Comment on Anon visits America

• GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well, that’s what your pop culture tells us Americans like to eat.

  So the thought process is something like “I really dont care for instant foods available here, but the Americans reference it all the time sometimes even as a kitchen staple. So maybe they have that shit figured out” and then you try it and get results such as mine.

  It also doesn’t help that I can’t go to an actual American restaurant, you know, being a continent away and all. Best I can do is maccas or Burger king, not even the chains you got over there that are supposedly good. If you’re lucky there is a pizza hut in a major city

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  • ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What era or genre are you getting the pop culture from? Twinkies at least have only been a joke in media for at least 15 years because of zombie survival stuff, and longer as a ‘haha look at the fat kid’ before that. Die Hard uses them as a comedic element to break up parts of the film but in less of a joking about Twinkies directly way, though it is part of the overweight cop’s character. That movie is nearly 40 years old though and probably marks around the time Twinkies shifted from a snack to a meme

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    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh yeah it’s been a while since I did that, probably 2010s? Just haven’t had the urge to try again since.

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Really? Banana does sound tastier

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  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pop culture also says french people eat snails all day and british people use no spices and only one of those is true ;)

    But, yeah, don’t take the international brands as an example of what Americans typically eat. I mean, some people do, but most people don’t eat out most of the time anyways

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    • phlegmy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I thought French people ate Baguettes all day?
      Or do they use them for sword training? I can never remember…

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      • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Hon hon hon enguarde

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