What people traditionally eat is very dependent on what kind of climate they live in. Because different foods grow in different conditions, it makes it hard to have something that does not grow well as a food staple. Like, it would be really hard of the Great Plains to grow rice, so they don't. They grow corn, and traditionally eat a lot of it. Aside from agriculture, it would be hard for Mexicans to have a traditional diet that includes buffalo, because buffalo don't live in Mexico; its too warm.
As globalization spreads, it is getting easier to regions to import food items that they can not grow themselves, and so, like everything else, food is getting to be globalized. Examples of this are McDonald's on every corner of every city. But they are not all the same, still depending on the different traditions of the regions. I have always heard that British and Western Europe's beef is much more lean than the US's, which most American's interpret as tasting badly, when it is really just a
regional difference.
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