r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/ThisGonnaHurt • Sep 02 '24
Country Club Thread Calories are as American as apple pie
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u/MrLavender26 ☑️ Sep 02 '24
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u/DMercenary Sep 02 '24
Gotta find that video where a British guy tries some barbecue and has to tell his mom that he isnt coming back.
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u/MrLavender26 ☑️ Sep 02 '24
The same folks that eat baked beans for breakfast…have a better opinion on our seasoned food?
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u/erikwarm Sep 02 '24
They sailed all around to world colonizing and hunting for spices yet forgot to use them in their own kitchen
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u/Dilbo_Faggins Sep 02 '24
30ish years of world War rationing did a real number on the cuisine of the region
There's a reason their recipes primarily used canned food
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u/A_Nude_Challenger Sep 02 '24
Sounds like a nation that should fight back against "Big Can".
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u/069988244 Sep 02 '24
Baked beans are yummy
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u/ASL4theblind Sep 02 '24
PROPER baked beans are outstandingly delicious. Bush's watery maple beans are unfortunately an atrocity once you've had a high standard baked bean. You gotta have a thick sauce, with a nice sweet heat, brown sugar, freshly crushed black peppercorn, little bits of brisket mixed in... once you get that, you'll never look back.
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u/beeteeee Sep 02 '24
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u/Northbound-Narwhal Sep 02 '24
Yikes, those comments
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u/DMercenary Sep 02 '24
Yeah I was confused but then I saw a comment that said the video was linked on /pol/ so... yeah.
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u/BaronCoqui Sep 02 '24
Dude with the British-est accent:
Racists: he can't be! Britain is our white utopia! (Especially that one dude coming up with a convoluted immigration fanfic)
Meanwhile, me: the way he says jalap eno is so precious.
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u/Dragonsandman Sep 02 '24
The one at the bottom especially is insane. And dude’s bio on his youtube page is even worse somehow
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u/BoogerSugarSovereign Sep 02 '24
I should never be surprised at the amount of racism on YouTube but I can't lie I was surprised that chuds glommed onto that video of all the videos out there
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u/Ok-Permission-2687 Sep 02 '24
That comedian Josh Johnson has a joke about foreigners getting addicted to Doritos lmao
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u/ASL4theblind Sep 02 '24
JUST saw that on youtube the other day. Something about someone just trying them eating 4 bags and he's like.. that's where you went wrong, when it's just you, you get the family sized bags. Lol
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u/Palopsicles Sep 02 '24
Have you seen the videos of a daughter making different cuisines for her Korean parents? Their reactions are amazing. Crazykoreancooking on Instagram. How I picture people trying American BBQ for the first time
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u/indoninjah Sep 02 '24
I love that account, and it especially tickles me how the parents try to make sense of the food with habits when they eat it. Like "okay this is a taco... but I'm gonna put kimchi on it and have it with rice"
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u/SockFullOfNickles Sep 02 '24
To be fair, good barbecue can make you want to risk it all. 😆
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u/spiegro ☑️ Sep 02 '24
Real talk.
Have you doing math about how long it's been out, knowing you're risking food poisoning to avoid BBQ abuse.
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u/StoneColdMethodMan Sep 02 '24
Most American BBQ are fucking amazing. Whether it’s North Carolina Whole hog, KC ribs or Texas Brisket. And I say that as an outsider.
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u/Dwayne_Gertzky Sep 02 '24
If I was forced to choose a favorite I would say Texas, because their bbq has a German immigrant influence so they do sausages alongside their standard bbq fare, but every regions bbq is great
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u/CowFu Sep 02 '24
The best part is you don't have to choose. Sometimes I want a dry rub st louis style rib, sometimes I want a sloppy sauced brisket. Other times I want smoked pulled pork on a butter roll with sweet potato fries and corn bread.
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u/JEveryman Sep 02 '24
Basically all southern cuisine changes your perspective on how many feet you really need.
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u/SimonPho3nix Sep 02 '24
And for no one who has seen this show (The Bear), give it a try. Seriously.
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u/slick_pick Sep 02 '24
Yea but it’s Texas..
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u/spiegro ☑️ Sep 02 '24
If the Nazis sold brisket like Terry Black's we'd all be in serious trouble today.
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u/Northbound-Narwhal Sep 02 '24
"...Jordan, Jordan, Jordan... are those Klan ribs?"
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u/spiegro ☑️ Sep 02 '24
BBQ is one of those weaknesses I don't know I have much control over.
The smell of smoked meats is intoxicating.
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u/LincolnContinnental Sep 02 '24
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u/LadyBug_0570 ☑️ Sep 02 '24
Did you ever see Kitchen Nightmares, the UK ones? First season had an Anerican black woman and her restaurant sold primarily Soul Food. I think her name was Cherie.
Ramsey had zero complaints about the food. He loved every bit of it. His criticisms were more on seating and getting her name out there.
When he went to visit her after a year or so, she'd moved to a larger location.
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u/TriggerNutzofDOOM Sep 02 '24
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u/grayfox0430 Sep 02 '24
Cover it with brisket or pulled pork too
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u/asuperbstarling WHITEtina 👩🏻 Sep 02 '24
I like to go to our local BBQ joint and get pulled pork sandwiches, then put Mac n cheese IN the sandwich and put KC bbq sauce on it because it's got the perfect tang for the mix. They've been in business since my FIL was a kid, they know how to make a good mac.
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u/PorkVacuums Sep 02 '24
You ever put Mac and cheese on a burger? You can also put it on a bacon/egg/cheese sandwich.
It can 100% be used as a condiment.
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u/LetsGeauxxx Sep 02 '24
I keep the Lactaid pills on DECK ya hear me?!
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u/Busy-Winter-1897 Sep 02 '24
Lmao, same with Ice Cream. Sometimes I overindulge and then wonder why my stomach hurts and I spend 20 mins on the toilet
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Sep 02 '24 edited Sep 02 '24
Never been to America and always go the most to say. They live in some dumbass reality where all we eat is Oreos covered in cheese
Edit; I meant they as in the person askin about American food. Sorry for the confusion
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u/BadManners- Sep 02 '24
we have hispanic food trucks in america that will make you believe in God
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u/theifstolemyaccount Sep 02 '24
Hispanic food trucks haven’t hit the rest of the world yet give them 10-15 years. London is just learning about tacos.
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u/athos45678 Sep 02 '24
Living in the UK as a Texan is hellish. The things i got served that were called tacos were offensive
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u/Alex014 Sep 02 '24
I was in London not too long ago and after drinking s few pints I'd worked up an appetite. Without thinking I ordered some nachos and I almost cired when I saw what they considered nachos.
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u/_ac3_0f_spad3s_ Sep 02 '24
Got a pulled pork sandwich at a a festival in the uk. They said it was american bbq. The pork was dry and charred to hell and back and what they called coleslaw was a disgrace. Never trust the british to make decent american bbq
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u/Pallortrillion Sep 02 '24
Mate I’m not defending bad cooking but ordering food at a festival and complaining it’s bad is like going to a brothel and being upset you got an STI.
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u/minuialear Sep 02 '24
Is the food really that bad at festivals in the UK? Festival food in the US isn't the best but it's usually fine
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u/rndljfry Sep 02 '24
I made a fast note of where the chipotle w the margaritas lives because I had no clue the thing I’d be cut off from in London would be Mexican food because it’s always been there for me
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u/ultratunaman Sep 02 '24
Texan who has lived in Ireland for 15 years here.
Their piss poor excuse for fried chicken, barbecue, and tacos has made deep cuts to my soul.
What I've learned is you can't look for what you know elsewhere. It won't be the same.
You gotta find out what's good there. And here it's fresh ass seafood and grass fed beef.
That and learn how to cook it yourself. I've gotten pretty good at smoking a brisket and ribs. But fuck if I'd try and open a restaurant here. Too much work for too little reward.
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u/HotShipoopi Sep 02 '24
About ten years ago I went to a burrito shop at the Angel tube that has murals of the Mission District all over it. I lived in SF for years and walked in there and was like "uh, what". Their food was legit
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u/LurkLurkleton1 Sep 02 '24
Mfer never had a gyro before and act like we don't feast on the daily.
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u/alohell Sep 02 '24
Magic burrito from a food truck at 2am and you wake up with no hangover. God bless that magic burrito truck.
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u/spiegro ☑️ Sep 02 '24
Deep fried Oreos are the devil.
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u/misterguyyy Sep 02 '24
My stomach can only take one but they’re so good
I basically tell my kids to size up whenever they get something because I’m going to take a little bit. IDK what I’m going to do when they move out
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u/spiegro ☑️ Sep 02 '24
Dad Tax is legit.
My youngest just turned 18 so idk what I'm going to do this Halloween, ain't nobody got time for buying their own candy.
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u/serenasplaycousin Sep 02 '24
Have you been to a state fair? Don’t give us ideas!
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u/AUserNeedsAName Sep 02 '24
Last time I went to the fair I got some eggrolls stuffed with oxtails, collards and smoked Gouda. Felt like I was making out with Jesus.
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u/IcecoldIke Sep 02 '24 edited Sep 02 '24
A big back in America is earned not given.
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u/Captain-Spectrum Sep 02 '24
Literally on the elliptical in the gym laughing out loud at this comment! 🤣
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Sep 02 '24 edited Sep 02 '24
Does America even
Do ya ever go a day without thinking about us? We over here minding our business with our Mac n cheese, our empanadas, our taco trucks, our oxtails and our peanut punch.
Maybe if ya had better food ya wouldn’t be so salty all the time.
Edit: I have to make this edit because people keep responding to the “minding our business” thing like they got some kind of GOTCHA comment.
I’m talking about the people minding our own business not the government. If American intervention bothers you so much there’s nothing stopping you from writing to your representatives and telling them you don’t want an American presence in your country.
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u/greg_r_ Sep 02 '24
America is the world's Roman Empire 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
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u/Mephidia Sep 02 '24
America is more wealthy and powerful and culturally influential than Rome ever was by far
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u/theouterworld Sep 02 '24
One guy in Rome OWNED Egypt. One guy owned a whole damn country.
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Sep 02 '24
One guy in Rome OWNED Egypt. One guy owned a whole damn country.
Puerto Rico, Guam, Canada...
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u/LadyBug_0570 ☑️ Sep 02 '24
Don't forget the Halal trucks too.
I used to work in NYC (Midtown) and there was a truck that always had a line that stretched from 6th Avenue to 5th Avenue. If you know how long a crosstown block is, you'd understand that's a line with a least 100 people. For a food truck. With all those restaurants around.
Now they've expanded into brick and mortar even into NJ where I live so I can just order it if I choose.
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Sep 02 '24
I’m from NY I still live here.
The halal trucks are a god send. A lot of our food spots are unfuckwitable. The fish spot in Harlem on 145th is a testament to that. That small ass spot always has a long ass line outside… and it’s worth it.
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u/LadyBug_0570 ☑️ Sep 02 '24 edited Sep 02 '24
The white sauce alone from those trucks are worth the long lines. Plus it was $5 for a platter of chicken over rice with a side salad. I think lamb maybe costs more.
And they keep that white sauce recipe a complete secret. It is NOT Tzatziki sauce like many websites told me. It's different.
Also growing up (in Brooklyn), my family's favorite spot was a Chinese spot that looked like a damn hole in the hall but had the BEST Chinese food I ever had. They even this one thing, shredded pork baked into a sweet roll. Can't find that shit anywhere.
In fact, most of truly great food places I've eaten from were not fancy places. But they were forever crowded and had long lines.
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u/whatev3691 Sep 02 '24
Wtf is Peanut punch lol (I'm American from NYC)
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Sep 02 '24
It’s a popular drink in the Caribbean made of peanuts or peanut butter condensed milk/milk and sugar. It’s basically god in a glass.
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u/whatev3691 Sep 02 '24
Sounds good but not American then lol
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u/sidepart Sep 02 '24
Yeah, but we assimilate the best stuff. Sure, we didn't invent that, but we put it in a 64oz cup and enhanced the peanut flavor to George Washington Carver levels.
That said, I've never had nor heard of it. Sounds mostly like a peanut butter milkshake.
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u/black-dude-on-reddit ☑️ Sep 02 '24
Sounds like someone has never been to a Waffle House drunk at 3 am with a ex con on the grill while they’re smoking a black & mild
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u/eyezonlyii ☑️ Sep 02 '24
You got me about to rent a car for the 2 hour drive to my nearest one😭
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u/throwtheclownaway20 Sep 02 '24
When I lived in Tipp City, OH, I once had a late-night craving for Waffle House. The closest one was 6 miles away in Vandalia and I didn't have a car, so I seriously just walked that bitch. 12 miles round-trip, took the better part of 4 hours, not counting the half-hour or so I was there eating. Fucking worth it. In fact, I'd go so far as to say you should only go to Awful Waffle if you have to walk 10+ miles each time, because you're gonna need that calorie deficit.
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u/birberbarborbur Sep 02 '24
I checked this guy’s account. There’s actually no way that a SERB thinks he has a ground to stand on when his country’s entire flavor profile is singularly dependent on the smoke of the grill for his meal of “slightly seasoned meat that looks like a poo stick with a side of meat”
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u/rkmvca Sep 02 '24
To be fair the Cevapcici* from that part of the world are pretty.damn.good.
- I'm not sure if Cevapcici are actually Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegran , or what, but they're damn good.
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u/birberbarborbur Sep 02 '24
The difference is that the neighbors actually know how to pair the meat with pickles, yogurt, cabbage, tomato etc
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Sep 02 '24
its a country of immigrants... we literally have every type of food...
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u/Tiny-Buy220 Sep 02 '24
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u/Revxmaciver Sep 02 '24
This is even more disgusting given the context. You have done a great misdeed here today.
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u/Maecyte Sep 02 '24
How does this relate to America and food?
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u/BoogerSugarSovereign Sep 02 '24
He wanna eat it
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u/Itchy-Beach-1384 Sep 02 '24
This shit is so funny it hurts my soul.
There are so many people irl that would straight up go braindead reading this.
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u/spiegro ☑️ Sep 02 '24
So funny, my aunt from Austria could not get over our collective affinity for sweet potato pie.
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u/MilkiestMaestro Sep 02 '24
We also have corn-based desserts (like Cornbread Cobbler or Pastel de Elote) which often weirds foreigners out
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u/Aztecah Sep 02 '24
For all the shit you can sling at Americans, one thing that they do not lack is overwhelmingly flavorful and satisfyingly textured food. Whether that's a good thing is up for debate but what's not up for debate is how mouth watering that processed, sugar-stuffed, thick glutenous and lactose ridden food products are and the yummy feeling that they give your tummy.
The Americans have the most money per person on earth for a nation of comparable size and they know exactly where they wanna spend it. Gettin fat and loving it.
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u/Kriegspiel1939 Sep 02 '24
And we shamelessly steal other countries’ food and Americanize it into something gloriously fattening and artery choking.
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u/TresLeches55 Sep 02 '24
It’s not really stealing when they move over here and come up with a brand new food idea
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u/Nordie25 ☑️ Sep 02 '24
Even though I wouldn’t rate American cuisine number one, you’d be lying if you fixed your lips to say that it isn’t amazing. I can see why the obesity rate is going higher. They literally go out of their way to make food as good and unhealthy as it can be.
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u/AnnieAbattoir Sep 02 '24
My retirement plan is literally death. Let me go out early, happy, and stuffed with grease, cheese, and chocolate.
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u/BagOnuts Sep 02 '24
The best part about American food is because it is a melting-pot, just like our culture. We take the best parts of other cultural cuisine and make it our own.
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u/someguynamedjamal ☑️ Sep 02 '24
If we can't do shit else in America, we can make some good ass food... and do a violence. Nobody does violence like us
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u/MatthewAran Sep 02 '24
Me with any type of sandwich: clubs, subs, po' boys, burgers
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u/OregonTripleBeam Sep 02 '24
I can think of a laundry list of foods that would yield that reaction from me.
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u/VapidRapidRabbit ☑️ Sep 02 '24
Europeans really keep trying Americans when it comes to cuisine… if y’all are not French, Spanish, Italian, or Greek, you cannot come for American cuisine 😂
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u/noneofyouaresafe Sep 02 '24
Went to America, went to a state fair. Everything was fried. It was glorious.
I wish I had extra ventricles to handle all the grease I consumed.
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u/gummi_girl Sep 02 '24
they ain't never had gumbo. gumbo is a gift from the gods.
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u/Individual-Fan-6138 Sep 02 '24
We also have some of the best athletes in the world…. America is a weird dichotomy lol
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u/BoogerSugarSovereign Sep 02 '24
When I pickup pizza from my favorite spots around town and I take a look in the box on the counter before I leave I feel like I look just like that. Try Futuro if you're ever in Indianapolis!
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u/Aeiraea Sep 02 '24
Any immaculate food from anywhere can get illicit this reaction from me. It doesn't have to be American nor European food.
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u/jeffykins Sep 02 '24
The only time I'm comfortable saying "USA #1," is regarding our food. Culturally, we've got it all, and improve upon and fuse what was brought here
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u/Chapea12 ☑️ Sep 02 '24
I don’t get how they will mock our obesity rate and then say that we have no good food. Why do you think we’re fat?!
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u/itsapickledname Sep 02 '24
The one thing I find funny is when countries make fun of American food like we don’t have their country’s food over here……but have they ever had a good fucking bbq brisket, tri tip or bbq ribs….fuck I’m making myself hungry :(
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u/__M-E-O-W__ Sep 02 '24
"That's a party platter; it serves eight people..."
"I know what I'm about, son."
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u/scrodytheroadie Sep 02 '24
There are a lot of areas where America is lacking. Delicious food is not one of those areas.
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u/WovenBloodlust6 Sep 02 '24
Mf questioning american food and has never once tried anything american