If French cuisine is good, why is it so unpopular on the USA?

>>8664512
Not a lot of French immigrants. Lots of our food has origins in German, UK, or Italian cooking, since that's where most of our immigrants came from. Cajun food has a lot of French influence though, since the Creole were French traders. Personally Cajun is my favorite of all the Americana.

>>8664583
Self-correction: Creole doesn't apply to the Cajuns. I thought they were synonyms. I was mistaken. The Cajuns, however, were french traders.

>>8664583
Nope.

>>8664622
Y-you too

French style is so much a part of cooking that you don't even see it as French.

>>8664512
Because it's good.

>>8664512
Weird thing in noticed ,people who love seafood and clams dislike snails.

different cultures

>>8664512
French cuisine should be popular here, the ingredients and methods are very familiar and non threatening

Trouble is we inherited a lot of our cultural baggage from England and England had a long and bitter rivalry with France for centuries

When our country (as we know it today) was in its infancy the French Revolution was kicking off and many French aristocrats were fleeing to England, adding to a long history of elites "invading" England from across the channel

Resentment against these outsiders and hostility to their ways was handed down to our plebs who, over the centuries, have treated French things as the ultimate in elitist foreign condescension

The irony is we should be bros because they are our closest non-British relatives in terms of significant food culture

But the baggage remains and is reinforced by Hollywood tropes so that if you even suggest a French origin for a food, toothless hicks start raving about how it's overrated and snobby without even knowing the origin of their beliefs

>>8664512
American food is derived from britbong food which was cribbed from the French anyway.

>>8664512
how is it unpopular? literally every "fancy" restaurant is french. and in nyc especially

>>8665706
>fancy
>popular
Etymology would like to have a word with you

>>8665720
what does knowing the origin of the word have to do with distinguishing between those two words? nice try at being a smartass, retard. and just because it's fancy doesn't make it not popular. it's the most popular fancy option i would assume in flyover places.

>>8665729
The most popular fancy option in flyover places is a steakhouse. I've lived in 3 flyover states, they do NOT take kindly to the idea of French food. A flyover will literally spit on a ribeye steak if you say it's an entrecôte