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Weird Americanisms (UK vs USA thread)
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EleventhDoctor
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I was wondering how long it would be before this came up.
Air Zombie Meat
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Honestly I expected the whole thread to be about guns and monarchy.
Lived in the US 20 years (aka my whole life) and never even seen a gun.
Gordon Ramsey has quite the gift for it I think.
You've just indirectly stepped to my mother and grandmother.
Them's fightin' words.
frankie_baby
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we shouldn't argue because we know our food is the best
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Cerebral Assassin
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Yeah, we have a lot to learn from the country that invented Pink Slime.
Holy mother of God... Them besmirching the good name of Cheddar like that is an insult to the British people.
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American Chefs on British TV: I can't think of a single one.
British Chefs on American TV: Gordon Ramsey, Jamie Oliver, and isn't Nigella on some weird food version of The Voice called The Taste or something now? Probably a fair few more.
AllIsOneIsNone
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This thread was bound from the beginning to become this type of English/American feud: English saying they've been around longer so they know whats right, Americans saying they've made things better.
They're all partial truths in my opinion. Although from what I've seen in relation to the food discussion, finding variety of food is easier in the U.S. With that said I've only been to London for a few days so I'm sure if you know your way around that's not completely true.
And yes, a good portion of the English seem introverted and sour, and a good portion of Americans are loud and obnoxious.
So we both suck, okay? I believe Americans are just put in the spotlight a hell of a lot more. The people I interact with in Atlanta (home) for the most part aren't southern derelict hillbillies with no culture. They're nice, somewhat intelligent, open-minded people with no culture.
They're all partial truths in my opinion. Although from what I've seen in relation to the food discussion, finding variety of food is easier in the U.S. With that said I've only been to London for a few days so I'm sure if you know your way around that's not completely true.
And yes, a good portion of the English seem introverted and sour, and a good portion of Americans are loud and obnoxious.
So we both suck, okay? I believe Americans are just put in the spotlight a hell of a lot more. The people I interact with in Atlanta (home) for the most part aren't southern derelict hillbillies with no culture. They're nice, somewhat intelligent, open-minded people with no culture.
DJ_Lae
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I've actually never seen one of these in stores anywhere in Canada - I've always wanted to try and see how awful it tastes.
(Cheese Whiz is still available everywhere, though, and I'd imagine the canned variety is the same thing just aerated).
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Silent_Bomber
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From my conversation's with other countries over the years I gather that both the US, and Britain are famous the world over for their terrible food. LOL
I think most mainland European countries would see this as a cripple fight tbh.
I think most mainland European countries would see this as a cripple fight tbh.
Nightstick11
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If I've learned one thing in this thread, it is that the British are charmingly unusual.
how is cheese wiz in a can representative of American cuisine ?
Then tell us about them.
peanutbutterlatte
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One takes heroin all the time, the other drinks lots of Guiness, and the last are particularly intimate with sheep.
Anoregon
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No, we just actually call them the bolded words because that's what they are.
Silent_Bomber
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Ooooh be careful, they'll bludgeon you with a glass bottle if they see that.
Joke, we love Scotland really, pity they hate us with a vengeance
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I feel as though you guys get so bent out of shape over this when you all do essentially the same thing. I constantly see Brits lumping all 311 million Americans into one single, homogenous group and it is quite irritating. Someone from Augusta, Maine is probably different than someone from Santa Fe, New Mexico and yet Brits seems to say "No they are Americans so who cares, am i right guys? Americans lol."
Obviously that last part was somewhat of an exaggeration but it certainly feels that way.
peanutbutterlatte
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Ooooh be careful, they'll bludgeon you with a glass bottle if they see that.
Joke, we love Scotland really, pity they hate us with a vengeance
nephilimdj
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Only USA cooking show I know of is "Top Chef", barely any of the contestants can make restaurant quality food.
Always is like "im from texas, i love chilli, i will make a chilli, lemon and lobster salad".. :/
Then why don't you refer to the English as the English? Referring to the British includes the Scots, Welsh and N. Irish. Those of the Rupublic may take offence so be careful calling them British.
Wikipedia has a nice article (complete with pictures) on the differences.
same reason why you will find actors from all over the world end up here. If you want to be a celebrity chef with a larger audience they end up on TV here
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I can't think of a reason why an American chef would want to go to Britain.
Honestly, I'm just kidding.
But do you really think cooking shows and celebrity chefs are an accurate representation of a countries food?
There is a slight difference as we are different countries.
Some Americans refer to British as 'English' no matter where they're from. If I say someone from florida and ohio is american I am correct. If you call me English you are incorrect. I am Scottish and British.
I don't know if the outsiders realize that American cuisine is incredibly varied because of the size, population and rich immigrant history of this country.
I don't think I've ever met an American who was even aware of the existence of Wales.
WanderingWind
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"Can't think of any American chefs?"
Anthony Bourdain, Thomas Keller, Tom Colicchio, Mario Batali, Emeril (STILL COUNTS) Legasse?
Never heard of them? Does your technological backwardness extend from microwaves to television, too?
Anthony Bourdain, Thomas Keller, Tom Colicchio, Mario Batali, Emeril (STILL COUNTS) Legasse?
Never heard of them? Does your technological backwardness extend from microwaves to television, too?
We are taught US demographics and politics in school, along with other countries.
frankie_baby
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i don't know if americans realise that british cuisine is incredibly varied because of the size, population and rich immigrant history of this country
I do.
EleventhDoctor
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Prove it by posting pics.;-)
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You would be correct, but I was trying to make a point about the general lack of effort Brits seem to make when it comes to geographical/cultural differences between states.
I said on British TV. But no, I've never heard of any of them, apart from maybe the first one, I think people were talking about him in the vegan thread.
Cerebral Assassin
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Outside of Bourdain, none of these are shown on UK TV(which is a pity as Keller is extremely good), we get shitty chefs like the Barefoot Contessa & Rachel Ray(I think that is her name).
We are taught us demographics and politics in school, also our news media follows the us closely.
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From reading this thread, I don't think they realize this at all. But maybe they are starting to learn.
Angry Fork
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Was going to say UK is better because of the NHS, a history of pro-socialist politicians and gun bannings but you guys have some shitty anti-'blasphemy' stuff popping up lately to appease religious feelings, along with the obsession with avoiding libel. America sucks in most things (relative to top ranking 1st world countries) but I do love the first amendment deeply.
WanderingWind
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Right, and by that same metric the only UK chef most people in America have head of is Ramsay. Maybe Oliver - and he barely counts. And if you haven't heard of Bourdain...I just don't know what to say. That's on you, not your country.
And the UK has 64 million people. The US has 311 million. The UK has the influences of different countries, but we have those same influences due to immigrants on cuisine and food stuffs.
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Might be somewhat of a cheap shot but when someone equates our food to fucking cheese wiz and pink slime, we have to respond lol.
sure it is. but it wouldn't be a stretch to propose that you likely will see more variety here. It is a larger place geographically with each region having indigenously developed cuisine, a larger ethnic mix and by far has the largest number of immigrants as a percentage of the population.
Why do most British folk have bad teeth?
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