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Jan 10, 2021 15:53
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Doc Fission posted:The American salad creation method of hucking mayonnaise on stuff is baffling but I will say egg and potato salads are pretty alright. German potato salad is best because vinegary stuff is always superior to the alternative, and egg salad is best on a sandwich IMHO. Lol I grew up in semi-rural Pennsylvania and ham salad was definitely a thing. My grandmother used to make it and it was just as disgusting as it looks. It’s literally just ham and a bunch of mayonnaise. Even today when I go back to my hometown local delis will have it for sale. In defense of fat Americans and our predilection for slapping mayonnaise on something and calling it salad, you can dress it up with spices and make something pretty good. Curried chicken salad is delicious. But most American cooks, unless they’re South American/Asian descent don’t understand the meaning of the word seasoning. Relevant Simpson’s clip. https://youtu.be/kPA90uCyc7A colonelwest fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Jan 10, 2021 |
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Jan 10, 2021 17:18
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The Bloop posted:I miss living in New England and going to the Big E : The Eastern States Exposition Man that looks cool as hell. I’ll have to try to go to that sometime.
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Jan 11, 2021 22:05
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RC and Moon Pie posted:I have been to not one, but two [animal] pie bingos. One with a cow, one with a goat. The Pennsylvania farm show is a great time.
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Jan 12, 2021 03:42
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Bonzo posted:Calgary is a perfect example of urban sprawl. Do yourself a favor and drive into Banff. And yeah, Alberta is a political shithole right now. All that I know about Canada comes from this movie. https://youtu.be/IWpThrDfQEI
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Jan 13, 2021 17:31
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In Point Pleasant, West Virginia there is a statue of “Mothman” a ridiculous local Appalachia legend of a half man/half moth monster.  They even made a terrible reality show about a bunch of rednecks trying to catch it. Mostly they just ran around the woods at night with lights and cameras. https://youtu.be/49c0bw76cPw
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Jan 13, 2021 18:42
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zedprime posted:The real american dream is a bar that is a trailer prefab where you feed raccoons out the front door and buy weed from the staff but they also let you kiss ladies and gentlemen of various skin complexions. 
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Jan 19, 2021 04:58
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This is a real bar in Wisconsin, I only know about it because of Red Letter Media    
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Jan 20, 2021 05:50
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Don’t doxx me bro!
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Jan 20, 2021 19:58
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Bonzo posted:https://mission-bbq.com/ Lol there’s a Mission BBQ down the street from me, they’re all over Northern Virginia. The Military/Police worship is way over the top, and I’m saying this as someone who spent 4 years in the Army and now works as a DOD contractor. I mean in the end it’s just a job that people do for extremely selfish reasons like any other, it’s not some mystical higher calling. But they do have pretty good food.
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Feb 5, 2021 06:41
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This should be on the official Seal of the United States
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Feb 8, 2021 01:53
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Tip posted:Seems more like a question for Japanese Pizza Hut to answer. Hell just put that on the US flag, I’d salute the poo poo out of it. It reminds me of an really old gag from The Onion. https://youtu.be/31JNEVHZxO8
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Feb 8, 2021 04:37
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BalloonFish posted:For me (as a non-American - a Brit, no less) those sorts of scenes are peak Americana. A small rural town somewhere flat and full of corn, cold in winter, hot in summer, one main street lined with independent shops ('Drug Store', 'Bar', 'Merv's Diner', 'Byzewski's Hardware Store', 'Chevron Gas') and a John Deere dealership overlooked by a water tower, lined with blue mailboxes, red fire hydrants and giant cars with too much chrome and fake wood on the side parked to the curb/kerb, with a brick courthouse with a civil war cannon and an American flag on a pole at one end. There's something so neat, snug, prosperous and friendly about such scenes when you see them on sunny days preserved on Kodachrome - almost enough to make you forget the litany of bad poo poo that was around in the 50s and 60s... They still exist, and small town main streets have had a big renascence in the last decade. Near cities a lot of metropolitan areas have grown around them, so they’re surrounded by suburban sprawl, but they’re still there if you look for them. And out in the country there are still a lot of really cool small towns. Leesburg, VIrginia  Emittsburg, Maryland  
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Feb 13, 2021 22:57
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Code Jockey posted:I... can't recall? Specifically I'm talking about McMinnville's Turkey-rama, I don't remember a porcupine race but man does that sound like classic small town Oregon It’s the same with most of rural America. It’s gotten a bad name and everyone thinks it’s just wall to wall MAGA CHUDs and militias. But it really does have its charms, and most of the people you meet are really cool. If I wasn’t forever tied to the DC area because of my career, I would happily move out to some small town near the mountains in a state like Wyoming.
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Feb 14, 2021 05:28
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The Bloop posted:This is likely to be a big eye opener to anyone not from the American south but a lot of places have these unusable tables set for ARE TROOPS and it's the most embarrassing performative religious faux patriotism LOL it’s the loving worst. Dinning halls on actual military bases will have a table like this, but it’s often only setup around Memorial Day, and its in a special roped off area. But then you go to a Chick-fil-a off post and they’ll have it all year in the middle of the dining room, and people’s kids will be running around it as they scream and throw fries at each other. Most of the time it’s not even setup correctly. But it’s “4 TEH TROUPS!” so
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Feb 21, 2021 19:50
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Aardvark! posted:what's the deal with the lemon The table is round – to show our everlasting concern. The cloth is white – symbolizing the purity of their motives when answering the call to serve. The single red rose reminds us of the lives of these Americans….and their loved ones and friends who keep the faith, while seeking answers. The yellow ribbon symbolizes our continued uncertainty, hope for their return and determination to account for them. A slice of lemon reminds us of their bitter fate, captured or missing in a foreign land. A pinch of salt symbolizes the tears of our missing and their families. The lighted candle reflects our hope for their return. The Bible represents the strength gained through faith to sustain us and those lost from our country, founded as one nation under God. The glass is inverted – to symbolize their inability to share a toast. The chairs are/chair is empty – they are missing…………….. (moment of silence) It’s much more a relic from the Vietnam era and concern over POW/MIA service members, than it is a memorial to those KIA. And the POW/MIA stuff was often tied to post-Vietnam conspiracy theories about the Vietnamese still secretly holding onto US prisoners after the the end of the war. Though a civilian defense contractor/Navy Veteran is still being held by the Taliban right now.
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Feb 21, 2021 20:07
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Outrail posted:American: How to gently caress can anyone live 20 miles from the nearest store? How could you possibly attain the necessary supplies to sustain a life? When I was in the Army, I was stationed in Colorado Springs, and one time my unit went to Fort Hood (Which is near Austin, TX) for a training exercise. We piled onto tour buses and did a long rear end drive down through Southern Colorado, into the Texas Panhandle and then Central Texas. We went through hundreds of miles of flat, dry and empty prairie. Sometimes we’d pass tiny towns with a few houses and almost no businesses, other than maybe a half-defunct bar. I’d jump on my phone and Google the nearest grocery store, and often it would be an hour and a half away. I don’t think I could ever live like that. But I do really like decent sized country towns, where it’s still rural but you have some civilization and basic necessities. 
colonelwest fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Feb 22, 2021 |
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Feb 22, 2021 16:25
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Robo Reagan posted:my extended family lives either in the deep south or PA and absolutely nowhere else. Is PA the Alabama of the north? I grew up in Pennsylvania and out of the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic states I think it has the most stark urban/rural divide. Pittsburg and Philadelphia are completely different worlds compared to the middle/North of the state. It gets rednecky out there in a weird and depressing way. There is a larger portion of depressed and hollowed out former industrial and mining towns, compared to say central Virginia which has a lot of really nice small towns that are still vibrant. There are places like Ashland that are almost lost in time. colonelwest fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Feb 22, 2021 |
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Feb 22, 2021 20:18
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I grew up right up the road from Ashland on Rt. 61 and that entire area is a hole. Anyone who wants better out of life than that area can provide ends up moving and what's left are people who genuinely like wallowing in the poo poo that those areas represent. It's a self-reinforcing downward spiral. drat that’s rough. I’m from Perkasie which is about an hour outside of Philly. It’s an old post-industrial town in a pretty rural area, but it has remained middle class because it’s a bedroom community for people who work in Philly. But I have extended family in Ashland, and I have been there a few times. My great grandfather who was a Russian immigrant, died there in the early 1920’s after a coal mining accident.
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Feb 22, 2021 21:00
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I saw some acquaintances of mine from the military sharing this on Facebook. 
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Feb 23, 2021 03:20
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Anyway on the lighter side of small towns, my hometown of Perkasie, PA has the oldest Christmas tree lighting ceremony in the country (continuous for 111 years), a distinction they desperately cling to and hype. In recent years it’s actually grown into a pretty big deal, and thousands of people from around the area come for a big old cheesy time.     This year they had to live stream it. And the two dads who usually MC it, had a good time being corny. https://youtu.be/O9bnkEInT1s colonelwest fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Feb 23, 2021 |
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Feb 23, 2021 03:29
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CPL593H posted:What's up with all the dick waving between the different branches of the military. I've never understood that. I know Marines are supposed to be the "toughest", but is that even true? Do they have much more intense training and higher standards than the army or it's it just a bunch of grown rear end men with guns being a bunch of mean girls? After all, everyone is supposed to be on the same team to defend Are Freedoms™. Coming from the Army and now working for the DOD as a civilian, I’d have to say yes the Marine Corps is the toughest overall branch in general. They have the most intense basic training and the highest physical standards. The Army is much much bigger and is more about numbers, so it’s has to have more lax standards for regular soldiers to ensure it always has enough bodies. But it also has elite units like the Rangers and Special Forces that have much higher standards than the regular Marine Corps. The military day to day though is more like a big dumb bureaucracy than anything else, it’s like if you armed the DMV and gave it some vague mandate to “defend” the country. It’s also extremely diverse both in terms of the service member backgrounds and the wide scope of jobs. There’s everything from intelligence nerds like me to plumbers. colonelwest fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Feb 24, 2021 |
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Feb 24, 2021 03:10
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CPL593H posted:That all makes sense but I still don't understand the pissing contest between the different branches. It’s exaggerated, and mostly a tongue-in-cheek thing played up for esprit de corps purposes. The branches work together all the time with few problems, joint operations are the cornerstone of the US military. The competition is mainly at the highest levels (chief of staff/service secretary) and is over funding whenever the defense budget comes up in congress.
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Feb 24, 2021 04:54
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withak posted:I'm the grown man drinking a glass of milk. SOY BOY SPOTTED!!
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Mar 1, 2021 05:49
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Lamb is great, and I don’t get it nearly enough. But you can usually find it most places in America. Greek/Caribbean/Indian/Nepalese restaurants will all serve it. When I lived in Colorado Springs, it was more common because it’s grown out there. A lot of places served lamb burgers which are pretty great. There is a decent sized Nepalese community out there too and their restaurants served a lot of Yak.
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Mar 7, 2021 04:01
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It’s kind of straw man version of American food being talked about here. It’s really a huge blend dozens of immigrant cultures. I can walk down my street and get food from at least six different countries.
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Mar 7, 2021 14:14
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Found in a news article about some guy catching a 150 pound alligator snapping turtle somewhere in the dirty south
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Jul 2, 2022 00:57
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The Bloop posted:Bob's Burgers is still $5.95 and if that place was anywhere I've ever lived it would be constantly slam busy at that price I always look at those prices with envy. A gourmet burger like that would be at least $15 where I live. BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:They were selling frozen Bob’s Big Boy burgers at the grocery store last time I went but yet there is no information on this product online Unless it’s a Big Bob Pataki Burger, I’m not interested. 
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Jul 15, 2022 06:15
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AARD VARKMAN posted:sorry to bump w/out pics but this guy's YouTube is pure distilled Appalachian americana. He has nearly 1000 videos, including hundreds of mostly fast food reviews. there are just the first few that hooked me. there is one outlier in that he eats spicy food but Lol I’m absolutely entranced by this. It has to be a joke right?
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Aug 4, 2022 03:42
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Pouring chili over random poo poo is the laziest American diner food possible.
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Aug 26, 2022 17:55
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Jelly posted:Is it because it looks like bad barbecued pork, or is barbecued pork really a Pacific NW only thing? There are different versions of it throughout the country. But it’s all basically just slow cooked pork shoulder with different seasonings/sauces. Even in Hawaii they have their own take on it called Kalua Pork.
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Oct 23, 2022 08:36
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Don’t doxx me bro!
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Nov 13, 2022 12:21
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Circle Nine posted:I'm only like halfway making my way through this thread, so apologies if this has been brought up, but I want to bring up Club Applebee's. From what I can tell, this stopped being a thing about two years ago, and it seemed largely confined to Florida, but I swear I remember them being more widespread at somepoint. Lol I never knew this was a thing. The Applebees in the mid-Atlantic are the dullest places imaginable. So did they have specific club nights or did this happen after a certain time?
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Dec 16, 2022 12:30
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Wendigee posted:grayest steak with sear marks ever served It looks like they boiled it and then slapped it on a grill just long enough to give it marks.
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Feb 24, 2023 07:09
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gently caress yes!
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Mar 17, 2023 06:14
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There’s a pizza place in Pittsburgh that’s known for serving cold cheese and toppings on top of what is otherwise a hot pizza. Everyday we stray further from god… 
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Mar 23, 2023 03:37
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AARD VARKMAN posted:
Lol I bet they’ve already ditched the Bud Light.
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Apr 25, 2023 03:20
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This is the ideal American male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak Southern diet looks like.
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