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I'd love to try a Chicago-style pizza, but can't find it anywhere in my country and I'd have absolutely zero qualms about US protecting that (hard to export I know, but maybe the ingredients could be restricted?). Maybe it could even be shortened - Can I get a Chicago?

I'd also like to try "Crab Mac 'n' Cheese Dog"...

One thing is that in US there is always this range of quality. There is only one place in the world where I've been bitten by bed bugs and that was smack in the middle of NY. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the bite-marks, IM IN NEW YORK, how can this be?! But that range can be devastating when marketing. The "no regulations"-crowd can... hinder... progress as well as help.

On a more positive note [Wikipedia]:

"Bourbon's legal definition varies somewhat from country to country, but many trade agreements require that the name "bourbon" be reserved for products made in the United States. "

"Tennessee whiskey is straight whiskey produced in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Although it has been legally defined as a bourbon whiskey in some international trade agreements,[1][2][3] most current producers of Tennessee whiskey disclaim references to their products as "bourbon" and do not label them as such on any of their bottles or advertising materials. "



"Chicago-style pizza" would be ok, according to the article. But not "Chicago pizza" if it wasn't really from Chicago (and if it was protected by law/treaty, which I don't think it is).

New York City feels rather like a foreign country to me, though the range-of-quality observation is indeed true everywhere in the US.




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