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What are some examples of things that have been successfully "Americanized"?
- Thread starter Bentendo24
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Little late to the party but wasn't that during that brief explosion of Madea movies where Blaxploitation cinema effectively became a thing again?
I'd say true Italian is "nicer" as are a lot of local highend restaurants but just something about an average New York pizza that just can't be beat.
Its like when they say the shitty NY water is the difference in the dough or in bagels, in my experience it seems like it has to be it.
How about this one: preference in personal vehicles. Now, the "need to own an SUV" has badly infected Europe. 😕
I believe "hamberder" is the proper Americanism here.
American Italian food is probably more popular globally than Italian Italian food out side of Europe. Pretty much all of Asia, the Italian food is American style.
Hell I don't even know if Italian Italian food is more popular is Europe, I just assumed cause Italy is in Europe.
Hell I don't even know if Italian Italian food is more popular is Europe, I just assumed cause Italy is in Europe.
Italian food is out of this world. American italian food is good if you pay for it. In Italy they really feed you well and the coffee is great as well. Ice cream too. In fact go to Italy and just eat your way around the country.
I ate in a decent Italian restraunt in SF - it seemed to be run by Italians - but american pizza is shite.
Not really. The US ran some of the earliest modern concentration camps in Cuba and the Philippines.
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But the stories aren't moved to an American setting
Foods from all kinds of cultures. Most relevant to me is Mexican food and Italian food, but foods from all cultures like the Dutch have been Americanized pretty well. Someone here mentioned General Tso's chicken, which while I have never had (my local Chinese takeout places only have actual Chinese food), is definitely a pretty successfully Americanized version of Chinese chicken.
Also the American version of The Office is much more successful than the British version, so that as well.
Also the American version of The Office is much more successful than the British version, so that as well.
I will never understand how American Christian culture became intertwined with gun nuts.
Pizza. Absolutely pizza.
Prairie Style architecture is fantastic as well, until it devolved into ranch-style housing.
Not sure if you can count a separate American style of architecture "Americanization", but there it is.
Yep - went to some apparently top rated ones in Italy. The Naples style pizza is good in its own right, but...
good New York pizza is absolutely the best.
To be fair, the styles are quite different at the end of the day, so it's not entirely a 1-1 comparison.
First problem is that you ate pizza in California.
Second is that you need to go to an actual pizzeria, not a regular Italian restaurant, if that's indeed what you did.
Go to a good New York City pizzeria and see what happens.
Prairie Style architecture is fantastic as well, until it devolved into ranch-style housing.
Not sure if you can count a separate American style of architecture "Americanization", but there it is.
Yep - went to some apparently top rated ones in Italy. The Naples style pizza is good in its own right, but...
good New York pizza is absolutely the best.
To be fair, the styles are quite different at the end of the day, so it's not entirely a 1-1 comparison.
First problem is that you ate pizza in California.
Second is that you need to go to an actual pizzeria, not a regular Italian restaurant, if that's indeed what you did.
Go to a good New York City pizzeria and see what happens.
Racism, I think. Black Panthers were big on guns. Evangelical whites lost their shit. NRA used to be a gun control organization but pivoted to snap up the Evangelical dollars.
The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons | HISTORY
Back in the 1960s, even the NRA supported gun control to disarm the group.
www.history.com
Italian food in Europe is reasonably Italian. Of course you can get cheap pizza which is not very Italian anywhere. In Britain we have several shit pizza and pasta chains, but I don't think that we can blame that on America, they are just shit (maybe anglicised!). Germany had some appalling "Italian" food, but that can be squarely blamed at the Germans.
There has been Italian migration to the UK for so long, that in some places they are very integrated into British cuisine. Some of the best fish and chips shops are run by italians, and the same goes for the best cafes in the East end of London. Ice cream has also traditionally had a lot of Italians involved.
That being said, there are a lot of places where you can get authentic Italian food cooked by italians, and Italian cuisine has had a big influence on modern British cuisine.
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When I said Americanized, I mainly meant made to appeal to an American audience