A bit random, but I’ve also been wondering about the culinary traditions the Universal Empire will develop? Given all of that cultural, ethnic, and ecological diversity, I assume there’d be an plethora of foods to try that’d vary from place to place, many of which the Americans will enthusiastically bring back to the homeland (alongside a hodgepodge of other “foreign” trinkets and luxuries they encounter in their conquests). Personally, I’d be open to having Eastern European and Middle Eastern foods become more mainstream in American culture, and considering how those regions are probably within America’s line of sight, that could very well happen.
(By the way: please raise points like this in conversation, not in profile posts. The latter for some reason result in me getting repeated alerts every single time. It makes it confusing as to which alerts I've already seen, and which are actually new.)