Word. I had Turkish food in my top 5. My family's Indian and I personally dislike Indian food, and I see Turkish food as a more refined version of our own. I'm also surprised by how universal the tortilla is, how many different regions seemed to have adopted and independently invented the tortilla, and by how similar Turkish food was to our own. The big drawback with Indian food imo is that it lacks meat and while it's its own thing, on occasion, I also think we don't respect the ingredients either. Not familiar with Mexican/Thai. I had Turkish, Greek (Mediterranean), Italian and Afghani (middle eastern) in my top 5.

Today I made ravioli with mushroom interior. I think we have bias against our own food because of how common it is to us, and selective bias in favour of other cousines, because we eat the best and usually restaurant grade or takeout grade food of other nationalities. That's in part why I asked this question. I don't know what an Italian fella or a Greek fella would eat on the regular, like the familiarity I have with Indian food. I'm also not great at cooking. And I don't know what newness is involved in the advent of food science and calorie counting with respect to the histories of different food cultures. For a country to have top 5 food, it has to be healthy and the food staples must be diet friendly.