Comment on Anon visits America

NABDad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• NickwithaC@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It may not be the only issue but it is definitely on the list.

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  • macjabeth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Agreed to both of these points, though as an American I will say there are healthier options, it’s just that they make those cost twice as much as the cheaper, unhealthy options.

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    • PancakeBrock@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Go to a Mexican restaurant. Fajitas are $25 or more. It’s just vegetables with some meat. I can make that at home for like $3. We don’t eat out much.

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  • NABDad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Agreed. It’s just not where I’d start changing things.

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    • BadlyTimedLuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I dunno. As the saying goes,“You are what you eat.” And our elected “leader” advocates the leading producer of junk food.

      Maybe if the American populace had actual nutrients in their bodies instead of butter and lard, we’d be able to critically think for once

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      • Jamablaya@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Butter and lard would be fine, I wish they/d go back to that. Correlation ain’t causation but the states weren’t obese till canola oil and margarine.

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      • alsimoneau@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Try high fructose corn syrup

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      • NABDad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Butter and lard aren’t the problems with the American diet.

        It’s almost impossible to find anything still made with lard anymore.

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• trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Anyone who (likely) intentionally writes the word “snicker” wrong to include a slur doesn’t think the actual bad stuff in America is bad.

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  • hraegsvelmir@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Snigger is just a variant form more common in the UK, where snicker is the preferred one in the US. Though I wouldn’t put it past a 4chan user, it’s also a perfectly normal word they may have learned being taught and exposed to UK variants of English.

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    • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s so weird, I’ve literally never seen that form used even by people from the UK.

      I guess it’s plausible that they’d just write it like that, I guess.

      The secret third option is that they know that it’s a way of spelling it and prefer to use it because hehe n word.

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      • TheTetrapod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I thought, and a quick Google confirms, that it is used in the Harry Potter series a few times. Obviously, you might not have read them, but for people in my cohort, that was likely our largest exposure point to British culture.

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  • amon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Most american comment ever

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    • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Real

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  • Jamablaya@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Really waving your ignorance there, bud, not his.

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• Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Most of the food comes from fast food along stroads. It is a core part of the problem. The education system is probably the root, but I wouldn’t expect a tourist to understand that.

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• psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The food stands out. Like Australia has too many fat people too, but our restaurants don’t cater to them like America’s - don’t try to feed everyone a meal suited to a 200kg man trying for 300.

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