On 2014-01-27 6:42 AM, Janet wrote:

>> Peanut oil, popcorn, peanut butter, one-minute oats, canned jalapenos, raisins
>> (black and golden), Crystal hot sauce, Marie Sharp's habanero sauce, poultry
>> seasoning, white vinegar, maple syrup.
>
> Europe would not consider canned tomatoes, rice, mayonnaise or black
> and golden raisins to be American :-)

Tomatoes are an interesting case because they are a new world product
was was eagerly adapted into the European diet, agriculture and economy.
A lot of people seem to associate rice with Asia but it is also
produced in great quantities in the US. I don't think I have ever seen
raisins from anywhere other than the US.

> Or, white vinegar. To us Dijon
> French mustard is the famous kind of mustard produced in Dijon, France,
> but probably the USA brand Dijon and French is an unrelated recipe.

For a long time in this part of Canada the only Dijon mustard was
imported from France. There are now a number of brands of Dijon style
mustards on the market, all produced in North America.

>
> I've always thought of maple syrup as Canadian.. the pure maple syrup
> I buy here, is always Canadian.


For a long time most maple syrup was produced in the US. Over the past
few decades Canadian production took off and now accounts for about 80%
of the world production, most of it coming from the province of Quebec.