What is the stupidest thing you have ever heard another person say?

I knew a girl who was shocked that africa has it's own cuisine from the various parts and countries. She was like wait if theres african food then why are they all starving. *facepalm*

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hartfire

If people are alive anywhere, they're eating something - even if it's from a soup kitchen, or crickets and grubs.
The first world has plenty of people with malnutrition and chronic uncertainty about their next meal.

I expect every place to have it's own cuisine and culture.

But what does fascinate me is how so many foods are accepted as traditional,
when really it's only since the 1600s and colonialism when many foods started to travel.

Noodles (pasta) were invented by the Chinese and adopted by the Italians, and have now spread almost everywhere.
Tomatoes, potatoes, coffee, chocolate and many others come from South America.
I looked up the wikipedia list of food origins: the whole world is now growing
and eating many foods that evolved on far distant continents and island.

Very few eat only their traditional cultural foods - but some do.
The French love to specialise in their regional cuisines.
And it turns out that the few Pygmies who still live their traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle have the healthiest gut biome in the world - over 4,000 beneficial species of gut bacteria due to consuming such a wide variety of forest foods.