What ingredients is your country weirdly obsessed with?

When I was traveling in Taiwan, it was obvious these people loved two things more than air: Cilantro and Sweet potatoes. You can find sweet potatoes in every convenience store, sweet potato flour to thicken soups, cilantro doritos, cilantro ice cream. The thing is: I didn't realize until then that America has the same thing.

We love cheese and corn more than we realize. Everything has cheese on it in the US and a lot of it. Corn? What doesn't have corn in it? We use it as a sweetener, to make starch, we feed our livestock corn, pill capsules.. we have scienced corn into every facet of our diet.

Does your country have similar love of ingredients that maybe your neighbors don't? Did you travel anywhere and notice they have a weird affinity for anything?