In America, every household is visited by a man named Kyle, who drinks energy drink and punches a hole through the wall which lets the heat out. It is illegal to try and stop him.
In America, every car is visited by a thumb named Blart, who commits domestic violence and smashes your window to confirm you’re a citizen which lets the heat out. It is illegal to try and stop him.
A Subway opened up 4 doors down from the local Vietnamese bakery near where I used to live. The Subway was consistently empty during the banh mi shop’s trading hours. The Subway cleared out after 6 ish months. These “entrepreneurs” seriously did 0 market research. Subway costs more, tastes worse and had worse music playing.
Surprisingly, Swedish fish are from Sweden. So I guess I’ve tried a singular instance of Swedish food.
But the US equivalent is the syrup sandwich…
Some are saying the last thing he did was buy into his brother Eric Adams’s crypto scam and lost all of his fortune 30 minutes later when the rug was pulled.
It’s a self fulfilling prophecy. Western games and media self censor LGBT because they hear China recently shut down some America LGBT NGO in China or the government discouraging effeminate men as role models, which causes a discrepancy between CN and Western versions, which fuels the narrative.
Road to Empress was another Chinese video game with several LGBT characters and a couple different LGBT endings. However, they’re not considered the good ending because you do not end up becoming the Empress of China (spoilers).
Bustin’ by Neil Cicierega
I don’t think the racist misogynist Trump would have liked Machado irrespective of Nobel Prize status.
Wasn’t this Goat person on .world or something? Did they swap instances because .world wasn’t reactionary enough?
Aprapos of nothing, last year a Chinese woman was throwing racist insults and slurs at a black woman on camera in China. She was then made to apologize to the victim by the police or face charges.
In the same year, a woman was throwing racial slurs at a black child in America. She was then able to make over a million dollars on a crowd funding website.
Also in 2025, China pledged $100 million USD to Palestine on top of existing UNRWA support, after hosting talks and a unity deal between Hamas and Fatah in 2024
In the same year in America… They don’t recognise Palestine as a state at all and are actively supporting the entity committing genocide against them.
Could China be doing more? Yeah, absolutely, and I wish for China to do more. The bar is fairly low, it’s very easy to clear it. Is the US actively dragging that bar down? Yeah, absolutely, and I wish a very [redacted] for the whole US empire.
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Surely you misspoke, the no. 1 European cuisine (as well as no. 1 European anything) is Albanian.
The nords made salmon sashimi a widespread thing, which sounds wrong but is something that happened.
Before northern Europeans tried to expand their salmon market to the Japanese, sashimi was largely tuna.
I made a minestrone for my Chinese aunt once. Her reaction was basically “this is ok”. Flavour was decent but there was not enough liquid and too many solids for a soup.
They “invented” modern (European) restaurants. That’s basically 90% of the reason why. The French Revolution created a huge unemployment problem for a bunch of highly skilled private chefs for nobles/royalty who suddenly became too headless to be able to eat food, so they had to degrade themselves to serving “common folk” (read: well off proles and petit bourgeoisie, the average worker could not afford these establishments). Before that you’d have establishments that served one or two things, a tavern that had a stew going for the past several decades, or an open air food court (also with stalls that only sold one or two types of food). The Greeks had thermopolia (where you could grab ready to eat hot food and the Romans had something similar but with grapes, cheese and bread, but none of those are really modern restaurants.
The concept of having a menu and being able to select an item, modify it to your tastes if you want, having that item made for you and delivered to your table was apparently revolutionary, and France became a culinary capital. Nevermind that this concept has existed in China since the Song dynasty and elsewhere in east Asia for a few centuries.
I swear to god there was a thread on Hexbear where we lathed this product into existence. I also remember a manly juice (or in reality fruit drink in the US) called “FRUIT BLOOD” or something like that, and a caffeinated version called “ULTRA FRUIT BLOOD”
I think it’s due to the fact that outside of some tomato dishes and pesto, Italian food mostly seems to vary from beige to brown while having a homogeneous texture, while the others I mentioned are vibrant or has large colour contrast and/or different textures.
This might be whats activating our monkey brains, what our hunter gatherer ancestors look for. Evolutionary pressure into seeking a diverse diet instead of eating the exact same berry or the exact same animal every day. Why tide pods look like they would taste good. Why a candy with food colouring tastes better with one without even if they have the same identical taste.
It’s a reason why garnish exists, its first goal is to add visual contrast to a otherwise monotonous dish. The taste a garnish adds is secondary, if the taste was more important, it would have been added to the cooking process earlier to infuse more flavours like a bay leaf. And quite often traditional Italian food is finished with fresh parsley or fresh basil or gremolata in a restaurant setting.
I saw an argument that most Italian food actually don’t look good. They taste good, don’t get me wrong I like Italian food, so you’ve probably associated the appearance with the taste by now. But a cheese pizza, a carpaccio, a carbonara, a calzone, a pasta al burro or a cacio e pepe, a standard bruschetta, a lasagne or an arancino before you cut into it etc all look worse than they would taste.
Compare that to a gumbo, a paella, a biryani, a xiaochao stir fry, a shakshuka, a bibimbap, a goulash, etc. They look appealing from the get go.
So many posts lately are designed specifically to tempt us into fedposting.
This must be how Jesus felt when Mr Satan spent 40 days trying to seduce him with his sexy Afro and handlebar moustache
“Yeah, I’m a red blooded American man. I drive a truck with truck nuts on it. I eat red meat that’s cooked in tallow. I eat a cereal called Man Cereal. If I absolutely need to drink water, I drink LIQUID DEATH. If I need vitamin C, I drink FRUIT BLOOD. I get my news from Joe Rogan (a leftist weed smoker), Tucker Carlson (a right winger whose head’s on straight) and Whisky Fridays (apolitical), so I consider myself a centrist. I love country music, I listen to whole playlists curated for my demographic about trucks, god, women and drinkin’ beer, and it’s only sometimes AI slop (which I cannot distinguish from a real artist). I could not name a single Hank Williams song. I live in a state where my vote is worth 6x that of someone from Commiefornia. I constantly drive with a blood alcohol level of 0.09 and 5 mph over the limit, which is fine because my uncle is the sheriff and my other uncle is a lawyer.”