American things

also cincinnati chili is good not bad fyiyd

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby)

you're wrong, silby

wrong on the internet

i'm terribly upset about this

one doofus, probably trying to brag about his very cursory knowledge of Spanish for his date, kept concern trolling me about it, saying "did you know in Spanish that means BROWN WATER?! I sure hope they're not slathering our steak in MUSTY OLD BROWN WATER"

― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal)

punish him by making him listen to the doobie brothers until he learns more spanish

I feel like _a_ red sauce as opposed to just “red sauce” have different connotations but I may be splitting hairs. The latter being the most commonly known sauce of that color in the local cuisine. I’d default to italian-american cuisine’s very generic tomato-based concoction, which is probably labeled marinara if it has actually flavor, and maybe just called red sauce regardless if it’s in someone’s home

damn, Chevy’s Fresh Mex. haven’t thought about that one in a minute

fp’d wins for capeschism

x-post - THank you MH that is correct.

Sibly the whole of the UK would prob want to fight you for saying baked beans are American but they are and even beans on toast is! Am American ad exec at Heinz came up with the concept to sell the beans over here and it took off. Do not ask me why I looked this up recently.

How could Cincinnati chili be bad? Spaghetti is good. Chili is good. I do not see the issue.

Taking an hour and a half to make pasta with pesto and a green salad

oh and garlic bread, next to the pasta.

I've never eaten beans on toast, why would I want to eat soggy bread?

Never??? Even I've tried it. If you toast the bread well it takes a while to get soggy but I'm with you on that.

thread sleeping on this wikipedia detail: "The word keh (茄) means 'eggplant'; tomato in Cantonese is 番茄, which literally translates to 'foreign eggplant'."

im guessing cantonese ilx be 🔥

If I have tinned baked beans these days I add some spices, usually of the cayenne/smoked paprika type to make them more interesting. It's ok as a side for some piri piri chicken wings or spiced potato wedges.

thread sleeping on this wikipedia detail: "The word keh (茄) means 'eggplant'; tomato in Cantonese is 番茄, which literally translates to 'foreign eggplant'."

im guessing cantonese ilx be 🔥

― mark s

what does "eggplant sweatdrops" translate to in english, i see those emoji all the time

cum

missed Kate's post at first and thought u were saying this^ was purely an American thing

im guessing cantonese ilx be 🔥

― mark s, Wednesday, May 1, 2024 2:19 AM (ten hours ago)

花橋
福耀

https://www.cantonese.asia/portal.php?mod=view&aid=776

(s/o to the 2(?) posters that will roll their eyes at my primary school humour)

Tug McGraw started 39 games during his career--most of them his first two years (21), but then scattered around the rest of the way, including a start in 1983 for the Phillies. He wasn't very effective: 7-23, 4.81 (during a good era for pitchers; his lifetime ERA as a reliever was 2.86).

― clemenza, Sunday, 2 June 2024 15:51 (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Graffitiing your own car to express discontent with an elected politician (and the subset of doing it using a a quote from a motorsport announcer).

Dunno if that one's exclusive to the US, plenty of cookers here with JESUS IS MY FLAT EARTH LORD 5G WINDFARMS WILL KILL US ALL I BLAME DAN ANDREWS all over their vans or whatever.

well, it's not for nothing that Melville called Australia "that great America on the other side of the sphere"

portland has some amazing bumper stickers to be fair

not the ones about "i'd rather be watching the mummy" or whatever, those suck

a bumper sticker is a very different level of commitment (or cookedness)

whats the reason thai food is so big in the us but just hasn’t really taken off anywhere else in the world? is it literally just the government funding thing?

— just matt (bar prep edition) (@questionableway) June 16, 2024

At one point every second pub in Britain seemed to be serving Thai food.

lol yes, great times.

there are at least four uk nationwide thai chains.

Since at least the early '90s, Sydney high streets can have multiple Thai restaurants on the same block, competing for attention with the best punning name, eg Thai Foon vs Thai Me Up Thai Me Down.

LOL yes Sydney seemed to have nothing but Thai food last time I was up there and has since the 90s. Melbourne not so much. I mean we do - Thai is almost as ubiq as Chinese takeaway at this point. But Sydney is nuts.

whats the reason thai food is so big in the us but just hasn’t really taken off anywhere else in the world? is it literally just the government funding thing?
— just matt (bar prep edition) (@questionableway) June 16, 2024

Thailand as well as Indochine neighbors Laos & Cambodia (including various minorities such as Hmong, Mien, et.al.) were allies to the USA during the VietNam war and were given safe harbor immigration to the USA as refugees if they met criteria and/or sponsorship.

Many of the "Thai" restaurants in the USA are run by these ethnic minorities, such as here in California some even identify as "Thai-Lao" or "Lao-Thai" as to call attention to their roots. Here in SF there is a similar distinction as quite a few of the "Mexican" taquerias are owned/operated by Salvadorans/Hondurans/Guatemalans/Nicaraguans serving a fusion of Mexican food and regional delicacies regardless of post-WWII border distinctions.

see also: Nepalese/Afghani/Pakistani-style "Indian" restaurants and other asian-fusion restaurants.

but why hasn’t it taken off anywhere else in the world

I agree that's the real question

actually wait I don't think that's true

It is true and strange. But maybe Ryan Reynolds will next buy a thai restaurant and show the world how it's done.

y'all in the wrong thread imho.

^^
American thing

SpaceX launches

fannypacks

military base Subway sandwich restaurant

Coney sauce

boar’s head

pickle loaf

Mondo Squeezers

storm chasers (predominantly)

Trendy water bottles

metal water bottles make me ia, i know plastic is very bad but the nalgene is and was the pinnacle of water bottles and cannot be improved upon imho

^ bemusing american post

boar’s head

I know a small Gaulish village that would disagree

tater tot option

is sic back in aus or just using a vpn to dunk on his host country now

"happy Friday"

oh I read all the G/U ‘sterixes when I was 7