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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 but the real cuisine from Australia is grubs, roo meat and berries.
You cant only consider indigenous cuisine though. In that case it completely changes Mexican cuisine etc. Infact it changes literally every single cuisine in the world with the idea of ‘real’
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).
D is literally the only answer.
Greek, Turkish, Arab, Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, Japanese. If you want something more western, there’s Australian for some classic bbq or fish n chips. There’s also a tiny sliver of Italy.
That’s only if you like those things. G gets you barbecue, Mexican, Peruvian, Cuban, every Caribbean island, Hawaii, French Polynesia, and several others it’s hard to tell from the map.
Of the things you listed from D I only like Greek, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese. And I can get all of those from Hawaii and California.
Yeah I’d choose D but will be really really sad to not be able to eat anything from G ever again.
But you HAVE BBQ, in the form of Hawaiian BBQ, which goes pretty hard too. And there’s BBQ-analogues all over Southeast Asia. And don’t forget, like, all of the Middle East. Check out some of the feast preparations of whole animals, as well as modern “convenience” spins on older recipes more suitable for family-size prep.
I won’t deny, I’d miss Mexican food. Sure, a kebab is basically a burrito, but the differences are enough that it’d be a shame to never have either one.
But I do find the barbecue thing weird. Australian barbecue is close enough to American to be a more than acceptable substitute (although perhaps I’m biased). Korean galbi is amazing, though quite different.
I think Mexican food would be the only major loss here, tbh
And don’t forget Kiwi… I want to say… fruit?
kiwi land has amazing dairy and wine
Hangi.
G is better- fight me
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.
D also has all the shit I cook. Hello microwaved Vegemite and cheese sandwiches.
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.)
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”
I call it the pizza bone.
A mini dog pizza? What is this?
booking next flight to Japan
Well, I was hungry… Not anymore
Needs more corn
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
Also Korea. I’ve only been to two Korean places and they have always had at least 1 nice vegan option
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!
D has a tiny sliver of Italy too.
I’ll be a little tempted by G because of Barbecue, but Korean barbecue is pretty great as well
Galbi is great, but don’t forget you also get Australian barbecue. Which, while not exactly the same as American barbecue, is much more similar to it than galbi is.
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 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.
D is honestly extremely OP
Yeah no kidding. D and it isn’t even close.
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
B You get italian food but still can have Surströmming
blursed
Deal of the century
Unparalleled energy
and pitepalt!
D has all the good stuff. Middle Eastern, Asian food, even a part of Greek food. I don’t really see any competition to that.
Even a tiny bit of italy, D is heaven!
Don’t forget Japan! Pasta, sushi, curry, pad Tai, nasi. All the good stuff
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 because of the huge variety in food, and the tiny chunk of Italy means I still technically get Italian food :)
D has virtually all god-tier food Asia has ever produced, plus a bonus of whatever culinary bullshit Australia vomits onto the world stage.
Meat pies, Lamingtons, Tim Tams, Chicken Salt & Bundaberg Ginger Beer
And Foster’s. Not to drink. It’s made from rye wheat, so if you let it rot it has a small chance to produce ergotamine. Ergotamine is a hallucinogenic precursor that is believed to have been one of the causes of the Salem Witch Trials.
I recommend kangaroo.
Good lean source of protein. Don’t overcook it though
I’ve had some while I was there, it was like beef but more tender, very good.
This map is doing flavor gerrymandering with D.
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.
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.
D is probably the best region.
Yeah, D gets you at least four entirely different types of cuisine and Australian stuff will still have that Euro/American vibe. Only downside is you’ll technically be allowed to eat Vegemite.
