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Last panel gets it wrong, though.
Rest of the world totally thinks that there is such a thing as original American food:
High-caloric, hyper-processed junk containing no significant nutritional value but much too much fat, fructose sirup and carcinogenic substances.
That, and watery beer.
There is also the American national dish of cereal (frequently meaning lumps of coloured sugar mixed with lumps of different-coloured sugar).
I dont eant to hear anybody shit on our cereal while this abomination is still a thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagelslag
Dudes be eating sprinkles for breakfast and shit on our cereal? Gtfo.
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 ;-)
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.
and promoted circumcision to stop even more masturbation
Fuck kellog. Fuck kellog. Fuck kellog. Fuck kellog. Fuck kellog.
FUCK kellog.
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.
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.
Yes it was a sanitarium, it it wasn't not an insane asylum or a prison. It was a health resort.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Creek_Sanitarium
The Battle Creek Sanitarium was a world-renowned health resort in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States.[3] It started in 1866 on health principles advocated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church and from 1876 to 1943 was managed by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg.[4]
I've showed you one of my sources, now you show me yours.
I am not arguing settled historical fact. If you want to overturn the historical record, take it up with the historians first.
Settled facts is a weird name for the pop history nonsense.
But only if the colors are so vibrant you'd start to believe that you'd been drugged
If one of those colors is red 40 then you have been drugged.
AFAIK, jambalaya, and gumbo are both USAmerican foods.
There's also whatever the fuck the Midwest is doing, but we don't talk about them.
Edit: but but
also barbecue and grilling culture is huge out here. not always fond of the US but damn I love a good cookout
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.
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".
Also: The jello salad is hilarious!
Hadn't it been a wikipedia link, I would have thought it to be you trying to pull my leg. :-)
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.
I just remembered that we have a very similar traditional dish in my home region (although only in the hefty variant with meat and/or vegetables):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BClze
And I also have to say, Schweinskopfsülze (pig head in aspic) is not as bad is looks, but certainly is an acquired taste... :-)
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.
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...
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.
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.
Don't kink shame, let them have piss.
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.