Do Americans seem closed-minded towards foreign food?

-And they don't even have to see it to think it's nasty, all they need to hear is the name, without even a vague description on what it is, and they'll automatically assume it's gross. That, and calling it "Communist food" or "Nazi food" depending on what country it originates.



Meanwhile they go and eat their processed garbage like Hungryman dinners and those cheap cheese slices.



Do you notice this?No most Americans aren't like that, only the ones that live in the past (like hating foreign things). Most (American) people accept different foods because of their ancestry, seeing that America is a country made up of many cultures.



People may be born in America, but their ancient ancestry came from another country, that's why their are a lot of cultured restaurants in America.



For example "I may be born in America, but my family originated from Mexico, but I still have my culture and foods. But I also like others foods like pasta, sushi, and such."



But I think the only problem that Americans wouldn't like is eating food that was once was considered a pet or loved ( Dogs & cats, dolphins, etc.)
Not really.



It's probably just the people you hang out with.



Most cities that I have lived in have Mexican, Italian, German, Thai, Chinese, Greek, and Vietnamese restaurants. The people eating at those places were not all people already from those countries.



But not everyone has to like these things. That's the joy of living. You can like what you want and avoid what you want and no one gets hurt.



If you want to try these places, and your friends don't, then go without them. Or get new friends.
No. I haven't noticed that. I have NEVER in 57 years of being an American heard of "Nazi or Communist Food."



Your's is the dumbest, the deepest dung, the rankest intellectual squalor on Y!A! right now. Congratulations.



Isn't there some labor sponsored politcal youth camp somewhere for you in Canada to be crouching upon?



The irony is it's almost a given you don't know what a "sauce dugl茅r茅" is or the origin of blinis. Stay there in the safety of your prejudice, nationalisms, hatred and ignorance. Stay there, in Canada.
Not at all, in fact I'll bet its up there on the list of places with the most diverse food available. Maybe deep southern states you might get a little reluctance. The only thing American might turn their nose up too is living things that other countries eat such as guinea pig, insects, etc.
I have recently dined at restaurants that serve:



Japanese

Chinese

Korean

Vietnamese

Thai

Mexican

Ethiopian

French

Italian

Hungarian

German



And I wasn't alone at any of those restaurants. In fact, they were all quite busy.



So the answer to your question would be an emphatic "No!".
watching some food snobs on TV is not a valid depiction of American thoughts on food



I have never thought of any food as Communist or Nazi. I have never assumed any food is gross until i have tasted it.
I think it all depends on where you live-- cities with more diverse cultures are more likely to have people that are used to trying different foods from different places.
They're close-minded to anything not in their culture or city (people included)
Would you like a glass of water
are you serious? that is so dumb.
I travel for work to the US at least once a month (I live in the Toronto suburbs) and I would respectfully disagree with this.



Trying to make blanket statements about a country of over 300mm people is dangerous and foolhardy at best.



There are many Americans willing to try the odd, the unusual, the different (just as you have many people who eat way too much convenience food), but go to any Canadian mall, and sorry mate, but the swill on offer at the "food court" is big heaping amounts of processed crap. We can't have that on offer and then turn our noses at our neighbours to the south (we know what that daily two-lane drive-thru I see at Tim Hortons every day is consuming- coffee and donuts by the dozen).



Younger Americans have been exposed to "the good stuff" and they seek it out. It's about looking beyond the neon signs and (like anywhere) a willingness to take a chance, to roll the dice, and go hit the local joint, the place in the sketchy neighbourhood (and thankfully to an increasing degree this is happening because they're finding out that it's where the truly good stuff lies).



I don't care what colour your passport is, that rule applies (and eating at the Westernized "Chinese" restaurant with interchangable "House/Peking/Fortune/Shanghai/Delight/H鈥?doesn't count (if it's covered in corn-starch laden sauces it's not authentic)).