I think there's a reason why you'd think some European cultures had them longer. Like people think lacrosse is a 'whi-people' or 'preppy WASP' sport that "white" people invented, you wonder why anglos mistake potatoes for an 'old world' food?

also to go off this line you used about appropriation:

It’s not appropriation if the culture wants you to have and use it

a lot of cultures may not want you to have and use it. Treating the globe like a giant inspiration-board with no historical context is just super privileged and tone-deaf. Natives are treated like they just smashed stones together and finally figured out fire before europeans came, why would you think rebranding their shit as your own is remotely welcome? Especially when any contribution indigenous people had to ANYONE's culture, not just Mexican food, is de-credited and downplayed and divorced from it's origins?

Europeans not giving credit isn't new, dumb people falling for it and thinking Italy had tomatoes in the 13th century is on them.