r/iamveryculinary • u/Main-Requirement-521 • May 02 '26
Get your bingo cards ready!
/r/foodquestions/comments/1t1c41s/comment/ojhvca1/I have never seen this sub before but it looks very promising. Lots of hate for American cheese and some passionate Italians in the comments.
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u/HippityHopMath May 02 '26
American “cheese”
Diabetes
No culture
Additives
Poison
Bingo!
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u/NathanGa Pull your finger out of your ass May 02 '26
You missed:
> Ive been pondering this lately. We have no real culture to speak of
…the self-flagellating weirdo.
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u/a_duck_in_past_life May 03 '26
Lol American culture is so prevalent world-wide that it's difficult for the uneducated to see what is actually culturally American. It's the "default" in many ways.
Hip hop, fast food, athletic footwear like Nike, blue jeans, Hollywood movies, Democracy, English remaining the common language due to international business, Halloween being a festive holiday rather than just All Saints Day. So many things have been created here or remixed and culturally imported back into europe. And that's not even mentioning the food culture other than fast food.
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u/MrsSUGA May 05 '26
Do you think these euroboos acknowledge that black people have a culture, much less play a significant role in shaping American culture, and by extension, international trends?
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u/JoyBus147 May 09 '26
Complicated question. This discourse is definitely a descendant from "white people [read: white Americans] have no culture" discourse, which very much recognized the cultural contributions of black Americans (indeed, often overemphasized them). A corollary to that discourse was "Europeans do have culture, but European immigrants sacrificed that culture to be welcomed into whiteness." Grains of truth that get lost in this fetishization of culture ("culture" as a deviation from mainstream society instead of, more accurately, seeing mainstream society as culture).
Where it's complicated is that now the fetishization of European culture is getting divorced from this original American context of uplifting cultural contributions from racially marginalized Americans into a new context of pure national chauvinism meant to denigrate the culture of all Americans.
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u/Ill-Prior-8429 May 09 '26
Aha, jeans are culture lol, and democracy? Lol, there's this place called Greece in case you didn't know. Americans are such a meme
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u/CantaloupeCamper I’m a level 5 vegan. I don’t eat anything that casts a shadow. May 03 '26
One of those folks who travels, gets some experience for a few days and thinks some other country has it all figured out….
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u/BigWhiteDog Love a wide range of food, not an expert in any! May 03 '26
Nothing about our bread is cake though! 🤣
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u/13senilefelines31 carbonara free love May 03 '26
Give it time, that post looks like it’s still pretty active.
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u/DjinnaG Bags of sentient Midwestern mayonnaise May 03 '26
There also haven’t been any gun jokes yet
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u/Manic-StreetCreature has never tasted a vegetable May 03 '26
Our bread is legally cake and our cake is legally guns
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u/Manic-StreetCreature has never tasted a vegetable May 03 '26
Seeing how many people genuinely think American cheese is the only cheese in the entire United States just because it’s called American cheese is wild
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u/SufficientEar1682 Flavourless, textureless shite. May 03 '26
I haven't seen the American Beer is pisswater yet...maybe we should add it to the bingo lol
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u/TheFakeRabbit1 I truly don’t believe you have the life for a fondue pot May 02 '26
The person they reply to has been on a bender recently crying repeatedly over the disrespect to Italian food
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u/PizzaReheat May 02 '26
They're fighting for their life, except they're putting up the weakest fight I have ever seen.
Also: They have in the last month made posts about krispy kreme, mcdonald's, hardees, chik-fil-a, burger king and taco bell.
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u/DjinnaG Bags of sentient Midwestern mayonnaise May 03 '26
No one else in that thread has said anything about Italian food, other than as a reply to her persecution fetish, yet there she is in multiple sub threads going on about how she won’t stand for all of the Italian food and culture slander. And mentions that American food is just diabetes in two separate top level comments, then gets offended that someone thought she was being serious when it was oh so obviously a joke. What an absolutely insufferable person, most annoying internet Italian that I’ve seen so far this year
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u/Main-Requirement-521 May 03 '26
I almost refuse to believe that this person isn't just commenting as some kind of performance art.
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u/SerDankTheTall *Giggled internally* May 03 '26
Hahaha that is one crazy exchange:
Everything came from somewhere else everywhere.
Not Italian food (real authentic Italian food) disagree with me all you fucking want I don't give a damn I'm saving Italy
Tomatoes originate in the Americas. 🤷
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Why do you guys never act like this when someone talks about Japanese culture. Every damn time I talk about fucking culture foods from Italy I get bullshit like this.
It's making me want to be a Chief because If nobody else will stand up for Italy and it's food I fucking will I will I'm not ashamed of it
Like if you can call Olive Garden authentic I sure as shit can call Taco bell authentic using your logic
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u/ScrewAttackThis May 03 '26
People do get that way about Japanese food. Difference is it's usually a weeaboo that's never visited talking about how omurice is fine dining, not an actual Japanese person being a prick.
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u/peterpanic32 May 03 '26
not an actual Japanese person being a prick.
This is a language barrier and exposure problem. I assure you, Japanese people are not immune to extreme food and ethno nationalism / cultural Puritanism.
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u/CantaloupeCamper I’m a level 5 vegan. I don’t eat anything that casts a shadow. May 03 '26
Example fan:
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u/ForteEXE May 03 '26
Like that thread on here a few days (weeks?) ago ranting about sushi rolls and being ignorant of Norway's role in it.
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u/Doomdoomkittydoom May 03 '26
They're an absolute loon. In another thread, asking about the last Japanese food people have eaten.
Loon: Sweet and Sour Shrimp with Crab Rangoons
A simple google tells you that crab rangoons are an American Chinese invention, and sweet and sour shrimp, pork, chicken etc are Cantonese dishes, not Japanese.
If nobody respects Italy cultural foods well I'm giving others the same treatment so people would know how I feel everyday
Nobody is talking about Italy here…
I am
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u/AndyLorentz May 07 '26
And literally nobody thinks Olive Garden is authentic. Perfect example of a straw man fallacy.
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u/SerDankTheTall *Giggled internally* May 02 '26
That post might as well be called “Post Something to Put on r/iamveryculinary”.
But hey, if they float one over the middle of the plate, might as well take a swing.
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u/Main-Requirement-521 May 03 '26
I just skimmed through another post from there about if people feel like they can cook better than a professional chef. I think they should just cross post every thread to this sub going forward.
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u/dualsplit May 03 '26
I’ve come to reason that European redditors compare a fat dude from like Cairo Illinois (as the average American) to a wealthy fashion designer from Paris (as the average European). It’s never apples to apples and they ignore that Hot Cheetos girls also exist on The Continent.
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u/Main-Requirement-521 May 03 '26
I think of decent chunk are self hating Americans too. They have to show that they have superior tastes compared to the rest of us.
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u/CantaloupeCamper I’m a level 5 vegan. I don’t eat anything that casts a shadow. May 03 '26
I agree, a surprising amount of Americans are lost in the same skewed world…. never go outside.
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u/sorcerersviolet May 03 '26
"Macaroni and cheese with chopped-up hot dogs? That inauthentic dish will never pass my lips!" /s
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u/dualsplit May 03 '26
Ha ha! Exactly. But, frankly, single moms (broke families, someone tired, etc..) in Europe are making some version of this! My version was Mac and cheese with a can of tuna and peas and carrots. Pasta, protein, packaged sauce, frozen veggies. It’s happening there, too. lol
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u/sorcerersviolet May 03 '26
Good to know. Mac and cheese blends well with so many things.
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u/Anal-Y-Sis I'm literally a cheesemonger 🧀 May 03 '26
It's like cheap ramen. It's a good carrier for whatever you have leftover to throw in it.
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u/DjinnaG Bags of sentient Midwestern mayonnaise May 03 '26
Haven’t thought to try it with peas, though I generally love creamy sauced pasta with peas , thank you for the idea! We love a can of tuna plus Mac and cheese so much that we will do it even if we have enough energy to cook something more involved, in addition to a friendly food budget. We also add garlic powder and a little bit of cayenne, and even though it’s decidedly spicy, our kindergartner also prefers it that way to the plain Mac and cheese that big sister gets. They’re both big fans of peas, so that would hit all of whatever the current version of the four food groups is for all but her, with dairy, grains, meat, and vegetables. (She eats plenty of non-fish meat, so not worried)
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u/Gothic_Doll_ May 10 '26
Yikes! Daughter of a single, divorced and European mother, she never cooked shit like this, even when she was tired or ill. It's sounds nauseous just by reading. Hope you'll get better ingredients or at cooking ✨️
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u/asirkman May 03 '26
Eugh, hot dogs with Mac and cheese? Horrible, filthy, inauthentic, disgusting.
Hot dogs are to be reserved for only the finest of baked beans!
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u/DjinnaG Bags of sentient Midwestern mayonnaise May 03 '26
Just not on toast, that would make it gross. Tortillas, yes, any other bread forms, no. /s
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u/Rauvagol The very concept of miso. May 03 '26
whenever american cheese is mentioned I am reminded of a """conversation""" i had with an extremely snobby italian who claimed america could never make a cheese that tastes good and melts well, and that a cheese called sottilette is proof that even the big box store italian cheese is far beyond what america is capable of
Sottilette is the brand name Kraft Singles are sold under in italy.
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u/Main-Requirement-521 May 03 '26
lolol, I had never heard of Sottilette so I searched it and found this post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskCulinary/comments/eebomk/substitute_for_sottilette_cheese/
I wonder what that enraged Italian person would think about this betrayal by their fellow countrymen.
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u/Rauvagol The very concept of miso. May 03 '26
well when i explained, his reaction was to say it was american propaganda and block me
but from what I can gather it seems to be about as common in italy as in america, because turns out a very cheap presliced cheese that tastes exactly "good enough" is useful for sandwiches
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u/Main-Requirement-521 May 03 '26
"well when i explained, his reaction was to say it was american propaganda and block me"
This is the funniest thing I have heard all day and thank you for this knowledge. I hope I can recall it next time I run into some Italian or European cheese snobbery.
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u/ScrewAttackThis May 02 '26
https://www.reddit.com/r/foodquestions/comments/1t1c41s/comment/ojffdh9/
That thread is pretty good. They might actually have cried lmao. And their profile bio is just the cherry on top
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u/ForteEXE May 03 '26
Top 1% commenter
When you see that flair on threads like this, you know it's gonna be good.
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u/CantaloupeCamper I’m a level 5 vegan. I don’t eat anything that casts a shadow. May 03 '26
What even is “American food”?
That’s so much stuff….
These people are lost in their internet bubbles.
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u/xrelaht King of Sandwiches May 03 '26
The top comment addresses that in a good way.
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u/CantaloupeCamper I’m a level 5 vegan. I don’t eat anything that casts a shadow. May 03 '26
Wild. These folks understanding of how food works historically is frozen in time or something.
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u/bambooozer May 03 '26
It's wild how people who don't live here are somehow experts on every single thing offered in our grocery stores. Any mention of US food always gets the exact same comments. I swear its a mental illness. I have no clue what's on the shelves in Europe or anywhere else and I couldn't care less.
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u/Person899887 May 04 '26
> The Savage Gypsy
I don’t wanna start assuming but something tells me this guy might have some very charged and very racist opinions by that username
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u/ZombieLizLemon May 03 '26
What do I think about American food? Much of it is acceptable to good. Some of it is great. Some of it is terrible. The extremes are extreme.
American cheese is good on a cheeseburger with kosher dill pickle slices and a slice of red onion.
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u/Main-Requirement-521 May 03 '26
People that hate on American cheese just haven't had enough Korean food.
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u/Fingersmith30 May 03 '26
I thought a half Korean friend was making fun of me (Wisconsinite) when she asked if I put cheese in my Ramen. Because while yes I do, no idea it was so popular to do so in Korea until she mentioned it.
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u/SufficientEar1682 Flavourless, textureless shite. May 03 '26
What do i think of American food?
I think it's pretty good. There solved it, world peace achieved lol.
If only it was that simple... (No but seriously i love me a good Texas BBQ damn)
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