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MunchE posted:Uhhh do you think Listerine is a soft drink? Is it not? 
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Azhais posted:Is it not? Does it Sodastream?
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Kuiperdolin posted:Chicken is the worst blandest poultry, even turkey tastes better. Had to quote because this is extremely my poo poo
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Jan 10, 2019 23:18
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Chicken and waffles is very much a soul food and soul food-adjacent dish, meaning a product of African-American cuisine. For goons to have never heard of it and think it strange is... hardly surprising. Try it! It's really good!bike tory posted:Americans drink loving toothpaste/medicine flavoured soft drinks. The most generous interpretation of this is that you're thinking of something like Dr Pepper, which does have an odd taste to many people. The more likely one is that ya taste buds broke.
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Jan 10, 2019 23:21
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It feels like they've never been to America and are repeating something they've heard from friends second hand. It's like when people talk about going to Asia and describe some street food horror as a "delicacy" or something
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Jan 10, 2019 23:25
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I heard americans have syrup in their soda? And in their candy? And in their bread? And that their country is run by corn conglomerates
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Jan 10, 2019 23:26
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Jenkum and Waffles
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everyone acts like they dont shovel sugary starchy poo poo into their faces all the time
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Jan 10, 2019 23:31
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:It feels like they've never been to America and are repeating something they've heard from friends second hand. It's like when people talk about going to Asia and describe some street food horror as a "delicacy" or something Some of us are also filthy northerners that don't venture south very often. Or at all, really. I for one react very badly to hot weather so I stay in not hot places such as, you know, the north. Here you can find soul food if you look for it but it isn't really all that popular even among the black people in the area far as I can tell. I have no idea where you'd go to get fried okra or chicken and waffles here.
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Jan 10, 2019 23:33
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KoRMaK posted:A buddy asked me what I know about chungus Show him JIm Sterling's videos, where Chungus originated from.
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Jan 10, 2019 23:36
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CaptainViolence posted:
I don't know about menthol but many root beers are flavored in part (or in most) with oil of wintergreen, which is p. fuckin' minty
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Jan 10, 2019 23:37
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wtf drink is this? i don't think i've ever heard of any mint-flavoured soft drinks, just poo poo like peppermint schnapps and even then only around the winter holidays when there's all kinds of silly seasonal flavors and only when there's booze or coffee (or both) involved
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Jan 10, 2019 23:41
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Phy posted:I don't know about menthol but many root beers are flavored in part (or in most) with oil of wintergreen, which is p. fuckin' minty oh, that makes sense. i guess i never thought of it as having any sort of minty taste, but i also haven't had it in years so maybe i just don't remember. i guess maybe ginger beer falls into that category, too? mostly i thought maybe there was some straight-up menthol flavored soda that i didn't know about, but google only gives me one from 2012 that looks like the company went under (presumably because nobody wanted alcohol-free listerine)
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Jan 10, 2019 23:53
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Zzulu posted:I heard americans have syrup in their soda? And in their candy? And in their bread? And that their country is run by corn conglomerates This is basically correct. Corn syrup is in an amazing amount of things here because corn is how the rich turns the midwest from farmland that produces food into property that produces a commodity. That's ignoring the stupendous amount of subsidies that corn receives, but that's about rich people subverting government to give themselves money, not about corn in particular.
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GladRagKraken posted:This is basically correct. Corn syrup is in an amazing amount of things here because corn is how the rich turns the midwest from farmland that produces food into property that produces a commodity. That's ignoring the stupendous amount of subsidies that corn receives, but that's about rich people subverting government to give themselves money, not about corn in particular. Corn gets very unique subsidies thanks to the Nixon administration. Believe it or not but growing corn isn't profitable. At all. Corn is insanely cheap. The motivation was that Nixon wanted to get more influence for America in the Cold War so he got a subsidy in effect for planting corn. Notice that it's only corn and only for planting; the profit is in the planting so it doesn't even really matter if the land is good for it or not. This is also why more and more corn gets planted every year. So of course nobody gives a single poo poo about how much you actually get for selling it. Just kind of plant a gently caress load of corn every year because that's what you get paid for. Oh wait, corn needs a lot of nitrates! Well we'll just spray ammonia all over everything I'm sure that won't run off the land and cause any problems. The end result was that a thoroughly absurd amount of insanely cheap corn started hitting the market and the big food companies started finding new poo poo to do with it. This is entirely the reason corn is in everything and corn-fed factory farming is a huge deal. Corn is just ridiculously cheap as you get paid for planting it.
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Jan 11, 2019 00:38
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Corn gets very unique subsidies thanks to the Nixon administration. Believe it or not but growing corn isn't profitable. At all. Corn is insanely cheap. is there anything at all good nixon ever did? even opening china and stoping vietnam were probably some how bad.
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Jan 11, 2019 00:41
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he died in obscurity, but he should have died in prison so that ones a wash
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Jan 11, 2019 00:47
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Shnag posted:Also, sloppy joe on mashed pototes, the ground beef in a gravy. I mean there's sheperards pie, it's not too different from that. What the gently caress are you talking about? Sloppy joe is ground beef in a tomato sauce on a bun.
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CaptainViolence posted:oh, that makes sense. i guess i never thought of it as having any sort of minty taste, but i also haven't had it in years so maybe i just don't remember. i guess maybe ginger beer falls into that category, too? Yeah the main taste in root beer is wintergreen. There are other things too usually, like vanilla and cinnamon, but wintergreen is dominant. I think the brown color throws people off; if it were green, more people would notice. And it's definitely a USA thing. In college I tried to get the argentinean exchange student I had a crush on to try it, happily explaining the taste as "in fact it's mint-flavored! you don't really notice it that way, but that's what it is!" and she was totally repulsed by the idea.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:A whole bunch of great stuff, but also: Believe it or not but growing corn isn't profitable. At all. Unlikely to be profitable unless you do it at scale, and likely not as profitable as a reasonable use of the acreage, but there's a multibillion dollar industry devoted to improving corn yields. Nobody would bother paying for herbicide resistant corn if it was cheaper to just scatter a couple kernels, collect subsidies, and call it a day.
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Jan 11, 2019 01:02
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There's tons of profit in corn, just not in growing it.
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Sagebrush posted:Yeah the main taste in root beer is wintergreen. There are other things too usually, like vanilla and cinnamon, but wintergreen is dominant. I think the brown color throws people off; if it were green, more people would notice. huh. learn something new every day. maybe i'll buy some on the way home from work 
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Some of us are also filthy northerners that don't venture south very often. Or at all, really. I for one react very badly to hot weather so I stay in not hot places such as, you know, the north. Here you can find soul food if you look for it but it isn't really all that popular even among the black people in the area far as I can tell. I have no idea where you'd go to get fried okra or chicken and waffles here. Chicken and waffles was invented, or at least popularized, in Harlem, stop dumbposting
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theflyingorc posted:Chicken and waffles was invented, or at least popularized, in Harlem, stop dumbposting It isn't dumbposting if I legitimately didn't know that. Granted if it was invented in the south but popularized in Harlem then it came from the south.
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snergle posted:is there anything at all good nixon ever did? even opening china and stoping vietnam were probably some how bad. Stopping Vietnam in the way it was done was probably somewhat bad, but at some point you have to cut the cord. And China is China. But the corn thing is not as dumb as it seems now. Corn is something like the most calorically dense food you can make for the work you invest in it. If you have a big country and the need for food security then corn is a pretty safe bet. And Nixon is not the only one to think so. Nikita Khrushchev tried so drat hard to get corn to take in the USSR. You can find a bajillion kooky pictures of him with corn. Of course it didn't take though. Maybe it will though with climate change. Incidentally, we better hope we can grow it just as well in Minnesota and the Dakotas as we do now in Iowa and Nebraska. Eh, maybe just one 
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ToxicSlurpee posted:It isn't dumbposting if I legitimately didn't know that. Yankees and carpetbaggers like to pretend they came up with poo poo that came from south because it's the closest thing America has to an actual culture
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Sagebrush posted:Yeah the main taste in root beer is wintergreen. I drink lots of root beer (it's caffine-free) and smoked lots of menthol and chew wintergreen gum and you are absolutely full of horseshit.
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There's a slight mint taste but you have to have a real hosed up set of taste buds to think that root beer is mint flavor.
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I just dont like pineapples. why do i gotta explain why it being on pizza is poo poo.
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Sagebrush posted:Yeah the main taste in root beer is wintergreen. There are other things too usually, like vanilla and cinnamon, but wintergreen is dominant. I think the brown color throws people off; if it were green, more people would notice. Yeah, this wrong. The main flavor in root beer is sassafras. Commercial root beers (A&W, Barq's, Mug, etc) don't use the real stuff cause its a bit carcinogenic, but they'll use artificial flavors that taste the same. Some root beers will add other flavors like vanilla, licorice, anise, etc, and a few use wintergreen as well, but not many. You got broken taste buds son.
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BluJay posted:Yeah, this wrong. The main flavor in root beer is sassafras. Commercial root beers (A&W, Barq's, Mug, etc) don't use the real stuff cause its a bit carcinogenic, but they'll use artificial flavors that taste the same. Some root beers will add other flavors like vanilla, licorice, anise, etc, and a few use wintergreen as well, but not many. You got broken taste buds son. Wrong again. The main flavour is actually root, hence its name.
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