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Hey Americans! Why do you hate vinegar so much?

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Because it's not meant to be food. Vinegar should be used for mopping floors and shit, but not human consumption. I'd rather dip my french fries in your ass than in vinegar.
 
Snuggler said:
Because it's not meant to be food. Vinegar should be used for mopping floors and shit, but not human consumption. I'd rather dip my french fries in your ass than in vinegar.
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Vinegar + lots of onions + slow cooked cube steak = a great tasting cheap weekday dinner. You have no taste.

Also, try adding drops of balsamic vinegar to vanilla ice cream.
 
Snuggler said:
Because it's not meant to be food. Vinegar should be used for mopping floors and shit, but not human consumption. I'd rather dip my french fries in your ass than in vinegar.
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If you eat pickles or salad dressing, odds are you eat vinegar.
 
Mortrialus said:
Vinegar is extremely cancerous when regularly consumed over the course of a life time.
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Now tell us about vaccines.

Real fact: the body makes acetic acid (which is what vinegar is, diluted acetic acid) when it metabolizes alcohol.
 
-PXG- said:
Vinegar on fries....WHY!?!?!?! WHY!?!?!
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try it

Mama Robotnik said:
British person here:

Vinegar makes me throw up. I can't actually be in a room with an open bottle because I begin to literally gag. I won't even touch a table vinegar bottle with my skin, I always wrap my hand in my sleeve first, just in case any of its residue is on the bottle.

The substance repulses me in a way nothing else does. Its vile. If I eat a chip that accidentally has some on, I'm already on my way to throwing up. None of this is hyperbole, it actually happens.

I don't know why it has such an immediate effect on me. It doesn't seem to bother anyone else.
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you say you're British but after reading that story I just don't know

I'm going to report you to my local constabulary so they can check you out

ಠ_ಠ
 
Konka said:
American BBQ is better than on any other place on the planet. No contest.
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Don't forget Cajun Food, nothing better in the world. Also we brought the world Hamburgers, what beats that?
 
Love vinegar. In my pantry I have cider, white, malt, champagne, rice wine, and red wine vinegar. I use them all for different things.

Malt vinegar on fries/potatoes is amazing. =)

Some restaurants won't have it out, but if you ask they should have some. Most restaurants in Buffalo NY should have vinegar available.
 
whenever these threads come up, it's weird because me and most people I associate with fall under the exceptions.

fucking love vinegar. I also love sauerkraut, kimchi, horseradish, strong mustard, and other pungent, strong, stinky things.


better question-- why the hell would you make detroit a travel destination on a trip through the U.S.?
 
Matthew Gallant said:
Now tell us about vaccines.

Real fact: the body makes acetic acid (which is what vinegar is, diluted acetic acid) when it metabolizes alcohol.
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Vaccines are extremely useful in preventing infections from viruses.

In all seriousness, it just smells really bad. I do use it for actually recipes. I actually just tried fries and malt vinegar because of of this thread. My personal opinion? Eh. I'd rather use some other condiment, or just eat them plain.
 
Confidence Man said:
Wondering the same thing. Seems like a vinagrette would be better.
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you're supposed to lightly drip it on crispy, well done fries. Unfortunately, a lot of restaurants serve soggy or undercooked fries.
 
Konka said:
North Carolina BBQ is better than on any other place on the planet. No contest.
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Corrected. The BBQ dripping in thick, sweet sauce is not BBQ. North Carolina pull pork with a little vinegar and hot sauce???

It's smack-yer-momma delicious.
 
Flavius said:
Corrected. The BBQ dripping in thick, sweet sauce is not BBQ. North Carolina pull pork with a little vinegar and hot sauce???

It's smack-yer-momma delicious.
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I hate Carolina BBQ, for me the best is Memphis hands down
 
The only time I have vinegar on fries is when I'm on a boardwalk, and the places put it ou to put on the fries. Aside from that, never.
 
otake said:
This is true. They do like sweet things though. Anything with extra sugar seems to taste good southern americans, in my experience.
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Do they even use real sugar or is one of those strange things gotten for a non-related to sugar cane things?

Don't forget Cajun Food, nothing better in the world. Also we brought the world Hamburgers, what beats that?
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Isn't Cajun a mix of several herbs? There is no Cajun here...I have to buy it on my visits to the UK...FML
 
There's a chain of fry shacks down the Delaware beaches (Thrashers) that make it a point not to serve ketchup, but instead serve only vinegar. Might be some of these in Jersey too, but I'm not setting foot in the state to check. I'm pretty sure they've refused service to people who ask, they're that serious... so yeah, there are places in the states where they not only serve Vinegar, but do so proudly.

Damn, there's a great Fish and Chips place down there too, and they're big on Vinegar also. Damnit, I need to get down there before they take the bags off the parking meters and get my boardwalk on.

It's definitely not for everybody, but I love a little sprinkle of it over fries, though I am definitely a ketchup fan at heart.

Also, it seems like every couple of months, for whatever reason, I have a hankering for Salt and Vinegar potato chips. After I have a bag, I'm set for another few months. No idea why it's not a more regular thing.

So... you may have just gone to the wrong places.
 
itxaka said:
Do they even use real sugar or is one of those strange things gotten for a non-related to sugar cane things?
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at a restaurant, its going to be pure sugar in your sweet tea. pretty sure that's codified law.

partially hydrogenated corn syrup is only in manufactured stuff.

and americans all over seem to love splenda, sweet n' low, etc. blech.



Retro said:
I'm pretty sure they've refused service to people who ask, they're that serious... so yeah, there are places in the states where they not only serve Vinegar, but do so proudly.
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as a chicagoan, i can appreciate this (you're not supposed to put ketchup on hot dogs here and a lot of restaurants will openly mock you for this.)


edit: before anyone asks, it's because ketchup has so much sugar and flavor that it just covers up what ever food you're eating.
 
as an englishman living in america, i agree. fuck the lack of vinegar, fuck high fructose corn syrup in my drinks/food, fuck the shity burnt rock solid 'bacon', fuck the shitty tasteless yellow mustard and fuck cutting the skin off cucumbers - its the best bit!
 
Natetan said:
sounds like ponzu basically, another godly all purpose sauce.
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Is that similar to Pon Shabbu? IIRC Pon Shabbu is made with a Japan-only citrus and I had it with a traditional Japanese water pan dinner with a few friends a year ago and it blew my mind at how it made "watery"/plain Japanese food taste really good. (And I say that as Japanese food fan. Pan Water is kinda plain)

Edit: Ah, it's wikipedia's version of it. Weird, the sauce bottle I have spells it Pon Shabbu. I guess for "American" pronouncements of it. Anyway, it's really good with Shabu-shabu hot pot dinners because those can be kinda plain otherwise.
 
itxaka said:
Do they even use real sugar or is one of those strange things gotten for a non-related to sugar cane things?



Isn't Cajun a mix of several herbs? There is no Cajun here...I have to buy it on my visits to the UK...FML
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Ehhhh no, Cajun is actually an ethnic Food that is based around the South Louisiana Cajun people, a people of mostly French Ancestry who were forced out of Canada by the Brits and settled in Louisiana. Over time the Cajun food culture has also adopted African, native American, Spanish, and Creole elements and is based around rice and fresh seafood. Cajun is most definitely not a few herbs, things like Cajun chicken and so forth is just Bullshit Anglo Saxonized tripe.
 
Zabka said:
Got any examples?
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Bud outside the US is: Budvar. Bud US can't be sold outside of the Us (if I remember the story or whatever right), and in any case: Bud, like most American brews, is pure piss. I seriously don't get how someone in Canada/outside of the US can be envious of it if they have European/rest of the world breweries.
 
Smision said:
as a chicagoan, i can appreciate this (you're not supposed to put ketchup on hot dogs here and a lot of restaurants will openly mock you for this.)
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Yep, I've been to quite a few places with regional cuisine where you run the risk of getting laughed at mercilessly for ordering it with changes. Most of the time, they're absolutely right.

When traveling, what you eat can be as entertaining as much as what you see. People going to different places and running into familiar eateries are doing it wrong.
 
I sometimes feel like the only person in England who hates vinegar. I can't stand it. The smell alone makes me want to retch.
 
TheSeks said:
Bud outside the US is: Budvar. Bud US can't be sold outside of the Us (if I remember the story or whatever right), and in any case: Bud, like most American brews, is pure piss. I seriously don't get how someone in Canada/outside of the US can be envious of it if they have European/rest of the world breweries.
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Some people just drink to get drunk. If that's your goal, cheap ass beer gets the job done.

If not, America has dozens of other great beers for non-chugging purposes.
 
TheSeks said:
Bud outside the US is: Budvar. Bud US can't be sold outside of the Us (if I remember the story or whatever right), and in any case: Bud, like most American brews, is pure piss. I seriously don't get how someone in Canada/outside of the US can be envious of it if they have European/rest of the world breweries.
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No, US budweiser is sold damn near everywhere in the world, it's just not named the same everywhere due to trademark issues.

As for bud being pure piss, it is not substantially worse than the mass market pilsner lagers everywhere else in the world, and is probably better than all the light beers that increasingly dominate much of the worldwide beer market.

I don't think there is a country on the planet who's beer sales aren't dominated by shitty lagers, even Guiness (probably the most popular non pilsner beer on the planet) in the UK is dominated by Stella Artois, Carlsberg, Foster's, Beck's and yes, Budweiser.

It's certainly not an 'American beer is all shitty' situation either, when America has by far the widest variety of craft beer available anywhere.
 
Draft said:
If you'd gone to a 5 Guys, the USA's premiere burger establishment, you would have had all the vinegar you could handle.

Peanuts, too.
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lol
Kentpaul said:
With the lack of any long time cultures, america as a nation has no taste in food.
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LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
 
iamblades said:
No, US budweiser is sold damn near everywhere in the world, it's just not named the same everywhere due to trademark issues.

As for bud being pure piss, it is not substantially worse than the mass market pilsner lagers everywhere else in the world, and is probably better than all the light beers that increasingly dominate much of the worldwide beer market.

I don't think there is a country on the planet who's beer sales aren't dominated by shitty lagers, even Guiness (probably the most popular non pilsner beer on the planet) in the UK is dominated by Stella Artois, Carlsberg, Foster's, Beck's and yes, Budweiser.

It's certainly not an 'American beer is all shitty' situation either, when America has by far the widest variety of craft beer available anywhere.
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Yeah look at all the awful beer! Only have Bud in America! Yeah right. There is so much good beer in the US it isn't even funny.
 
raebodep said:
Wait... what?...Americans don't eat fries with vinegar? What is this?! My mind is blown!
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I've seen it done around here, actually, but they do it at the county fair where all the unwashed hill people gather.
 
sefskillz said:
man all the real deal chicken joints in Nashville have malt vinegar out. you just went to the wrong places, man!
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He's referring to white vinegar though.
 
TheSeks said:
Bud outside the US is: Budvar. Bud US can't be sold outside of the Us (if I remember the story or whatever right), and in any case: Bud, like most American brews, is pure piss. I seriously don't get how someone in Canada/outside of the US can be envious of it if they have European/rest of the world breweries.
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It makes me laugh when people actually try to make the claim that American beer isn't good with a straight face. Most European brews don't even really compare with the stuff that US craft breweries are putting out these days imo - the craft brewery movement is completely dominated by American beers.
 
TheSeks said:
Bud outside the US is: Budvar. Bud US can't be sold outside of the Us (if I remember the story or whatever right), and in any case: Bud, like most American brews, is pure piss. I seriously don't get how someone in Canada/outside of the US can be envious of it if they have European/rest of the world breweries.
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What in the fuck are you going on about???

Jesus, please be an ignorant non-U.S. citizen. Plenty of great American brews here, if you bother to look (and sample).
 
Foxix said:
The last time I had vinegar on something I nearly threw up. Never again. That crap can rot in hell.
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On salad vinegar is great.
Especially something like unfiltered organic apple vinegar.

Also, ITT poor people from countries with no bacon culture. Seriously, lots of different types of bacon here. Though I'm a sucker for Prosciutto and Osso Collo which are from Italy.

The homemade bacon from my grandma was the best, smoked so thoroughly :-(

TheSeks said:
Bud outside the US is: Budvar. Bud US can't be sold outside of the Us (if I remember the story or whatever right), and in any case: Bud, like most American brews, is pure piss. I seriously don't get how someone in Canada/outside of the US can be envious of it if they have European/rest of the world breweries.
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Fucker, you can't even get your facts straight. Budějovický Budvar IS NOT BUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Have to agree with the Yanks on the beer front. Their mass produced stuff may be extremely shitty but it's more than made up for by the craft beer. A lot of it is making an appearance in the poncier pubs over here as well as in proper American themed restaurants nowadays.

At least it is in London anyway.
 
I know here in America, bacon is used more as an additional flavoring more than anything. You can't actually get full off of 3 strips of bacon.

For those in other parts of the world, does the bacon come thicker and more like a proper meat that will actually make you full?
 
wienke said:
I know here in America, bacon is used more as an additional flavoring more than anything. You can't actually get full off of 3 strips of bacon.

For those in other parts of the world, does the bacon come thicker and more like a proper meat that will actually make you full?
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What????????? Bacon is food where I am from in the South, eat it every day. They sell thick bacon here in the states, your just not looking
 
methos75 said:
What????????? Bacon is food where I am from in the South, eat it every day.
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i think he's asking if these people are eating bacon steaks. steakon. which would essentially be pork belly, from what i can gather.

smoked_pork_belly_lentils-2-500x3351.jpg
 
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