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My ex-girlfriend essentially grew up on fast food, and more or less had an addiction Dairy Queen food (it didn't help that she spent her high school years working there). Between that, and family Mexican restaurants, she wouldn't eat anything. No Thai, Indian, Korean, Japanese or any Asian food. I remember making pot-stickers for dinner once, and she was disgusted by them. She was perfectly content having a bowl of cheerios for dinner. Coincidentally, she wasn't a fan of gay marriage, liked Republicans because they seemed like "nice guys" and thought weed was the worst thing in existence.
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seiferguy posted:My ex-girlfriend essentially grew up on fast food, and more or less had an addiction Dairy Queen food (it didn't help that she spent her high school years working there). Between that, and family Mexican restaurants, she wouldn't eat anything. No Thai, Indian, Korean, Japanese or any Asian food. I remember making pot-stickers for dinner once, and she was disgusted by them. She was perfectly content having a bowl of cheerios for dinner. Coincidentally, she wasn't a fan of gay marriage, liked Republicans because they seemed like "nice guys" and thought weed was the worst thing in existence. Congratulations on dodging that bullet, brother.
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Mar 22, 2016 21:55
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In some rather frightening / hilarious newbits today: https://news.vice.com/article/ted-cruz-police-patrol-secure-muslim-neighborhoods-brussels-attacks?utm_source=vicenewsfb quote:Ted Cruz Calls for Crackdown on 'Muslim Neighborhoods' in the US After Brussels Attacks
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Mar 22, 2016 22:21
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Hermetic posted:It's food for people who are afraid of any flavor other than "salty", or any textures other than "crunchy" and "firm". Basically, people who are scared of eating. There's a shitload of people like this, and any color other than fried golden is probably going to be avoided.
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Mar 22, 2016 22:23
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Vintersorg posted:In some rather frightening / hilarious newbits today: Turning Muslim communities into German-style ghettos. The right wing in this country keeps getting more and more frightening.
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Mar 22, 2016 22:30
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I have family that, after the death of their parents, had enough inheritance to retire early, and they now literally eat cracker barrel three meals a day. They will not eat anywhere else. They refuse to travel anywhere that does not have a cracker barrel.
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Mar 22, 2016 22:32
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Hummus became America-approved when the Dr. Phil crowd said it was healthy and soccer moms dogpiled on it. One of the few good things to come from food crazes. Because of the source though, if you actually asked them what went into hummus most people probably wouldn't be able to say. You go to the store, and buy a tub of hummus, and that's hummus. It's especially funny to think that a lot of the things people are skittish of are actually fundamentally American. Tomatoes and peanuts feature HEAVILY in EU and SE Asian foods and are a new world crop. Same with potatoes and hot peppers and pepper and and and letthereberock posted:One of the earliest episodes of The Simpsons from around 1991-ish had the family going out to eat Sushi, but first they all talk for a minute about what Sushi is, because (according to the commentary) the writers knew they had to explain the concept of Sushi to a large portion of the population. Oh yeah I worked in restaurants for 10 years, people always love having their vision of a bustling kitchen of pink cheeked Italian guys at the local Italian place smashed when I tell them that, at pretty much any restaurant you go to that isn't 100% family operated, it's Mexicans back there. Well, a few Colombians too and a Guatemalan or three in my day too but it's best not to get into too much nuance with most people. Pretty much the only place you'll find any restaurant kitchen staffed with white people is if it's in a college town. Intel&Sebastian posted:The whole chicken nuggets/tenders thing in American adults is hosed up and I'm shocked by the number of people who do it. It also has to be some side effect of a coddled childhood because it's only ever WASPS and their ilk. Chicken tenders is more forgivable...well, sometimes, but it's certainly a red flag.
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Beef Hardcheese posted:
I find that describing tahini as "kinda like peanut butter, except with sesame seeds" makes it sound less threatening. Hummus becomes 'fancy bean dip'.
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: "What's 'tahini'?"
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Vintersorg posted:In some rather frightening / hilarious newbits today: Cruz continues to work on proving that he's the worst man in the US government. It's almost admirable in a terrible way.
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Epic High Five posted:Oh yeah I worked in restaurants for 10 years, people always love having their vision of a bustling kitchen of pink cheeked Italian guys at the local Italian place smashed when I tell them that, at pretty much any restaurant you go to that isn't 100% family operated, it's Mexicans back there. Well, a few Colombians too and a Guatemalan or three in my day too but it's best not to get into too much nuance with most people. Anthony Bourdain devotes a large section of Kitchen Confidential to explaining that, and why white kids straight from the Culinary Institute are the absolute worst employees.
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Mar 22, 2016 22:37
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Was gonna share but imgur's hosed up as always. There's a photo of Obama in Cuba pointing and laughing at a painting of a nude Donald Trump sporting a tiny penis. It's fantastic.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:...Uzbekistan? Uzbekistan is every bit as bad as Cuba if not worse, but will let us land airplanes there, so ever since the War on Terror began they've been our pals GreyjoyBastard posted:Edit: and since when is China an American toady, although I get your meaning; just don't want you accidentally hurting the feelings of the Chinese people Yeah, they don't belong in the toady category. My bad. Epic High Five posted:huge swaths of the country that consider Olive Garden to be a little frighteningly unfamiliar and we can't let those people have their way. Freepers want their names.
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Mar 22, 2016 22:45
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Mar 22, 2016 22:49
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This needs to be tweeted at Donald Trump nonstop.
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Mar 22, 2016 22:52
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Don't leave us. gently caress the 22nd Amendment.
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Mar 22, 2016 22:53
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Wait, this is real? I thought this was a photoshop. Oh Obama-sempai  I love how its next to a painting that says Cornholio on it.
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 Holy poo poo.e: awww... ManlyGrunting fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Mar 22, 2016 |
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Mar 22, 2016 22:58
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twistedmentat posted:Wait, this is real? I thought this was a photoshop. Oh Obama-sempai It's a photoshop of a photoshop. If that's even possible. http://www.snopes.com/obama-pointing-trump-painting/
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Mar 22, 2016 23:01
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twistedmentat posted:Wait, this is real? I thought this was a photoshop. Disclaimer: I found this on imgur, so not sure about it's veracity. I hope it's real. e: poo poo
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lol you guys, "oh I wonder if this is real or not" 2016 election cycle tip for y'all: if it's popular it's true, period
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ErIog posted:Throw in with the Soviet Union back before most of the people who complain about it were alive. Most can't explain what the purpose of the embargo was. As far as they're concerned it was punitive and working as intended. A subset is also terrified that Obama's gambit is going to work, and Dems are going to get foreign policy cred before the GOP could. My freshman college roommate was the son of somebody high up in the Bautista regime. He spent a lot of the time we spent together talking about how great it was going to be when his family reclaimed all the property Castro had stolen from them. Dunno how popular that sentiment was in general among the second and third generations of Americans born from expats from the revolution, but was sure strong with him. So yeah beyond ideology there's the matter of nationalized private property.
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Um by the way "tahini" is an odd way of saying it, I've known it all my life as "tajine", but that's probably just the French way of spelling it that Dutch simply adopted.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Uzbekistan is every bit as bad as Cuba if not worse, but will let us land airplanes there, so ever since the War on Terror began they've been our pals Thanks for the horrifying link. 
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the jizz taxi posted:Um by the way "tahini" is an odd way of saying it, I've known it all my life as "tajine", but that's probably just the French way of spelling it that Dutch simply adopted. Are you sure you're not actually thinking of tagine/tajine, the delicious Moroccan dish?
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It's a double edged sword As soon as we embrace the full wonderfulness of ME cuisine, you'll have to deal with things like Baklava Milkshakes and of course a huge spike in diabetes
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I have a generally lovely palate (like chicken tenders and eat bacon cheeseburgers way more often than is healthy) and I'm a dyed-in-the-wool, "abolish the capitalist class and democratize all businesses" socialist whose favorite media is mostly British. ¯\ /¯
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Tony Phillips posted:It's a photoshop of a photoshop. If that's even possible. So he was pointing at Bevis and Butt-Head? That's still awesome. Yea Yea, Obama rules! I admit to be a fairly picky eater, i hate raw tomatos, all kinds of peppers and mushrooms, and not a fan of seafood, but I am willing to try new stuff. Though that attitude put me off indian food as my friends loved to go to a place that was super cheap but really dirty and i got serious food poisoning from it. But I did get over my problem with Thai food that came about after I found out what fish sauce was, and I'm glad I did manage to get over it. How boring must your life be if you only eat the same thing over and over and over. I love burgers, but I'm happy to get some sushi or burritos or sulvalki or real Chinese food (the kind you get at a resturant where my group is the only white people). I mean, we live in at world where your food choices are staggering, but people are so conditioned to fear the unknown that they won't even step into a resturant that serves funny sounding foos. Hummus on sandwiches is fantastic. twistedmentat fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Mar 22, 2016 |
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twistedmentat posted:So he was pointing at Bevis and Butt-Head? That's still awesome. No, that was also a photoshop. That's why Tony Phillips called it a photoshop of a photoshop. 
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Polybius91 posted:I have a generally lovely palate (like chicken tenders and eat bacon cheeseburgers way more often than is healthy) and I'm a dyed-in-the-wool, "abolish the capitalist class and democratize all businesses" socialist whose favorite media is mostly British. ¯\ It's generally viewed that conservative = scared of new foods and liberal = embraces new cuisine but that's actually an extremely unfair characterization I know lots of liberal leaning people who eat Chipotle 2-3 times a day, which is absolutely no different than eating Cracker Barrel the same amount. I know a few older conservatives who adore all kinds of new food and restaurants, and in fact probably do so more genuinely than a lot of younger people because they grew up with a relative paucity of options
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Yes, let's base our assumptions of other people's political leanings from their location rather than where they go to eat. Live in Alabama or Mississippi? Well, if you're not in favor of bringing back lynching we'll call that a victory.
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Jurgan posted:Any Italian food was considered exotic in the 1700's, to the point where "macaroni" was a synonym for fancy or stylish. Hence the line in Yankee Doodle Dandy about a feather in your hat being "macaroni." Holy poo poo.
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Idran posted:No, that was also a photoshop. That's why Tony Phillips called it a photoshop of a photoshop. Well, derp. I wonder what the Obama in the original picture was pointing to.
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Epic High Five posted:Hummus became America-approved when the Dr. Phil crowd said it was healthy and soccer moms dogpiled on it. Healthy in comparison to what? I love the stuff but it's pure fat and in no way good for you.
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Epic High Five posted:It's a double edged sword Come to butt head...
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Minghawk posted:Healthy in comparison to what? I love the stuff but it's pure fat and in no way good for you. Uh its from the mysterious East so therefor its healthy for you.
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Minghawk posted:Healthy in comparison to what? I love the stuff but it's pure fat and in no way good for you. Isn't it how its made? I've found relatively lean hummus that makes it a healthy snack and so long as you treat it as a fat source (like a burger) it's perfectly healthy. Sabra is extremely fatty (and so creamy) but all the home made hummus I've had is more fluffy.
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Minghawk posted:Healthy in comparison to what? I love the stuff but it's pure fat and in no way good for you. Fat isn't inherently bad, in fact it can be quite good. Hummus is fairly calorie dense but each individual ingredient is quite idiot-proof and good for you. Beans aren't bad for you, and neither are sesame seeds or lemon or salt or garlic or most anything else you see added to it.
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It's pretty repellent how Mike Rogers, former Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and crusader against all things privacy related, is now a regular talking head for CNN and will inevitably be trotted out any time something terrorist related happens to vomit his bile, usually under a title like "CNN Commentator"
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Isn't the bland palate in some parts of the US due to a triple whammy of WW1 rationing, The Great Depression, and WW2 rationing, and a few other stupid things such as certain sects of Protestants believing that enjoying anything is evil/a sin*? *See Sylvester Graham and whats-his-name Kellogg.
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PhazonLink posted:Isn't the bland palate in some parts of the US due to a triple whammy of WW1 rationing, The Great Depression, and WW2 rationing, and a few other stupid things such as certain sects of Protestants believing that enjoying anything is evil/a sin*? well the largest ethnic contributors to the midwest were german, polish, and scandinavian immigrants, so
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