What’s a foreign cuisine in your country that went from unknown to commonplace?
I’ve seen old videos where in the 1950s or so there were many people in the English speaking world who thought spaghetti was an extremely exotic dish and couldn’t even conceptualize how to eat it, I’ve also seen and heard from family that Mexican food (or what we refer to as Mexican food) wasn’t known or popular for white Americans in most of the US until maybe the 1970s. and a more recent example that you still hear remnants of today is that most young people in the US enjoy sushi, but older people have never tried it and see it as very strange
I’m aware that kebab and other variants of vaguely “Mediterranean or middle eastern shaved meat served on a pita” is super popular in most of Western Europe but I can’t imagine it was in the 1950s
What other examples of this do any of you have? a food that is typical to see today but would have been exotic and unknown to your parents or grandparents.