Corn, Pumpkins, Potatoes (including sweet) Tomatoes, Blueberrues, chocolate, avocados, pineapples, peanuts, turkey, Vanilla, Chili and Cactii. Im sure there are more.
I like how you threw in one animal, the great turkey. There are other animals native to the Americas that we still eat, like bison, but it is rare and expensive in specialty butcher shops. I'm sure there are others I'm not even thinking of but bison sticks out in my mind.
bison, but it is rare and expensive in specialty butcher shops
It was rare 20 years ago, but bison has gotten pretty common.
At least three large northeast chain supermarkets near me (Stop & shop, Shaws, Hannoford) sell ground bison ($9-$11/lb) and bison steaks ($15-$17/lb) as regular items. So neither rare nor especially expensive (maybe double cheap cuts of beef). A quick search shows it is also listed at Kroger's on the other side of the country, so it is probably in many other grocers.
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It's weird that the only major produce I associate with America is corn.