Our real American foods have come from our. soil and have been used by many groups. The Native Americans already had developed an interested (1)______ cuisine using the abundant foods that were so prevalent. The influence that the English had in our national eating habits is (2)______ easy to see. They were a tough lot and they ate in a tough manner. They wiped their mouths on the tablecloth, if there happened to be one, and they ate before you would expect them to burst. European travelers to (3)______ this country in those days were most often shocked by American drinking (4)______ habits, which included too much salt and too much liquor. Not much has changed! And, the Revolutionists refused to use the fork since it marked them Europeans. The fork was not absolutely common on the (5)______ European dinner table until about the time of the Civil War. (6)______ Other immigrant groups added to their own touches to the preparation (7)______ of our New World food products. The term melting pot was first used in return to America in the late 1700s,so this belief that we would (8)______ all become the same has been with us for a long time. Thank goodness it has ever worked. The various immigrant groups continue to add flavor to (9)______ the pot, all right, but you can pick out the individual flavors easily. The smallest ancestry group in America is the English. There are (10)______ more people in America who claim to have come from English blood than there are in ]England. But is their food English No, it is not; It is American.