One of the reasons that Americans do not make very good expatriates is that they get so terribly lonely for pizza by the slice. Also for nachos grandes, pulled-pork barbecue, fried dumplings, California rolls, spring rolls, lobster rolls, a bowl of Texas red, also a bowl of crawfish etouffee, a dozen clams casino, anything fra diavolo, some tapas, an empanada and a nice knish to round things out. Over there, everybody eats the same stuff all the time. All of which is fine and good, but it doesn't seem to have occurred to anybody how much better it is to be able to choose from all of the above, and then some, all of the time. Entire nations exist that have practically nothing to eat.
Nobody eats lutefisk, so as a practical matter the country has only two dishes.
We do things differently here. We have never met a food we didn't like. Other nations worry about being overrun by alien hordes. We only object to the influx of those peoples who possess no good recipes, which is why, quite properly, we restrict immigration from the British Isles. Nowhere is this uplifting egalitarianism better represented than at the Jersey Shore.