• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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    8 months ago

    Lol. You can keep your bland Whisky (I’ll take Irish, thanks) and your industrially processed junk food, filled to the brim with corn sirup.

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      8 months ago

      Yank here. Most of us were raised on American Exceptionalism which has been pounded into our head since birth, for a few generations. There’s no point arguing this, because murica…

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        American here. I have never seen a fellow American refer to themself as a Yank. I thought that word was reserved for WWII British soldiers.

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          You never sang “Yankee Doodle,” or “Yankee Doodle Dandy” on July 4, even as a kid? I’m southern as can be and these were staples on the Fourth, Memorial and Labor Days, as well as bright red hotdogs, chips (crisps), soda and Budweiser and PBR.

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          We’ll you’re arguing with Americans where “left” barely means “center” or “right but not far right.” See also the DK effect.

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      8 months ago

      🙄👌🤣

      I bet your one of those people who shit on Louisiana while forgetting Hungary is a thing 🤣.

      It’s always so obvious when someone who hasn’t stepped foot in the country and gets their entire life view based on Reddit lemmy comments.

      Edit: oh we’re on .ML of fucking course, this makes more sense. This is pointless you had your mind made up joining the instance.

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        Check my instance again, smartass.

        Ididn’t get the suffocating prevalence of corn sirup in the US from reddit/lemmy, but rather from health resources and people from the US.

        For real: all that cultural bashing is pointless to begin with. But claimingthat the US has “the best food” when Italy, the middle and far east exist: come on!

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          It’s in everything, along with plenty of salt and cancer causing dyes and artificial flavoring. Even our locally sourced, home farm based meats and vegetables are laden with chemicals and virtually zero nutritional value because hardly anyone let’s soil lie fallow, and doesn’t use a tin of Miracle Grow and weed killer. I’m my specific area, you can’t even find chicken feed that’s nutritious for the birds and almost no one free-ranges. The closest you’ll find in my area are a pig that’s given table scraps in addition to feed, and no one knows what’s in either chicken or hog feed, unless it’s cracked corn, and well… You get it.

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          I’m very sorry and embarrassed most people from my country are this way, and very sorry for how you’ve experienced us itt. I really like Mediterranean and Thai food, though I’m not particularly good at making them from scratch. I did enjoy a decent-enough-for-frozen-but-by-no-means-decent eggplant Parmesan the other day, and the standard American version of pad Thai a couple of months ago, when I was out in a larger town. No lettuce rolls, though.

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      I’m not even American but lol at calling triple distilled Irish whiskey is less bland than bourbon.

      Irish whiskey is like the lager of whiskeys, about as bland as it gets

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          It depends on where the bourbon gets made. Very generally, the temperatures cycles vary a lot more more than in Great Britain. So the bourbon “ages” faster than Scotch or Irish whiskys. So bourbons have to be younger and that can make them somewhat sharper in flavor. Plus the requirement of using new oak barrels also cuts the time spent in the barrel.