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The Bloop posted:Strong social programs to make sure the percentage of people that we know capitalism will fail aren't homeless and starving. That is nice and reasonable! I will admit that I am bored at work an was baiting for some unironic Marxism lols. I would prefer make-work infrastructure projects to UI, but whatever.
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Helith posted:Plus when I see Americans talk about food online, it's usually about pizza, burgers, macaroni and cheese, quick crockpot stuff or deserts and cookies. Seriously, what is with the obsession with mac and cheese? Aside from a few websites like Facebook, the Americans who talk about food online are going to be younger people. All of the foods you list here are things that Americans of Generation X and later ate growing up, so they're considered comfort foods. Almost everyone's grandma made macaroni and cheese, so you can see why this might produce strong emotions. Boom there's your answer. Also, regarding old food and stores: many, many American stores donate old food to food shelf organizations. If you worked at a poo poo store that didn't do this, that sucks, but it doesn't mean all other stores/companies are as bad as yours was.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Anti Food Porn / Food Fads: Seize the Means of Confection  Going back to AFP though, I tried those mystery oreos, and they are awful. Fruity pebbles and chocolate cookie doesn't mix at all
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Enfys posted:What the gently caress Where in the eu? Stores here throw expiring stuff in a locked container.
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Mayo and corn pizza, hyped new pizza in Sweden https://www.expressen.se/omtalat/livet/har-ar-den-nya-pizzan-som-fascinerar-hela-varlden/
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serious norman posted:Mayo and corn pizza, hyped new pizza in Sweden https://www.expressen.se/omtalat/livet/har-ar-den-nya-pizzan-som-fascinerar-hela-varlden/ featuring a thread favourite, Brazillian Mayo Pizza Dude
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Elizabethan Error posted:featuring a thread favourite, Brazillian Mayo Pizza Dude Hell if I know, I only eat banana/peanut pizzas
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:Going back to AFP though, I tried those mystery oreos, and they are awful. Fruity pebbles and chocolate cookie doesn't mix at all  I tried; God knows I tried.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Again, I genuinely have no real idea what you mean, but okay. I guess I've just never heard this term. In Britain I think most people, if asked to make a cake, would mix equal parts flour, sugar, and butter, and... some eggs, I don't know how many eggs, I usually get a recipe that gives me the other parts in relation to the eggs, but there is no oil involved. Whereas Americans like putting oil in cakes, which makes them really weird and.. well... oily. It makes them dry out slower so there's a good practical reason for it, but it's not what I would put in a cake I was baking for someone except maybe the smallest amount if I thought they were going to keep it around for a while like with a big birthday cake. I dunno, that's how my granny baked cakes and it's how everyone I know bakes them, the few people I know who bake, and it's how the recipes I know go as well. American cake is cake made with vegetable oil and is, well, moist and sinister to my tastebuds. OwlFancier has a new favorite as of 20:31 on Oct 26, 2017 |
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I don't mean to be rude, but I really do hate being told "Americans feel this way/do this." It is a very big place with many different people, and I think there is quite a lot of evidence in the thread that disproves your statement. Americans don't "like" putting oil in cakes (or anything as a group because guess what no population is a hivemind.) There may be parts of the country where people make cakes using oil instead of butter, but I genuinely do not think any home bakers do that as a matter of course. I know people do this when baking from a mix, and sure, that makes sense for lovely supermarket cakes because oil is cheaper than butter and no one buys a supermarket cake expecting it to be delicious and decadent, but no, it's not a thing that everyone does. As an American, I want it on the record that I DON'T like it. Thank you. God bless this mess. :usa:
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Oct 26, 2017 20:32
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Well congrats on having good sense in home bakers then. I figured it was just a thing people did over there same way y'all use HFCS a bunch, just more readily available. Obviously there's nothing stopping people from doing it either way but over here I associate it with American style cakes like red velvet and "muffins".
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I don't mean to be rude, but I really do hate being told "Americans feel this way/do this." It is a very big place with many different people, and I think there is quite a lot of evidence in the thread that disproves your statement. Agreed. And I am someone who is known in my family and also my in-laws as 'not caring for cake' and passing up dessert for birthdays, but this is generally because the cake is a mess of tasteless wet cardboard with way too much frosting that itself has no flavor but 'sweet'. However, home-baked cakes usually taste amazing, even if they are rather amateur attempts . Also, the bread my family usually eats is fresh from a local bakery so I also don't get this generalization that all American bread is cakey, spongy inferior quality. Freshly baked San Francisco sourdough is just as tasty as French or Italian counterparts, in my opinion.
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Oct 26, 2017 20:46
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I hear that in america bread comes either wrapped in individual slices or out of a spray can
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Oct 26, 2017 20:52
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And we dip our spray bread into straight HFCS. Always.
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Oct 26, 2017 20:57
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bread in Europe
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CommonShore posted:I hear that in america bread comes either wrapped in individual slices or out of a spray can Apparently all Americans like it that way.
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OwlFancier posted:Well congrats on having good sense in home bakers then. Americans do not use HFCS in any quantity. We sure buy/sell a shitload of processed foods with it in, but that's not what people buy to cook/bake with. At all. Also, "muffins" are not cakes in any conversational sense. Muffin shaped cakes are called cupcakes.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I don't mean to be rude, but I really do hate being told "Americans feel this way/do this." It is a very big place with many different people, and I think there is quite a lot of evidence in the thread that disproves your statement. Europe sucks. American owns /A europée
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serious norman posted:bread in Europe That would go great toasted and buttered with a nice cup of tea E: not all of it obviously
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The Bloop posted:Americans do not use HFCS in any quantity. We sure buy/sell a shitload of processed foods with it in, but that's not what people buy to cook/bake with. At all. That isn't true. I see American recipes for honeycomb call for corn syrup while British recipes call for golden syrup.
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Sodium Chloride posted:That isn't true. I see American recipes for honeycomb call for corn syrup while British recipes call for golden syrup. Corn Syrup is not all HFCS or we wouldn't bother to write HF (not that it really matters probably) It is true that 'golden syrup' is not generally a thing in the US, but syrups hardly accounts for most sugar usage. Also I wasn't even aware of 'honeycomb' as a thing until googling it from your post. Sort of looks like the stuff in a Butterfinger?
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Oct 26, 2017 21:14
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it's basically aerated toffee using baking soda/vinegar. also Golden syrup is closer to light molasses than corn syrup.
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I love how "Americans" are apparently one homogeneous group but if you so much as imply that people from two neighboring towns in England have similar tastes in anything both towns will be ready to murder you for it.
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It's also a great way to try and burn yourself with molten fizzing sugar.
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Yawgmoth posted:I love how "Americans" are apparently one homogeneous group but if you so much as imply that people from two neighboring towns in England have similar tastes in anything both towns will be ready to murder you for it. conversely, I love how Americans will without fail, ask if you're from London if you have an english accent
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Yawgmoth posted:I love how "Americans" are apparently one homogeneous group but if you so much as imply that people from two neighboring towns in England have similar tastes in anything both towns will be ready to murder you for it. We see Americans on TV and they all look pretty much the same tbh
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Sakurazuka posted:We see Americans on TV and they all look pretty much the same tbh It isn't like over here where all depictions of the British are the same or anything. Hey look we can make sweeping generalizations about the English too! Like you all have bad teeth lol and you all like beans on toast haha you all love Guiness and gin! You sound stupid when you do that about "Americans".
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Those are all true though
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Sakurazuka posted:Those are all true though Point stands.
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i would rather have british "long drives" than american ones 
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sneakyfrog posted:i would rather have british "long drives" than american ones Seriously though. Driving from here to Jacksonville is like, 3 countries in Europe.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:It isn't like over here where all depictions of the British are the same or anything. Hey look we can make sweeping generalizations about the English too! Like you all have bad teeth lol and you all like beans on toast haha you all love Guiness and gin! And they can't do plumbing worth a drat. And what were they thinking with ring mains? Am I right?
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Samizdata posted:And what were they thinking with ring mains? Am I right? "How can we do this as cheaply and lethally as possible." I think. The Bloop posted:Also, "muffins" are not cakes in any conversational sense. Muffin shaped cakes are called cupcakes. As far as I can tell they're oily cakes without icing on them. What are they supposed to be? OwlFancier has a new favorite as of 22:08 on Oct 26, 2017 |
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Oct 26, 2017 22:05
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Having lived in both, Britain is a lot better than
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Oct 26, 2017 22:06
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i like how people say 'american' when they mean 'white people'
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When I was a kid we used corn syrup to make art in school. You could drop a big blob of it on construction paper, drop in a few random drops of food colouring, and swirl it around, then let it dry and hang it on the wall. Then later eat it when your parents weren't looking.
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:i like how people say 'american' when they mean 'white people in the midwest'
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no i meant what i said, white people gentrify and leave a trail of destruction and bland vegan restaurants in their wake indians do vegan right
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name checks out
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