On Wed, 26 May 2010 02:16:51 GMT, notbob > wrote:

>On 2010-05-26, Becca > wrote:
>>> gumbo
>>> crawfish
>>> red beans and rice
>
>Great suggestions, but hardly universal US cuisine. Not too many
>people eating crawfish at the Cody Stampede or red beans and rice
>while ice fishing in MN. Hell, it's damn near impossible to find
>crawfish in CA, where Cajun festivals were epidemic 20 yrs ago, but a
>cobweb-covered memory, now.

Rice is native to Asia. Crawfish is found and eaten worldwide. Gumbo
is an African dish. Only beans are from the Americas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice