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Where do you think pizza comes from?
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. 💪
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.
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.
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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To be fair Chinese food in Europe doesn't have much to do with actual Chinese food either
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 🤣:
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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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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
Time to make a pilgrimage
Get drunk before having it, but if you're coming here you were probably going to do that anyway
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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I don't know any European that would only eat a slice of pizza instead of the whole thing.
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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I'm on my way home from Amsterdam atm, a slice of pizza was €10.
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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My pet peeve is when lids are slightly on. It's worse than having no lid at all.
Those new, shitty lids are always slightly on. That's as "on" as they get.
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It could kill a European, if consumed by a European. However, it is consumed by an American, so it kills an American.
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.
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.
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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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.
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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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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I live in Scotland, our chip shops do deep fried battered pizza. Get on our levels.
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You know, Costco exists in Europe as well, with the same food order menu.
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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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As someone on a diet: fuck OP for posting this
Looks like half the calories of a swiss fondue. We are not really European though.
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I recommend looking up what an Irish breakfast roll is. Thank me later.
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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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European here. Can confirm. Got heartburn just by looking at this picture.
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.
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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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.
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!
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