope you like your beer to be bread.
If it’s been made by people who identify culturally as being “of that zone”, and they self-identify it as part of their culture, then that’s from there. Pretending that the awful colonisation of the entire world by white Europeans just… didn’t happen is insanely naïve.
then that’s from there
I mean, that’s not what the word “from” means, otherwise curry would be American food and that aside from not making sense would make the OP a lot less interesting to consider.
I’d miss mexican food, but some arsehole bundled it with the USA.
Worse, they bundled it with the worse half of the USA (except for soul food).
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Mediterranean, middle eastern, indian, Chinese, se asian. I can live with that.
+1 for D
It’s literally where the world gets most of their spices … the English fought wars for those places and those spices
the English fought wars for those places and those spices
To sell them to the world. Never get high on your own supply.
Indian and Chinese ftw. I’ll miss my local Moroccan place though.
plus aotearoa for cheese and wine.
Aussie wine and cheese is arguably even better, yet another reason to go with D.
Lots of peeps on the D train, so I’m going G. You’ve got the spiciness of Mexican and Caribbean paired with the savoryness of Guatemalan and Colombian. Jam packed with fish and chicken dishes. Ceviche, jerk chicken, jambalaya, fried plantains, cornbreads, tacos, and giant burritos. Southern Spain means you get paella chock full of shellfish and also Spanish olives. And in the far west you get a bit of Hawaiian flare, so a little bit of Japanese sneaks in.
Regardless D and G are S tier. E and A are A tier. Everything else is, well, a carb with sauerkraut and sausage.
Plus G gives you some of the best of USAmerican food like all the bbqs, cheesesteaks, American chinese, and all the random fusions that occur in the la, atlanta, and dc metros!
Yeah it’s gotta be G for me too
After living in D for half my life, the lack of decent Mexican food makes me a G person too.
I’ll argue that C has a pretty solid showing. Southern Italy, Greece, Croatia, Serbia, the rest of the Balkans, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Northern China, Central Asia, Mongolia, Northern Japan. There’s a lot going on there.
E and A are A tier.
A is obvious, but why E?
Afircan food is pretty great. E has parts of Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Egypt. (Those are the ones that I’ve tried. There’s probably more countries with great food there.)
E’s got Ethiopia. I don’t know if Ethiopian rivals French though
Easy D for me. It has Indian, Bangladeshi, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese. I don’t think I need anything else in life lol. Come to think of it, the only food I’ve had in the last month or so that isn’t from D is pizza, but I can live without pizza.
(I’m Indian so there’s obvious bias. But even if Indian and Bangladeshi food were removed, I’ll still choose D. I’ll be a little tempted by G because of Barbecue, but Korean barbecue is pretty great as well.)
Dude that, and then there’s like most of West Asia from Afghan to Lebanese with everything in between, plus Turkey and even a sliver of Greece and Italy.
With Greece and Italy giving us European in addition to Indian and Asian, D covers pretty much everything and makes it incredibly balanced. it’s the only choice.
I will sorely miss Mexican food but that’s an acceptable price to pay
I dont think any other country would claim this, so I pretty sure this counts as Japanese pizza
“Double deliciousness all the way to the crust!”
Language trivia: In Japanese the “crust” of the bread is called the “ears”
A mini dog pizza? What is this?
booking next flight to Japan
Needs more corn
Well, I was hungry… Not anymore
D is the answet and it’s so unfair. It has the entire diverse range of Asian cuisine, a glimpse of Western and Latin (through Australia-NZ and Philippines), and a slice of Medditeranean. It has all the ways to cook rice!
Also Korea. I’ve only been to two Korean places and they have always had at least 1 nice vegan option
D has a tiny sliver of Italy too.
Yeah and Malay food 😋 god, d is easy
D without a doubt. Southern tip of Italy, Greek, Turkish, Persian, Pakistan, Indian, Chinese, Thai, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Australian, just to name a few.
D, hands down. Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Iranian, Turkish, Japanese, Chinese. Literally my favorite foods
Edit: Also includes a little bit of Italy!!
D is the only sensible choice, there’s really no debate here.
Definitely. East and Southeast Asia, the entire Indian subcontinent, most of the Middle East and parts of Greece and (maybe) Italy?!
So unbalanced.
Nah mate it’s the Steak and Cheese pies from New Zealand that make it.
Antipodal AF
D or G
D gets you most of Middle Eastern, all of India, most of China, all of South Asia, most of Australia, most of Japan. Huge variety, extremely high number of options, lots of spice availability, lots of meat and nonmeat protein options.
G mostly because of Mexico alone. I’ve traveled there a bunch recently and the food game is insane. You also get the US South (which does have a lot of great food outside of deep fried everything), Spain, Portugal, and Morocco.
C gets an honorable mention mostly because of southeast Europe. That whole area has been a crossroads for a very long time.
I’m solidly on D ground, but G because of Mexico alone?? That’s just plain madness or hopefully pure ignorance. Central and South America have so much more than just Mexican food.
You forgot Puerto Rican and Jamaican food which is also in G.
Don’t forget about Peruvian food with G - literally some of the best food on the planet. Since the contest began in 2012, Peru has won World’s Leading Culinary Destination in the World Travel Awards every single year except for one. But a lot of people have no idea that the cuisine even exists. G also has a lot of fusion foods such as Vietcajun and Chifa.
But if you’re vegetarian, D is the obvious choice.
B You get italian food but still can have Surströmming
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D is honestly extremely OP
Yeah no kidding. D and it isn’t even close.
G.
Love Mexican and south American food, Creole, Southern, Cuban…plus the US has stolen foods from around the world, so I guess I get to keep pretty much eating whatever.
There’s also some Morocco, Spain and Portugal in there.
I mostly agree, on American Southern and Mexican alone.
D is tempting though, I love all Asian food. The variety from Middle Eastern, Indian, Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. I might have just convinced myself to go D while I was writing this actually…
There is a community of Chinese immigrants that settled in Mexico as well. So some Asian cuisine can be included as well.
I’m not sure that’s the rules, in that case you can get anything from America.
Everyone in the Americas are immigrants other than Natives, all our food is from someone else’s culture, borrowed and mixed. So what’s the answer? You’re only allowed Native American food? Where’s the timeline cutoff for what constitutes foods in these regions?
Same with all of Europe and Asia. “You can only eat food from the original neolithic people”. See how stupid you sound.
I’m sorry, what? I pointed out the absurdity of trying to say what the food is of the region when, particularly in the US, everyone is an immigrant. So your response is everyone eats Paleolithic foods now? Your idea is to take my “absurd” question and double down on it? Why not have a reasonable discussion?
Agreed. However - my exposure to Asian foods has been mostly those foods popular in western culture like sashimi, restaurant Thai or Chinese, etc. There’a a lot of if that I haven’t been exposed to or eaten, and even though I think I’d probably like a lot of the new stuff, there’s plenty I think I could never get used to like still-kinda-living food on my plate, nattō, etc. So I opted for the biggest slice of multicultural food I could get.
the US has stolen foods
Lots of people in this thread seem to be labouring under the bizarre notion that only the US is allowed to count immigrant cuisine as their own.
Because most everyone is an immigrant? Where do you draw the line and call something native or not? Otherwise we’re eating nothing but succotash and whatever else the First People had. Is anyone saying you can’t have a hamburger in Thailand?
Obviously nobody is saying any of those things. The meaning should be obvious when read in context of the original post.
D, Italian, Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese and Indian are already 90% of my diet
D without a doubt. Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, parts of China. It’s even got some Mediterranean in there. That’s basically all I eat already.
The only options are D and G
Consider global warming
G. Mexican food will survive anything, including being left out for a couple days and not killing you when you forget how long it’s been left out.
D has virtually all god-tier food Asia has ever produced, plus a bonus of whatever culinary bullshit Australia vomits onto the world stage.
D because of the huge variety in food, and the tiny chunk of Italy means I still technically get Italian food :)
