The States' Most Popular Cuisines. (From the HuffPo ???)

Cuban being a popular food in Florida is actually spot on, and for locals, a no-brainer. Everyone down there has had the quintessential Cuban chicken & rice dish flanked with plantains (or grilled pineapple!) at some point in their life down there (it's my freakin' favorite dish out of every cuisine, there's something to be said for the simple stuff)

Up here in MI, I'm surprised Chinese or Thai isn't #2. I love both, and they're definitely plentiful establishments up here by far. Then again, I'd also have expected pizza to be higher on the list, I swear Michiganders are obsessed with pizza. Maybe it's just the west half of the state completely gaga over it.

I'm not surprised, considering the UP's Finnish heritage. You'd be more likely to align with the other Scandinavian-descendant states' tastes when considering heritage influence up there on local tables. The recipes between old world & now might be different, but the "comfort food" factor is the same, so I can see how stuff listed like traditional American would be more appealing.

Charles1952, I'm not sure what the difference is between Chinese and Asian food that your eatery advertises, but if they have an option to order take-out and you are interested in trying them out that might work for you.

I am sure a lot of food choices are likely dictated by what each partner likes or doesn't like. It is in my family, at least. We all have different things that we like and don't like that are different for each of us and we do try to accommodate everyone. There are certainly some exceptions, though, like when one of us wants to try something new the others will also try the new food or restaurant, but we generally try to accommodate as much as possible within reason.

Nope, we are just getting older. 

I agree, as I've gotten older I've found that I'm much more set in what I like and don't like. I will try most things, but Russ and Quin are much more adventurous when it comes to trying new foods.

All food is psychotropic, meaning it effects our thinking to some extent. Even water can get you high if you drink a lot of it. I'm working on studying these properties. If you eat some things they speed up your thinking and when you get older, you have lots more info in your brain. So if you speed it up there is more chance of a mishap in your talking. Also a lot of foods dampen our memory, they do this in a few ways. By lowering acetylcholine levels or by messing with the neurotransmitters and the receptors of the neurotransmitters in the brain.

It takes a lot of time to evaluate how the foods effect thinking, you have to pay attention all the time and sometimes the effect can start six hours to eight hours later. We have an automatic function, we just avoid certain foods and go for others and it makes life easier. We do this subconsciously. If this subconscious link the the conscious gets mixed up by food chemistry or meds, we cannot think and our immune system can malfunction and we are more susceptible to diseases. Because everyone's epigenetics is different, it is hard to tell others what to eat or what not to eat. What is good for the goose is not always good for the gander either.