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Originally Posted by Wigs
It's hard to compare since there are still existent Mexican restaurants in LA like on Olvera street that date back to the 1920s/1930s and LA was Mexican from the roots, whereas South Asian migration to Toronto is more of a post War development and post 1970s one at that.
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To be fair, a lot of iconic things for Canada food-wise are kind of recent in that way. Like poutine being from the 1950s, Hawaiian pizza from the '60s, Halifax donair from the 70s.
I don't know about how long the roti described here has been a thing in Toronto, but if Jamaican patties were in the city by roughly this time (I mean, there was the 1985 patty wars thing with the naming dispute, implying it was mainstream enough to get attention), that's already not that much shorter in comparison.