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itachi15243 posted...

Would you consider something like PizzaHut pineapple pizza real Italian food then?

It's not really comparable, considering pizza hut is just fast food. Taco Bell is a great example, as there's always people ready to go "actually it's not real Mexican food!" Like no shit, it's fast food. Fast food has never been representative of actual cuisine, unless you think McDonalds is representative of what burgers are normally like.

Dishes like TC mentioned are prepared in actual sit down restaurants by actual chefs, many of whom are immigrants and pretty much invented these dishes based on their culinary experience from China and other places. It's insulting to call this "not real" Chinese food just because they invented them in different places.

One of my old coworkers told me a story about his Thai mother had to use ketchup in her pad Thai in place of tamarind growing up because it wasn't readily available in the Midwest in the 80s. Her family made fun of it, but the fact is she was knowledgeable enough to take a non traditional ingredient like ketchup in a pad thai (or pineapple on pizza) and make it good, because thats what she had.