Oh, the other Americans are gonna have to face the music eventually too. I just never had any issue with foreign cultures to begin with. I was the kind of kid who was on web forums in the early aughts saying “don’t judge the guy for his grammar, he might not be a native speaker, you don’t know that”. And that was before I learned of the concept of a dialect. So I’m just overall tired of dealing with this sort of childish “my culture good their culture bad” thinking that nobody seems to have grown out of.

But, you know, I have a very special beef with englishmen, because every time I was like “oh hey have you heard of biscuits and gravy” they’d be like “no wonder Americans are so fat” immediately, without second thought, and refuse to listen to the clarification about what a biscuit is (this was before I knew a British scone was basically an American biscuit but richer and sweet).

And, I mean, it’s all superficial and silly until you remember what happens when someone dares to fiddle with European food and make it their own. Masala Chai, Vietnamese Banh Mi, Philipino Spaghetti, all these innovations were met with by violence from the colonizers. Couldn’t let people just enjoy their own things.

But it’s gonna be different this time. When America’s empire falls, there will be no western power to take its place. The era of global western hegemony is finally coming to an end.

Mmm, that’s how I make my sausage gravy. Got made fun of by an Appalachian guy for it being like concrete but hey, why not if you’ve got the meat, right?

It doesn’t work with the joke though: Americans use the word “pudding” to refer to something sweet while Brits use the word “biscuit” to refer to something sweet. Fries aren’t sweet in either of the two opposing dialects. So both should be able to see the appeal

I think I’ve seen chorizo poutine as an option the one time I visited Canada, in Niagara falls I believe it was. But I only had time to try the classic, and also I can’t remember if it was Mexican style chorizo or Spanish style chorizo or something else

The English word “Sherbert” and the bangla word “Sharbat” derive from a common linguistic ancestor from before the indo-european split. One word refers to flavored ice, and another refers to a cold, sweet drink.

Odds are, neither one is the same as the original proto-indo-european refreshment that they derived from. When a people goes to a new place, they take their tastes with them and apply them to what’s available to them there.

Words, too, change meaning over time. It’s just the way things go. Nothing stays the same. Cultures drift, and people evolve.

What I call a biscuit may be closer to what you call a scone, and white gravy may be an abomination to your eyes, but it is just as cherished to me as Yorkshire pudding and brown gravy likely is to you.

And hell, y’all’s empire fell to pieces long ago. The time is coming where y’all’re gonna have to start engaging with cultures other than y’all’s own as equals instead of with that insufferable smug sense of superiority for once. Best start practicing now

The core joke here is that Yorkshire pudding is unsweetened, just as American biscuits are unsweetened

It is a little heavy for breakfast for my tastes, yes. But it was originally used by people doing hard farm labor during the day who needed the calories and I do not at all fit that description so I respect the tradition even if I don’t follow it.

Vegetable chunks in the gravy seems a little unusual but I totally see it fitting the dish if you don’t want to make a separate vegetable side. But here’s my little recipe, passed down my family for god knows how long. They didn’t give me much, but they gave me this:

1. Take breakfast sausage in ground form. If you only have links and you want to replicate the original tradition, you can remove the casing to get at the sausage inside. Or just cut up the links if you don’t want to waste the casing. If you don’t have access to breakfast sausage or it’s too expensive, this is the approximate spice mix to use in conjunction with ground pork: sage, thyme, rosemary, black pepper, nutmeg, allspice, ginger, red pepper flakes, coriander, garlic powder.
2. Cook breakfast sausage until you have toasty bits on the outside. Coat the sausage with flour, then cook for as long as you can without the flour burning. Then add milk, cook and stir until flour is incorporated with the milk into a sauce. Ratios are very forgiving, traditionally you’d use more milk and flour to get more mileage out of expensive meat.

Biscuits are also hella easy. Break cold butter (or whatever fat source you can afford, but not liquid oils) into chunks, mix into flour. Add buttermilk and baking soda, or milk and baking powder, then bake at 170 C until golden brown. Ratios are very forgiving as well.

I think I saw the exact video you’re referencing here 😂

I got hooked on poutine after my first visit to Canada, made my own for weeks afterwards. 10/10 no notes

Usually, you’ll find they’ll start making fun of you before you can even explain what it is

Had sleep apnea before leaving the states. Used to sleep 14 hour days, still sleepy during the day. Didn’t figure it out until I got depression too and started examining the sleep issues as potential depression symptoms (they weren’t, and in fact sleep apnea sometimes causes depression).

Note my example is extreme, and I’ve seen many complaints about other issues (like waking up in the middle of the night, I never did), so ymmv

The difference between a matrix and a 2d array of numbers is the operations that are performed

A tensor really isn’t standardized in the same way so it’s basically just an n-d array in my mind

Lots of firefox mentions, no mention of Vivaldi tho…?

This certainly ain’t standard - I lived in the states until about a year ago, iirc Carl’s Jr was the only one that served non-breakfast during “breakfast hours”. Even at McDonald’s in Hong Kong or mainland china has a breakfast hour thing where you can’t get burgers or nugs during breakfast. I think the other fast food chains do it differently but I’ve stopped eating fast food since it’s more expensive than local stuff anyway. Hell, certain places I like don’t serve anything but youtiao and soy milk in the morning when I really just want some basic rice & whatnot

Idk maybe I’m just in the wrong corner of Asia lol

I only have one quarrel with it and that’s that the 5th season was rushed, imo it’s quite excellent otherwise

I think a federated version should work…

Ah yes the comic that deprogrammed me on anarchism

It’s my go-to for western movies and tv - what do y’all use?

My other goto’s:

1. nyaa.si for anime (most of what I watch is anime anyway 😅
2. fitgirl for video games, if not available search reddit cautiously bc I’m scared of viruses 😅

But for tv and such I’m not too too scared of viruses, they’d have to use an exploit in the codec, and usually they just use a .mp4.exe or similar bc they lazy 😁

Common misunderstanding - her full name is “Jessica McCarty Et Al”

Hey, don’t insult fart gobblers