NateNate60
@NateNate60@lemmy.world
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 1 day ago:
The definitionition of “American” is pretty flexible. If you move here, live here, and want to consider yourself an American, then you are an American. Some loud zealots may say otherwise (typical in any country) but most Americans literally do not think about this at all.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 1 day ago:
I’m pretty sure all cultures adapt and learn from other cultures. That’s just how human culture develops. Vietnamese takes on French favourites resulted in bahn mi and Vietnamese coffee, both of which are very good. Poor Hongkongers wanting to eat like Brits resulted in Hong Kong’s famously weird “Cha chaan teng” food and Hong Kong-style milk tea.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 1 day ago:
Well, colonialism did bring tomatoes and potatoes to Europe.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 1 day ago:
I think the joke is that Americans like to adopt foods or cooking techniques from other cultures, then change them to fit local tastes. This is how a lot of “traditional American” foods came to be. There is also a stereotype that American cultural practices (gastronomy included) is “not real” or doesn’t exist because it comes as a fusion of cultural practices innotjer countries. The meme is poking fun at people who may hold this belief.
People also have a habit of describing the American versions of things to be “not real”, even if it never really claims to be. For example, fettuccine Alfredo in the US is an adaptation of fettuccini al burro (a real Italian dish), but is described as “not real Italian food” because it isn’t actually eaten in Italy. Or that orange chicken is “not real Chinese food” because it isn’t eaten in China. Which, to be fair, is true, but most American diners are aware that Panda Express, Olive Garden, and Taco Bell aren’t accurate representations of food eaten in China, Italy, or Mexico. They’re Americanised versions of food inspired by Chinese, Italian, and Mexican cuisine.
- Comment on BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE 1 day ago:
Americans associate the orange colour with cheese so it’s more cultural than practical. Other than the fact that some cheese being orange and some not being orange helps tell apart different varieties. For example, bright orange cheese is usually young cheeses that are used to make sauce or for sandwiches. Duller orange cheeses or slightly brown ones are expected to have a more sophisticated flavour (e.g. aged longer or smoked).
- Comment on BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE 1 day ago:
This is false, due to contaminants our air is legally considered dairy in Europe, and thus the average American actually consumes twice this quantity daily
- Comment on We must remember the simple wisdom of nature 3 weeks ago:
“Management” like there are ever more than 2 people working at a 7-Eleven
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’m not underselling anything. I believe a quick napkin calculation will show that it’s roughly in the right ballpark.
- Private jet: 100 million USD each (reference)
- Superyacht: 500 million USD each (reference)
- Sports car: 150 thousand USD each (reference)
- Mansion: 10 million USD each (reference)
Total: 741 million USD
Most billionaires keep most of their wealth in actual investments (stock, bonds, Caymanian bank accounts,
swimming pools filled with gold coins). Though this information is not public, let us assume that only 10% of their wealth is contained within these “lifestyle” objects, which is likely an overestimation. This would give us a total of 7.4 billion USDGiven the actual average wealth of a billionaire to be 5.3 billion USD (reference), I maintain the objects I have described accurately describe what a typical billionaire would be able to afford (if not slightly more than they could afford, actually).
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It’s not reasonably possible to own the stuff on the left without being a billionaire. All of that would cost hundreds of millions.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 5 weeks ago:
I think this gets discussed in the context of the European Union whenever Poland or Hungary uses their veto power to block something important. Basically, the idea is to start “EU 2” and then not invite the offending countries. Then say that EU 2 replaces EU 1 and refuse to let anyone else tell you otherwise.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 1 month ago:
Now, I’m not one of those “muh free market” morons, but I also think that not every potentially-abusable business practice immediately deserves government regulation against it. By and large it seems that most customers really don’t care that much about this (myself included). The ability for customers to choose where they shop has regulatory power which I think a lot of people fail to recognise. If a behaviour is really repulsive, then customers will just not shop there, which provides a strong negative incentive against the behaviour in question, without any state intervention or enforcement resources required.
An example of this working in practice is the practice of restaurants attempting to introduce tipping in Australia (where it is not customary to tip). Whenever a restaurant frequented by locals tries to force them to tip or makes it awkward to not tip, there is an immediate and strong negative reaction to it from the customers which usually causes the restaurant to give up on the idea.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 1 month ago:
They can track what people are buying just as well without needing to know who is buying what. If all they cared about was making sure they are stocking items that are popular with customers, they could just monitor how many of the item were scanned at the checkout counters.
When you give your phone number to the store, it serves two functions:
- The rewards scheme encourages loyalty. Once you have spent hundreds at the store, they give you a minor discount on something small, which saves you only a little bit of money. You only need to decide to patronise this store one time over their competitors for this bribe to be worth it.
- By learning your shopping habits, they can offer you personalised advertisements to encourage you to buy certain products. For example, a grocery store chain which has a location where I live has learned that I always buy a certain brand of cheese, and so occasionally they will try to tempt me with something like a 50 cent discount on that cheese, or they will send me a message saying "Hey do you still want (the cheese brand)? We have it in stock!"
- Some people, when putting things into their basket or shopping cart, will see the large, advertised discounted price and think “this item is reasonably priced”, but then they forget to put their phone number in when checking out and are thus charged the inflated price. The store pockets the difference as customers are unlikely to notice or complain about it. Most people do not closely monitor the price of items as they are being scanned. They only look at the total price at the end before tapping their card.
- Comment on Foot In The Door 1 month ago:
I don’t know; if we get found out, we might be on the hook for a lot of value-added tax.
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 2 months ago:
What happened to blursedimages?
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 2 months ago:
It looks like a one-piece outfit in which case I think women tend to just pull it all upwards when they need to use the toilet
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 2 months ago:
Women do not urinate out of their vagina
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 2 months ago:
I thought the giveaway here was that the Pokémon is named “Bidet”, but all wild Pokémon are named whatever their species is (“Piplup”), meaning this one is already caught and was given a nickname by its trainer.
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 2 months ago:
I think this is rage bait but I think there is a difference between saying “X is weird” and saying “X should be banned”. That’s all I will say on the matter
- Comment on 50/50 chance this is a shit post 2 months ago:
Why have I got the suspicion this is fetish content of some sort
- Comment on Hustle culture 2 months ago:
It’s easy to say this when you don’t consider the law an impediment to achieving your goals. That’s why junkies and rich people can always “make it happen”.
- Comment on Best meal ever 2 months ago:
Flour + water = hardtack
Flour + water + yeast = bread
Flour + water + yeast + butter = toast
Flour + water + yeast + butter + sugar = muffin
Flour + water + yeast + butter + sugar + eggs = cake
Flour + water + yeast + butter + sugar + eggs + chocolate = brownie
Flour + water + yeast + butter + sugar + eggs + chocolate + cream = cupcake
- Comment on FAWK BAHD! PUT THAT DART OUT! 2 months ago:
If your boss is a chill guy who can take a joke I’m sure he would laugh the first time but if you did this repeatedly then probably not
- Comment on Definitely spongeworthy 3 months ago:
In terms of their utility as a cleaning tool, sponge daddies are actually quite good at what they do. They’re somewhat more expensive but remarkably worth the money.
- Comment on Go Green 3 months ago:
Pot brownies are popular in the United States, which are baked at 180 degrees Celsius. I think the idea is to protect the components that contain THC, i.e. the crust and sauce.
For that reason, thin-crust pizzas like New York-style pizza are out. They are too thin and would expose the THC to high temperatures. Neapolitan pizza is also out because there is nothing protecting the cannato sauce from the 400-degree wood-fired oven. That leaves thick-crust pan pizzas.
Chicago-style pizza is a possibility despite the fact that the sauce is on top of the cheese, because there is so much of it that it becomes soupy. It might be possible to pour ordinary tomato sauce on top of the cannato sauce to protect it. Conversely, Detroit-style pizza does not have very much sauce at all so it’s out.
I think the best contender is a Pizza Hut-style pan pizza, which has a thick crust and an edge-to-edge layer of cheese on top of it, which I think would do a good job protecting the delicate sauce underneath.
- Comment on Go Green 3 months ago:
THC oil in the dough, cannatoe-based sauce with dried ground weed added as a garnish… might just send you straight to God.
- Comment on Go Green 3 months ago:
I wonder if it is biologically possible to grow a cannabis-tomato hybrid. Like a tomacco, but it’s actually a cannato.
Cannatoes could be used to make pizza into an edible, which might be too much for mere human minds to comprehend.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 3 months ago:
Food in the kitchen is usually measured in pounds for meat and vegetables (similar to the UK) and grams for most other dry goods. So the recipe would call for 2 pounds of beef but 5 grams of salt. The Costco hit dogs are guaranteed to weigh at least ¼ pound.
The most confusing thing is soda, because it is sold in containers of either 350 mL, 16 oz, or 2 L.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 3 months ago:
They’re like $12 for a pack of 18 huge ones at Costco
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 3 months ago:
It tastes similar to Kraft macaroni and cheese (known in Canada as “Kraft Dinner”). So I would guess young, unaged cheddar or Colby cheese. There is also probably a good amount of whey powder, which is a by-product of cheese production.
It’s not fake, just highly processed.
