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Originally Posted by Columbine
Eat it exclusively? Always? Yes I do doubt that, because of 'imports' that now have a long-standing in Japan and are taken for granted as part of the modern japanese diet. If we go by the idea that anything introduced post-meiji hasn't been around long enough to class as traditional then that's going to include a lot of things. Chocolate, for example; introduced only in the mid 1900's, but i'd be highly surprised if there was anyone in Japan who had never eaten chocolate at all in their life nowadays. Curry rice, pretty much considered wholly Japanese has a similar story. Croquette, hayashi rice, nikujaga, curry pan, omu-raisu, all pretty much 'japanese' to our minds, but still technically classed as 洋食. Sorry, even the humble カツ isn't 和食.
Moreover, 和食 is more than just what foods fall into that category. It's more of a conception of food and how it should be approached. five tastes, five methods etc etc. It's a lot of effort and I suspect that very few people adhere to that on a daily basis.
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Wow, you guys are getting picky today. I know many people in Japan who almost only ever eat what Japanese consider "Japanese food". Whether that has roots in other countries is something you can argue, but by that argument there is almost NOTHING that can be considered "American food". Pizza, pasta, cheesburgers, steak, fried chicken, BBQ, all came from somewhere else.
Again, the basis of my question, if you choose to answer it is, how long could you go WITHOUT food you are accustomed to at home?