It happens to food too. The "traditional" foods are never from just one place and it's always evolving and somewhere along the way someone adds their local cultural twist to something from the outside and it's suddenly so much better.

I cooked a recipe recently that was based on a dish that was made for American GI's in Japan after WWII ended. Okinawan Taco Rice

Now that's the only way I want to eat taco meat ....

The japanese katsu curry was developed when British sailors brought curry powder over from India to Japan

A lot of food we like was invented fairly recently. Modern pizza was invented in Italy in 1889 for example.

Here is a 2000 year old fresco showing what looks like a pizza!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/27/pompeii-fresco...

Losing Pizza surely was the start of the dark ages.

Ciabatta was invented in 1982, which blows my mind.

I did not know that; surprising indeed!

I was reading the other day how modern olive oil is actually quite different from the olive oil people used for millennia: https://aeon.co/essays/extra-virgin-olive-oil-is-the-flavour...

On the other hand I'd argue flatbread with something on it is one of the base foods. Whether it came before or after the dumpling/packet family is a fun discussion.