A lot of "traditional" national foods are like that, especially if you consider pre-columbian food traditions. If you just limit it to chocolate, tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers, potatoes, and beans, none of which were used or available in Europe until after importation, you see that it gets murky pretty quickly. Funny how we associate potatoes with Ireland, tomatoes with Italy, and chocolate with Switzerland when they're actually all indigenous American foods.

[–] Vivendi@lemmy.zip 2 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

What are some actual European foods that people ate hundreds of years before that?

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago

Take veel other motoun and smyte it to gobettes. Seeth it in gode broth; cast therto erbes yhewe gode won, and a quantite of oynouns mynced, powdour fort and safroun, and alye it with ayren and verious: but let it not seeth after.

—Curye on Inglysch, IV.18.

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