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[โ€“] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 78 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Where do you think pizza comes from?

[โ€“] PugJesus@lemmy.world 64 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Like all things, we have seized it and made it our own. Like how getting Chinese food in an American restaurant only vaguely resembles Chinese cuisine. ๐Ÿ’ช

[โ€“] FellatioHornblower@lemmynsfw.com 22 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Sure, but the Americanized versions of Italian, German, or Chinese foods were made by immigrants adapting their traditional recipes with ingredients they had on hand.

[โ€“] snooggums@midwest.social 18 points 5 months ago

Just like how italian, German, and Chinese foods came about! America is just more recent and we tend to keep the labels of the influences ao it is more obvious.

[โ€“] PugJesus@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Well, that and adjusting to suit mainstream tastes. Like how garlic bread is largely a Western introduction in Korea, but is preferred sweet there instead of savory.

Development of cuisine is a fascinating thing!

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[โ€“] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

To be fair Chinese food in Europe doesn't have much to do with actual Chinese food either

[โ€“] pigup@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Dude I had sweet and sour chicken at a Chinese food joint in a mall in chemnitz Germany, it was a friggin schnitzel. Just with sweet sour sauce. And instead of potatoes it was a ball of rice lol. I found the picture I took here ๐Ÿคฃ:

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[โ€“] Cosmos7349@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

I mean, tomatoes are a fruit native to the Americas, so even though pizza was invented in Italy, its invention is still tied to the America side of the Atlantic in some ways. Pizza has a very interesting past!

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[โ€“] MrsDoyle@lemmy.world 71 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Hah! In Scotland we dip pizza in batter and deep fry it. With a deep-fried Mars bar for afters.

https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/five-glaswegian-chip-shop-delicacies-11462402

[โ€“] PugJesus@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Skua@kbin.earth 18 points 5 months ago

Get drunk before having it, but if you're coming here you were probably going to do that anyway

[โ€“] FellatioHornblower@lemmynsfw.com 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The first big wave of immigrants to the US were the Scotch-Irish, which is where the American propensity to deep fry everything comes from.

You can aslo the American usurpation and economic dominance over England as those Scotch-Irish getting their revenge.

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[โ€“] vxx@lemmy.world 64 points 5 months ago (10 children)

I don't know any European that would only eat a slice of pizza instead of the whole thing.

[โ€“] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 38 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The only time an European eats a single slice of pizza is the next morning after they have overestimated their ability to devour the entire thing.

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[โ€“] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I'm on my way home from Amsterdam atm, a slice of pizza was โ‚ฌ10.

I skipped that and left hungry, because i'm buying two pizza's and a big bottle of coke when i get home in about an hour.

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[โ€“] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 53 points 5 months ago

It could kill a European, if consumed by a European. However, it is consumed by an American, so it kills an American.

[โ€“] Kolrami@lemmy.world 53 points 5 months ago (2 children)

My pet peeve is when lids are slightly on. It's worse than having no lid at all.

[โ€“] grue@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Those new, shitty lids are always slightly on. That's as "on" as they get.

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[โ€“] sunbytes@lemmy.world 48 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I once went to a Polish restaurant and the starter was pork fat on toast.

And a hazelnut vodka.

There are many ways for a heart to implode.

[โ€“] hglman@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Pork fat is less processed product and certainly more healthy. America isn't actually great at much but one thing we do have is the least healthy food to ever exist.

[โ€“] Psythik@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Truth. Heart disease wasn't nearly as prevalent back when we cooked everything with lard. And then Crisco came along, started producing that overprocessed "vegetable oil" garbage, marketed it (and continue to market it) as "healthy", and people actually fell for their BS. Hell, judging by the amount of downvotes you got, half the public still believes this lie.

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[โ€“] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 42 points 5 months ago (5 children)

As an European, I cannot comprehend the width of that centre console. 2 drinks side-by-side AND some extra? Must be a full eagle screech wtf is a kilometer V8 mortr truck.

[โ€“] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

When I was a kid, I remember being impressed that my dad's Dodge Ram could fit an entire laptop in the center console, horizontally.

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[โ€“] MudMan@fedia.io 31 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Italians will cook your pasta inside a whole wheel of cheese. Spaniards deep fry pork belly and serve it as a snack. Last time I was in Eastern Europe I thought something was a sweet only to discover it was a lump of straight-up pork fat. Just raw. To munch on.

Americans may be more consistent at eating gross murderfood regularly and in large quantities, but they sure aren't the only ones to have it.

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[โ€“] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 5 months ago (11 children)

I live in Scotland, our chip shops do deep fried battered pizza. Get on our levels.

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[โ€“] kaosof@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (7 children)

You know, Costco exists in Europe as well, with the same food order menu.

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[โ€“] MissJinx@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I remember buying a coke in america for the first time and the whole family sharing it lol. The crazy shit we ate in america became our family inside joke.

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[โ€“] Coreidan@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (4 children)

The real crime is eating that in your car

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[โ€“] PeteBauxigeg@lemm.ee 16 points 5 months ago

As someone on a diet: fuck OP for posting this

[โ€“] ShouldIHaveFun@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 months ago (14 children)

Looks like half the calories of a swiss fondue. We are not really European though.

[โ€“] RoyalEngineering@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Swiss

We are not really European though.

๐Ÿ˜‚

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[โ€“] TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I recommend looking up what an Irish breakfast roll is. Thank me later.

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[โ€“] genuineparts@infosec.pub 14 points 5 months ago

European here. Can confirm. Got heartburn just by looking at this picture.

[โ€“] hydroxycotton@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

My Costco has an 810 calorie chocolate chip cookie. When I first saw that I was like how tf do you cram the better part of 1000 calories into ONE cookie lol

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[โ€“] SpeedLimit55@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (13 children)

And all of that is around $5-6!

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[โ€“] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 months ago (14 children)

Why would you get the ice cream/froyo AND a soda?

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[โ€“] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Did shrinkflation not hit america? Everything in that photo is huge, and it's not like the car is small. Even while having a huge car as the background, the food looks huge.

[โ€“] Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Seems to have happened to everything but Costco's food court. I guess it's a strategy to get people in the door. Their hotdog/drink combo is still $1.50.

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[โ€“] arefx@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's very much a thing unfortunately its everywhere. this is just from costco a wholesale retailer you need a paid membership to shop at, hence the large portions and cheap price on it.

[โ€“] Cethin@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Also, the CEO is adamant about keeping it that way.

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[โ€“] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

We are all working class. Don't let the 1% divide us with their borders.

It's clear we all love pizza... together. Solidarity amongst the working class!

[โ€“] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't know why but those ice cream things make me physically sick to look at sometimes. That amount of sugar in one sitting is borderline lethal for me.

[โ€“] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

now imagine drinking it after you just had Pizza+Soda

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