We recently asked Non-American members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us a dish from their country that the United States has totally botched. Here are their complaints:

1.Smearing frosting on cinnamon rolls.

“I think it’s quite disturbing that Americans put that weird frosting-type thing on top of cinnamon rolls. I’m from Sweden and here we only ever put egg wash and pearl sugar on top before baking our kanelbullar.”

—stardust433

2.Drowning Chinese food in sauce and grease.

“The US seriously screwed up their version of Chinese food. The ‘Chinese’ food you find here is ridiculously greasy and drowned in sauce. As a Chinese-American, I can definitely tell you that’s not even close to real Chinese food.”

—jonaslovato91

3.Putting anything besides fries, cheese curds, and gravy in poutine.

“Poutine is supposed to be only potato, gravy, and cheese curds. When you add mozzarella, bacon, jalapeno, or whatever it is no longer poutine, it’s disco fries.”

—adindasyafri

4.Using croissants for sandwiches.

“I will never forgive America for what they did to our beautiful croissants. Used as a sandwich? Grilled with cheese?? Deep-fried??? We gave you something so pure and you couldn’t handle it, you monsters!”

—cines

5.Mixing wasabi in soy sauce and using ginger as a sushi topping.

“Don’t mix wasabi into soy sauce. Also, pickled ginger is a palate cleanser, not a sushi topping. kthnxbye.”

—aliciavanc

6.Making carbonara with cream sauce.

“Carbonara.

CarboNARA.

CARBONARA.

CARBOOOOOOONARA.

There is NO CREAM in it. Come on guys.

Love, An Italian.”

—nicolec46e4ab531

7.Using hard shell tacos and pretty much every other stereotypical ingredient involved in an American “taco night.”

“Tacos with the hard shell, cheese ‘sauce,’ ‘taco flavored’ ground beef, heaps of sour cream, and then instead of using real salsa, just flavorless diced tomatoes. Sad, sad.”

—kelseynons

8.Putting a meal on a smaller plate and calling it “tapas.”

“I am originally from Barcelona. All these new hipster places claim to be ‘tapas bars’ but they are nothing more than fancy South American food places. They just place the meal on small dishes (nothing wrong with South American food btw) but that’s definitely not what tapas are!”

—lbs1989

9.Adding pasta to goulash.

“Goulash. It’s not a stew; it’s not a pasta dish; it’s a hearty soup made with beef shanks, root vegetables, potatoes, and Hungarian dumplings (galuska or csipetke).”

—jitkas2

10.Serving lamb with mint jelly.

“Why you gotta ruin anything you call Moroccan? We don’t serve lamb roast with mint sauce and pomegranate.”

—fdiiiwa70

11.Using tea bags and heating the water in the microwave.

“No proper tea comes in a bag and then they have the nerve to microwave the water for the tea.”

—missaniechu

12.The invention of deep dish pizza.

“It’s not pizza. It is disrespectful to the Italian culture and Neapolitans. Deep dish completely ruins pizza!”

—emb2019

13.Using tea bags for chai tea and calling it “chai tea.”

“The whole thing is an abomination straight from the depths of hell. Real chai (not chai tea, chai literally means tea) is hot, has a lovely medium to dark brown color and requires tea leaves, NOT tea bags. And it doesn’t always need that ghastly blend of spices. A good cup of chai should be able to taste amazing on its own.”

—raimab

14.Wrapping hot dogs in a pastry (AKA pigs in a blanket) instead of in bacon.

“I’m honestly surprised Americans have taken ‘pigs in blankets’ to mean a little sausage wrapped in pastry. Considering your love of bacon is well-known, I would’ve thought the British ‘pigs in blankets’ would be an instant hit with you guys. For us it’s a little sausage wrapped in bacon and is one of the best parts of a Christmas dinner.”

—hannahc2528

15.Making chocolate that tastes both too sweet and too bland.

“American chocolate is somehow too sweet and too bland at the same time. The texture is weirdly gritty as well. How do you ruin chocolate? Why would you ruin chocolate?”

—justbearthur

16.Putting chorizo and hard boiled eggs in paella.

“Chorizo, DOES NOT belong in paella. Boiled eggs DO NOT belong in paella. You DO NOT put paella in the oven. Stop it, thank you.”

—mmmmmmmmartha

17.Assembling poké in a line with a lot of ingredients.

“It’s supposed to be pre-mixed with a FEW simple ingredients and definitely not assembled in a line like a burrito bowl at Chipotle. Most of those ingredients have nothing to do with poké.

—erinmeghanq

18.Preparing french dressing with mayonaise and ketchup.

“What an abomination. Real French dressing is extra virgin olive oil, a bit of mustard (preferably dijon), a bit of vinegar of choice, sometimes shallots or raw garlic, and a bit of salt. Whip it up, pour it over. The red ketchuppy French dressing is not French, but, well, American.”

—clotildehmb

19.Smearing Vegemite thickly on toast.

“Australia here. Vegemite. It is NOT meant to be spread like peanut butter or nutella. You only need a smear.”

—m4c0ef16f8

20.Adding shrimp and seafood to pho.

“There’s no such thing as “seafood pho” or “shrimp pho,” and boiled eggs don’t go in pho. Stop putting whatever you want in a bowl of rice noodles and broth and calling it pho.”

—vanvo

21.Making bubble tea “smoothies.”

“You can’t put tapioca pearls in a honeydew/strawberry/mango/etc. smoothie and call it bubble tea. Where’s the ‘tea’ part??”

—amirahazmi

22.Putting cream cheese and fruit in sushi.

“Sushi with cream cheese and with random fruit. What an awful thing to do.”

—julianakarasawas

Some submissions have been edited for clarity and grammar.

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