Bedrockgames
I post in the voice of Christopher Walken
But this happens all the time with food (leftover food bit aside---I think that part of the analogy doesn't really work)---and it is totally fine. I said elsewhere, I've been to countless Italian restaurants that serve foods I ate at home, using the same name and they are visibly nothing like the homestyle dishes (and the stuff I ate at home, was very different from the stuff I had in italy when I went there). Foods evolve and change across culture. Is a taco bell taco an authentic taco? Absolutely not. I love tacos, and grew up in an area where we had real mexican food all the time. But taco bell tacos are a type of taco now, and occasionally I crave them. I wouldn't want taco bell to go away because it isn't a perfect representation of mexican or even tex mex cuisine. Same with American pizza. We've done all kinds of things to pizza in the US since it was first introduced here, and in a lot of ways, I like American style pizza more than authentic italian. It is okay for people to borrow ideas, even just the kernel of an idea, or a name, if it leads them somewhere interesting. It doesn't hurt anyone when you put ground meat with "mexican flavoring" into a pre-bought taco shell and throw shredded monetary jack cheese, tomatoes and lettuce on it and call it a taco. To me the position you are taking on cultural exchange seems rather extreme, particularly if you are applying it to food.
