When deciding what restaurant to eat at, I have had a Lithuanian from Lithuania tell me she did not like spicy food and that Lithuanian cuisine was not really spicy. And an Indian from South India complain that various dishes were not spicy enough. But I would have thought that a stereotypical American would have grown up exposed to a lot of (regional) American food no matter what their “extraction”.
PS stereotypical English food is chicken tikka masala and vindaloo, right? 