For example, certain beers, lagers and spirit brands of alcohol that are not made or drunk in your country but are sold to other countries as being “from” your country?
And certain fruits, spices, vegetables, meats, fish or special meals that are marketed as being “authentic” from your country, but the truth is, no one in your country eats them?
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There is a lot of ‘Italo-American’ food that is only vaguely related to what people actually eat in Italy,but is considered by Americans to be ‘Italian’.
Not so much ‘fake brands’ (though I guess they exist in the US too,as they do in other countries) but ‘fake concepts’..or if you prefer,local variations.
Being from Sicily,one thing I noticed there was the US idea of the Sicilian cannolo.Here it is a simple cake..ricotta inside a tube of pastry.
In NYC for example,you will find ‘Sicilian cannoli’ that no Sicilian has ever imagined,never mind seen in Sicily 😉 Filled with chocolate,peanut butter and all different kinds of stuff.
The same principle applies to many of the foods that originated here…pineapple on pizza is a very famous example!
That one actually is an interesting story.It was never seen or heard of here,but I saw it on a restaurant menu catering for tourists when I was last in Rome.So it has come full circle.
Newcastle Brown Ale (sort of). It originated in my home town – Newcastle. Up until 2004 it was brewed in Newcastle city centre. The brewery was literally across the road from St James’ Park, Newcastle United’s Football stadium. Scottish and Newcastle Breweries then sold the land for development and moved the production to the Federation Brewery in Gateshead (the neighbouring town on the other side of the river). It wasn’t really a problem as it was still the Newcastle area and only about 3 miles away (4-5 km). However Heineken then bought out S&N and moved production to Tadcaster in Yorkshire about 100 miles (160 km) south of Newcastle. It’s still brewed there for the UK and some EU production, but a lot of the production for the EU and further afield was moved again to Heineken’s brewery in Zoeterwoude in the Netherlands.
Maybe not *quite* what you mean, but “German Chocolate Cake” that to my understanding is well known in the US doesn’t have anything to do with Germany – it was simply invented by an American baker named Sam German.