re: Does food outside of LA suck?

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I find this hard to believe. Louisiana has relatively small populations of Greek and Lebanese people, and for some reason Louisiana lumps the two cuisines together despite them being distinct (and I haven't seen anywhere else lump them together).

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It doesn't get discussed much, but the few interviews I've read basically outline that it was a combination of exposure and (way the back when) to counter anti-Middle Eastern bias. Conveniently, I remembered this article that ran fairly recently: LINK