Epic High Five posted:

Well Cajun has enormous French influences but the other two are pretty goddamned American.

We oughta bust up into Italy and force them to rename everything that uses tomatoes to have the word FREEDOM in the name

disjoe posted:

I'm so American I don't even know or care what 70 degrees Celsius would be equivalent to.

e: looked it up, who's to say I don't keep my house at 158.

Epic High Five posted:

Europeans do dessert better than us

Unless somebody wants to tell me that tiramisu is American, in which case I will love you

LunarShadow posted:

This is objectively wrong as long as Alabama style BBQ sauce exists. And I say this as a native Alabamian.

Epic High Five posted:

Europeans do dessert better than us

Unless somebody wants to tell me that tiramisu is American, in which case I will love you

computer parts posted:

Fried Ice Cream was invented by an American Mexican chain restaurant, and then adopted by actual Mexican restaurants.

Shifty Pony posted:

Oh come on, that's just a joke that some people have taken so far that many can no longer tell it is a joke anymore and profess to actually like it.

It is the /pol/ of BBQ sauces.

Edit: America still owes a culinary debt to the rest or the world for making ranch dressing.

ComradeCosmobot posted:

Afraid not. But still...

Key lime pie?
Bananas foster?
Fruit cobbler?

Hell, we invented the chocolate chip cookie, the brownie and the ice cream sundae.

I mean, yes, we don't do fancy desserts you'll find in a fancy restaurant, but if you're going old-timey home-made? We can't be beat.

ComradeCosmobot posted:

Sorry, those are actually Mexican. They were first made for Americans though, so maybe they still count.

EDIT: Chili con carne though...

quote:

1967 - The most famous and well known chili cook-off took place in 1967 in Terlingua, Texas. Terlingua was once a thriving mercury-mining town of 5,000 people and it is the most remote site your can choose as it is not close to any major city and the nearest commercial airport is almost 279 miles away. Just getting to Terlingua requires a major effort. It was a two-man cook-off between Texas chili champ Homer "Wick" Fowler (1909-1972), a Dallas and Denton newspaper reporter, and H. Allen Smith (1906-1976), New York humorist and author, which ended in a tie.

The cook-off challenge started when H. Allen Smith wrote a story for the August 1967 Holiday Magazine titled Nobody Knows More About Chili Than I Do, which claimed that no one in Texas could make proper chili. Smith contended that ". . . no living man, I repeat, can put together a pot of chili as ambrosial, as delicately and zestfully flavorful, as the chili I make." His article included his recipe for chili that included beans.

Of course, this offended many Texans who would never consider adding beans to their chili. When Frank Tolbert (1912-1984), famous journalist and author of A Bowl of Red, saw Smith's article, he started open warfare in the press with a column he wrote for the Dallas News. A reader suggested that Fowler answer the challenge, which he did. The cook-off competition ended in a tie vote when the tie-breaker judge, Dave Witts, a Dallas lawyer and self-proclaimed mayor of Terlingua, spat out his chili, declaring that his taste buds were "ruint," and said they would have to do the whole thing over again next year.

According to Gary Cartwright, writer for Sports Illustrated, the blindfolded judge number three, David Witts, was given a spoonful of chili which he promptly spit out all over the referee's foot. "Then he went into convulsions. He rammed a white handerkerchief down his throat as though he were cleaning a rifle barrel, and in an agonizing whisper Witts pronounced himself unable to go on."

Mel Mudkiper posted:

was it chichis

citybeatnik posted:

Chocolate chip cookies.

theflyingorc posted:

....it's a fried potato bit, this is entirely psychosomatic

FuzzySlippers posted:

Even if you think patriotism is dumb ceding it strategically to the other party is even dumber. There's no reason dems shouldn't be wrapping themselves in flags and flag pins and whatever the gently caress. I was so glad to see all that at the dem convention. There's room to do that without going full Freedom Fries.

Like what is the possible gain by avoiding being too enthusiastic about the country a party is spending billion+ dollars and untold effort to try to run?

If past national crimes prevent leftists from cheering for their country they might as well stop running and let the right do whatever they want. That poo poo is never going to bother conservatives and they'll go right on committing terrible poo poo but those lefties who avoided waving a flag can stay at home content they were totally right about everything.

gently caress if Republicans had killed Bin Laden they would never ever shut up about it. Considering Bill and Obama still dropped a lot of ordinance on people they should probably have done a little more macho posturing. It's not like avoiding it helps any of that collateral damage not exist.

Mister Adequate posted:

Maybe so, but I detest them intensely.

ComradeCosmobot posted:

But I already said that.

Dead Cosmonaut posted:

Aren't you guys mixing up patriotism with nationalism?

quote:

COLUMBIA, SC (AP) -
South Carolina's funding for police body cameras is being distributed to every agency that applied -- including one that monitors oyster health and scrutinizes pharmacists.

After a bystander's video last year showed a white North Charleston police officer killing a fleeing, unarmed black man, widespread outrage spurred state lawmakers to vote in favor of police body cameras.

They also came up with $5.8 million to pay for cameras and data storage.

A list provided to The Associated Press shows that while many small agencies got every dollar they applied for, the state Department of Public Safety is getting less than one-sixth of its request

State economic advisers had estimated equipping all of South Carolina's officers would cost $21.5 million.

Legislators called the $5.8 million a start.

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

GalacticAcid posted:

https://twitter.com/cafedotcom/status/767187278393384964

Lmao I forgot about this dork.

Eifert Posting posted:

Especially when the half that is traditionally associated with patriotism:

• Doesn't want to pay the taxes needed to run the Nation they claim to love.
  
• Hates all the major population centers of the Nation they claim to love.
  
• Categorically hates 40% of the people in the Nation they claim to love.
  
• Claims any random jackass running a corporation is more trustworthy and competent than the government of the Nation they claim to love.

Love of country right there.

Raenir Salazar posted:

I saw this as I'm catching up on the thread, holy poo poo.

I pay 275$* for my room albeit I share the building with six other roommates.

*I got tricked into becoming the principle tenant when the previous one hadn't been paying the utilities and had 1200$ outstanding. I got that cleared without having to pay a cent and managed to cram another renter into a spare room we had and now I effectively pay 0$ but that's a lucky gamble paying off. And it sucks having to hassle people like a mafioso each month for rent and paying out of your own pocket if someone is late.

Previous apartments I considered expensive when I had to pay between 500 to 520$, how do you afford 1000$+ if you only make 11-12$ an hour?

Mel Mudkiper posted:

Bugman why are you avoiding American Football

Epic High Five posted:

This woman has brain damage is is barely functional and she is loving annihilating us

caleramaen posted:

Football is a game of chess where the pieces are intelligent* and slam into each other repeatedly. If that doesn't sound great I don't know what to tell someone.

*- does not include Ben Roethlisberger or Rob Gronkowski

Mel Mudkiper posted:

Yeah American Football is extremely problematic

The problem is the season is only 5 months

CannonFodder posted:

At one point in the 80s there was Spring football. Then some real estate tycoon hosed it up.

Ciaphas posted:

But I've never deep fried anything or really cooked anything with raw potatoes so it's sure to be a disaster

CannonFodder posted:

At one point in the 80s there was Spring football. Then some real estate tycoon hosed it up.

Rassle posted:

USPOL August: Redefining the concept of Tater Tots

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

In what neighborhood tho?

e: Also how is Columbia Heights more expensive than Adams Morgan? That doesn't make sense

Necc0 posted:

More like traitor tots

Homework Explainer posted:

white house down rules and is a good palate cleanser after the onslaught of anti-dprk propaganda nonsense like red dawn, olympus has fallen, the interview, etc. as if they would ever invade or actually attack the us