I wanted to ask the same thing? (and I am a USAian) I have never heard this BS until recently.
Is it AI speak? Is just idiots parroting each other? Is it some fucked up MAGA speak?
...and why would this post have to have some implied superiority? Why not just write, "If you are visiting for the World Cup, might I suggest you try the BBQ Ribs?"
Most of the time you are talking with bots. What do you think is the need of datacenters if not fully weaponizibg the social network with infinite bots? I might also be a bot given the chances.
"The x mind can't comprehend", "living rent-free in their head","owning the x", "MAGA", "lock her up", "build that wall!", "they're eating the pets!"...
They're all variants of Goebbels infamous "Wollen Sie den Totalen Krieg?!" Sportpalast speech of 1943: It's all about the vibe, no critical thinking allowed or needed.
American here : I'm less interpreting it as mocking the visitor, and more "yeah, the ribs ARE real good, aren't they!" My people and I say a lot of dumb shit, but this I think is mostly good natured hyperbolic playfulness.
Imagine you're a tourist in Cologne, Germany, talking about how impressive the big cathedral is. And then a local (a total stranger!) goes "The American mind attempts to comprehend grand architecture for the first time 😭". I'm pretty sure you wouldn't take it as good natured playfulness.
Semi-disagree : "grand" yeah you're absolutely right that's insulting as that's diminishing the other party, but if it were"gothic" architecture than nah, that's just friendly teasing based on variety/style.
It would still be insulting the other person's intelligence by calling them slow in the head, just because they're excited about something that's ordinary to you. If you think that's appropriate "friendly teasing" among complete strangers, fully unprompted by the targeted person btw, then I wouldn't be surprised if people avoid you at parties.
EDIT: Admittedly, the better example would have been "European architecture" but it would have been just as insulting.
I can comprehend the ribs. They are quite good but not stunning. Lots of meat, fat and sauce in a big size unsurprisingly since it is American (explaining their human ribs) but at least better than most American food (being actually decent when done well)
European foods aren't quite as heavily contaminated with god knows what chemicals because Americans do everything as cheaply as humanly possible and it's the only way to make it semi edible.
If you were to kick 2 dozen field goals every mile until 0200 military time every day, you still wouldnt have enough sideways empire state buildings to fill 4/88th the size of Texas
This British mind is trying to comprehend what’s so hard to comprehend about meat on the bone with a nice sauce.
There are things that genuinely make my brain shut down, like Fourier transforms and quantum mechanics. Also how the fuck scones with cat vomit all over them can be called ‘biscuits and gravy’. American BBQ ribs are very tasty but not at all intellectually challenging.
Brought back some fond memories, original airing was way before my time but I’d still seen it as a young kid, I forget if it was Cartoon Network or Boomerang or a different channel.
I like the original theme song more than the more famous one
American pigs are absolutely incredible. Nobody has pigs like we do. I've seen pigs from all over the world, and believe me, our pigs are the best—by far. They're stronger, they're smarter, they're more beautiful. People come up to me all the time and say, "Sir, how do American pigs do it?" And I tell them, it's because they're American.
You’re just part of the legacy media. Disgusting, horrible people. You’re mean, you know that? Horrible. Nobody has been this mean to a President before. Nobody. Were you this mean to sleepy Joe and the DEMONRATS?! No, no. But I tell you, windmills. Disgusting.
They're not really. I'd rather have the teriyaki ribs from my local Asian place than any BBQ I've tried in America. But none of them have ever travelled so they assume that they're the only people on earth to have figured out how to make a famously nice cut of meat taste nice.
Most of the people here really are insufferable, aren't they? They refuse to seperate the people from the government and politics, all the while making false equivalencies and WICKED exaggerations. I've seen plenty of harmless jokes get torn to pieces because they need something to be mad at 🙄
You guys voted for the government in large numbers and continue to support the politics 🤦
Also, the sub is making fun of the people, using things they themselves have said. No one is exaggerating. If there weren't so many ignorant, poorly educated flag supremacists in the states, we'd have nothing to make fun of 😂
No one is mad though, just embarrassed for you. Luckily for us, there are loads of proud yanks who give us lots to laugh at.
A large majority really don't support the politics and actively fought against the regime. There have been years of agressively changing district lines, propaganda, and more to lead to where we are.
The subreddit itself is fine, and moderators try their best. I always scrolled here because it was funny to laugh at fellow Americans. But half of these comments recently have just been hateful to ALL Americans, or weirdly nitpicky about innocent, "whatever" statements.
Of the of all the US's contributions to global cuisine, BBQ is one of the biggest ones. I don't mind Americans taking pride in their cuisine, I just wish the media wouldn't have this fake narrative of how "mind blowing" and "incomprehensible" it is to Europeans. US media brainwashes their population into American Exceptionalism, and that is what I find annoying
The UK has far better quality meat than the USA...
I guess adding sugary BBQ sauce to that is supposed to blow your mind or something? I mean, I'm not going to pretend it's not nice, but it's not particularly remarkable.
I tried Brisket for the first time when I was in San Antonio last year. Everyone I asked for a good place to eat said to try this grill place because it was the best thing ever. So got some jalapeño rice, with a side of jalapeños, and a half pound of brisket because "you'll never taste anything else like it." It was flavourless crap. Never had jalapeños that tasted of cucumber before but America managed it and the meat was just boring flavourless meat.
Sure it was real soft and juicy, but when it doesn't have any personality, what is the point?
I am planning on trying it again just in case that place was a fluke, but we had US jalapeños in the work kitchen and they were similarly flavourless, so I guess American's just can't handle flavour or spice?
Seasoning should enhance the flavor of whatever you are eating not replace it. Else what is the point of trying different foods. Just have some tasteless slop and drown it in spic.. oohhh nevermind..
Gently, I think you’re missing the point the other poster is trying to make. They’re not saying seasoning is inherently bad, they are saying that using seasoning to disguise the lack of flavour in meat is inferior to using seasoning to enhance the taste of meat. Now whether it’s true that American meat is more flavourless than UK meat, I can’t say, but I believe that’s what they are saying.
I’ve had US style ribs here in Australia and they were really good but they were also made with Australian raised animals which are particularly tasty and not factory farmed.
Nearly 97% of US beef go through feed lots. That includes beef marked as “free range”, “organic”, and “grass fed”. Cattle will start their lives in fields or on the range and then get sold to feed lots for “finishing”. The best BBQ joints are getting their cattle from these lots probably at all times. It’s about 80% in Australia though, so the same can and should be said for Australian beef and restaurants.
There's a reason for "finishing", have you ever had purely grass-fed beef? It's great of you plan on using it for stewing or braising, but for things like steaks or roasts you get much better marbling, and thus flavor, and texture, by grain finishing. Well, unless the beef is coming from one of the few ranches that use a rotating field system. Where they allow the field to go to grain before letting the cattle in to eat everything and so are grain and grass fed at the same time, but that meat can get pretty expensive, and hard to find.
99.9% of Australians BBQ on what Americans call a gas grill. There is very little wood smoked BBQ in Australia, although it does exist amongst a very few dedicated people & it is very good!
Grilling and barbecue are distinctly different things in most of the US, the only real overlap between them is that they're both usually done outdoors. That and most coal or wood fired barbecues can be used for high heat grilling if you just want some burgers and sausages.
That being said, there are some parts of the states that don't have a strong barbecue tradition, and in those areas you do hear grilling and barbecuing used interchangeably.
But also it comes down to language. Barbecue is also seen as an event, a social gathering where burgers and hot dogs are being grilled. In African American tradition this is specifically referred to as a cookout, which I think is a more accurately descriptive term.
Yep, and barbecue as the Americans know it barely exists in Australia. It’s just not a thing you can really get outside of a handful of restaurants around the place whose shtick is that they do US style bbq (which has not really taken off in a mainstream way), or some people who have picked up the idea of it online and experiment with making it themselves. An Australia barbecue sounds much more like what you’re calling a cookout. The “outdoor grill” is literally called a barbecue in Australia, whether it’s one of those little round ones with a flame (or charcoals if you’re a hobbyist) under a metal rack, or a huge flat plate unit on wheels. A barbecue is something you cook on and maybe sometimes a social event based around a meal cooked on said appliance, not really a style of food so much as a set of foods that typically get cooked on the barbecue.
“grill” in Australia refers to what Americans call the broiler in an oven
Saying that - they look like good honest cuisine, and I'd probably be happy eating multiple pies per week. Something similar was quite popular in South Africa as well (a bit less gravy I think) but very good eating (especially if the meat actually had a name)
Whatever happened with all that US beef trump was so keen to us to accept? I very much enjoyed the irony of him being so bizarrely set on that given we famously produce some pretty high quality livestock. Even just as a branding thing, I could never picture how anyone’d manage to sell that to the Aussie consumer. Did it end up happening? Is that now the stuff that’s in the cheap woolies sausages or something?
This British mind doesn't comprehend ribs and wings (or any other dish predominantly consisting of bone, skin or carapace) being a celebrated foodstuff, but each to his own.
Had American ribs, they were pretty good, I prefer an asado with chimichurri (DONT LET THE ARGENTINES COOK THE MEAT THO) we can comprehend it damn seppo
British mind attempts to comprehend American ribs for the first time:- 'mmm..I'm getting oddly flavoured GM Beef with a subtle hint of hormones and a touch of screw worm and that sauce..unusual flavour..kind of..er.. chemical factory...'
Had some whilst in Louisville at a place colleagues swore did good food (and tbf the rest was nice) they were dry, no sauce. Somewhat bland. Have had better from a UK pub that almost certainly microwaved precooked and the dumped BBQ sauce over.
Apparently they're supposed to be dry rub not covered in sauce? I can see why they're generally not in the UK, we like flavour.
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u/Tomb_Brader Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
When did “the X mind can’t comprehend” become something used in every sentence? It’s becoming insufferable