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Mori, you don't get Chop Suey in China or good pizza in Italy either.
Actually, what I get here in the US, would almost never pass as pizza in Italy. Only a simple pizza Napoli is a pizza. Anything else is not a pizza.
Don't you think I don't know that glob like a burrito mojado is American Mexican food? That's why I was asking about Mexican food. I went to Mexico once, but had to keep an eye on my car all the time and didn't have time to eat.
Come to think of the mislabeling and nonsensical names of food, what the diddly is a Bavarian cream pie or even Bavarian cream? As a Bavarian I should know if there is such a thing! I'll say that cream here and there is different (extra water content in US fat (and meat) as filler!), but there is no such thing as Bavarian cream -- well, maybe if the milk came from a Bavarian cow, milked by a Bavarian cowboy, churned by fair Bavarian maids, pasturized by a Bavarian dairy company, and delivered by Franz, the genuine Bavarian milkman. If I hear or read the term Bavarian cream one more time I'll scream. And since when are fries French? Fries are a Belgian food. And what's up with French Vanilla ice cream? Just because it got eggs in it, it doesn't make it French -- unless made with French eggs, which have been laid by French chickens (Sounds like an extra-harsh insult!) or what? And don't get me going on "Swiss cheese." As if the Swiss had decent Emmenthaler for sale in airtight in body bags...
But don't worry, idiotic food names are rampant worldwide. Ever had "Colon"? It's a Japanese cookie/waffle filled with cocoa goop. By the way, a popular sweet dish in Germany is an "Amerikaner" (American). This is how it looks:
http://www.das-rezeptbuch.de/bilder/amerikaner.jpg
It's a soft dough with a thick sugar or chocolate glazing on one side. It's awfully sweet and will cause instant constipation, hence the name. Sometimes you can find a black-and-white, half sugar, half chocolate version.
PS: Rant over.