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{{Useful Notes}}
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America -- AKA [[The United States]] -- has often been described as a "melting pot". This is very, very true. International influences are all over
Before we begin, here are three warnings we have for the tourists and those planning to move here:
#There is so much sugar in the recipes of many, if not most, dishes here in the States that foreigners not accustomed to it are said to find our food disconcertingly sweet.
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#Although this might conceivably vary by region a ''little'', in America [[Blessed Are the Cheesemakers|we put cheese on]] ''[[Trademark Favourite Food|everything]]''. On virtually every soup, on virtually every salad, on most kinds of sandwiches... it would be much easier to list the foods our restaurants ''won't'' automatically put cheese on, although it's harder to think of them. Those of us who don't like cheese have quite a hard time getting what we want at restaurants, even when the server understands the order. Cheese is status quo for every little thing except for, say for instance, ice cream<ref>And even then, cheesecake flavors exist</ref>. If you don't like cheese or don't like it on certain dishes then when in doubt always specify, no matter ''what'' the food is, that you want it with no cheese.
Finally, when considering American "ethnic" restaurants, it is advisable to imagine that there is a silent "-American" on the end of any ethnic identification, meaning "Italian" food would be more accurately described as "Italian-American" food. As a rule, all of these types of restaurants get their menus from localized versions of whatever was popular when the primary segment of the immigrant group in question moved to America, [[Hollywood Cuisine|and bears little to no resemblance to current national cuisines]]. Logically enough, the more recent the migration, the closer together "-American" and the original cuisines will be. Vietnamese-American restaurants serve food that is generally quite similar authentic Vietnamese cuisine (the largest wave of Vietnamese immigration coming during/after, well [[The Vietnam War|you know]]), while Chinese-American cuisine, coming from a far more well-established community
== American Food ==
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