There are some exotic foods we tend to take for granted exist. Almost every city for example has a Chinese restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, and maybe an Outback Steakhouse. But this isn’t universal for some reason. Someone asked me if I wanted to go to an Egyptian restaurant and I was like “wait, they have restaurants?”
A question for all those who would say they consider themselves ethnically fluent. What are all the cultural categories of food you’ve had?
Ethnic and exotic food suddenly sound like very strange terms. This question made me realize that people from outside would call the food of my country simply Brazilian food, but we ourselves divide and subdivided them in more categories. I’m sure the same is true everywhere.
I know this is not a question for discussion, but I thought this could add more variety to the answers.
I used the terms in the sense that they refer to any division of people based on culture, not so much in the sense that I was implying an Axis Mundi of cuisine. Someone for example asked if I would consider KFC “ethnic food” even if one lived in the United States where Kentucky (the home of KFC) exists, and I said that yes, the case could be made.
That’s how they’re named outside. You see Brazilian rodízio, or Paulistan pizza at times. But it’s usually a mix of adding feijoada to the countries grill.