AFAIK, jambalaya, and gumbo are both USAmerican foods.
There’s also whatever the fuck the Midwest is doing, but but we don’t talk about them.
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Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
Last panel gets it wrong, though.
Rest of the world totally thinks that there is such a thing as original American food:
Namely high-caloric, hyper-processed junk containing no nutrients but much too much fat, fructose sirup and carcinogenic substances.
That, and watery beer.
klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 4 days ago
mossy_@lemmy.world 4 days ago
also barbecue and grilling culture is huge out here. not always fond of the US but damn I love a good cookout
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
l don’t dispute that (and also that they are probably great - had neither so far, as they are largely unknown here).
It’s just that nobody outside of the States thinks of these when they hear “US food”.
klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 4 days ago
They’re delicious, and I make them a few times a year.
Yeah, the jello salads are… Something. The sweet ones are great! Fruits, nuts, whipped cream, all of that in jello is fine. It’s when people decide to throw celery and hot dogs in lime jello that it gets more than a little weird.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
I just remembered that we are have a very similar traditional dish in my home region (although only in a hefty variant with meat and/or vegetables):
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sülze
And I also have to say, Schweinskopfsülze (pig head in aspic) is not as bad is looks, but certainly is an acquired taste…
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
Also burgoo and hot brown, not only uniquely American but uniquely Kentuckian. Each state and territory has their own signature dishes like any other country.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
The watery beer thing hasn’t been true in 30 years, and generally US beats the entire world for beer these days. Asian beer sucks in general, and Europe can usually only do a couple different styles well.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Comment was not about what is, but what the rest of the world thinks it to be.
And that is not fancy West Coast craft beer or so, but Bud Light and Coors, I am afraid…tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Don’t all countries have mass produced shitty light lagers or pilsners that don’t taste like much? As far as I know all European countries have giant corporations producing shitty beer. The ones I’ve had personally include Amstel, Kronenbourg, Bitburger, Stella, Urquell, etc, and they’re all universally one note with a light taste on the same level as Budweiser.
I wasn’t around to be drinking back when the “US beer is pisswater” stereotype was around, so I’m not sure why the US got singled out. Maybe the Bud and Coors types were all there was so there were no smaller brands to point to as a sign of quality. But if that stereotype is still around it’s from people who’ve been living under a rock for literal decades.
hraegsvelmir@ani.social 4 days ago
It seems like it’s just become almost a figure of speech without any meaning these days. The amount of Irish guys I know who will talk about American beer being piss that will then clock out for the day and post up in the pub to suck down Coors Light all night is unreal.
Soggy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Don’t kink shame, let them have piss.
NostraDavid@programming.dev 4 days ago
I had bread that tasted like a cake, and the Pop-Tarts made my teeth jump out of my mouth due to the amount of sugar they were able to concentrate in it. Can’t recommend.
Both 100% American.
The people were very nice though, so that was something.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 days ago
There is also the American national dish of cereal (frequently meaning lumps of coloured sugar mixed with lumps of different-coloured sugar).
chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I dont eant to hear anybody shit on our cereal while this abomination is still a thing:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagelslag
Dudes be eating sprinkles for breakfast and shit on our cereal? Gtfo.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Dude’s coming from a Swedish Lemmy instance, so quite probably is a Swede.
Swedes don’t eat Hagelslag, that’s a Dutch thing, so I guess he is entitled to stay ;-)
hector@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Cereal was made by old man kellog to feed to his insane asylum inmates at his battle creek, mi sanitorium, as a low protein food that would lessen the masturbation of the inmates.
He put mittens on some they could not get off so they did not whack it at night.
joel_feila@lemmy.world 4 days ago
and promoted circumcision to stop even more masturbation
MrKoyun@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Fuck kellog. Fuck kellog. Fuck kellog. Fuck kellog. Fuck kellog.
FUCK kellog.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
He did not run an insane asylum. It was a health resort. The cereal was for people who suffered from upset stomachs which was highly common because people were inflaming their digestive tracks and giving themselves stomach cancer because tonics were popular at the time and were full of crazy shit. Not just opium and other fun stuff.
He was so against sexual gratification he did thing mitten thing for children and a teenagers, also physical restraints but never inmates, closest would be orphanages but also promoted the practice to his playing clientele
Kellog was a crazy religious nut but the kind that wouldn’t even fuck his wife, let alone children like the sickos we’re stuck with today. All in all, I prefer his style of crazy religious nut vs the rapey kind.
hector@lemmy.today 4 days ago
It’s not disputed he ran a sanitorium. I don’t get it when people online just refute established fact. There is not any debate, there is a historical record, and it’s not disputed, and Kellog ran a Sanitorium, was obsessed with masturbation, and was a crazy old bitch. Why try and revise that unilaterally? Am I supposed to prove established fact with sources to prove common knowledge? I get my fill of that in politics, I may have to do it with federal agents executing citizens under false pretense, but I will not waste further time on it for this.
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
But only if the colors are so vibrant you’d start to believe that you’d been drugged
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
If one of those colors is red 40 then you have been drugged.