In America, there are a variety of multicultural foods and dishes competing among each other for popularity.  The most popular foods in the United States are potatoes and tomatoes for vegetables, mozzarella cheese for cheeses, while chicken barely topping over beef in availability in 2012.   Most of these foods may seem quite rare in your daily life.  However, it is unsuprising to hear that potatoes are more popular than most of the vegetables (tomatoes in a close second) when there are plenty of steakhouses and American restaurants that offer a plethora of dishes with mashed potatoes, breakfast potatoes, hash browns, and baked potatoes.  Along with all of this uses for potatoes comes with other sides like salads, where tomatoes see their most use, but can also be used in appetizers and a myriad of other creative dishes.  Mozzarella cheese is the basis of cheese of the standard American pizzas, which has a wide variety of chains just for selling this type of product.  Chicken has been boosted because of the large diet of healthy eating and strong workouts.  Chicken, with less fat than beef, pulls over the famed meat.  All in all, next time you go out to eat, consider you might be eating something very popular in American dietary consumption, such as mashed potatoes and steak.

                                                                         

Grated mozzarella cheese in a wooden bowl, By:MCPhotograpic potato in a white background, By: Jiang Hongyan

Links: http://time.com/2818849/these-are-the-most-popular-foods-in-america/