For what it’s worth, I meant no provocation from it and apologize since it resulted in such.
Would it work better if you thought of it as a different name? Like… American cheesebread?
Because this is a consideration: New York style American cheesebread IS an example of “something special that you can find there and not at home”. It’s on every list of foods associated with New York. You would be denying yourself a regional dish for the sake of semantics.
Okay, but we wouldn’t get that answer from a considerable number of Jamaican reggae enthusiasts. Your comment about “ignoring completely history, tradition, and the work of other people” hits remarkably close to what I’ve read.