Goomba > wrote:

>I suspect Germans were eating wurst long before we did in the US, and
>apple pie is very English.

I think the hot dog, a refinement on a German brat, is said
to have devloped in the U.S.

>I was thinking pumpkin, corn and potatoes were fairly native to the all
>the Americas but could be wrong....?

Some kinds of true squash, if not pumpkin itself. Defnitely
corn and potatoes, as well as chilis, bison, chocolate,
and the star of the Andes: the guinea pig. Native oysters.
And the common bean, in many of its forms.

S.