Terry War
>You can’t know a culture without knowing its food
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Terry Ward @ WorldHum reflects on national identity in the Amerika section of a German grocery store.
My friend Hannah, a Pennsylvanian transplanted to Hamburg, Germany, posted this caption with a photo on her Facebook wall:
“People, this is what makes a country great.”
The great country she referred to was America. And the photo inspiring Hannah’s sentiment was this bag of candy corn-flavored Hershey’s Kisses she’d spotted during a trip back to the States:
I knew exactly what Hannah meant. Unusual eats like the aforementioned are part of our American ingenuity.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Still, what counts as American food has always confused me. And, American mutt that I am, it’s a question that becomes all the more perplexing when I’m faced with it abroad.
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