Anon teaches you about their culture

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Okay, but my culture really likes flavourful food that tastes good!

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So that at least excludes the British

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Shut your whore mouth, Tikka Masala is great.

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    • mastertigurius@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Now I want pork pie

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    • msage@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They said culture.

      ducks and crawls away

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    • Comrade_Squid@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oi

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• Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m Dutch/British, and I can honestly say the Dutch don’t (historically) like tasty food. Maybe it’s the Calvinism, maybe were culturally broken. Maybe both.

  Behold the Dutch breakfast

  Now behold the Dutch lunch

  No, that’s not a joke or a mistake. That’s real.

  Typical Dutch food is Stamppot. Which is boiled potatoes (poorly) crushed with 1 or 2 boiled vegetables in it. There are a dozen versions of it and people will argue which beacon of sadness is better.

  Another typical Dutch food: pea soup so thick you can eat it with a fork. It has peas, bacon, potato and sadness. Recently people added stuff to make it tasty, but historically it’s just peas and potato.

  As a little break from food talk, here’s a famous Dutch painter making a famous Dutch painting: People eating potatoes

  A typical classic Dutch desert is Hangop, which is yoghurt you hang (hence the name) in a cheesecloth to let the water soak out to make it more dense. That’s it. Plain yoghurt. Maybe add some honey for this amazing Dutch “treat”.

  Now, we have amazing cheeses today, but historically Dutch cheese was pretty shit. Most of the land isn’t suited for cattle, so the milk had very little flavour. The Dutch invented adding herbs and spices into cheese. While french cheese might have a vague hint of cumin due to the ripening process in an ancient cave system, the Dutch would just chuck cumin into cheese.

  We hate food, and it’s a genetic problem we still haven’t managed to break.

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  • CarstenBoll@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The only major colonial empire which did not, in any way, import food from the colonies?

    I’m from Denmark, we traditionally ate porridge and potatoes and pork, and of course rye bread so dense you can club someone to death with it if you want to.

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    • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The best Dutch food owes a lot to the occupation of Indonesia.

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh no, we imported lots of food. And we kept it nearly separate, never to mix it with our own.

      We imported Indonesian food, mixed it with Cantonese food and called it “Chinese food”, or the “Chinese Indian Speciality Restaurant” nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinees-Indisch_restaurant

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  • ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, I call bullshit or a case of not appreciating your own culture.

    Dutch were the damn spice traders of the world. This can be still seen in many dishes, even damn cookies like hagel.

    You have had proper meats, so all meat products were in your cuisine - rook and metworsts. Pancakes with bacon and shit. Tiger bread with spreads.

    You eat the damn abomination of a spice liquorice like its good, and you’re per capita biggest liquorice consumers.

    Regarding sweet desserts, you have had a shitton of different pies and buttercakes, as well as this weird cake sandwitch called tampons or smthing like that.

    Stamppot is food for the poorest workers. Like literally Dutch version of, idk, mcdonalds or smiliar. Of course its going to be filling but not cuisine. If you eat it daily then damn, I’m sorry for you, grab some pears and red wine and make stoofperen.

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    • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dutch were the damn spice traders of the world.

      I’m just going to point out that the English were also spice traders and made good use of the spices themselves until they had to sell all their spices to prop up their collapsing empire.

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    • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can take my dropjes out of my cold, dead fingers. :D

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  • bluesheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You take those stamppot hating words back or we’re gonna have a problem vriend

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  • StillAlive@piefed.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You know it’s bad when a Brit thinks your food is bad.

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  • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    On the other hand… Bitterballen, poffertjes, awesome cheeses of all sorts, rookworst, stroopwafels, spekkoek, speculaas, advocaat…

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    • maltasoron@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, Dutch snackbars have all kinds of foods that I haven’t even seen in Belgium, like mexicanos.

      Also, hagelslag en chocoladevlokken.

      Also, Dutch bread is actually good, so you don’t need to put a lot of stuff on it to make it tasty.

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bitterballen, poffertjes, awesome cheeses of all sorts, rookworst, stroopwafels, (…) pannekoek.

      We’re great at snacks, that’s absolutely true.

      But we share speculaas with Belgium and Germany, and spekkoek is Indonesian. Advocaat is… Probably an acquired taste, I’ve never seen anyone under 60 drink it

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    • eyes@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bitterballen is up there as one of the best drinking foods I’ve had.

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    • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The fact that there is a snack that you warm on a cup of coffee but don’t dip in it (so as not to change the texture of either) is one of the most Dutch things I’ve ever heard of lol.

      I’m partial to biscotti myself but I’ll admit a good stroopwafel is nice.

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  • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I had a Dutch roommate once who routinely ate sprinkles on toast for breakfast — she called it traditional.

    Half my family is from the Caribbean and I’ll admit we eat some odd things (all manner of salted fruit for example), but I have a hard time computing sprinkle toast as a complete meal

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I had a Dutch roommate once who routinely ate sprinkles on toast for breakfast — she called it traditional.

      It is! Hagelslag on bread is very much a Dutch traditional food.

      Bread, apply butter, pour chocolate sprinkles on. Eat.

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    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thank you! Nobody I’ve pointed this out to seems to understand what an abomination cold butter on raw bread with sprinkles is, I thought I was the crazy one.

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    • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I do love (quality) sprinkles on straight-up white bread, but I will usually toast the bread first and put on a thin layer of peanut butter instead of butter.

      Dollar-store generic sprinkles are AWFUL. De Ruijter or bust.

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  • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I remember seeing a Dutch person say something like “British food might be shit but at least they have something, there are no notable Dutch dishes”.

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    Direct embeds of breakfast and lunch above

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I once spent three weeks in Amsterdam, mainly for weed tourism. Breakfast and lunch was just an utter wasteland; I just stayed in my apartment all day eating ice cream bars and ham salad. Dinner was salvaged by the Indonesian restaurants.

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh that’s the best food culture I could imagine.

    I hate it when people overvalue food. I have chronic gastric issues and I’m just so fed up with people trying to feed me or tell me how I’ve not eaten enough.

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    • mika_mika@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The only person to appreciate Dutch food is this self professed broken person here.

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  • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Relevant: youtube.com/shorts/co9ue2CQjEA

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Man I loooove split pea soup. You can use it as mortar but every spoonful is a warm hug in a way other soups can’t match

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  • harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I do not know whether to be disgusted or sad. Probably both. I cannot comprehend a meal that does not contain a proper blend of spices and various interesting textures.

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  • ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As a Finn I feel sorry with a side of unexpected kinship over this post.

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• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My culture is super unique because it’s built on classism and religious wars.

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  • Bonsoir@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, my culture is uniquer because it’s built on classism and wars against religions!

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    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My cultures unique because the desert cooked our pale asses and we shot the religious for being too loud. The Catholics get an exception because nana is Catholic and shed kill us all.

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• Jerkface@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Okay but do you spank a log you fed all month until it poops candy and presents?

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At first I thought piñata, but that’s not usually a log, and you don’t feed it? Wtf is this?

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    • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Catalan Tio de Nadal. Catalans are obsessed with shit so they also have the Caganer.

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• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My culture is unique, we spend half the day arguing and the other half reading really old books :3

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  • mech@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Vatican?

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  • irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is this what cultural Marxism refers to (/s)

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    • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was referring to Judaism :3

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• AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Okay but to be fair we actually have insane amounts of alcohol and alcoholism in eastern europe. I think all cultures have something unique whether that be good or bad. Sweden, where im living now, truly is very antisocial sometimes.

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Korea wins the alcoholism award.

    But Eastern Europe/Russia get their credit for depressing alcoholism.

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• Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am from the south of northern Germany, we are close enough to the nordics that food is not that important to us save for a few exceptions.

  Our grandpas are at least as bad as the grandmas in regards to pissing them off being a bad idea but that has more to do with many of them (of both genders) being assholes to younger people.

  I live in one of the cities with the most crimes committed in the country but most normal people will never really notice it especially since the Hell’s Angels don’t have as much of a presence and direct influence in the city center as in the 90s and early 2000s.

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  • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Crackfurt am Meins oder Hannover?

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    • Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Die schönste Stadt der Welt: Hannover

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• fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Saw a map today, on reddit or around here, showing the dominant kind of restaurants across european countries : local food or foreign food. And sure enough, most of northern and Eastern Europe prefers foreign food. Anyone who’s traveled around Europe will have a fairly good idea why.

  All I’m saying is, the bit about food doesn’t work for all countries.

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  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Dutch cuisine is so boring and bland, it’s no wonder almost everyone prefers anything foreign. Everything traditional we cook tends to lack flavor and texture, it’s filling but not exactly attractive.

    We also don’t really have a food culture here. Dutch people don’t like to spend more time eating than they have to. A meal never lasts more than 20-30 minutes tops.

    It’s not exactly surprising that there’s no such thing as a Dutch restaurant outside of the Netherlands…

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    • musubibreakfast@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There was a really fun Dutch restaurant in Osaka. Besides that I don’t know of any.

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    • allelopath@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      agreed. the best Indonesian restaurants I’ve been to were in Amsterdam/Den Haag

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    • lordziv@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      From what I know about the dutch, they bake very nice bread at least. We have a lot of Dutch brands of bread over here that are pretty good.

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  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I for one love (some of) the traditional Norwegian dishes. But I will concede that I’m not expecting to see Lutefisk stalls in the UK anytime soon, (Although they have their own questionable fish based dishes), and I doubt street food in Kuala Lumpur would queue up if Ola went there to sell Pinnekjøtt.

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    • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh yeah, no hate on the local specialties! I always looked forward going to IKEA as a kid, for the cardamom based pastries and such. But like… I can’t really imagine what a traditional Swedish cuisine restaurant would serve.

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• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ironically where I live drone downplays the criminal groups when they really shouldn’t.

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  • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down? Image

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    • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not trying to narrow it down 😜. Britain though, since you asked. It’s not all teacups and pudding y’know.

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• Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  All food was invented in NY between 1960 and 1990. Before benevolent Americans taught us how to eat food, we all lived for 20 to 30 days and died of starvation. Thank you, Americans.

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  • P1k1e@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just doing our part…sniff sniff is that…OIL your cooking with?!

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• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My favorite type of pasta lately is called cavatappi, which I assumed was some ancient Italian thing. Turns out it was invented by accident in 1970 and was originally named after Adriano Celentano, the dude who made Prisencolinensinainciusol. The more I learn, the less I know.

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  • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Learning the history of pasta and sauces really shines a light on how much of Italian food culture is from not Italy.

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As a Brazilian, the criminal part is, unfortunately, the truest. Second only to our grannies wielding a Flip flop on a hand

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  • faintwhenfree@lemmus.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I learned the art of dodging the la chancla pretty early on. Only way I get hit is when abuela would cheat and hit me for something I did like 3 days ago and I’ve forgotten about it and I’m busy with some chore. That’s when la chancla is at its most dangerous.

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  • whelk@retrolemmy.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As soon as I read the original text I knew the thrown shoe thing was gonna come up somewhere in the comments

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• napkin2020@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Criminals in our country are pretty lame.

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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You mean like Pokemon Team Rocket, or like Home Alone?

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    • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Like Davros from Doctor Who

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ours start wars with foreign countries in order to drive up the price of oil.

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• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I feel like British culture viloates everything but the alcohol. There are memes about how weak their food and criminals are.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All of this describes someone from Manchester

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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Forgot traditional culture and embrace neocultures for the terminally online.

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• Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Except for the blatant US-centricism, it is pretty accurate for most part.

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• 58008@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is also true for psychiatric or neurological issues. For example:

  lemmy.world/post/38035805

  We’re truly just one dude in 8 billion trench coats.

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• ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wonder what percentage of Western lemmings can actually say they have at least these “simple” things.

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• rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My culture has this one food that takes a lifetime to learn to like, that nobody else seems to appreciate. We will aggressively push it on you every dinner, partly to watch your reaction!

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• mech@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Anon ain’t Swiss, that’s for sure.

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• spirinolas@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m Portuguese and it’s all true except the criminals. We once aren’t known for very string liquor but we drink lots of it to compensate.

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• AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Cornbread and fried chicken have been around since before 1980, but the rest is pretty generic and fitting. I also have relatives who were moonshiners out in Ohio by a town which is literally called “knockemstiff” because one drink was powerful enough to “knock ya stiff” lol

  Not sure the part about criminals fits though. Old men running illegal rooster fights aren’t exactly organized crime haha

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• Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Counterpoint. In my culture cats are allowed in universities.

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• UndergroundParking@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How dare you make fun of my culture!

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• cepelinas@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My culture is unique because we went from stretching accross the black sea and the baltic sea to a small eastern european country, because basically the nobility decided they wanted to be polish (and also some other factors) and before that all documents were written in Belarussian, because we got our form of written language in 1547.

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• capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ahhh I remember when pozole was invented in the early 80’s down the street in some block in the bronx

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• mo_lave@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Around here, ya either a Jet, or ya nothin’!

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• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Narrows it down to the Irish, the Italians, and Russians.

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• affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sounds like someone who has never traveled

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