because what they actually eat in their countries is vastly different from what we consider "their" food....
You’re right, of course. But I’d take the Mexican food, even or maybe especially from street vendors, I’ve eaten in places like Cuernavaca or Puerta Vallarta over what is served most places here. With Mexican cuisine we’re almost at the place we were at fifty years ago with Chinese food, when Chop Suey and Moo Goo Gai Pan were the only Chinese cuisine most Americans had ever tasted or heard of. With Chipotle the jump was made from Chop Suey to “Magic Wok” in the mall or airport without any of the intervening maturation of peoples’ tastes.