Well, it’s spiced a bit differently. That said, personally, my answer was Thai and adjacent cuisines, so any of Thai, Laotian, Malaysian, Vietnamese will suffice for me. (Although them all a bit different, especially Vietnamese. Then again, Vietnam is not directly adjacent.)
Well folks, at this point it’s still a tight race, with Mexican, Italian, Chinese, and Indian all neck and neck.
Surprised no love yet from anyone for Jamaican food…if I could vote twice :D.
Will have to try Ethiopian; heard good things elsewhere too.
Thanks for the responses so far.
Only Italian from the Med area. Hmmmm…
I had a similar childhood. 
Italian. I could eat it every night. I answered a hypothetical once along the lines of, “if you were marooned on a desert island and could eat only one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?” and I decided I could probably eat lasagne forever.
I think it’s popular in the US because it tends to be sweeter, and we likes our sugar. I don’t go for the spicy dishes much, but I think galangal, tamarind, peanuts, coconut and lime are seriously some of the best flavors ever put together. I also like that it tends to have more vegetables (in volume, not necessarily variety) than Americanized Chinese.
I don’t have a drop of Mexican blood in me, but I could eat Mexican food probably 5 days a week. If I lived somewhere like Chicago with a fair sized hispanic district I could eat it almost every day.
I’m not sure it’s exactly non-native… we’re white-bread German/Celtic midwesterners, but my mother made stir fry at least twice a week the whole time I was growing up, so now I crave it as my home cooking comfort food of choice.
Japanese, but not sushi. I mean, I like sushi well enough, but I crave noodle soup (soba, udon, ramen, don’t matter much) and nabemono.
I voted Mexican as it is a food I must have on a regular basis. While I definitely enjoy many of the others, they do not rise to the level of need.
However, I would hedge with Italian - in that in my experience Italian food is so prevalent and integrated into my day-to-day diet (and has been all of my life) that it has ceased to be considered “ethnic”. (FTR I’m not of Italian heritage.)
I love Greek food. Give me a nice chicken and rice soup, some feta, a kebab, a bit of spinach pie and then baklava and I’m happy. My local Greekish favorite place in the NYC area is Garbanzo’s Mediterranean Grill. They’re a chain but a good one. But I crave pizza most often. I’m a slave to anything Italian – a risotto, some fresh bread, good tomato sauce, al dente pasta, Italian cookies.
It’s hard to pick just one.
The top 3 are: Chinese, Chinese and Chinese. I could eat it all day, and nothing else. Oh sure, I’ve indulged in quite a few other cuisines, and love many of them . . . but always come back to Chinese.
Indian. I looooooooooooooveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee naan
Ethiopian is awesome. I happen to live in the city with the most Ethiopians in America; in certain sections of the city and the suburbs, sometimes it seems difficult to find a NON-Ethiopian restaurant.
For me, Chinese I guess. Not to sound snobby, but real Chinese food, not the slop doused in sugary sauce from the local carry-out. Which can be difficult to find, or not remotely convenient (I know exactly where to go for the good stuff, but I don’t want to go downtown or out into The 'Burbs).
I could eat American style Chinese food every meal of every day, except breakfast. More than once I’ve asked my mom if maybe she had a Chinese mail man back in the 50’s?
Thai. I loves me some coconut and lime and cilantro type flavours.
I voted Indian because it’s what I cook for myself (and others) most often. It’s a wonderfully varied, and also healthful, cuisine. If I were restricted to one cuisine only for the rest of my life, I’d choose Indian.
Thai would be a close second. And Ethiopian. And Turkish or Greek. Also, Lebanese. And UK (REAL haggis, bubble and squeak, black pud with runny eggs, Cornish pasties…oh my.)
I chose Greek because Lebanese wasn’t listed. I think Greek is pretty similar. Used to date an American girl of Irish-Lebanese descent. Beautiful girl, my first love, actually. She introduced me to a restaurant called the Phoenician Club. Loved it ever since.
Definitely Indian - I eat it at least 5 times a week - followed by non-westernized Chinese, then English, Italian, Thai, Sri Lankan, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Spanish, Korean.
Now I’m going to have to cook a curry…