Trivia: cole slaw is an Anglicized version of the Dutch word koolsla, meaning cabbage salad.
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Do trumpers like weed? Most of the ones I know give me a hard time about "smoking drugs"
Ik trumpers that actively consume shrooms and smoke weed, the logic in them is fried
Probably the young ones? Idk, i was also confused
It is a mixed bag, some support legalization and smoking weed. A lot of the MAGA base are older, 60's (era of flower power, drugs, freedom) gen that sold out their peace/no war to become CEO's and fuck over the workers, yet still like to party. The other side are more religious, so "god" has told them (in their minds, I guess) that weed and all drugs are bad. Pharmaceuticals though, are welcome, in hand-fulls. It is all fuzzy math, really.
"the drugs I do are fine, but any of the drugs I don't do are evil"
Land stolen from the Native Americans in almost all cases. (That's different from the other items in this list, which were produced or invented or traded.)
I would argue that apple pie was "stolen" since they have a whole phrase "as american as apple pie" when it isn't even american. It wasn't traded. It likely came with the brits et al, that colonised america. And since has become a staple of american culture.
as for chips & salsa, tex-mex food is kind of an interesting case.
You'd be wrong. Apple and other fruit tarts may have been present in Europe, but a significant amount of American deserts originated with the Pennsylvania Deuch.
This comic is actually just bait though as is conflates "learned from" with "stolen" over and over again. Bigots dont have a problem with taking things they like from other cultures over centuries. They dont like people they see as different from them right now.
The topic is sharing culture, where lots of very patriotic US things have their origins in other cultures. How so much of the US identity is a mish mash of other cultures. The US is even known as a cultural melting pot!
The hypocrisy is being ok with other cultures if you're familiar with them, but hating 'new' culture. The comic is criticizing xenophobia by pointing out the (somewhat) xenophilic history of US culture.
I mean, from what i can see by googling it, it does seem like it originaled in england and was brought over to america. The apple trees in america were crab apple trees and were useless for making apple pie. The apple trees you use were brought over and domesticated before baring fruit that could be used in the dish.
Also, when i say stolen, i am talking about using a dish that didn't originate in the USA to define the USA. But to mean that this pie is culturally american and patriotic. Except ironically it actually just proves how american culture is born of many many different cultures that came before it, and being proud to be american whilst simultaneously wanting anyone who isnt white to get out of the country is so idiotic and backwards.
Apples themselves originated in Kazakhstan 👍
Lemons, northwestern India.
The American flag in the background should also be marked as, "Made in China" 😁
Hey now! Germans created sausages with love and a sense of pride. Hotdogs require hate and poverty to be made correctly.
Someone's been enjoying Josh Johnson's shows.
And we don't call the sausage hot dog, only the finished product.
Plus as a German Id go with the Danish version using a pølser.
Pretty sure hot dogs can't even legally be called proper sausages in Germany or the rest of the EU. Too much filler and preservatives.
My Hotdog is usually with a Schüblig.
I think you can call them as you like, but American meat usually is not considered food for humans in the EU. The problem typically is the amount of hormones.
And antibiotics.
There is a german joke/saying; Why does the butcher not eat sausage? –Because he knows what's inside!
You have to at least be growing your own weed, right? It's so easy.
Even if you're not, who's buying weed imported all the way from Asia? The farthest my weed comes from is BC, and that but rarely.
I think the image is only looking at where the plant originated. Weed came from the Himilayas, in Asia. If it was strictly where the stuff you're consuming were grown, then the apples in the apple pie, lemons in the lemonade, cabbage from the coleslaw, corn on the cob, and the hot dogs would all probably be considered American since that's most likely where they were grown/made.
Yeah I meant as in it's produced locally-ish not necessarily by you yourself.
It's called "weed" for a reason. 🤷🏼♂️
To be fair, they don't want the culture. They never said anything about the food.
food is massive part of culture. like arguably the biggest part.
US don't has any own culture, everything is from others, even the people.
I always thought apple pie was a Dutch invention.
No you're thinking of what they were cooked in, the Dutch Oven
Imagine Egypt-gating lemonade. Artist dropped the ball there
Only flaw is that they're drinking Modelo and not Busch, the brand that makes beer in camo cans. 10/10 no notes.
busch still works here, too. anheuser-busch was acquired by belgium-based inbev in 2008.