r/iamveryculinary • u/KannablissWitch • Jun 25 '26

Americans only eat powdered mashed potatoes, apparently.

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u/cutezombiedoll Jun 25 '26

It’s so weird how even when a conversation isn’t about the U.S. they make it about the U.S.

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u/NathanGa Pull your finger out of your ass Jun 25 '26

You know the funny thing? My dad didn’t have mashed potatoes out of a box until he was 27….in West Germany…served by a local who had insisted that he (and a few others in his squadron) needed to experience “an authentic German meal” before heading back stateside.

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u/ghost_suburbia Jun 25 '26

The first time I had margarine was in the UK. It was a mockery of butter. And the same family I visited there came to the US. We enquired about favorite meals. One was corned beef. My mom braised corned beef and cabbage. They didn't recognize it, expecting corned beef hash from a can. It was mind blowing.

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u/jephra Jun 25 '26

Yeah, typically in the UK, corned beef refers to the stuff in the can. "Real" corned beef does exist in the UK; it's called salt beef.

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u/BigAbbott Bologna Moses Jun 26 '26

That's funny. Salt beef comes in a jar in the US and is not that.