The rules of American cuisine are as follows:

All food items must contain 1 or all of the 4 following flavours (or flavors):

1. sugar syrup
2. genuine imitation cheese
3. cinnamon (in coffee, chicken, and almost any food item)
4. freeze dried (anything that was once natural such as fruit meat, vegetables and eggs, and is then passed off as being real)

in addition it is entirely acceptable to take a normal item of food and adorn it with maple goo, for example maple coated sausages, bacon, bread, the runner etc...

Please see illustrations below :

 

The final straw has come in Sacramento when one of the side dishes was sweet potato.

Nothing wrong with that I hear you cry !

But..... sweet potato with maple syrup and marshmallow!!!

Armageddon can't be far behind