Unit 5 Food and Drink? 飲食— ?Passage (2/4)

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Mexican

What is "American food"? At first you might think the answer is easy as pie. To many people, American food means hamburgers, hot dogs, fried chicken and pizza. If you have a "sweet tooth", you might even think of apple pie or chocolate chip cookies. It's true that Americans still eat those things. But are those the only thing you can find in America? Except for thanksgiving turkey, it's hard to find typically "American food". The United States is a land of immigrants. So Americans eat food from many different countries. When people move to America, they bring their cooking styles with them. That's why you can find almost every kind of ethnic food in America. In some cases, Americans have adopted foods from other countries as favorites. Americans love Italian pizza, Mexican tacos and Chinese egg rolls. But the American version doesn't taste quite like the original.
何謂「美式食物」？乍聽(tīng)之下你可能認(rèn)為答案容易得很。對(duì)許多人而言，美式食物就是漢堡、熱狗、炸雞和披薩。如果你是好吃甜食的人，你可能會(huì)想到蘋(píng)果派或巧克力片餅干。美國(guó)人確實(shí)吃這些東西，但這些就是你在美國(guó)唯一找得到的食物嗎？ 除了感恩節(jié)火雞以外，挺難找到典型的美國(guó)食物。美國(guó)是個(gè)移民之地，所以美國(guó)人吃的食物來(lái)自許多不同的國(guó)家，當(dāng)人們移居美國(guó)，他們也將自己的烹調(diào)帶了進(jìn)來(lái)。那也就是為什么在美國(guó)你幾乎可以看到所有不同民族的食物。在某些情況中，美國(guó)人把外國(guó)的食物視為最愛(ài)。美國(guó)人喜愛(ài)意大利的披薩，墨西哥的玉米餅和中國(guó)的春卷，但是這些東西的美國(guó)版味道卻不很道地！