All of these popular foods originated in foreign coutnries. Colonist, settlers en immigrants who moved to America took those recipes and their ingredients with them. The origin of the ingriedients are very important in this story, most of them came from Europa and therefore most of the foods also originated in Europe.

Most of the American dishes can be separted in the following 5 categories.

1. Native foods 
There are several varieties of vegetables, nuts, mammals and fish that are native to America, most notably beans, corn and squas. Some of these foods also had "Old World" varieties (strawberries). Indigenous recipes included succotash, corncakes, and baked squash. 

2. Hybrid dishes
Old world recipes adapted to include new world ingredients, for example cornbread which is a new variety on the native American corn.

3. Ethnic blends
When diverse cultures/cuisines settle together in a region, different mixed type of foods came to exist for example Chop Suey.

4. Regional specialties
Specialities which originated at a certain place within the US. Such as Gumbo in the New Orleans Region. 

5. Manufactured goods
 Entrepreneurs who developed their recipe into a world known brand, such as Coca Cola, Mc donalds and more.

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Corn cake was preserved as a popular dish thanks to the Mexicans. Eventually  the Corn Cake came back to the USA  because the diffusion of Mexican-inspired food into all corners of the country; and the influence of counterculture movements in the 1960s and ‘70s, resulting in back-to-the-land ideas about growing your own food and sharing it communally.