Quote Originally Posted by noxy
It's hard for me to explain this accurately, but let's say for example my mom's cheeseball and her sugar-free fudge. I mean of course, I would give my mom credit because she came up with those on her own, but there could be a thousand other people who've come up with the exact same recipe on their own.

Or the way I make and season my Mexican Red Rice.. Sure the basic technique is the same as pretty much all Mexicans make it, but I came up with the seasonings I use on my own. It just may be that someone else uses the same ones.. Does that mean I plagiarized that recipe?
These are essentially my thoughts. Just because one person was perhaps the first person to come to light with a recipe, it does not mean that no one else in the world has thought of it. There are a millio different variations of a billion recipes. Claiming that someone is plagarizing your idea in the food world just amounts to pettiness and arrogance in thinking that you're the only one in the world who could come up with something like sneaking in fruits and vegetables to kids' meals.