Foods by Country of Origin #2

I thought the shawarma clue was a little misleading. I don't dispute that it originated in Turkey but it's not called shawarma there; in Turkey it's called doner kebab -- I know because that's how it's printed on the menu (if there is one) and I've eaten it there dozens of times.

It’s called doner kebab in the UK.

We think of it as being from the old "Russia", which was really the USSR; when the USSR broke up and became individual counties, some of the things we thought of as stereotypically Russian wound up being from one of the new small countries – for instance, apparently borscht! And I still can't get used to the fact that Minsk Is in Belarus. :-)

Nah it’s called Döner in Turkey

ummm.... ??

while i appreciate your knowledge of history, i do wonder if some of the cultural elements elude you.

Apparently (what I thought I knew and then looked up and was confirmed by wikipedia) the burrito originated in Ciudad Juarez. CJ is of course in Mexico. So technically you're right. But the burrito spread in the USA a lot more than in Mexico. All the examples of local variations of the burrito are from the US (California Burrito, LA Burrito, San Diego Burrito etc). So even though you're technically right that it's Mexican, you could have chosen a dish with which a lot more Mexicans identify with. Chilaquiles, Enchiladas, Huaraches, to name a few. The burrito is too Tex-Mex and too on the fence in my opinion.