Is this really that strange to you, euros?

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Anonymous Tue Jul 2 19:29:14 2013 No.4609542 [Reply] [Original]

Is this really that strange to you, euros?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 19:31:13 2013 No.4609548 File: 551 KB, 579x481, miya haysa cheesa.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] And you, asians?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 19:35:13 2013 No.4609555 >>4609548 Asians considered the cow sacred, so they never really got to try cheese. Westerners are lucky.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 19:36:13 2013 No.4609557 None of these things are weird to me except the grits and the red velvet cake. - a European

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 19:45:13 2013 No.4609575 None of these things are distressing to me because I'm not a provincial hillbilly, and I can easily understand that different regions have different food habits. - a normal person

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 19:46:13 2013 No.4609576 What country are they referring to, because in the USA lunch is most often cold items i.e. sandwiches and salads.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 19:47:13 2013 No.4609578 >>4609576 nm I see the American in the title. I still dispute the warm lunch thing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 19:48:13 2013 No.4609581 >>4609576 >usa >lunch Try burgers and hotdogs, sadly

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 19:49:14 2013 No.4609585

>>4609542
I'm from Germany and no, it is not really.
Our breakfast mostly is Cereals or bread. We have warm stuff mostly as brunch. Contrary, I for myself often eat warm meals most of the time, even if it's just scrambled eggs or an Omlette and bread with melted cheese.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 19:50:14 2013 No.4609587 What the hell is Frito Pie. Where in Murrica is this a thing?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 19:53:13 2013 No.4609594 >>4609587 The south. Of course

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 19:53:13 2013 No.4609596 >>4609585 German-American here, love me some Müsli for breakfast.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 19:56:13 2013 No.4609599 >>4609587 Southern States. Peggy Hill makes a mean frito pie.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:06:13 2013 No.4609614 >>4609587 It originated in Texas, by the mother of the man who started the Frito company.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:12:13 2013 No.4609624
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>>4609587
It's a street food, something you can get at fairs, sporting events, etc. Are you seriously implying that europoors don't have cheap street foods?
>mfw

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:19:13 2013 No.4609638 >>4609542 >3 hot meals weird as fuck.No wonder you're all so fat also >cheese >america top fucking lel

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:21:13 2013 No.4609643 >>4609624 I wouldn't know being an Amerilard myself. I just wanted to know what the hell a Frito Pie is and who would do such a thing, also >living in the south

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:21:13 2013 No.4609646 >>4609548 >I always cheese is weird

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:22:13 2013 No.4609650 >>4609555 Way to generalise there sport.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:26:13 2013 No.4609656 File: 919 KB, 272x181, 1370970215554.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4609643 I....how...you're American and have never at least heard of Frito Pie?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:27:14 2013 No.4609659 >>4609638 It's like you literally cannot think for yourself.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:27:14 2013 No.4609661 File: 358 KB, 502x419, gv0yY.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4609599 >Peggy Hill >good at anything

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:28:14 2013 No.4609664 >>4609643 Jew Yorker detected. Don't worry, you'll never be able to eat one, can't mix meat and dairy!

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:28:14 2013 No.4609667

I think this 3 meals a day thing needs to be put to bed, americans have not eaten 3 meals a day for probably more than 40 years at this point

for most americans
No breakfast at all, for some you may eat a small snack like a granola bar and a coffee

lunch is just as small, possibly just a small sandwich or something

dinner is GIGANTIC

3 meals a day is out
one gigantic meal a day and maybe a snack here and there is whats in

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:29:13 2013 No.4609670 File: 1.19 MB, 294x233, 2.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4609656 >>4609664 I live in the midwest

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:30:13 2013 No.4609672

Swede here. It's rare to eat warm breakfast. The only real exception is porridge or that occasional restaurant English breakfast (which is terrible). I, myself, never eat warm breakfast. The thought of it is off-putting, as I want to begin every day with something lean and fresh, like rye bread and fruits. No fat involved, that's disgusting.

We eat warm lunches and dinners though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:31:13 2013 No.4609673 >>4609670 I'm from PA and have never heard of it, and we've got a large deal of hicks around here.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:32:13 2013 No.4609681 >>4609656 Not that guy but I'm from California and only recently heard about it. I'm still unclear about what it is... Fritos and nacho cheese and chili?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:34:14 2013 No.4609687 >>4609659 What do you mean? I haven't seen the comments on the site, since I don't know what site that is, and nobody here made those exact comments.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:34:14 2013 No.4609689

>>4609681
Open frito bag. Put in a scoop of chili (no beans). Cheese and onion are optional. Eat from bag with a fork or spoon. Some folks dump the fritos into a bowl or paper nacho boat. I really don't think the concept is that weird, it's fucking chili and fritos. Great baseball game food.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:35:14 2013 No.4609691 >>4609656 35 year old American here. Been to 38 states, puerto rico and the USVI, and 18 countries. Lived in 5 of those states and 3 of those countries. Never heard of frito pie.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:36:14 2013 No.4609694

>>4609670
How's life under that rock?

Seriously dude. The midwest is prime frito pie country. The term "walking taco" was from somewhere up there. The food traveled north with the cattle to the stockyards in the midwest. Come on man, go outside and live a little.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:36:14 2013 No.4609695 >>4609672 toast is a warm breakfast. Surely you've had toast for breakfast.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:37:14 2013 No.4609698

>>4609672
you mean you people dont know the joys of waking up early and going out to breakfast for an all you can eat pancakes and piling on stack after stack of thick syrup covered starch and a side of fried potatoes and bacon?

and then immediately going back home and sleeping for the rest of the day because your stomach hates you for what you just did to it

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:38:14 2013 No.4609699 >>4609687 >calling Americans fat So unique >laughing at cheese product As if most big name grocery stores don't have a large and varied selection of cheeses >top fucking lel Do you just echo everything you read on here so you can fit in?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:40:14 2013 No.4609701 >>4609548 Asians can't find cheese that weird if they eat pizza.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:40:14 2013 No.4609702 >>4609664 >thinking that dumping premade corn chips on top of premade chili counts as cooking

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:40:14 2013 No.4609704 >biscuits and gravy >frito pie >grits I consider these things kind of weird since they're not really West coast foods. Also their example photo of pasta and broccoli is not appetizing

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:41:14 2013 No.4609707 >>4609664 theres no dairy in fritos or chili

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:44:14 2013 No.4609712

>>4609704
>biscuits and gravy
bread and sauce is hardly a dish
>frito pie
a sad reflection of americas reliance on processed food that they can even be bothered to fry their own corn chips
>grits
slave gruel people pretend they like because its cultural but never have anything nice to say about when someone cooks it

these are not weird foods, just sad foods

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:49:13 2013 No.4609726

>>4609699
I didn't call americans fat, I took it for granted and presented the '3 warm meals' as a reason.

Maybe there are exceptions, but the americans I've met knew shit about cheese. They were even afraid of the formaggio marcio I offered them.

And what's wrong with using phrases the majority of 4chan knows? should I make up a new language for every post? Should I hire an English major to construct syntax-perfect sentences?

There is one thing I won't criticize oyu on; Your lack of attacking the points I made. I'm glad we agree on america's deficiencies.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:52:13 2013 No.4609732

>>4609704
If you're non-american, biscuits are actually scones. They call real biscuits cookies, even if they don't have chocolate chips.
The gravy is a bit weird though, since most people outside the US eat scones with something sweet, like jam and cream

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:52:13 2013 No.4609733

>>4609726
>the americans I've met
were either rich assholes or douchebag students.
If you want to meet americans you have to go to america, most of us can't actually afford to go any further than canada or mexico because it costs thousands of dollars to fly to asia an europe

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:54:13 2013 No.4609737 >>4609732 biscuits are different from scones, scones are more dry and crumbly and sweeter, biscuits are just lumps of soft fluffy bread

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:55:13 2013 No.4609740

>>4609733

if you live in a real city and don't have to deal with a local monopoly with their puddle jumpers, it's not that expensive. from a major east coast hub it's like $550 round trip to london during the off season. a little more for the less connected european capitals.

west coast to asia can be had for a thousand bucks if you shop around.

sucks if you live in wichita though.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:56:13 2013 No.4609745

>>4609712
Bread and sauce is not a dish? Hell, someone needs to tell the Italians, Southeast Asians, and a ton of other cultures that do sauce +carb

Frito pie is disgusting, but we actually work over here and don't get to slowly bankrupt our country with 30 hour work Weeks and don't have the time to make everything from scratch irrespective how "easy" out is.
>we slowly bankrupt our country after 65.

And grits are Fucking awesome.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:58:13 2013 No.4609750 >>4609542 No. And Germany is one small part of Europe, guy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:58:13 2013 No.4609751 Never heard of the broccoli and noodles thing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:58:13 2013 No.4609752 >>4609707 Fritos pies have cheese on them. Always. If the don't, it's not a Frito pie, it's just Fritos with chili.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 20:59:13 2013 No.4609755 >>4609712 I fucking love grits, especially fried grits. Also, biscuits and gravy is traditionally made with a think sausage gravy, and is definitely a meal. Frito pie is more regional, but whatever.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:00:13 2013 No.4609756 >>4609740 now go ahead and combine that expense with the fact that few americans get more than one week of vacation time a year. again, only wealthy people and students can travel. The vast majority of americans can not afford to leave the country

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:01:13 2013 No.4609759 >>4609557 grits are just polenta by another name... wtf is weird about that,european?

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:01:13 2013 No.4609761

>>4609726
The reason that the Americans were afraid of the formaggio marcio that you offered is that most Americans have an aversion to insects in food. To the average American, the presence of insects indicates that the food is rotten and not safe to eat. Also, the strong ammonia smell of that particular cheese could put most Americans off trying it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:04:13 2013 No.4609769 >>4609761 They were still on edge after I showed them how to kill/remove the maggots, so maybe you're right about the smell.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:04:13 2013 No.4609771

>>4609756
Not to mention how the ticket is the cheap part of travel. Figure a five night stay at at least 100/ night and we are a grand without doing anything but getting there and sleeping. Buying shit makes it worse as not only are things generally more expensive, but the exchange rate blows.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:06:13 2013 No.4609775 >>4609771 meanwhile I can go to florida for free and pay $300 for a 4 day 3 night package that comes with an amusement park ticket

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:07:13 2013 No.4609778 >>4609769 >maggots Bugger the smell, that did it there.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:10:13 2013 No.4609783

>>4609756
Middle class people who choose not to have babies at 20 can also afford to travel. If you have to haul around a family on $50k a year, then that could pose a slight problem.
>>4609771
There are these things called hostels. A lot of frugal travelers stay in them. You're telling me you'd rather never see Europe in your entire life because you're unwilling to share a room with strangers?
>>4609775
Nothing wrong with that, but that's your choice not to see another country outside of North America. Ever. And then get mad when someone wonders why.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:11:13 2013 No.4609786

>>4609771
A travel lodge costs a pittance a night. Just because you're on a trip to yurop doesn't mean you need to stay in a 4+star hotel

your 'least $100/night' is what you'd expect to pay for somewhere with room service and a 3-course meal, while you could pay about $40 and get a heated room to share with a television, a kettle and a bathroom.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:13:13 2013 No.4609791

>>4609761
ItaliAnon here.
S/he is trolling. Most of us who know what it is think it's a bizarre food and few of us (less than a half of a single percent, I'm sure) have ever eaten it. Many of us have never even heard of it.

My mother, for example, never heard of it until she went to uni in Zürich and a Greek girl with whom mum shared a class asked if she'd ever eaten it and was surprised to learn my mother had never heard of it.
I heard of it from mum growing up, but she's a politician so I assumed they were exaggerated bullshit stories. Then I came to 4chan.

It seems it's better known outside of Italy than in, which makes sense, considering it's from Sardegna, one of three areas of the country most of us know fuck-all about (the other two are Puglia and Aosta).

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:16:15 2013 No.4609795 >>4609726 Sugarcoat it however you want, you're an annoying meme spouting moron who generalised because you can't possibly comprehend that Americans exist outside of the ones you've met.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:16:15 2013 No.4609797 >>4609791 By italiAnon, I'm sure you mean milAnon. Come south.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:17:13 2013 No.4609799

>>4609695
not really. If so a very late breakfast. It'd never cross my mind to wake up at 6 am and eat warm toast.

>>4609698
no, I would never something sweet and sugary for breakfast here. I tried that thing when I was in NY and it was horrendous. I felt sick the entire day after those pancakes. I don't even eat white bread.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:19:13 2013 No.4609804

>>4609783
>that's your choice not to see another country outside of North America
well it also begs the question that unless you are into architecture and things like that why would you ever need to? every climate on earth is represented in the US or one of its territories
I can march through tundra, cut my way through tropical forests, ride out on open plains, climb mountains, anything I would ever want to do is right here

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:20:13 2013 No.4609806 >>4609587 Its just chili with toppings and corn chips at the bottom. It tastes good

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:22:14 2013 No.4609810 >>4609804 >tropical forests Where in North America can you do this, other than Central America?

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:22:14 2013 No.4609812

>>4609799
>I felt sick the entire day after those pancakes
I'll let you in on a secret now though, although pancakes are a breakfast food they aren't really eaten like that most of the time.
For most people pancakes are a dessert item late at night when you kind of want to eat dessert but also should have some food and you know you are going to be going home right after and can sleep it off

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:23:20 2013 No.4609814 >>4609712 Grits=polenta Nothing weird about that but the américa me. Like calling aubergines eggplants... Really eggplants? Eggplants and Grits... Ugh

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:25:13 2013 No.4609818 >>4609555 What in the seven hells are you talking about?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:25:13 2013 No.4609820 >>4609810 Hawaii, puerto rico, or any or the virgin islands

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:26:13 2013 No.4609821 >>4609818 All asians are now hindu. If they're not hindu they're either east-asians(not asian) or middle-eastern(not asian)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:27:13 2013 No.4609822 >>4609702 >Thinking the Fritos are the topping >Thinking that places that do it well don't make their own chili

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:28:13 2013 No.4609824

>>4609804
because the people are different, the lifestyles are different, the food is different, the culture is different. just the experience of being a foreigner and having to think on your feet is in itself a thing that changes your perspective on the world, and this is something you can't experience by staying home.

you don't need a BA in art history to experience the outside world. at the risk of sounding like a cunt, the fact that you should say this already says a lot about how narrow your viewpoint is.

>>	off topic Tue Jul 2 21:28:13 2013 No.4609827 >>4609804 The world isn't a biome theme park, you self-satisfied swineherd. Get out and see the world, or don't. You can't have it both ways.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:29:13 2013 No.4609828 >>4609797 Invece, no! Sono Napoletano. Gli Milanesi (oppure l'accento Milanese) mi fanno schifo, se dico la verita.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:29:13 2013 No.4609830 >>4609827 it is for me, I frankly don't like spending time with people. I get nervous around strangers and I'm happy just spending time out in nature on my time off

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:30:13 2013 No.4609832 >>4609820 None of those places are in North America, even if they are in the United States

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:31:14 2013 No.4609833 >>4609821 How high are you?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:32:14 2013 No.4609834 >>4609832 No one ever said just North America.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:33:14 2013 No.4609835 >>4609672 >fat is disgusting depending on the time of day

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:35:14 2013 No.4609839 >>4609834 >>4609783 >>4609804 >that's your choice not to see another country outside of North America

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:36:14 2013 No.4609843 >>4609835 Yes, actually. Generally I feel like bathing after eating greasy food. And no, I don't make a mess, I can just feel the grease on my skin

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:38:13 2013 No.4609847 >>4609839 the original statement was about the US not north america, the US spans outside of just north america

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:40:13 2013 No.4609849 >>4609664 >he doesn't live in/like the south >must be a New Yorker Southerners are really this stupid.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:43:14 2013 No.4609857

>>4609830

go lurk /trv/ for a week. you'll notice a lot of NEET/sociophobe types like you only ever feel comfortable when traveling. when you're a foreigner who barely speaks the language, people judge you first as a foreigner, second as a guy who doesn't speak the language, and third roughly as a person of a certain gender and age. whatever social phobias you have become irrelevant while you're in a strange land. even if you have residual shy person awkwardness, the actual awkwardness of the culture and language gap overwhelms anything else and this opens a lot of experiences to you that you wouldn't have at home in a "comfortable" environment. it's like real life role playing.

the flip side is that when you get home, you're depressed for a little while because you're no longer a mysterious stranger who could be anything to anyone, and you resume projecting your insecurities on every interaction with everyone you meet, like you do now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:44:14 2013 No.4609859 >>4609849 I'm not a southerner, you wrinkly old ballsack.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:51:13 2013 No.4609872 >>4609859 Well then you have no excuse.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:52:13 2013 No.4609873

>>4609824
>changes your perspective on the world
I must be acquainted with the world too closely. Some people just see the common principles and find nothing exciting about the same things with a different tinge. I've always believed appreciating things for being different is a rather shallow fascination.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:53:14 2013 No.4609876

>>4609786
No shit? 100/night here (US) just gets you a mid-level hotel...nothing more. You can get a like Motel 6 for around 40 depending on its location and the time.

But even if we take it down to 40/night:
2 roundtrip tickets: $1100 if you book far enough in advance.
5 nights: $200
Spending money I have no clue, but I figure any less than around $50 a day and the trip is entirely not worthwhile (food, entry tickets, and travel expenses while maybe buying a small random thing here or there), which would be about 250 more on the low end.
We're now talking $1450, an amount, incidentally, that you can actually buy a pretty decent used car for (it won't be pretty, but you can find some good ones at that price point).

This is fairly doable for most with enough planning...but, now you're talking about you both being able to get off time together and hoping that nothing happens in the ensuing 6 or so months that will make it to where one of you HAS to work during that time.

Travelling to Europe is a pretty big deal for average Americans, like something that they might have to start planning years in advance kind of big deal. There's not nearly as much room in our budgets or time for that sort of thing. Hell, most of us don't even do Canada or Mexico.

Also, y'all talk about needing to see other countries because different cultures:
do y'all not realize both how physically large and how many people are in the US? There are a running ton of very different cultures just present in the US alone which is pretty understandable when you remember it takes more time to cross more of our states than it does to cross many of y'all's countries. Yes, getting to see some of the things over there and experience some of THOSE cultures is a pretty cool thing, but fuck, we honestly have a ton of everything except the historical architecture that y'all have.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:55:14 2013 No.4609879 >>4609857 So basically, you draw enjoyment from being a special snowflake?

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:56:14 2013 No.4609880

>>4609873
actually you'd be insufficiently acquainted which causes you to underestimate the differences. you meet foreigners on your turf and on your terms and you assume other countries are America with funny hats and photogenic architecture.

none of my business but if you're content to die without testing your glib generalizations, because you're too cheap to shell out the cost of eating out for a year, that's kind of sad.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:56:14 2013 No.4609881 >>4609879 >implying there is a single person alive that wouldn't appreciate being a special snowflake

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:58:13 2013 No.4609885 >>4609876 If you're looking to buy only 2 tickets, that means you don't have kids, meaning getting $1500 for a holiday could viably be done on a yearly basis provided you're both employed

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:58:13 2013 No.4609886 >>4609879 no, I'm over that - I'm the dreaded "real traveler" of trv. I'm just addressing the fear of being awkward. it's really the opposite which runs counter to intuition.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 21:59:13 2013 No.4609891 >>4609548 >american food >cheese fucking what?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:01:14 2013 No.4609895 Biscuits and gravy? Grits? Anti-South sentiment detected.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:02:14 2013 No.4609897

>>4609885
All of the other arrangements, plus getting time off at the same time isn't necessarily that easy, but yeah, that figure is still a doable one. The fact is though, imagine how much further that could go say taking a trip down to New Orleans or out to Seattle or to Miami, or to NYC or San Francisco or Austin or Phoenix or Chicago or...you get the point.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:02:14 2013 No.4609899 >>4609581 >burgers fried chicken chinese mexican etc ftfy

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:05:14 2013 No.4609905 >>4609897 I'm not saying they have to go to yurop every year, but it's easily doable once and visiting another city is entirely different from visiting another continent.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:06:14 2013 No.4609907 >>4609880 Currently studying in the Netherlands. There are minor cultural differences, but, personally, nothing to find fascinating. As for architecture - if you've seen one old European city, you've seen them all.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:07:13 2013 No.4609909

>>4609897
the thing is, you have savings opportunities up the ass in yurop which don't exist here. public transport is godly and very cheap. lots of hostels and other infrastructure for shoestring travel. whereas in the us you are forced to spend money on conventional and relatively expensive hotels, not to mention cars, gas, etc.

southeast Asia is another example. if you travel american style and stay in western chain hotels it's expensive, but only idiots do this.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:09:13 2013 No.4609912 >>4609907 Netherlands is not the only country that is not the us.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:13:13 2013 No.4609916 >>4609912 Neither is Russia, Latvia or Aphasia. Same thing everywhere, just in different proportions.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:17:13 2013 No.4609923 >>4609916 yes, we all have a dick or a vag. come to think of it we all die in the end too. whelp, we're all the same, let's just abolish countries! this solves everything!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:21:13 2013 No.4609929 >>4609923 Too soon for that. We won't live to see it.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:22:13 2013 No.4609934

>>4609905
>entirely different from visiting another continent.
Yeah, no. Travel to NYC, then San Fran, then New Orleans and try saying that again. Only two things bind the US: the government and the language--and neither of them are that strong of a bind.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:25:13 2013 No.4609941 >>4609934 and then try rural Louisiana followed by rural Indonesia and try to argue that all countries are like America but with different color license plates.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:27:13 2013 No.4609946 >>4609907 Well Netherlands is pretty much the closest country in terms of culture to English cultures so yeah. I mean the closeness of the language should have tipped you off.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:28:13 2013 No.4609951 >>4609941 It's the people that make a country. People are the same everywhere.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:29:13 2013 No.4609953 >>4609941 Nice how you talk about something I didn't even state or imply.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:31:14 2013 No.4609959

>>4609691
>35 year old American here. Been to 38 states, puerto rico and the USVI, and 18 countries. Lived in 5 of those states and 3 of those countries. Never heard of frito pie.
Same and I only heard about it because Sonic put it on the menu a few years ago.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:38:13 2013 No.4609969 >>4609959 Have you guys never watched King of the Hill?

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:40:14 2013 No.4609971

>>4609756
>only wealthy people and students can travel. The vast majority of americans can not afford to leave the country.
Students are poor, so how does your logic make sense?
I'm sorry. But this idea has been false for decades. Deregulation dates back to '78. If you don't have two dimes to rub together in the US during all this time, ups and downs for all classes, you are doing something absolutely wrong. You can cruise to the Bahamas for 100 bucks outta Miami. Normal people can and do take vacations of all types.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:40:14 2013 No.4609973 >>4609969 I don't have a TV. I've seen an episode or two when staying in hotels and stuff like that. never seen the episode in question if that's what you mean.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:43:13 2013 No.4609979 >>4609810 >Where in North America can you do this, other than Central America? Florida is zone sub-tropical. Nothing more tropical than that, even in Central America.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:43:13 2013 No.4609980 >>4609971 >what are obligations Sure I can dip into my meager savings to travel for a week, or I can work that week and keep saving up while providing for my loved ones and myself.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:48:13 2013 No.4609988

>>4609876
>Travelling to Europe is a pretty big deal for average Americans, like something that they might have to start planning years in advance kind of big deal. There's not nearly as much room in our budgets or time for that sort of thing. Hell, most of us don't even do Canada or Mexico.
I think you are really stretching it now. To the majority whom you know who think this way? I think it's a matter of choice and nothing more.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:59:13 2013 No.4610025 >>4609988 It's not. How arrogant do you have to be to tell us what were thinking.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 22:59:14 2013 No.4610021 >>4609971 Students travel because their parents either pay for it or they blow their paychecks because they have no rent or children to feed. Use some basic common sense idiot.m

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 23:03:13 2013 No.4610038 >>4610021 What you really mean to say is that people older than students who make bad choices, live beyond their means, and have no idea how to live any other way because of no desire to do the things to travel?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 23:06:13 2013 No.4610047 >>4609971 >Students are poor, so how does your logic make sense? I dont know of any college worth going to that does not have a study abroad program I went to japan for 3 months for $1000

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 23:06:13 2013 No.4610049 >>4610038 >bad choices >opinions

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 23:09:13 2013 No.4610057

>>4609988
Not him, but I don't think you realize how mush the average American, fulltime woker works. It typically 40-45 hours a week and 48-50 weeks out of the year. That time is precious that we have off. You're right in that many don't want ot travel out of the country. The desire isn't there like it is in Europe. There are so many place you can go in the US it's crazy. In a 2 hour drive I can be in DC, a ski resort, or the beach. With all that variety in a single country, why spend more money to go overseas and deal with language barriers, customs, passports, possible vaccinations, etc.

Basically, I sense Yuro butthurt that Americans like being in America and don't care about visiting your countries. There's nothing wrong with not be "well traveled". It doesn't make someone less intelligent or backward.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 23:09:13 2013 No.4610058 http://www.ustravel.org/news/press-kit/travel-facts-and-statistics

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 23:10:13 2013 No.4610062 >>4609656 I'm from MA and have never heard of it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 23:16:13 2013 No.4610079 The 3 Hot American meals are as follows: Breakfast: McDonalds Lunch: Taco Bell Dinner: Pizza Hut That's how you eat three hot meals in America. >inb4 but I cook all my meals Most Americans eat fast food on the regular and you know it.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 23:24:13 2013 No.4610103

>>4609587
Chili with fritos mixed in; they compliment each other pretty well but it's not really an all the time sort of thing. Some people eat Chili by scooping it up with a chip a bit at a time, this kind of goes along with this idea by mixing in the chips in there and adding some cheese and onion on top. It's something that's best to eat fresh as well before the chips really get soggy, but if you do it right it's not bad.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 23:28:13 2013 No.4610113 >>4609656 Frito Pie is pretty much unheard of outside the south

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 23:29:13 2013 No.4610118 >>4609988 That more because we can travel to all sorts of equally interesting places without leaving america for a fraction of the money of flying overseas

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 23:33:13 2013 No.4610131 >>4610113 Even in the South, it's not a household term. I hadn't heard of until I saw King of the Hill as well. I'm from Virginia. I think it's more a Tex-Mex thing.

>>	Anon Likes Cock Tue Jul 2 23:35:13 2013 No.4610142 >>4610113 Apparently, they're quite popular in Ohio. "Walking Tacos" would be what they call them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 23:35:13 2013 No.4610145 >>4610131 It definitely made its way into Louisiana, because we used to ate that at school.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 23:36:13 2013 No.4610147 >>4610145 >ate eat*

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 23:36:13 2013 No.4610148 >>4610131 Well that would make sense, since it was invented by the mother of the man who made Fritos, which was based in Dallas.

Anonymous Tue Jul 2 23:42:13 2013 No.4610170

Californian here, I know about Frito Pie, as do my friends and family. My father's chili goes great over a small bed of fritos.

It's not a meal though, and if anyone seriously tries to argue that it's anything more than a comforting snack is probably white trash (Unless the chili made was super filling and nutritious?)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 23:44:13 2013 No.4610179 File: 80 KB, 500x375, 041709_pie.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] So many images on Google get the ratio of chips to chili wrong

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 23:44:13 2013 No.4610182 >>4610145 You're right next to Texas so I guess they migrated a bit. I never had them in school. I don't really like fritos much anyway but I get why they'd be good with chili.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 2 23:45:14 2013 No.4610189 >>4610142 I live in Ohio and I've never heard of Frito Pie or Walking Tacos in my 27 years. Unless you're talking about Cincinnati, I could see them eating that shit up since they're technically part of Kentucky.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 00:04:13 2013 No.4610238 >>4610079 No, I don't know it. I don't know anyone in my family or in my social circle that frequently eats fast food. If anything, it's a sort of novelty associated with traveling.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 00:57:13 2013 No.4610354 Why do foreigners visit Texas and think the rest of America is like that?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 03:50:13 2013 No.4610590 >>4610179 that isn't supposed to be chili it is nacho's with chili as a condiment/sauce

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 03:57:13 2013 No.4610596 German here, the only thing we eat warm for breakfast is eggs. We'd never even consider eating sausages and pancakes in the morning.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 03:58:13 2013 No.4610600 What's weird about yank food is the serving sizes. I eat servings that are probably half as big again as my parents ate, and they're still less than half what you'd get from an American diner. I'm an Australian, too, and our food is pretty similar.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 04:01:13 2013 No.4610608 >ignorant Americans arguing >frito pies The only things missing from this thread are sriracha, ramen, and tipping.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 04:08:13 2013 No.4610619 I like how this thread is talking about Frito pie, which might as well be something a lonely lazy bachelor came up with during the snooze-fest called baseball.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 04:08:13 2013 No.4610620

>>4610600
being able to eat a lot is a sign of bravado, americans as I am sure you are aware love competition and so it gets worked into every aspect of life. You will be teased if you are having a meal and you cant finish your plate, and you will be mocked if someone else wants seconds and you cant handle it. It became a cultural thing to eat big portions.

beyond that its because america was built on a lot of hard work, agriculture in the south and the industrialized north was all factory work and shipping.
When you do a lot of physical labor and dont have much time to eat you start eating massive portions of rich calorie dense food to carry you through the day and that has found its way in the modern world.

>>	Colombia Before All !!cTzWoAktXjw Wed Jul 3 05:17:13 2013 No.4610686 File: 501 KB, 617x566, Screen Shot 2013-07-03 at 4.16.22 AM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] bullshit Colombians eat more Mayonnaise then americans. They do literally put it on everything.

>>	Colombia Before All !!cTzWoAktXjw Wed Jul 3 05:20:14 2013 No.4610693 File: 476 KB, 572x510, Screen Shot 2013-07-03 at 4.19.11 AM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] also this mexicans don't fucking eat salads, at least not what we consider a salad

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 05:47:14 2013 No.4610723 >>4609672 Well, free men eat hot, fatty, meaty meals for all 3 major meals. Bacon, eggs and hashbrowns, followed by some fried chicken, followed by steak and potatoes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 05:50:14 2013 No.4610726 >>4610608 Can't forget NY pizza vs. Chicago pizza!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 06:02:13 2013 No.4610738 File: 56 KB, 190x169, 1369429831290.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A Malaysian friend told me that he didn't like sandwiches and thought there were odd. I still haven't gotten over it.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 06:03:13 2013 No.4610741

>>4609542
Canadian here

The concept of grits and biscuits and gravy sounds unappetizing to me personally. Also portion control is non existent. Lived in Miami for 2 years, visited Burger King because hunger and America's regular drink size is a canadians extra large. The option of having a bucket of French fries was disgusting as well.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 06:03:13 2013 No.4610742 How could you ever, EVER eat waffles or pancakes for breakfast? Whenever I eat them, I feel like shit for the rest of he day, why would I want this in the morning?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 06:10:13 2013 No.4610750 >>4609670 So how have you never had the idea of taking Frito-Corn chips, and putting that shit in the chili you make? I know you make Chili. You live in the midwest

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 06:54:14 2013 No.4610790 >>4610742 I completely agree waffles and pancakes are so much closer to desserts than breakfast

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 06:58:13 2013 No.4610797

Ausfag here, only ones that are odd to me are the Biscuits and Sauce (especially the canned variety) and Broccoli Pasta. Although the Broc Pasta one is more a personal gross out, I know Aussies that are into that shit.

While I was at uni, we had an American student doing study with us. We went to KFC and he confused the fuck out of the server girl by trying to order 'biscuits' and she had no idea what he meant. He wanted to order the 'dinner rolls'.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 07:50:13 2013 No.4610838

>>4610738
Probably because sandwiches are the epitome of lazy man food
>hurr slap some meat on bread call it meal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montagu,_4th_Earl_of_Sandwich#The_sandwich
inb4 but it's convenient for worker joe
So is beef stew in a tin.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 08:27:13 2013 No.4610880 >>4609835 absolutely. It's one thing if I got a day of work in front of my meal or it's just an evening of relaxing. Also just waking up and stuffing your face with fat just feels disgusting.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 08:44:13 2013 No.4610906 >>4609667 not american here, but that's how I eat. >breakfast toast with margarine >around 11:00 an apple/banana >13:00 soup/fast food (depending on where am I) >16:00 a cucumber >17:00 - 18:00 meatballs and soup I go to bed at 9

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 08:59:14 2013 No.4610932 murican here. i eat 3 cold sandwiches a day. i wish someone would make me a warm meal. :(

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 09:03:18 2013 No.4610947

>oklahomaAnon
>mfw I can whip up biscuits and a simplr gravy in a few minutes
>mfw a german exchange student I was hosting had no idea what calf fries, b and g, catfish, hash, or molasses tasted or looked like
>made up some chili dogs
>made up texmex as well
>He was confused on how americans get fat on these
>hfw I told him how much americans over ate and that we were eating "childrens portions"

Which is honestly the problem. One or two is fine, but when you cram 4 chili dogs on a plate with walmart potato salad and a giant fucking coke....

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 09:10:14 2013 No.4610963 >>4609624 >don't have this particular thing and have never heard of a frito >hurr why u imply u hav no dtreet food Burger logic

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 09:12:13 2013 No.4610970 File: 25 KB, 400x302, i5EPTwStouffersChickenFettuccini.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4610932

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 09:18:14 2013 No.4610979 >>4609672 >English breakfast (which is terrible). I suppose British black pudding just won't cut it when you are used to sucking on Somalians.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 09:19:14 2013 No.4610982 >>4609689 This is actually eaten in America? No wonder you are all fat with a shit palette.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 09:23:13 2013 No.4610991 >>4609733 >no true Scotsman

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 09:25:13 2013 No.4610995 >>4609752 How does this frito pie thing count as a pie? It is just crisps and chili on top. Where is the pastry?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 09:28:14 2013 No.4611000 File: 1.02 MB, 826x738, What the fuck am I reading.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4609756 >the fact that few americans get more than one week of vacation time a year I just, what? How is that even legal? That doesn't make sense.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 09:33:23 2013 No.4611009 >>4609799 Jesus, Swedes really are pussies.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 09:35:13 2013 No.4611010 >>4609804 You are the reason people call Americans morons.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 09:44:14 2013 No.4611017

>>4609876
>There are a running ton of very different cultures just present in the US alone
Having a 5 guys instead of a McDonalds really isn't comparable to the cultural differences in other actual countries. You are just making excuses to protect your insular world view. I pity you.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 09:45:13 2013 No.4611020 >>4611017 If you're American, I pity you for being so ignorant about your own country.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 09:46:13 2013 No.4611022 File: 18 KB, 244x336, 1347306241856.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4611009 rather be a fit and healthy pussy than a disgusting fat cunt.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 09:48:14 2013 No.4611024

>>4609897
>All of the other arrangements, plus getting time off at the same time isn't necessarily that easy
Are you high? Boss, I'm taking this trip to yurup, I need X off, done.

>The fact is though, imagine how much further that could go say taking a trip down to New Orleans or out to Seattle or to Miami, or to NYC or San Francisco or Austin or Phoenix or Chicago or...you get the point.
Yeah and imagine how much further it could go if you just stay in your own home and order everything from the internet for delivery. Imagine how much further it would go if you just lived off bread and water.

You are just making stuff up now.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 09:52:13 2013 No.4611026 >>4611024 >I've never worked for a real company and have no clue how difficult that some make it to coordinate time off with a spouse >I like to absurdly extend someone's statement while entirely missing the point and pretending it's a counterargument.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 09:52:13 2013 No.4611027
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>>4609934
>Travel to NYC, then San Fran, then New Orleans and try saying that again
>actually comparing going from one American city to another is the same as traveling to the other side of the planet and experiencing 30 different ancient cultures and peoples. Now I know you are a troll, not even mericans are this fucking retarded.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 09:57:13 2013 No.4611030 >>4610057 >why spend more money to go overseas and deal with language barriers, customs, passports, possible vaccinations, etc. Enjoy living in that little bubble of yours. What a sad life.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:00:13 2013 No.4611034 >>4610354 Because you are Americans.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:02:14 2013 No.4611038

>>4611027
Yup. I am making that comparison. I'm also not a troll. From Maine to Spain it is around 3200 miles. From Miami Florida to Seattle Washington it is around 3300 miles. From Maine to Washington it is around 3200 miles. To go from Barcelona Spain to Moscow Russia, you would only travel around 1900 miles.

We have 350ish million people in the US, spread across different climates and different geographic regions. Each region was generally populated by a different old world nationality and bears those influences differently. All of this combines to a depth and variety of cultures with their own unique traditions and mores.

There is a lot to experience in the US without ever leaving her borders.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:06:13 2013 No.4611044

>>4611000

Yeah, not the guy you responded to, but, this is my first week off this year. It will probably be my only one until Christmas.

Despite all the studies and research that has gone into showing that a well rested and vacationed employee is a happier and better one, we still hold true to the 'work strong, work hard' mentality

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:06:13 2013 No.4611045 >Implying Black Pepper is "American" >Implying soft Bread is "American" >Implying Mayo is "American" >Implying Cheese is "American" That blog is awful OP

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:07:13 2013 No.4611047 >>4611000 I have had exactly two days off since December 12th of last year

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:07:13 2013 No.4611049 >>4611027 >thinking that architecture makes a culture. Hell, there's probably more English dialects in the states than there are languages in Europe.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:08:13 2013 No.4611050 >>4610932 Why not just cook the sandwiches? That or learn how to cook.

>>	sage Wed Jul 3 10:09:13 2013 No.4611051 No. Im european and i eat 5 warm meals a day.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:10:13 2013 No.4611054 >>4611022 >being a metrosexual You do understand that Sweden is a joke.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:11:19 2013 No.4611058 >>4611020 Yeah, I'm not a shooticlap. You're the one being ignorant to the world outside of merka, how stereotypical.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:14:16 2013 No.4611061

>>4611026
>I've never worked for a real company and have no clue how difficult that some make it to coordinate time off with a spouse
What in gods name are you even talking about? As I posted before "boss, I'm taking some of my time off on X date through to Y date". It is as simple as that, or do you work in a Chinese sweatshop?

>I like to absurdly extend someone's statement while entirely missing the point and pretending it's a counterargument.
Yeah because I wasn't using your very own logic. Stop making shit up and just see a bit of the world for christs sake.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:14:16 2013 No.4611062 >>4609818 in england the term 'asian' covers anything below afghanistan and east thereafter so indians, bangladeshi, malays, japanese, koreans, chinese, indonesians etc. this infuriated me when i was in england so much,

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:16:13 2013 No.4611064 >>4611038 You really are deluded and are the typical ignorant American the rest of the world makes fun of.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:16:13 2013 No.4611065 >>4611062 ....That technically is what Asia actually is...

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:17:13 2013 No.4611067 >>4610590 Exactly, it needs more chili to really balance it out

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:17:13 2013 No.4611068 >>4611044 What is the minimum paid time off required in American law? We are four weeks paid per year. We are actually pretty low compared to some Euro nations.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:18:13 2013 No.4611070 File: 11 KB, 389x324, 1372664582935.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4611047 >I have had exactly two days off since December 12th of last year

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:19:13 2013 No.4611071 >>4611049 >Hell, there's probably more English dialects in the states than there are languages in Europe. Just stop. All you are doing is giving the foreigners more fodder to make fun of us.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:20:13 2013 No.4611074 >>4611068 Legal minimum paid time off in America? The answer is literally zero.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:20:13 2013 No.4611075 >>4611062 What? In England Asia refers to India, Pakistan and those nations and Oriental is used to describe the Oriental part of Asia. Stop talking shit.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:21:14 2013 No.4611076

>>4611058
Actually mate, that's just you projecting your idea of Americans on me. I'm fairly well traveled, both in the US and out of the US (36 countries and 5 continents under my belt as well as 43 of the US states). Frankly, Europe is far more a homogenized place than the US is and as much as y'all like to disavow it, most all of Europe is much closer in culture to us Americans than you can ever admit to yourselves, much less anyone else.

If you really want to talk about experiencing cultures different from your own, you really need to be talking about going to the not-as-famous/large parts of Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Central Africa (all of which actually have strong showings in different parts of the US, incidentally).

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:22:14 2013 No.4611077 >>4611000 >Be Australian >so many days off >government paid for 90% of my education >other 10% is an interest free loan >35k a year starting

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:23:14 2013 No.4611078
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>>4611074
I.....wha.....no. That can't be legal. Is America the only first world nation that doesn't have a minimum paid time off? I know that your minimum wage can be ignored by forcing the staff to work off tips, but no time off?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:26:13 2013 No.4611080 >>4611078 My girlfriend works fulltime for a big box retail store, and when we take vacations, we have to factor in her loss of pay of a week or so when budgeting for it. It''s shitty but true.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:26:13 2013 No.4611083
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>>4611076
>Actually mate
>he thinks I'm an island monkey

>Actually mate, that's just you projecting your idea of Americans on me. I'm fairly well traveled, both in the US and out of the US (36 countries and 5 continents under my belt as well as 43 of the US states). Frankly, Europe is far more a homogenized place than the US is and as much as y'all like to disavow it, most all of Europe is much closer in culture to us Americans than you can ever admit to yourselves, much less anyone else.
>That entire post.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:27:13 2013 No.4611084 >>4611075 oriental is actually a mildly racist and archaic term, i don't refer to all white peope as caucasians do i? this is actually the 2nd thing i hated about england. being referred to as 'oriental'.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:27:13 2013 No.4611086

>>4611078
I'm the guy who has only had two days off since last December. My work schedule is 7am-3pm, every day of the week, unless I have to work 3am-3pm or 7am-7pm. I'm not lying/exaggerating/or anything of the type. After a year, I get 5 paid days/year off.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:28:13 2013 No.4611090 >>4610995 I'm gonna hazard a guess, and say it's more of a pie in the sense of sheperd's pie.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:28:13 2013 No.4611091

>>4611038
>There is a lot to experience in the US without ever leaving her borders.
This guy is right, in spite of how much more difficult it's become to find the good stuff. Outside of major cities and areas with strong regional culture most of the country is highways, suburbs, strip malls and chain restaurants. Walmart is the fucking same across the country. Much of the regional food richness has been reduced to fast food trash like an Italian beef sandwich in Chicago, a Skyline 3-way, a lobster roll in New England or a pulled pork sandwich with coleslaw in a faceless restaurant in the South.

But if you dig around you can find the shallow roots of our food culture are alive and well, and many have taken an interest in them. We've revived out brewing tradition, and we're making world class beers (when we're not over-hopping them). We're growing some of the best ingredients in the world (though you won't them in a supermarket). And we have some of the best restaurants in the world (if you have the dough).

Our culture IS pretty shallow compared to the Old World, and the rise of the supermarket and agribusiness since WWII has homogenized it on the surface. But the combination of what regionalism remains and what our newer immigrants bring means it's a fucking vibrant food culture, if you stay away from shit like Five Guys, the Olive Garden, Cracker Barrel, Denny's and the like.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:28:13 2013 No.4611092 >>4611083 Good counter argument there.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:29:13 2013 No.4611093

>>4611080
>no paid time off
>no national healthcare
>college for the rich only
>barely any employee rights
>minimum wage can be ignored to force staff to beg off customers
I really hope you guys can fix your problems, I hate seeing a friend such as America in this state.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:32:13 2013 No.4611097

>>4611084
Where are you from? Calling someone from the Orient Oriental is no different to calling someone from Europe European. Let me guess, American?

>oriental is actually a mildly racist and archaic term
Yeah, no it isn't. It might be where you come from but how dare you apply your social norms and hangups to a foreign country. You are the one being racist.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:33:14 2013 No.4611098 >>4611092 There's no point arguing with a troll.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:36:14 2013 No.4611100

>>4611093
You want to know why a lot of us actually don't want national healthcare? We don't trust our government enough to pull it off in a way that doesn't destroy what healthcare we can get/us financially. We generally do like the idea of not having to pay (or pay nearly as much), but we just don't think our government has the chops to pull it off. Oh, and when you hear people arguing against it and never bringing that up, it's because that'd really weaken the against side's position were we to admit that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:37:15 2013 No.4611103 >>4611098 You're the one that honestly seems to be trolling.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:38:15 2013 No.4611105
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>>4611093
>lots of paid time off
>national healthcare for all
>university for all who want it!
>lots of employee rights
>minimum wage can not be ignored without facing a massive lawsuit in the future
>mfw living in paradise

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:40:16 2013 No.4611107 >>4610118 >go to America >everybody is fat, stupid and rude >every city and town looks the same >all the food is bland >their "candy" is inedible

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:42:13 2013 No.4611111 >>4611084 No it isn't. Considering you think that India isn't part of Asia proves that you are an uneducated twit who flies off the handle at any term.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:43:13 2013 No.4611113 >>4611107 Says the ignorant troll

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:43:13 2013 No.4611114 >>4611111 Indians are actually European, genetically

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:50:23 2013 No.4611124 >>4611114 Do you even basic geography? Good god

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:56:13 2013 No.4611129 >>4611114 What the actual fuck are you talking about

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:57:13 2013 No.4611131
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>>4611103
No, you are the troll.
>Yurup is more similar than the different states in America
>Yurup is just America jr
>America has more culture and diversity than Yurup
You
>not a troll

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:59:13 2013 No.4611136 >>4611105 Chris (Simpsons Artist)

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 10:59:13 2013 No.4611138

>>4611114
India is too diverse to be summarized in the way you have here. Indian languages belong to several language families including Indo-European. Hindi is in the same language family as Farsi, Germanic, Romance, Greek and Slavic languages (among others) and there is a genetic connection between some Indian populations and those of Europe that parallels the linguistic ties.

However, to say that Indians are European is false. The Indo-European language family probably developed in Central Asia or Anatolia so unless you are also saying that Europeans are Central Asian/Anatolian .... blah blah blah oversimplification is useless.

>>4611124
He wasn't talking about geography, he was talking about genetics.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:02:13 2013 No.4611141

>>4611107
I went to America once...
>go to America on business, because i'm Single and Bilingual, and the Chinese businessmen the company was talking to knew me from the Australian branch, and they thought it would be a good idea for me to be there
>Jew York
>get mugged at gunpoint by a black man
>empty pockets
>he bends down to pick up wallet
>bash him over the head with briefcase
>run
>see police
>run across empty street to get to them
>they draw guns and demand i show identification
>tell them my ID was stolen
>they yell at me to get on the ground
>"wait, what?"
>they fucking TASE ME
>keep yelling at me to stop resisting as they handcuff and beat me
>in cell overnight
>next day they interrogate me
>tell them what happened
>and tell me i'm being charged with failing to provide ID, Jaywalking, and assault which may be considered a hate crime because i described him as "some black guy"
>Ask them to call the embassy
>they refuse
>demand a lawyer
>they leave me in the room for 5 hours until a public defence lawyer arrives
>tell him what happened
>he calls the Australian embassy and my company
>he leaves to talk to the police
>two hours later i am let out
>two diplomats and five lawyers are there, 3 from the company, the public defender and the lawyer from the embassy
>asian businessmen demanding to talk to me over phone
>tell them what happened at the meeting, i'm still in the same ruined suit and haven't showered or shaved
>they tell me that they would like to reschedule
>they end up going with the Canadian branch of the firm instead
Canada>America
They want me to go to America again... i'm genuinely scared, it's a Detroit Meeting

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:07:13 2013 No.4611147 >>4611141 >going to New York There's your fucking problem.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:14:13 2013 No.4611155

>>4611147
they want me to go to detroit to talk with GM on behalf of MG

I'm a fucking IT consultant who can speak Mandarin, how am i qualified to speak to car companies, oh, because these people know me, i speak mandarin, and i put a turbo on an old Commodore so i must be into cars! and i have an MG-B so of course the new MG who are MG in NAME ONLY, think i'm a huge fan of theirs. ffs, they make economy cars with MG badges.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:20:13 2013 No.4611168 >>4611141 ...said the flyover state faggot.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:24:14 2013 No.4611173 File: 32 KB, 345x369, 1372459203037.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4611054 >mfw other countries try to insult us, but I only take that as a compliment oh noes! not the equal rights!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:26:14 2013 No.4611176 File: 28 KB, 450x468, dimsims.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4609542 Oh, hey Ameripoors want a Dim Sim?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:27:13 2013 No.4611179 >>4611131 Yeah, I'm the one using highly inflammatory images, never once addressing the points raised, and over extending what the other person(s) say. Yup, I am the troll here.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:28:13 2013 No.4611180 >>4611176 Bro, it's amerifat.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:30:14 2013 No.4611182

The French have the worst fucking cheese of all time. It's universally disgusting, give me good British or Irish cheese any day of the week instead.

It's all this creamy, overly milky shite that tastes like warm plastic. They have NO equivalent to a nice piece of mature cheddar or some delicious smoked gubbeen, only this white shit that tastes like gone off dairylea. The rest of mainland europe isn't much better, Swiss sucks fucking balls, what kind of faggot actually wants that shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:31:13 2013 No.4611183 >>4611141 So much bullshit. So very, very much bullshit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:32:13 2013 No.4611184 File: 558 KB, 1280x1024, Picture 435.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What about Australian Fast Food How about Half a roast chicken served with chips?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:33:13 2013 No.4611185 >>4611184 Roast chicken? why wouldn't you fry it?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:34:14 2013 No.4611189 >>4611182 No idea what this has to do with the thread, but I totally agree, European cheese (and American cheese) fucking blows, a nice red cheese which doesn't taste like plastic just isn't available in thsose 3rd world shitholes.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:35:14 2013 No.4611191

>>4611155
You're obviously completely feckless if you ran up to a fucking NYC cop. And given how rare muggings at gunpoint have become in this town you're either really unlucky or have zero street smarts. I'm guessing the latter. Which means you'll be eaten alive in Detroit. Stay the fuck off the streets. Just go to your meeting, stay in your hotel, then go home.

I'm a New Yorker, and I found Detroit unsettling on a recent visit. Walking two blocks from the hotel to a shitty Greek restaurant I was panhandled almost ten times. That place is a shithole.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:37:13 2013 No.4611194

>>4611182

>Swiss sucks fucking balls

You shut your goddamn whore mouth. Swiss is God Tier, if only because it is the best cheese for roast beef sandwiches (with a little bit of horseradish HNNNNNG I just came) and the ONLY cheese for chicken cordon bleu.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:40:13 2013 No.4611197 >>4611194 Taking the bait? "Swiss cheese" is American bullshit. But the Swiss do make the best raclette.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:40:13 2013 No.4611198 >>4611194 >Best cheese for roast beef sandwiches You make me sick. Get some lovely red cheddar grated on there, stick it under the grill for two minutes on a medium heat with some wostershire sauce and prepare your mindhole to be blown.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:41:13 2013 No.4611200 >>4611191 wait, so running up to a police officer isn't done in America? i've been to Thailand, England, France, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and Canada and in all of them the police are friendly and helpful

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:44:13 2013 No.4611207 >>4611184 wait, so let me get this straight you go into a take out place and you can get roasted chickens. like from an oven like in the movies, or at a fancy restaurant?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:45:13 2013 No.4611208 >>4611200 The person describing the jailing incident is lying. What in the post to which you're replying makes you believe people don't run to the police for help? All the post said was the the other poster was a chickenshit for doing it, is all.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:45:13 2013 No.4611209

>>4611200
>running up to a police officer isn't done in America?
If you want to get shot, by all means run up to a cop. Remember that here there's a good chance the criminal is as well armed as the cop. As a result our cops get shot at much more often than cops in most other civilized places. Which means they're a bit touchier about how you approach them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:46:13 2013 No.4611212 >>4609587 People saying "the south" are fucking stupid. It's from the southwest, mostly around Texas and Arizona. You won't find a single damn person eating that in Tennessee.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:46:13 2013 No.4611214
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>>4611207
Not that poster, but where I'm from, roasted chicken shops are commonplace. They're an everyday streetfood, similar to chippies in the UK and Danmark.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:53:13 2013 No.4611232 >>4611214 >>4611184 you fucking euros are weird, and that chicken looks fucking wrong. i'll stick to KFC

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:54:13 2013 No.4611238 >>4611232 Can't just knock the euros on that one. The only real difference between there and here as far as roasted chicken goes is we usually don't have restaurants that serve it (at least spit-roasted): you get that at the grocery store.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:56:13 2013 No.4611241 >>4611212 The fuck are you talking about? I see that shit all the time in Nashville.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:57:13 2013 No.4611245 >>4610979 Never met a Somalian in my life. Why are British people so afraid of them?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 11:58:13 2013 No.4611250 >>4611245 Pirates yo. Still shiverin' in their timbers from the old days of letters of marque and reprisal.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 12:02:13 2013 No.4611258 >>4611232 I don't see anything strange about roasted chicken as fast food. We even have places in America that do that of course, it's just not as mainstream as fried chicken.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 12:02:13 2013 No.4611260

>>4611238
No, there's another difference. Notice the tray at the bottom? Potatoes with seasonings. They catch all the delicious chicken juices and renders, flavouring the potatoes to ambrosia-like levels of yum.
Further, I've had supermarket roast chicken in America (live in America currently). It's a soggy, awful mess. Ours is nice and crisp and freshly cooked and well seasoned and wondrous. The American supermarket stuff is bland and sits under a heat lamp for most of the day.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 12:05:13 2013 No.4611269 who wrote that article? that's a lie. a woman named Iris from Germany eats three or more hearty meals a day, I can assure you.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 12:05:13 2013 No.4611271 File: 101 KB, 640x480, Picture 304.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4611260 >mfw Australian Supermarket chicken is fantastic this is just a burger from an indie chain though

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 12:15:13 2013 No.4611290

>>4611271
Though I've family in Perth, I've yet to visit Abbostan. They came to visit me here in the US a few years ago and we've vacationed together back home, too.

They say that Australia/ns is/are just as fat, backwards, insular and suspicious of city-living as America/ns is/are and most of you rely heavily on preprepared ready-meals and boxed convenience foods, just like Claps, do.
I can't say. This is just what my cousins tell me. I'll say this, though: your "reality TV" is superior to American stuff as well as things back home. John Safran's shows are great. I particularly enjoyed Race Relations.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 12:16:13 2013 No.4611294 >>4611184 Stop stealing my stuff Australia. This is British.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 12:22:13 2013 No.4611308 >>4611290 >Perth >Australia just like Alaska is a faithful representation of America...

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 12:24:13 2013 No.4611312 >>4611308 Oh, is Perth really that isolated in comparison to the rest of the country?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 12:28:21 2013 No.4611326 >>4611024 How it happens in 'Murica: >Boss, I'm taking this trip to yurup, I need X off... >Good joke Anon, you know you already used your three days vacation time, now gb2 work.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 12:29:21 2013 No.4611329 >>4611312 it's more than 2500 km from the next capital city it would take you 30 hours of driving to get to Adelaide WA was almost a different country, it's so isolated Auckland New Zealand is closer to Sydney than Perth is to Adelaide

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 12:34:13 2013 No.4611341 >>4610608 >>4610726 clapclapclapclap

pickling Anonymous Wed Jul 3 12:34:13 2013 No.4611344
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So I just recently started pickling, and I love it. My favorite things to pickle so far are asparagus, green beans, HB eggs, onions and garlic.

The onions and garlic are really more of a byproduct, but they're still good. Recipe's or favorite things to pickle?

Here's mine.
1.5 cups water
1.5 cups white vinegar
2 Tablespoons salt
2 tablespoons sweetener
some dill
some corriander
item to pickle

I blanch them with garlic spray if they're not soft, else straight to the jar.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 12:40:13 2013 No.4611357

>>4611329
Distance aside, I wouldn't assume Perthikins to be as isolated from the cultures of other regions of Australia as Alaska is or, for a better example, Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas (still contiguous, but no one goes there and those who are there already never leave).

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 12:42:13 2013 No.4611361 >>4611326 Oh yeah, on that note, many companies don't have paid time off for sick days, so if you miss for work you either have to burn vacation time or just not get paid.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 13:13:13 2013 No.4611424

>>4611361
I live in Murka, work from home, get a week's paid vacation each year that can roll over into the next year (I can't take more than 10 consecutive business days off though, sadly) and enjoy what I do.
If'n I go ill, I can still work, so I don't really get sick days, though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 13:14:13 2013 No.4611428 >>4611424 Oh, but I can take off for emergencies, unpaid of course.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 13:17:13 2013 No.4611430

>>4611357
The dakotas are getting drug kicking and screaming into the 90s now...
well, north dakota..
actually, just western north dakota
and by 90s I mean a really fucked up almost modern, but still twisted highly racist, misogynistic, and testosterone driven alternate history 90s
>yay! oil!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 14:08:20 2013 No.4611539 >>4609594 Fuck no it ain't. Don't confuse midwest trash with the South, son. That shit's fucking disgusting.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 14:40:13 2013 No.4611603 >>4611141 Not only did they send you to America, they also sent you to the 1980's You made all that shit up.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 14:41:13 2013 No.4611606 >>4611603 In fairness, detroit these days is 3rd world..

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 14:49:19 2013 No.4611622 >>4610057 provincial gonna prov

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 15:04:14 2013 No.4611670 I always thought eating dinner in the evening (6-7 PM) was weird. And those huge ass breakfasts too. Here for breakfast we have coffee/tea/milk and some toast, and dinner is always past 8, even at 10PM. Argentinian here.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 15:05:13 2013 No.4611673

I'm American. Portion sizes here are ridiculous and people still complain that you don't get enough food.

I can't eat three meals. Lunch means I can't eat dinner. My stomach muscles are not in proper working order and it takes me a long time to digest even a small amount of food. I see people eating dinner plates full of food and here I am tossing out anything I can't give to the dog.

For breakfast it's either non-sugary cereal with soy milk and some fruit or some yogurt. Whatever I can find that isn't basically a mix of milk, gelatin and HFCS. Lunch or dinner is something small and usually mostly vegetables since meat hates me and makes me ill most of the time. I do like chocolate. I also eat a lot of trail mix. But only the kid that isn't mixed with candy. I don't want bootleg m&m's up in my trail mix. I drink mostly plain tea and water. I usually only drink caloric beverages with meals because my meals are too low calorie.

I'm not sure what the draw with red velvet cake is. Isn't it just white cake with red food coloring? I've only heard of it in the last few years. Maybe it just isn't popular where I live?

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 15:22:14 2013 No.4611705

>>4611670
>draw with red velvet cake is. Isn't it just white cake with red food coloring? I've only heard of it in the last few years. Maybe it just isn't popular where I live?
...no, not by a long shot. My granny used to make some money on the side baking those bad boys. It cost around $40 in ingredients alone during the 90s to make one properly.

The cake part is supposed to be smooth, buttery rich with a nutty flavor. The icing should be rich ass cream cheese icing. It is a godly cake, but you can't eat a lot at a time.

But odds are, most red velvets you'll come across are basically just white/yellow cake with food coloring and that is a true shame.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 19:07:14 2013 No.4612112 >>4611076 +1 Europeans get to say that they're "worldly" and "experienced" by default, simply because they call it borders instead of state lines. They've not traveled farther than the average Americunt in most cases.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 19:08:14 2013 No.4612115 >>4611673 >i have a vagina no one cares

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 19:43:15 2013 No.4612165 >>4610686 Mexicans use it too, I didn't get that one at all.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 19:56:14 2013 No.4612177
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"So when I just came to America when I was eight, we were invited to this nice host family's house for dinner. I didn't understand why they only served noodles (pasta) & green cauliflower (broccoli) for dinner. I thought they didn't like us since they only served two items for the entire dinner! Why was there not five or six dishes, like a Chinese meal? I was such an uninformed kid!" -- Miya, China
American here, I don't understand this either. Broccoli is gross as shit, at least serve it on the side so it doesn't defile the pasta.

And serving dinner for a guest without at least a side dish is rather rude.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 19:59:14 2013 No.4612180 File: 46 KB, 533x400, roastedchicken.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] There are seriously people who think roasted chicken is strange?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 20:01:14 2013 No.4612187 >>4609542 FYI a lot of people put broccoli in pasta prima vera

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 20:09:14 2013 No.4612202 >>4612177 >Hating on broccoli

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 21:01:14 2013 No.4612315

Jesus jumping christ it's inane seeing you Americans and Europeans arguing with each other over this shit.

Both continents are incredibly lucky that you have such a varied and historied food culture. I'd give my left nut to spend 6 months travelling across either Europe OR the USA and enjoying the different countries/regions and enjoying the different types of food you can get there. For Europeans to say that American food culture is dull/homogenous/non-existent is just as culturally ignorant as some Euros think Americans are.

Be fucking thankful you don't live in Australia. Geographically we are the same size as either Europe/USA but there are basically very few cultural differences between areas, let alone food differences. It's fucking bullshit, any 'good' food in Australia is just 'foreign food' anyway.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 21:16:14 2013 No.4612338 >>4612315 >america >food culture Im sorry but absorbing other countries food culture and then making it as fattening as possible doesn't make it your own.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 21:22:14 2013 No.4612346 >>4612315 >just as culturally ignorant >>4612338 My point is proven.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 21:23:14 2013 No.4612349 >>4612315 >It's fucking bullshit, any 'good' food in Australia is just 'foreign food' anyway. A lot of people say the same thing about the USA bro. Curse of the younger countries i guess.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 21:35:14 2013 No.4612380

>>4612349
Yeah, I get that. But it seems to me that in the US a lot of it is integrated better. Theres more a fusion of cultures and styles that has led to some more distinct food.

When I'm talking about Australia and foreign food, I meant more or less food that is little changed from its cultural origin (except maybe to incorporate easier to find ingredients or taste adjustments). Australia has very little distinctively Australian cusine that isn't borderline fast food. Let alone any regional differences. What I can get in Brisbane is the same as what I can get in Melbourne or Adelaide. It's depressing.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 21:47:14 2013 No.4612413 >>4612380 >country is almost 100% white >very little crime >very high standard of living >sucks living here, no regional food muh first world problems.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 21:50:14 2013 No.4612423 > that guy who thinks biscuits and gravy are strange When I die I want my coffin to be filled with sausage gravy and my torso covered in a blanket of freshly baked biscuits.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 21:52:14 2013 No.4612427
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>>4611091

This. Leaving the country to travel is sort of a hard thing to do seeing as it's both expensive and requires time off that many jobs don't even offer. Somewhere else on this thread someone mentioned that only the rich and students get to travel. To an extent, this is true. I have a shitty job, so I really don't have the time or income to travel to the countries that I've always wanted to. Saving money obviously would be the key, but again, time off is the biggest hold back. I was lucky enough to go to several different countries when I was younger and money/time wasn't an issue.

Even people with decent jobs seldom have the time; my friend works for a good corporation, is on salary and is well-off - not super rich, but certainly has enough money to go somewhere every now and then. But his work doesn't allow him any more than a week to a week and a half for vacation per year.

Yes, traveling outside of the country is an amazing experience that everyone should do at least once their lives. But sadly, not many people are granted that opportunity. Still, America has a lot of places you could go where you can experience something entirely new and somewhat foreign since the geography and regional cultures vary so much.

tl;dr: work sucks

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 21:52:14 2013 No.4612428 >>4609548 asians do since a huge percent of them are lactose intolerant

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 21:53:16 2013 No.4612432 Althought the Japanese fucking love cheese.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 22:03:14 2013 No.4612451

>>4611000
>How is that even legal?
Contrary to popular belief outside of the US, Americans work themselves pretty much to death.

40-50 hr weeks are the norm, anything less is not even considered full-time work. If it isn't full time, you don't qualify for benefits like health insurance or retirement...assuming you do even with full time work. It's not a guarantee.

Paid holiday/vacation time isn't guaranteed either; if it is you're lucky to get a week or two off in a year. Some jobs don't pay you for sick time, either. Same deal with public obligations like jury duty.

Having so little free time is one of the reasons why Americans eat so poorly. There just isn't enough time to cook anything healthy, especially if you've got kids or whatever. It's faster to just get the premade shit out of a tin/box/fast food place.

This from someone who grew up in Germany and England, but also lived all over the US. Currently in the Pacific Northwest. Also, never heard of a Frito Pie until this thread.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 22:05:14 2013 No.4612456 >>4612180 >There are seriously people who think roasted chicken is strange? No; welcome to /ck/.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 22:08:14 2013 No.4612463 >>4609548 Of course the asian took a picture of their food.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 22:09:14 2013 No.4612464 >>4612428 >>4612432 Fun fact: generally speaking, the longer cheese is aged, the less lactose it will have - after three months of aging, it's pretty much gone. Processed cheese product, on the other hand, tends to have much higher levels of lactose.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 22:11:14 2013 No.4612474

>>4611078
>Is America the only first world nation that doesn't have a minimum paid time off?
Pretty sure it is. There really is no such thing as legally protected holiday time in the US. Companies that pay for your holiday/vacation time are doing it as an internal benefit, not a government mandated one. It's perfectly legal for them to give you zero holiday and zero sick time off.

Shit, son, you're not even guaranteed federal holidays off with pay, or federal holidays off at all. For those that do work on the holidays, like Christmas and Independence Day, etc., you're not guaranteed bonus pay from it. To many people working for many companies, they're just another workday.

Welcome to America.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 22:17:14 2013 No.4612486 >>4612451 And when you add commuting time you're actually talking having work eat up around 50-60 hours a week for a very large portion of the population (may people have to commute around an hour, one way to their job).

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 22:28:42 2013 No.4612513

>>4612486
Very true. No mass transit either, outside of a very small selection of urban areas. I'm lucky in that I live only about ten minutes away from where I work. My dad commutes 1 1/2 to 2 hrs each way, daily. Typically 3-4 hours a day spent on the road, daily; 15-20 hours a week.

Plenty of Americans work multiple jobs as well, just to get by.

Americans have very little free time. This is something that people living outside of America utterly fail to realise.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 22:30:53 2013 No.4612517 >>4612513 >realise Not US educated? Americans /constantly/ correct me for using S in place of Z in several words.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 22:31:44 2013 No.4612525 File: 85 KB, 1034x366, british.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4612517 Mentioned in another post that I grew up in Germany and England. I get corrected on it all the time as well.

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 22:43:15 2013 No.4612547

>>4612525
I'm not USican myself (grew up in Italy, Switzerland, Singapore and the Philippines) though I live in the US now. All your arguments are the exact ones I've made in the past. Americans are fat because of their work habits.
I work from home, mostly, and have to actually go into the office about 2-3 times each month. The office is walking distance (by EU standards; when I tell others I walk an hour to work, their reactions generally fall on the side of incredulity) from my home. If I bus it, it's 30 minutes and if I bike it, 20.

Anyway, on office days, I only get 30 minutes for lunch, so I can't go somewhere to have a good meal. Bringing one to work is fine in colder weather, but in the heat of summer, the food goes spoilt before lunchtime. As a result, I mostly eat at a food court in a tourist's mall down the way. Quick. Convenient. Relatively cheap. And full fo calories. Jam-packed. I calculated once and the lowest caloric amount for any full meal from any of the various lines was around 1000kcal. This is two meals for me!

By contrast, in Switzerland, workers in my field are given a state-manded 90 minute minimum for lunch. That's enough time to walk, get a small something, eat it, unwind, walk s'more and get back to the office, refreshed and ready to go. I am entirely convinced that this is why the Swiss work week is both shorter than the American and generally more productive. Everyone needs a little time out of their day to dilly-dally. Everyone.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 3 22:44:15 2013 No.4612548 http://www.softservenews.com/Aurora.htm Most aurora activity has a three day heads up. Just view maps of solar activity and cloud cover. Will you packing some minichampagne?

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 23:04:32 2013 No.4612594

>>4612547
Sounds similar to where I work, though I do go into the office every day. I've got a 45 hour work-week, minimum, but the walk isn't very far as it's around ten minutes by car. I can only walk in the summer though as I do live in the Pacific Northwest; rain is the standard for the rest of the year and it's just easier to go by car. No bus-stops nearby my house OR the office so using mass transit would actually be more of a hassle than walking if/when it's raining.

I eat on the way there, just an apple or a banana or something for breakfast. Half an hour lunch, so I usually bring something that won't go bad, again something like fruit or carrots or whatever. It's possible to get an hour long lunch, but given the traffic and location it doesn't really give any extra options. You can get Chinese take-away instead of burgers and fried cheese sticks, I guess.

[cont...]

Anonymous Wed Jul 3 23:07:32 2013 No.4612598

>>4612594
I drink tea throughout the day (I bring packets from home and use the hot water dispenser that others use for cup ramen), most people drink soda or energy drinks from the vending machines. We've got more vending machines (crisps, sweets and microwave-ables/cup ramen) for snacks/food and a food stall, which serves the typical deep fried shit one would expect from street food. Most people buy everything from there because it's more convenient than trying to go out and come back within 30 minutes to clock back in. Being even one minute late counts against you.

Seriously, if the work week wasn't so harsh and the personal time so limited, I imagine more people wouldn't just settle for the vending machine and deep fried shit that's readily available. I know a lot of people who would like to eat healthy, but don't have the time for it.

In my experience, what's common in America is a completely different working culture from what's typical for Europe.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 04:13:13 2013 No.4613018 >>4612547 >>4612594 >>4612598 God we Americans are suckers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 19:11:05 2013 No.4614154 File: 517 KB, 578x508, Untitled.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Enjoy your shit-tier bland lettuce.

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