MORE "cultural appropriation" foods around the world. 

Döner means “it turns“ or „ turning“ in Turkish, hence Greek gyros which is a direct translation from Turkish

I like the idea that there is a type of Pizza conceived by a Greek immigrant living in Canada that calls it Hawaiian.

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Hearing you say “Gyros”, that I pronounce Yi-row or Yi-ross, always reminds me of my first job in a Greek restaurant in Australia. An American navy ship was in port and the sailors were all coming in asking for Gye-rows, (gyros) and I, at first, just couldn’t work out what they wanted. The only thing I knew about called a gyro was a UK slang term for one’s unemployment benefits. My lovely Greek boss knew what was happening and thankfully he stepped in to help me out 👍 It was a very culturally layered mishmash of a moment. Ha ha, I was very young and for a moment very confused 😀🐿

One of my favorites is when Austrian and Czech immigrants came to Texas brought schnitzel with them. This schnitzel soon became almost exclusively beef due to the cattle ranches out west, and thus was born the chicken fried steak. Chicken fried steak is delicious and probably what you'd imagine American schnitzel to be. Tenderized cut of beef, breaded and fried like fried chicken, and served with cream gravy. It is iconic to Texan food, and tastes like heaven.

I found myself becoming increasingly hungry watching this video

Great video as always! One point about Tempura -- It does, in fact, have kanji: 天麩羅. The 2nd and 3rd kanji aren't very common, so the word is more commonly written with hiragana: 天ぷら This is common with several early loan words from Portuguese to Japanese. For example, "tobacco" is usually written in hiragana (たばこ) but it also has a kanji (莨 or 煙草). The same with the loan word for "button" / ボタン / 釦.

"Samosas" are common in Portugal too, where they are called "chamuças". They were brought from the part of India that was a Portuguese colony (Goa, Daman, Diu)

Fun fact: the French call bakeries that sell bread like pastries (like danishes) viennoiseries which is obviously a reference to Vienna, Austria where, as mentioned in the video, that kind of pastry comes from.

Cultural Appropriation foods are like Greek demigods. Everything’s fine until some weird things happen and you have a whole new food.

As a Portuguese speaker, I'd be willing to bet "tempura" came from "temperar", which means "to season". Two reasons. One is that the Japanese word has its stress on the last syllable, as opposed to the North American pronunciation of it (picture Hermione Granger saying, "It's 'tempuraaah', not 'tempuuurah'."). The other reason is that in European Portuguese, especially in the capital Lisbon, the second E in "temperar" would be pronounced with an "uh" sound, like the unstressed "a" in English phrases such as "a book", so it would make perfect sense that the Japanese would hear a U there. Also, "temperar" can also be interpreted as "enhance the flavor", and tempura does that to whatever it's deep-fried with. One drawback to this theory, though, is the fact that the real verb for deep-frying in Portuguese is "fritar", and something that's deep-fried is "frito", which sounds completely different from "tempura", but then again sometimes word origins come from interpretation more than actual meaning.

I feel like what was originally meant by "cultural appropriation" is when you take something from a culture and then refuse to acknowledge that it was ever from that culture in the first place. Not merely being ignorant of its origin but actively denying its origin.

Two things: 1. You need more merch 2. Fun fact: Fortune cookies were invented in Japan and are not eaten in China. It remains a mystery as to why they're always served at Chinese restaurants.

Just a small correction: „Fladenbrot“ ist just the german word for flatbread - and it‘s definitely not traditionally german.

As a Mexican, I was so happy you brought up Al Pastor! Before I found out it's origins, I always found it strange it had the Arabic word "Al" before it.

I remember one time in middle school, during history class, we were trying to think of an authentically Serbian dish. We couldn't. Every "national" food we have can be traced back to Turkey, and the Northern parts of our country also have a lot of Austro-Hungarian influences in their cousine.

Fun Fact: In Vienna/Wien we call Wieners "Frankfurters", because a guy from Frankfurt invented them in Vienna ^^

5:45 yes, they are called Shawarma. They are very popular here in Ontario. They are an Arab take on Turkish donair. In fact, the word itself is Turkish, but most of the restaurants prepare them in either Syrian, Iraqi or some other Arab style.

Fun fact! we still eat the «tempura» vegetables here in portugal, even outside of lent! We call them «peixinhos da horta» or «garden fishies» and it is a quite common vegetarian option in many restaurants, though not most.

There's a Korean food I've had called Jajangmyeon (basically noodles in this black soybean paste with pork and vegetables) that's actually originally from China (over there it's called Zhajiangmian). The story goes that it was introduced to Korea by an immigrant who ran a Chinese restaurant in 1905, and even though internationally it's largely seen as a Korean specialty, it's seen as a Chinese food in Korea, much the same way the Japanese see ramen. One story I find really funny though is the story of how chop suey was invented. They say that back in the 1860s when gold mining was still a big thing over in California, a bunch of drunk miners came into a Chinese restaurant after hours and demanded food. The cook, scared he'd be punished for refusing service to the miners, threw some leftovers in a wok and served it to them, and they loved it. When asked what it was called, the cook replied "chop sui" which apparently means something like "garbage bits" in Cantonese.

i can never quite wrap my head around how high quality JJ's videos are. To make them must take so much hard work!

I love JJs opening it’s so friendly lol “Hello friends!”

As a person with ADHD this man's body language is ADHD incarnate and I love seeing someone fidgety like me on camera for a change.

When I studied japanese, my teacher told me that "tempura" was derived from "tempero", the portuguese word for seasoning. I'm brazilian btw

Hi JJ, I just want to say that I'm Canadian and I say "about" the same way you do and your pronunciation makes me feel valid. I'm sorry you get so much teasing for it.

One of my favorite examples: If it were not for the Mexican chili (genius Capsicum) the delicious food of China's Sichuan province would be unrecognizable. The Chinese took to chilis in the 17th century, but it took until the 1940s for them to catch on in Mexico's less adventurous neighbor to the north, the good ol' USA.

I'm Brazilian and back home we have something called "pastel" (the word itself is linked to many different types of food across Latin America and Iberia), which is a variation of the Japanese "gyoza" (Brazil has the largest Japanese community in the world). Pasteis are found everywhere in Brazil, but they are more commonly associated with Sao Paulo. If you ever visit us, let us know so that we may recommend which pastelarias are worth your time!

I know in American cooking a lot of “southern” foods have a lot of African influence. I’ve seen conflicting takes on wether fried chicken is African or European (Scottish) in origin

That pronunciation of "gyro" almost killed me

I could watch this for hours. Just one region “drinking each other’s milkshake” for all of humanity.

JJ's specific cramming of the Canadian accent into foreign words is probably how he is so successful

I cannot EXPRESS how loud I YELLED "PORTUUUUGAAAAL" when he said portuguese

Mexican here. Tacos al pastor literally means "Tacos shepherd style". The difference with the döner/gyros is that here it is made with pork instead of goat, and the meat is very condimented with pineapple juice, vinegar, chili pepper, annato, pepper, cumin, etc. Every taquería has it's own recipe. Also the _trompo_ as we call it (lit. spintop, because the thing resembles one) has on top a fresh pineapple that also gets roasted with the hea of the furnace. The taquero takes a slice of it and the masters gracefully make them land on the taco in midair. A pastor taco is served with the aforementioned pineapple, cilantro, onion, lemon juice, pinch of salt, and hot sauce, but you can make it ahomever you want (including cheese!) Also, in the state of Hidalgo, British imgrants came to work on the mines and they brougt the cornish pastry. Here they were adopted and named "pastes", and now they are even the typical dish from Pachuca, with some chains having miners and minery as their branding.

Minor correction. Charles XII was not campaigning in the Ottoman Empire but rather under their protection after losing catastrophically against the Russians at the Battle of Poltava.

lebanese also brought this “kebaba”meat thing to brazil, and we call eat greek barbecue lol

Great video. And similar to you these last couple weeks have been so tuff. Election stress and overall stress about politics is serious stuff. I had a mini breakdown about the election, not from one canada losing at the time but just from looking at graphs and trends and numbers for so many hours and going through all possible outcomes in my head, I just got overwhelming. So I just wanted to say great video and I love your more culture based videos. Learning about other cultures is probably my favorite thing so much love as always jj

JJ "Mispronouncing Things is my Thing" McCullough, everybody.

We have a uniquely indian food in the western india called "vadapav"(वडापाव) Where vada is a fried veggie ball and pav is bread which comes from Portuguese 'pão' as there were Portuguese settlers in the western coast of india

I've often wondered about how suspiciously vague and apocryphal a lot of food history tends to be. I have theorized that it's just because food is so chuffin' great, that when some historian suggested to their fellow historians that everyone should stop what they're are doing and record this new recipe for posterity, they were all just like "shut up and eat it before it's gone!"

In Mexico in the city of Pachuca there is a Delicious empanada called “paste” that comes from pastry. The English own mines there and the miners would take those “pastes” to eat when they were working. They’re made from ground beef, potatoes (kinda like a meat pie) and of course the Mexican version has Chile Serrano and epazote ☺️✨🇲🇽

I shall hand you an "award winning video award" so you can rightfully claim this video is award winning.

For that all Wien story, it's also similar in where I live, France. If France can probably be considered today as the "pastry country" of the world, we're well aware that most iconic pastries came from Vienna. Actually, we even call pastries "viennoiseries" which means "wieners". As the story usually goes, it is said that pastries were brought from Austria by the Austrian Queen Marie Thérèse, spouse of French King Louis XIV and her descendent, Marie-Antoinette, spouse of French King Louis XVI and that pastries became so popular in France that we quickly became one of the most consuming and producing countries of it.

one i've always found interesting is morkovcha - a carrot salad seasoned similarly to kimchi that korean communities in the former soviet union started making because they didn't have access to the napa cabbage that traditional kimchi uses

I’m not fluent by any means in Japanese but I believe the “ten” in “tempura” IS actually spelled with the kanji for “the heavens” or “the sky”. The rest of it IS spelled with hiragana though but most words have combinations of hiragana and kanji

9:42 Portugal exported "tempura" to Japan, but imported "samosas" (or, as we call them, "chamuças") from India. About the etymology of "tempura": in Portugal, besides that questionable "ad tempora quadragesimae" hypothesis, a few other possible explanations are presented. One is that "tempura" comes from "tempero" (seasoning) or "temperar" (to season a dish). Another hypothesis (and the one I prefer) is that it comes from a different meaning of "temperar", or from the related word "têmpera": "temperar" may also mean "to quench", and "têmpera" would be "quenching". Quoting Wikipedia: "In materials science, quenching is the rapid cooling of a workpiece in water, oil or air to obtain certain material properties." That's like when a blacksmith puts a red-hot sword into water to harden the blade. Someone saw the visual similarity between dipping a hot sword in cold water and dipping raw vegetables in hot oil and adopted the term of the former to the latter.

Nobody: JJ when mentioning his previous video: *Award winning video* But speaking of food, döner is also a thing not only in Germany, but also in other European countries, for example Poland. I would say that we also have a food being somewhat fitting into the definition of cultural appropriation. It's zapiekanka, which is basically a horizontally cut baguette topped with fried mushrooms, some cheese and optionally some other stuff, for example ham. Usually, it is topped ketchup or garlic sauce upon serving. It was invented back in the Communist times as sort of an alternative to pizza. Despite those times being long over, the food still remains known and enjoyed. It is very easy to make at home.

As a Bosnian, I just wanted to let you know that ćevapi, or ćevapčići, aren't skewered meat - they're meat sticks traditionally served with flat bread and onions. We call the food in the image either ražnjić (more common), or kebab.

Actually, in the former Yugoslavia, the equivalent of Greek souvlaki would be ražnjići and not ćevapi, which is something completely different, more similar to meatballs than to meat skewers

“Not a wiener in site” is a weird way to say you weren’t successful on Grindr during your visit

I'm not Somali myself, but Somali people seem to LOVE spaghetti, which goes back to the Italian occupation of Somalia.

"Cultural Appropriation" is the dumbest thing ever. I really love it when foreigners wear our traditional clothes or do our traditional hairstyles.

Another Great Video!!! JJ says he doesn't use wiki and all that sort of things but prefers thorough checking and finding! He does a lot of efforts! Hats off to JJ! keep it up

"Cuaresma" seems to be a misinterpretation of the actual Latin name for Lent, Quadragesima. The Portuguese would often call Lent or the Ember Days just "tempora" and thus, the fried food they would eat at this time too.

When are you going to do a video about the big crooked maple syrup federation in Quebec?

I'm pretty certain the claim that 'Swedish' meatballs coming from Turkey was never proven. It was just something that was said on twitter with no sources attached and was just taken for fact. Though it still likely didn't originate in Sweden, but in all honestly molding meat into a ball isn't exactly a revolutionary idea.

Genuinely, watched the original JJ vid this week, terrified that part two comes from out so soon since

Samosas and Briyani are originally from Persia? I feel like my whole life was a lie....

Hey J.J. Last week you said you wanted new video ideas from us and I’m glad you revisited this concept so here’s another one to revisit: You did two culture compare videos ages ago between Canada/USA and Germany/Japan and I really enjoyed that and loved the metric you used and think that would make for a great series on this channel as like you said you are looking for future themes plus the possibilities are endless! You could do realistic ones like UK/Ireland, Spain/Portugal even a trio Denmark/Norway/Sweden or rival countries like Iran/Saudi Arabia, Argentina/Brazil, Greece/Turkey Or go really random like Mexico/Russia, France/South Korea, Italy/China etc Would be really fun to see and lots of material for you. Take care of yourself

“AJISEN” is actually a Hong Kong company owned by Chinese but it's just definitely the most famous ramen brand in China

JJ: "Globalism has always been around and we are better off for it!" Alex Jones enters the chat

Me cringing every time he pronounces a German 'w' incorrectly.

1:44 *laughs in Scottish deep fried Mars bars*

I grew up in Oregon, but I have relatives in North Ontario (and Michigan) who say "about" and "out" like you do, love hearing it. Really love the food/culture blending origin stories!

I actually had no idea Japanese saw ramen as a Chinese thing. It's pretty different from Chinese noodles tbf, and Chinese noodles don't use Udon or Soba. We even use Lamian to refer to Japanese noodle dishes so they really co-opted the term. I think we would usually say Miantang to describe noodle soups.

The Chinese word jiaozi (饺子) just means dumplings in general.

As a Mexican who’s eaten tacos al pastor my whole life I had no idea the meat pillars (we don’t really have a colloquial word for it either) were from Lebanon. I’m always very fascinated with surprising!origins of our culture, such as the fact Mariachi originated in Austria. Great video as always!

I'd love an explanation of why shepherd's pie is called "pâté chinois" (Chinese pie/pâté) here in Quebec

You probably already know this one as you mentioned your mother being from the Netherlands, but the Dutch 'hutspot' is originally from Spain. As the story goes, Spanish soldiers ate it while besieging the Dutch city Leiden. When finally the Spaniards retreated, hungry Leidenaren scoured the camps for food, and found these big pots with the potato mash. To this day it's tradition in Leiden to eat hutspot, herrings and white bread on October 3rd, the day the city was freed ("Leidens Ontzet")

Waiting for JJ’s signature mispronounciations

“Not one of these giant rotisserie things we cut the meats off of. Not sure if we have a name for them....” they’re called shawarma, JJ

Great video! I hope if there's a part three, you will mention the cuisine chinese inspired in peru (chifa) and the nikkei cuisine (japanese in peru)

Just discovered your channel tonight. Liked, subscribed and rang that bell. Watched a few random vids, as you do when you find a good one. In each vid I've watched so far you look different. In this you look like Jim Morrison, pretty damn cool. Anyway, thanks, I really enjoyed this.

In former soviet countries they call their souvlaki or kebabs "shashlik" and in the middle east the gyros or Donair is called shawarma. In Russia we also have a version of dumpling called "pilimeni"

hello jj! Im one of your fans from Afghanistan. I really appreciate the amount of work you put in your videos and i love how appropriate your words are about my country whenever you are talking about it. Love your work! Keep it up!

Please do a part 3.

Love these videos , please make more !!!

Thank you for taking a break from politics.

Can we appreciate how amazing JJ’s hair is and the changes it’s gone through since he’s started his channel?😍😍🤎

pleasantly surprised to get a little mention of plov at the end :)

In the UK, kebabs like the rotisserie meat slabs are very popular. In fact, most fish and chip shops sell them on either pita or naan

Of course in Nintendo's ARMS we also have Min Min, the China and ramen themed fighter.

The pronunciation of jiaozi makes me wanna cry 😢

GREAT series!!!!

My contributions based on the information on the video as a brazilian, more specifically from Rio de Janeiro. Kebab is known here as "Kafta". Highly seasoned minced meat into a stick. Some cities in the south call sausages "Vina", which of course comes from Wiener(from Vienna). Interesting to see this mentioned in the video about other places doing something similar.

i love your cute little food drawings! would you consider turning them into stickers?

In Australia we have a dish called a 'halal snack pack' (HSP), which consists of doner meat stacked on top of chips (fries) and shredded cheese and topped off with sauce (the standard combination is barbeque sauce, garlic sauce and hot chili sauce). No one really knows when or where it was invented, but it was something Turkish kebab shops in Australia came up with somewhat independently before the explosive popularity of a Facebook group in 2015 gave them all the name of HSP. Now it's a dish you can find in any Turkish kebab shop that's popular with young revellers on a night out after many drinks, and its popularity as a cultural icon is seen as a symbol of Australian multiculturalism as well as a symbol of solidarity with Muslims especially during that dark period for the community in the mid to late 2010s with the rise of ISIS. So you're certainly right when you say that Turkish doners have really made their way around the world.

I feel like you're sitting on a yoga ball in most of your videos. I love it.

I've been calling this channel "injut-injut", means "bouncing" in my native. Then I realised his name have J.J in it and it kinda make sense. I accidently blow my mind, time to sleep.

Salmon sushi was actually brought to Japan by Norwegian businessmen in the 80s

Here in Russia, there's a dish known as "Korean carrot", which is a kind of spicy salad made of finely sliced pickled carrots. It's eaten with dishes that have a more bland taste to them, like, for example, the плов you mentioned. It's actually a version of kimchi developed by Korean immigrants in Central Asia (which was part of the Soviet Union at the time), adapted to local ingredients. It's not actually a thing in North and South Korea but because Koreans developed it and it's based on a very Korean dish, the name stuck. Actual Korean Russians still do not call it "Korean carrot". Instead we call the dish "morkov-cha", "morkov" being the Russian word for carrots and "cha" being a local Korean dialectal word for "salad".

One example I can recall is that Brazilian strogonoff is very different from it's Russian originator. It has much more sauce and uses different kinds of meat.

in mandarin chinese its pronounce "la mian" and it just means the way the noodles are made (by pulling the dough... lol)

You could make 5 more videos on this subject and would watch them all. Its fascinating tracing the origin of foods through cultures

This was fascinating! Even for hardened foodies like me.

Haha as someone who studied Mandarin your pronunciation of 交子(jiaozi) just cracked me up. Keep up the good stuff! Love your channel my brotha from the north.

Great video as always my man

Hey JJ, I hope you're feeling less stress and are having more fun making videos that aren't about politics! I love your videos and hope you're having a great day!

Stuffed cabbage: something most European nations have comes from the Mediterranean via the Turkish Empire.

About the biryani being brought by Mughals- they don't grow rice where the Mughals come from. All the spices used in biriyani are indian. If u want to find the origin of biriyani in india, you'll have to look for a different name with similar ingredients. The biriyani of today most probably have been influenced by Persian cooking, but it's not like this rice dish was new to indians

In the southern parts of Ontario and Quebec we call that spinning meat "Shawarma", thanks to the Lebanese.