American things

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